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In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
On the back of the photograph she wrote:
“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.
‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”
The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort- TSA is providing passenger lists to ICE to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders [Breach of trust- we trust TSA to keep us safe, and now they expose us to thuggish ICE] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort- TSA is providing passenger lists to ICE to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders [Breach of trust- we trust TSA to keep us safe, and now they expose us to thuggish ICE] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
[Reminder of how important Russia is as a sponsor of the far-right globally] Far Right in Germany Keeps Trying to Unseal National Secrets- Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that...push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
The Far Right in Germany Keeps Trying to Unseal National Secrets
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
[Reminder of how important Russia is as a sponsor of the far-right globally] Far Right in Germany Keeps Trying to Unseal National Secrets- Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that...push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
More money, more corruption require more attention, nonprofit says- In an age of cynicism among the electorate, OpenSecrets renews push to expose how special interests and government officials are connected [sunshine is the best disinfectant] www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Column | More money, more corruption require more attention, nonprofit says
OpenSecrets, which started four decades ago, is renewing its drive to help voters follow the money between special interests and government officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
More money, more corruption require more attention, nonprofit says- In an age of cynicism among the electorate, OpenSecrets renews push to expose how special interests and government officials are connected [sunshine is the best disinfectant] www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew not been able to see her son since she was released by ICE, tells Leavitt “Just because you went to a Catholic school, doesn’t make you a good Catholic...You’re a mother....How would you feel if somebody did this to you?” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Karoline Leavitt’s relative in shock over ICE detention: ‘Heartbroken for my son’
‘You’re a mother. How would you feel if somebody did this to you?’ Bruna Ferreira asks White House press secretary
www.independent.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew not been able to see her son since she was released by ICE, tells Leavitt “Just because you went to a Catholic school, doesn’t make you a good Catholic...You’re a mother....How would you feel if somebody did this to you?” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump et al are going to get a lot of people killed "JetBlue flight from...Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker...pilot blamed the military plane....'They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump et al are going to get a lot of people killed "JetBlue flight from...Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker...pilot blamed the military plane....'They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Many...extraordinary human rights activists in China did not start out as 'activists.' They were ordinary people...transformation often began with tiny acts... Step by step, they learned to speak up...to endure greater reprisals" Each time their sense of agency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a Chinese pro-democracy activist. Here’s how to find courage to oppose Trump | Yaqiu Wang
While acting on your moral convictions can be risky, it can also feel profoundly good
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Many...extraordinary human rights activists in China did not start out as 'activists.' They were ordinary people...transformation often began with tiny acts... Step by step, they learned to speak up...to endure greater reprisals" Each time their sense of agency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Trump regime denouncing Europe’s democracies...sucking up to Russia is no surprise. Trump, "afraid of his hero Putin" finds it easier to cut deals with Russia "run by a murderous mobster" easier than with mostly honest governments run under more open systems www.golocalprov.com/news/whitcom...
GoLocalProv | News | Whitcomb: Make 2025 End Faster! A Public Menace for Years; Ditching Europe
www.golocalprov.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Trump regime denouncing Europe’s democracies...sucking up to Russia is no surprise. Trump, "afraid of his hero Putin" finds it easier to cut deals with Russia "run by a murderous mobster" easier than with mostly honest governments run under more open systems www.golocalprov.com/news/whitcom...
federal authorities "tracking online criticism and protests against the...immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards... for threats to agents...compiling ...updates on public 'sentiment'". Local leaders concerned that "could chill free speech" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Authorities monitor online criticism of New Orleans immigration crackdown
Officials track public sentiment, noting negative impact of ‘videos with sounds of children crying’ as parents arrested
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
federal authorities "tracking online criticism and protests against the...immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards... for threats to agents...compiling ...updates on public 'sentiment'". Local leaders concerned that "could chill free speech" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump placed TV personalities in the regime, turned WH into "major information content provider" Trump does the "action" and WH happens "to be one of the distributors" replacing media "with right-wing loyalists" to flood the zone with Trump narrative heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-9...
December 9, 2025
When G.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump placed TV personalities in the regime, turned WH into "major information content provider" Trump does the "action" and WH happens "to be one of the distributors" replacing media "with right-wing loyalists" to flood the zone with Trump narrative heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-9...
Soviet, now Russian idea "mental war": "to destroy self-awareness, change the mental, civilizational basis of the enemy’s society... possible to destroy the state and...country by changing the self-awareness, worldview, goals, values and priorities of society" www.bettedangerous.com/p/an-undecla...
An Undeclared War for All Mankind
Crossposting a report on how Russia formats identity and is trying to rule the world through a war on our minds. Research by Ukrainian historian Tetiana Boriak and originally published in InformNapalm
www.bettedangerous.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Soviet, now Russian idea "mental war": "to destroy self-awareness, change the mental, civilizational basis of the enemy’s society... possible to destroy the state and...country by changing the self-awareness, worldview, goals, values and priorities of society" www.bettedangerous.com/p/an-undecla...
Today's anti-vax patients:" entrenched, identity-driven opposition fueled by misinformation, political polarization, and deliberate disinformation campaigns....It’s: 'I don’t believe anything you’re about to say.' As a physician, this dynamic is devastating" www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
www.statnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today's anti-vax patients:" entrenched, identity-driven opposition fueled by misinformation, political polarization, and deliberate disinformation campaigns....It’s: 'I don’t believe anything you’re about to say.' As a physician, this dynamic is devastating" www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
The resistance innovates "college newsrooms, independent media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track [DHS] enforcement [operations] and collaborating on information" www.reuters.com/business/med...
'Pins on a Map': How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids
These student journalists counter online rumor with facts and give locals maps of frequently targeted areas as panic spreads over whom immigration agents will target next.
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The resistance innovates "college newsrooms, independent media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track [DHS] enforcement [operations] and collaborating on information" www.reuters.com/business/med...
How to spark resistance "Scrawled in chalk on the pavement near a secondary school in eastern Slovakia, the messages were short and to the point: 'Enough Fico'" a popular anti-government slogan, another about PM "providing sexual favours to Vladimir Putin" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Chalk Revolution’ strikes nerve as Slovakia fears return to authoritarian past
Teenager who first scrawled messages on pavement in protest at rightwing government did not expect so many others to follow suit
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
How to spark resistance "Scrawled in chalk on the pavement near a secondary school in eastern Slovakia, the messages were short and to the point: 'Enough Fico'" a popular anti-government slogan, another about PM "providing sexual favours to Vladimir Putin" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
[One sign of far-right retreat] "UT has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed in February that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating....one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Utah repeals public employee collective bargaining ban, one of the most restrictive US labor laws
Repeal of law comes as state Republicans prepare to defend four US House seats under new congressional map
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
[One sign of far-right retreat] "UT has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed in February that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating....one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"I’ve noticed a pattern among some of my colleagues in public health, biomedical research, and the university settings in which I work....we shrink back, saying, 'Oh, it’s not you. It’s me'" and affirm the "reigning trope" that we lost the trust of the people www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender
It's time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"I’ve noticed a pattern among some of my colleagues in public health, biomedical research, and the university settings in which I work....we shrink back, saying, 'Oh, it’s not you. It’s me'" and affirm the "reigning trope" that we lost the trust of the people www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Rumble, promoter of "free speech" for right wing extremists, which welcomes Russian propaganda/disinformation outlets like Sputnik and RT, benefits Trump regime figures and supporters JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Dan Bongino, Howard Lutnick, Tulsi Gabbard dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/rumble-the...
Rumble, the Canadian MAGA Information Ecosystem Bellybutton
You need to understand how exceedingly strange and hostile the crypto bros are to the American Experiment
dekleptocracy.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rumble, promoter of "free speech" for right wing extremists, which welcomes Russian propaganda/disinformation outlets like Sputnik and RT, benefits Trump regime figures and supporters JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Dan Bongino, Howard Lutnick, Tulsi Gabbard dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/rumble-the...
From Feb thru Dec, convicted criminal Trump gave 61 pardons and commutations, 27 for white collar crime, "securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, tax evasion" 2 went to corporations, "an unprecedented act." Another "14 were about political corruption" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/09/t...
The Main Beneficiaries of Trump’s Pardons? White-Collar Criminals Like Him
Trump’s pardons overwhelmingly favor white-collar criminals and dovetail with a deregulatory agenda that risks global financial stability.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
From Feb thru Dec, convicted criminal Trump gave 61 pardons and commutations, 27 for white collar crime, "securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, tax evasion" 2 went to corporations, "an unprecedented act." Another "14 were about political corruption" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/09/t...
"former top litigation volunteer at the Anti-Defamation League", Joe Berman's "scorching resignation letter" said he left because the group "had become a 'useful idiot'" for Trump "by failing to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right" www.jta.org/2025/12/12/u...
Top ADL civil rights lay leader quits, accusing group of being 'useful idiot' for Trump - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Joe Berman resigned in March and is making his resignation letter public for the first time now.
www.jta.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"former top litigation volunteer at the Anti-Defamation League", Joe Berman's "scorching resignation letter" said he left because the group "had become a 'useful idiot'" for Trump "by failing to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right" www.jta.org/2025/12/12/u...
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BREAKING
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BREAKING
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
Another attempted power grab: "Trump said he has pardoned former CO elections clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a 9-year sentence for allowing unauthorised access to voting machines during the 2020 presidential election" but president can't pardon someone for state crimes www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump says he will pardon jailed elections clerk Tina Peters
Trump's powers to pardon are only applicable to federal convictions - not the state level charges Peters was jailed for.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Another attempted power grab: "Trump said he has pardoned former CO elections clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a 9-year sentence for allowing unauthorised access to voting machines during the 2020 presidential election" but president can't pardon someone for state crimes www.bbc.com/news/article...
Troops Involved in Boat Strikes Face a ‘Moral Injury’ Risk "Participating in killing-even killing seen remotely on a video screen-can leave deep psychological wounds....If the person perceives the killing as morally wrong or unjustified" effect may be greater www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Troops Involved in Boat Strikes Face a ‘Moral Injury’ Risk, Experts Say
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Troops Involved in Boat Strikes Face a ‘Moral Injury’ Risk "Participating in killing-even killing seen remotely on a video screen-can leave deep psychological wounds....If the person perceives the killing as morally wrong or unjustified" effect may be greater www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Does Trump regime do anything legal? "top National Park Service official...instructed park superintendents to limit the number of staff who get top marks in performance reviews.... experts say [this] violates federal code" and makes layoffs easier www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Park Service orders changes to staff ratings, a move experts call illegal
Lower performance ratings could be used as a factor in layoff decisions and will demoralize staff, advocates say.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Does Trump regime do anything legal? "top National Park Service official...instructed park superintendents to limit the number of staff who get top marks in performance reviews.... experts say [this] violates federal code" and makes layoffs easier www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
European governments see Trump regime as enemy "Danish intelligence services have accused the US of using its economic power to 'assert its will'...threatening military force against...allies" Think Americans will start working for European security services? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies
The US also listed as a threat due to its growing interest in Greenland, which is vital to America’s national security
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
European governments see Trump regime as enemy "Danish intelligence services have accused the US of using its economic power to 'assert its will'...threatening military force against...allies" Think Americans will start working for European security services? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
[Resistance broadens] New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE "Street Vendor Project and NYC Ice Watch, a community-led platform alerting neighborhoods about immigration raids, are training volunteers and canvassing the streets" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE
With ICE targeting vendors and fear rising, community groups are organising fast to keep New Yorkers working on the streets safe
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
[Resistance broadens] New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE "Street Vendor Project and NYC Ice Watch, a community-led platform alerting neighborhoods about immigration raids, are training volunteers and canvassing the streets" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...