Jezza Riddell
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I just like the butterfly. Maybe I'll think of more later.
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Happy family-tech-support-mas to my fellow geeks who observe this fascinating holiday tradition. Scholars believe that today’s festive new phone transfers, Bluetooth hearing aid pairings and wifi extender setups date back to the 1980s teenager fixing the 12:00 VCR, and possibly even further.
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy family-tech-support-mas to my fellow geeks who observe this fascinating holiday tradition. Scholars believe that today’s festive new phone transfers, Bluetooth hearing aid pairings and wifi extender setups date back to the 1980s teenager fixing the 12:00 VCR, and possibly even further.
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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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Trump's all-purpose excuse to avoid answering questions used to be "we'll have it in two weeks."
In 2025, that shifted. Now it's just "I don't know."
To hear Trump talk, he knows absolutely nothing.
I analyze what this shift means.
www.salon.com/2025/12/22/t...
In 2025, that shifted. Now it's just "I don't know."
To hear Trump talk, he knows absolutely nothing.
I analyze what this shift means.
www.salon.com/2025/12/22/t...
Trump's excuse in 2025: "I don't know"
From Epstein to MRIs, the president fakes ignorance
www.salon.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Trump's all-purpose excuse to avoid answering questions used to be "we'll have it in two weeks."
In 2025, that shifted. Now it's just "I don't know."
To hear Trump talk, he knows absolutely nothing.
I analyze what this shift means.
www.salon.com/2025/12/22/t...
In 2025, that shifted. Now it's just "I don't know."
To hear Trump talk, he knows absolutely nothing.
I analyze what this shift means.
www.salon.com/2025/12/22/t...
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the King of Christmas awaits your tribute
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the King of Christmas awaits your tribute
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I once worked with an executive editor who came into the job from public relations. This is the kind of rule she would make up out of thin air. It not only prevented us from doing journalism but revealed her lack of experience in journalism.
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 2:32 PM
I once worked with an executive editor who came into the job from public relations. This is the kind of rule she would make up out of thin air. It not only prevented us from doing journalism but revealed her lack of experience in journalism.
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Maybe my favorite BadFaithTimes.com blog on how *nothing* in the 2020s makes sense to someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s: badfaithtimes.com/nothing-make...
December 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Maybe my favorite BadFaithTimes.com blog on how *nothing* in the 2020s makes sense to someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s: badfaithtimes.com/nothing-make...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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This is the one I can’t get over, because for all the handwringing about out-of-touch liberal media elites, none of them would’ve ever thought that Middle America wants to hear, “Great news, we’ve got a Harvard professor and a New York Times columnist lined up to debate whether you need God.”
December 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is the one I can’t get over, because for all the handwringing about out-of-touch liberal media elites, none of them would’ve ever thought that Middle America wants to hear, “Great news, we’ve got a Harvard professor and a New York Times columnist lined up to debate whether you need God.”
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"Juan" and "Anna" are
prunning grapevines in Fresno CA. They get paid by the row making $45 per row which takes around 4 hours to prune. They wake up at 5am when it's cold outside and drop their kids at a babysitter. They can barely pay the bills with these low wages. #WeFeedYou
prunning grapevines in Fresno CA. They get paid by the row making $45 per row which takes around 4 hours to prune. They wake up at 5am when it's cold outside and drop their kids at a babysitter. They can barely pay the bills with these low wages. #WeFeedYou
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Juan" and "Anna" are
prunning grapevines in Fresno CA. They get paid by the row making $45 per row which takes around 4 hours to prune. They wake up at 5am when it's cold outside and drop their kids at a babysitter. They can barely pay the bills with these low wages. #WeFeedYou
prunning grapevines in Fresno CA. They get paid by the row making $45 per row which takes around 4 hours to prune. They wake up at 5am when it's cold outside and drop their kids at a babysitter. They can barely pay the bills with these low wages. #WeFeedYou
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Notable absence of substantive reasons to prevent the piece from airing the day it was scheduled to bsky.app/profile/benm...
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Notable absence of substantive reasons to prevent the piece from airing the day it was scheduled to bsky.app/profile/benm...
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Also it is not plausible that weiss standards for rigor are simply high given her enthusiastic publication of george floyd trutherism radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
The retconning of George Floyd: a coda
A response to Coleman Hughes and Avak Howsepian
radleybalko.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Also it is not plausible that weiss standards for rigor are simply high given her enthusiastic publication of george floyd trutherism radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
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I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
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December 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I donated and you should, too!
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I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems.
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems.
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
And it’s already pretty fucking bad!
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
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Love this. We should all do a thread about serendipitous discoveries in the archives. Me? I found a murder mystery in my hotel workers history.
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Love this. We should all do a thread about serendipitous discoveries in the archives. Me? I found a murder mystery in my hotel workers history.
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Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.
LANKFORD: In 2010, before Obamacare kicked in, the normal healthcare premium was $215.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.
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Unexpected gray tabby kitten ornament activated.
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Unexpected gray tabby kitten ornament activated.
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
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Stolen Valor includes taking credit for the accomplishments of dead people
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Stolen Valor includes taking credit for the accomplishments of dead people
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I'm just gonna say, if there was red hot dirt on Bill, their favorite distraction when Trump is accused of sex crimes, they wouldn't feel the need to play these games.
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm just gonna say, if there was red hot dirt on Bill, their favorite distraction when Trump is accused of sex crimes, they wouldn't feel the need to play these games.
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And I shouldnt have to give the caveat that "if he is guilty fuck him too" just because I don't buy into conspiracy theories spread by the same bastards who swiftboated Kerry, made Hillary out to be a monster, and pretended Harris fucked her way to success.
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
And I shouldnt have to give the caveat that "if he is guilty fuck him too" just because I don't buy into conspiracy theories spread by the same bastards who swiftboated Kerry, made Hillary out to be a monster, and pretended Harris fucked her way to success.
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Hey dipshits: if Bill Clinton was guilty of anything re: Epstein, Trump's administration wouldn't have to pretend a Pic of him with Diana Ross and her children was nefarious.
I know this totally upsets you becsuse you desperately want the sweet hit of DEMS BAD TOO but reality existe, fuckos.
I know this totally upsets you becsuse you desperately want the sweet hit of DEMS BAD TOO but reality existe, fuckos.
December 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hey dipshits: if Bill Clinton was guilty of anything re: Epstein, Trump's administration wouldn't have to pretend a Pic of him with Diana Ross and her children was nefarious.
I know this totally upsets you becsuse you desperately want the sweet hit of DEMS BAD TOO but reality existe, fuckos.
I know this totally upsets you becsuse you desperately want the sweet hit of DEMS BAD TOO but reality existe, fuckos.
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When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.
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"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats and clasp hands with its billionaires." Because the billionaires lack experience, can be manipulated. and have obvious conflicts of interest.
Everything in this story is remarkable, besides this part:
"For three hours, Putin hosted Witkoff, who took notes as the president gave a lecture on the 1,000-year history of Russia"
They are so lucky that we are so stupid. Gullible. Unprofessional. Corrupt. Naive.
"For three hours, Putin hosted Witkoff, who took notes as the president gave a lecture on the 1,000-year history of Russia"
They are so lucky that we are so stupid. Gullible. Unprofessional. Corrupt. Naive.
Witkoff’s Other Backer in His Unlikely Diplomatic Ascent: Putin
The Kremlin release of an American prisoner and a Saudi backchannel bolstered the rise of Trump’s longtime friend.
www.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats and clasp hands with its billionaires." Because the billionaires lack experience, can be manipulated. and have obvious conflicts of interest.