Rafi
@rafil.bsky.social
Not a journalist anymore. Not big on bluesky. Nothing of note to say.
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call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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I just posted this Internet Archive link to Facebook, where the aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who watch 60 Minutes after football games live. It’s important that this story doesn’t just circulate on Bluesky.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I just posted this Internet Archive link to Facebook, where the aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who watch 60 Minutes after football games live. It’s important that this story doesn’t just circulate on Bluesky.
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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Fascism has so many helpers.
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fascism has so many helpers.
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Only one story, in the New Republic, made the direct connection between Kennedy’s repeated peddling of junk science and the effort to end healthcare for transgender minors.
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Only one story, in the New Republic, made the direct connection between Kennedy’s repeated peddling of junk science and the effort to end healthcare for transgender minors.
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She only knows how to digest criticism as an attempt to silence her even when the criticism is that she's silencing others
Bari Weiss this morning on the 60 Minutes segment: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
She only knows how to digest criticism as an attempt to silence her even when the criticism is that she's silencing others
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Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison
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this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.
The New York Times updated their story with a statement from Bari Weiss:
December 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.
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nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other
if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other
On the one hand, it’s very bad that someone as malign and dull as Bari Weiss has been handed this much power. On the other hand it is edifying that someone I got in on the ground floor of hating has attracted such widespread scorn.
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
On the one hand, it’s very bad that someone as malign and dull as Bari Weiss has been handed this much power. On the other hand it is edifying that someone I got in on the ground floor of hating has attracted such widespread scorn.
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baller
December 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
baller
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bari is the standard bearer for the media types who think any journalism that leads the consumer toward a left-wing position must be tempered and balanced until it doesn’t.
December 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
bari is the standard bearer for the media types who think any journalism that leads the consumer toward a left-wing position must be tempered and balanced until it doesn’t.
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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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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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i don't know if even trump gets this overtly racial. but it's startlingly easy for vance because he's an empty gourd. hell do or say whatever you want. his fucking kids are brown, doesn't matter
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i don't know if even trump gets this overtly racial. but it's startlingly easy for vance because he's an empty gourd. hell do or say whatever you want. his fucking kids are brown, doesn't matter
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
the most "the boys" aspect of this is the failure to remove the second "the"
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
the most "the boys" aspect of this is the failure to remove the second "the"
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people are tremendously, indescribably bad at identifying their own motivations and beliefs. this is why you can't chase polls. you have to
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
December 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
people are tremendously, indescribably bad at identifying their own motivations and beliefs. this is why you can't chase polls. you have to
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
and bear with me
*do the work of politics by convincing people your ideas are the right ones*
something Dems like Jeffries and Schumer refuse to do.
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our goal shouldn't be to "win" these people. fuck these people. but the reality is that a real candidate with real ideas who comes off as a fighter would win most of them anyway because that's what they actually want.
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
our goal shouldn't be to "win" these people. fuck these people. but the reality is that a real candidate with real ideas who comes off as a fighter would win most of them anyway because that's what they actually want.
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These folks are being so openly and casually antisemitic, it makes me wonder if some other outlets' are sanewashing their focus groups.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
These folks are being so openly and casually antisemitic, it makes me wonder if some other outlets' are sanewashing their focus groups.
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I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad.
Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute.
Horrifying.
Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute.
Horrifying.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad.
Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute.
Horrifying.
Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute.
Horrifying.
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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.