After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Epstein, with his friends, faced/ face allegations of committing serious crimes involving little boys and girls, including rape, sex, S&M, bondage, and sex trafficking, allegedly creating explicit sex film content, with reports suggesting victims were subjected to physical and psychological abuse.

NEW: The Guardian says a 2023 DOJ dump included an MCC-guard email confirming “It appeared [Epstein] mailed [a note] out [to Nassar] and it was returned back to him. I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?” DOJ hasn’t explained how this was “faked.”

Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.

Here. A freezing bubble

Thousands March Against Trump In Freezing Weather open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%. The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion. Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024. Nothing trickled down.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

tЯump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military. The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now. This is blatant corruption...

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

American Veteran @realjakebroe.bsky.social on how Trump's negotiations with russia weren't for peace they were for money for him and his grifting family. America just lifted sanctions on companies supplying the russian military. Republicans LIE youtu.be/SSDH5Q4A6bk?...

Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund

USAID was not dismantled by accident. It was a deliberate hit job by the Christian right, backed and financed by Heritage Foundation. Strip the language of charity away and what remains is ideology, power, and control.

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

The merger between the Trump Media & Technology Group and TAE Technologies comes after President Trump signed an executive order seeking to bar states from regulating artificial intelligence and the energy-intensive data centers needed to power AI.

When the GOP wasn't evil.

"This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June" www.science.org/content/arti...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

WOW: Fox News reports that the DOJ used the same redaction standards for “politically exposed individuals and government officials” as it did for victims.

Big Oil is selling the promise of “low-carbon data centers” using carbon capture, reports @emdashsanders.bsky.social. But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."

Call or message to impeach and prosecute Pam Bondi and AG Blanche for violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and participating in a criminal cover up. #3E Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Representatives: www.house.gov/representati... Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Regarding Epstein files: It’s time to start arresting people, but who’s going to arrest them when they run DOJ? What a freaking mess!

Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!

Monthly global climate data update from @metoffice.gov.uk HadCRUT5 for the month of November 2025. Third hottest month of November since 1850. #climate datagraver.com/climate-data...

The $1,776 Checks for Troops Trump Claimed Were ‘Because of Tariffs’ Are Actually Congressionally-Allocated Housing Allowances He takes every opportunity to twist things to his favor. That’s why you have to check him on everything.

Home Depot is providing us with yet another reason to never shop at Home Depot. Lowes invests in the local community and works with a wide variety of social support groups. Home Depot's top execs and shareholders, in contrast, dump millions into Trump's campaigns and actively support ICE.

It’s no wonder Trump won’t release all the Epstein files.

The Conversation: Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before Published: December 18, 2025 6:01am EST https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-warnings-are-being-ignored-ive-seen-this-pattern-before-271765 #flu #influenza #pandemic #health

I love how the cybersecurity community consensus on this story is generally that the company deserved getting compromised for being so abusive and intrusive to their workers. www.tomshardware.com/tech-ind... Monitoring keystroke latency is an ADA complaint waiting to happen.

Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee. Will Jordan release the video to the public? If not, why not?

Economists estimated a 3.1% rise.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

"The big lie behind the PolluterPage’s fossil fuel nonsense here is that clean energy is more expensive. It’s not. It’s less expensive than fossil fuel, even with all fossil fuel’s massive subsidies. Just look at the “generation stack” of any grid operator.

ENDLESS CORRUPTION: “Democratic lawmakers have asked the Commerce Department’s inspector general to review whether Secretary Howard Lutnick improperly promoted artificial intelligence data center projects that could enrich his family members…” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

More worries than Epstein? Raskin: Jack Smith testimony “would have been absolutely devastating to the president and all the president’s men involved in the insurrectionary activities” of 1/6.

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Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has instructed the FBI to place bounties on trans activists promoting “radical gender ideology,” a leaked memo suggests. www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/17/p...

Reminder‼️ALL ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula is currently recalled due to an outbreak of infant botulism. As of Dec 12, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertsons were still stocking this formula. Do not buy it. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...