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Todd Bishop / Portland, OR -
Drummer, drum teacher, Origin recording artist, visual artist

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · Jan 12
NEW BOOK: Rants, vol. 1
drummers, drumming media, and the internet

From the files of CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!, a collection of things typed in a rage over witnessing something awful related to our exquisite drumming art form! Fun! 290 pages.
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Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15 President Trump approval crosstabs (%) 🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23] 🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90] 🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81] 🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43] 🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43] 🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23] 🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10] 🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18] 🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22] 🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11] 🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34] 🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6] 🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social
just completed a first draft of a men's fiction novel, a western: the time I up and flat murdered a guy
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!: Six stroke roll phrases
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December 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!: Extending a pattern - RLB
#drums #drumsky
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December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h
!! 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)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss tried to spike has leaked.

youtu.be/lenFGZ5WUTA?...
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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What a mess! Wyoming has some of the least competitive ACA markets in the country. In places like Teton County, there has often been only one ACA insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming). That lack of competition drives prices way up. This is ridiculous.
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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jpmendelson.bsky.social
So little of this will come to fruition. It’s all about placating a mad king who’s deeply ill with some form of dementia.
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
I'm clearly already in holiday mode, forgot to post a link to the new one. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Cartoon: Sparky gets ICED
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December 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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dean.bsky.social
Edgard Varèse by Bernard Gotfryd, late 1970s

Henry Miller called him "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound."

Amériques:
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The composer in the studio, seen through a music stand.
December 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social
no tweets today, in meetings pitching my new script, operation chimp magnet
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social
just about to release alcoholics eponymous, self help book for people dealing w trauma from having there be an alcoholic with the same name as them, simon & schuster
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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polishing a new script, due for worldwide theatrical release in 2027, big fracas in beavertown
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Oregon DOJ asks judge to slam the brakes on Trump’s immigration prison, the (partial) release of the Epstein files, and… can someone please check on Nicki Minaj? She’s hanging with the WRONG CROWD.
Good Morning, News: Oregon DOJ Goes After Planned ICE Facility, the Incomplete Epstein Files, and Girl... Nicki Minaj Needs HELP
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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working on my new album, basinette of degredation
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!: Common problems for drumming students
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December 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The Heritage Foundation, having served its purpose of turning this country into a Nazi playground, is regenerating Doctor Who style into something named like the Freedom Coalition For Freedom or some shit bsky.app/profile/evan...
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
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. 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 3:28 AM
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Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13h
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The way people visiting Stonehenge yesterday for the solstice were losing their minds over a cat makes me really happy 🥹
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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In an unprecedented last-minute intervention, rookie CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss spiked a 60 Minutes segment on the experiences of Alien Enemies Act detainees at CECOT in El Salvador.

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Bari Weiss Spikes 60 Minutes Segment At Last Minute
Black Rock Crumbles In an unprecedented last-minute intervention, rookie CBS News editor-in-chief...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
Two problems with this frantic "The story wasn't ready" statement are 1) When a story isn't ready, you know it days, sometimes weeks in advance, not hours and 2) Bari Weiss' idea of how "to do more" has already been made public, and it was to call Stephen Miller. In short, she's lying.
benmullin.bsky.social Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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…are going to be meaningfully empowered in ways she (Alex jones also) would not have been circa, say, 2011

You willingly gave maintenance and management of the asylum over to its meanest, dumbest inmates a decade ago, and you wonder why that might be inconvenient for you today.
December 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM