@alexsearlesy.bsky.social
Into the shitter by Q3 of next year is my bet. AI bubble bound to pop eventually and venture capital is filled with potentially toxic assets disguised through continuation vehicles that will sour in a market downturn. But I’m just guessing 🤷♂️
Economists are watching closely for signs that a slowing job market or worsening inflation could derail growth. Here are 10 areas experts are tracking to gauge where things with the economy may be headed:
10 charts that show where the economy is heading
The U.S. economy experienced steady growth in 2025, despite concerns over inflation and the job market, with artificial intelligence playing a significant role in driving growth.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Into the shitter by Q3 of next year is my bet. AI bubble bound to pop eventually and venture capital is filled with potentially toxic assets disguised through continuation vehicles that will sour in a market downturn. But I’m just guessing 🤷♂️
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John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
John Oliver has said this explicitly FYI
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
That without local news he couldn't do his show (and to his credit, he's pretty good about crediting his news sources)
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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You have a logical mind.
Told to me by a clown who was also my professor for my theater and social change course.
Like he was a literal clown.
Like professionally.
I don't mean this as an insult. I mean this man's job was clowning.
Told to me by a clown who was also my professor for my theater and social change course.
Like he was a literal clown.
Like professionally.
I don't mean this as an insult. I mean this man's job was clowning.
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
You have a logical mind.
Told to me by a clown who was also my professor for my theater and social change course.
Like he was a literal clown.
Like professionally.
I don't mean this as an insult. I mean this man's job was clowning.
Told to me by a clown who was also my professor for my theater and social change course.
Like he was a literal clown.
Like professionally.
I don't mean this as an insult. I mean this man's job was clowning.
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Best investment I ever made was buying SPDR gold end of last year…
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Best investment I ever made was buying SPDR gold end of last year…
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I know that it's unfashionable to say this in defense circles, but Venezuela has cheap Iranian offshore patrol vessels with anti-ship missiles too. These may be detectable, but the cost they can impose on American warships will be far greater than they are worth.
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I know that it's unfashionable to say this in defense circles, but Venezuela has cheap Iranian offshore patrol vessels with anti-ship missiles too. These may be detectable, but the cost they can impose on American warships will be far greater than they are worth.
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Interesting insight here
Even 5 years ago if you had told me CBS News would go this way whereas the WSJ wouldn’t it would have surprised me — ultimately I think purveyors of business news are the only ones insulated from these dynamics because when rich people are paying you for market-moving news you can’t mess around.
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Interesting insight here
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wish I had known in college that I could’ve just written “i 💜 god” on all of the homework I hastily slapped together and either gotten an A or at the very least had the professor fired when they failed to appreciate my work
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
wish I had known in college that I could’ve just written “i 💜 god” on all of the homework I hastily slapped together and either gotten an A or at the very least had the professor fired when they failed to appreciate my work
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Man that Bob Dylan kid could really make a career out of writing
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Man that Bob Dylan kid could really make a career out of writing
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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!! 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 10:39 PM
!! 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)
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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.
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.
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
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.
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I mean, we all had "Bari Weiss tries to kill a story at CBS that would have made Trump look bad but she does such a bad job trying to kill it that everyone finds out about it and the story leaks within 24 hours" on our Bingo cards, but that doesn't make it any less notable.
December 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I mean, we all had "Bari Weiss tries to kill a story at CBS that would have made Trump look bad but she does such a bad job trying to kill it that everyone finds out about it and the story leaks within 24 hours" on our Bingo cards, but that doesn't make it any less notable.
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Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
While it’s easy to become numb to this kind of thing in the second Trump era, this is a huge story. The way that they’ve handled other issues with political appointees (like Homan) makes this even more concerning.
December 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
While it’s easy to become numb to this kind of thing in the second Trump era, this is a huge story. The way that they’ve handled other issues with political appointees (like Homan) makes this even more concerning.
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“I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight … Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.” - “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
“I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight … Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.” - “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi
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“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,” Alfonsi wrote.
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“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,” Alfonsi wrote.
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#GVerse SNL completely DESTROYED #Shit4Brains for hiding the Epstein files.
This is amazing. Check it out!
This is amazing. Check it out!
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#GVerse SNL completely DESTROYED #Shit4Brains for hiding the Epstein files.
This is amazing. Check it out!
This is amazing. Check it out!
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Just so we’re all clear, if the 60 Minutes thing is what it looks like then that’s much bigger than Jimmy Fallon being off the air for a few nights.
December 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Just so we’re all clear, if the 60 Minutes thing is what it looks like then that’s much bigger than Jimmy Fallon being off the air for a few nights.
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Been a while since I read it so can someone remind me if in Lysistrata there’s a part where the men of Athens give a series of long and ponderous speeches about the male loneliness crisis
December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Been a while since I read it so can someone remind me if in Lysistrata there’s a part where the men of Athens give a series of long and ponderous speeches about the male loneliness crisis