Brown University shooting investigation reignites criticisms of FBI’s Kash Patel-Democrats argue he is too attention-seeking [His identification of a person of interest who wasn't] "reduced everyone’s attention" [during a crucial time-period in the investigation] www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/n...

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

Trump ran on a promise that ICE would go after the “worst" criminals. But the real crime is in oligarchs taking $170b from your healthcare and food assistance to form a secret police force. Our country has defeated fascism before and it is time we fight to uphold our legacy.

Soft on Nazis: Coast Guard "allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to 'potentially divisive' despite an uproar over the new language" despite promise not to do that www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

[The resistance broadens] ‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE- From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They're telling you who they are: "Appeal to heaven" or "PIne Tree" flag "linked to Christian Nationalist groups as well as the Proud Boys and certain neo-Nazi groups" seen flying "outside the office of a top U.S. Department of Education official" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Re Trump threatenig the ICC: “Only a man who knows he is guilty would do that...expect his actions to get worse" He “is already illegally striking boats and showing the whole world...he wants people to be scared" and be used to it so "they stop calling him out" www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-last-d...

The war on disinformation is a losing battle- How the systems that fight misinformation and disinformation became misconstrued and dismantled. www.theverge.com/features/839...

Re the so-called domestic terrorist threat of Antifa: “There’s no organization....It’s a bunch of anarchists and actors running around the country....there’s no evidence of a terrorist threat. This is a stupid topic” www.spytalk.co/p/reinventin...

"Trump is not well. The people around him are committed to hiding the truth. He will only get worse — and so will the lies" adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-alarmi...

They want a Christian Nationalist army: "US Southern Command...shared an image that prominently displayed a so-called Jerusalem cross on the helmet of a masked commando....popular on the right to symbolize the march of Christian civilization, with anti-Muslim roots" theintercept.com/2025/12/09/c...

Russian hybrid warfare "new spymaster of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service warned...Russia posed an 'acute threat' to the West, plotting arson and sabotage operations, assassinations, and cyber and drone attacks across Europe....'export of chaos is a feature'" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...

infuriating wrinkle in the Brown University shooting-[Shooter] "managed to avoid his face being captured by any surveillance camera" [while Brown had] "more than 800 cameras, the scope of the surveillance is staggering" Luck, or was the shooter a professional? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump’s broken promise to immigrants-and to voters The president ran on a platform of cracking down on illegal immigration and deporting criminals. Instead, he’s targeting people who followed every rule "a nation of immigrants becoming increasingly anti-immigrant" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/o...

Trump attributed movie director Reiner's death to: "anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding...affliction with...TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" While Trump et al vilified anyone who dared to criticize his ally Charlie Kirk after Kirk was killed www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

The company they keep: Trump regime loves AfD "Berlin prosecutors say they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with greeting 'party colleague with....a heel click and a Hitler salute'" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

New Heritage Foundation director says "there is an association between homosexuality and pedophilia...adultery, homosexuality, no-fault divorce, and abortion should be outlawed...Civil Rights Act...prohibitions against workplace sex discrimination...wound back" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"lines between advertising, public relations and journalism are dangerously blurred...once-respected media institutions...hijacked by billionaires...turned into strategic megaphones...politicians are sold...with the same cynical strategies" used to market alcohol www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Bucks County, PA Republican sheriff Frederick Harran agreed to work with ICE. 33 year old army vet Danny Ceisler "stood against Harran as a Democrat...pledged to terminate the partnership with ICE" He won, saying "partnering with ICE is a losing proposition" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How can an incompetent publicity hound FBI Director control real crime? Kash Patel accused of "rushing to social media to tout his agency’s work on tracking down a person of interest in a shooting [and killing of 2 people at Brown] prematurely" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump declares fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ in escalation of Venezuela drug war- The drug is a commonly-used painkiller with numerous legitimate medical uses [He can declare a ham sandwich is an indictment, and we can declare Trump is a weapon of...] www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort- TSA is providing passenger lists to ICE to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders [Breach of trust- we trust TSA to keep us safe, and now they expose us to thuggish ICE] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

[Reminder of how important Russia is as a sponsor of the far-right globally] Far Right in Germany Keeps Trying to Unseal National Secrets- Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that...push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...

More money, more corruption require more attention, nonprofit says- In an age of cynicism among the electorate, OpenSecrets renews push to expose how special interests and government officials are connected [sunshine is the best disinfectant] www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew not been able to see her son since she was released by ICE, tells Leavitt “Just because you went to a Catholic school, doesn’t make you a good Catholic...You’re a mother....How would you feel if somebody did this to you?” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump et al are going to get a lot of people killed "JetBlue flight from...Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker...pilot blamed the military plane....'They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Many...extraordinary human rights activists in China did not start out as 'activists.' They were ordinary people...transformation often began with tiny acts... Step by step, they learned to speak up...to endure greater reprisals" Each time their sense of agency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Trump regime denouncing Europe’s democracies...sucking up to Russia is no surprise. Trump, "afraid of his hero Putin" finds it easier to cut deals with Russia "run by a murderous mobster" easier than with mostly honest governments run under more open systems www.golocalprov.com/news/whitcom...

federal authorities "tracking online criticism and protests against the...immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards... for threats to agents...compiling ...updates on public 'sentiment'". Local leaders concerned that "could chill free speech" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump placed TV personalities in the regime, turned WH into "major information content provider" Trump does the "action" and WH happens "to be one of the distributors" replacing media "with right-wing loyalists" to flood the zone with Trump narrative heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-9...

Soviet, now Russian idea "mental war": "to destroy self-awareness, change the mental, civilizational basis of the enemy’s society... possible to destroy the state and...country by changing the self-awareness, worldview, goals, values and priorities of society" www.bettedangerous.com/p/an-undecla...

Today's anti-vax patients:" entrenched, identity-driven opposition fueled by misinformation, political polarization, and deliberate disinformation campaigns....It’s: 'I don’t believe anything you’re about to say.' As a physician, this dynamic is devastating" www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...

The resistance innovates "college newsrooms, independent media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track [DHS] enforcement [operations] and collaborating on information" www.reuters.com/business/med...

How to spark resistance "Scrawled in chalk on the pavement near a secondary school in eastern Slovakia, the messages were short and to the point: 'Enough Fico'" a popular anti-government slogan, another about PM "providing sexual favours to Vladimir Putin" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

[One sign of far-right retreat] "UT has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed in February that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating....one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I’ve noticed a pattern among some of my colleagues in public health, biomedical research, and the university settings in which I work....we shrink back, saying, 'Oh, it’s not you. It’s me'" and affirm the "reigning trope" that we lost the trust of the people www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Rumble, promoter of "free speech" for right wing extremists, which welcomes Russian propaganda/disinformation outlets like Sputnik and RT, benefits Trump regime figures and supporters JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Dan Bongino, Howard Lutnick, Tulsi Gabbard dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/rumble-the...

From Feb thru Dec, convicted criminal Trump gave 61 pardons and commutations, 27 for white collar crime, "securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, tax evasion" 2 went to corporations, "an unprecedented act." Another "14 were about political corruption" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/09/t...

"former top litigation volunteer at the Anti-Defamation League", Joe Berman's "scorching resignation letter" said he left because the group "had become a 'useful idiot'" for Trump "by failing to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right" www.jta.org/2025/12/12/u...

BREAKING Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules. It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...

Another attempted power grab: "Trump said he has pardoned former CO elections clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a 9-year sentence for allowing unauthorised access to voting machines during the 2020 presidential election" but president can't pardon someone for state crimes www.bbc.com/news/article...

Troops Involved in Boat Strikes Face a ‘Moral Injury’ Risk "Participating in killing-even killing seen remotely on a video screen-can leave deep psychological wounds....If the person perceives the killing as morally wrong or unjustified" effect may be greater www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Does Trump regime do anything legal? "top National Park Service official...instructed park superintendents to limit the number of staff who get top marks in performance reviews.... experts say [this] violates federal code" and makes layoffs easier www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

European governments see Trump regime as enemy "Danish intelligence services have accused the US of using its economic power to 'assert its will'...threatening military force against...allies" Think Americans will start working for European security services? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

[Resistance broadens] New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE "Street Vendor Project and NYC Ice Watch, a community-led platform alerting neighborhoods about immigration raids, are training volunteers and canvassing the streets" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The resistance broadens "IN legislature’s rejection of a new map that would have added two Republican seats in Congress marked one of the biggest political defeats for...Trump... significantly damaged the Republican effort to reconfigure congressional districts" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Russian long "campaign to...wound Hillary Clinton and elevate...Trump unfolded largely as planned....a single, continuous narrative arc... pattern of receptivity, opportunity, and convergence" centered on Trump "who consistently advanced" Russia's objectives olgalautman.substack.com/p/epilogue-r...

Migrants' "fear of deportation or legal consequences" reduces care seeking, thus less "surgeries, ER visits, and specialty care; Kids...afraid to play outside; Children...showing up to clinics alone;Families are avoiding insurance or SNAP renewal" yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/fall-vacci...

Argues broligarchy of tech plutocrats believe "money and intelligence are essentially the same, "delusion of the powerful" letting them "believe that they were just born better" But maybe they are more willing to do whatever it takes to win in an unregulated system www.mind-war.com/p/convenient...