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Yana 🇺🇦

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putin is currently sending everything he's got at Ukraine's civilian population while the world pretends he's ready for peace

tomorrow he'll call the president of America and tell him it was all Zelenskyy's fault

December 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM

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Jeff Lazarus

@jlazarus.bsky.social

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:

Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Deb Golden

@debgoldendc.bsky.social

Given my priors, I can't quite believe I'm here, but

The next administration needs to staff up the public corruption section of DOJ in such a way that the WPA looks like a neighborhood lemonade stand

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

December 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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Don Moynihan

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New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

December 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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Yashar Ali 🐘

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Where are the masculine men (Miranda Priestly voice)

Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post thread. At the top, a user named “angry buni” (@theangriestbuni) reposts and quotes another post with a critical caption. The quoted text reads: “I had it so hard wearing that mask while my wife was in labor for hours and then had to be stitched up from ass to vag. Someone feel pity for me!” Below that, angry buni adds: “What a bitch.”

Underneath is the original post by Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol), who writes: “I’ll never forget being forced to wear a mask in the delivery room where my son was being born. I’m forever grateful to the nurse who let me take it off so I could hold him for the first time without one. What an insane time…”

Below his text are two photos: on the left, a man wearing a medical mask sits next to a woman lying in a hospital bed after giving birth; on the right, the same man, unmasked, sits in a chair holding a newborn baby wrapped in a hospital blanket.

December 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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NY Times Pitchbot

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ICE is having so much difficulty filling open positions that the agency may soon begin hiring documented workers.

December 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Frau Doktor Holle

@anthrodiva.bsky.social

Nature is amazing

www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

From the interesting community on Reddit: This isn't a forest-it's one tree. The world's largest cashew tree in Natal, Brazil, spans over 8,500 m², covering a whole city block.

Explore this post and more from the interesting community

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December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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Dana Houle

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Remember last month when DHS claimed they were forced to shoot a woman w a semi-automatic weapon—part of a 10 vehicle convoy that had blocked in Border Patrol agents—bc she rammed one of their vehicles?

DOJ just dropped all charges

Always assume DHS is lying
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/m...

November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

They’re not sending their best.

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 2d

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.

www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

December 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Michelle

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Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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Ritchie Torres

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The Christian right’s deification of Donald Trump amounts to idolatry.

Trump’s malignantly narcissistic response to the murder of Rob Reiner reveals a deeply demonic figure: one callously indifferent to any life but his own, the antithesis of a true Christian.

December 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Mother Jones

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The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.

When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”

How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.

www.motherjones.com

December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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stuart

@stuartp.bsky.social

at a deep instinctive level they can't recognise popular ideas or take them seriously

December 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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Matt Ford

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A funny moment in Amy Coney Barrett’s book tour this year was when she made clear in an interview that she thinks “common-good constitutionalism” is bullshit.

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 1d

I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...

What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well.

Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.

December 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Thyme

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I’m just going to say that anyone convicted of sexual abuse charges against anyone, especially a child, should NEVER be allowed to plead to lesser charges. EVER. And yet somehow they always allow them to. That’s absolutely abhorrent.

December 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000

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How Did Epstein Make
His Fortune? "He Stole It," Finds NYT Investigation

Democracy Now! 12/17/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc6b...
David Enrich, deputy investigations editor at The New York Times and lead author

How Did Epstein Make His Fortune? "He Stole It," Finds NYT Investigation

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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December 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Michael

@schmutzie.bsky.social

There will be an entire era dedicated to De-Trumpification

December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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D. Earl Stephens

@dearlstephens.bsky.social

📌The Epstein Files are only the latest ghastly example of white male privilege.

December 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

Marie Curie (w/husband Pierre) discovered radium #OTD in 1898.

It revolutionized #science & launched radioactivity, nuclear physics & cancer therapy. They won the 1903 Nobel in Physics & she became the only person to win a Nobel in 2 science categories with her 1911 Nobel in Chemistry. #WomenInSTEM

A split black-and-white historical photograph featuring two portraits of Marie Curie. On the left: A formal studio portrait from 1895 showing a young Pierre Curie and Marie Curie standing side by side. Pierre, on the left, is a man with a short beard and mustache, wearing a dark three-piece suit with a white shirt, with a serious expression. Marie, on the right, is a young woman with her hair pulled back in an updo, wearing a high-necked dark dress with puffed sleeves and fur trim at the collar, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, composed expression. On the right: A later portrait from around 1920 of an older Marie Curie alone, facing the camera directly. She has gray hair styled loosely and pulled back, and is wearing a dark blouse with a distinctive patterned bow tie at the collar. Her expression is serious and resolute.

December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

vance is a genuine lunatic

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.

December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM

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Ally Raymond

@allyraymond.bsky.social

#Trumpinsanity
He's so desperate to start a war and suspend elections! We know their playlist.

December 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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Firstconsul

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If any of the rest of us do this, it is a crime. Just arrest them and impound the vehicle. Run them for outstanding warrants-- I'll pit dimes to doughnuts they have 'um.