YourCousinVinny
@yourcousinvinny.bsky.social
Avid historian, civilization player and Florigan Man.
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For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art
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Weird how you never hear about the U.S. Military facing a “tight squeeze” or “losing money”
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Weird how you never hear about the U.S. Military facing a “tight squeeze” or “losing money”
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Fun fact: The US pays Olympic Swimmers an annual stipend of $40k and an additional $37.5k per gold medal earned at the Olympics. Last year this fifth-place collegiate swimmer made more than Michael Phelps did at the height of his career before his endorsements, all for the low price of spewing hate.
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Fun fact: The US pays Olympic Swimmers an annual stipend of $40k and an additional $37.5k per gold medal earned at the Olympics. Last year this fifth-place collegiate swimmer made more than Michael Phelps did at the height of his career before his endorsements, all for the low price of spewing hate.
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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The camps were fine crashing the economy was cool being globally isolated was no biggie but this is going too far, now he's really lost Nate Silver
get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny
December 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The camps were fine crashing the economy was cool being globally isolated was no biggie but this is going too far, now he's really lost Nate Silver
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Atlantic straight up telling on themselves
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Atlantic straight up telling on themselves
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I think the phrase "Kavanaugh Stop" has both reached and bothered the Justice
Also, Justice Kavanaugh sounds like he really, really wants a second try at his decision authorizing Kavanaugh Stops.
He's now insisting that immigration enforcement should not be like EXACTLY WHAT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS LIKE UNDER TRUMP'S THUGGERY.
He's now insisting that immigration enforcement should not be like EXACTLY WHAT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS LIKE UNDER TRUMP'S THUGGERY.
![arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force. Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) (“[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race”). This application does not require us to delve into the parties’ underlying dispute and to determine whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreiftd2dsbnwupyavikifhpranzsrgae4czsegm4dlyrwdixfumxmwi@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think the phrase "Kavanaugh Stop" has both reached and bothered the Justice
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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Setting herself up to roast in hell for people who at best think she’s a “useful idiot”
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Setting herself up to roast in hell for people who at best think she’s a “useful idiot”
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I'm telling you. There's good reason to believe Bannon has some serious dirt on Trump regarding Epstein.
December 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I'm telling you. There's good reason to believe Bannon has some serious dirt on Trump regarding Epstein.
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Bari Weiss: finally, I have the ultimate power to keep this critical 60 minutes segment from ever seeing the light of day
Canada:
Canada:
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Bari Weiss: finally, I have the ultimate power to keep this critical 60 minutes segment from ever seeing the light of day
Canada:
Canada:
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Wrote a quick script in python to in-redact the whole thing. Here’s the file. Any more we can recover?
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Wrote a quick script in python to in-redact the whole thing. Here’s the file. Any more we can recover?
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this made me so happy
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
this made me so happy
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Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
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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
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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The person who leaks this to the Internet would be a hero.
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The person who leaks this to the Internet would be a hero.
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this article really lays it all out on how much we rely on section 230
please do not rest on your laurels, contact your rep and advocate for protecting Section 230!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
please do not rest on your laurels, contact your rep and advocate for protecting Section 230!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
this article really lays it all out on how much we rely on section 230
please do not rest on your laurels, contact your rep and advocate for protecting Section 230!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
please do not rest on your laurels, contact your rep and advocate for protecting Section 230!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Not to be too conspiratorial, but this story would undoubtedly portray the Trump admin in a bad light (they sent innocent people to be tortured through a process the Supreme Court unanimously held lacked due process) and now CBS isn't airing it on time.
December 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Not to be too conspiratorial, but this story would undoubtedly portray the Trump admin in a bad light (they sent innocent people to be tortured through a process the Supreme Court unanimously held lacked due process) and now CBS isn't airing it on time.
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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
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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
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Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
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muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
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Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.
LANKFORD: In 2010, before Obamacare kicked in, the normal healthcare premium was $215.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.
Happy first day of Winter!
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Happy first day of Winter!