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Ellen Greaves

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Sarah Fitzpatrick

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files

The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing.

www.theatlantic.com

December 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM

Ellen Greaves

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JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

December 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM

Ellen Greaves

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Jonathan Lemire

Trump Is Suddenly Looking a Lot Smaller

The president is no longer dominating his party or the country in the way he once did.

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December 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Ellen Greaves

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December 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Ellen Greaves

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So what will you be doing instead of watching the Trumpified Kennedy Center Honors tonight ???

December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM

Ellen Greaves

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Betty Reid Soskin, Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Dies at 104 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Betty Reid Soskin, Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Dies at 104

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December 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM

Ellen Greaves

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Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump’s Name From the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump’s Name From the Kennedy Center

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December 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM

Ellen Greaves

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Tom Nichols

Trump’s Vanity Fleet

The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.

www.theatlantic.com

December 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM

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Steven Beschloss

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“They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to become benumbed to the mounting horror. They want us to think their success is inevitable & there’s nothing we can do about it. This is how they win. It’s our job in the coming year to prove how wrong they are.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...

We Can't Stop Caring

It remains in our power to create a more just future

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December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Ellen Greaves

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... Franklin Foer

CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump

Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake.

www.theatlantic.com

December 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM

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TPM

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Trump’s second-term nominees are younger and more uniformly partisan than ever.
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How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM

Ellen Greaves

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How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

talkingpointsmemo.com

December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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Rachel Maddow

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"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats...

"This month, Witkoff concluded his 6th trip to Russia, talking with Putin for five hours through midnight. Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine..."

www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA

The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.

www.wsj.com

December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

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I’m launching a Substack. Why? Because Trump is completely unfit for office, his enablers are cowards, and the truth needs to be said plainly by someone who knows how these guys tick. Subscribe if you're with me. open.substack.com/pub/gtconway...

The Republic Won't Save Itself

This New Year, I’m Starting a Substack

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December 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Ellen Greaves

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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Adam Liptak

A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Plan

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December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM

Ellen Greaves

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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are Trump’s Actions Unprecedented? We Asked Historians (Again).

An examination of whether recent moves have no precedent, are relatively common or somewhere in between.

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December 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM

Ellen Greaves

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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... Michael Grynbaum

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

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December 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM

Ellen Greaves

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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office

Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM

Ellen Greaves

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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Max Boot

Opinion | Trump is losing sight of America’s real terrorist threat

ISIS and al-Qaeda thrive as Trump recklessly reallocates scarce security resources.

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December 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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Anna Bower

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM

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Rachel Maddow

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"A new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden.

"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Catherine Rampell

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Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.