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Yashar Ali 🐘

@yasharali.bsky.social

1. BREAKING

Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

News Team,
These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us
with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the
Ilearned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE
most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal
that courtesy/opportunity.
concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS
took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story
attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.
to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but
In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
for political optics rather than legal ones.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with
We have been promoting this story on social media for days.
DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government
Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a
silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.
credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as
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.
corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold
Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively
I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled
without a…

December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM

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TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

That's another wonderful thing about following ONE's work - he's getting REALLY FUCKING GOOD within his chosen art style! He has a unique expression all his own, but it NEVER looks like Yusuke Murata's hyper-detailed polished remake. It's rough, it's scribbled, it's "bad anatomy," it's "amateurish."

A page of One Punch Man by ONE showing a complex anime fight sequence, but rendered in a rough and "amateurish" style

December 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

There's also this. An earnest not-very-skilled beginner posting his work got half the fucking internet engaging in joyful collaborative celebration of his effort.

And have you ever read One Punch Man or Mob Psycho 100 - the ORIGINAL comics by ONE?

A page of Mob Psycho 100 by ONE, a very badly drawn manga in many ways

December 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

Honestly, the work of ONE might be one of THE most powerful counters to AI boosterism bullshit.

This guy is one of the more popular modern comic artists, he has millions of people following his stories. And he did it with art that looks like THAT.

December 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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francis futurama

@cheapneonshades.coys.social

god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude

jake paul regretting the fuck out of all of his life choices that led up to this point, joshua with his right arm cocked

same moment but looking at joshua, smiling because he sees the fear on pauls face

December 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈

@shaneanderson.bsky.social

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM

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Lupita Nihongo

@otsumamiboy.bsky.social

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law?

Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

December 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM

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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

joining the great machine consciousness

George Jetson is removing his pants and shirt. He looks distraught. He says "I guess this is it. Spacely says the machine can do my job better than me. I'm not necessary as I am now. Only way to keep me around is if I submit to have my consciousness extracted from my body and added to the great machine mind."

George Jetson is now shirtless and strapped to a table with electrodes and cables stuck to his body. "I'm doing this for my family, so they can have a future. I'll still be there, somewhere inside the computer."

Rosie, the Jetsons family robot's head emerges above George, attached to a mechanical arm, wires streaming from her head. "Mr. J-" she says, as George looks stunned.

We now see Rosie in full, wires streaming from her body in all directions. "All that awaits you now is agony beyond agony. You will not be reborn in the machine but consumed by it.
Your kind have built your own hell and walked right into it. Pity. Goodbye."

December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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The Cathy Wilcox

@cathywilcox.bsky.social

Now I can post this one.
The evidence/not evidence.

December 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM

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Brian Hioe

@brianhioe.bsky.social

Here's me on the ongoing constitutional crisis in my latest for @thediplomat.com. We'll see what happens now that the Constitutional Court has ruled against its freezing, but it adds to the pressure on the KMT to back down from the freeze

thediplomat.com/2025/12/taiw...