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Let's talk about 14 characteristics, 10 stages, and where you are....
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Posting this educational video from 2019 for no particular reason.
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The uncle of Palestinian child Zahir Shamia, who was murdered today by Israel in northern Gaza and then run over by a tank:
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The uncle of Palestinian child Zahir Shamia, who was murdered today by Israel in northern Gaza and then run over by a tank:
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Israel has blocked 4000 pallets of shelter materials since the ceasefire, allowing only a trickle of tents and tarpaulins, which helped only 88,000 of the 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza who desperately need cover from a brutal winter storm.
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Israel has blocked 4000 pallets of shelter materials since the ceasefire, allowing only a trickle of tents and tarpaulins, which helped only 88,000 of the 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza who desperately need cover from a brutal winter storm.
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
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“Somali-looking” man repeatedly begged ICE agents to check his digital passport ID as they tried to put him in a chokehold. They did not, and instead tackled him to the ground, and abducted him. They reportedly drove him 7 miles away before freeing him.
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Somali-looking” man repeatedly begged ICE agents to check his digital passport ID as they tried to put him in a chokehold. They did not, and instead tackled him to the ground, and abducted him. They reportedly drove him 7 miles away before freeing him.
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
Video: @LongTimeHistory via X
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🚨YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Colorado AG @philweiser.bsky.social is pressing to use state law to redefine corporate powers and repeal Citizens United in Colorado — a replica of the plan being pushed in Montana.
Weiser is running for governor. Here’s his oped with Rep.
@javiermabrey.bsky.social.
Weiser is running for governor. Here’s his oped with Rep.
@javiermabrey.bsky.social.
The creative way Colorado can work around Citizens United to keep big money’s corporate influence out of politics (Opinion)
“We must reduce the influence of big money in our politics so that elected officials work for the people, not special interests.” — Phil Weiser and Javier Mabry
www.denverpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚨YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Colorado AG @philweiser.bsky.social is pressing to use state law to redefine corporate powers and repeal Citizens United in Colorado — a replica of the plan being pushed in Montana.
Weiser is running for governor. Here’s his oped with Rep.
@javiermabrey.bsky.social.
Weiser is running for governor. Here’s his oped with Rep.
@javiermabrey.bsky.social.
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This is a ploy to get around the Flores settlement, which requires that children be removed from immigration detention after 20 days. Building a school in the detention center makes it look like it's a licensed facility for child care but it's not.
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is a ploy to get around the Flores settlement, which requires that children be removed from immigration detention after 20 days. Building a school in the detention center makes it look like it's a licensed facility for child care but it's not.
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
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George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
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Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
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The GOP is pretending that their drastic cuts to healthcare won't hurt children. But that's a lie. Kids will be hurt most of all. The funding cuts mean more children will die, more will have lifelong medical complications, more will be sent into foster care. New from me in @prospect.org:
Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children - The American Prospect
GOP funding cuts mean that more children will grow up with the lifelong implications of untreated illnesses.
prospect.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The GOP is pretending that their drastic cuts to healthcare won't hurt children. But that's a lie. Kids will be hurt most of all. The funding cuts mean more children will die, more will have lifelong medical complications, more will be sent into foster care. New from me in @prospect.org:
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I think the best and easiest way to fight people without principles is to have principles. Scumbags and liars wither in the face of moral clarity, the only way they have a chance is if their opponents are insincere weasels themselves
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I think the best and easiest way to fight people without principles is to have principles. Scumbags and liars wither in the face of moral clarity, the only way they have a chance is if their opponents are insincere weasels themselves
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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Republicans have rallied behind a new health care plan — one that would have millions of Americans paying even more for health care.
New at @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/trump-repu...
New at @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/trump-repu...
Republicans Want You to Pay More for Healthcare
Instead of renewing subsidies for people on Obamacare insurance plans, Republicans want them to give them a savings account while jacking up their costs.
zeteo.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Republicans have rallied behind a new health care plan — one that would have millions of Americans paying even more for health care.
New at @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/trump-repu...
New at @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/trump-repu...
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The estimated median net worth of who’s running the country:
House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B
House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B
"Do the rich have too much political power?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The estimated median net worth of who’s running the country:
House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B
House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B
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“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
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Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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Conservatives are trying to cut VA benefits for nearly seven million veterans, claiming the current disability compensation encourages veterans to stay sick and cheat the system. From Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early:
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Trump Is Coming for Veterans’ Disability Benefits - The American Prospect
The veterans disability system has traditionally been a sacred cow for politicians of all stripes. Now, as part of the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration is falsely alleging that many former soldiers are cheating the system.
trib.al
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Conservatives are trying to cut VA benefits for nearly seven million veterans, claiming the current disability compensation encourages veterans to stay sick and cheat the system. From Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early:
trib.al/K77Yf8G
trib.al/K77Yf8G
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
"The fundamental reality is this: There is no way to improve health care in this country without increasing subsidies, tightening regulations, or expanding public programs, and Republicans oppose all three of those things."
Republicans are trying to find a way to stop healthcare premium hikes without admitting “all their health care ideas are awful and stupid.” Despite Dems. best efforts to bail out their colleagues, it looks like a premium increase is on the horizon. From @ryanlcooper.com
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Republicans Scramble for Health Care Ideas as Obamacare Deadline Looms - The American Prospect
Next week, massive premium increases get locked in. The GOP has shown no interest in stopping it, or preventing any other increases in health care costs.
trib.al
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"The fundamental reality is this: There is no way to improve health care in this country without increasing subsidies, tightening regulations, or expanding public programs, and Republicans oppose all three of those things."
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NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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In this Tom Cotton speculates that one of the shipwrecked men “taking off his tshirt” was a hostile act that required his execution by missile from miles away.
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In this Tom Cotton speculates that one of the shipwrecked men “taking off his tshirt” was a hostile act that required his execution by missile from miles away.
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
One of the most insane, sickening things I’ve ever heard from a US leader
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The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
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A 23 year old man couldn’t buy his inhaler when a United Healthcare subsidiary raised the cost by 700 percent. He died 11 days later. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reveals the middlemen who are making American life unaffordable: trib.al/Ls57cNX
Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
trib.al
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A 23 year old man couldn’t buy his inhaler when a United Healthcare subsidiary raised the cost by 700 percent. He died 11 days later. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reveals the middlemen who are making American life unaffordable: trib.al/Ls57cNX
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.