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montereyp.bsky.social @montereyp.bsky.social · Jan 9
There are much bigger stories going on, needless to say. But I had some thoughts on James Mangold's rendering of the Dylan legend - Bob, Timmy, Joan and the whole mispocha. Here 'tis.
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
"Defendants' actions in renaming the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts clearly violate federal law. Congress has named the Kennedy Center by statute, and only Congress may change the Kennedy Center's name."

The complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
"Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. ... Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website ...."
Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. Their actions violated the trust's terms, as established by Congress in the United States Code. Defendants' actions were not taken in the best interests of a trust with a duty "to maintain and administer the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" as "a living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy?" And Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website; by diluting the Kennedy Center's brand and fundamentally undermining its mission; by directly causing a reduction in ticket sales and donations; and by directly leading artists to cancel performances or decline to perform at the Kennedy Center.
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
NEWS: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sues Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Read the complaint: washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-law...
Case 1:25-cv-04480 Document 1 Filed 12/22/25 Page 2 of 18 INTRODUCTION This is a lawsuit to stop the unlawful renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ("the Kennedy Center"). Shortly after President Kennedy's assassination, Congress designated the Kennedy Center as the sole national memorial to the late President within the nation's capital. Because Congress named the center by statute, changing the Kennedy Center's name requires an act of Congress. But on December 18 and 19, 2025—in scenes more reminiscent of authoritarian regimes than the American republic the sitting President and his handpicked loyalists renamed this storied center after President Trump. This is a flagrant violation of the rule of law, and it flies in the face of our constitutional order. Congress intended the Center to be a living memorial to President Kennedy-and a crown jewel of the arts for all Americans, irrespective of party. Unless and until this Court intervenes, Defendants will continue to defy Congress and thwart the law for improper ends. 2. For decades, the Kennedy Center has served as a renowned hub for the arts in the nation's capital. But when Defendant Trump entered office for his second term in January 2025, he became fixated on controlling the Kennedy Center. In February 2025, in a norm-shattering development, Defendant Trump ousted members of the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees; installed sycophants in their place; orchestrated the firing of the Kennedy Center's President; and installed Defendant Richard Grenell, who served in the first Trump Administration, to lead the Kennedy Center. In a stunning move, Defendant Trump even appointed himself to the Board, after which his handpicked Board elected him as Chair. The ongoing politicization of the Kennedy Center has had grave consequences for the institution. Major figures have broken their ties with the Kennedy Center, and public reporting has found that nearly half of the Kennedy Center's tickets now go…
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mockler: They didn't release all the files. They're drip feeding them. And redactions weren't reasonable. It was redacted in some parts. And as we just saw under redacted in other parts, and victims were exposed.
December 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Oh
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
U whiny bitch you u should not be in charge of a Cub Scout troop
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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alexblechman.bsky.social
Welcome to 60 Minutes. Our top story tonight is Snakes: Nature’s Spaghetti
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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rparloff.bsky.social
Remarkable story, even for this Administration:
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
www.politico.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the vice president is a klansman
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
Ms. Weiss said in a statement late Sunday: “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom. I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
“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.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d
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 3:42 AM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
This is entirely to please Trump, who has voiced criticism of 60 Minutes under the new owners, who are the definition of rank amatuers, emphasis on rank. This Stephen Miller interview suggestion is idiotic in the context of this story and shows a startling lack of sophistication or smarts.
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
They even memory-hole'd the description from the news release, as I note at Law Dork — with credit to Nolan for initially highlighting the release (to me at least). www.lawdork.com/p/sixty-minu...
December 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
montereyp.bsky.social
Long Before Bondi Massacre, Australian Jews Lived With a Sense of Peril www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...
Long Before Bondi Massacre, Australian Jews Lived With a Sense of Peril
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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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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annabower.bsky.social
“The Free Press”

www.wsj.com/business/med...
CBS News pulled a planned "60 Minutes" segment on ar El Salvador maximum-security prison where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, last-minute decision that drew a rebuke from one of its high-profile correspondents. Sharyn Alfonsi said in a Sunday email to fellow correspondents including Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper that she learned Saturday that new CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss "spiked our story." Alfonsi said the last-minute change was, in her view, a political decision, rather than an editorial call, accordin to the email, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "The 60 Minutes report on "Inside CECOT" will air in a future broadcast. We determined it needed additional reporting," a spokesperson for CBS News said in a statement. Over the course of this weekend, Weiss made the decision not to run the piece as planned, according to people familiar with the matter. "Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. is factually correct," Alfonsi wrote in the email. If the standard for airing a story became the government agreeing to be interviewed, she wrote, the network would cede editorial control. "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state," Alfonsi wrote. CBS parent Paramount PSKY 0.31% A purchased
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
montereyp.bsky.social
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
montereyp.bsky.social
Palo Alto Confronts Billionaires Over Their Housing Compounds www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Palo Alto Confronts Billionaires Over Their Housing Compounds
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
Read Tom Bissell on Jaws in Issue 130: tinyurl.com/f8cx9c9f
lhornert.bsky.social Lisa "I'll be your jingle horse" Turner @lhornert.bsky.social · 21d
Read an essay in @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social issue 130 by Tom Bissell, and I believe it's the first essay I actually devoured, ravenously turning the pages for more, in some time. It's all about the novel "Jaws", & the making of "Jaws" the movie, Read it! It's outstanding.
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Sarah Palin's bid for a new libel trial against The New York Times has been rejected by a New York federal judge who also refused Palin's request that the judge recuse himself.
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Federal prosecutors attempted — and then failed — to get a grand jury to add a third felony charge to a failed indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James last week, while omitting earlier claims that she fraudulently converted a second home into a rental property.
Prosecutors tried and failed to add 3rd felony charge against Letitia James, court docs show
A judge refused the Justice Department’s bid to keep the failed indictment under wraps.
www.politico.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
For what it's worth, here's how the a.i. robot of Elon Musk's X would vote on U.S. v. Dugan if he were a juror.
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
Masnica:

"How could you intentionally obstruct a warrant for someone if you don't know who it's for?"
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM