Babsben
@babsben.bsky.social
The youngest Boomer. When in worry, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
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Babsben
@babsben.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Thank you for contacting the Face Eating Leopards hotline. All of our leopards are currently eating other people's faces, but stay on the line and your face will be eaten shortly. Your face is very important to us.
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From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.
Nothing trickled down.
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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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From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”
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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
www.theverge.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Kennedy is on a mission to destroy all the vaccines that has helped to keep us all safe.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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RFK Jr.'s stance on pediatric research is clear: F-ck them kids
The Department of Health and Human Services just terminated seven grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics for daring to criticize Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unhinged anti-vaccine, anti-...
www.dailykos.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Kennedy is on a mission to destroy all the vaccines that has helped to keep us all safe.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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ALFONSI: “.. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
@nytimes.com $PSKY
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
ALFONSI: “.. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
@nytimes.com $PSKY
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
@nytimes.com $PSKY
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Censorship. Bari Weiss
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this article is also a gift in accordance with the Trump Gifting Guidelines (no more than 2 of a possible 37 pencils)
The Trump Administration’s Guide to Christmas Giving
A piece of East Wing Rubble? An MRI for no reason? The options are endless!
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
this article is also a gift in accordance with the Trump Gifting Guidelines (no more than 2 of a possible 37 pencils)
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I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.
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People must grasp the idea of “media capture.”
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
People must grasp the idea of “media capture.”
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account.
It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power.
In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.
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"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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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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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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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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Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
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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 12:40 PM
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
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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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 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Shout out to Ron Wydn. Thank you. Yrump being chummy w Russia and ignoring our allies is making mor and more sense now. Impeach Donald J. Trump.
December 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shout out to Ron Wydn. Thank you. Yrump being chummy w Russia and ignoring our allies is making mor and more sense now. Impeach Donald J. Trump.
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“.. Behind the scenes, Turning Point is setting up infrastructure to boost his potential 2028 presidential bid .. planning to put representatives in all of Iowa’s 99 counties ahead of the presidential primary.”
@wsj.com
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December 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“.. Behind the scenes, Turning Point is setting up infrastructure to boost his potential 2028 presidential bid .. planning to put representatives in all of Iowa’s 99 counties ahead of the presidential primary.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
@wsj.com
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi warns that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is turning the network into “a stenographer for the state” after she spiked a story on the Trump administration’s transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi warns that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is turning the network into “a stenographer for the state” after she spiked a story on the Trump administration’s transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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The whole idea that Weiss spiked the CECOT story because there wasn't an on-the-record statement from the Trump administration is laughable, as Sharyn Alfonsi notes. It's regular journalistic practice to run a story without comment, as long as you've given the source a chance, which 60 Minutes did.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The whole idea that Weiss spiked the CECOT story because there wasn't an on-the-record statement from the Trump administration is laughable, as Sharyn Alfonsi notes. It's regular journalistic practice to run a story without comment, as long as you've given the source a chance, which 60 Minutes did.