Asia Hightower
@puffballove.bsky.social
Plant bio PhD @ MSU
Life long Detroiter
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Life long Detroiter
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
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They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.
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Garcia: First, let’s be very honest about what’s happening. This is a White House cover-up. They are now involved in an illegal cover-up of the Epstein files. They’re defying Congress. They’re defying their own base. They’re lying to the American people.
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Garcia: First, let’s be very honest about what’s happening. This is a White House cover-up. They are now involved in an illegal cover-up of the Epstein files. They’re defying Congress. They’re defying their own base. They’re lying to the American people.
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to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
Example:
“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”
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Reminder that the head of the NIH is an economist who has never conducted NIH-funded research, spent years doing paid speaking engagements for far-right extremist groups, & is best known for a study where he committed serious ethical violations & ended up wrong by greater than an order of magnitude.
I wouldn't describe Jay as "man in the middle" unless I were making sort of human centipede analogy.
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reminder that the head of the NIH is an economist who has never conducted NIH-funded research, spent years doing paid speaking engagements for far-right extremist groups, & is best known for a study where he committed serious ethical violations & ended up wrong by greater than an order of magnitude.
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Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation
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Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
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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 2:19 PM
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
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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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I know the main takeaway from Andrew Tate losing a boxing match is "this guy sucks and should be in jail but a sock to the jaw is satisfying," but it's also a reminder that training for aesthetics & training for sport are two *entirely* different things. There's a reason boxers don't have six packs!
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I know the main takeaway from Andrew Tate losing a boxing match is "this guy sucks and should be in jail but a sock to the jaw is satisfying," but it's also a reminder that training for aesthetics & training for sport are two *entirely* different things. There's a reason boxers don't have six packs!
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Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.
truthout.org/articles/pol...
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On a call just now, Bari Weiss tells staff she held the CECOT story because it wasn’t ready & to advance a months-old story, they need "the principals" on record.
Yesterday, CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi warned if they can only do stories when government responds, it “gains control” over 60 Minutes.
Yesterday, CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi warned if they can only do stories when government responds, it “gains control” over 60 Minutes.
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
On a call just now, Bari Weiss tells staff she held the CECOT story because it wasn’t ready & to advance a months-old story, they need "the principals" on record.
Yesterday, CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi warned if they can only do stories when government responds, it “gains control” over 60 Minutes.
Yesterday, CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi warned if they can only do stories when government responds, it “gains control” over 60 Minutes.
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My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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The Trump administration has violated the law by not releasing the full Epstein Files today. Why? What are they hiding? What is TRUMP hiding? Why won't he fulfill his biggest campaign promise to MAGA especially, if as he claims, he's innocent? This...is...a...cover...up...
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Trump administration has violated the law by not releasing the full Epstein Files today. Why? What are they hiding? What is TRUMP hiding? Why won't he fulfill his biggest campaign promise to MAGA especially, if as he claims, he's innocent? This...is...a...cover...up...
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Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
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The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted.
It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted.
It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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Back home vs. the Islanders! #LGRW
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📺 FDSN Detroit
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December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Back home vs. the Islanders! #LGRW
🏒 7:00 P.M.
📺 FDSN Detroit
📻 @971theticketxyt.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/1216nyi_
🏒 7:00 P.M.
📺 FDSN Detroit
📻 @971theticketxyt.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/1216nyi_
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Dearth of Expertise
Good morning ppl! Within the FDA, there is now not a single Director or up line above them with legacy knowledge of how the FDA was pre-trump. This is one of the greatest risk to the FDA right now.
a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him
Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him
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December 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Dearth of Expertise
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Went to the post office today. A guy outside collecting signatures to make sure every voter has official ID. I told him no no no no no no no. Shame on him!. People had signed this petition, which makes me ill.
December 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Went to the post office today. A guy outside collecting signatures to make sure every voter has official ID. I told him no no no no no no no. Shame on him!. People had signed this petition, which makes me ill.
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This is the ACTUAL quote from our President about Rob Reiner in a pool spray TODAY. He refers to himself in the third person and half of this makes NO SENSE.
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is the ACTUAL quote from our President about Rob Reiner in a pool spray TODAY. He refers to himself in the third person and half of this makes NO SENSE.