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

(watch the whole playlist; these kids are wonderful) Link to the ASL Theatre (in Florida) playlist for Hamilton:

The ICE and immigration story is ENORMOUSLY triggering to my generational holocaust trauma. I see the faces of my grandparents and dead family in every single person being disappeared and tortured by the US govt and I can only traumatize myself with it so much I have to set boundaries and that’s ok.

Streisand Effect baby

THEY ARE SO GOOD!!! The kid playing Aaron Burn is particularly good, but they are all so fucking COMMITTED! And showing how much you can do without props or elaborate sets. Seriously, I want so much more for them all, and I want this for all kids who need or want it. Here's the playlist:

Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media. Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.

I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.

On December 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' Repeal Act of 2010 into law, ending the 17 year ban that forced lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members to hide their sexual orientation or face discharge #NOH8

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

#JoyScrolling: ASL Theathre (an initiative in Florida) Students performing "Wait for it" (@suzbrockmann.bsky.social watch it, it's lovely)

20 state attorneys general filed an Amicus Brief, appealing to the 11th Circuit Court that they hear the state of Florida's appeal in a case about book bans. That sounds complicated, but it's not. 21 states *want to gleefully take away your First Amendment Rights*. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

when they say "take the country back," they're not talking about winning elections

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.

I contributed to @thesicktimes.org as a holiday gift to myself.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

Ooooh! IMO Ralph is doing his best work as he ages. Our society places such value on youth, but here’s an older actor not pretending he’s still 40 and delivering greatness. I can’t wait to watch this!!

1) Dr. Jarred Younger has registered his trial of Low Dose Naltrexone, which will start next year. It uses a remote design so that people can participate from anywhere in the United States. Participants must be between the ages of 8 and 65 and meet ME-ICC criteria.

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

BTW you can let a Paramount+ agent that you'll cancel your sub unless they air an unedited CECOT segement on 60 Minutes here help.paramountplus.com/s/contact-us

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral & 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” If you haven’t cancelled Paramount/CBS, do it now.

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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Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.

Not that I read the @nytimes.com but I just wrote a book with an entire major subplot about a group of theater kids who kick ass and solve crimes! (Jules Cassidy, PI comes out on 1/29/26.) theater kids are the most awesome because we knew that what the jocks and popular kids think is pure bullshit.

legitimately love this guy.

Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'? We are right.

Keep your eyes peeled for the new book from @suzbrockmann.bsky.social - back her kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com/projects/suz...) or wait for the bookstore release late in Jan. She's one of the reasons I wanted to write romances in the first place. And if you need a happy place with some hope...

That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.

If Batman was a Santa, would he wear his hat like this, or like this

How goes the fuckery?

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A beautiful thing A sweet to remember "We are closer to Spring than we were in September." I heard a bird sing In the dark of December

It's your birthday, Duane.

Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

I ended up writing a Genre Grapevine column about all this that goes into more detail than my Bluesky thread possibly could. Check it out for additional details. I also urge all SFWA members to contact the organization about this change. 8/ www.patreon.com/posts/146249...

Hey writers and #Romancelandia. My yearly subscription to word/microsoft365 ends soon and I’m wondering if anyone has had any luck renewing their subscription wo the AI that we absolutely don’t want? I use a Mac so I subscribe through Apple. Is the workaround to simply buy Office Home 2024?

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.

“We need to start calling anti-vaxxers ‘pro-disease’ so there’s no confusion on who they actually are ☹️” Source: x.com/ennui365/sta...

🎄 Happy holidays. Sorry to ruin the vibes. +1.5 MILLION disabled adults in two months. Entering year 7 In the 12th wave. Disability is accumulating because infection is accumulating. You can pretend it’s over. The labor force, healthcare system, and your brain do not agree.

New Yorkers 👇

"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ." FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Trump administration’s dangerous crusade against trans kids and families is cruel, hateful, and disgusting. We cannot let this stand. I will fight their hateful attacks every step of the way.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

Just so I’ve been 100% clear on this recently, and not just through reposting people saying things better than I think I’d be able to: the attack on trans rights—especially on trans healthcare—is hate. It’s not science. It’s not "protecting" kids. It’s 100% fucking hate, and it’s wrong.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Give it a year, I reckon, and one of THE major societal divides, nudging countless friendships to an end, is going to be the one between people who post awful AI shit on the internet and people who don't because they realise it's a dishonest, ecologically ruinous evil fast-tracking us to apocalypse.

The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is senseless & dangerous. It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe. We urge that this plan be abandoned. Call Congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

In my newsletter today I wrote about the housing policy the administration is pursuing, which largely relies in stealing apartments and homes from people kidnapped by the state and deported. letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com/p/the-great-...