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It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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“US National Security” is now defined entirely as maximized profit for Trump and his billionaire oligarch co-conspirators.
Trump: We need Greenland for national security. We have to have it.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Germany's Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius: “The only person who can immediately stop the war is Putin. Despite the efforts of Americans, Europeans, and Ukrainians to achieve a ceasefire, there are no signals from Moscow that Putin is interested in ending the war.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Trump: We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population. They say Denmark, but Denmark has no military protection. They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago with a boat—well, we were there with boats too I’m sure.
December 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Weiss's shtick of saying "shouldn't we unpack this further?" when someone has been summarily detained in a foreign gulag but refusing to say "shouldn't we unpack this further?" when desperate parents are sending their children to get a rare form of controversial healthcare is so effing grating
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Stop using half of it for alfalfa in the desert? It's the Dril candles tweet, but alfalfa.
For months, the seven states of the Colorado River basin have failed to reach an agreement on new rules to share the river’s dwindling supply of water.

The current rules expire next year, risking water supply and power generation.
The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis. No one has a solution.
The Colorado River faces a crisis as seven states struggle to agree on water-sharing rules.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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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…
December 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Boston's new protected bike lanes are “reducing crashes, improving predictability, and expanding mobility options without increasing congestion. Protected bike infrastructure works. This is exactly the kind of evidence-based policymaking our city needs.”
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-w...
Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down
Mayor Michelle Wu's ran on more protected bike lanes around the city to satisfy a perceived demand for better cycling infrastructure.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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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?
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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42. Point is, markets and existing regulatory structures also know that no source is available 24/7/365 and manage the grid accordingly. They don't learn anything from Yglesias insight about nighttime and you didn't either.
December 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Amazing documentation of the irresponsible and unlawful tactics use by ICE. Outrageous they defend the tactics. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens
A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

We may be getting to a point, thanks to the battery revolution, where replacing the capacity value of a coal plant may be easier than replacing its energy value.
Xcel doubles down on plan to swap coal for clean power in Minnesota
With demand rising and tax credits expiring, the utility wants to rapidly expand the batteries and solar it’s building near the shuttering Sherco coal…
www.canarymedia.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Trump touts his economic agenda in rambling North Carolina rally speech
Trump touts his economic agenda in rambling North Carolina rally speech
Trump touts his economic agenda in rambling North Carolina rally speech
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Walking in nature reduces activity in the brain region linked to sadness and rumination.

A psychologist on why active rest periods—not couch time—are what actually restore us during the holidays. buff.ly/ls00al0
Rest is essential during the holidays, but it may mean getting active, not crashing on the couch
Unwinding can be hard during the holidays for many reasons. Building in time to recharge through active leisure can help.
theconversation.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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TRUMP: Enough of me telling you how great I am. Now I want to hear all of you tell me how great I am.
jesus -- they're forcing the pharma CEOs to go to the podium and kiss Trump's ass
December 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Crews are set to blow up the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Implosion will take down a nearly century-old Mississippi River bridge
Crews are set to blow up the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge bridge over the Mississippi River. The implosion Friday will bring a dramatic end to the riveted cantilever bridge between Iowa and Wisconsin.
bit.ly
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The winds in Colorado/Wyoming are insane.

@mikezaccardi.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Today, the Financial Services Committee considered legislation to block credit card companies from using a specific code to identify gun retailers. These codes are applied to nearly every other type of business.

It should be opposed by anyone who cares about preventing Americans from being shot.
December 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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A once-in-a-generation investment that benefits everyone in our state.

Today, I’m proud to sign the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act into law.

Our new regional authority will modernize Illinois’ transit systems — and we’re doing it with no new statewide taxes.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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HERITAGE FOUNDATION: "Nice state ya got there. Pity if anything happened to it."

INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off."
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Disrespectful and insulting.

According to Donald Trump, nursing isn't a professional degree.

The bottom line? The entire nation, including Illinois, needs more nurses — this decision makes it even harder than ever for them to get the support they need.
Trump Administration Moves to Exclude Nursing From Professional Degrees, Set New Student Loan Limits
The proposal has drawn pushback from the nursing community, which argues the reclassification could limit students’ financial access to advanced nursing degrees.
news.wttw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM