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Jennifer Cheek
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Little guy online and in St. Louis. She/They. 🏳️‍🌈 Listen to my shows: Tribulation Farce | Dear Internet | Greetings, Adventurers!
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annabower.bsky.social
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 3:37 AM
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bapperson.bsky.social
Info for my upcoming 12-hour fundraising stream on Saturday. I appreciate the support everyone has given!
Bapperson Fundraising Stream, part of 4 Paws For Ability agency. Occurring on Saturday, December 27 from 10am to 10pm CST. Stream is on twitch.tv/bapperson. Funds are directly supporting getting my son a service dog, raised and trained specifically to meet his needs. During the 12 hours, I will play games, do online quizzes, give away steam cards, play community games, do mad libs, etc. There is individual incentive for $25 but then several group goals. For every $100 donated during stream, I will be having either hot or really sour punishments. Donation page is at https://secure.qgiv.com/event/4pawsforabilityservicedogs/account/2213876/
December 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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mikebaker.bsky.social
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
jennifercheek.bsky.social
He just like me fr!!!!!!!!
venusleo.bsky.social Moni 💫🇵🇸 @venusleo.bsky.social · 2d
we need the garden tour asap…. thank you sophemma_xoxo on tiktok im kicking my feet
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.
mikebaker.bsky.social Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 2d
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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rudbeckia.bsky.social
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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banditelli.org
No votes for keeping healthcare costs down but
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 5d
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case.

www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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cara.city
yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
jennifercheek.bsky.social
What do cats think when we give them kisses……do they understand that we’re trying to show affection or are they just confused, lol
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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solomosos.bsky.social
I made a gingerbread wrestling ring to celebrate AEW’s Winter Is Coming ❄️
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found: The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11d
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session He has lost contact with his daughter - he does not even know what she got in her GCSEs - and now that she is 18, he no longer gets court-ordered medical updates. In the final one he learnt that she was booked in for surgery imminently. Now he drives over with birthday presents but is not allowed in. He remembers the last time he saw her, after she had started taking testosterone. Looking at his photographs, he remembers dropping her home: "When she said goodbye, her smile was the same girly shy smile she had as a little girl. Somewhere in there is my daughter."
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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johncarlbaker.bsky.social
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
jennifercheek.bsky.social
The whole gang is back together again!! @dndpodcast.bsky.social live now at twitch.tv/geeklyinc
Jennifer giving a peace sign wearing an AEW Wrestledream shirt
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
They sure do love lying.
laurenleharper.bsky.social Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 12d
ICE(ERO) just told me it has no body camera footage from operation midway blitz in Chicago in response to my FOIA request.
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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junlper.beer
i love that a significant portion of the population of the world believes in demons and the devil and satan. they just think this stuff is real and it genuinely scares them
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM