Sean
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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Nothing at all, when the piece isn't ready or not enough effort to get that comment has been made.
But that's not this case, and you know that, Sally.
But that's not this case, and you know that, Sally.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Nothing at all, when the piece isn't ready or not enough effort to get that comment has been made.
But that's not this case, and you know that, Sally.
But that's not this case, and you know that, Sally.
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like, "trump bought a teen pageant so he could creep on girls in the dressing room" is an established thing he just said on the radio
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
there is a lot of value in mapping out epstein's entire network of rapist associates, but it's kinda painful how much we have *always* known trump is a pedo rapist and all of the discourse about him is just fishing for some kind of special signifier that makes it ok for powerful people to say it now
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
like, "trump bought a teen pageant so he could creep on girls in the dressing room" is an established thing he just said on the radio
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
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just amazing how cruel this is in the middle of what sure looks like a brutal recession.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
just amazing how cruel this is in the middle of what sure looks like a brutal recession.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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I mean, I don't fault the impulse-- people have been saying "oh the guardrails will save us" since Trump I as an excuse for inaction and it's 100% cope.
At the same time, treating fully realized authoritarian fascism as fait accompli is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
At the same time, treating fully realized authoritarian fascism as fait accompli is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
The inevitable doomer "The Nazis were incompetent too" responses from the Usual Suspects are remarkably bad at accounting for the fact that there weren't civil society institutions like courts, grand juries, newspapers, comedy shows, universities, mayors and governors &c constantly telling Hitler...
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I mean, I don't fault the impulse-- people have been saying "oh the guardrails will save us" since Trump I as an excuse for inaction and it's 100% cope.
At the same time, treating fully realized authoritarian fascism as fait accompli is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
At the same time, treating fully realized authoritarian fascism as fait accompli is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Remember when Republicans were all "STATES RIGHTS!" That was great.
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Remember when Republicans were all "STATES RIGHTS!" That was great.
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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”The fascists are evil, sure, but they are not going to overturn established hierarchies...When white liberalism is threatened, it turns out, Yglesias is more concerned about protecting the whiteness than the liberalism.”
@nberlat.bsky.social on Yglesias’ anti-CRT arguments.
@nberlat.bsky.social on Yglesias’ anti-CRT arguments.
I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...
Yglesias and Fear of a Black Intellectual
Liberal centrist inadvertently demonstrates the truth of critical race theory
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
”The fascists are evil, sure, but they are not going to overturn established hierarchies...When white liberalism is threatened, it turns out, Yglesias is more concerned about protecting the whiteness than the liberalism.”
@nberlat.bsky.social on Yglesias’ anti-CRT arguments.
@nberlat.bsky.social on Yglesias’ anti-CRT arguments.
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Bernie is just Not It right now, he has failed to rise to the moment on fascism (especially around immigration) and the electoral left really needs to finish this baton handoff, yesterday
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Bernie is just Not It right now, he has failed to rise to the moment on fascism (especially around immigration) and the electoral left really needs to finish this baton handoff, yesterday
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The fascists certainly aren't very good at this, are they
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The fascists certainly aren't very good at this, are they
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if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:
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Anyway Bari Weiss is a fucking ghoul
December 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Anyway Bari Weiss is a fucking ghoul
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It isn’t even interested in the question of “well what WOULD someone have to be guilty of to deserve to be there”. Almost certainly some of the prisoners on Narkina 5 are absolute monsters! The prisons still should not fucking exist!!
December 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It isn’t even interested in the question of “well what WOULD someone have to be guilty of to deserve to be there”. Almost certainly some of the prisoners on Narkina 5 are absolute monsters! The prisons still should not fucking exist!!
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The show is proposing that it literally doesn’t matter what anyone imprisoned on Narkina 5 has or hasn’t done, because what matters is that those prisons *should not fucking exist at all*
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The show is proposing that it literally doesn’t matter what anyone imprisoned on Narkina 5 has or hasn’t done, because what matters is that those prisons *should not fucking exist at all*
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I remember when I saw the first season of Andor, it quietly blew my mind that there is never, in the entire Narkina 5 arc, a “so what’re you in for” scene. Even to be jokingly dismissed a la Shawshank Redemption
We never find out what anyone—except Cassian—is there for
Because *it doesn’t matter*
We never find out what anyone—except Cassian—is there for
Because *it doesn’t matter*
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I remember when I saw the first season of Andor, it quietly blew my mind that there is never, in the entire Narkina 5 arc, a “so what’re you in for” scene. Even to be jokingly dismissed a la Shawshank Redemption
We never find out what anyone—except Cassian—is there for
Because *it doesn’t matter*
We never find out what anyone—except Cassian—is there for
Because *it doesn’t matter*
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The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
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Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
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zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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If there’s one part of the Constitution and its Amendments that everyone in the US understands and holds sacred, it’s the First Amendment. Free speech may be the only value we all agree on.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If there’s one part of the Constitution and its Amendments that everyone in the US understands and holds sacred, it’s the First Amendment. Free speech may be the only value we all agree on.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
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Watch them do something stupid like release a version with Track Changes still on and then everyone just clicks Undo.
December 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Watch them do something stupid like release a version with Track Changes still on and then everyone just clicks Undo.
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When the president says “national security” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When the president says “national security” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers
And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers
Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary
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TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
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Bari Weiss, with her keen, objective journalistic judgment said she killed this report because it “didn’t advance the ball.”
Just 100% innocent people sent by the USA to be sexually and violently tortured for months.
Just 100% innocent people sent by the USA to be sexually and violently tortured for months.
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Bari Weiss, with her keen, objective journalistic judgment said she killed this report because it “didn’t advance the ball.”
Just 100% innocent people sent by the USA to be sexually and violently tortured for months.
Just 100% innocent people sent by the USA to be sexually and violently tortured for months.