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It passed unanimously. Override the veto.
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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It is so embarrassing that this man has a license to practice medicine let alone being Director of the US FDA www.npr.org/sections/sho...
December 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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🚨 A reminder that less than 36 hours from now, up to 24 million Americans are about to see their net health insurance premiums skyrocket.

Use the drop-down menu at the top to find your state:

acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
How much more will ACA enrollees have to pay if the enhanced subsidies expire? (updated)
USE THE DROPDOWN MENU ABOVE TO PICK A STATE. 9/29/25: Welcome Paul Krugman subscribers! I greatly appreciate the shoutout by him but should add the following clarification: Regarding the chart below w...
acasignups.net
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Unless you need advice on how to use your dad’s diamond mine money to help overstay your visa and then work in the US, and buy the work of others but claim it’s your own genius, and be shockingly racist & incurious & cruel, never listen to a word Elon Musk says about anything
December 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Dalea purpurea, our Purple Prairie Clover, blooming at NCAR #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 29 🌿
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I am old and not that tech savvy but sheesh - even I would think to not have a cell phone with location tracking in my pocket or bag or vehicle if I was gonna commence to crime.
DOJ has submitted its detention memo for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole. It includes this map of where his phone pinged TMobile towers.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Does my network contain a California tax lawyer who can help a widow straighten out a horrifying post-death earnings boondoggle? @dataandpolitics.net is the widow in question
Seriously, are there any tax lawyers who will tell a widow at the end of their rope what to do?

I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.
She thinks I'm with ICE
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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My latest post is also on this topic: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/impr...
It’s super important to know if you are breathing good air indoors, and there are many cost-effective ways to monitor and improve your air quality.
December 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I really do think this is the last time I devote brainspace to them but these people who write articles about fake white grievances & how people of color existing in a sphere has oppressed them, they know exactly who they're triggering, whose buttons they're hitting.
December 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Appeals court upholds order for the VA build 2,550 housing units in Los Angeles trib.al/EYy4iAr
Appeals court upholds order for the VA build 2,550 housing units in Los Angeles
The ruling means that the VA must build more than 2,500 permanent and temporary supportive housing units on its 388-acre campus.
trib.al
December 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.

This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month.

Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving.

But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.
This one was such fun… so I am sharing
December 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I love this too
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Pretty weird for me how the guy I spent two years investigating at my first local newspaper job was just arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, and it’s a national tabloid story…

Appreciate everyone linking to my 2018 investigation, which you can read here: www.desertsun.com/in-depth/tec...
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
As Epstein’s cushy jail sentence raised concerns, his lawyers went on charm offensive
The Epstein Files show how his attorneys mixed personal and business relationships with prosecutors who had agreed to settle Epstein’s case.
www.miamiherald.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day.

How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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“After all, we were
supposed to bring the material to the concentration camp ready to start work, not
sickly and exhausted.”

- Adolf Eichmann, as quoted by Life Magazine
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The only decent response to someone announcing they have terminal cancer is to think of them and their family and friends, and hope or pray for peace and strength.

How you respond to the challenges of others is who you are.
December 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM