Tracy
@atraceofcool.bsky.social
Former English/comms/journalism teacher, current mom, coach, and stylist, politics (unfortunately), Pitt sports, Pittsburgh everything 🩷💜💙
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these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
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I did not see anything formal provided by Pitt, but sophomore forward Amdy Ndiaye no longer appears on the Pitt basketball roster. Fans started to notice he was not present on the bench in recent weeks.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I did not see anything formal provided by Pitt, but sophomore forward Amdy Ndiaye no longer appears on the Pitt basketball roster. Fans started to notice he was not present on the bench in recent weeks.
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin
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Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran CBS news reporter who led the story: “I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.”
The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now.
The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now.
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran CBS news reporter who led the story: “I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.”
The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now.
The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now.
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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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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
It’s been this way since No Child Left Behind. Now it’s just come full circle in a stupider, uglier, more environmentally detrimental way.
This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
This is just sad.
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It’s been this way since No Child Left Behind. Now it’s just come full circle in a stupider, uglier, more environmentally detrimental way.
Today has felt like it’s been 685 hours long
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Today has felt like it’s been 685 hours long
Cannot think of a single truly likable Steeler at this point
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Cannot think of a single truly likable Steeler at this point
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Such a great dashboard confessional song
Bitter and vindicated, a Pitt tale as old as time
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Such a great dashboard confessional song
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That should be the new motto for the school.
Bitter and vindicated, a Pitt tale as old as time
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
That should be the new motto for the school.
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I am going to get Bitter and Vindicated tattooed on my forehead at this point.
Bitter and vindicated, a Pitt tale as old as time
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am going to get Bitter and Vindicated tattooed on my forehead at this point.
Bitter and vindicated, a Pitt tale as old as time
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Bitter and vindicated, a Pitt tale as old as time
It’s giving Gemstone
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It’s giving Gemstone
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We have *never* been a “Christian” nation and we certainly aren’t one now.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We have *never* been a “Christian” nation and we certainly aren’t one now.
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Political scientists baffled by all these nasty people on the downside of their careers being so drawn to the Make And Keep It The Past movement.
December 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Political scientists baffled by all these nasty people on the downside of their careers being so drawn to the Make And Keep It The Past movement.
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Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
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Long-rumored, now official: Pitt MB Ryla Jones hits the portal with two years of eligibility remaining.
December 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Long-rumored, now official: Pitt MB Ryla Jones hits the portal with two years of eligibility remaining.
Happy for our dumb conference
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy for our dumb conference