I worked in journalism for nearly 15 years. A “no comment” or silence from any entity (person, govt, corp) for an investigative (or any) piece IS IT’S OWN DEFINITIVE COMMENT. Weiss has no concept of what the job demands. She is anti-journalism. She can’t even rate as advertising dept.

Tonight's movie: I'm leaning toward "The Insider," an excellent journalism ethics film about #60Minutes, corporate dweebs, and a spiked story. CBS now serves Trump first, then profit, and news way down the list. #MediaEthics #FilmSky #Movies

The Insider Part II. #60Minutes.

Oh, there’s an explanation alright. It comes with overtime pay for a crap ton of Trump-aligned FBI and DOJ agents with black Sharpies.

It's the fear. The fear is the point. It's not easy to denaturalize. But ... it's the fear of denaturalization & the chilling effect that results, including on freedom of speech & association, that is used as a tool of political repression. See also Ch. 5 on the Cold War in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️

Donald J. Trump, the 79yo child that even the snottiest, brattiest, most selfish 9yo child would look askew at and say out loud, “Shut up already!” Another year of Trump polishing his own shit in public 24/7/365 with that dumbass smirk of his will break this country, possibly irreparably.

"Likability is a metric applied against female leads far more often than to men, who manage to get away with just about anything.” Simple facts from @nytimes.com. Hence why Ellen Bursty lost to Julia Roberts. Or, no woman could play an equal to Daniel Plainview and win. She's be shunned. #FilmSky

White guy here. One that knows the entire universe and all of creation does not, if fact, rotate around me. It astounds the brain under this balding head of hair that I'm apparently an outlier. Trump & Creeps fan the flames of hatred. America seems incapable of learning. #DEI

Can anyone be surprised? The sun sets, Trump lies. The sun rises, Trump lies. Lies are his alcohol, and he’s absolutely without a doubt, alcoholic. He simply skips the actual booze.

This post matches my thoughts, too.

And, to be clear, what they are proposing is unconstitutional and illegal and should be blocked by any just court. (I know, I know, but, the fact remains.)

Your gotta figure Mikey Johnson is in them files too. It wasn’t just all just young women being coerced into Epstein/Trump’s toxic island.

Seen at recovery center: A white puzzle with one piece missing. Damn, that’s very much my life and soul. #sobriety #SobrietySky

RFK Jr's Dep of Health and Human Services canceled all grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including research on detecting and diagnosing autism, a topic constantly on RFK Jr's mind. He cancelled the grants because the AAP criticized him. The USA is being run by petulant toddlers.

So he's saving the War in Venezuela announcement for next Wednesday, Christmas Eve? "Merry Christmas War Eve"?

Whoever acquires Warner Bros., it's just one more company growing to Too Big To Fail proportion, more billions for billionaires, and thousands of middle-class jobs torched to hell. Trickle Down Economics is piss and piss always goes downhill.

A photo in Colorado of natural art by the Creator, or "God" if you prefer. (I prefer to say "To Whom It May Concern" when I pray.)

This could run in 2045 and be timely. (I'll be 71, if alive at all.) Because oil is $$$$ and $$$$ makes the world go round.

My friend Dini's birthday is today. I made her a cake. 🎂 If this proves true, then, hell, maybe I should have made her two! Who doesn't love war *and* multiple cakes on their birthday and Christmas just mere days away???

This CANNOT stand. This is an abomination. Fuck cruelty being the point! Somebody needs to stand up for what is right and against what is clearly a gross violation of children.

All of this is brilliant. I didn't know this gentleman, Pie, until now. Razor sharp wit. I hope he doesn't try and travel here. ICE will have him shipped to Siberia or North Jersey.

Vibes like, "Susie Wells is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." #SusieWells (Apologies to Raymond Shaw.)

Republicans really will go out of their way to be pedophiles

I think part of why this is breaking thru, I think, in ways that u don’t see other trump comments (even when he’s saying things like we need to cleanse the hills of Somali bloodlines) do not is because it’s just so uniquely gross and depraved. Normal people who aren’t liberals can tell that Reiner…

From Jonathan Last @jvl.bsky.social: "If we get lucky enough [and] save democracy, then the people who did this to America … will take it as proof that Trump was never a real danger." Exactly. Just like people saying ice on roads isn't a danger, meanwhile city street crews exhaust themselves 24/7.

Watched It Was Just an Accident twice in two days. Incredible film shot by Jafar Panahi in secret in Iran, which has imprisoned him in past. Tense, quite funny, and best watched going in "blind." I avoided all trailers, reviews, award shows. Do likewise. #FilmSky #Oscars #MovieSky #Movies

Nevertheless, news orgs are having to burn vast sums of money to fight dingbat's bullsh*t lawsuits. Let's subpoena the poor saps who have to put Humpty Dumpty back together again every morning. Does he own stock in Maybelline???

From the @thebulwark.com. All of this is soul gratingly true. We're not just "unserious" either, a large segment of the population, our President, think of no one but themselves.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Current location: My sobriety group afternoon meeting. I am so very thankful for the shameshes here. Being around them and staying connected is the sole reason I am still alive. They keep me mostly sane, even the insane of the group. 🙏 #Hanukkah

The most despicable man on Earth.

Sadly, truth. More sadly, seemingly all of 2025.

I've been offline for most of day and all the happier for it. But coming home to this terrible news is a shock. Condolences and love to the Reiner family and friends during this tragic time.

You noticed it too, right? The minute Jasmine Crockett, a fierce fighter against fascism, announced her run for the Senate, the never-Kamala trolls came out in force. Never that same heat for Trump, who wants to export Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort. Literally ethnic cleansing. 🧵

I’ve been on job hunt for a while now. I recall seeing AI jobs for “editors” to teach AI bots how to edit. Never considered pursuing those. It’d be like butchers teaching cows how to fight back with knives. Painfully brief.

"They closed and blocked the doors." Kristi Noem's #ICE, once again breaking laws they pretend to uphold. The dumbest fire marshal from the tiniest size-of-a-Pinto U.S. town would raise holy hell if they saw these fed-subsidized terrorists in action.

Which movie quote lives rent-free in your head? "Stay on target! Stay on target!"

"We love our veterans!" Every word he speaks, that slither off his tongue, is a lie build upon a lie build upon … ad infinitum.

Words can’t express my rage. At least 2 students on lockdown at Brown University already survived mass shootings. Zoe Weissman survived Parkland in 2018. Mia Tretta was shot in the stomach in Santa Clarita in 2019 and watched her best friend be murdered. And now…again.

Again and again and again and again and ad infinitum (and again again). Lessons learned: Zero. #Brown

Look's like shit … and large helpings of ABC Saturday night twofer "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island." (Naturally, Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize are both in ICE custody.)

When the AI robots fire all the staff at #Time, let’s see how they feel then. Also, how is Time not on this app? 👀

My father, William Douglas Mackay, b. today 1944. Here he is circa 1966 in his Navy uniform. He died 2016. Massive #movie buff who had same titles on VHS, LD, DVD, then BluRay, and — He didn't live to see 4Ks. But he would've bought 'em. 😂 #FilmSky

📽️ VIDEO: Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who also co-authored the critically acclaimed novel How Democracies Die, joined Marc Elias to assess where the United States stands in 2025, and whether we’ve crossed the line into authoritarianism. Watch below👇

Hundreds of kids in S Carolina are being quarantined right now because of a measles outbreak. I don’t have patience for niceties when it comes to this crap, so if you’re an anti-vaxxer, keep your damn kids at home and don’t travel for the holidays. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Cheers to and for Ms. Seyfried. I was in N.C. last week and drove by billboard on I-40 near Greensboro that proclaimed, "Be a Charlie Kirk!,' with a pic of the smiling twat. So, be a racist blowhard who couldn't cut college? No. Hell, no.

Making America “Great” Again in action. What’s the goal here for RFK Jr. and Friends, a Yellow Fever outbreak? Is that MAHA, too???