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@erickmerchant.bsky.social
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This is what White House staff is doing with President Trump.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is what White House staff is doing with President Trump.
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seems telling that trump is fundamentally incapable of saying what epstein did wrong in any of his many statements about him
December 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
seems telling that trump is fundamentally incapable of saying what epstein did wrong in any of his many statements about him
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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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!! 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 10:39 PM
!! 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)
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
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GOP leaders refused to fully release the Epstein files while fully releasing their vile racism at TPUSA.
If that doesn’t tell you who they are I don’t know what will.
If that doesn’t tell you who they are I don’t know what will.
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
GOP leaders refused to fully release the Epstein files while fully releasing their vile racism at TPUSA.
If that doesn’t tell you who they are I don’t know what will.
If that doesn’t tell you who they are I don’t know what will.
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"The suppression of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence."
— Andrew Hamilton, 1734
— Andrew Hamilton, 1734
December 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
"The suppression of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence."
— Andrew Hamilton, 1734
— Andrew Hamilton, 1734
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
Benedict Cumberbatch doing a Bill Hader impression instead of just his normal accent in the Grinch is very strange
December 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Benedict Cumberbatch doing a Bill Hader impression instead of just his normal accent in the Grinch is very strange
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The reason Trump talks up his frequent cognitive tests is because he literally confuses them with IQ tests (which is why he often refers to people as low-IQ individuals).
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The reason Trump talks up his frequent cognitive tests is because he literally confuses them with IQ tests (which is why he often refers to people as low-IQ individuals).
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
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Sponsoring this POS Bari Weiss turning CBS News into a platform for fascists and bothsidesists?
Ok Bank of America enjoy the boycott
Ok Bank of America enjoy the boycott
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sponsoring this POS Bari Weiss turning CBS News into a platform for fascists and bothsidesists?
Ok Bank of America enjoy the boycott
Ok Bank of America enjoy the boycott
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Good day to reread this story on Trump's very own modelling agency... www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Good day to reread this story on Trump's very own modelling agency... www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren
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Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-with-venezuela/
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-with-venezuela/
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Does the FIFA Peace Prize mean nothing anymore?
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Does the FIFA Peace Prize mean nothing anymore?
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"To see those... those... monkeys from those African countries... Damn them! They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"To see those... those... monkeys from those African countries... Damn them! They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
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The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
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This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Something that what happened in Australia and the ensuing discourse has brought back in to my mind is that there are still fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Something that what happened in Australia and the ensuing discourse has brought back in to my mind is that there are still fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939
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ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
Absolutely
<Everything> else - whatever Kitchen Table or civil rights or other policy issue you care about - <follows> from fixing our broken institutions & having multiparty majoritarian democracy. <All> of it. We keep doing it backwards, thinking Just One Popular Policy will fix it. It’s a category error.
This is why Democrats need a platform focused on institutional reform. Having to adopt policy positions opposed by supermajorities of the national public to win the hyper-malapportioned Senate is anti-democratic, & promising policies you can never pass is political suicide.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
December 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Absolutely
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Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches for the Brown University community.
BREAKING: Brown University says no one is in custody, correcting earlier statement, as police respond to an active shooter on campus.
Police respond to active shooter situation at Brown University in Rhode Island
Authorities say police have responded to an active shooter situation at Brown University near an engineering building on the campus in Providence, Rhode Island.
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches for the Brown University community.