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White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

Even BILL CLINTON is saying he doesn’t care if the full release of the files implicates Bill Clinton. Amazing.

To be clear, this should be one of the biggest scandals to ever reach the presidency. DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President. It’s a complete affront to Justice.

By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks. He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

The Education Department was investigating a Texas middle school for allegations that Black students were being harassed with racial slurs and monkey sounds. Then Trump closed the civil rights division’s Dallas office, indefinitely stalling the case.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...

BREAKING: Israel’s Cabinet has approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, the far-right finance minister says.

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms. It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.

MUST READ: DOJ is demanding states surrender their private voter data in the name of election integrity. But its rapidly expanding crusade to seize that data has been riddled with sloppy filings and a growing list of self-inflicted embarrassments that undercut the department’s claim to competence.

the vice president is a klansman

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

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

As President Trump continues the boat strikes and with the declaration of a “blockade” of all sanctioned vessels transporting Venezuelan oil, he has all but abandoned the public pretense that his goal is simply stopping migrants and drugs.

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassador and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of Trump’s “America First” priorities. apnews.com/article/dipl...

What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.

This is the story Bari Weiss apparently doesn't want you to hear. Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Why is Jeff Landry so eager to resign his spot as governor? Is there something we don't know about?

The Trump administration's threat to close NCAR over "climate alarmism" endangers vital research impacting weather forecasts, air safety and our daily lives.

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

That’s it for CBS. We should no longer watch anything produced by this media platform.

You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center? Anne Frank

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Beyond parody. We have an attorney general who is covering up the Epstein Files and a President who is proud he could identify a giraffe

December 19, 2025

My thought today was that 90% of the redacted names that weren’t Epstein’s victims or Trump himself were just potential targets of Trump blackmail.

So last night as I was wondering why Pam Bondi diverted almost 200 National Security attorneys who should be chasing hackers and spies to redact the Epstein files, I remembered that John Eisenberg, who heads it, is the guy who altered the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript.

When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve. This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by Brian Otieno

Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like. Here’s how to use it.

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor. n.pr/4oXdpat

Harris said she heard Trump trying to sell his book in the background despite just having survived an attempt on his life.

TAPPER: “Trump’s statements have been fact-checked so often, he must know by now they’re just lies… inflation was 3% when he took office, not 9… 1 million more Americans are unemployed…”

That's a lot of victims.

Cartoon by Pedro X. Molina @pxmolina.bsky.social Support Pedro at pxmolina.substack.com

They muted her and wouldn't let her speak...it was NOT unanimous. That's a LIE!

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www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p... A trouble in Maga land!

I live in a small town in Eastern Kentucky. I’ve been here for over 50 years.Let me tell you, without social safety programs everyone would die or move away. This town would dry up and blow away. Ironically, those benefitting from those social safety programs voted for trump, white and Republican.

1000 FBI agents redacted his name from the files, there’s a court order requiring their release, and his DOJ is releasing only a carefully selected fraction of the files. Exactly what we all expected!

It's Friday morning 12/2025! You can put me on mute.You can block me. I don't care. I'll not stop! There're NO Civil Rights in Trump's Deranged America! I'll repeat this Every Day until Reality Sinks In. No children's rights! No women's rights! No disability rights! No minority rights! 150 yrs gone!

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The Speaker of the House sure seems spooked by the Epstein files. He has repeatedly shut down Congress over this which is really, really weird and extreme. Saying this as a former Senate staffer. newrepublic.com/post/204586/...

Meanwhile, at Elon’s place…

#SentimentIndicatorsAreBroken #UMich