Emily Lyon
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Emily Lyon
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· Jul 15
Please stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. You're making Donald Trump mad. | Opinion
President Donald Trump has had it with people mentioning Jeffrey Epstein. So let's stop mentioning Jeffrey Epstein. No more Jeffrey Epstein, people.
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“Undoubtedly, the president wants us to tone down the references to Jeffrey Epstein and focus on other matters. And that’s exactly what I plan to do, because Jeffrey Epstein references at this point seem like intentional jabs at the president’s hope to change the subject away from Jeffrey Epstein.”
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If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.
Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.
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It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
December 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
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Well, it's out there now!😁
Just watched it and it's as bad as I thought it'd be, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib all in one... just by proxy this time.😒
As a long time shortwave listener I often relied on Voice of America to fill in the details of newspapers and evening news reports from around the world.
Just watched it and it's as bad as I thought it'd be, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib all in one... just by proxy this time.😒
As a long time shortwave listener I often relied on Voice of America to fill in the details of newspapers and evening news reports from around the world.
December 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Well, it's out there now!😁
Just watched it and it's as bad as I thought it'd be, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib all in one... just by proxy this time.😒
As a long time shortwave listener I often relied on Voice of America to fill in the details of newspapers and evening news reports from around the world.
Just watched it and it's as bad as I thought it'd be, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib all in one... just by proxy this time.😒
As a long time shortwave listener I often relied on Voice of America to fill in the details of newspapers and evening news reports from around the world.
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Just a minor clarification. It was not leaked, apparently, but released in Canada because of the incompetence of the Bari Team. I guess she didn't realize there were different distribution streams in different countries?
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Just a minor clarification. It was not leaked, apparently, but released in Canada because of the incompetence of the Bari Team. I guess she didn't realize there were different distribution streams in different countries?
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
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It looks like the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was accidentally released in Canada. It'll be really interesting to compare this to whatever version Weiss might eventually release.
December 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It looks like the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was accidentally released in Canada. It'll be really interesting to compare this to whatever version Weiss might eventually release.
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Here's a downloadable link to the 60 MINUTES piece that Trump's enablers at Paramount's CBS refused to air.
Share it far and wide.
Thanks @jasonparis.bsky.social for posting. #60Minutes
Share it far and wide.
Thanks @jasonparis.bsky.social for posting. #60Minutes
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Here's a downloadable link to the 60 MINUTES piece that Trump's enablers at Paramount's CBS refused to air.
Share it far and wide.
Thanks @jasonparis.bsky.social for posting. #60Minutes
Share it far and wide.
Thanks @jasonparis.bsky.social for posting. #60Minutes
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NEWS: Bill Clinton is demanding full transparency from the Trump DOJ on the Epstein files.
Clinton’s spokesman says the DOJ’s selective release suggests someone is being protected.
He calls on Trump to direct Bondi to immediately release all remaining materials referencing Clinton.
Clinton’s spokesman says the DOJ’s selective release suggests someone is being protected.
He calls on Trump to direct Bondi to immediately release all remaining materials referencing Clinton.
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
NEWS: Bill Clinton is demanding full transparency from the Trump DOJ on the Epstein files.
Clinton’s spokesman says the DOJ’s selective release suggests someone is being protected.
He calls on Trump to direct Bondi to immediately release all remaining materials referencing Clinton.
Clinton’s spokesman says the DOJ’s selective release suggests someone is being protected.
He calls on Trump to direct Bondi to immediately release all remaining materials referencing Clinton.
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Biden's labor secretary had a fantastic deal with US Steel and labor unions to build all wind turbines here in the US with unions. That's all out the damned window now.
Burgum on wind energy: "It wasn't even actually green because when you look at the components, the magnets, the blades, everything that goes into building this thing, you can really question whether it was green in the first place"
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Biden's labor secretary had a fantastic deal with US Steel and labor unions to build all wind turbines here in the US with unions. That's all out the damned window now.
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This is what the Asst AG for Civil Rights is doing.
So many Amendments, so little time.
So many Amendments, so little time.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons.
DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."
DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is what the Asst AG for Civil Rights is doing.
So many Amendments, so little time.
So many Amendments, so little time.
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Anybody know of a scrap fabric recycling facility in SF? (Not talking clothes to donate, stuff that should be made into insulation or whatever)
December 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Anybody know of a scrap fabric recycling facility in SF? (Not talking clothes to donate, stuff that should be made into insulation or whatever)
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But that's just one example!
Here's a guide by @marisakabas.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/mari...
Here's a directory of members of the Institute for Nonprofit News—surely there's some you read or rely on:
bsky.app/profile/tani...
Here's a guide by @marisakabas.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/mari...
Here's a directory of members of the Institute for Nonprofit News—surely there's some you read or rely on:
bsky.app/profile/tani...
3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche!
findyournews.org/explore/
findyournews.org/explore/
December 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
But that's just one example!
Here's a guide by @marisakabas.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/mari...
Here's a directory of members of the Institute for Nonprofit News—surely there's some you read or rely on:
bsky.app/profile/tani...
Here's a guide by @marisakabas.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/mari...
Here's a directory of members of the Institute for Nonprofit News—surely there's some you read or rely on:
bsky.app/profile/tani...
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So, first, I must say: We're in the final push of our year-end drive at @boltsmag.org!
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So, first, I must say: We're in the final push of our year-end drive at @boltsmag.org!
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
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After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
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Epstein survivors are condemning the Trump Justice Department as having "violated the law" — both by "withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities."
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Epstein survivors are condemning the Trump Justice Department as having "violated the law" — both by "withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities."
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As with many fascist functionaries, Weiss also doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't know anything about TV news or even reporting. The right wing demands to be put in charge but they don't do homework. They're the emperor telling Mozart the symphony was good but had too many notes.
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As with many fascist functionaries, Weiss also doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't know anything about TV news or even reporting. The right wing demands to be put in charge but they don't do homework. They're the emperor telling Mozart the symphony was good but had too many notes.
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every story about this person reads the same
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
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 2:01 PM
every story about this person reads the same
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
she made a career claiming media was lazy & politically biased, having no clue how journalism works or the rigor involved in reporting.
now in charge, she assumes she can easily produce her own lazy, politically biased work, but keeps running into walls
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setting aside that I don't think you need to "advance the ball" when the story is the administration disappearing people to a foreign torture prison, you can't say that after killing the story because the admin didn't comment! How exactly does Stephen Miller's presence "advance the ball"?
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
setting aside that I don't think you need to "advance the ball" when the story is the administration disappearing people to a foreign torture prison, you can't say that after killing the story because the admin didn't comment! How exactly does Stephen Miller's presence "advance the ball"?
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this, from Bari Weiss's 9pm editorial call, is just complete and utter horseshit. she can't even do damage control right
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
this, from Bari Weiss's 9pm editorial call, is just complete and utter horseshit. she can't even do damage control right
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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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An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
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Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
The news organization said the segment about the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
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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 2:48 AM
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...
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Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”