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stholeary.bsky.social
I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.
1964 photo of screaming Beatles fans 2025 promo of a CBS News town hall on feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
drewstephenson.bsky.social
This was the obvious next step and just adds another data point to the lie about Kavanaugh stops.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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lowqualityfacts.bsky.social
This is fine.
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
And guess what?

The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
drewstephenson.bsky.social
Right folks, Colm Cannon's Call is just 300ish plays away from 10,000 spins on Spotify.
I reckon you lazy buggers can put the grift in to tip it over the line before Christmas if you put your backs to it.
Crack on!
open.spotify.com/track/14VmQu...
#Music
#Spotify
#Advertising
#AmIDoinItRight
Colm Cannon's Call
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December 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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jkz12769.bsky.social
Zelenskyy is outsmarting Putin & the Convicted FElon combined. Zelenskyy is a True Leader‼️Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦‼️
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
It’s a joke for Trump, Vance, Witkoff and anyone else to even remotely suggest that Putin wants peace and Ukraine is the problem.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
drewstephenson.bsky.social
The problem with being connected to a great music community is that you all keep making great music.
Once again my disposable income has largely disappeared straight into Bandcamp.
I should just arrange for my pay to go there directly...
#NewMusic
#MusiciansOfBlueSky
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
drewstephenson.bsky.social
Actually made it out to the session with the double bass last night. Haven't played live in ages. I was shit. Don't think anyone cared though.
#LiveMusic
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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muz4now.com
Dream Destroyer – the found is feeling again #feeling #music
Dream Destroyer - the found is feeling again
Stan Stewart - @muz4now
muz4now.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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ryanjreilly.com
"When they admit it’s not justice they’re after but pure revenge, believe them.”

Attorney for New York Attorney General Letitia James responds to Susie Wiles conceding that the Justice Department's highly unusual case against James “might” be “retribution.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Statement of Abbe D. Lowell, Counsel for Attorney General Letitia James December 16, 2025 "The White House Chief of Staff admitting that President Trump turned the Justice Department into his weapon for political retribution against Attorney General Letitia James only confirms that this has been an improper vindictive prosecution. This astonishing admission comes after President Trump publicly demanded Attorney General Bondi target Ms. James for doing her job and his DOJ ignoring career prosecutors and two grand juries that rejected the case. It all proves beyond any doubt that the attempts to bring charges against Attorney General James are nothing more than Trump’s political crusade. When they admit it’s not justice they’re after but pure revenge, believe them.”
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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eff.org
Age-gating mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and deeply unnecessary. But users are not powerless! We can challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all internet users, no matter their ages.

Learn more at EFF.org/Age.
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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nitenitemelissa.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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feinstruktur.bsky.social
Hey Berliners and Tourists in Berlin!
Are you still looking for something to do next Saturday?
I give an English Tour at the Petri Museum about archaeology:
www.petri.berlin/events/disco...
#Berlin #Archaeology #Museum #Petri #History
Discover Archaeology: from find to exhibition at the PETRI Berlin
Guided tour
www.petri.berlin
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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feinstruktur.bsky.social
You can have a quiet listen by yourself or join me for the Listening Party on Thursday:
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
drewstephenson.bsky.social
As the telly would say, "Another chance to see..."
December 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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darren32359.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
drewstephenson.bsky.social
Work on the next album is going to be delayed a bit whilst I go back to school. ish.
It's become clear that I need to work on my mixing skills a bit more so I'm going to take some time out to do that before starting the next few tracks.
I'll sure you're all devastated by this news.
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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barnz65.bsky.social
BACK TO BASICS: Ukraine was invaded by Russia. Russia is the bad guy, the aggressor and should not be rewarded. Ukraine did not have to, but they gave up their nukes, we should honor that as a nation. In the beginning everyone was sure Ukraine would fall. It hasn’t. We need Ukraine as a strong ally.
When Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, the agreement was the Budapest Memorandum (1994), where the U.S., UK, and Russia promised to respect Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and borders in exchange for Ukraine transferring its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal to Russia for dismantling, joining the non-proliferation treaty, and receiving security assurances and economic compensation. While the U.S. provided technical help, the "assurances" weren't legally binding defense guarantees, leading to Russia's later violations in 2014 and 2022, notes Stanford University and Brookings.
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
wentrogue.bsky.social Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 10d
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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karlbode.com
you'd think that the fact the president of the united states is completely fucking insane would be a bigger news story
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM