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ICE is monitoring all Americans’ air travel
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ICE is monitoring all Americans’ air travel
Hope you wanted warrantless surveillance in your stocking
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
December 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
from the Pew Charitable Trust: Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.

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Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage
Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
pewrsr.ch
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
12 dead and 27,000 tents destroyed in Gaza storms; Report finds $1 billion in revenue from Gaza aid extortion; Trump signs order blocking state laws on AI
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12 dead and 27,000 tents destroyed in Gaza storms; Report finds $1 billion in revenue from Gaza aid extortion; Trump signs order blocking state laws on AI
Drop Site Daily: December 12, 2025
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Top tip for newsletter writers: no one wants to read your year in review. They want to read about what's coming next.
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
apnews.com/article/trum... handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
#PaintingForToday West Point, Maine, created in 1914 by the American artist John Marin.
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Medicare is a US federal health insurance program primarily for people 65 or older, but it covers younger people with certain disabilities or conditions. As of early '25, approx.66 m. Americans are enrolled in the program.
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The Art Garden, N. Elm Street, Shelburne Falls. MA
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Zelenskyy ‘ready for elections’ after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Zelenskyy ‘ready for elections’ after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy
Zelenskyy says he would hold wartime elections within months given help from allies and Ukraine’s parliament
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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It doesn’t matter what it is — groceries, housing, health care, Christmas gifts — Donald Trump’s economic policies are making things more expensive.

No amount of BS from the President last night will change that.
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Greenfield, Stone Soup Cafe
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Short Attention Span Christmas Eve Service
bombyx.live
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years
In stunning upset victory, Higgins also becomes first woman in post and first non-Hispanic candidate since 90s
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Trump on Women
The new Mayor of Miami, Florida, is a Democrat.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM