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Seth Cotlar
about 4 hours ago
Jo Ann Allen Boyce's life was disrupted not only by standard-issue US white supremacy, but also by a particularly virulent strain of American fascism. School integration in Clinton, TN began fairly peaceably, until a neo-Nazi associate of George Lincoln Rockwell named John Kaspar showed up.
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Nicholas Grossman
about 16 hours ago
JD Vance argues that having Muslims makes the UK and France too dangerous to have nukes, which will be great for US relations with India and Pakistan. So if youβre keeping track, the Trump administrationβs position on nuclear arms is: North Korea: cool, nonthreatening France and UK: bad, dangerous
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Rima I Anabtawi
about 11 hours ago
The Permian produces 5 million barrels of oil a day. That requires millions of barrels of water, which are injected into the ground. It can't go on much longer.
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Americaβs Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillersβ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/americas-biggest-oil-field-is-turning-into-a-pressure-cooker-8a1bfe4e
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Adam Kinzinger
9 days ago
Just to be clear. Itβs the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like itβs still the department of defense
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elias isquith
about 6 hours ago
i am not going to pretend thereβs a debate about what heritage american means. there is not. the debate over whether thereβs a debate is a means of infiltration and normalization. if we are going to debate this then we must also debate if 2 and 2 make 5. itβs no less obviously stupid and malignant.
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Sarah Posner
about 4 hours ago
"villagers say Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority."
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ICEBlock Official
about 16 hours ago
Seems there is yet another app using the ICEBlock logo and charging people for access. Itβs called ICEBlocker and it is not us. DO NOT DOWNLOAD or pay. Best we can tell is itβs Russian. We would never ask for money.
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Nicholas Grossman
about 5 hours ago
In 2025, the US launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS in Syria, alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, plus Iranβs nuclear program. Now some into Nigeria. All killed people and damaged things, but none appear to have achieved anything lasting.
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Opinion | The logic isn't apparent in Trump's strikes in Nigeria
Nicholas Grossman: Add Nigeria to the list of countries Trump has bombed this year
https://www.ms.now/opinion/nigeria-strikes-isis-trump-military-evangelicals-christians
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Taniel
about 4 hours ago
Until Trump began conspiracies about mail voting, Republicans were fully on board with GRACE PERIODS for ballots to arrive as long as postmarked by Election Day. They passed it overwhelmingly in KS, OH, & elsewhere. But now Trump hates it. So 4 red statesβKS, OH, ND, UTβall banned it this year.
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Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trumpβs Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
https://boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-grace-periods-for-mail-ballots/
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emptywheel
about 4 hours ago
This piece cites 13 insightful pieces on Miller from this year, plus a bunch of other stories that mention Miller's pathologies (such as how he views the murderboat campaign as an opportunity to make Latinos look criminal).
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/27/w...
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We Don't Know How Stephen Miller Fails - emptywheel
There have been a flood of profiles that describe how powerful Stephen Miller is. None have described how he experienced his biggest policy setback.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/27/we-dont-know-how-when-stephen-miller-fails/
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Mark Jacob
about 4 hours ago
With the recently released details of Steve Bannon's chummy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, I'm re-upping this newsletter from last month about how major media give their version of a "pardon" when they fail to mention the criminal pasts of people like Bannon.
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How the media βpardonβ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-the-media-pardon-political-criminals
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NPR
about 4 hours ago
Russia attacked Ukraine's capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, killing one and wounding over 20 people a day before talks between Ukraine and the U.S., local authorities said.
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Russia attacks Kyiv, killing 1 and wounding many ahead of Ukraine-US talks
Russia attacked Ukraine's capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, killing one and wounding over 20 people a day before talks between Ukraine and the U.S., local authorities said.
https://n.pr/4979HoU
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Mark Anthony Frassetto
about 4 hours ago
It should be a warning to any of the schools considering settling with Trump. Brown gave him everything he asked for and then Trump, like the Mafia boss he is, saw weakness and came back for more.
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emptywheel
about 5 hours ago
Between raids like this and the stubborn abuse of Jim Comey and Dan Richman's 4A rights, it's clear the remedies for deliberate abuse need to be expanded.
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Library of Congress
about 4 hours ago
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to try new things, but you haven't been to Live! at the Library yet, come see us in January to enjoy our extended Thursday night hours!
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Explore the Creation of βOzβ and Experience Poetry and Music During Live! At the Library in January
Explore the Creation of βOzβ and Experience Poetry and Music DuringLive! At the Library in JanuarySpecial Displays Mark 125th Anniversary of βThe Wizard of Ozβ and 250th Anniversary of the U.S....
https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/explore-the-creation-of--oz--and-experience-poetry-and-music-during-live--at-the-library-in-january/s/e06f907a-9ae9-430b-9c46-522a7a272160?loclr=blsky
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Pam Keith
about 4 hours ago
The people who claim that we shouldnβt have free school lunches because people with means may abuse it, are the same ones advocating to take public school funds and give them to rich people to send their kids of private schools. Make that make sense. Fucking ridiculous hypocrites.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 5 hours ago
WATCH β
@rokhanna.bsky.social
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@cwebbonline.com
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Justin Wolfers
about 6 hours ago
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a βfantastic year.β
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Jon Cooper
about 5 hours ago
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesnβt like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
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Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesnβt like their speech.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/marco-rubio-imran-ahmed-thierry-breton-censorship
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Catherine Rampell
1 day ago
RIP First Amendment
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Ian Stade
2 days ago
"By making life for trans youth too difficult to bear, the GOP is hellbent on a genocide by suicide."
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The Party of βParental Rightsβ Just Took a Terrifying Step Toward Stripping Mine and Putting My Childβs Life in Danger
This week, parents across the country are frightenedβand furious.
https://slate.com/life/2025/12/gop-trump-transgender-youth-health-care-medicaid-ban.html
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Mueller, She Wrote
2 days ago
Iβm going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and Iβm gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
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The Tennessee Holler
2 days ago
βMiss, do you agree with the sign?β βAbsolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in womenβs bodies she was forced to deliver the fetusβ¦ thereβs a reason God created medicine.βπ₯
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Tom von Alten
1 day ago
It's pathetic. And tragic, for the generational damage being done while the pathos unfolds, and the smash and grab looting proceeds. The Vanity Project Presidency
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The Vanity Project Presidency
A White House ballroom, the Trump-Kennedy Center, a Trump class warship, all utterly unreal and all in service to a very needy, very small man
https://open.substack.com/pub/marccjohnson/p/the-vanity-project-presidency?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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1 day ago
Great. Again.
#idpol
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Idaho rural schools face loss of $30 million grant funds supporting critical services, resources to rural schools
Idaho schools lose $30M in remaining federal grant funds 3 years early. An appeal has been filed to keep the resource program and 60 full-time staff in place.
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho-rural-schools-face-loss-of-30-million-grant-funds/277-d4aa9ef8-229b-4c3a-a525-bd5c50ca6059?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KTVB
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Michael D
1 day ago
Coming soon to the US
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Rachel Maddow
1 day ago
March 24, 1945
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Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
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Bill Madden
1 day ago
With ZERO fucks left to give, Caroline Kennedy, throws down the gauntlet on the loathsome piece of shit for his desecration of The Kennedy Center. π³π
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Tina Kotek
1 day ago
Happy Kwanzaa to all Oregonians celebrating! May these seven days of reflection bring unity, purpose, and joy to you and your families.
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Nigeria Clarifies What Really Happened With Trumpβs Airstrikes
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Nigeria Clarifies What Really Happened With Trumpβs Airstrikes
The Nigerian foreign ministry is fact-checking Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204748/nigeria-trump-us-airstrikes
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Amy Klobuchar
1 day ago
As 2025 comes to a close, I wrote about the challenges we face and the work ahead. Government must work for people. That means more housing, health and child care as well as more accountability and less chaos and high costs. Thatβs my North Star for 2026.
www.postbulletin.com/opinion/colu...
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar: A look back at '25, and priorities for the year ahead
As 2025 draws to a close and Minnesotans enjoy a holiday season filled with family, friends, and, yes, snow, I wanted to take stock of what weβve accomplished this year, reflect on some of the challen...
https://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/columns/sen-amy-klobuchar-a-look-back-at-25-and-priorities-for-the-year-ahead
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David Rothschild
1 day ago
US President is an obviously disturbed person (beyond corrupt, uninformed, authoritarian, incompetent). Everyone around the world knows this, except many Americans, because Corporate Media *sanewashes* him.
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Sisyphus Idaho
1 day ago
@boisestate.bsky.social
professor Scott Yenor joins the Heritage Foundation, the author of Project 2025. This comes during turmoil at the organization precipitated by the Tucker Carlson interview of the NAZI, Nick Fuentes.
#idpol
www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/e...
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Boise State prof with controversial views on women lands at influential think tank
Scott Yenor is known for his comments calling independent women βmeddlesome and quarrelsomeβ and advocating against feminism.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article313752800.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawO7guRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeA06oXvl0P4AOn7c9j7zcmKhk3l50hCPEhw9KTy-30Poh4s75EYluUYYzAAI_aem_zuSvCkLisK02SrVPxILb-A
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Lev Parnas
1 day ago
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BREAKING: Trump & Zelensky Meeting at Mar-a-Lago Sunday
My sources say Zelensky is being pressuredβwhile Russia gets rewarded and Ukraine gets boxed in.
https://open.substack.com/pub/levremembers/p/breaking-trump-and-zelensky-meeting?r=lb27z&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Joe Walsh
1 day ago
How Trump βtested executive power?β Huh? Are you serious? Trump is a fascist. He took a blowtorch to the Constitution, the rule of law, checks & balances, separation of powers, democracy, & basic human decency. And Congress let him. Thatβs way more than βtesting executive power.β
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Brennan Center
1 day ago
Court rulings have made it easier for states like Texas to strategically delay the introduction of gerrymandered maps in order to make it harder for lawsuits to challenge them in time.
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The Supreme Court Messes with Texasβs Voting Map
The ruling leaves Texans voting using a racially discriminatory congressional map in 2026.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-messes-texass-voting-map
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Amanda Frost
16 days ago
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
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The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5757102
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Don Moynihan
5 days ago
New, at Can We Still Govern? Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it. A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. π§΅
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
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What have we learned about child poverty in America?
Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-we-learned-about-child
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Dr. Todd Arrington
1 day ago
For your reading pleasure today,
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
offers not only the history of the American version of Santa Claus, but also a James A. Garfield mention! βLetters from an Americanβ is truly the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.
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December 25, 2025
The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863, when he stopped at an army camp of Union soldiers in the January 3 issue of Harperβs Weekly. Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa w...
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-25-2025?r=2lsocm&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Bob Lawrence π
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Never stop learning.π
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Mother Jones
1 day ago
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition [via
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The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition
Cobalt, lithium, and other minerals are being stockpiled at the expense of climate action, a new report warns.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-pentagon-is-hoarding-critical-minerals-that-could-power-the-clean-energy-transition
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Julian Sanchez
2 days ago
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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Brandon Friedman
1 day ago
Duckworth: "I love our military too much to let it be abused by a tinpot dictator who was never brave enough to serve in uniform himself. I will not be complicit in a five-time draft dodgerβs efforts to use our troops to intimidate our neighbors rather than our adversaries."
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Opinion | Iβm a veteran and a U.S. senator. Hereβs why I voted against the Defense Authorization bill.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., writes that she could not support the National Defense Authorization Act and help enable President Donald Trump to continue misusing U.S. troops.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-defense-authorization-ndaa-national-guard-tammy-duckworth
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Carl Quintanilla
1 day ago
β.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..β
@nytimes.com
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Jack Womack
2 days ago
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A Minor Observation About the Epstein Files Release
When Congress passed the Epstein Files law, the common and undoubtedly correct...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-minor-observation-about-the-epstein-files-release
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YubaNet
2 days ago
165,370 customers are out of power in CA. Now's a good time to thank everyone working today i.e. first responders (including dispatchers) hospital staff, public works, utility workers. If you're feeling really generous, include the local news outlets that keep you updated
yubanet.com/featured/now/
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emptywheel
1 day ago
Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence
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Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence - emptywheel
I have no doubt that Todd Blanche's actions will one day amount primarily to a cover-up -- such as when he is eventually cornered about his actions to silence Ghislaine Maxwell. But thus far, the chao...
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/much-of-todd-blanches-perceived-cover-up-is-actually-incompetence/
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Just Jack
1 day ago
He let loose almost 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day. Youβd think someone would have wrestled his phone away after 20, 40 or even a hundred posts. They know heβs too far gone. They also know he wonβt escape the Epstein fallout. Theyβre letting him make his case for the 25th amendment.
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Carl Quintanilla
1 day ago
KIMMEL, to the UK: β.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. Weβre going through a bit of a wobble right now, but weβll come around. .. Give us about three years.β
@jimmykimmel.com
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Kevin M. Kruse
1 day ago
This is why itβs so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe
@rauchway.bsky.social
calls these βhistorical urban legendsβ
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