Tackman Babcock
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Tackman Babcock
@tackmanbabcock.bsky.social
Recovering from blinders of STEM, neoliberalism & fundamentalism. Enjoy film, sci-fi, literary nonfiction, feminism, philosophy, cats. Wish: dismantle reactionary targeting of trans people, Māori, Muslims, Jewish people, etc.
Tangata Tiriti, NZ
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WB: What do you have planned for Batman 2?

Tim Burton: We open on a newborn baby boy

WB: Aww

TB: No. The baby is ugly. He kills and eats a house cat while it's still alive. His parents try to kill him in his crib, but to Gotham's woe, they fail

WB: ...

TB: Also it's a Christmas movie
December 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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When you’ve gone to this place, it’s time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesn’t exist
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.

The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Archivists have posted the missing 60 minutes "Inside Cecot" feature, and this reddit page has the details old.reddit.com/r/politics/c...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
Posted in r/politics by u/genericuser324 • 8,358 points and 305 comments
old.reddit.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Beautiful words by Justine and Nadia here, highly recommend reading it.

thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-1...
From Bondi, we must learn Jewish and Palestinian safety and liberation are intertwined
Antisemitic violence is wrong in the way all forms of racist violence are wrong.
thespinoff.co.nz
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Years ago, libertarian paeans to 'free speech', and ACLU's alarmingly wide interpretation—up to and including defending neonazi speech—impressed me for a while.
Looking back, I'd ignored the chilling effects, power dynamics, history & context, pretty much everything outside of one thought expt.
One thing that liberals obsessed with process and rights based frameworks fail to understand is that it's always about power and they always underestimate bad faith actors. When authoritarians seize power, they don't care about the rules. They enact their will with limited restraint.
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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JOE ROGAN: is that true? thats crazy

ME: it is true, Joseph. and the crazy part is nobody says anything. no one will acknowledge that beaker is doctor bunsen honeydew's son.

JOE ROGAN: wow

ME: and the things he puts him through....
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
With Bari's new egregious crimes against journalistic integrity, can we please please put in the bin forever the fiction that these fucking RW grifters ever cared about 'free speech' and 'public debate', and 'dissent'?
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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New from me: Health officials said there was ‘no evidence base’ about the likely impacts of the Government’s decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/22/c...
Cabinet overrode health advice in decision to ban puberty blockers
Health officials said there was 'no evidence base' about the likely impacts of the Government's decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth.
newsroom.co.nz
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Me: I am a pacifist
Also me: show me Andrew Tate getting punched in the face in slow motion from every angle.
First Jake Paul now Andrew Tate? Blessed with a double early Christmas
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Cass literally saying there has been no increase in suicide as a result of her ban on puberty-blockers.

Tell that to the family of Leia Sampson-Grimbly.

She is also ignoring all the other harm her ban is causing, that I have documented here in my peer-reviewed (unlike the Cass Review) research.
December 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM