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David Pollak
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Geek: spreadsheets, programming languages, cybersecurity. Cats. Rhode Island. Food. Lawyer & economics.
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I am at Tortilla Flats and wanted you to know.

"It’s not Friday, but it is the beginning of a loooooong weekend

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December 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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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.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d
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.
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...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
On left:

Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review

On right:

Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
A flight path in the shape of the Grinch
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The future I want for Artemis and Mick
Jaguar
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I am at Tortilla Flats and wanted you to know.

"Happy Friday!

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December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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taterpie.bsky.social
One of my friends from college, who is trans, reposted this over on FB. And yeah, this is it.
A billboard with what appears to be a tweet on it: "My trans agenda is not to turn cis children into trans, but it's to turn trans children into adults." - Niilee Cyrus, @ jesuisniilee
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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repbeatty.bsky.social
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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projomike.bsky.social
Frog & Toad is out with this shirt in the wake of this weekend’s tragedy at Brown, an homage to the Mad Peck & the spirit of Providence.
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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dariaphoebe.com
Sunday zen: Pawtuxet River falls at Pawtuxet Village
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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marie.tech
Today's calm: Salter Grove near Pawtuxet village.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social
Our hearts go out to Brown and their community during this tragic and devastating time. 🤎
Snow-covered Hope Scholarship Flame outside a brick building during a heavy snowfall.
December 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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klonick.bsky.social
“Most of us live off Hope”

Ever true 💔
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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mksongbird.bsky.social
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I am at Tortilla Flats and wanted you to know.

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December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social
Good luck on your finals, Anchors! ⚓️ Study hard, get lots of rest and take a stroll around campus to relax.
RIC student studying in a brightly lit glass room. RIC student studying RIC students walking to a final exam RIC students studying in the sunlight. 4 students are sitting around a table.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.

If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.

Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.

Hope that helps.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It was a very good read
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December 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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bft.wtf
first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water.
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All warfilms. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him. first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water. audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middleaged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself. all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a childs arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never—
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I am at Tortilla Flats and wanted you to know.

"Friday at the flats. Yay!

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December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM