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I think engineers are especially prone to Trumpism, for reasons that are complex but have to do mostly with narrow expertise and a belief in yes/no, right/wrong solutions. I wrote about this problem in The Death of Expertise:
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
His daughters have done nothing wrong. And remember, Andrew was Queen Elizabeth’s favorite. She covered for him for years
December 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
December 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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More:
The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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New data shows that Donald Trump’s economic policies have driven up prices this year’s holiday season by 26%.

Americans are paying the price for Donald Trump’s policies.
December 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Margaret Sullivan: CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss yanking a "60 Minutes" story on Trump sending Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador's nightmarish prison "looks like a clear case of censorship-by-editor to protect the interests of powerful, rich and influential people."
Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan
Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids?

Seems relevant now.
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Because you do
December 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I’ll take immigrants over pederasts any day.
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The rebrand hasn’t exactly helped the Kennedy Center’s bottom line, though. As of October, “ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been in years,” based on ... analysis of “ticketing data from dozens of recent shows as well as past seasons.”
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Pro-democracy forces will not shame or argue MAGA Republicans into capitulation or retreat. With a helping hand from diligent lower courts, an organized electorate can end the authoritarian nightmare. Everything rests on the midterms.
Lessons from 2025
What will guide us going forward?
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bill’s still got it!
I love how Bill Clinton just destroyed MAGA’s entire false equivalence Epstein argument
Clinton, as well as the Epstein survivors, demand that the DOJ release the remainder of the Epstein files, thus removing suspicions that Clinton is the reason the files have been kept private in the first place.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #BillClinton #EpsteinFiles #DOJ #Bondi

www.axios.com/2025/12/22/e...
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Misappropriation of funds, anyone?
@warren.senate.gov publishes a report listing all the $$ that Congress gave to DOD to do DOD things that DOD instead spent on Stephen Miller's snatch and grab.

As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.

www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
No. He’s good with release
Bill Clinton isnt afraid of the Epstein files.

I did NOT expect him to call for the files that reference him to be released in accordance to the law so Im pretty surprised!

Is this a double fake out?
December 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus

Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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
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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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Release the full unredacted Epstein files -- with the exception of victim's names.
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Except for Colbert
December 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
They can’t. No one will. I won’t be watching anything on CBS except Colbert until Weiss is gone
Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
December 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
DONE with CBS
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 11:55 AM
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Fox News host Brett Baier at Mar-a-Lago with Trump
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oh, honey, give it up. There is no way you needed to redact all of the text for 100+ pages to protect them. It’s a statute. It said release everything. We all know who you’re protecting
Blanche: "There were a number of photos that were pulled down after being released. That's bc a judge in NY ordered us to listen to any victim if they have concerns... even though there's repeated attempts by Dems to paint President Trump as part of the Epstein saga, it's failing over & over again"
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM