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Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke says their plan is to “REDUCE OVERALL CARE” 🤔

At least he’s honest!

#MedicareForAllNOW
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Trump’s AI moratorium tells states to back off, framing algorithmic price-fixing as protected innovation. It creates a bizarre federal split-screen: DOJ prosecutes RealPage for digital collusion while White House prepares to sue any state legislature that tries to outlaw software.
Trump’s AI moratorium threatens state-level crackdowns on housing costs
State lawmakers are increasingly proposing bills to regulate the use of AI in the housing industry, over concerns that it could be used to promote anti-competitive and discriminatory practices.
www.politico.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This is nuts. Sounds fairly close to a horrific midair catastrophe tied to whatevet the fuck trump thinks hes doing in venezuelan air space. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela
A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Tonight’s post starts with two mass shootings, at least one a terrorist incident, discusses the upcoming trial of a Wisconsin judge on DOJ charges, the Epstein file release date Friday, and something new—Trump selling immigration rights to the highest bidder. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Week Ahead
Saturday was shattered by two mass shootings.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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WSJ editorial board thrashes DHS for arresting a Chinese human rights hero, Guan Heng, and says he must be granted asylum.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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In case facts still matter…
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Another chapter in Rupert Murdoch's relentless war on Christmas
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Statement from the Lear Family on the death of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.

Rob Reiner described Norman Lear as his second father.
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Scottie Nell Hughes: "We went through 4 years of this call for raising the minimum wage. Guess what? Those trickle down costs are now starting to be felt by these type of products that consumers are buying."

BTC: "Costs are not rising because minimum wage workers are getting paid minimum wage."
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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No president in American history has profited off the presidency like this

Not close

Foreign money

Crypto schemes

Access for sale

And a net worth up billions

This week on @contrariannews.org we discuss Trump's top 10 profiteering scandals - TN

contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
Trump & Cronies Top 10 Worst…Presidential Profiteering Scandals
Publisher's Roundup 47
contrarian.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
bsky.app/profile/jare...
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.

So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Trump's NSS released shock waves in Europe, the UK, Japan, Korea... and has barely even been reported in US media. Very revealing of what has happened to US media.
December 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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R J Matson, Congressional Quarterly
December 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention

@eltragon.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Robert Pender and Michael Sabel, the founders and co-chairs of Venture Global, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company headquartered in Virginia, bought more than a million shares worth almost $12m each in March.
Top Democrats call for investigation into share-buying spree by Trump allies
Fossil fuel execs Robert Pender and Michael Sabel deny wrongdoing after report on potential conflict of interest
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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On one hand we have endless stories of the myriad of innovations in state surveillance from our stateless tech lords, and on the other we have barely literate goons roaming the street demanding to see actual papers like it's the 30's.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Garcia: "Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing"
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The context: this ties to a Trump decision dating to the first 72 hours of his administration to stand down all cybersecurity operations targeting Russia, creating an open gap for Russian influence operations.
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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13 years ago a school shooting in Sandy Hook claimed the lives of 20 kids and 6 educators.

Nothing has changed.

As of Dec 9 there’s been 73 school shootings in the US in 2025.

You know how many school shootings Canada had? 0.

The UK? 0.

Australia? 0.

American kids deserve better.
December 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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There must be some non-Euclidean geometric term that may be applied to this
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Trump's administration is trying to eliminate the Community Service Block Grant, which helps fund anti-poverty programs nationally.

This would have devastating effects on the resources & services that low-income families rely on. I’m fighting back on these cuts.
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Trump putting his billionaire tech donor oligarch friends ahead of the people to make regulating A.I. impossible should alarm everyone.

Where are the “states rights” folks on this one?
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM