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Just saw a farm truck with a decal of an American flag that said "You cannot cancel all of us" in a rural Kansas town of 187 people.
December 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just saw a farm truck with a decal of an American flag that said "You cannot cancel all of us" in a rural Kansas town of 187 people.
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Then he was the wrong person for the job sweetie.
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Then he was the wrong person for the job sweetie.
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A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents:
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents:
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
It does not provide immunity for prior crimes.
It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet.
Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.
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JD Vance cozying up to the sort of white supremacists who would consider his wife and children insufficiently white (and hence American) is pretty bleak, and says a lot about his character.
December 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
JD Vance cozying up to the sort of white supremacists who would consider his wife and children insufficiently white (and hence American) is pretty bleak, and says a lot about his character.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
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Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal - The Guardian
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal - The Guardian
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Only Russia and its supporters can claim that Western sanctions strengthen Russia and hurt the West, while simultaneously asking the West to remove them.
They are the biggest idiots and hypocrites out there
They are the biggest idiots and hypocrites out there
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Only Russia and its supporters can claim that Western sanctions strengthen Russia and hurt the West, while simultaneously asking the West to remove them.
They are the biggest idiots and hypocrites out there
They are the biggest idiots and hypocrites out there
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This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
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So, is this correct ?
It’s now ok to infiltrate a tv channel and pull whatever the administration dislikes and pull possible unfavorable stories.
But when another administration “asks” to have misinformation and stolen revenge porn taken down
That’s “censorship”?
It’s now ok to infiltrate a tv channel and pull whatever the administration dislikes and pull possible unfavorable stories.
But when another administration “asks” to have misinformation and stolen revenge porn taken down
That’s “censorship”?
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
So, is this correct ?
It’s now ok to infiltrate a tv channel and pull whatever the administration dislikes and pull possible unfavorable stories.
But when another administration “asks” to have misinformation and stolen revenge porn taken down
That’s “censorship”?
It’s now ok to infiltrate a tv channel and pull whatever the administration dislikes and pull possible unfavorable stories.
But when another administration “asks” to have misinformation and stolen revenge porn taken down
That’s “censorship”?
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Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
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What is striking here, of course, is that no one was apologizing for being white at any point, outside of some very unusual academic hothouse environments.
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
What is striking here, of course, is that no one was apologizing for being white at any point, outside of some very unusual academic hothouse environments.
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'
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What really depresses me about the news industry is how many people in positions of power seem to hold the core values of journalism in contempt.
“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
What really depresses me about the news industry is how many people in positions of power seem to hold the core values of journalism in contempt.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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They even memory-hole'd the description from the news release, as I note at Law Dork — with credit to Nolan for initially highlighting the release (to me at least). www.lawdork.com/p/sixty-minu...
The press release from Friday. www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...
December 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
They even memory-hole'd the description from the news release, as I note at Law Dork — with credit to Nolan for initially highlighting the release (to me at least). www.lawdork.com/p/sixty-minu...
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From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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support independent media. idk what else to say right now.
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
support independent media. idk what else to say right now.
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I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.”
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.”
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
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the one thing that i don't think Bari Weiss (the fucking moron) recognizes is the fact that if there's one the press loves, it's about reporting on internal reporter drama
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
the one thing that i don't think Bari Weiss (the fucking moron) recognizes is the fact that if there's one the press loves, it's about reporting on internal reporter drama
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December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…