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This is such a good read, @aaronrosspowell.com !

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Screenshot of an X.com post by CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) saying Trump went “further than ever before” praising authoritarian rule, quoting: “I’m a dictator… but sometimes you need a dictator,” followed by commentary that the mask is coming off, with a video still of Trump speaking at the World Economic Forum podium.

We don't need a dictator. And we certainly don't need you, Donald.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Karoline Leavett in her sadistic reading of the Renee Good killing told a reporter:
"You’re pretending like you’re a journalist, but you’re a left-wing activist".
Yeah, and you are pretending to be a press secretary, but you are a propagandist for a fascist regime.
Just end the "briefings".

When the U.S. uses the military against citizens, attacks immigrants, and executes people who pose no threat, it jeopardizes our national security because it incites violence, invites retaliation, normalizes fascism, and sets precedence for others to follow suit. Trump is endangering America.

Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle Kidnapping a world leader for online clout

That Maduro bet may be the pinnacle of financial nihilism to date, in that it raises the question of whether gambling markets are now directly setting political policy. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

“The biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen.” @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the year in politics.
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This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

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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

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

What an amazing analogy of life under Trump!

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Musks jüngste Kampfansage an die EU und die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie wären doch ein guter Anlass, sich unter den demokratischen Parteien auf einen radikalen Cut zu einigen, zum Selbstschutz und aus Selbstachtung: Alle ziehen sich gleichzeitig von X zurück. Die Medien und andere werden folgen.

What he said: 💯 🎯

Ray Dalio says America is developing a ‘dependency’ on its top 1% of workers, while the bottom 60% are struggling and unproductive | Fortune “I think the issue is very much that you can’t look at the U.S. as a whole nowadays,” the Bridgewater Associates founder said at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh on Monday.

“I think the issue is very much that you can’t look at the U.S. as a whole nowadays,” Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said at the #FortuneGlobalForum in Riyadh on Monday. trib.al/bqAioCr

AOK-Werbung: Entdecke die heilende Kraft der Steine. Nimm die Treppe.

Wollen wir diese Pseudomedizin-Werbung mal ausnahmsweise akzeptieren? 😉

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

Marie winces: gold, alarms blaring #econsky

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Sun ejecting Plasma, as captured by the Parker Solar Probe.

-Credits: NASA

"Peace president."

Artificial intelligence to support cancer treatment TUM researchers receive funding from Google.org for the ‘AIdvice’ project. Medical expertise is to be translated into understandable answers.

Understandable, reliable #cancer information is often hard to find. Our researchers develop the AIdvice assistant, funded by Google .org, that uses #AI and #LLMs to support patients with evidence-based answers: go.tum.de/411575

#AIAssistant

📷 K. Czoppelt/TUM University Hospital

I can’t speak for anyone else, but this analogy of “Lady Liberty’ held captive, is exactly how I feel about this presidency & administration and what their attempting to do with our rights and freedoms…

The New Yorker captured the feelings perfectly…

One word, UNACCEPTABLE!