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This newspaper used to win Pulitzers and now it’s tweeting to basically no audience at all
January 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"The Blue Road to Trump Hell": Norm Solomon on "How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy" www.democracynow.org/2025/12/31/d...
“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the…
www.democracynow.org
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 PM
United Farm Workers Has Unionized Eight Farms Under 2023 CA Law. Here’s Where portside.org/2025-12-30/u...
United Farm Workers Has Unionized Eight Farms Under 2023 CA Law. Here’s Where
Agricultural workers at eight California-based growers, packing houses and greenhouses have unionized since a 2023 state law made it easier for farmworkers to vote for union representation. Between…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Sanders Backs Push for Billionaire Tax in California As Newsom Raises Money To Fight It portside.org/2025-12-31/s...
Sanders Backs Push for Billionaire Tax in California As Newsom Raises Money To Fight It
US Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday endorsed an effort in California to impose a one-time tax on the wealth of the state’s billionaires, a grassroots campaign that has drawn opposition from Democratic…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 2:57 AM
I Served the B52s room service around this time in the Tampa hotel where I worked. They were great, but not as memorable as serving Tiny Tim, who was NOT dead. Yet.
If you need something later to send this year packing, and in light of the various MTV music-only channels worldwide shutting down, why not when the B-52s put paid to the 1980s as a whole? (This was recorded November 1989 for later broadcast, but hey, you do what you can.)
B 52s - (Live MTV New Years 1990 Full Show)
YouTube video by VHS Music Rarities
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January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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“Part-owner Umi Hassan said she lived here right after 9/11 and didn’t feel as marginalized and fearful as she does today. She’s unable to sleep at night and carries her passport everywhere.

Tears running down her face, she asked, “What else can I do to be an American?””
January 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
That's actually now the Donald J. Trump and Washington Monument.
I’m currently at the Washington Monument:
January 1, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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The billionaire Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon has confirmed the agency will notify about a thousand student loan borrowers of plans to withhold a portion of their paycheck starting the week of January 7th. The number of notices will then increase every month for the rest of next year.
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options www.democracynow.org/2025/12/30/s...
Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile…
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December 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess www.democracynow.org/2025/12/30/a...
Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to…
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December 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth
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Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth
With the arrival of our first trillionaire fast approaching, America’s democracy is hanging by a thread.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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From the USPLA via Instagram:

Tonight was our final bargaining session of 2025. With the CBA set to expire tomorrow and no agreement reached - we wanted to speak directly to you - the fans.

You've probably seen bits and pieces of this process along the way. So we wrote this letter for you:
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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We don't have a government. We have a bunch of guys who heard things on social media.
We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration says it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This is monstrous. He wants to turn the residents of the state against Walz and against the Somali-American population.
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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This is the new pizzagate, caravans, eating the dogs and cats. Buckle up.
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Wrote up today's ruling effectively telling Russ Vought that if he stops seeking funding for the CFPB while under an injunction to keep the agency open, he'll be in contempt.
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Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order If He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB - The American Prospect
Overview: Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a fe...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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i may write about this but i feel like the 19th century concept of "social equality" explains quite a bit about reactionary politics today, they're offended by a society that does not recognize their higher status, which is how we get turd coinages like "heritage american" bsky.app/profile/last...
I actually find this reassuring given how low that is, it's less than would have thought tbh. That said the strange group of people given this who are like "nothing personal bruv but you gotta go" to the ethnic-minority good-British-citizens is pretty funny to me.
"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy
The thread of partisan power and control is stitched through America’s public...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM