that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

So I thought this was so obviously a shitpost parody of MrBeast's style that I didn't even bother checking whether it was real It's real

Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.

National security comes up yet again as a reason for the regime to take action.

A bunch of comments cracking jokes about how stupid people in OK are. Christian Nationalists targeted a trans educator by fabricating a "stupid" essay. The student is now on the right wing media circuit and that TA had been hounded out of their job. So funny how they got what they wanted! Hahaha?

The devaluation of a phycology degree from Oklahoma is going to be crazy. If you have a psychology degree from Oklahoma, you might as well throw that mf in the trash, chief. It just became worthless. Make sure you repay that student loan, though.

Disgusting. It's criminal how hard we're failing our kids. Are we going to give MDs to heart surgeons that can recite bible verses but can't cut up a salad? Where does this end? No one can tell the idiots they raised that they're idiots? Teachers can't teach? Requirements dont matter?

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university

Yes. Every parent in the US needs to understand that the US government, from the President down, is mostly run by people that think its OK to produce AI deep-fake porn of _your_ kids.

People making fun of their families with thick accents continues to be the cheat code to amusing me www.youtube.com/shorts/dNYRe...

I wouldn't describe Jay as "man in the middle" unless I were making sort of human centipede analogy.

You can't make this shit up. The man has the charisma of a hung-over JD Vance.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Efforts to bar funds from CAIR-linked schools come as the Texas GOP continues to ramp up its anti-Muslim rhetoric, and amid a broader push to Christianity Texas schools.

For years, opponents of school vouchers worried that the program could be exclusionary. Now, as they roll out the new program, Texas officials are looking to bar funds from going to some schools with links to China or the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Lebanon Junction, Kentucky Pop: 1,962 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Junction,_Kentucky Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126315540 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89864628 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=134342649

idk who needs to hear this but women you don't like on a microblogging website are not actually the reason for the downfall of democracy

Speaking of A Christmas Story, most people have no idea there were several prequels and sequels on PBS, including this one where Jerry O'Connell is Ralphie: youtu.be/Uh-6t6rrCxs?...

'Give me a break!' Pam Bondi hit with fact check after asking Epstein survivors for help www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-ep...

@rokhanna.bsky.social: "Massie and I are drafting articles of impeachment as we speak about Pam Bondi and Blanche."

When Vance says that criticizing Israel is not antisemitism, we should all be clear that he's talking about Nick Fuentes and not, say, immigrant grad students protesting genocide.

Lexington has outlived its usefulness to the Corporation. It's nothing more than P&L, and somehow human capital never shows up on the asset side of the ledger.

bari weiss is like, wait, I want to hear the concentration camp’s side

Among the many issues with Weiss’s memo on the CECOT story, most of the additional info she’s demanding, about the administration’s legal rationales and the prisoners’ criminal histories, was actually covered in this piece that ran earlier this year on—wait for it—“60 Minutes”.

Back before the pandemic made movie theaters a dangerous contagion factory for an asthmatic like myself (support improved IAQ policies in your business! It's good for everybody!), if someone was offering a free ticket, I'd have gone along to see literally anything, even while on my deathbed.

It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.

Very important to know if you're thinking about setting up an ABLE account when the new rules go into effect come January.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

this must've been so annoying before computers

Well all the people who say “we need to hire the most qualified people” are getting a chance to run things and it turns out they aren’t qualified to shovel shit into a bucket.

I think about this post at least once a week: bsky.app/profile/haye...

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

I should write something up for the imminent Dec 23rd DJI drone ban, but not sure I have much more to add beyond a resigned “this is going to be an incredibly stupid national self-own that happens to impact me and a lot of my friends personally, add it to the pile.”

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

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Surgery is 12/31. I expect to be in bed for week at minimum during recovery.

Because I've seen some confusion on this: The above isn't a link to the "60 Minutes" piece CBS pulled, it's a different piece on the same topic produced for "Frontline" on PBS. And on a related note: If you want to support PBS stations right now, here's a link to do that: adoptastation.org

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Anyone who says it around me gets knocked the fuck out. No exceptions.

A free press is the responsibility of any functional democracy

saw someone suggest I should add commentary, and this isn't what was meant, but my commentary is I believe the video depicts major laws being broken by the US federal government and that their attempt to bury the TV segment in favor of a government approved edit reveals awareness of their wrongdoing

I don;t need to upload after all, I guess. But still, it would be nice to learn if there's a good general-purpose PeerTube instance out there that is worth recommending.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here