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2025 Review: As our denier-in-chief pushes election fraud conspiracies from the White House, he's created a permission structure for his supporters, including many here in Colorado, to do the same. CTR continues to debunk the disinformation.
2025 Review: Election Denialism Just Won't Die
Debunking conspiracies and disinformation has been a specialty of the Colorado Times Recorder since our launch nine years ago. As our denier-in-chief continues to push election fraud conspiracies from...
coloradotimesrecorder.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
2025 Review: As our denier-in-chief pushes election fraud conspiracies from the White House, he's created a permission structure for his supporters, including many here in Colorado, to do the same. CTR continues to debunk the disinformation.
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Betty Reid Soskin was a defining presence in our district, and a force for truth, memory, and equity. At the Rosie the Riveter site in Richmond, she helped ensure our history was told fully and honestly. That work, and her legacy, will endure.
Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the nation’s oldest park ranger and related firsthand accounts of segregation as a Black woman on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, oldest U.S. park ranger, dies at 104
Ms. Soskin worked as a file clerk in a segregated union during World War II. Decades later, she shared that story as the oldest park ranger.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Betty Reid Soskin was a defining presence in our district, and a force for truth, memory, and equity. At the Rosie the Riveter site in Richmond, she helped ensure our history was told fully and honestly. That work, and her legacy, will endure.
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Former CIA Director Brennan asks Chief Judge in SDFla to stop govt from steering grand jury probe to Judge Aileen Cannon, citing "irregular activity" & Cannon's "demonstrated pattern of favoring ... Trump's litigation positions." By @charliesavage.bsky.social . (gift)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Former CIA Director Brennan asks Chief Judge in SDFla to stop govt from steering grand jury probe to Judge Aileen Cannon, citing "irregular activity" & Cannon's "demonstrated pattern of favoring ... Trump's litigation positions." By @charliesavage.bsky.social . (gift)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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a note from @lawdorknews.bsky.social to @npr.org:
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
a note from @lawdorknews.bsky.social to @npr.org:
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors
carl tobias - 207 results
jonathan turley - 434 results
josh blackman - 778 results
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This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all!
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all!
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So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.
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It's an invisible need… an invisible center… helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I’m haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed that’s so widespread (and sadly, celebrated) in our multi-millionaire and billionaire class.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It's an invisible need… an invisible center… helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I’m haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed that’s so widespread (and sadly, celebrated) in our multi-millionaire and billionaire class.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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In sealed order issued 12/3, Judge Crenshaw found that @DAGToddBlanche's deputy, Aakash Singh, played a “leading role in the govt’s decision to prosecute” Abrego Garcia. Abrego’s attys’ failed to redact that language in a brief, correcting the error shortly thereafter...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In sealed order issued 12/3, Judge Crenshaw found that @DAGToddBlanche's deputy, Aakash Singh, played a “leading role in the govt’s decision to prosecute” Abrego Garcia. Abrego’s attys’ failed to redact that language in a brief, correcting the error shortly thereafter...
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“You can look down a tremendous distance with our cameras. The camera will identify people, what they’re wearing, and cars up to a half a mile away. It’s that good.”
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
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 4:53 PM
“You can look down a tremendous distance with our cameras. The camera will identify people, what they’re wearing, and cars up to a half a mile away. It’s that good.”
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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There's a lot of focus on how the dripping antisemitism on the right has created a useful rupture in various parts of Trump's support, and that's true.
But I really worry that EVEN those on the less hateful side of that split are ignoring how dangerous some of these terrorists are.
But I really worry that EVEN those on the less hateful side of that split are ignoring how dangerous some of these terrorists are.
A violent Neo Nazi organization with close ties to and funding from the Kremlin appears suddenly to get a green light from Kash Patel's FBI.
Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There's a lot of focus on how the dripping antisemitism on the right has created a useful rupture in various parts of Trump's support, and that's true.
But I really worry that EVEN those on the less hateful side of that split are ignoring how dangerous some of these terrorists are.
But I really worry that EVEN those on the less hateful side of that split are ignoring how dangerous some of these terrorists are.
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The Trump censorship complex strikes again. Trump’s corporate collaborators suppress reports on his international network of human rights violators. Sometimes democracy dies in broad daylight.
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Trump censorship complex strikes again. Trump’s corporate collaborators suppress reports on his international network of human rights violators. Sometimes democracy dies in broad daylight.
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Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Oh man, the Ellisons *really* want CNN.
Warner Bros. Discovery requested a guarantee from the world’s third-richest person after Paramount’s hostile takeover offer.
Larry Ellison Guarantees $40 Billion In Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery Bid
Warner Bros. Discovery requested a guarantee from the world’s third-richest person after Paramount’s hostile takeover offer.
www.forbes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oh man, the Ellisons *really* want CNN.
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Louisiana ranks 50th of 50 states in the categories of crime and the economy in a recent statistical analysis, but somehow Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has time to be Trump’s ”special envoy” to Greenland. MAGA is such a shitshow.
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Louisiana ranks 50th of 50 states in the categories of crime and the economy in a recent statistical analysis, but somehow Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has time to be Trump’s ”special envoy” to Greenland. MAGA is such a shitshow.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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This is some Mengele shit
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is some Mengele shit
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Plus, violent and idiotic Jan 6 attacker Jake Lang, who beat officers with a baseball bat, is now causing actual international tensions after his dumb anti-Islam stunt got media coverage when he burned a Quran. Reportedly millions of people marched in Yemen.
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Plus, violent and idiotic Jan 6 attacker Jake Lang, who beat officers with a baseball bat, is now causing actual international tensions after his dumb anti-Islam stunt got media coverage when he burned a Quran. Reportedly millions of people marched in Yemen.
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Farmer: As soon as Maurene Comey was fired, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach about what they were up to, because I believed it was not in the best interest of survivors.
The sequence of events—Maurene being fired and then Blanche meeting with Maxwell…
The sequence of events—Maurene being fired and then Blanche meeting with Maxwell…
December 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Farmer: As soon as Maurene Comey was fired, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach about what they were up to, because I believed it was not in the best interest of survivors.
The sequence of events—Maurene being fired and then Blanche meeting with Maxwell…
The sequence of events—Maurene being fired and then Blanche meeting with Maxwell…
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The agency made a speedy decision after asking for public input on where to put a new office.
US Patent Office picks Montana to replace former regional office in Denver
The agency announced the decision less than three weeks after asking for public input on where to put a new office.
coloradosun.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The agency made a speedy decision after asking for public input on where to put a new office.
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Salient form 990 officers - adults
Chris Krug (Treasurer) - runs a right-wing media org. tied to the Koch brothers
* Naomi Schaefer Riley - right-wing commentator, Harvard grad
* Harvey Mansfield - prof. emeritus of Govt. at Harvard. Hoover Fellow.
* Alfredo Ortiz - former Newt Gingrich staffer
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Chris Krug (Treasurer) - runs a right-wing media org. tied to the Koch brothers
* Naomi Schaefer Riley - right-wing commentator, Harvard grad
* Harvey Mansfield - prof. emeritus of Govt. at Harvard. Hoover Fellow.
* Alfredo Ortiz - former Newt Gingrich staffer
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December 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Salient form 990 officers - adults
Chris Krug (Treasurer) - runs a right-wing media org. tied to the Koch brothers
* Naomi Schaefer Riley - right-wing commentator, Harvard grad
* Harvey Mansfield - prof. emeritus of Govt. at Harvard. Hoover Fellow.
* Alfredo Ortiz - former Newt Gingrich staffer
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Chris Krug (Treasurer) - runs a right-wing media org. tied to the Koch brothers
* Naomi Schaefer Riley - right-wing commentator, Harvard grad
* Harvey Mansfield - prof. emeritus of Govt. at Harvard. Hoover Fellow.
* Alfredo Ortiz - former Newt Gingrich staffer
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