Sasha Margolis
@sashamargolis.bsky.social
Violinist, author of The Tsimbalist, fiddler/singer/talker of Big Galut(e)
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I wish Graeme Wood shut the fuck up
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I wish Graeme Wood shut the fuck up
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The hyperscale data centers that enable GenAI are destroying marginalized and rural communities. These companies are suing municipalities that fight back. Our students, teachers, families are all poorer -in health, environment, imagination- for it. This is an embarrassment.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The hyperscale data centers that enable GenAI are destroying marginalized and rural communities. These companies are suing municipalities that fight back. Our students, teachers, families are all poorer -in health, environment, imagination- for it. This is an embarrassment.
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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This, apparently, is the late quote the WH gave 60 Minutes. Prob would've been fine to include, and introduce it with, "The administration did not address the main issues our report raises, and instead issued this statement."
Unless all 252 men sent to CECOT were murderers. Which no one is saying
Unless all 252 men sent to CECOT were murderers. Which no one is saying
WH spokesperson Abigail Jackson said "60 Minutes should spend their time and energy amplifying the stories of Angel Parents, whose innocent American children have tragically been murdered by vicious illegal aliens that President Trump are removing from the country."
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This, apparently, is the late quote the WH gave 60 Minutes. Prob would've been fine to include, and introduce it with, "The administration did not address the main issues our report raises, and instead issued this statement."
Unless all 252 men sent to CECOT were murderers. Which no one is saying
Unless all 252 men sent to CECOT were murderers. Which no one is saying
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Some parts of South Florida are forecast to drop below freezing this weekend.
And the winner for the coldest spot in southern Florida this weekend will be …
South Florida is in for the coldest weather of the season, especially in a certain area.
www.sun-sentinel.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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I don't think Trump speaks Polish.
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I don't think Trump speaks Polish.
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
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This is confirmatory: Weiss is not being neutral, whatever that might mean. She is either being duped or is in on it.
December 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is confirmatory: Weiss is not being neutral, whatever that might mean. She is either being duped or is in on it.
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit
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For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
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Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
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In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
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Happy Giacomo Puccini's birthday!
December 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy Giacomo Puccini's birthday!
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What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
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every story about this person reads the same
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
every story about this person reads the same
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
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The political commissar does not want the regime news to report on the president’s foreign gulag. that’s where we are.
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The political commissar does not want the regime news to report on the president’s foreign gulag. that’s where we are.
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God these people are all such pure bullshitters, in the rigorous Frankfurt sense. They mean nothing they say and do not communicate in a way us regular honest people would consider communication
On Bullshit - Wikipedia
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December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
God these people are all such pure bullshitters, in the rigorous Frankfurt sense. They mean nothing they say and do not communicate in a way us regular honest people would consider communication
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Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
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In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
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"Co-Pilot, help me! I need a real sick burn to convince the naysayers that it's actually good to flood research with false citations using broken chatbots!"
"Wow, you're smart! Try asking them: 'Have you considered that perhaps you’re not entirely objective when it comes to this subject?'"
"Wow, you're smart! Try asking them: 'Have you considered that perhaps you’re not entirely objective when it comes to this subject?'"
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"Co-Pilot, help me! I need a real sick burn to convince the naysayers that it's actually good to flood research with false citations using broken chatbots!"
"Wow, you're smart! Try asking them: 'Have you considered that perhaps you’re not entirely objective when it comes to this subject?'"
"Wow, you're smart! Try asking them: 'Have you considered that perhaps you’re not entirely objective when it comes to this subject?'"
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn