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@robertgarcia.bsky.social ICE is currently in your district (E LBC) abducting gardeners.

The United States needs to realize that the world does not need them. They are not necessary to the survival or the prosperity of the free world. We will move on without you.

The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police" Political cowardice is paid for in blood.

Defunding the police was always a good idea. The bipartisan rejection of it helped lead us to where we are now. Until we recognize its necessity, we will continue our downward spiral.
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Please do more than just post through it

if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly

I want to wake up to more news like this rather than, well, you know….

Ok, sure.

"The documented record does not show a political party with a corruption problem. It shows a criminal organization using political power as its operating mechanism. The politics exist to enable the crime. The crime funds the politics."

"Knowledge is power"

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.

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

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:

Everything There and Around Us | Stand By Me (1986) - BW/DR I felt drawn to Stand by Me in a way I had never been drawn to a movie before, longing each day to reimmerse myself in this soft-focused sun-dappled boy’s idyll. But still I wonder: what parts of me d...

“I watched STAND BY ME that day. The next day, I watched it again. I watched it the day after that, too, and every day for the remainder of my week at home. I felt drawn to this film in a way I never had before… a power that’s never weakened across countless revisits in the ensuing two decades.”

Culture Wars Are For Cowards And most people don't like bullies.

I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
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The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine.

“They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

Blackpink
Muse
Tool & Deftones
Bob Dylan
Crosby, Stills & Nash

I’ve got a stack of TJs paper bags in my garage (for when I forgot my reusables obvs) that I could easily make this out of…well a portion of anyway.

Seems like something the Oversight Committee should be looking into @robertgarcia.bsky.social

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

AI data centers are sending power bills soaring throughout America. Bloomberg analyzed consumption rates across the US and found that wholesale electricity rates had risen as much as 267%over the past five years in areas adjacent to AI data centers.

I think this is the best piece I've read so far about the large number of elites who basically can't deal with the situation we are in. it doesn't compute and they keep hunting for an exit that doesn't exist

Full-page newspaper ad showing the Paramount Pictures logo, mountain with a semicircle of stars above the peak. Below the mountain, text reads in large, bold letters: “Paramount YOU’LL HAVE TO PAY OFF TRUMP FOR SOMETHING ONE DAY, TOO.” At the bottom, in small text: “not a paid advertisement".

Apropos of nothing a full page ad from the Onion

Anti-Religious Politics One party needs to stand against god in public policy.

If one party is not brave enough to truly say that religion has no place in public policy, we are going to be fighting a losing battle against theocracy.
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Truly don’t understand how people can make their God-king obsession with him their whole personality.

New York Socialist City Where taking care of everyone is common sense.

If you live in New York City you are either a socialist or you haven't thought about it enough.
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A life lesson learned from our daughter.

Live life like it’s LEGO. It’s never really broken. It can be rebuilt. And most times the next version is better.

I blame the font.

The pretexts for these paramilitary takeovers don’t matter

They’re lies

Don’t buy into their narrative

They’re normalizing military takeovers

That should be the opposing narrative, not crime rates which let them steer the conversation

WE should steer it
What they’re doing is unacceptable
Period