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Mary Scheib
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No matter what we look like, where we’re from or who we love, together, we love our country, our democracy. Billionaires attempt to divide us. WE ARE WORTH THE FIGHT #OurFreedomsOurFamiliesOurFutures.
#DemCast #Indivisible. DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."

The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.

One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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seems notable
In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Wrong.

The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice'
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The Oath Keepers built a massive stockpile of guns for Jan 6th and kept them in a hotel in Virginia because of D.C.'s strict gun laws.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons.

DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Robert Reich dancing his heart out to celebrate the weekend is the energy workers deserve. The only reason millions of us have 2 days off, an 8 hr day & basic protections is because unions fought, struck & sometimes bled for them. Fight like hell to protect our unions.
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow.

We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation.

🧵THREAD
December 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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After the massive Waymo fail on Saturday night that was so bad they had to shut down system wide, I don’t see why they were permitted to resume normal operations. Did they fix their system problems? Are they now ready for major outages? If not, why are they operating on our streets?
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The government is accepting public comment on 2 proposed rules that would severely restrict access to gender affirming care for young Americans. These comments will be supportive of legal challenges aimed at blocking the new rules. Submit a public comment on the regime's new attacks on trans youth.
Submit Public Comments
act.hrc.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Final newsletter of the year! If you want to feel good, do what I did and compare it to the first newsletter of the year. Elites capitulated but regular people said fuck no to fascism. More to come in '26. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
2025: Cowardice, Courage, and Chutzpah
Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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just insanely fucking gross
ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I mean I assume this is just an excuse for protecting the Trump regime, but it's a super-shoddy one since there aren't two sides to torture in gulags in violation of international and domestic law and human rights.
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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5/ Subscribe for free if you want to check it out, or get a paid subscription if you want to join the community. This is a space for people who want to understand what’s happening in our country, not just survive it. joycevance.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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It is not too early to start talking about accountability for those who authorized and/or carried out sending immigrants to CECOT. Grave human rights violations committed as part of the Trump/MAGA ethnic cleansing campaign. Truly despicable
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Show Bari Weiss she failed. Please share.
SHARE WIDELY!!!!!https://open.substack.com/pub/muellershewrote/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment?r=1088tr&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.

It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.
Removing this obviously distributed-a-billion-times photo of Trump w/Melania, Epstein, & Maxwell from the DOJ release of files only points out the FBI team's foolish, slapdash attempt to cover up *any existence* of the adjudicated sexual assaulter FOTUS in them.

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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.

Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.

Now, it’s gone.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Driverless cars are malfunctioning in SF’s power outage & are blocking intersections, turn lanes, and streets all over the city right now. This is impeding buses, emergency vehicles, and other traffic. It is forcing pedestrians outside crosswalks and cars to use oncoming traffic lanes. It’s a mess.
December 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Great thread, of course, by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on the malignancy of this frame..... "Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place."
Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.

I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”

NPR!
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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I had my own reasons for despising that essay and did so here a few days ago, but it's heartening to see Congressman Casten, who's got a lot of expertise in both the energy issues and the politics, kick it to the curb his way.
21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM