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Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I had a friend diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and he was gone very soon thereafter. This is very sad news, no matter anyone's political party.
December 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Many are in Africa, where it seems that the US is informally cutting off diplomatic relations. What a gift to China!
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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New in PN: Make America Weak

"It's become clear that Trump's efforts to sabotage America’s economic, political, and defense relationships with major democracies abroad are part and parcel of 'policies' he’s been pursuing at home — all calculated to make our nation more susceptible to autocracy."
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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“Grace periods” for late-arriving mail ballots were not controversial until very recently. (Kansas lawmakers voted *163-1* for a grace period in 2017!)

But Trump wants them banned, so red states have lately rushed to help him. Ohio just joined the list:

boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-gr...
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Release the prosecution memoranda.
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I just penned this piece with Tom Joscelyn

Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT”

"If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described they should, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information."
Fact Checking Bari Weiss: The Stated Reasons for Spiking 60 Minutes "Inside CECOT"
Analysis of Bari Weiss's stated justifications to 60 Minutes staff for not airing segment on CECOT prison.
www.justsecurity.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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An interesting and moving account of a ‘stammtisch’ in New York.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/n...
A Weekly Gathering for Those Who Fled the Nazis Ends After 82 Years
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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“Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’”
Latest Epstein files name Trump multiple times
In the more than 10,000 files released Tuesday, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, said the sex trafficker was killed because he was going to name co-conspirators.
www.miamiherald.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Jesus Christ, I’m embarrassed *for* you at this point.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Bari Weiss vs. Sharyn Alfonsi
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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If we want an independent media that isn’t the plaything of oligarchs, we’re going to have to build it together.

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December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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it's so cool that journalists believe they deserve respect as a privileged class that speaks truth to power without ever needing to speak truth to power
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Have you considered that journalism might not be the right career for you?
December 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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"Why is any of this okay with so many of those who once claimed to be free-speech champions or absolutists? Because, quite obviously, they were not."

I endorse. And admittedly feel some frustration it seems @adamserwer.bsky.social and others do too, having seen through this crowd clearly for years.
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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“.. They are prepositioning forces to take action. .. The question that remains is to accomplish what?” he said.

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.
It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This keeps happening

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...
Russell Brand Is Charged With Additional Counts of Rape and Sexual Assault
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM