fiddletwist
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Can't do that X thing anymore, suddenly most of my friends are here. What makes me happy: cats books fiber arts music pens The Repair Shop.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social is requesting that this video be shared so it goes viral. Topic: Voter election data protection
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Justice Department sues states for private voter data
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen News
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December 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social is requesting that this video be shared so it goes viral. Topic: Voter election data protection
youtu.be/aTTxFrCpj4Y?...
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
ICE Releases Grandma With Green Card After 5 Months in Time for Christmas
Donna Hughes Brown's case was highlighted during a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
www.star-telegram.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.
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Trump’s War on ICE-Fearing Catholics • Chico News & Review
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December 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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The Trump administration has stopped outsourcing its incompetence and lying to the DOJ. It will now do it directly.
Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
www.axios.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Trump administration has stopped outsourcing its incompetence and lying to the DOJ. It will now do it directly.
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If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .
December 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .
Hahaha #kavanaughstops
Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Hahaha #kavanaughstops
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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 8:16 PM
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...
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Across the nation, families are gathering in joy and safety, thanks to those who fought for our freedom.
What did veterans get as a holiday gift from the President? A targeted, dangerous abortion ban, issued quietly overnight. It's unconscionable. This entire administration should be ashamed.
What did veterans get as a holiday gift from the President? A targeted, dangerous abortion ban, issued quietly overnight. It's unconscionable. This entire administration should be ashamed.
Trump's VA just banned abortion care for veterans—even in cases of rape, incest, or threats to health.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Across the nation, families are gathering in joy and safety, thanks to those who fought for our freedom.
What did veterans get as a holiday gift from the President? A targeted, dangerous abortion ban, issued quietly overnight. It's unconscionable. This entire administration should be ashamed.
What did veterans get as a holiday gift from the President? A targeted, dangerous abortion ban, issued quietly overnight. It's unconscionable. This entire administration should be ashamed.
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BREAKING SCOTUS NEWS: In a 6-3 decision, Convicted Felon Donald Trump LOSES his bid to be able to deploy the National Guard in Chicago.
I walk through the order, incl. detailed analysis on why the majority ruled as it did and why the dissenting justices are HYPOCRITES.
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I walk through the order, incl. detailed analysis on why the majority ruled as it did and why the dissenting justices are HYPOCRITES.
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🚨 Trump BLINDSIDED by SHOCK DEFEAT from Supreme Court
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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December 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
BREAKING SCOTUS NEWS: In a 6-3 decision, Convicted Felon Donald Trump LOSES his bid to be able to deploy the National Guard in Chicago.
I walk through the order, incl. detailed analysis on why the majority ruled as it did and why the dissenting justices are HYPOCRITES.
youtu.be/3BZV17pHJCw?...
I walk through the order, incl. detailed analysis on why the majority ruled as it did and why the dissenting justices are HYPOCRITES.
youtu.be/3BZV17pHJCw?...
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For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
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For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.
December 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.
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Hooray for free-thinking, antisemitic fascists!
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hooray for free-thinking, antisemitic fascists!
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Somehow, Trump has "attorney-client privileges" located in the Epstein files.
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Somehow, Trump has "attorney-client privileges" located in the Epstein files.
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Instead of going through the time and tedium of subpoenas, hearings, and due process, Congress should just do as the Pentagon does: acting on a vague hunch without any evidence, declare that Pam Bondi is a "narco-terrorist" and bust some doors down.
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Instead of going through the time and tedium of subpoenas, hearings, and due process, Congress should just do as the Pentagon does: acting on a vague hunch without any evidence, declare that Pam Bondi is a "narco-terrorist" and bust some doors down.
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The "vibe shift" was largely elites insisting politics and culture had changed forever on whatever issues they wanted Dems to move right on
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The "vibe shift" was largely elites insisting politics and culture had changed forever on whatever issues they wanted Dems to move right on
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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Snopes has addressed multiple rumors involving Rob Reiner, including the unfounded claims that his son Nick is transgender and that Reiner had ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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12 rumors involving Rob Reiner we've investigated
The director and his wife were found stabbed to death in their home in December 2025.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Snopes has addressed multiple rumors involving Rob Reiner, including the unfounded claims that his son Nick is transgender and that Reiner had ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
www.snopes.com/collections/...
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If Donald Trump is OK with Pam Bondi making him look *this* guilty, the Epstein Files must have lots of outrageously
damning evidence about him.
damning evidence about him.
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If Donald Trump is OK with Pam Bondi making him look *this* guilty, the Epstein Files must have lots of outrageously
damning evidence about him.
damning evidence about him.
They aren't done yet shredding any page that names trump.
The Trump Administration is legally required to release the Epstein Files by the end of today, but they are refusing to do so. The president himself signed this bill into law.
What is Donald Trump hiding?
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
What is Donald Trump hiding?
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DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files
The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law President Donald Trump signed in November.
www.politico.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
They aren't done yet shredding any page that names trump.
Why is this giving me Katniss Everdeen vibes....?
The announcement comes as #Trump reveals how his administration plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. in 2026.
Trump Announces ‘Patriot Games’ Sports Showdown With Teens From Each State | BIN: Black Information Network
A nationwide state fair on the National Mall and a youth athletic event calling for "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory" to compete against each other are among the marque...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Why is this giving me Katniss Everdeen vibes....?