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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
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.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

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The authoritarian checklist

It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dozens of protesters with @jvp.bsky.social L.A. have taken over the lobby of the building where @schiff.senate.gov's future Burbank office will be. 🎥: @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2025

In every third-country removal to Africa that we know of — Rwanda, South Sudan, Eswatini — the people were imprisoned there. There may be third-country removals to Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea etc, that ICE hasn’t confirmed, with people there also imprisoned. hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ic...

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EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known

Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Israel pioneered this tactic a decade ago: deporting 4,000 asylum seekers to Uganda and Rwanda, where they faced horrific conditions and were often funneled into deadly trafficking networks. I investigated this shadow deportation system for @newrepublic.com in 2018: newrepublic.com/article/1488...

Illustration accompanying a New Republic article titled "No Shelter Here" by Brian Goldstone from June 2018. The article investigates Israel's secretive deportation of asylum seekers to Uganda and Rwanda.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This is serious. Very serious.

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

How does Roberts not tag Matt Olson for the HR-off?

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Sarah Cupcakes @cupcakesarenice.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Stand up to cancer by voting out people who defund cancer research

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This guy would be my sleeper pick for most punchable Republican. What a condescending piece of shit he is

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.” Via @theguardian.com.

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How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness

A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This makes me so sad I could be sick. With everything else falling to shit around us, it’s easy to forget about the head on collision we have with climate disaster

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JoanHaskins6 @fusciacat.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 25/06/2025

The main lessons to me of Mamdani’s win: 1. Democratic voters really are fed up with their fossilized, incompetent establishment. 2. Housing is by far the number one issue, and if you want to beat that establishment, own the housing issue by pledging to make it easier to build housing of all kinds

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

have the people who thought Cuomo would win because "I stand with Israel" was the top issue for NYC Dem primary voters considered that maybe they are trapped in an information bubble by getting their news through a social media platform that isn't representative of reality?

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I think we need to end the Kike “saving” arms experiment. All he does is give up a ton of runs and then make the innings higher stress innings for the staff in the end.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 18/06/2025

California cannot be a refuge for people fleeing repression when an apartment costs three thousand dollars a month.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

One bad Trump thing is not a distraction from another bad Trump thing. The cacophony of multiple bad Trump things at once is one single thing. It is not possible to get everyone to focus on one part of that chaos, since all the bad parts are bad enough to merit attention, and the chaos is the thing.

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Instead of a double play with none on, we now have no outs with 1st and 2nd. Edman is sure handed usually, but that play has GOT to be made

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

More members of Congress being denied entry to ICE facilities — which the law explicitly says they are allowed to enter unannounced

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Mookie Betts is a freak of nature (compliment)

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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There's nothing immutable about the existence of ICE. It was founded in 2003. U.S. agencies carried out immigration enforcement and border controls before it was formed. Given the evidently lawless way its agents keep acting, one can see the case for its dissolution growing.

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If these supposed federal ICE agents refuse to wear identification, according to the right, would I not be a “good guy with a gun” if I intervene to save someone from abduction? Is this not what they have cried about for decades for why we need the 2A?

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I love Kiké but he’s basically a replacement level player right now. Bat and defense both are below par

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Don Macfarlane @revmod.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I can't believe the United States suffered a political assassination on Saturday, and all that's left of that story on Tuesday is calling out Mike Lee for being an unfeeling monster. The USA has a huge political violence problem, completely incompatible with a functioning democracy.

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

As someone who was involved in some of the discussions around this mess, it is as bad as it sounds, maybe even worse. Wiley has gone PCI-hostile based on completely incoherent arguments.

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hey, why the FUCK is ICE arresting American citizens at all?

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Miguel Rojas offers nothing to this team. Replacement level player at this point

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Dustin May is the most frustrating pitcher on earth

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Also, the way that every event, no matter how shocking or horrible or unprecedented, gets fed into the far-right social media hallucination machine, and twisted beyond recognition until it supports the far-right's own nonsensical worldview, is the very core of why we are where we are as a society.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Not every Republican wants to kill you, but none of them will ever do anything about the ones who do.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Everyone tormented by these assholes is just acceptable collateral damage. If they round up, detain and traumatize 15 people and it turns out only 1 was undocumented, they would call that a success. There is no cost too high for fascists.

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

FUCK. THESE. GESTAPO. MOTHERFUCKERS. I hate these cowards with every fiber of my being.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

No more masked ICE agents. Unmask the terrorists.

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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals. They just don't like international trade. Period. He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"Congestion pricing is a rare example of the government taking a big swing on a complicated and highly controversial initiative and having it immediately pay off for constituents with benefits that are obvious to everyone."

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Op-ed | Congestion pricing works, and NYC is not going back | amNewYork

In less than five months, congestion pricing has helped Manhattan’s Central Business District avoid nearly 10 million vehicle trips. That’s enough cars to

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

When Kennedy is the sensible one in a conversation, it’s time to bow out and reconsider your life choices

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I am puddle @iampuddle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Very weird. And a good way to make sure people of both parties hate you. She was a terrible mouthpiece for the Biden admin though so good riddance I guess

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