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had to get a new motherboard and a new phone in the same month and now I'm gonna need new glasses 🙃 sorry I know this is like the worst possible time of the year to jingle my little cup

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December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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When the government claims it stopped a terrorist attack, a degree of skepticism was always warranted—how far along was the plot before an undercover officer got involved? what would have actually happened?—but not insurmountable skepticism.

Now? How could anyone believe what federal officials say.
I’m finding it increasingly hard to report anything delivered by “official sources” in the US. Could be true, could be a coverup, could be completely made up for nefarious ends.

It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Around this time of year I try to pay attention to which fundraisers are in need of a boost and one I've chosen to boost/support is the Catto Family School Toy Drive: gofund.me/afe93dbba #donate #toydrive
Donate to Holiday Toy Drive for Catto Family School, organized by Calvin Bell
Many of us get lost in our daily lives and are busy with the things we must do. … Calvin Bell needs your support for Holiday Toy Drive for Catto Family School
gofund.me
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov is one of the two Brown University students whose lives were taken yesterday.

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December 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The library board wouldn’t remove a picture book about a trans boy so they dissolved the whole board.

“The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools”

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December 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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We are joining other newsrooms in the Climate News Task Force to provide a single hub for signing up for all our newsletters.

It’s a simple way to access climate coverage — and to support reporting that keeps powerful industries accountable.

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Twelve climate newsrooms joined forces in 2025 to create the Climate News Task Force, to increase and improve climate journalism collaborations and innovate new solutions to current challenges.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Go to your doctor and get your measles titers checked to make sure you are still immune and if not get re-vaccinated. It’s more and more likely all of us are going to eventually come in contact with it.
The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything.

It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Press conference beginning now. 12 deaths plus one of the shooters. "This attack was designed to target Sydney's Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah... this attack is being designated as a terrorism event."

there you have it.
I believe the news here are waiting for the NSW Premier's press conference to confirm what we all already have a sickening knowledge of.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.

Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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This is really good work.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This MTV recording I found from an extremely golden age of 1994 is a time capsule of exactly specifically the last time the world existed before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” as shown by this ominous trailer. Make of that what you will.
If MTV only knew what they were about to unleash...
December 21, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities.

That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!

We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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“Growing concerns about the job market… most layoffs since the start of the Great Recession…”

No wonder Trump is hiding the data
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Reminder
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM