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Something something censorship industrial complex
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Something something censorship industrial complex
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The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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These people are gutter trash.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
These people are gutter trash.
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Trump and Stephen Miller kidnapped innocent people of color and just sent them to die in a foreign prison.
Oh American taxpayer dollars - 6 million of them - went to pay Bukele of El Salvador for this dirty work.
Oh American taxpayer dollars - 6 million of them - went to pay Bukele of El Salvador for this dirty work.
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Trump and Stephen Miller kidnapped innocent people of color and just sent them to die in a foreign prison.
Oh American taxpayer dollars - 6 million of them - went to pay Bukele of El Salvador for this dirty work.
Oh American taxpayer dollars - 6 million of them - went to pay Bukele of El Salvador for this dirty work.
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Bari Weiss, accelerationist antifa secret agent:
Ive been thinking how much a 60 min bit about CECOT wouldnt have gotten much long-term traction airing over the holidays but now that we have a bona-fide Media Scandal and there's blood in the water for others to draw out for days
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Bari Weiss, accelerationist antifa secret agent:
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This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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I’m curious what she thought was going to happen here. Did it not occur to her that swooping in at the last minute to kill a story on specious grounds might antagonize the journalists who worked on it? That such intervention was likely to blow up in a rather spectacular and embarrassing way?
the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I’m curious what she thought was going to happen here. Did it not occur to her that swooping in at the last minute to kill a story on specious grounds might antagonize the journalists who worked on it? That such intervention was likely to blow up in a rather spectacular and embarrassing way?
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Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
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Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech.
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech.
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not so tough when he's not fighting a romanian woman he drugged, i guess. tough scene
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
not so tough when he's not fighting a romanian woman he drugged, i guess. tough scene
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Since this is an effort to rewrite history in real time, it’s rather important to note that JD Vance was never asked to apologize for being white and neither was anyone in that room
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Since this is an effort to rewrite history in real time, it’s rather important to note that JD Vance was never asked to apologize for being white and neither was anyone in that room
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Mandatory internet labeling laws have been rejected over and over again as unconstitutional. I don't see how this passes any level of scrutiny. Which @agounardes.bsky.social was told multiple times by constituents (some of whom shared this with me). His response was to call them big tech shills.
Sure looks like New York will require Bluesky to carry a warning label, since it offers a feed with "like counts". And maybe AO3, on account of its displaying "kudos"?
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
Congrats, everybody, what a very good job of using the state legislature's time.
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
Congrats, everybody, what a very good job of using the state legislature's time.
NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4505
Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to desig...
www.nysenate.gov
December 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Mandatory internet labeling laws have been rejected over and over again as unconstitutional. I don't see how this passes any level of scrutiny. Which @agounardes.bsky.social was told multiple times by constituents (some of whom shared this with me). His response was to call them big tech shills.
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More seriously on this, I think we will shortly hear a lot more about this. My impression is that most of the staff of 60 is still the old crew. They’ve been told in theory they’re still supposed to do real news. But the ultimate boss is bari Weiss and that failson goober who owns paramount.
Yep. I’m sure that was the right news call and not at all something embarrassing and weird
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
December 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
More seriously on this, I think we will shortly hear a lot more about this. My impression is that most of the staff of 60 is still the old crew. They’ve been told in theory they’re still supposed to do real news. But the ultimate boss is bari Weiss and that failson goober who owns paramount.
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What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
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The vast majority of Rep Ilhan Omar’s voters and constituents are white. Median income is $82k. Among the highest density of college grads per capita nationally.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The vast majority of Rep Ilhan Omar’s voters and constituents are white. Median income is $82k. Among the highest density of college grads per capita nationally.
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How can you hate your country so much?
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
How can you hate your country so much?
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These guys are not subtle about their political project so maybe it's time to take that seriously
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
These guys are not subtle about their political project so maybe it's time to take that seriously
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If they just aired it they could claim they're not biased. If they just left Trump's name in a couple innocuous Epstein reports they could claim there's nothing else to see. This is Saddam/Putin shit, claiming he got 100% of the vote. They're very stupid fascists!
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If they just aired it they could claim they're not biased. If they just left Trump's name in a couple innocuous Epstein reports they could claim there's nothing else to see. This is Saddam/Putin shit, claiming he got 100% of the vote. They're very stupid fascists!
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Trans people get blamed for crimes they had nothing to do with.
December 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trans people get blamed for crimes they had nothing to do with.
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when they say "take the country back," they're not talking about winning elections
Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.
JD Vance: "If you miss Charlie Kirk…do you promise to take the country back from the people who took his life?"
December 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
when they say "take the country back," they're not talking about winning elections
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Holy smokes the quotes here are deranged. He's pro-housing and pro-immigration but people on here are fantasizing about executing him because they can't read
Homelessness increased primarily because of immigration (lots of people came to the US without setting up housing).
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Holy smokes the quotes here are deranged. He's pro-housing and pro-immigration but people on here are fantasizing about executing him because they can't read
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also, Lions fans, I don't want to hear any Jared Goff slander this man has taken a beating that would make Stafford cringe this year and he's still slinging
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
also, Lions fans, I don't want to hear any Jared Goff slander this man has taken a beating that would make Stafford cringe this year and he's still slinging
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.