Elvsrad
@elvsrad.bsky.social
Civil Engineer, Video Game Player, Parrot Owner, History Buff, and part-time Mad Scientist. Loves Science Fiction, Science, and Fantasy.
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For the first time since the outset of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, a Christmas tree has been lit in Bethlehem, the Palestinian village where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...
Bethlehem lit tree for first time since start of war
Bethlehem lit tree for first time since start of war
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December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For the first time since the outset of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, a Christmas tree has been lit in Bethlehem, the Palestinian village where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...
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Larry Ellison, the world’s 2nd-richest man, predicts an AI surveillance state where “we’re constantly recording & reporting everything.”
Are we headed toward a future where every call, text, email & search is tracked by billionaires?
That's not democracy. It's authoritarianism.
Are we headed toward a future where every call, text, email & search is tracked by billionaires?
That's not democracy. It's authoritarianism.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Larry Ellison, the world’s 2nd-richest man, predicts an AI surveillance state where “we’re constantly recording & reporting everything.”
Are we headed toward a future where every call, text, email & search is tracked by billionaires?
That's not democracy. It's authoritarianism.
Are we headed toward a future where every call, text, email & search is tracked by billionaires?
That's not democracy. It's authoritarianism.
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Alina Habba was first ruled to be playacting as US Attorney on August 21 (though she had already been playacting at that point since July 1).
So taxpayers have paid for Alina to pretend she's US Attorney for 109 days.
So taxpayers have paid for Alina to pretend she's US Attorney for 109 days.
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Alina Habba was first ruled to be playacting as US Attorney on August 21 (though she had already been playacting at that point since July 1).
So taxpayers have paid for Alina to pretend she's US Attorney for 109 days.
So taxpayers have paid for Alina to pretend she's US Attorney for 109 days.
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He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty
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the plan, insofar as one exists, is to just loudly state Prices Are Down into the nearest available camera for the next three years
have fun with the midterms, guys
have fun with the midterms, guys
Q: How quickly will this affect prices at the grocery store?
TRUMP: I think the prices are gonna be, ah, going down already. I mean, the prices are way down. We brought prices way down from what it was. We inherited high prices.
TRUMP: I think the prices are gonna be, ah, going down already. I mean, the prices are way down. We brought prices way down from what it was. We inherited high prices.
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the plan, insofar as one exists, is to just loudly state Prices Are Down into the nearest available camera for the next three years
have fun with the midterms, guys
have fun with the midterms, guys
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“it’s nature or nurture and you, loving parent, are on the hook for both” is a hard pill to swallow for a number of reasons
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“it’s nature or nurture and you, loving parent, are on the hook for both” is a hard pill to swallow for a number of reasons
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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Conservatives have to go back to Lincoln to find one good man to lay claim to, and he was a republican before the parties switched philosophies, so even that is just more bullshit from these crooked clowns.
The GOP enacted civil service reform.
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Conservatives have to go back to Lincoln to find one good man to lay claim to, and he was a republican before the parties switched philosophies, so even that is just more bullshit from these crooked clowns.
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If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.
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Kayleigh McEnany asked Jonathan Turley about a ruling that involved the due process rights of undocumented immigrants. He basically answers that it would slow ICE down if ICE applied a probable cause standard for each person. He does NOT give a legal justification.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Kayleigh McEnany asked Jonathan Turley about a ruling that involved the due process rights of undocumented immigrants. He basically answers that it would slow ICE down if ICE applied a probable cause standard for each person. He does NOT give a legal justification.
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Jackson: I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. As a practical matter, the idea that an independent agency isn't accountable to anyone, that's just false. They're accountable to Congress, aren't they?
Sauer: Sure, but it has to be the President
Sauer: Sure, but it has to be the President
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Jackson: I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. As a practical matter, the idea that an independent agency isn't accountable to anyone, that's just false. They're accountable to Congress, aren't they?
Sauer: Sure, but it has to be the President
Sauer: Sure, but it has to be the President
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Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
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The Washington Post is determined to put The Onion out of business.
Opinion | Actually, today’s food prices are a bargain
Measure the time needed to earn the money to pay for a meal. That’s what matters.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The Washington Post is determined to put The Onion out of business.
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Anybody else finding TikTok only seems to be slapping the “ineligible for recommendation” tag on Trump’s staunchest critics? Or are we missing something? 🤷🏼
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Anybody else finding TikTok only seems to be slapping the “ineligible for recommendation” tag on Trump’s staunchest critics? Or are we missing something? 🤷🏼
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Hundreds of people on Sunday gathered in New York City to protest the U.S. government’s forced separation of a 6-year-old migrant boy from his father after the two were arrested by ICE last month amid President Trump’s deportation crackdown.
Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
“Taking children from their families is not normal,” a speaker told the crowd in Queens, where Yuanxin Zheng attended school until being detained.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hundreds of people on Sunday gathered in New York City to protest the U.S. government’s forced separation of a 6-year-old migrant boy from his father after the two were arrested by ICE last month amid President Trump’s deportation crackdown.
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This year, I set out to chronicle free speech under the Trump admin. No small feat. Trump attacks dissent & leverages the White House to go after critics constantly. But how? Read our bombshell new @freepress.bsky.social report. I'm proud & horrified: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance
This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and ...
www.freepress.net
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This year, I set out to chronicle free speech under the Trump admin. No small feat. Trump attacks dissent & leverages the White House to go after critics constantly. But how? Read our bombshell new @freepress.bsky.social report. I'm proud & horrified: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
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CNN Anchor Stunned as CDC Vaccine Advisor Warns Newborn Jabs Rollback ‘Wasn’t Based on Data’
CNN Anchor Stunned as CDC Vaccine Advisor Warns Newborn Jabs Rollback ‘Wasn’t Based on Data’
Brown asked how Americans could “trust” the CDC after a sitting vaccine advisor revealed that the vote to rollback hepatitis B shots “wasn’t based on data."
The post CNN Anchor Stunned as CDC Vaccine Advisor Warns Newborn Jabs Rollback ‘Wasn’t Based on Data’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
CNN Anchor Stunned as CDC Vaccine Advisor Warns Newborn Jabs Rollback ‘Wasn’t Based on Data’
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hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
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Everywhere I go in Maryland, I hear from people about the need for more affordable housing.
Republicans killing the ROAD to Housing Act – which would provide financial relief and opportunities for home ownership – proves that Republicans don't care to lower the cost of housing.
Republicans killing the ROAD to Housing Act – which would provide financial relief and opportunities for home ownership – proves that Republicans don't care to lower the cost of housing.
Trump claims he wants to lower housing costs, but his allies in the House just axed a bipartisan bill that UNANIMOUSLY passed the Senate to do just that.
If Republicans keep blocking legislation to cut housing costs, Democrats will pass it ourselves when we take back Congress.
If Republicans keep blocking legislation to cut housing costs, Democrats will pass it ourselves when we take back Congress.
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Everywhere I go in Maryland, I hear from people about the need for more affordable housing.
Republicans killing the ROAD to Housing Act – which would provide financial relief and opportunities for home ownership – proves that Republicans don't care to lower the cost of housing.
Republicans killing the ROAD to Housing Act – which would provide financial relief and opportunities for home ownership – proves that Republicans don't care to lower the cost of housing.
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I love my city-dweller friends, but one thing legacy news & cable networks have done rather successfully is convince you rural, small-town, & ex-urban America is just a slowly fading Rockwell print.
The demographic changes & class realignments of these places make them politically up for grabs.
The demographic changes & class realignments of these places make them politically up for grabs.
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I love my city-dweller friends, but one thing legacy news & cable networks have done rather successfully is convince you rural, small-town, & ex-urban America is just a slowly fading Rockwell print.
The demographic changes & class realignments of these places make them politically up for grabs.
The demographic changes & class realignments of these places make them politically up for grabs.
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The Trump DOJ met a Friday deadline set by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to submit sworn declarations by the officials involved in the decision to continue with the Alien Enemies Act deportation flights in mid-March–but signaled it would cooperate no more.
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Trump DOJ Stonewalls Criminal Contempt Inquiry
Will Emil Bove Have To Testify? A lot of weekend news to...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Trump DOJ met a Friday deadline set by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to submit sworn declarations by the officials involved in the decision to continue with the Alien Enemies Act deportation flights in mid-March–but signaled it would cooperate no more.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Trump is getting weaker. But ”it’s critical to treat every day as if he’s growing stronger…we should assume he will intensify his hateful agenda to hold onto power & save his own skin. That means we must keep applying pressure until he has been removed.”
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Trump Is Getting Weaker
And even some Republicans are finally grasping that it's a mistake to always stick by him
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December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Trump is getting weaker. But ”it’s critical to treat every day as if he’s growing stronger…we should assume he will intensify his hateful agenda to hold onto power & save his own skin. That means we must keep applying pressure until he has been removed.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-is-g...
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Weird LEGO mech pilot hopes you manage to power through the new workweek!
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Weird LEGO mech pilot hopes you manage to power through the new workweek!