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The DOJ is now online commenting on posts, claiming information they released in the Epstein files is fake and shouldn’t be trusted. The desperation is obvious.
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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New: Paid Informant and Social Media Posts Lead to ‘Turtle Island Liberation Front’ Arrests

Federal agents made a series of arrests last week that revealed targeted surveillance of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a leftist organization based in CA

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Paid Informant and Social Media Posts Lead to 'Turtle Island Liberation Front' Arrests - UNICORN RIOT
Through an informant, at least one undercover agent, and online and physical surveillance the FBI tracked the group before intervening in what it calls a conspiracy.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"Not only are they trying to dismantle climate science, they're trying to dismantle our ability to protect people from the devastating of climate change."

@michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story

Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration

60M's ⁦‪Sharyn Alfonsi‬⁩ said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage

My NPR story

www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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This has always been the plan, only now they have a PowerPoint presentation. What a ghoul.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Ivanka Trump’s husband is trying to get Middle Eastern leaders to invest in his vision of a high-tech paradise on the ruins of Gaza with a PowerPoint presentation.
Trump’s Son-in-Law Pitches $112B Tech Utopia on Gaza Rubble
Jared Kushner has been showing a 32-page PowerPoint presentation to nearby countries.
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December 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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This is gross, illegal, and totally unconstitutional. Tax billionaires into extinction once and for all.
December 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Monday's Premium: How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026 - the largest funder of data centers is pulling out, Oracle is suffocated by debt, OpenAI's running out of money, and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is shrinking.
Here's $10 off annual.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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This is the playbook: wait for a crisis, fill the information vacuum with ideological attacks, and use it to advance a political agenda. The Brown shooting is just the latest example. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Trump allies amplified unfounded online theories in wake of Brown shooting
In the gap between the shooting and an arrest, several top officials cast the school as inept and ideologically hostile to conservatives.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Republicans are celebrating a 2.7% November inflation report that every professional says isn’t a real number.

@zpleat.bsky.social has all of the receipts for when this number gets updated and the inflation shit hits the proverbial fan next year.
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MAGA media praise November inflation report that economists caution is a mirage
Even as multiple economists were explaining that the November 2025 Consumer Price Index inflation report was distorted due to the recent government shutdown, MAGA media figures were celebrating the sl...
www.mediamatters.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🔴 NEW: **IPC famine assessment due today as Gaza food access improves but humanitarian conditions remain brutal — WFP**

Key Findings:

1. Food access in Gaza has improved 2 months into the ceasefire, but the humanitarian situation remains far from stable, w/ an IPC assessment expected as soon as...
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Exclusive: Federal documents reveal border officials are pressuring unaccompanied children to agree to return to their countries of origin, even if they express fear for their safety there
Unaccompanied children being pressed to return to their countries by US border officials
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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New at The Watch: A comprehensive primer on the drug boat strikes

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104 murders in 107 days
The Trump administration's drug boat campaign has assassinated about one person each day since early September. These are murders, and our basic humanity demands that we not get complacent about them.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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President Trump's lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean are cold-blooded murder. We need to know how his administration is claiming to justify them.

Tell Congress: Transparency and accountability can't wait.
Tell Congress: Stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes
Since September, the Trump administration has murdered nearly 90 people in international waters, ordering over 20 lethal strikes on civilian boats near Venezuela. Congress must conduct oversight and call for an end to this illegal bombing campaign.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Why has it taken five years to make the audio public?
The most corrupt president in modern U.S. history should be behind bars.

🚨 Newly obtained recording from late 2020: Trump is heard pressuring the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to convene a special legislative session to overturn his election loss.
December 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The House of Representatives approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.

“I refuse to stop providing this care, knowing that I could potentially face 10 years in prison and a felony charge,” says Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum.
December 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict. We call that murder."​
'Do Not Become Inured': Death Toll From Trump Boat Strikes Tops 100 After Latest Murders
The US military bombed two vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing at least five people and pushing the death toll from the Trump administration's lawless military campaign in international waters above 100.
www.commondreams.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.

Adopting.

Babies.

What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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This is what they want to have decide if your surgeries and medications are necessary
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM