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protecttruth.bsky.social
What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.

But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
daniellibit.bsky.social Daniel Libit @daniellibit.bsky.social · 14h
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.

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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it
sambiddle.com Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 1d
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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edzitron.com
I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable!

www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
"You Need Al Skills Today To Be Ready For The Future"/"The Future Belongs To Those Who Know AI" So, you've probably seen a lot of stuff — maybe even in your own workplace! — about how you're gonna need Al skills in the future, because, uh. Well, you're gonna need them, and you're gonna get left behind if you don't have them. If anybody ever says this to you, please ask them to be specific, because at this point I'm not even confident I can make up a task that Al can do for me. In fact, here's a simple one: please name me somebody who has gotten significantly better at their job using Al. One person you know. One. Just one. Try it. I am, in theory, exactly the person who should be getting the most out of Al. I write a lot. I research a lot. I constantly have to keep an eye on stuff. I pull stuff out of large piles of data. I think I make like 500 searches a week, I'm a complete animal. I talk back and forth with my editor Matt Hughes constantly to brainstorm ideas. So why don't I use Al? Surely it would be perfect, right? Nope! Al is a terrible researcher. I've used everything from Al mode on Google to the most expensive generative search engines available for large hedge funds, and in 99.9% of cases I've found nothing new or interesting or novel. That edge case was one time when a search engine pulled up a single quote from an earnings statement. Once. One time. So, what do people mean by "Al skills"? Prompt engineering. They mean "how can you get this product that's sold and hyped as a panacea for every informational problem to do the thing that it's meant to do," and the answer is usually "it can't do it, but the way to get it close is to find nuanced ways to ask it to do stuff." In a very real sense, "Al skills training" is actually Al training you - making you fill in the gaps, making you do the work that this alleged "intelligence" does.
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
one side wants to forgive student loan debt. the other wants to raid your bank account. we are not the same.
The Trump administration said it would soon begin to garnish pay from federal student loan borrowers who are in default.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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amandamull.bsky.social
This is the most I’ve thought about a 60 Minutes segment in maybe my whole life so congrats to Bari
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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anderswo.bsky.social
People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d
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 2:09 AM
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paulisci.bsky.social
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious --PCGamer, 21 November 2025
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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zenofdesign.com
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Fair use.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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rickperlstein.bsky.social
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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rakesofmallow.bsky.social
Really love this take, which only seems more correct after the reaction to the first round games. A number of college football pundits seem like they'd rather be covering the NFL and I'd prefer they just go do that (or simply disappear) before turning CFB into NFL Lite.

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Why do college football TV personalities hate college football?
YouTube video by Lucy Rohden
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December 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Have to highlight the absurdity in a public discourse that holds the idea of systemic racism out as exotic and academic while also reporting that one of the two major parties in the country is making racism an explicit central pillar of their party identity.
pgourevitch.bsky.social Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2d
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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craigipedia.bsky.social
Since a lot of people seem to be confused, this is what fascism sounds like in the American context.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the vice president is a klansman
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.

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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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benjaminepark.bsky.social
I recently binged Landman and…

…has Taylor Sheridan ever met a real life woman? Or had a normal family dinner?

Also, that show is as garbage television as Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, just aimed at a different demographic.
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
Trumps’s for they and them.
darrigomelanie.bsky.social Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.

They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.

Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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parkermolloy.com
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out. David Brooks in the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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auntietiffa.bsky.social
Aged like a bowl of milk on a Death Valley trailer roof 🤷
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM