Hello Dante? What Level Is This?

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We shoulda known.

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‪The Steady State‬
‪@steadystatevets.bsky.social‬
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This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate

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That makes so much sense... /s

$10 per pound for a good beef is still cheap, though.

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Erin Reed
‪@erininthemorning.com‬
1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care.

A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.

The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.

Our latest wild story.


2. After a vote to ban trans youth care, the Alaska Medical Board’s anti-trans crusade stalled. Board vacancies and a series of mysterious absences from one of its members resulted in a prolonged break of quorum.

Now we likely know why.

3. Last week, board member Dr. Ryan McDonough, a 46-year-old cardiologist based in Wasilla, was arrested on ten counts of possession of child pornography. Law enforcement reportedly found numerous videos on McDonough’s devices and accounts that depicted sexual abuse of children,

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including infants.

4. Then, over the weekend, just one day after McDonough was released on bail, his family home went up in flames. Charred human remains were found in the rubble, but the police have yet to conclusively identify the body or the cause of the fire. McDonough is still classified as “unaccounted for."


https://www.mysuncoast.com/2025/12/15/r ... cials-say/

5. McDonough was appointed by Alaska’s Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy in August 2025. He attended just two board meetings—in August and September—where one of his few actions was voting to advance anti-trans medical policies.

6. The following two months, McDonough was absent from proceedings. This, in conjunction with unfilled seats, left the board’s initiatives stranded indefinitely.

McDonough’s name was removed from the board roster last month, Anchorage Daily News reports.

7. The spokesperson said the Dunleavy Administration only found out about the charges against McDonough this past Friday, and that they were “never aware of any criminal investigation against him” at the time of his appointment.

8. Due to the stagnation, the anti-trans policy never advanced to the public comment portion, and furthermore never went into effect. But it still could; Governor Dunleavy retains the power to appoint new board members.


https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-c ... -material/

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For information purposes only...

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President Donald Trump has installed plaques underneath portraits of presidents at the White House, using them to insult and make unfounded claims about some of his predecessors including Joe Biden and Barack Obama -- the latest in a series of controversial White House changes under Trump.

The plaques, many of which the White House said Trump penned himself, add to what the president has dubbed the "Presidential Walk of Fame" -- a portrait gallery along the West Wing Colonnade -- and describe the tenures of former commanders in chief in an overtly political way.

Trump's most recent predecessors' plaques read the most editorialized. The permanent signs are stylistically similar to the president's social media posts, with sporadic capitalizations and punctuation -- including many exclamation points.

Obama had no comment about the plaque. ABC News did not receive immediate responses from Biden and the Clintons for comment.

Many of the plaques were "written directly by the President himself," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement about the new decor.

"The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself," Leavitt said in the statement.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/tru ... =128492648

They didn't just insult Former Presidents Obama and Biden. They insulted everyone who came before tiny. the link has been updated.

So juvenile.

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‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.

By Michael M. Grynbaum
Dec. 21, 2025Updated 10:07 p.m. ET

In a move that drew harsh criticism from its own correspondent, CBS News abruptly removed a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador.

The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment. CBS News said in a statement that the segment would air at a later date and “needed additional reporting.”

But Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported the segment, rejected that criticism in a private note to CBS colleagues on Sunday, in which she accused CBS News of pulling the segment for “political” reasons.

“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “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.”

CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ms. Alfonsi’s note. Reached on Sunday evening, Ms. Alfonsi said, “I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.”

The unusual events on Sunday have once again placed “60 Minutes” at the center of a media and political fracas.

Ms. Weiss was appointed in October after David Ellison, the owner of CBS’s parent company, Paramount Skydance, acquired her independent news and opinion site, The Free Press.

Mr. Ellison’s acquisition of Paramount earlier this year was approved by the Trump administration after Paramount paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit that President Trump had brought against “60 Minutes.”

Mr. Ellison is currently making a hostile bid to outmaneuver a rival company, Netflix, and acquire the media behemoth Warner Bros. Discovery. He has been courting Mr. Trump’s support for his bid, but the president has used recent episodes of “60 Minutes” to suggest he is displeased with Mr. Ellison’s stewardship of CBS.

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The segment was focused on Venezuelan men who were sent by the Trump administration to the Terrorism Confinement Center, a notorious prison in El Salvador. In a news release on Friday promoting the segment, CBS News said that Ms. Alfonsi had spoken with several men now released from the prison “who describe the brutal and torturous conditions they endured.”

Ms. Weiss had raised numerous concerns to “60 Minutes” producers about Ms. Alfonsi’s segment on Friday and Saturday, and she asked for a significant amount of new material to be added, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions.

One of Ms. Weiss’s suggestions was to include an interview with Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff and the architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown, or a similarly high-ranking Trump administration official, two of the people said. Ms. Weiss provided contact information for Mr. Miller to the “60 Minutes” staff.

Ms. Weiss also questioned the use of the term “migrants” to describe the Venezuelan men who were deported, noting that they were in the United States illegally, two of the people said.

In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. “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,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote.

“We have been promoting this story on social media for days,” Ms. Alfonsi added. “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,” she wrote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/busi ... weiss.html

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This is just the beginning for the new CBS.

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Oh Canada! Apparently that's where this copy of the censored 60m CECOT report.

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It's also on YouTube

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The Tennessee Holler
‪@thetnholler.bsky.social‬
Of course they are — good luck putting the cat back in the bag, Bari. All you’re doing is guaranteeing more people will see it. #CBSNewsmax