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Benjamin de V
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noelreports.com
No words to describe this.
December 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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 3:37 AM
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propublica.org
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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united24media.com
🔴 These testimonies expose sexual violence by Russian troops.

Each story was shared under strict confidentiality and collected by the Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association “JurFem.”
December 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
We've all figured it out: *every* accusation is a confession.

Anti-abortion activists talk about "coercion". They block abortion in their states and indict those who try to get it from elsewhere:

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill to “protect” so-called “victims of abortion drug dealers”.
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Projecting
And their buzzwords give it away
jessica.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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volts.wtf
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE: I break down seven urgent reforms every blue state must pass before 2026 (plus a bonus). These are real, actionable policies that protect the right to vote, stop ballot rejection, and make democracy actually work for every voter.
youtu.be/cuX6BRJIL5Y?...
7 Things Democrats Can Do TODAY To Save Democracy
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
You're going to have to force yourself to watch this.

I can't say you'll be happy seeing it.

But I can make you one promise.

You'll agree you needed to.

Never forget.

youtu.be/ZQ4LkUJQvII
Ukrainian survivors recount deadly bus attack
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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dcminx.bsky.social
‼️ Women have been involved in Ukraine’s drone operations since the early months of the full-scale invasion, as casualties mount their presence has grown, particularly in FPV (first-person-view) attack units.

‼️ Three women talk about why they signed up for a brutal combat environment 👇
Screenshot of The Guardian Ukraine in depth ‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline Phito caption: Drone pilot Elisabeth says she struggles with the psychological weight of her role but ‘you just get used to carrying it’. All photographs by Gaby Schütze
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.

The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
No, it's not a simple video on White House architecture: it clearly explains why the presidency has changed in dramatic ways.

Watch and expand your consciousness like it was a ballroom.

youtu.be/32G68FveL0A
Why Trump's Ballroom is Really Dystopian
YouTube video by Spectacles
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
« On est en 2025, est-il est encore normal de compter nos mortes ? »

107 femmes tuées par leur conjoint ou ex-conjoint. Avant de mourir, 37 avaient signalé ces violences aux forces de sécurité.

906 femmes victimes de harcèlement par leur conjoint/ex se sont suicidées ou ont tenté de se suicider.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
Sure, it's something most people suspected forever.

But it's still nice to rub it in extremists' (and foreign agents') faces. Just a little.

www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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noelreports.com
Cheeseburger-eating surrender monkeys 🇺🇸🍔🐒

Call it what it is: betrayal.
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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indivisible.org
Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
A Spotify playlist called “Don’t Stream Fascism”: Dear Losers. Stop Runnin’ by LOKRE brutal by Olivia Rodrigo Secret Police by Fishbone Recruitment by The Chilling Alpine Adventure, Falling Up Propaganda by Muse Until Then… by Sully Erna, Irina Chirkova We Protest by Dave Carroll
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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malena.bsky.social
Do you have 2 minutes to seek justice for these victims of Epstein's CHILD MOLESTATION?

SIMPLY dial 202-225-3121 for your 2 Senators & your Congressional rep.

I beg you to call. As an SA survivor, I wish I had justice.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN destroyed 1000+ lives!

These 1000 victims deserve justice!
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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davidbelliard.bsky.social
Tout le monde souffre de la conso de drogues dans la rue. Les usagers de drogue et les riverains. On peut protéger tout le monde avec + de salles de conso de drogues.
Berlin ou Copenhague l'ont fait ! Faisons-le à Paris !
Pour la santé, la tranquillité publique, pour la dignité.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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atrupar.com
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Nov 9
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
benjamin22b.bsky.social
If Trump never made sense to you, this will really clear things up.

And it's much worse than you thought.

youtu.be/9OtO-cypKmY
‘The smoking gun’ that points to Trump’s cognitive decline | Psychologist analyses Trump
YouTube video by Times Radio
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM