Leigh
@oddleighenough.bsky.social
East coaster now in beautiful Utah. Pfp is late, lamented Toby. Although he thought he was a dog, he was the best cat ever.
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here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead
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At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
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She has a point. The public knows about the prison abuse, which is why 60 Minutes instead ran a story last night about Mount Everest, which has never been covered before
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 3:46 PM
She has a point. The public knows about the prison abuse, which is why 60 Minutes instead ran a story last night about Mount Everest, which has never been covered before
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Why do people keep asking this of women like Usha, Cheryl, Melania, Ivana, Marla, Ivanka ...
They are themselves (im)moral agents. They make choices. This is who they are. They show us this through those choices.
They are themselves (im)moral agents. They make choices. This is who they are. They show us this through those choices.
Why does Usha put up with this? They have biracial kids together.🤷🏾♀️
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Why do people keep asking this of women like Usha, Cheryl, Melania, Ivana, Marla, Ivanka ...
They are themselves (im)moral agents. They make choices. This is who they are. They show us this through those choices.
They are themselves (im)moral agents. They make choices. This is who they are. They show us this through those choices.
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Bari Weiss is an actual, unqualified diversity hire AND white supremacy hire at the same time
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bari Weiss is an actual, unqualified diversity hire AND white supremacy hire at the same time
Thank goodness someone finally showed up at CBS to show 60 Minutes how to do journalism.
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thank goodness someone finally showed up at CBS to show 60 Minutes how to do journalism.
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Ian Parker on Pete Navarro is every bit as elegantly savage as you would hope. A profile in hack politics for the ages.
Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man
The tariff cheerleader established a template of performative sycophancy for Trump Administration officials. Now that this is everyone’s top priority, where does that leave him? Ian Parker on a lonely...
www.newyorker.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ian Parker on Pete Navarro is every bit as elegantly savage as you would hope. A profile in hack politics for the ages.
Oh my god just get out of the way I’ll do it
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December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Oh my god just get out of the way I’ll do it
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Read my dispatch from AmericaFest and maybe I’ll get to go to more weird things.
www.ms.now/news/america...
www.ms.now/news/america...
Inside AmericaFest: Infighting, lies, and the desperate search for Charlie Kirk's heir
Turning Point USA's flagship event, once a star-spangled show of strength for the right, revealed a MAGA movement in crisis following Kirk's killing.
www.ms.now
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Read my dispatch from AmericaFest and maybe I’ll get to go to more weird things.
www.ms.now/news/america...
www.ms.now/news/america...
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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i publish an independent news site that i would sooner shut down that run cover for this garbage administration.
you can subscribe here: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
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December 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
i publish an independent news site that i would sooner shut down that run cover for this garbage administration.
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N.C. Gov. Josh Stein spoke to The N&O about lighting the menorah and how “we are all children of God” amid safety concerns.
NC’s first Jewish governor reflects on Hanukkah at mansion, in wake of tragedy
N.C. Gov. Josh Stein spoke to The N&O about lighting the menorah and how “we are all children of God” amid safety concerns.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
N.C. Gov. Josh Stein spoke to The N&O about lighting the menorah and how “we are all children of God” amid safety concerns.
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
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Taught my kid to be a fucking loser and it worked.
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Taught my kid to be a fucking loser and it worked.
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Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way
CNN: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
‘They’re attacking their own’: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line | CNN Politics
When Rep. Dan Goldman first ran for Congress in 2022, he was cheered on the left as the party’s top lawyer during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way
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Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word “funds” or “funding” appears 9 different times." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
MAGA’s Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance
The Trump administration’s executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
www.bloomberg.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word “funds” or “funding” appears 9 different times." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
@habanerohiker.bsky.social Leisl, I didn’t know you were here.
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@habanerohiker.bsky.social Leisl, I didn’t know you were here.
I’m deeply uncomfortable spending this much time agreeing with Thomas Massie, but here we are.
BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’m deeply uncomfortable spending this much time agreeing with Thomas Massie, but here we are.
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Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
Busily wrapping 1 or 2 pencils for my children.
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Busily wrapping 1 or 2 pencils for my children.
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Is Bari Weiss holding a gun to her dog's head off camera?
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Is Bari Weiss holding a gun to her dog's head off camera?
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Well, folks, it’s Christmas week. I won’t get too mushy, but I did want to send my regards from mine to yours. I’m grateful to have you all here. We come from different backgrounds, yet we share concern about the chaotic moment we’re living in. I hope that this week brings you a bit of peace 👇🏾
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Well, folks, it’s Christmas week. I won’t get too mushy, but I did want to send my regards from mine to yours. I’m grateful to have you all here. We come from different backgrounds, yet we share concern about the chaotic moment we’re living in. I hope that this week brings you a bit of peace 👇🏾