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Joseph P. Hillenburg
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Transplant dad, #AvGeek, and IT professional at @WiTronix. Strategy Advisor at @transplantfamilies.com & pediatric transplantation advocate. Opinions are my own.
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doritreiss.bsky.social
I have questions.
Picture of Holy Bible with a sticker saying “signed copy.”
December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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pidsociety.bsky.social
Our December Spotlight is Dr. Chandy John. He is the Ryan White Prof of Pediatrics & Prof of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Epidemiology at Indiana Univ & Riley Hospital. Dr. John was elected to the PIDS Board this past October. pids.org/2025/12/23/m...
Dr. Chandy John headshot. He is wearing a white shirt and blue tie.
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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loweringthebar.bsky.social
Stop. Having. These. Liars. On. What. Are. Supposed. To. Be. News. Shows.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
CNN: Is it Biden's economy or Trump's economy right now?

HASSETT: 4.3% GDP growth is happening because of Trump's policies, but Biden's policies did things like reduce real incomes
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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juliannemcshane.bsky.social
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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thatjohn.bsky.social
what in the Dale Brown cover, Tom Clancy video game from 1996 is this nonsense
newsguy.bsky.social Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 22h
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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mollscrappop.bsky.social
The staff in charge of redacting
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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theliamnissan.bsky.social
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
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
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 12:35 PM
cobaltjacket.com
I'll admit that this Gavin & Stacey bit was my introduction to Chris Rea.
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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ctqueerguy.bsky.social
You truly don’t have to repeat every moronic thing he says.

Every single person in your news room knows this isn’t going to happen.

Every single person on your staff knows this would be stupid if it did.
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
cobaltjacket.com
Nobody asked for this.
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
cobaltjacket.com
Very telling.
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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adamkeiper.com
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.

Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 23h
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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skepticalraptor.bsky.social
Earlier this year, the CDC decided to no longer recommend the #COVID #vaccine for children. In December 2025, the CDC published a study revealing that COVID vaccines significantly lower emergency room visits for children. This is a mess. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
CDC scientists find that COVID vaccines slash ER visits for children
In December 2025, the CDC published a study revealing that COVID vaccines significantly lower emergency room visits for children.
www.skepticalraptor.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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tawnimarshall.bsky.social
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
The Free Press I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. by Jamie Reed Jamie Reed: The Courage to Admit You’re Wrong When I blew the whistle on a transgender clinic, some suggested I had been ‘brainwashed by the right.’ No. I’m a progressive who follows science. by Jamie Reed I Spent 13 Years Living as a Man. But After My Spouse’s Exposé, I’m Detransitioning. When Jamie Reed revealed the dangers of gender-affirming care for minors, I felt threatened. That’s because she was right. by Roxanne Reed Why I Hope the Supreme Court Upholds the Ban on Child Transition Today, the top legal minds in the country will consider whether there’s a constitutional right to harm children. Jamie Reed asks: How did we get to this point? by Jamie Reed
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
HahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhHahahahahahhahahahahahhaha OMG WHAT A DAMN PATHETIC TINY CLOWN BOY
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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scalzi.com
This is delightful and also, of course, fuck Bari Weiss for being the transparent tool of a corrupt and criminal administration
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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CBS: NEWS THE WHITE HOUSE CAN TRUST
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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This is entirely to please Trump, who has voiced criticism of 60 Minutes under the new owners, who are the definition of rank amatuers, emphasis on rank. This Stephen Miller interview suggestion is idiotic in the context of this story and shows a startling lack of sophistication or smarts.
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Discuss:

"The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the vice president is a klansman
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM