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John Paul
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A liberal Ohioan living in a gerrymandered state. Love the Cavs, tortured by the Browns.
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Peace on earth, goodwill to men.
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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During a White House Christmas call, Donald Trump told an eight-year-old girl that she sounded “beautiful and cute.”

If anyone needed any further evidence, well here it is, recorded today by Donald Trump in the middle of everything going on.
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Truth and More

She knows ALL ABOUT EPSTEIN...She knows
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The DOJ wants the public to know that while there may be some horrifying things pertaining to Donald Trump in the latest Epstein files release, none of it is true
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social

I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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‘It’s not a part time job.’

Oof.

Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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If you think switching which corporate owned legacy media outlet you consume is the solution, you don't really understand how deep the problem is. It's not just ABS, CBS, WaPo or the LA Times. It's the system in which they work.

The only solution is to support pro-democracy independent media.
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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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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I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
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Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency. Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials. But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry. Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document. Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing Al products. "We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.

Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.

See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Stefanik's decision to leave Congress at the end of her term will open up her upstate New York district, a largely rural area that stretches from the Albany area all the way to the Canadian border. Trump carried it in 2024, but it could now be in play.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik drops out of New York governor's race
Stefanik, a Trump ally, also said she would not seek re-election to her House seat next year.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Jack Smith wants to testify in public - Republicans refuse.

He wants his depo tape made public - no again.

The second strike boat video? - nope.

Epstein files law complied with? - not today.

Vote on ACA? - maybe next year.

Republicans: Hide, obstruct, lie, delay, deny.
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Since the end of the Cold War, democrats have created 50M jobs and republicans have created 1M.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d
The Republican propaganda that Trump “inherited” a bad economy from Biden and is making it better is the exact opposite of true. The numbers don’t lie and people know what they are experiencing.
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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House Republicans are going on vacation and letting your health care subsidies lapse.
December 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.

The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.

@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy

www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
forbes.com Forbes @forbes.com · 9d
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.

What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.

When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.

Remember this.
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Terrific story about Rob Reiner being as much of a mensch in real life as he seemed.
smrodman.bsky.social Namdor @smrodman.bsky.social · 10d
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 3:12 PM