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Jenn Gidman
@jenngidman.bsky.social
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I use words and take pictures. I made two kids. I like bonfires.
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Private equity getting involved in surrogate births, I'm sure that's gonna turn out great
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d
The booming surrogacy industry is a new target of private-equity and other investors, but it’s largely unregulated, leaving the women who give birth with few financial or legal protections.
Surrogacy Is a Multibillion-Dollar Business—but Surrogates Can Be Left With Big Debts
The booming fertility industry is largely unregulated, leaving the women giving birth with few financial or legal protections.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Me, a MAGA (having just splattered diarrhea all over your living room and kitchen): oh well if you hate it here so much, leave
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Was at the liquor store earlier today, and... what
Nacho cheese Doritos alcohol Doritos booze
December 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
My great great grandfather on my mother's side fought for the Union in the US Civil War, and survived Antietam by hiding in a pile of corpses. Americans fantasizing about another one have no idea what it would be like
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
As Alfonsi (or maybe someone else, forget where I saw it now) says: The government’s initial silence was a comment, not a veto
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 8d
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 4:01 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
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 3:37 AM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
this brief wtf moment i had at my mother-in-law’s house three christmases ago is my most impactful contribution to society
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
The US government’s propaganda machine is almost all wrapped up
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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parkermolloy.com
They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"

Before (left), after (right)
The FCC's Mission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations. The FCC's Mission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. A U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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petekeeley.bsky.social
Fuck I finally figured it out
Greg Bovino, DHS asshole, rocking a double-breasted trench coat and a high-top fade. General Leo sprite from Final Fantasy VI
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
Me, every time Cheryl Hines starts crying publicly how Larry David probably doesn't like her anymore and she can't understand why people are being mean to her and Bobby www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
THE BEST. IS YET. TO COME (gets shipped off to Greece, never to be seen again)
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
Trump raping and being an openly proud sex pest in general toward women is awful, but this tic is baked into his personality, so most of the intellectuals on the right will simply ignore it and focus on policy
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
These VF pics tho lmao (giving real “Kent Dorfman on the frat house movie screen” vibes)
December 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
jenngidman.bsky.social
It really felt heavier than usual today
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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shakespeare.lol
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The Washington Post, everyone
=Q The Washington post Business Economy Economic Policy Media Personal Fina Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do Though Americans might be clamoring for relief on groceries, housing and energy costs, economists say there's a bigger downside to falling prices. November 30, 2025
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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mattufford.bsky.social
at this point I think it’s fair to say that the Bills have a kink. and I think it’s perfectly healthy to switch from sub to dom with a partner
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
This is true. We chatted publicly on Twitter in early covid days and he was utterly baffled that he couldn't go to big gatherings with people and that everyone in NYC was wearing masks. "I don't get why I need to care about this" was right below the surface.
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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abbyhiggs.bsky.social
My little brother, staring through the window: it snowed out

Me: yeah, I know

My little brother: ….

Me: ….

My little brother: ….

Me: ….

My little brother: ….

Me: ….

My little brother: please let me in
December 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM