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former baby. current grown ass adult. javascripter. suffering from mild persistent panic. pronouncing it blewski. 🔵 [+]
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Bottomless corruption.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Bottomless corruption.
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
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You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
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[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
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Late-breaking contender for headline of the year from @status.news and @nataliekorach.bsky.social.
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Late-breaking contender for headline of the year from @status.news and @nataliekorach.bsky.social.
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surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does
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As with Twitter and now TikTok and CBS, they are practicing the Nero Doctrine. Anything that doesn't serve them, personally, does not deserve to survive.
We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it.
They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.
They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
As with Twitter and now TikTok and CBS, they are practicing the Nero Doctrine. Anything that doesn't serve them, personally, does not deserve to survive.
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“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
Ugh. This is going to take me a minute to process.
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks kottke.org/25/12/the-li...
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks kottke.org/25/12/the-li...
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks
In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker (archive), Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist
kottke.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ugh. This is going to take me a minute to process.
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks kottke.org/25/12/the-li...
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks kottke.org/25/12/the-li...
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one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out.
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
The Vanity Fair photographer who disrupted Trumpworld’s polished image
Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump’s team at the White House for Vanity Fair, defends his unvarnished — and extreme — close-ups.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out.
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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"The collapse of journalism is part of a larger trend in which institutions are being annihilated."
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
Shredding public knowledge
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"The collapse of journalism is part of a larger trend in which institutions are being annihilated."
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
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Wiles "agreed to work for Trump and he agreed to cut the dictator shit out after 90 days. He violated that agreement. She shrugged it off. What use, then, are her assurances that Trump won’t seek a third term?" @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/trump-wile...
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wiles "agreed to work for Trump and he agreed to cut the dictator shit out after 90 days. He violated that agreement. She shrugged it off. What use, then, are her assurances that Trump won’t seek a third term?" @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/trump-wile...
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meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
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This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
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December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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President Trump's chief of staff had a reputation for keeping the White House very disciplined.
Until today, apparently.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Until today, apparently.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
President Trump's chief of staff had a reputation for keeping the White House very disciplined.
Until today, apparently.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Until today, apparently.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...