One of the great things about the advancing hours on New Year's Eve is it FINALLY means an end to 2025 retrospectives. 🤔 It was bad enough living through it; I really don't need a recap. 😵‍💫

"But the bird is not a bald eagle, it’s a falcon. And it isn’t even in America—the image is from a 2017 Israeli news article detailing birds and bats being killed by windmills" But real research shows painting one of the blades black almost eliminated bird strikes. newrepublic.com/post/204848/...

Blatantly illegal arrests violating protesters 1st Ammendment rights. ICE needs to be abolished! "Border Patrol has been arresting U.S. citizens, according to the agency’s leader." newrepublic.com/post/204835/...

"Donald Trump{...} baselessly asserted on Truth Social Wednesday that Omar was one of the scammers sucking up undue funds." newrepublic.com/post/204837/...

😡🤬 www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...

The Stepford Wives with the "Joker" smile. www.rawstory.com/trump-surger...

I guess since he has 34 felonies that any Republican with less than that should automatically go free. "May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETTERS!" www.rawstory.com/trump-hell-t...

"Maryland ends the year with almost 15,000 fewer federal jobs than it had at the start of the year, according to the latest estimates from the Maryland Department of Labor." www.rawstory.com/maryland-tru...

"In a scathing{...}order, California Judge Trina Thompson found that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not go through the proper federal procedures to end the designations for Temporary Protected Status for those three nations." www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

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"The report noted that it is already illegal to spend federal dollars on abortion care. Even so, Planned Parenthood uses its federal funding to provide STI tests, cancer screenings and the provision of contraception, according to the report." www.rawstory.com/trump-267484...

"The cuts {...}will jeopardize the health and wellbeing of millions of people, threaten small businesses, and undermine one of the last truly robust safety net programs that remains for struggling Americans." newrepublic.com/article/2048...

A fair question

Geez, talk about obscene!

He's literally destroying the government. www.rawstory.com/white-house-...

"The chaos at the SSA started in February when the Trump administration announced plans to lay off 7,000 SSA employees, or roughly 12% of the total workforce." www.rawstory.com/social-secur...

"'So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela,' Goodman wrote in a post on X. 'And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not.'" www.rawstory.com/trump-267483...

"'visitors have filled the guestbook with objections' since the plaques came down earlier this year at the visitor center for the American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands." www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...

"Trump was spotted freezing momentarily as he spoke with Israel's prime minister, which James has suggested is a sign of growing pressure for the president." www.rawstory.com/trump-netany...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones threatened to surround the White House with 5,000 people to convince President Donald Trump to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel and replace them with people who will indict members of the so-called deep state. www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-w...

"The consequences of Kennedy’s appointment{...} [ have been] severe: Historically eradicated diseases have reemerged, killing children; Medicaid recipients have lost their health coverage; and Kennedy has slashed some 20,000 staffers in a massive restructuring" newrepublic.com/article/2044...

"The CIA carried out a drone strike bombing on Venezuelan soil last week, making it the first U.S. attack inside the country that we know of." And the CIA was not authorized by Congress to do so. newrepublic.com/post/204796/...

"For roughly the past 20 years, private equity firms have been on a buying spree of health care businesses, like hospitals, surgical centers, physician practices, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and hospices." newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Semiconductor manufacturing is always going to require supply chains that have off-shore components. Diversity for every source is required due to natural disaster risks and political risks. www.manufacturingdive.com/news/kpmg-su...

Legalization of discrimination "Dhillon promised the Trump administration would bring 'numerous investigations and lawsuits against institutions that continue to offend our federal civil rights laws.'" 'Either DEI will end on its own,' {...} 'or we will kill it.'" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I think the inability of the vast and overwhelming majority of Americans to hold national office creates a de facto upper class that has that access, and an underclass. This, I think, engenders the disengagement most Americans feel towards politics.

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😡 Not just sounds like, it is a concentration camp. One that prevents the incarcerated from access to legal representation, religious leaders, and families. There is no civilian oversight and the press has no access to verify conditions inside.

Very, very(not just very), accurate

Oddly accurate analogy

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Another one..

😡 ICE needs to be abolished!

"In a fundraising email circulated Monday, Donald Trump told his supporters that Democrats would steal their “tariff rebate checks” if they didn’t donate money to him within the hour." newrepublic.com/post/204794/...