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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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BREAKING: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied DOGE's effort to prevent turning over much needed—and long overdue—information to CREW on its structure and operations.
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
DC Circuit unanimously denies DOGE effort to block discovery in CREW FOIA lawsuit - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously denied DOGE's latest attempt to prevent discovery in CREW's lawsuit.
www.citizensforethics.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
BREAKING: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied DOGE's effort to prevent turning over much needed—and long overdue—information to CREW on its structure and operations.
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
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So the sources “risked their lives” to speak with 60 Minutes about this concentration camp we’re sending random people to, and Bari killed the story because the Trump administration refused an interview. Am I missing something??
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So the sources “risked their lives” to speak with 60 Minutes about this concentration camp we’re sending random people to, and Bari killed the story because the Trump administration refused an interview. Am I missing something??
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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Last year, one-term Rep. Anthony D’Esposito lost after adding his mistress to his official payroll.
This year, Republicans made him the inspector general at the Dept of Labor, where he’ll be expected to investigate ethical lapses — despite his own ethical lapses. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
This year, Republicans made him the inspector general at the Dept of Labor, where he’ll be expected to investigate ethical lapses — despite his own ethical lapses. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Republicans confirm scandal-plagued former congressman to serve as an inspector general
Anthony D’Esposito will be expected to investigate ethical lapses, despite his own alleged ethical lapses.
www.ms.now
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last year, one-term Rep. Anthony D’Esposito lost after adding his mistress to his official payroll.
This year, Republicans made him the inspector general at the Dept of Labor, where he’ll be expected to investigate ethical lapses — despite his own ethical lapses. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
This year, Republicans made him the inspector general at the Dept of Labor, where he’ll be expected to investigate ethical lapses — despite his own ethical lapses. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima reut.rs/44Bhw4T
Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima
The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country's pivot back to nuclear since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima reut.rs/44Bhw4T
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Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:
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CBS has removed the video preview on social sites it controls, but at least for now, you can still see a very small bit of the pre-emoted story via Yahoo. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
December 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
CBS has removed the video preview on social sites it controls, but at least for now, you can still see a very small bit of the pre-emoted story via Yahoo. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
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Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.
H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.
H-1B holders who returned to India this month to renew their visas had consular appointments canceled, stranding them far from their homes and jobs, lawyers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.
‘I am highly skeptical of whether this administration actually cares about Jewish people,’ says lawyer involved
www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutors-...
www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutors-...
9 prosecutors quit US Justice Department en masse over ‘sham’ UC antisemitism probe
'I am highly skeptical of whether this administration actually cares about Jewish people,' says lawyer involved in investigating Jew hatred at University of California schools
www.timesofisrael.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
‘I am highly skeptical of whether this administration actually cares about Jewish people,’ says lawyer involved
www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutors-...
www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutors-...
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Ukraine's Fire Point company produces 200 drones daily at secret factories. Its FP1 and FP2 drones conduct 60% of Ukraine's long-range strikes at $50,000 each - a third the cost of Russian Shahed drones, the BBC reported.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Ukraine's Fire Point company produces 200 drones daily at secret factories. Its FP1 and FP2 drones conduct 60% of Ukraine's long-range strikes at $50,000 each - a third the cost of Russian Shahed drones, the BBC reported.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.
This WaPo piece weaves together an incredibly powerful story about the way Trump has devastated government and the dedicated people who wake up every day to serve the public. wapo.st/4b14KAy
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.
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The significance: DOJ had insisted to the judge for weeks that acting USA Robert McGuire alone made the decision to indict Abrego Garcia, which should foreclose any inquiry into the role of Main Justice. But internal DOJ docs now show otherwise, the judge apparently found in the still-sealed order.
December 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The significance: DOJ had insisted to the judge for weeks that acting USA Robert McGuire alone made the decision to indict Abrego Garcia, which should foreclose any inquiry into the role of Main Justice. But internal DOJ docs now show otherwise, the judge apparently found in the still-sealed order.
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Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Andrey Klintsevich argued that Russia doesn't need a peace deal and will disabuse Europeans of the notion that they can contain Moscow when Russian troops show up on the border of the EU.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
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Military expert Andrey Klintsevich argues Russia does not need a peace deal
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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December 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Andrey Klintsevich argued that Russia doesn't need a peace deal and will disabuse Europeans of the notion that they can contain Moscow when Russian troops show up on the border of the EU.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
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Okay that's a pretty good spot
December 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Okay that's a pretty good spot
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‼️🇺🇸 Putin personally chose Witkoff as the key negotiator with the U,S — WSJ.
Russian-American contacts started at the beginning of the year after the crown prince of Saudi Arabia gave Witkoff a signal from the Kremlin. It said that Putin wanted to meet with him personally.
Russian-American contacts started at the beginning of the year after the crown prince of Saudi Arabia gave Witkoff a signal from the Kremlin. It said that Putin wanted to meet with him personally.
December 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
‼️🇺🇸 Putin personally chose Witkoff as the key negotiator with the U,S — WSJ.
Russian-American contacts started at the beginning of the year after the crown prince of Saudi Arabia gave Witkoff a signal from the Kremlin. It said that Putin wanted to meet with him personally.
Russian-American contacts started at the beginning of the year after the crown prince of Saudi Arabia gave Witkoff a signal from the Kremlin. It said that Putin wanted to meet with him personally.
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If Jeffrey Epstein did nothing other than procure massages for his friends, then there’s no crime here.
by Robert Kraft
by Robert Kraft
December 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If Jeffrey Epstein did nothing other than procure massages for his friends, then there’s no crime here.
by Robert Kraft
by Robert Kraft
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We now know that just as Putin was keen to oust Gen Kellogg as Ukraine negotiator and replace him with his hand-picked choice, Steve Witkoff, Putin was also determined that Tulsi Gabbard be installed as DNI atop the intelligence community. She had served him faithfully in that position.
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We now know that just as Putin was keen to oust Gen Kellogg as Ukraine negotiator and replace him with his hand-picked choice, Steve Witkoff, Putin was also determined that Tulsi Gabbard be installed as DNI atop the intelligence community. She had served him faithfully in that position.
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2/ It wld be more viable in practical terms if once a prize court rules in the favor of the privateer the privateer could sell the cocaine into the Miami or Gulf Coast market. So Lee's bill shld package the Letters with a pardon for the drug trafficking similar to the deal the Honduran prez got.
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
2/ It wld be more viable in practical terms if once a prize court rules in the favor of the privateer the privateer could sell the cocaine into the Miami or Gulf Coast market. So Lee's bill shld package the Letters with a pardon for the drug trafficking similar to the deal the Honduran prez got.
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Multiple US career ambassadors, appointed during the Biden administration, have been directed by phone call to vacate their posts by January 15 or 16. No explanation has been given for these recalls.
December 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Multiple US career ambassadors, appointed during the Biden administration, have been directed by phone call to vacate their posts by January 15 or 16. No explanation has been given for these recalls.
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Lavish and glowing coverage of Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev in Russian media. These meetings and dealings are portrayed as an exhibition of Russian power and influence.
December 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Lavish and glowing coverage of Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev in Russian media. These meetings and dealings are portrayed as an exhibition of Russian power and influence.
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Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025). This is an essential reference tool prepared by students at NYU Law School.
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
A comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes.
www.justsecurity.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025). This is an essential reference tool prepared by students at NYU Law School.
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/2 And people in authority who openly defy the rule of law and encourage contempt of it, who openly use it to help their friends and hinder their enemies, are not morally entitled to its protection, in any way.
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
/2 And people in authority who openly defy the rule of law and encourage contempt of it, who openly use it to help their friends and hinder their enemies, are not morally entitled to its protection, in any way.
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Lakers' Marcus Smart fined $35,000 for obscene gesture reut.rs/3KTUuj5
Lakers' Marcus Smart fined $35,000 for obscene gesture
Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart has been fined $35,000 for making an obscene gesture toward a game official at halftime of his team's 143-135 victory over the Utah Jazz on Thursday in Salt Lake City, the NBA announced Saturday.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Lakers' Marcus Smart fined $35,000 for obscene gesture reut.rs/3KTUuj5