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An Irish retired horse pro turned artist living on a farm in rural Illinois
#GoodTrouble
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Here’s hoping it happens in 2026
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Wesley Morgan
about 12 hours ago
Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025: —Yemen—1,000+ strikes* —Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid** —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids*** —Iran—3 B-2 strikes —Iraq—1 strike —Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
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Mark Chadbourn
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The worst possible move. Another war.
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Drew Harwell
about 18 hours ago
Retired immigration judge to
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Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204227/trump-immigration-nightmare-happening-here
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Elizabeth
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Mamdani is out here reducing crime on day one.
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Scott Horton
about 21 hours ago
Trump says he's dropping drug prices, 400, 500, 5000%. This is what actually happens.
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Exclusive: Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure from Trump
Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration p...
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
2 days ago
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Scott Lincicome
about 20 hours ago
"In 2020, interest payments totaled $345 billion at the start of the COVID pandemic. Now that amount has just about tripled only six years later,... Since foreigners hold about one-third of all U.S. debt, it means a larger chunk of U.S. income will flow overseas."
qz.com/us-national-...
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U.S. national debt interest payments to top $1 trillion in 2026
In 2020, interest payments on the national debt totaled $345 billion. Now that amount has just about tripled
https://qz.com/us-national-debt-deficit-interest-payments-trillion
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ProPublica
1 day ago
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't.
#ICYMI
, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1767326403&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 23 hours ago
Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
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emptywheel
1 day ago
Bloomberg has a really good story on how scandalous Trump's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández is. This is just the first ¶ of 3-¶¶ on sources, but gives a sense of who would want to tell similar stories.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Merriam-Webster
2 days ago
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.
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Ryan Mac 🙃
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For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
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Tom Joscelyn
2 days ago
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
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Acyn
1 day ago
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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Eric Lipton NYT
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFA.L4ig.OPSfEIf7iHu4&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Acyn
1 day ago
AOC: My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. and it is my deep honor and privilege to welcome you to the inauguration of our new mayor of New York City. Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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Molly McKew
2 days ago
Our imagination has failed us, we live worse because of it, and our zealotry is now exporting ideas abroad that inspire not enhanced liberty but sharper tools of oppression We’re losing what we are as a nation, and bringing the rest of the free world down with us
www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...
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2025, the atomization of reality, and the failure of imagination… (part 1)
The free world is thinking small. Our adversaries are not.
https://www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-atomization-of-reality-and
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
2 days ago
Caviar station and ice sculpture at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago party as food banks continue to be stretched thin
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Acyn
3 days ago
Smith: I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records exist because, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that.
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Abe Newman
2 days ago
1/Fascinating
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reporting documenting rise of Trump’s neo-royalist regime. Foreign affairs -- chip deals, crypto, trade — used to extract wealth for insider cliques.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Andrew Lawrence
2 days ago
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Scott Horton
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Scott Horton
2 days ago
Finnish police forces have boarded and seized the 132-meter-long Russian shadow fleet cargo vessel Fitburg moments after it destroyed 5 submarine telecommunication cables between Finland and Estonia by dragging its anchor on the seabed.
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Tämä tiedetään | Venäjä tarjoaa apua kaapelirikosta epäillyn laivan miehistölle
Koostimme lyhyesti yhteen, mitä keskiviikon kaapelivaurioista ja epäillystä aluksesta tiedetään.
https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000011723776.html
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Yashar Ali 🐘
2 days ago
BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
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Jason K Pargin, author
3 days ago
Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.
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Brooke Harrington
3 days ago
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
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Here’s hoping it happens in 2026
3 days ago
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Kat Abughazaleh
3 days ago
The GOP’s midterm strategy is literally just Comet Pizza
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hailey
3 days ago
As we bring in the New Year today, I have some bittersweet news to share...Today will be my last day working on Bluesky as a part of the core team. The past two years that I have been here have been an absolute blast and undoubtedly will be a few of the most memorable of my life...1/x
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Michael Li (李之樸)
3 days ago
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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Max Boot
3 days ago
SCOTUS gave Trump and all future presidents a “get out of jail free” card by conferring near-total immunity from prosecution. So, looking at other democracies that hold leaders to account, it’s fair to ask: Which country looks like the banana republic now?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Which country is the banana republic now?
Democracies hold their leaders to account.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/31/trump-immunity-law-protest-democracy/
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
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bmaz
3 days ago
The American President is a classless piece of shit Trump Attacks Kennedy Family Hours After Death of JFK's Granddaughter
www.tmz.com/2025/12/31/t...
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Trump Attacks Kennedy Family Hours After Death of JFK's Granddaughter
Following Donald Trump's abysmal ratings hosting the Kennedy Center Honors and the growing list of artists canceling performances at the venue due to DT rebranding it with his name, the president's re...
https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/31/trump-attacks-kennedy-family-after-tatiana-schlossberg-death/?adid=share-tw
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John Williams
3 days ago
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
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Marc Elias
4 days ago
Large law firms are siding with Trump over their clients and employees. Let me give you one statistic to exemplify this: DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data. My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22. Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.
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Joyce White Vance
4 days ago
18 years for having a stillbirth. Medical testing showed meth but a med examiner testified he couldnt say it was the cause of death. She’s 1 of at least 20 Alabama women who suffered miscarriage/stillbirth then faced sentencing as severe as for murder, rape or kidnapping.
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She lost her baby, then her freedom. ‘When the judge said 18 years, I couldn’t believe it.’
Brooke Shoemaker suffered a stillbirth in Auburn in 2017. Although a state medical examiner found the cause of death to be undetermined, the county coroner blamed her methamphetamine use. After she lo...
https://www.al.com/news/2022/09/she-lost-her-baby-then-her-freedom-alabama-gets-tough-on-moms-in-the-war-on-drugs.html
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Jon Cooper
4 days ago
Who agrees? ✋
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
4 days ago
Saudi bombed a UAE weapons shipment tonight in Yemen lmfao
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Brian Finucane
4 days ago
An attack in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution. Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show.
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Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/cia-drone-strike-venezuela
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Abbi Lichtenstein
5 days ago
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
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USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
https://share.google/OozyE6Y8EEfqZHqLW
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Raider
5 days ago
Newly released footage of ICE goons in LA cornering, shooting and abducting journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias as he is clearly unarmed. Carlitos is still in ICE custody. (published 12/28/25)
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Marisa Kabas
5 days ago
NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:
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Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it’s true.
It could be a lie from social media, or a conflation of other stories. Either way, Americans need to know.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-bombed-drug-facility-venezuela-radio-catsimatidis
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Denise Wheeler
5 days ago
🧵Where did Alexia Palmer go? Another Trump-Epstein accuser who has vanished She sued a Trump-affiliated modeling agency in federal court, produced docs alleging visa fraud & exploitation, and then disappeared from public view Her case should have triggered a congressional inquiry This is why:
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Max Boot
5 days ago
Don’t mistake progress in stopping a U.S. sellout of Ukraine with progress in ending the war. The conflict will end only when Putin is convinced that he can’t achieve his military objectives. Until that point is reached, peace negotiations aren’t going anywhere.
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Opinion | Trump and Zelensky talk peace while Putin wages war
Ukraine peace won’t come until the Russian dictator realizes he can’t win militarily.
https://wapo.st/3N5e24y
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Scott Horton
5 days ago
One year of Trump marks the rapid curtailment of US power and influence around the world. Our erstwhile allies are now persuaded that we are ruled by a corrupt, foolish plaything of Vladimir Putin's, who is using his influence to run the country into the ground. And that's a solid analysis.
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Scott Horton
5 days ago
The opening of a land war by Trump in Venezuela is headlines this afternoon in the London tabloids. In US media, it's eerily absent.
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Adam Rose
5 days ago
Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
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Anil Dash
6 days ago
Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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Garrett M. Graff
5 days ago
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
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Anne Applebaum
5 days ago
"Following the Ukraine-US meeting, Trump lauded Putin, saying the Russian president “wants to see Ukraine succeed”. This is becoming farcical
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Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks fail to deliver breakthrough on Ukraine peace deal
US president says ‘thorny’ issues remain on ending Europe’s biggest land war in 80 years
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