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Attorney, dog-lover, DC to SD
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CSIS: “This ship will never sail. It will take years to design, cost $9 billion each to build, and contravene the Navy’s new concept of operations, which envisions distributed firepower. A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water.”
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Aim is to advance “America first agenda”
Africa is the continent most affected by the removals, with ambassadors from 13 countries being removed: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda.
apnews.com/article/dipl...
Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully...
apnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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NEW: @annamaria.bsky.social spent time at a maternity ward in Kakuma, Kenya, after the Trump administration cut funding for food rations there.

New mothers told her stories about their pregnancies as they were left to starve.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Denmark's foreign ministry today summoning the US ambassador to protest President Trump's appointment of the Louisiana governor as special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex. www.berlingske.dk/internation...
Kampen om Grønland – følg med her
Præsident Trump har ud af det blå udpeget guvernøren i delstaten Louisiana, Jeff Landry, som USAs særlige udsending til Grønland. Få reaktioner og seneste nyt her. 
www.berlingske.dk
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A central motif throughout the drug panics has been the specter of predatory drug dealers forcing innocent young white girls into sexual slavery. Swap out “scary young Black guy” with “old rich white man” and suddenly there’s no urgency.
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.
This WaPo piece weaves together an incredibly powerful story about the way Trump has devastated government and the dedicated people who wake up every day to serve the public. wapo.st/4b14KAy
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country. n.pr/4saai1J
A radio station in Amsterdam is a lifeline for Sudan. After USAID cuts, it's faltering
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The ACLU's Lee Gelernt has been at the front lines of immigration horrors for longer than most anyone. Here he's giving a map not only of what it means to fly hundreds of Venezuelans to a lawless prison, but more pointedly what it means to defy judicial commands. swap.fm/l/AmicusWith...
swap.fm
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Despite all the noise about “mass exodus”, 51% of African emigrants move within Africa. Only 3% of the African population lives outside their home country, compared to 8.5% of Europeans living outside theirs.
publications.iom.int/system/files...
December 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Now @abc10news.bsky.social has a story on the Raschke family’s fears about what’s next following federal notice that funding for those vouchers will end far sooner than planned.
Formerly homeless & SD Housing Commission talk impacts of Emergency Housing Vouchers losing funding early
“We were homeless on the streets of San Diego for about almost three years,” Natalie Raschke, an Emergency Housing Voucher holder, said.
www.10news.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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“The FBI alleges that the HSI agents walked up, showed their badges, and said they wanted to talk with Bamigboye. One agent got into the front seat of the Jeep and tried to stop Frazier from driving off. But she put the SUV in gear and headed for the New Hope Police station.”
Judge frees couple charged with 'kidnapping' immigration agent as defense challenges government's account
Attorneys for a couple charged with driving to a police station with an HSI agent in their car dispute the government’s account of the incident. A judge released both from jail pending trial.
www.mprnews.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Me: Back in my day we had to star 69 someone when we got an unexpected call

Gen Z person: You did what
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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For years, I’ve been writing about San Diego’s shortage of detox beds for low-income and homeless people. Today I get to tell a good story about a nonprofit that felt galvanized by my reporting. Father Joe's Villages opened a 44-bed detox facility in September.
How Father Joe’s Villages Delivered Detox Beds
Nonprofit Father Joe’s Villages opened a 44-bed detox facility downtown in September, dramatically boosting offerings for low-income and homeless San Diegans in need.
voiceofsandiego.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.
The Doors of Stone Town
In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM