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The December 2009 assassination of Honduran counternarcotics czar Gral. Julián Arístides González Irías (ret.) was planned and executed by the Honduran National Police to protect a cocaine pipeline to the U.S. and a sprawling international web of corruption. www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/w...

America's gun psychopathy continues: *478* mass shootings so far in 2025. 💔😡💔#GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 3 people wounded and the suspect killed, in Shoshone Co., Idaho: abcnews.go.com/US/report-ac...

“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t 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.” Via @mmasnick.bsky.social

More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

There is always money for wars & deaths Never enough to save lives www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

When are we ever going to learn?

Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received money in 2018 from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures—said his nonprofit would produce a white paper about building a charter city in Venezuela in the event of a change in power. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis... (If they produced it, I can’t find it.)

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SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

CANADA SAVES THE DAY! #60Minutes

Follow the money: In 2018, Tyler Cowen’s Emergent Ventures—launched that year with $1M from the THIEL FOUNDATION—bestowed a grant upon the Center for Innovative Governance Research DBA the “Charter Cities Institute” founded by Mark Lutter who is now a top proponent of Trump “FREEDOM CITIES”. 1/

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

People are dying inside American concentration camps right now. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

Mudslide closes part of #Vancouver's Stanley Park Seawall after heavy rains Officials are asking people to avoid the area www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Israeli air strike hits southern Lebanon despite ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-strike-hits-southern-lebanon-despite-ceasefire

"I’ve been reporting on the criminal justice system for more than a decade and have spent time in cities with a lot of law enforcement. I’ve also lived in an authoritarian country overseas, yet I’ve never experienced a police presence like this." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond. truthout.org/articles/pol...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head. That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

For the evening crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social on the calls for more restorative justice options for survivors of sexual violence #cdnlaw #cdnpoli

This is some really bleak shit, folks. Take a hard look at your president.

Hell no, Emily. Never ever. And why am I even getting this when it's not election time?

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.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20...

The “Warrior Dividend” Trump announced during his televised address to the nation is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested. The $1,776 payments to troops come from a congressionally-approved housing supplement — money they were already set to receive

“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Quite appropriate?

In an amazing coincidence, the size of Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center is exactly equal to the total size of all the redactions of his name from the Epstein Files.

Nice @boingboing.net post about the Nerd Reich podcast: “…Connects threads that often get treated as separate stories.” “The takeaway is a billionaire class that promises utopia while building escape routes from the society they're breaking.” boingboing.net/2025/12/19/t...

JFK’s niece: h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

The US sided with regressive countries to strip LGBT inclusion from a UN disability bill 😣 The original text simply noted that persons with disabilities experience amplified barriers when their disability interacts with diverse contexts, such as sexual orientation and gender identity.

even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them

Bethany Kozma equates abortion with "murder" and campaigns against gender-affirming care. Yet she's the new global health diplomat for the U.S. Advocates fear that the U.S. may expand the Helms Amendment beyond prohibiting abortion funding abroad, to prohibit funding for LGBTQ+ health as well.

She didn't get the required face job done.

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

😂😂😂 clever

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

ICE whistles work.

Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/