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We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
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We've filed our opposition to the government's motion to dismiss in @libradunn1.bsky.social's and @semperwry.bsky.social's lawsuit to have the Jan. 6 memorial installed. Government's reply is due next week.
NEW: Jan 6 police heroes file new motion defending their lawsuit which seeks court order for Architect of Capitol to finally hang the January 6th plaque honoring officers
Law required plaque to be hung by 2023
It hasn't been
GOP leaders won't see if/when it'll happen
(MORE)
Law required plaque to be hung by 2023
It hasn't been
GOP leaders won't see if/when it'll happen
(MORE)
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We've filed our opposition to the government's motion to dismiss in @libradunn1.bsky.social's and @semperwry.bsky.social's lawsuit to have the Jan. 6 memorial installed. Government's reply is due next week.
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NEW: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges have filed their response to the government's arguments against hanging the January 6th plaque in the Capitol pursuant to federal law. I'll post a link to the full filing once it's on the docket.
December 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
NEW: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges have filed their response to the government's arguments against hanging the January 6th plaque in the Capitol pursuant to federal law. I'll post a link to the full filing once it's on the docket.
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Trump spent $230 million to remodel the White House. It sucks.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A day after federal agents arrested Epstein in 2019, they were also apparently trying to contact 10 people they called potential 'co-conspirators,' according to a newly released email exchange.
All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.
All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.
Federal Agents Tried to Contact ‘Co-Conspirators’ in Epstein Case, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A day after federal agents arrested Epstein in 2019, they were also apparently trying to contact 10 people they called potential 'co-conspirators,' according to a newly released email exchange.
All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.
All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.
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"But when the rule of law in a country is displaced by arbitrary authoritarian rule, as happened in Putin’s Russia, the results are predictable: investors and companies flee to more stable environs as the economy declines." — @davidrlurie.com
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"But when the rule of law in a country is displaced by arbitrary authoritarian rule, as happened in Putin’s Russia, the results are predictable: investors and companies flee to more stable environs as the economy declines." — @davidrlurie.com
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Millions of Americans will pay hundreds more per month to keep their health insurance.
Why? Because Republicans are choosing to let ACA tax credits expire so they can give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the mega-rich.
Why? Because Republicans are choosing to let ACA tax credits expire so they can give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the mega-rich.
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Millions of Americans will pay hundreds more per month to keep their health insurance.
Why? Because Republicans are choosing to let ACA tax credits expire so they can give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the mega-rich.
Why? Because Republicans are choosing to let ACA tax credits expire so they can give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the mega-rich.
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holy shit
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
holy shit
Excellent.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor. n.pr/4jf8ukf
Supreme Court rules against Trump in National Guard case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor.
n.pr
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Excellent.
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TW: This is an allegation of a conspiracy to murder a Trump rape victim & cover it up.
In the Epstein files, a former DFW Limo driver relays info about his experiences driving Trump, who was speaking about “Jeffrey” & “abusing some girl,” & him telling a Trump/Epstein victim to report their abuse.
In the Epstein files, a former DFW Limo driver relays info about his experiences driving Trump, who was speaking about “Jeffrey” & “abusing some girl,” & him telling a Trump/Epstein victim to report their abuse.
December 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TW: This is an allegation of a conspiracy to murder a Trump rape victim & cover it up.
In the Epstein files, a former DFW Limo driver relays info about his experiences driving Trump, who was speaking about “Jeffrey” & “abusing some girl,” & him telling a Trump/Epstein victim to report their abuse.
In the Epstein files, a former DFW Limo driver relays info about his experiences driving Trump, who was speaking about “Jeffrey” & “abusing some girl,” & him telling a Trump/Epstein victim to report their abuse.
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An allegation of rape against Trump was part of an explosive new tranche of documents released by his own Justice Department.
Epstein Files Reveal Bombshell FBI Tip About Trump
The document was part of a new trove of emails released by the Justice Department.
trib.al
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
An allegation of rape against Trump was part of an explosive new tranche of documents released by his own Justice Department.
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Let this sink in.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Let this sink in.
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Wowser
Epstein to Larry Nassar
'Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Epstein to Larry Nassar
'Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump flew alone on jet with Epstein and unnamed 20-year-old, new files suggest
Claim by a senior US attorney about US president appears in latest batch of justice department documents
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wowser
Epstein to Larry Nassar
'Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Epstein to Larry Nassar
'Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Worth noting that Leon Black's name pops up in these most recent Epstein docs in the context of a questionable Epstein charity donation. Black was paying Epstein tens of millions of dollars.
A refresher here: Black was accused of raping a woman at Epstein's home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
A refresher here: Black was accused of raping a woman at Epstein's home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
Money, Women and Taxes: Jeffrey Epstein’s Fiery Friendship with a Wall Street Titan
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Worth noting that Leon Black's name pops up in these most recent Epstein docs in the context of a questionable Epstein charity donation. Black was paying Epstein tens of millions of dollars.
A refresher here: Black was accused of raping a woman at Epstein's home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
A refresher here: Black was accused of raping a woman at Epstein's home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
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Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Here’s What Happens Now That Republicans Have Thrown Us Over the Obamacare Cliff
ACA marketplace enrollees are set to see their health insurance costs spike. But when premium tax credits expire, profound systemic shocks will be felt well beyond individual customers.
ACA marketplace enrollees are set to see their health insurance costs spike. But when premium tax credits expire, profound systemic shocks will be felt well beyond individual customers.
Here’s What Happens Now That We’re Going Over the Obamacare Cliff
ACA marketplace enrollees are set to see their health insurance costs spike. But when premium tax credits expire, profound systemic shocks will be felt well beyond individual customers.
newrepublic.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s What Happens Now That Republicans Have Thrown Us Over the Obamacare Cliff
ACA marketplace enrollees are set to see their health insurance costs spike. But when premium tax credits expire, profound systemic shocks will be felt well beyond individual customers.
ACA marketplace enrollees are set to see their health insurance costs spike. But when premium tax credits expire, profound systemic shocks will be felt well beyond individual customers.
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The Trump administration will begin seizing the pay of people in default on their student loans early next year, marking the first wave of new wage garnishments since the pandemic.
Wage garnishment for defaulted student loans to resume early next year
The Education Department had stopped collecting wages to repay defaulted loans during the coronavirus pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Trump administration will begin seizing the pay of people in default on their student loans early next year, marking the first wave of new wage garnishments since the pandemic.
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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: We have the text of the note referenced by Rolling Stone, and in it Epstein makes among the last words he committed to paper the revelation that Trump was obsessed with "young, nubile girls" and regularly sexually assaulted them.
Jeffrey Epstein Wrote Fellow Pedophile Larry Nassar a Letter Before His Death
Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact fellow pedophile and admitted sexual abuser Larry Nassar via mail in the days before his death by suicide.
www.rollingstone.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: We have the text of the note referenced by Rolling Stone, and in it Epstein makes among the last words he committed to paper the revelation that Trump was obsessed with "young, nubile girls" and regularly sexually assaulted them.
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All trigger warnings on this.
Not many people are talking about this FBI intake form.
The complainant claims Trump assaulted her when she was 13 and pregnant, and witnessed the murder of her newborn baby. This is absolutely horrifying.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Not many people are talking about this FBI intake form.
The complainant claims Trump assaulted her when she was 13 and pregnant, and witnessed the murder of her newborn baby. This is absolutely horrifying.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
All trigger warnings on this.
Not many people are talking about this FBI intake form.
The complainant claims Trump assaulted her when she was 13 and pregnant, and witnessed the murder of her newborn baby. This is absolutely horrifying.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Not many people are talking about this FBI intake form.
The complainant claims Trump assaulted her when she was 13 and pregnant, and witnessed the murder of her newborn baby. This is absolutely horrifying.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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You’ve held your action for the right moment: Now is the time to act.
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You’ve held your action for the right moment: Now is the time to act.
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Support your favorite congressional campaign and donate any amount at katforillinois.com/BLeeM!
💫 @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
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Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois' Ninth District because Democrats need to do more to stop Trump and fight for working people.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Support your favorite congressional campaign and donate any amount at katforillinois.com/BLeeM!
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If you are doing investigative reporting on #Epstein, please get me your links to be featured in epsteinwiki.com
Home - EPSTEIN WIKI
Welcome to the Epstein Wiki an open source collaborative investigation into the truth This project exists because one of the most complex and far-reaching trafficking networks in modern history has ne...
Epsteinwiki.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you are doing investigative reporting on #Epstein, please get me your links to be featured in epsteinwiki.com
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December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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As Trump touts higher than expected GDP growth, seems worth pointing out spending on health care is the bulk of it. Is that really something to celebrate?
“this was a stronger than expected print however for all the wrong reasons.”
www.beckershospitalreview.com/financial/ho...
“this was a stronger than expected print however for all the wrong reasons.”
www.beckershospitalreview.com/financial/ho...
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As Trump touts higher than expected GDP growth, seems worth pointing out spending on health care is the bulk of it. Is that really something to celebrate?
“this was a stronger than expected print however for all the wrong reasons.”
www.beckershospitalreview.com/financial/ho...
“this was a stronger than expected print however for all the wrong reasons.”
www.beckershospitalreview.com/financial/ho...