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Celeste Headlee

@celesteheadlee.bsky.social

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Writer, journalist, speaker. She/her. Black, Jewish, Portuguese. Detroit stan forever. Living on Piscataway land. Latest book: https://rb.gy/4ovkd Press: [email protected]

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · Nov 9

My friends & I have a food pantry in my front yard. It is used heavily. We can't keep it full & could use some help covering the cost of shelf-stable supplies.
No one is using this pantry unless they need the help. We supply beans, oatmeal, onions, etc. It's not gourmet food.
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Donate to Help Keep Our Neighborhood Pantry Stocked, organized by Celeste Headlee

In 2021, my neighbors and I installed a little free pantry on my front lawn,… Celeste Headlee needs your support for Help Keep Our Neighborhood Pantry Stocked

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 12h

I truly can't understand this obsession with taxes. I've done really well some years and paid a lot of taxes. I've done significantly less well in other years and paid less. Never did I ever feel the need to decide on political issues based on my income tax return.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 19h

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/3IusbGP

Article excerpt: After Trump won and formally announced Homan would be returning with him to the White House, Sowell kept Homan on his payroll until the end of the year. Once named as the border czar, Homan said he would recuse himself from contracting, saying he would have no “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts.”

But several industry executives who spoke with ProPublica said at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work.

Homan's business relationships are under greater scrutiny after MSNBC reported an FBI sting that allegedly caught him on tape accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as would-be government contractors before he took the border czar post.

His relationship with Sowell raises fresh questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process for immigration enforcement, ethics experts say.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 14h

How embarrassing for her. Instead of preparing to answer questions about her department, she came prepared to attack any Democrat who questioned her. That's fear.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 14h

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 15h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 14h

This picture is glorious

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 14h

This is brutal.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Kash was begging for a Community Note

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

On Marjorie Taylor Greene saying they need to fix Obamacare subsidies:

““When Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying we need to pass this, you’re idiots if you’re going to go down to a loss because of Donald Trump and Mike Johnson. And covering for Pedophiles.”

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 14h

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah what’s remarkable about Trump’s tariffs is that he’s both implementing them by executive fiat and then spending them by executive fiat, both of which are profoundly, extremely, couldn’t-be-more unconstitutional

Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"More than 1/2 of America thinks Israel has “gone too far” in Gaza & any insufficiently aggressive reporting on the situation is going to be blamed on you, Ms. Zionist Fanatic. Plus, CBS News isn’t going to move the needle on young people’s attitudes toward Israel because they don’t watch it."

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"You had such a good gig going, too. Your entire pitch at The Free Press- lol, lmao-was that you were standing boldly against big bad corporate media that wouldn’t tell the truth! This was an easy pitch &, judging by your audience, a fairly lucrative one. You didn’t even have to get stories right!"

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"You have never reported & they all know it. You don’t know anything about the challenges or judgment calls required for complicated stories. You’re an op-ed writer who rode Bret Stephens’ coattails into the NYT newsroom, then quit in a huff cuz they wouldn’t fire you."

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"You think Gayle King or David Martin are going to sit through a lecture from you? Like for real? Come on. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus."

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented."

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"You think you had a bad time at The New York Times? Baby, you have no idea what a bad time is. You’ll find out when you try to tell Norah O’Donnell anything at all about her reporting. If you’re lucky, she’ll just shake her Emmys at you when she tells you to fuck off."

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"You also have to manage Famous TV Talent, the people your audience knows & likes, & who will eat you alive if they think you’ve screwed them over. For that to work, you need to disappear & let the Talent be the face of the network, & nothing about your history suggests you’re capable of that."

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

"I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but [CBS viewers] remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up. It’s normie grandparents, a bunch of whom are planning to appear at the next No Kings rally."

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

I am a Buddhist and Jewish, so maybe I don't understand the Bible that I've read 3 times. Can some Christian explain how this fits with Christ's teachings?

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 18h

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon tells Christians they can "make Jesus smile" by joining ICE: "You literally can join ICE and be God's appointed avenger who seeks to carry out God's vengeance on the evildoer." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 19h

They're not hiring the best.