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Frank Figliuzzi
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The unhoused hero of the Brown - MIT investigation. Details on Substack at:
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Mark Copelovitch
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Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism. Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
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Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal âcloser than everâ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b7f44271-c043-4e1b-adba-388f95051430
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Carl Quintanilla
about 1 hour ago
STRICKLAND: Participate in the UFC White House event? "Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."
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Phillips OBrien
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Hi All, Timothy Snyder and I held a Substack Live a little while ago, and ranged widely on the Russo-Ukraine war. It ended up being divided into two parts. Here is part one where we talk about views of Russia, Ukraine and war in 2022.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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On the Russo-Ukrainian War with Phillips OBrien
A recording from Phillips P. OBrien and Timothy Snyder's live video
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/on-the-russo-ukrainian-war-with-phillips?r=1tgexa&utm_medium=ios
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Matt Sebastian
about 1 hour ago
The Trump administrationâs rollback of environmental programs and policies has set Colorado back about a year in achieving its goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the state's energy director tells
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Trump policies have set back Coloradoâs greenhouse gas reduction goals, state says
Federal repeals of environmental programs and polices are setting the state back about a year in achieving its emissions goals, said Will Toor, executive director of the Colorado Energy Office.
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/colorado-greenhouse-gas-reduction-trump-epa/
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Climate News
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âAt no time in history are the good guys shooting kidsâ
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Larry Tenney âđ
1 day ago
Former Ohio State athletes want creep billionaire Les Wexner's name removed from athletic facilities Wexner has ties to Epstein & a
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Former Ohio State athletes demand removal of Leslie Wexner's name from Woody Hayes facility
YouTube video by WBNS 10TV
https://youtu.be/u29r-FD7kQc?si=42y6yjgAde-NAPPh
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Mike Quigley
about 1 hour ago
Gregory Bovino and Trump's reign of terror have returned. I'm fighting to bring it to an end.
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Just Kevin
about 1 hour ago
After seeing this you'll understand why there are so many wind turbines in Wyoming.
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More Perfect Union
about 4 hours ago
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
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Robinson Meyer
2 days ago
People say youâre driving a moral panic, that youâre blocking good regulation, that thereâs no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively):
nymag.com/intelligence...
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How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens in New York have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation, board games, and poker.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-new-york-public-school-phone-ban-saved-high-school.html
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UNITED24 Media
about 4 hours ago
âĄïžPresident Zelenskyy met with Polish PM Tusk, thanked Poland for backing the EUâs âŹ90B loan. Tusk said Ukraineâs fight is a shared fight for all of Europe.
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Kyle Griffin
about 4 hours ago
Deputy AG Blanche just said the Trump DOJ will miss the Epstein files deadline. He says "several hundred thousand" docs will be released today, "and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more." All files are required by law to be released today.
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Matt Dunlap
about 4 hours ago
Here's my response to Trump's endorsement of Paul LePage last night. In short: I handled Trump and I'll handle Paul too.
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George Joseph
about 4 hours ago
UnitedHealth sued The Guardian after we reported on bonuses it paid nursing homes that cut hospital transfers for seniors. We kept reporting. Now weâre publishing this on allegations that delayed or denied transfers led to the deaths of nursing home residents:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/17/unitedhealth-nursing-homes
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner
about 6 hours ago
The Alliance Defending Freedom helped to overturn abortion rights in America. Now they are bringing the blueprint that has been very successful here around the world, with a special focus on Europe
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Conservative legal group aims to export its rightwing Christian mission beyond US borders
Alliance Defending Freedom has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns to push its ultra conservative Christian values
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/conservative-legal-christian-rightwing-group
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Timothy Snyder
about 17 hours ago
This catches something really important. The risk is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.
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1 Angry Grandpa
about 16 hours ago
Married to a US citizen, no record, ICE didn't care. Kidnapped Cell designed for 1 person, but he was in there w 9 others & left there for days, "without access to bunks, bedding, soap, showers, toothbrushes or clean clothes,â virtually no heating while nighttime temps dipped below freezing
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DHS hit with contempt threat by Trump appointee for covering up 'putrid' ICE facility
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump is threatening officials at the Department of Homeland Security with contempt after they refused to turn over photos of conditions in an allegedly "...
https://www.rawstory.com/judge-ice-2674735245/
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Carly Goodman
about 16 hours ago
Itâs concerning that weâre enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
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Chicago Sun-Times
about 17 hours ago
Mr. Siemer, executive director of Mobile Care Chicago, a nonprofit converting RVs into mobile medical units for underserved Chicago communities, died Dec. 13 in a car crash. He was 43.
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Matt Siemer, head of nonprofit that provides free health care in underserved communities, dies at 43
https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2025/12/18/matt-siemer-head-of-nonprofit-that-provides-free-health-care-in-underserved-communities-dies-at-43?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicago.suntimes.com&mrfcid=20251219694476439bbcdf0f64a2ce8f
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Carl Quintanilla
1 day ago
NYT: âIn a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trumpâs election loss.â
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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Will Bunch
about 19 hours ago
I'll be rooting for District 13
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ACLU
1 day ago
ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody. We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
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'I am afraid that I might die here': ICE detainee fears 'imminent death' without lifesaving care, lawyers say
In an emergency motion, attorneys asked a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to two detainees held at the California City Detention Facility.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-17/man-held-at-ice-detention-center-faces
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Reb Coco
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This is a drug commonly prescribed for the pain of urinary tract infections. The fact that thereâs a photo of it in these files is a chilling reminder of one tiny detail of the toll his enterprise took on these young womenâs bodies.
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Chris Hayes
1 day ago
Not going to repost the images, but the first few feature the first paragraph of Lolita written in ink on the skin of a woman (or girl, impossible to tell)
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Just Jill đ
about 19 hours ago
This is great information. I have a feeling we will need this more than we realize.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE đ đŠđ§Fighting Tyranny!
1 day ago
Have you told your low info or MAGA family about this story of
#ICELawlessness
where
#immigration
officers who knew this woman was pregnant forced her on her stomach during detention & put their knee on her! This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others. đ§”
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Raw Story
about 19 hours ago
Rep. Joyce Beatty says she was muted during the Kennedy Center renaming vote. Read the full story at
bit.ly/3YyZ610
#KennedyCenter
#Congress
#Trump
#PoliticalDrama
#Accountability
#Politics
#PoliticalNews
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Chris Vagasky
about 19 hours ago
Particularly Dangerous Situation for fire conditions across much of the Foothills tomorrow. Hopefully we donât see major fire storms.
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Chris Geidner
about 19 hours ago
A Chicago story â a 23-year-old U.S. citizen on his way home from the gym who ended up handcuffed by immigration agents â was in my report yesterday on 100 days of Kavanaugh stops:
www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o...
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Jen McGowan
about 19 hours ago
#1 gross #2 why do these people have so much free time and then choose to do all this horrible shit with it?
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Raw Story
about 22 hours ago
Shocking new target floated in Trump's rebrand crusade: 'Makes Stalin look humble'
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Shocking new target floated in Trump's rebrand crusade: 'Makes Stalin look humble'
WASHINGTON â President Donald Trump's handpicked board of trustees voted on Thursday to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, while allegedly muting the objections of Democratic members of the board and likely in violation of federal law that named the Kennedy Center by sta...
https://bit.ly/4aWWHok
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
about 19 hours ago
Forget about the nonsense stories like the Kennedy Center being renamed or whatever Bari Weiss is doing At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months
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Jon Seidel
about 21 hours ago
By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.
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Scott Horton
about 19 hours ago
Denmark accuses Russia of having carried out two âdestructive and disruptiveâ cyber-attacks in what it describes as âvery clear evidenceâ of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in
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To angreb i Danmark kÊdes direkte sammen med den russiske stat: »Her er det simpelthen blevet for voldsomt«
Med budskabet pÄ torsdagens pressemÞde i forsvarsministeriet sendes der bÄde et signal til Rusland, men ogsÄ til den danske befolkning, vurderer forsker i hybridkrig.
https://www.berlingske.dk/indland/to-angreb-i-danmark-kaedes-direkte-sammen-med-den-russiske-stat-her-er-det-simpelthen-blevet-for-voldsomt
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Governor Newsom Press Office
about 21 hours ago
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Charles GetCovered-ba âĄïž
about 19 hours ago
I had to block 3 responders to this for arguing âfree speechâ or for once again inserting Palestinians into the mir response.
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Maria Popova
about 19 hours ago
Ru is NOT winning. Itâs gradually losing its grip. Itâs time for the West to back Ukraine to win. « Novorossiysk was treated not merely as a fallback, but as a sanctuary â a place where submarines and surface vessels could operate, rearm, and launch strikes..
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Novorossiysk Was Russiaâs Last Sanctuary. It Just Fell.
The Black Sea Has No Safe Harbor Left for Russia
https://open.substack.com/pub/shankarnarayan/p/novorossiysk-was-russias-last-sanctuary?r=8rjoe&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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The Tennessee Holler
1 day ago
REP.
@crockett.house.gov
: âSpeaker Johnson loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership, thatâs cowardice. We are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow.â (Epstein files deadline is Friday)
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow
about 19 hours ago
8yo is angry that Pajama Day stops at 2nd grade. He has written to the principal and started a petition. I think he read
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
âs NYT piece on Thomas Paine.
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Cecilia Keating
about 23 hours ago
@ncar-ral.bsky.social
President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at
#AGU25
Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists
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Jeff Horwitz
about 20 hours ago
It's been a long time since I covered straight finance, but to see analysts -- and Bloomberg -- questioning the reliability of US inflation and labor data like this is remarkable. Strange(r) times ahead, I guess.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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CPI Report With Shutdown Voids Raises Doubts About US Inflation Data
After long-awaited government data showed underlying US inflation cooled to a four-year low in November, economists agreed on at least this much: something was off.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/-swiss-cheese-cpi-report-raises-doubts-about-us-inflation-data?cmpid=eveus&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=251218&utm_campaign=eveus
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Rebecca Solnit
about 20 hours ago
All that said, the Democrats could sell renewables better (and so could the mainstream media, starting with not publishing garbage like this). Not least by preaching the gospel of how cheap it can be. It'll be free in the middle of the day in parts of Australia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offer-free-power-three-hours-dmo/105965472
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Tim Onion
about 20 hours ago
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
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TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tiktok-sale-done-oracle-silver-lake-buyers-1236454493/
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Techdirt
about 22 hours ago
Thousands Tell The Patent Office: Donât Hide Bad Patents From Review We filed our own comment with the USPTO regarding their attempt to weaken the important inter partes review (IPR) process that has been hugely helpful in getting rid of bad patents. Over at EFF, Joe Mullin wrote up an analysis ofâŠ
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Thousands Tell The Patent Office: Donât Hide Bad Patents From Review
We filed our own comment with the USPTO regarding their attempt to weaken the important inter partes review (IPR) process that has been hugely helpful in getting rid of bad patents. Over at EFF, Joe Mullin wrote up an analysis of some of the comments to the USPTO, which we're running here as well. A massive wave of public comments just told the U.S.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/18/thousands-tell-the-patent-office-dont-hide-bad-patents-from-review/
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Adam Klasfeld
about 21 hours ago
"All rise." The judge enters. The next question from the jury: "We desire clarity as to whether or not Judge Dugan needed to know the identity of the arrest warrant â for example, his specific name." The parties disagree as to the answer to the jury's question.
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Karl Bode
about 20 hours ago
Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese. Great job
@schumer.senate.gov
and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
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TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tiktok-sale-done-oracle-silver-lake-buyers-1236454493/
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Adam Klasfeld
about 20 hours ago
Masnica: "How could you intentionally obstruct a warrant for someone if you don't know who it's for?"
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
about 20 hours ago
These two democrats are killing it with this rapid response video to the corrupt Kennedy center name change âvote.â Wow. Keep up the good fight
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