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Jackson Wickham
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#Nashville TN since '85. Lucky husband to @kidmcwonder.bsky.social. Father of an amazing ASD1/ADHD boy 🌈♾️ Film, theater, and books are best in life, but somehow I still watch lots of TV. #autism #neurodiversity #adhd
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heatwavekgns.bsky.social
Canceling more labs, libraries, closing down buildings at NASA’s Goddard Space Center…when I was growing up in the ‘60’s, science was revered. Now science is being attacked and it’s voice is being increasingly lost in a cacophony of babble… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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propublica.org
NEW: Our reporters published investigations this year on the Trump administration, health care, education and more.

These are the stories readers spent the most time with in 2025.
The Most-Read ProPublica Stories of 2025
Our reporters published investigations this year on the Trump administration, health care, education and more. These are the stories readers spent the most time with in 2025.
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
Cover by Ogden Whitney.
Forbidden Worlds #60 (1957). On the cover, a man at a party is making a toast for the New Year, and he asks "wonder what the new year's got in store for us?" Behind him, through a window, we can see that a burning plane plummeting towards them.
December 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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nashvillescene.com
Critic's Pick: "The maestro of movement will return to Nashville — perhaps for the last time ever — to get folks grooving at The Basement East."
Critic's Pick: Johny Jackson’s Soul Satisfaction
8 p.m. Dec. 27 at The Basement East
www.nashvillescene.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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matchfyre.bsky.social
Anyone who wants to know what happened to the Venezuelans the United States paid to imprison at CECOT doesn’t need to wait for the 60 Minutes segment; the details are already available here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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belcourttheatre.bsky.social
Movies today...💙
• HAMNET 11:20am 2:15pm 5:35pm
• IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 11:30am 5:00pm 7:45pm
• THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL 12:15pm
• SENTIMENTAL VALUE 1:55pm 4:40pm
• THE SECRET AGENT 2:25pm 7:25pm
• AMERICAN GANGSTER 8:10pm* (*intro from Tennessee Titans linebacker AnferneeOrji) #PizzaandaMovie
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.

It must be read:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. 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. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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wired.com
George Foote, who served as the outside general counsel to the US Institute of Peace, said at WIRED’s Big Interview event that DOGE operatives arrived like a “strike team.”

Read more: wrd.cm/4p2eIVy
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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belcourttheatre.bsky.social
Just announced! Tennessee Titans linebacker Anfernee Orji will introduce AMERICAN GANGSTER this Mon, Dec 22 at 8:10pm — another Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim + Huskys Pizza, and a #HolidayClassic.

Tickets here 🎟 > bit.ly/AMERICAN-GANGSTER
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.
It is going to happen this year. You know what I mean. God’s will. Naturally of course. No need to come knocking on my door. I’m chilling at home and I’ll be chilling at home when it happens. Before I go running out into the streets that is. Shaking the mailman’s hand. Kissing nurses and shit. All of a sudden there’s a drumline and a mariachi band and breakdancers and fuckin… David Guetta is DJing on a rooftop if David Guetta is still alive. Maybe we’ll even get to watch it live on TV. The first flicker that something is really wrong. Slowing it down and rewinding it after like when Lisa broke Ralph’s heart. The realization in his eyes. The first single moment of self awareness in 80 years. Like a flailing panicked deer you’ve crashed your car into on the side of a snowy mountain pass. The eyes fluttering back and forth. Surely this can’t have been it. Perhaps a brief bargaining with God. God saying he’s going to pass on the deal. I do not agree with your terms sir. It’s gonna be like the Will Smith Summertime video out there. Everywhere. We’re all going to get fired from our jobs for posting. 100% unemployment. One good day.
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials
Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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iamstevenhale.bsky.social
The American President is one of the first grown-up movies I remember loving as a kid and I think of the last bit of this scene often. youtu.be/ExXfWtZRxZ4?...
Michael J. Fox flips out on a Congressman in "The American President"
YouTube video by Jon Thompson
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December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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nashvillebanner.bsky.social
Parents and educators patrolled bus stops, drove students home from school and checked in on immigrant families last week as reports of ICE activity in Nashville circulated. These efforts have continued across Nashville public schools to keep students safe and inform them of their rights.
ICE actions have Nashville teachers, administrators doing more - Nashville Banner
Families and educators across Nashville do what they can to protect students during ICE activity in the city, raising awareness and seeking long-term solutions.
nashvillebanner.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
One thing I kind of hate about the customer experience in 2025 is that everything sucks ass but then asks you to take a five minute survey on it sucking ass
December 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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flmfrkcentral.bsky.social
2025 can go fuck itself.
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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marawilson.bsky.social
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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munson.land
Thanks to @mangiotto.bsky.social for messing up my day with a very personal appreciation of a film which will always remind me of my dad, now gone back to the stars www.rogerebert.com/dvd-blu-ray/...
How to Be Human: A Personal Response to John Carpenter’s “Starman,” Now in 4K | DVD/Blu-Ray | Roger Ebert
John Carpenter's Starman is now in 4K. Walter Chaw reveals how much this special movie means to him.
www.rogerebert.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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mangiotto.bsky.social
For the evening crowd
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 29d
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
donzeko.bsky.social Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 29d
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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nashvillebanner.bsky.social
A proposed agreement quietly filed before the Thanksgiving holiday could bring increased police capabilities and surveillance technology to downtown Nashville. The Metro Council is set to consider it this week.

✏️: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social
Metro Council to consider Downtown Partnership security grant - Nashville Banner
Timing of Mayor Freddie O'Connell's proposal for increased police capabilities and surveillance in downtown Nashville sparks backlash.
nashvillebanner.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
TBF, there are so many ethical issues that no one op-ed can address them all. Once you've covered the data privacy, surveillance, propaganda and social control, economic and social inequality, investment bubble, labor abuses, risks to livelihoods, health and environment damage you've run out of spac
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Dec 1
And as reasonable as this writer seems and as much as he understands that essential skills can be inhibited by AI use, does this sound like someone very concerned about the labor or environmental impacts of AI? The ethics are just to be nodded to.
While I do not support the use of A.I. as a replacement for creativity, it can be a wonderful complement to a child’s free-form imagination. So we use generative A.I. programs to create images and theme songs to accompany our role-play adventures.
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM