Megan Holsapple
@blackmooneyes.bsky.social
Northern Canadian originally from Maine. Writer, hiker, church selfie taker.
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! 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)
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 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
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Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
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Saruman Refuses to Take Sides in Middle-Earth Fight Over Ring
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Saruman Refuses to Take Sides in Middle-Earth Fight Over Ring
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My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
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if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again
December 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again
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Wrote up my predictions for 2026.
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Some 2026 Predictions
I think we've made it past rock bottom?
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Wrote up my predictions for 2026.
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
started / going
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21 December 1926 | A Polish woman, Henryka Mank, was born in Warsaw. In Jan 1943 arrested in a roundup at a train station in Wolbrom where she went to buy cheaper food for her family.
In #Auschwitz from 29 Jan 1943.
No. 32367
In 1944 transferred to KL Ravensbrück. She survived.
In #Auschwitz from 29 Jan 1943.
No. 32367
In 1944 transferred to KL Ravensbrück. She survived.
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
21 December 1926 | A Polish woman, Henryka Mank, was born in Warsaw. In Jan 1943 arrested in a roundup at a train station in Wolbrom where she went to buy cheaper food for her family.
In #Auschwitz from 29 Jan 1943.
No. 32367
In 1944 transferred to KL Ravensbrück. She survived.
In #Auschwitz from 29 Jan 1943.
No. 32367
In 1944 transferred to KL Ravensbrück. She survived.
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Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
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“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
Why the Epstein Coverup Matters
In free societies, government coverups are difficult. In authoritarian ones, they’re routine.
www.thebulwark.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
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"One of the big reasons why a lot of us grew up as conservatives is we were afraid that if you give too much power to the government, someone bad could come in and use it for their own personal gratification and empowerment," @gtconway.bsky.social says. "And here we are. This is exactly it."
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"One of the big reasons why a lot of us grew up as conservatives is we were afraid that if you give too much power to the government, someone bad could come in and use it for their own personal gratification and empowerment," @gtconway.bsky.social says. "And here we are. This is exactly it."
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Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.
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Trump: A pigeon. Or a whale. Or a tiger. Whichever is more points.
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trump: A pigeon. Or a whale. Or a tiger. Whichever is more points.
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
Tester: (lowering a card bearing the letter “A”) I’ve … I’ve never seen a result like this
Trump: well I’m a very smart guy
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You really think we’re as shitty as you by daring us with the Bill Clinton photos. We give a fuck about laws, not leaders. If Clinton fucked a kid, arrest him. If Walter fucking Cronkite turns out to have done some shit, burn all the memorials to him. We are not the same as you.
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You really think we’re as shitty as you by daring us with the Bill Clinton photos. We give a fuck about laws, not leaders. If Clinton fucked a kid, arrest him. If Walter fucking Cronkite turns out to have done some shit, burn all the memorials to him. We are not the same as you.
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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one of the core things liberals need to stop doing is acting like our positions are some kind of aberration. instead, let us just do as the right does - operating from a position of strength that yes, our positions are better, superior and more popular.
Everything Ronald Reagan did and wanted had to be treated as baseline political reality forever and ever, and everything that Democrats and liberals wanted to do they themselves treated like weird things we were unfairly imposing on Heartland Conservatives and at best had to beg them to accept it.
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
one of the core things liberals need to stop doing is acting like our positions are some kind of aberration. instead, let us just do as the right does - operating from a position of strength that yes, our positions are better, superior and more popular.
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So long, Substack! I've moved my newsletter, Kirk's Notes, to a new home with its own URL and everything. I wrote about that, along with some other plans for 2026: www.kirksnotes.com/p/new-home-n...
New Home, New Plans, New Year, NewsLETTER
Some big and small changes for 2026
www.kirksnotes.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So long, Substack! I've moved my newsletter, Kirk's Notes, to a new home with its own URL and everything. I wrote about that, along with some other plans for 2026: www.kirksnotes.com/p/new-home-n...
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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This administration raises an interesting issue: how should Congress write laws going forward in order to ensure there are meaningful enforcement mechanisms when an Executive is not deterred by the mere fact that a particular action is illegal?
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This administration raises an interesting issue: how should Congress write laws going forward in order to ensure there are meaningful enforcement mechanisms when an Executive is not deterred by the mere fact that a particular action is illegal?