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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
NEW:

One brought a gun home.

One moved.

Others improved home security.

Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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smerconish.bsky.social
Today's #poll question: Do you agree with JD Vance that the U.S. has always been and should remain a Christian nation?
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Cast your vote 🗳️ loom.ly/6Y9cBds
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Is the US a Christian Nation?
YouTube video by Michael Smerconish
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December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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drewharwell.com
New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."

A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.

"It's a war!"

wapo.st/4s6YnC5
‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
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December 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Todd Blanche was Trump’s criminal defense attorney before he took office, and nothing has changed since then.
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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newyorker.com
By ingratiating himself with Trump, Peter Navarro has become one of the world’s most influential economists. “The things he says now violate the most elementary principles of macroeconomics—stuff you learn in the first semester,” a Georgetown economist said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mXtNxX
Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man
The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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marketplace.org
Could AI chat bots replace human doctors? Probably not, but that won’t stop people from trying.
Dr. AI will see you now
Just like they did with Google, people are asking AI chatbots about their symptoms. Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun wants to hear what it has to say.
www.marketplace.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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alerigolon.bsky.social
Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building. Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties. Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda
Christopher Day was fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum to migrants at a high rate
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Looks like they're right.

Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
1. “F*ck you Ben Shapiro and the midget horse you rode in on.”

Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Attorneys for Ronnie and Donnie Stoner in their child sexual abuse case said in a court hearing today that the podcast series by Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting's @storiesbyjess.bsky.social suggests prosecutors don’t have all the evidence.
KyCIR podcast sparks questions about evidence in educator rape cases
Attorneys for Ronnie and Donnie Stoner say reporting by the Kentucky Center for Investigative reporting suggests prosecutors don’t have all the evidence.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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smerconish.bsky.social
Today's #poll question: Will the Friday release of Epstein materials be of any great consequence?
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Will the Friday Release of Epstein Materials Be of Any Great Consequence?
YouTube video by Michael Smerconish
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December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music
@science.org

science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
science.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.

It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
jayapal.house.gov Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 5d
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.

ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
jayapal.house.gov Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 5d
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.

28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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newyorker.com
We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHd1v
The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of which involve crypto and foreign money.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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kentuckypublicradio.org
Maysville leaders have signed NDAs with an undisclosed tech company looking to develop a hyperscale data center campus that could span thousands of acres. Residents have expressed concern about the lack of transparency and potential effects of the project. From @weku.bsky.social
Northern Kentucky residents raise concerns over a massive, secretive data center proposal
The Ohio River town of Maysville has been in talks with an undisclosed company looking to develop a proposed hyperscale data center campus that could span thousands of acres.
www.weku.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Judge Jeanine kicking ass and taking names at the DC US Attorney’s office.
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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zacheverson.com
It gets even more pathetic—

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Rep. Joyce Beatty @RepBeatty · 6m For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

More than 117,000 immigrants now face potential deportation after the Trump administration moved to reopen cases that immigration judges had previously paused, many involving people who have lived in the U.S. for a decade or more. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
How the Trump administration pushed to reopen immigration cases, putting thousands at risk of deportation
An NBC News analysis found that the Trump administration has filed more than 117,000 requests to reopen cases immigration judges had deemed low priority.
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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jaredmcclain.bsky.social
I would simply die.

www.centralmaine.com/2025/12/15/m...
The lawyers who called Scott Greaney this fall seemed to him to make a good point. The women, the 61-year-old turkey farmer from Mercer said, told him that two seats on a state committee overseeing funds meant to support Maine farmers, loggers and others were reserved by statute for people representing “historically underserved racial populations.” “At face value,” Greaney said in an interview via telephone Monday, “the whole thing about reserving two seats for specific types of people — that ain’t right.” So he agreed to help the lawyers, who wanted to challenge whether that was constitutional. But what Greaney did not realize was that he was signing on to be the sole plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed Friday against two state officials — and that the national, libertarian-leaning Pacific Legal Foundation would issue a Friday evening press release that Greaney says was misleading. “I have no use for liars and no use for thieves,” Greaney said. “I don’t know what this is all about. I was planning on calling (the lawyers) today and saying, ‘What the hell is this?’ I’m trying to run a business in the state of Maine, and it has me looking like a punk.”
December 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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newyorker.com
Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ada7VN
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Yep. Diversion of resources matters in the aggregate (even if it way too early to know whether it had any specific impact in this case). Drug trafficking and gun prosecutions are measurably down, for example.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d
Anyway, no worries, Kash Patel is on the job, and half of FBI agents are working immigration enforcement donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
More recent data suggests that these numbers are increasing, with nearly half of FBI agents in major field offices, and about one-quarter of all FBI agents, now working on immigration enforcement.
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM