Meg
@mead6520.bsky.social
Just trying to make sense of a nonsensical world
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"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating."
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Stop Defending Bari Weiss
It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating."
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Agreed on the Robert Earl Keen. It isn’t Christmas until I hear that and Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
Nice list. I will not admit that it is Christmastime each year until I hear Christmas Wrapping in the wild. But equally essential to me are Fairytale of New York by the Pogues with Kirsty MacColl and Merry Christmas from the Family (live version, please) by Robert Earl Keen.
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Agreed on the Robert Earl Keen. It isn’t Christmas until I hear that and Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
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An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist
A roundup that evokes a new nostalgia
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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US Senators have condemned Russia’s Christmas strikes on Ukrainian cities, calling Putin a ruthless killer with no interest in peace. They noted that while Ukraine agreed to a Christmas ceasefire, the Kremlin chose to bomb civilians in cities including Kherson, Chernihiv and Kharkiv instead.
December 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
US Senators have condemned Russia’s Christmas strikes on Ukrainian cities, calling Putin a ruthless killer with no interest in peace. They noted that while Ukraine agreed to a Christmas ceasefire, the Kremlin chose to bomb civilians in cities including Kherson, Chernihiv and Kharkiv instead.
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They see it. They know. They just like that he hates the same people they hate.
How the fuck can anybody that voted for this colossally disturbed man not see how dangerous he is?
December 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
They see it. They know. They just like that he hates the same people they hate.
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If you write and post a lot on social media and don't name-search yourself now and then, you're gonna miss some truly great stuff:
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If you write and post a lot on social media and don't name-search yourself now and then, you're gonna miss some truly great stuff:
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Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Trump’s press conference today was among his more haywire performances, and his slushy delivery and meandering answers will not halt speculation about his cognitive health.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Trump’s press conference today was among his more haywire performances, and his slushy delivery and meandering answers will not halt speculation about his cognitive health.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Interesting insight here
Even 5 years ago if you had told me CBS News would go this way whereas the WSJ wouldn’t it would have surprised me — ultimately I think purveyors of business news are the only ones insulated from these dynamics because when rich people are paying you for market-moving news you can’t mess around.
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Interesting insight here
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On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
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lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.
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Good piece from Keith Edwards with details you should know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_g...
I actually can't f**king believe this..
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Good piece from Keith Edwards with details you should know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_g...
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@cbsnews.com is racist garbage under Bari Weiss. Do not watch them.
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
@cbsnews.com is racist garbage under Bari Weiss. Do not watch them.
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She’s not going to last. And, honestly, not sure that CBS News itself will.
December 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
She’s not going to last. And, honestly, not sure that CBS News itself will.
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This happening has to mean that she’s ALREADY lost complete control of the news division she’s Editor-in-Chief of. A position that no one with her level of experience should have in the first place (she was an op-ed and book review editor for the WSJ when Trump took office the first time).
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This happening has to mean that she’s ALREADY lost complete control of the news division she’s Editor-in-Chief of. A position that no one with her level of experience should have in the first place (she was an op-ed and book review editor for the WSJ when Trump took office the first time).
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If Bari Weiss didn’t know what the Streisand Effect was before this week, she’ll certainly be familiar with it now. This episode of 60 Minutes is utterly damning. The sadism displayed in CECOT is even worse than previously depicted. It’s clear why she felt the need to protect Stephen Miller. Watch!
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If Bari Weiss didn’t know what the Streisand Effect was before this week, she’ll certainly be familiar with it now. This episode of 60 Minutes is utterly damning. The sadism displayed in CECOT is even worse than previously depicted. It’s clear why she felt the need to protect Stephen Miller. Watch!
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Anyone working for CBS should just walk the fuck out.
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Anyone working for CBS should just walk the fuck out.
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Sometime around 2029
Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Sometime around 2029
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Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
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Upon discovery of the failed device, one engineer said to another,
"We're out of time."
"We're out of time."
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Upon discovery of the failed device, one engineer said to another,
"We're out of time."
"We're out of time."
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What Trump and his allies are doing, after all, is not really about honoring him. These tributes are meant to carry the same message as an unrepaired hole in the wall left by a violent domestic abuser’s fist.
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trib.al/EklhdfU
The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What Trump and his allies are doing, after all, is not really about honoring him. These tributes are meant to carry the same message as an unrepaired hole in the wall left by a violent domestic abuser’s fist.
trib.al/EklhdfU
trib.al/EklhdfU
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Every time a Trumpist goes on TV and ritually humiliates themself to advance a stupid Trump point I remember the time that asshole Joe Francis was made to humiliate himself with a dildo on camera at gunpoint
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Every time a Trumpist goes on TV and ritually humiliates themself to advance a stupid Trump point I remember the time that asshole Joe Francis was made to humiliate himself with a dildo on camera at gunpoint
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"stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem"
Why yes, that's how normal people talk
Why yes, that's how normal people talk
The DNC's failure to release the report also seems to evade taking a public stand on some of the biggest questions in the party right now, such as how to talk about immigration:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem"
Why yes, that's how normal people talk
Why yes, that's how normal people talk
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If you think Trump's march to authoritarian power is unstoppable - or already a fait accompli - just note how panicked and weak he was tonight and he wheedled and whined about nothing is his fault.
That's not a man who thinks he's winning.
That's not a man who thinks he's winning.
December 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If you think Trump's march to authoritarian power is unstoppable - or already a fait accompli - just note how panicked and weak he was tonight and he wheedled and whined about nothing is his fault.
That's not a man who thinks he's winning.
That's not a man who thinks he's winning.