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🎉 BREAKING: WE DID IT! 🎉
After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map!
This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.
After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map!
This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🎉 BREAKING: WE DID IT! 🎉
After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map!
This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.
After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map!
This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.
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Trump threatened to pull the state's federal funding, he sent Vance there multiple times, his allies (including his son) are currently threatening to oust all the Republicans who rebuked him, and he's already sicced his goons on these lawmakers, bringing them countless death threats. But ok.
Reporter: The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort.
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Trump threatened to pull the state's federal funding, he sent Vance there multiple times, his allies (including his son) are currently threatening to oust all the Republicans who rebuked him, and he's already sicced his goons on these lawmakers, bringing them countless death threats. But ok.
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BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
If only they worked this hard to solve actual problems for Americans
TL;DR: Abrego was released from custody ~4:45pm yesterday. DOJ gave him an order to show up at Baltimore ICE at 8am today, and then got a 7pm order from an immigration judge purporting to correct the original 2019 withholding-from-removal order so that they could remove him now. It's blocked.
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If only they worked this hard to solve actual problems for Americans
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As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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The thing Republican “market-based” solutions ignore is health care isn’t like shopping for a TV. Without it we die. It’s not like we can decide not to buy it. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty
Other countries don’t regret their universal health care
We need #MedicareForAllNOW
Other countries don’t regret their universal health care
We need #MedicareForAllNOW
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The thing Republican “market-based” solutions ignore is health care isn’t like shopping for a TV. Without it we die. It’s not like we can decide not to buy it. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty
Other countries don’t regret their universal health care
We need #MedicareForAllNOW
Other countries don’t regret their universal health care
We need #MedicareForAllNOW
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DUE NEXT WEEK: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19.
Learn more:
Learn more:
National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
healthjournalism.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
DUE NEXT WEEK: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19.
Learn more:
Learn more:
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Also funny because people from those countries have zero reasons to want to come here.
Trump wanting immigrants from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark is funny, because the fact that they're white outweighs the fact that they're supposed to be kinda socialist
Trump’s Attack on Somali Americans Is Vile Fascism
He’s testing our country’s tolerance for ethnic persecution. And we’re failing the test.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Also funny because people from those countries have zero reasons to want to come here.
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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
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 4:22 PM
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
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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$140m.
Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of Boeing 737s for deportations
The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
$140m.
Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
A system that not one single country in the world has. Maybe there's a reason? And what exactly does saving "the country" money mean? How about we save the country's citizens a buck or two?
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A system that not one single country in the world has. Maybe there's a reason? And what exactly does saving "the country" money mean? How about we save the country's citizens a buck or two?
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#Vietnam
#fishing
#overfishing
"The Vietnamese government has temporarily suspended the enforcement of minimum size regulations for several key marine species, including various types of #tuna, following calls from local fishermen to abolish the regulation.*
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#Vietnam
#fishing
#overfishing
"The Vietnamese government has temporarily suspended the enforcement of minimum size regulations for several key marine species, including various types of #tuna, following calls from local fishermen to abolish the regulation.*
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Vietnam suspends controversial minimum size rules for tuna, other fish species
The Vietnamese government has temporarily suspended the enforcement of minimum size regulations for skipjack and other species.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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#Vietnam
#fishing
#overfishing
"The Vietnamese government has temporarily suspended the enforcement of minimum size regulations for several key marine species, including various types of #tuna, following calls from local fishermen to abolish the regulation.*
share.google/BLXSIhFmQR5D...
#Vietnam
#fishing
#overfishing
"The Vietnamese government has temporarily suspended the enforcement of minimum size regulations for several key marine species, including various types of #tuna, following calls from local fishermen to abolish the regulation.*
share.google/BLXSIhFmQR5D...
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“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
Only Americans are stupid enough to brag about not getting any sleep.
Even if this were true, it would be incredibly dangerous. Short-term effects of low sleep are problems with attention span and memory, increased irritability and extreme fatigue. Long-term risks include psychological destress, cognitive decline and emotional volatility.
Lutnick: "The president sleeps less than me. I sleep 5 hours a night. The president sleeps 4 hours a night! And he's working all the time. He calls me late at night, he wants to talk about the day. He's on it all the time. It is the most impressive thing you've ever seen."
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Only Americans are stupid enough to brag about not getting any sleep.
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Even before this we had a construction labor shortage. Estimates put around 25% of the construction industry is undocumented. And not only are they incredibly skilled but they often get fucked over by employers. I wrote about it earlier this year.
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Even before this we had a construction labor shortage. Estimates put around 25% of the construction industry is undocumented. And not only are they incredibly skilled but they often get fucked over by employers. I wrote about it earlier this year.
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And February was our THIRD time filing with the legislature, after intensive legislative process & negotiations throughout 2024.
Stunned by how dishonest senators like Senate President Karen Spilka and Senator Nick Collins are being about Mayor Michelle Wu's tax shift home rule petition.
It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
And February was our THIRD time filing with the legislature, after intensive legislative process & negotiations throughout 2024.
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When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can?
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5: Too Big to Fight
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needed at Phoebe, it raises the question: Who can?
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can?
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
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December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Issues:
🔹️Farmers
🔹️Tax Cuts for the Working Class
🔹️Reduce National Debt
🔹️Restore Medicaid
🔹️Reduce Costs for Regular People
🔹️Farmers
🔹️Tax Cuts for the Working Class
🔹️Reduce National Debt
🔹️Restore Medicaid
🔹️Reduce Costs for Regular People
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Issues:
🔹️Farmers
🔹️Tax Cuts for the Working Class
🔹️Reduce National Debt
🔹️Restore Medicaid
🔹️Reduce Costs for Regular People
🔹️Farmers
🔹️Tax Cuts for the Working Class
🔹️Reduce National Debt
🔹️Restore Medicaid
🔹️Reduce Costs for Regular People
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