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

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

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

It’s that time.

No one should be shopping at Home Depot.

Long for a day without AI.

The fucking brutality.

This can never be allowed to disappear from US political discourse until there is justice.

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

So much is lost with the end of postal letter delivery.

As a geologist I'm going to emphasize again that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. And our antipathy is part of the unnatural disaster. It isn't about guilt, it's about what you'll do today to make this stop. Help six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...

“Luminaries”

Now, donations that the community made to save Lynnwood Hygiene Center can go to improvements. “A lot of times, you look at problems in your community or your society, and you think, ‘There’s nothing I can do about that. When it comes down to it, you can always do something about it.” - M. Montavlo

Why are birthday people always with non birthday people?

24 HOURS LEFT ⚠️ We are SO CLOSE to keeping this family of eight, including a baby, housed! Our friend Seraj is just 21 but he's responsible for his family's survival. Every month we cover their rent—modest, but life-sustaining. There's an option to click "monthly"! 319/475 tiny.cc/serajrent

22 HOURS LEFT to keep a family of 8 housed ⚠️ Since April—through numerous displacements, direct fire, the loss of their home—you've kept this family housed. Well, we need to do it again for January, and we're SO CLOSE. 324/475 tiny.cc/serajrent

Dozens of people get support to survive from this. That support is dwindling. The best way to help is to click "weekly" literally on a five. chuffed.org/project/hope...

#Brazil 🇧🇷 @indexoncensorship.org covers how Meta removed multiple Brazilian left-wing influencers from Instagram, with politicians calling the bans a “direct attack on freedom of speech” and on voices denouncing corruption and police violence.

$140 down, but still just over $2,000 to go soon. I can’t do much from this hospital bed, but YOU could help to bring about a not-so-small holiday miracle. Please contribute if you can. #HelpSky #MutualAid #RentsNearlyDue

I know times are tight, but @psabortionfund.bsky.social does fantastic work. If you can give or just spread the word, please do

@psabortionfund.bsky.social are far behind in their year end fundraising. Times are hard. We are who we have. Please support their work. donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...

@psabortionfund.bsky.social are far behind in their year end fundraising. Times are hard. We are who we have. Please support their work. donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...

Sorry I haven’t followed up—my situation’s become worse. Still need that $750. But also need help with January rent. AND I’m in the hospital with no insurance. I think I now need like $2,200 by end of month. Think I won’t make it. #FundFriday PayPal: @MatthewStefon Venmo: @Matt-Stefon

We’re up to 16 pledges (both weekly and monthly)!! Can we get to 20? Ruaa is seeing an ENORMOUS drop in support and these pledges ensure that her family CAN EAT even if Bluesky deletes her account. Read that back. linktr.ee/safety4ruaa

YorkU management is building systems to comb through instructor course pages to create AI tutors. There are plenty of people within the academic space, whether they're staff, managers or faculty who see an opportunity. Whether it is right or not is not being asked. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

Apathy kills. Inattention is surrender. There is no aid. The prices are extremely high. Five medical emergencies including a toddler with hepatitis. Seventeen families in the rain. Everyone else still cold. Everyone hungry. Help six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...

please help this beautiful baby live 💜🙏🏽

Help Matt out if you can.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Please help—in hospital for long-time condition, and rent and bills and job shit all hitting the end-of-year fan. Honestly, I maybe need double what I’m asking. But help me get as close to $2200 as I can as soon as possible—you’d save more than just Christmas. #FundFriday #MutualAid

There is urgency here. Let’s meet it with support.

December 20: LATEST PROGRESS on rent deadlines, folks! Virtually no progress! + Seraj's rent deadline is Monday. + We're matching 150 for Maha's rent. + Ahmed's progress was adjusted down due to a currency thing. Find all listed at the very top here: linktr.ee/divyamp

You can donate to Mohammed and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/z6tr4-help...

At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

Right now every dollar you give to Mississippi Free Press is TRIPLED. That means stronger reporting, deeper accountability and more truth for our communities, thanks to Sally Faulkner and a generous donor from California. Give today: givebutter.com/mfpdonate

Academic freedom does not exist at my grad alma mater York University thanks to the Palestine Exception. Should be an enormous scandal but of course it won’t be. www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...

Wut? komonews.com/news/local/k...

Let’s make the needed amount. Please share and give as you are able.

Disgusting

It is just fascinating how many people have to be involved in projects like the Epstein files redactions. It takes a huge number of people tucking away human decency and plowing ahead as they protect people who would (& will) throw them under the bus. So much evidence of abuse to just paper over.

Running out of words, but please know that clicking "weekly" on anything really, truly helps six families & a camp of fifteen more survive unceasing fire, blockade, famine, displacement, health emergencies, killer storms in worn tents. Don't forget them. chuffed.org/project/hope...

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

Hello everyone, I'm new Again👋 gofund.me/ed1083fe9

I make all accounts public, by the way. So even if bsky can pretend this is a fake person, every inch of her campaign is accounted for.

On Fridays, we highlight Remas & Toleen, two kids YOU helped secure housing before the storms hit Gaza last week. Well, these disastrous conditions persist, so can we keep them housed and get help them get other essentials? Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Click “weekly” on the cost of a cup of coffee to help six families & a camp survive an ONGOING project of annihilation that relies on our inattention...! Food, shelter, medical help, newborn supplies, and more: chuffed.org/project/hope...