Kurt Duerksen
@darkchallenger.bsky.social
Nature photographer. Associate Librarian. Father. Grandfather. Animal lover.
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so the two notable programming moves bari weiss has made at CBS are... airing an interview nobody watched and not airing a 60 Minutes segment that everybody watched. it's like she's satirizing herself
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.
On point.
I’m sure Trump is innocent of this Epstein stuff because he isn’t on video bragging about grabbing women & hasn’t had 27 different women accuse him of sex assault or bragged about going into beauty pageant dressing rooms when they’re naked or talked about how hot his daughter is.
December 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
On point.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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how exactly do we put the justice department on trial?
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Deplorable
Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Deplorable
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The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm
December 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 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
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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The U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly attempting to seize a third Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, escalating its pressure campaign against the Nicholas Maduro regime.
China Alleges Violation Of International Law As U.S. Pursues Another Venezuelan Tanker
The U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly attempting to seize a third Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, escalating its pressure campaign against the Nicholas Maduro regime.
www.forbes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly attempting to seize a third Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, escalating its pressure campaign against the Nicholas Maduro regime.
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Why do we put up with a system of voting that forces us to wait 4 years to vote again, when we find out that the person voted into office lied?
Why don't we have a system where when the people are betrayed the people can immediately remediate by removing the person harming them?
Why don't we have a system where when the people are betrayed the people can immediately remediate by removing the person harming them?
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Since we can't do polls here on bsky, let's try this... If you believe that Donald Trump is guilty of child crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein - repost this.
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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"It's kind of crazy that Internet culture and memes have made this perhaps the most famous Normal Rockwell painting. Before those came to be, it probably wasn't in the top five."
December 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ICE is nothing short of a government sanctioned terrorist organization. Everyone of them belongs in one of their concentration camps. Noem can lead the way.
December 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The easiest position in any company for artificial intelligence to replace is the CEO and the CFO. They certainly couldn't be any less heartless
December 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The redactions probably say more than the text under them about the president and the current administration.
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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So they've apparently had 1000 agents working through the 300GB of Epstein files, and they've managed to release under 1% of them, and those wholly or heavily redacted.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
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Garcia: In our initial estimation—It could be that we're only getting about 10% of what the DOJ has. And of that 10%, 5% of that has already been released. And the other 5% is highly redacted. So we're getting very little so far
December 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Garcia: In our initial estimation—It could be that we're only getting about 10% of what the DOJ has. And of that 10%, 5% of that has already been released. And the other 5% is highly redacted. So we're getting very little so far
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For ten years, Tesla FSD has been the grift that keeps on grifting. I don't expect that to change in 2026.
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For ten years, Tesla FSD has been the grift that keeps on grifting. I don't expect that to change in 2026.
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For what it's worth, the human rights violations being committed by our current administration are only seen at the tips of the various icebergs, of which there are many.
Brace yourselves for what we find when they are no longer in control.
Brace yourselves for what we find when they are no longer in control.
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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