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Charles Seese IV
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Husband, Dog Owner, Trekkie.
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:

“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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this is like how jake tapper used to bitch and moan at me in DMs because media matters called out his sloppy reporting in a public report. these guys dont ever want anything in the open.
Bari’s standard for “and do so with respect” appears to be ‘Sharyn Alfonsi should have not emailed her colleagues about me refusing to meet with her after I spiked her story that had already been cleared by the actual editors and standards’
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:

"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"BROUGHT TO YOU BY BANK OF AMERICA"
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.

It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It didn't get enough attention that Susie Wiles said she had read materials protected by grand jury secrecy and other protective orders.
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Pritzker, Johnson, and Biss are gaslighting us about solidarity on immigration, while the cops they control are running interference for Trump’s goons.
December 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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this is perfect
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice
lot of awful and insane stuff going on. but if you really want to have a brain bleed this holiday season don't lose sight of Stephen Miller's wife doing a video podcast with the FBI director and his gf about their love life
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Beyond being the joke of a proposal that it is-

It feels like a rare gem to see Paul's consistency in Republicans "conservativism" in Trump II. He wants to add private competition and private profit into the existing public model. A classic Republican play, an echo of a previous era.
"My plan is this: 14 million people can go fuck themselves."
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"I couldn't imagine trying to figure things out for myself anymore." That's the endgame of most technology of the last 20 years.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Parody of America to have the president live-tweeting misinformation about a mass shooting
@chadbourn.bsky.social

This is fucking ridiculous.
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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yes. that is correct
Yes, a much better outcome would have been to keep the government shut down indefinitely while planes fell out of the sky and the economy began to crash, that certainly is a simply scenario that it would be easy to manage
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
One way out.
Are you ok with rich people having access to the most expensive doctors and hospitals and you don't because the gov won't pay for it or they opted out of the Universal care program ?

Do you think it's right for doctors and nurses to only work for what they think is a living wage ?
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam

This is where we're at now.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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One of the worst things about politics in the last decade is every primary becoming a death fight between people who largely agree on everything.

I have zero dog in this election but man it’s nice to think we could have a civil primary online
@jamestalarico.bsky.social sent this video to his 10,000 volunteers:

“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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This for the record disqualifies every single Democrat in the senate.
My new red line for supporting a candidate is “did you vote to confirm a single Trump nominee in his second term?” Same goes for any his supported bills.

If yes, you’re disqualified. You can’t be out there saying he’s an existential threat to democracy then vote enable him.
All the senate democrats, not just some, fast tracked virtually all of Trump's cabinet nominees. Even the few they in theory slowed down they did very minimal obstruction for, instead giving boilerplate speeches to an empty chamber.

I talk more about it here in my guide on unanimous consent.
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU.

You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
So what's the outcome?

2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week

2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)

0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM