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Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
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Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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Texas Republicans have made every effort to demonize and punish transgender people for cheap political points.
The Legislature’s ‘bathroom bill’ isn’t about privacy but humiliating trans Texans
Texas Republicans have made every effort to demonize and punish transgender people for cheap political points.
www.sacurrent.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Texas Republicans have made every effort to demonize and punish transgender people for cheap political points.
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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 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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This is why Weiss’s “it didn’t move the ball forward” excuse is bullshit. Yes, much of this was reported in the NYT and by Frontline.
But 60 Minutes averages 8 million viewers. It would have reached a massive audience that Frontline and the NYT didn’t.
But 60 Minutes averages 8 million viewers. It would have reached a massive audience that Frontline and the NYT didn’t.
Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is why Weiss’s “it didn’t move the ball forward” excuse is bullshit. Yes, much of this was reported in the NYT and by Frontline.
But 60 Minutes averages 8 million viewers. It would have reached a massive audience that Frontline and the NYT didn’t.
But 60 Minutes averages 8 million viewers. It would have reached a massive audience that Frontline and the NYT didn’t.
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60 Minutes samizdat
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
60 Minutes samizdat
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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’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!
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“Noting that they were in the country illegally”, aka noting something that was not true about a large number of those deported. This is also known as lying through their goddamn teeth.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“Noting that they were in the country illegally”, aka noting something that was not true about a large number of those deported. This is also known as lying through their goddamn teeth.
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as foretold by the prophesy
![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, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
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Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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Yep. I don't doubt MPD juked their stats. Many do.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief.
So more politics.
So more politics.
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yep. I don't doubt MPD juked their stats. Many do.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
But also -- and I know this is going to come as a shock -- but a lot of white cops resent working for black chiefs. And a lot of male cops resent working for women chiefs. This is a black woman chief.
So this "investigation" is . . . not much.
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Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologise for calling Charlie Kirk hateful: 'Pretty damn factual'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/amanda-seyfried-refuses-apologise-charlie-kirk-hateful/?utm_content=1765747200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/amanda-seyfried-refuses-apologise-charlie-kirk-hateful/?utm_content=1765747200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologise for calling Charlie Kirk hateful
Amanda Seyfried has doubled down on calling Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk 'hateful' following his death in September.
www.thepinknews.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologise for calling Charlie Kirk hateful: 'Pretty damn factual'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/amanda-seyfried-refuses-apologise-charlie-kirk-hateful/?utm_content=1765747200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/amanda-seyfried-refuses-apologise-charlie-kirk-hateful/?utm_content=1765747200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Trump's arch
(cartoon from the archives)
(cartoon from the archives)
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trump's arch
(cartoon from the archives)
(cartoon from the archives)
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If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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One type of scandal: How my reference to the history of government fonts became a viral firestorm. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/its-fontastic?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
December 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One type of scandal: How my reference to the history of government fonts became a viral firestorm. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/its-fontastic?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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