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Zan Solomon תִּקְוָה
@zansolomon.bsky.social
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Writer, singer, actor, tremendous nerd. US/Ireland dual citizen living in Finland.
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zansolomon.bsky.social
How do you just OOPS find a million documents?
December 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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stoneyyw.bsky.social
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See share.google/Zk59HoK7MaqQ...

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BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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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trumpstaxes.com
Wut.

Apparently part of the briefly posted tranche of Epstein documents tonight is a disturbing letter - purportedly from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar days before Epstein’s death in 2019 - in which Epstein says ‘Our President also shares our love of nubile young girls’.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
zansolomon.bsky.social
Late-night cookie baking is a Solomon Family tradition 😁
A photo of the inside of our oven with two racks covered in parchment paper holding about three dozen cutout cookies in the shapes of stars, trees, gingerbread men, train cars, snowflakes, and foxes.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
Time for us all to do again what we did when they yanked Kimmel.
axidentaliberal.bsky.social Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 3d
Bari Weiss speaks about wanting to have "contentious disagreements" on news stories

But Sharyn Alfonsi said that when she found out Weiss was killing the 60 Minutes story about CECOT, Weiss refused to discuss it

That's not honest journalism

It's catering to a political agenda

The MAGA agenda
December 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
It's been stressful living in Europe on an American benefit over the past 11 months, because our Dear Leader tanked the US$.
A graph of the value of the dollar against the euro which dwclines rapidly from 99 cents to 85 cents over the course of 2025.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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parkermolloy.com
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
Carol in Pluribus: All the brains in the world, and you can't navigate a fuckin' pronoun?
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
zansolomon.bsky.social
Happy 7th Night 🩵
Looking downward at two hanukkiot on a side table, each with 7 lot candles plus the shamash.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.

So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.

Please feel free to share.

www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...

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December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
Chag Hanukkah Sameach
and
Shabbat Shalom

So many people are in darkness. Be a light for them. And for yourself.

#Hanukkah #ShabbatShalom
Two hanukkiot and two shabbos candles on a buffet table in front of large windows, which is reflecting all the candles, and a Yule bridge of electric candles, and a Christmas tree.
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
I took muscle relaxants and forgot to light the hanukkiot. But the point is to share the light with others in darkness. So I'll share 5th night last year, here, where anyone can reach it.

Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu l’hadlik ner shel Hanukkah.
Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu l’hadlik ner shel Hanukkah. A photo from last year of my silver antler-like hanukkiah with 5 candles in it. The candles are burned down low.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
Guess I'll post this again
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
I'm in a town a 2-hour drive from where we live, cleaning and getting basic staples into our son's apartment, which is a 5 minute bike ride from campus. This feels so surreal!
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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akaharriet.bsky.social
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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wilwheaton.net
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
How we spent the night before bed 💔💖
#RobReinerRIP
Closeup of our TV on the opening title placard for The Princess Bride The first frame of the closing credits says "Directed by ROB REINER" over a pastoral scene.
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
Hanukkah celebration in Helsinki tonight 🩵
Upward shot of the spires of St. John's Lutheran Church in Helsinki, the green spires against the dark, cloudy night sky, and three pine trees in front of it, almost like matching spires. The lighting of the giant menorah, which is white and approximately 15 feet tall. The rabbi is standing to the side holding the torch that lit it. The ice rink full of skaters A street in downtown Helsinki at night with all its white lights for the holidays.
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
First night #chaghanukkahsameach
Two silver hanukkiot on a credenza in front of a window showing a light dusting of snow outside in the darkness. One ganukkiah resembles antlers, vaguely. The other has enamel rainbow colours on the arms.
December 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
Bless The Muslim Man Who Disarmed a Terrorist Shooter in Australia
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.

In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."

Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
zansolomon.bsky.social
Kairo in Downward Lying Boneless Dog pose.
A wide angle shot of my very lanky cursinu-looking dog on our brown faux-leather sofa, with his paw stretched out off the bottom edge of the picture making it look like this was a selfie.
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
WAKE UP DEAD MAN is a damn good one. And you should see it.
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM