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Keith Craker
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He/Him. Happily married Gen X geek. Graphic designer by day, aspiring rock star by night.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This keeps happening

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...
Russell Brand Is Charged With Additional Counts of Rape and Sexual Assault
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020

'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 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 · 1d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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dailykos.com
Greenland: “You cannot annex other countries.”
Trump: appoints a special envoy anyway

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Nope, Trump hasn't given up on one of his dumbest obsessions
President Donald Trump has triggered yet another round of international criticism of the United States after he announced on Monday that he has appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.

This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.

Ohio is following Trump's demands.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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dailykos.com
Trump’s own pollster says Democrats lead the generic ballot by 7 points. That’s not spin. That’s the warning label they tried to hide in the memo.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump's personal pollster may find himself on the boss' naughty list
President Donald Trump's own pollster released a survey finding that voters want Democrats to control Congress by a 7-point margin—a spread so large that it would cost Republicans the House and ...
www.dailykos.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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nancyacollins.bsky.social
Here's the report that was supposed to air on 60 Minutes but was yanked at the last minutes on Trump's orders. Share the link far & wide.
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60 Minutes Inside CECOT : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Full video of the 60 Minutes Inside CECOT episode that CBS pulled.
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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paulandstorm.bsky.social
[P] you know what'll perk these numbers right up is a war for oil
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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rieckhoff.bsky.social
Trump is running after things to shamefully and ridiculously name after himself in Washington…so he’s building completely new stuff to name after himself. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
Trump announces new "Trump class" of Navy battleships
President Trump announced plans to build a new "Trump class" of battleships, part of the Pentagon's new "Golden fleet."
www.cbsnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
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60 Minutes CECOT
YouTube video by Gary Bauman
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December 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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"China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634%" 🤔 share.google/yxJk9FytGMTY...
December 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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jesus
keithboykin.bsky.social Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 2d
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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olbermann.bsky.social
TRUMP IS DROWNING: The GOP rebels to force an ObamaCare vote. Susie Wiles confirms boat bombing is about Venezuelan regime change; her "retribution" remark will preclude prosecutions of Jack Smith, Comey et al.

And Trump killed the Mets?

GET THE NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/j5cj9e68
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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andyzipp.bsky.social
Annual reminder that Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is in no way, shape, or form a Christmas Song.

No matter how much Pentatonix pretends otherwise.
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
Dr. Kirk Moore faked COVID vaccine cards and gave saline shots to children at their parents’ request to offer patients “choice” amid pandemic-era mandates. Pam Bondi dismissed all charges against him.
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Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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rudepundit.bsky.social
Awesome to live in a time where we have to ask, “Is that real?” about everything we see and hear.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Thank goodness tragedy was averted. But we shouldn't even be there with our military in the first place.
Screenshot of a tweet from OSINTdefender reporting that a JetBlue Airbus A320 nearly collided midair with a U.S. Air Force KC-135R tanker over the Southern Caribbean; below the text is a photo of a JetBlue airplane taxiing on a runway.
December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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scalzi.com
Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be.

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Rob Reiner, RIP
I don’t have much to add about Rob Reiner and wife Michelle Singer’s shocking death that other people haven’t said better, likewise any more to add about his career and political …
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December 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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portlandken.bsky.social
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.

Two options:

1) ICE deliberately targeted him.

2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.

Hard to say which option is scarier.
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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maddenifico.bsky.social
After the psychotic shitstain designated antifa a terrorist group, antifa decided to turn itself in to the FBI. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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redloribrighteyes.bsky.social
we keep saying that dems need to take back the government

we do

but when we do we better finally do the damn thing

enshrine ALL the rights

no more bullshit
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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rowdyrebel.bsky.social
The quality of a nation is determined by the way it’s most vulnerable citizens are treated.
December 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM