Connections Puzzle #932 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

A “funeral that would never end.” That’s how the CEO of a Florida nursing home characterizes the exodus of 38 immigrant workers, as they lose their temporary protected status. “They’re my best employees.” Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

DeSantis is destroying higher education in Florida. This piece is 100% accurate RE New College. It gave DeSantis a toehold to go after the rest of the system. UF, the flagship, was run into the ground by Ben Sasse. It was exposed by student journalists but never picked up by MSM. K-12 is up next.

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Strands #665 “Load up on tissues” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Gift Link 🎁 The DeSantis admin is notoriously difficult about releasing public records, but the Orlando Sentinel is keeping at it, this time about the covering up of the rainbow crosswalk at Pulse and other public art www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/28/e...

A 2024 ProPublica investigation, built on court and medical records, revealed how Weiner subjected patients who didn’t have cancer to chemotherapy and was believed to have hastened the deaths of more than a half dozen people. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.

Strands #664 “If you ask me ...” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

Every Sunday, protesters from Florida and beyond go to the notorious immigration jail and advocate for its closure

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

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Strands #663 “Please hold” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵

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Strands #661 “Gather around” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Strands #660 “Br-r-r-r-r!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Since Trump took office, officials have transferred ten of the 37 men Biden spared from execution to the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." One prisoner still awaiting transfer has attempted suicide. n.pr/4jaZyvS

Soon after the county announced charges against Clint Massie, the sheriff began receiving calls from alleged victims across the U.S. Two of them, he realized, were sisters. Neither knew what had happened to the other, or that each had come forward. With @startribune.com

None of the flunkies in Trump's Cabinet will dare tell him he's doing math wrong. This is what Mussolini would've acted like if he'd gotten a lobotomy.

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

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Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S. Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.

This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all! 🧵 9 of 9

It's an invisible need… an invisible center… helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I’m haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed that’s so widespread (and sadly, celebrated) in our multi-millionaire and billionaire class. 🧵 5 of 9

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Strands #659 “Pass it along” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Strands #658 “Big bad wolf” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🟡

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Anyone else feel like Pam Bondi is to Trump what Ghislaine Maxwell is to Epstein? 🤔

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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

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Strands #655 “Natural remedies” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

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