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@ignominious.bsky.social
If you think “hearing from all sides” is a useful way to spend your time, you may have too much time on your hands. Give me sound logic or talk to someone else. My time is too valuable for nonsense.
Apologies in advance. I don’t read or repost Substack.
Apologies in advance. I don’t read or repost Substack.
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@ignominious.bsky.social
· Jan 6
I hear that, occasionally. I countered that mindset early by posting a giant “WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID THAT?” sign in the classroom.
It came up again the other day regarding leash laws.
Reasoning: Why are you mad? His dog is behaving very well without a leash.
Rebuttal: *Taps the sign*
It came up again the other day regarding leash laws.
Reasoning: Why are you mad? His dog is behaving very well without a leash.
Rebuttal: *Taps the sign*
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The Trump Protection Agency has thoughts.🙄
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Trump Protection Agency has thoughts.🙄
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to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
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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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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
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His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...
abc7chicago.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.
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The Free Speech wing of the Free Speech party has made it so you have to upload journalism like it's an ISIS video
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The Free Speech wing of the Free Speech party has made it so you have to upload journalism like it's an ISIS video
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Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Political scientists, about 500 of us, have been saying for some time that the US has backslid into some kind of authoritarianism.
Sharing Bright Line Watch's violin plot chart with alt-text.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Political scientists, about 500 of us, have been saying for some time that the US has backslid into some kind of authoritarianism.
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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"China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634%" 🤔 share.google/yxJk9FytGMTY...
December 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634%" 🤔 share.google/yxJk9FytGMTY...
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You've gotta hand it to Bari Weiss -- she's got people excited about watching 60 Minutes again
Here’s the highest-quality upload of the 60 minutes CECOT segment I’ve found so far:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9w8gyi
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9w8gyi
Banned 60 minutes segment on CECOT
Dailymotion video by fond_.mhb423
www.dailymotion.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You've gotta hand it to Bari Weiss -- she's got people excited about watching 60 Minutes again
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Getting a comment from an administration official is not a requirement to run a story and never has been.
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 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Getting a comment from an administration official is not a requirement to run a story and never has been.
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This is the voice of the kid in middle school who tells everyone she’s rich and has a lot of famous friends and does elite equestrian stuff so she’s busy every weekend
And eventually it comes out that she was lying about all of it, surprising at most 25 percent of the class
And eventually it comes out that she was lying about all of it, surprising at most 25 percent of the class
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This is the voice of the kid in middle school who tells everyone she’s rich and has a lot of famous friends and does elite equestrian stuff so she’s busy every weekend
And eventually it comes out that she was lying about all of it, surprising at most 25 percent of the class
And eventually it comes out that she was lying about all of it, surprising at most 25 percent of the class
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State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization https://theonion.com/state-department-designates-wnba-as-terrorist-organization/
December 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization https://theonion.com/state-department-designates-wnba-as-terrorist-organization/
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Here’s the 60 Minutes video that Bari Weiss & the Trump Admin don’t want you to see:
www.icloud.com/photos/#/icl...
www.icloud.com/photos/#/icl...
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Here’s the 60 Minutes video that Bari Weiss & the Trump Admin don’t want you to see:
www.icloud.com/photos/#/icl...
www.icloud.com/photos/#/icl...
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Cully Stimson is one of the few people who *didn’t* resign from the Heritage Foundation today. He now heads up their legal division.
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
December 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cully Stimson is one of the few people who *didn’t* resign from the Heritage Foundation today. He now heads up their legal division.
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
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ok, this may be the best example of tech bro hubris that i've ever seen
Recalling talking to a tech guy IRL about my job and him responding with “why do they need manuals for that? It’s all just overengineered anyway”
I publish books for bridge engineers
I publish books for bridge engineers
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ok, this may be the best example of tech bro hubris that i've ever seen
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It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press
December 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press