Elliot the Almost Ready
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Trump Visits Golf Club for 10th Time in 11 Days
Reporters were barred, limiting visibility into Trump’s activities
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Reporters were barred, limiting visibility into Trump’s activities
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Trump Visits Golf Club for 10th Time in 11 Days
Reporters were barred, limiting visibility into Trump’s activities
meidasnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump Visits Golf Club for 10th Time in 11 Days
Reporters were barred, limiting visibility into Trump’s activities
meidasnews.com/news/trump-v...
Reporters were barred, limiting visibility into Trump’s activities
meidasnews.com/news/trump-v...
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A 2023 study by the RAND Corporation warned that “overt military intervention in Venezuela is likely to become messy very quickly and is likely to become protracted.”
SCOOP: CIA Was Behind Venezuela Drone Strike, Source Says
The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.
theintercept.com/2025/12/30/c...
The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.
theintercept.com/2025/12/30/c...
CIA Was Behind Venezuela Drone Strike, Source Says
The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America.
theintercept.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A 2023 study by the RAND Corporation warned that “overt military intervention in Venezuela is likely to become messy very quickly and is likely to become protracted.”
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An attack in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution.
Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Artists, musicians have always been at the forefront of battles against authoritarians and repressive regimes.
Support them.
Support them.
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Artists, musicians have always been at the forefront of battles against authoritarians and repressive regimes.
Support them.
Support them.
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1A: Here's a gift link to the NYTimes piece on Trump's deadly attacks on fishermen killed for transporting marijuana. courtesy @simonwdc.bsky.social:
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Incredible reporting here from the @nytimes.com......(gift link).
Colombian fishermen scared to fish for fear of being killed by the US military in waters their families have fished for generations....
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Colombian fishermen scared to fish for fear of being killed by the US military in waters their families have fished for generations....
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
1A: Here's a gift link to the NYTimes piece on Trump's deadly attacks on fishermen killed for transporting marijuana. courtesy @simonwdc.bsky.social:
bsky.app/profile/simo...
bsky.app/profile/simo...
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US airstrikes slaughtering people at sea for transporting....marijuana. A substance that is legal in many states & Trump himself just days ago moved to reclassify.
"First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
"First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
US airstrikes slaughtering people at sea for transporting....marijuana. A substance that is legal in many states & Trump himself just days ago moved to reclassify.
"First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
"First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
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How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.
December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.
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The Washpost edit board calls Trump’s bombing in Nigeria “a welcome change in a part of the world that has always been little more than an afterthought for the president” — and has zero mention of the thousands in Africa facing starvation because of USAID cuts
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Why West Africa is worth worrying about
Strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria are welcome but insufficient.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Washpost edit board calls Trump’s bombing in Nigeria “a welcome change in a part of the world that has always been little more than an afterthought for the president” — and has zero mention of the thousands in Africa facing starvation because of USAID cuts
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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“Fascism, for all its evils, is a politics that speaks to the human condition. It does not invent the domination, hate, and madness it imposes on the world, but rather elevates those things from within us. Violence and brutality are compelling because we are predisposed to find them compelling.”
Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality.
Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want To Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and The Politics of Violence
Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Fascism, for all its evils, is a politics that speaks to the human condition. It does not invent the domination, hate, and madness it imposes on the world, but rather elevates those things from within us. Violence and brutality are compelling because we are predisposed to find them compelling.”
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I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
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A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
So Trump is now bombing Nigeria to protect Christians? Wow! Will he start bombing Russia when he learns what Putin has been doing to Christians in Ukraine!?
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Russia Tortures and Murders Christians in Ukraine: What Many Silence and Some Applaud - ZENIT - English
In December 2022, the Russians banned the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, faithful to Rome, from the occupied territories. The ban included the Catholic organizations Caritas and the Knights of Colum...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So Trump is now bombing Nigeria to protect Christians? Wow! Will he start bombing Russia when he learns what Putin has been doing to Christians in Ukraine!?
zenit.org/2025/07/28/r...
zenit.org/2025/07/28/r...
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America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.
When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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Two stories side by side in WashPost
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Two stories side by side in WashPost
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“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..”
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December 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
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"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.'
The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
The appeal was issued by the Miami archbishop and signed by seven other members of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"'We request that the government pause apprehension activities during the Christmas season. Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families.'
The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The White House did not mention the holiday season in its rejection of the Bishops' request..."
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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During the holiday season, we all want to spend time with our loved ones.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
During the holiday season, we all want to spend time with our loved ones.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
Trump battleships? Are those the battleships that stay in port and get other ships to do the fighting for them?
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Trump battleships? Are those the battleships that stay in port and get other ships to do the fighting for them?