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For months, MAGA insiders have implied that the DOJ is preparing a conspiratorial probe against an expansive list of Trump’s political enemies. Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi all but confirmed the speculation, and is taking aim at Obama-Biden era officials. https://bit.ly/3Le5vvI
DOJ Organizing Vast Conspiracy Investigation Against Trump Enemies, Bondi Says
Read more here.
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December 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Israel’s current leadership has made clear it is “perfectly happy if everybody in Gaza dies,” Dr. Feroze Sidhwa told Drop Site, citing constant genocidal rhetoric from senior officials & policies that treat the destruction of Gaza’s health system as a benefit.

If the killings and the collapse...
Israel’s current leadership has made clear it is “perfectly happy if everybody in Gaza dies,” Dr. Feroze Sidhwa told Drop Site, citing constant genocidal rhetoric from senior officials and policies that treat the destruction of Gaza’s health system as a benefit. If the killings and the collapse of the health system continue, Sidhwa said, it is because they are being allowed to continue. “All it would take is one phone call from the White House for it to stop.” To citizens of countries backing Israel, he said, the outcome is “largely up to us.” @FerozeSidhwa | @DropSiteNews
December 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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From UNICEF’s December briefing at the UN on “this domino effect from mother to child that should have and could have been prevented.”

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dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 19d
“At least 165 children have died, painful, preventable deaths related to malnutrition during the war in the Gaza Strip,” UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram said at a UN briefing in Geneva on Tues.

She warned that a far less reported crisis is unfolding among pregnant & breastfeeding women, with...
She warned that a far less reported crisis is unfolding among pregnant and breastfeeding women, with devastating consequences for newborns. ➤ The pattern: Malnourished mothers are giving birth to premature or underweight babies who die in neonatal units or survive with severe, lifelong health risks. ➤ Before the war (2022): About 250 babies per month were born underweight, roughly 5% of births. ➤ First half of 2025: Underweight births doubled to 10%, about 300 babies per month, despite fewer total births. ➤ July–September 2025: The figure surged to 460 babies per month, around 15 per day, nearly double pre-war levels. Ingram said she met newborns weighing less than one kilogram, their chests heaving as they struggled to breathe. Low-birth-weight babies are 20 times more likely to die, yet Gaza’s hospitals lack the equipment needed to save them due to the destruction of the health system, the death and displacement of staff, and Israeli restrictions blocking essential medical supplies. ➤ First-day deaths: Babies dying within 24 hours rose 75%, from 27 per month in 2022 to 47 per month between July and September 2025. ➤ Maternal malnutrition: 38% of pregnant women screened had acute malnutrition. In October alone, UNICEF admitted 8,300 pregnant and breastfeeding women, about 270 per day, in a population with no discernible malnutrition before October 2023. ➤ Child treatment: UNICEF said 9,300 children under five were admitted for malnutrition treatment in October, with over 14,000 children currently enrolled. “This domino effect from mother to child should have and could have been prevented,” Ingram said, adding that the crisis was caused by the conflict and exacerbated by Israeli aid restrictions, in violation of international humanitarian law.
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
I wonder if crime will be "rising" right before the midterms
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact. Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in. We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time! It is hard to believe that these Democrat Mayors and Governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made??? President DJT
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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dropsitenews.com
⭕️ On the Ground

▪️ Saberton said UNFPA aid — including incubators, heart monitors, beds, & hygiene items — remains blocked, “on the back of lorries, stuck at borders.”

▪️ He urged all crossings to be opened immediately for “full, safe, and sustained humanitarian access to women and girls in Gaza...
⭕️ On the Ground ▪️ Saberton said UNFPA aid — including incubators, heart monitors, beds, and hygiene items — remains blocked, “on the back of lorries, stuck at borders.” ▪️ He urged all crossings to be opened immediately for “full, safe, and sustained humanitarian access to women and girls in Gaza, north to south.” ▪️ UNFPA’s humanitarian appeal is only one-third funded. The health system is “devastated,” and recovery will require rebuilding maternity wards for the 130 births that occur daily, reopening safe spaces for women amid rising gender-based violence, and expanding psychological care. “The ceasefire is just the start of this,” Saberton said. “The world must not turn away — not from Gaza, and not from the West Bank.”
December 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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dropsitenews.com
📊 Key Statistics

▪️ 1 in 4 people in Gaza is starving, including 11,500 pregnant women.
▪️ 70% of newborns are underweight.
▪️ Maternal deaths are rising as life-saving drugs run out; multiple newborns share a single incubator.
▪️ Hospitals are “94% damaged or destroyed,” with women giving birth...
📊 Key Statistics ▪️ One in four people in Gaza is starving, including 11,500 pregnant women. ▪️ 70% of newborns are underweight. ▪️ Maternal deaths are rising as life-saving drugs run out; multiple newborns share a single incubator. ▪️ Hospitals are “94% damaged or destroyed,” with women giving birth “in the rubble beside the road.” ▪️ Gaza’s youth face “generational trauma,” with up to 70% suffering depression and anxiety.
December 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🔴 Major INGOs barred from Gaza for refusing to help Israel build a kill list

Israel has moved to block 37 international NGOs from operating in Gaza after they refused to hand over names & addresses of local staff. The reason is obvious: Israel has repeatedly used such information to target and...
🔴 Major INGOs barred from Gaza for refusing to help Israel build a kill list Israel has moved to block 37 international NGOs from operating in Gaza after they refused to hand over names and addresses of local staff. The reason is obvious: Israel has repeatedly used such information to target and kill the most skilled civilian professionals. After breaking the ceasefire in March 2025, Israeli officials openly signaled an expansion of assassination policy beyond fighters. In May, Israel’s finance minister said the army was “finally conducting a campaign against the civilian rule of Hamas and not just focusing on the military infrastructure,” adding that Israel was now eliminating “ministers, officials, money changers, and elements of the economic and governmental system.” In the week that followed, Israeli forces killed 12 specialized medical workers. Since October 2023, more than 1,600 medical personnel have been killed, including hospital directors assassinated in their homes with their families. Over 500 medical workers have been arrested or detained, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. See new posts Conversation Drop Site @DropSiteNews 🔴 Major INGOs barred from Gaza for refusing to help Israel build a kill list Israel has moved to block 37 international NGOs from operating in Gaza after they refused to hand over names and addresses of local staff. The reason is obvious: Israel has repeatedly used such information to target and kill the most skilled civilian professionals. After breaking the ceasefire in March 2025, Israeli officials openly signaled an expansion of assassination policy beyond fighters. In May, Israel’s finance minister said the army was “finally conducting a campaign against the civilian rule of Hamas and not just focusing on the military infrastructure,” adding that Israel was now eliminating “ministers, officials, money changers, and elements of the economic and governmental system.” In the week that followed, Israeli forces killed 12 specialized medical workers. Since October 2023, more than 1,600 medical personnel have been killed, including hospital directors assassinated in their homes with their families. Over 500 medical workers have been arrested or detained, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. American surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa told Drop Site that demanding staff lists under these conditions amounts to asking NGOs to hand over details of people to be killed. If Israel wants organizations to share names, he said, it should stop targeting and killing humanitarian workers. Israel’s Foreign Ministry now claims the ban is justified by alleged mistreatment of Israeli captives by an unnamed doctor in Gaza. No publicly available evidence has been produced to substantiate the claim. Putting that aside, using an unverified allegation to bar Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the IRC, and dozens of other aid groups only makes sense if Israel is preparing for more of its citizens to be taken captive.
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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So Trump’s Mar-a-Lago actively sent employees to a known predator.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"Mar-a-Lago spa’s practice of dispatching workers to Epstein’s home has not been previously reported ... The Mar-a-Lago bosses told the message therapist Epstein preferred spa services in the privacy of his own home, and warned the employee Epstein sometimes exposed himself during massages."
Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa
Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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simonlester.com
Retaking the Senate "requires Dems holding every seat they currently have, flipping ones in North Carolina and Maine, and also flipping two out of Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, Texas, Florida, and Nebraska."

The background noise of how the economy is doing is likely to be important here.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"While Dems are likely to retake the House, they’ll need everything to go right to win both chambers. But if it happens, a year from now we’ll be talking about Trump's full lame-duckification & what it means for 2028. That’s a nice note on which to end a year in which hope was in such short supply."
How Dems can win the Senate in 2026
So you're saying there's a chance ...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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democracydocket.com
Trump also threatened to return to major Democratic-led cities and states.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form," he wrote on Truth Social. "Only a question of time!"
December 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Our economy is in shambles, and it’s no surprise. Trump is not a negotiator; he’s a chicken, and you’re paying the price for his cowardice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uAVP2mkCm8&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=25
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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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December 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mmpadellan.bsky.social
I’m deconstructing the viral Minnesota "fraud" propaganda video that has everyone talking. Why did top politicians fall for a stunt recorded during off-hours? Plus, my 2025 Year in Review: The biggest L’s, the major Dem wins, and what’s next.

LIVE ON MY YOUTUBE at 6:30PM ET!
December 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states
Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states
Trump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’ The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday, just hours after department officials announced that they had frozen childcare funding to Minnesota. States’ funds, the unnamed official said, will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”. Continue reading...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
That is indeed what they did.
Screenshot of an X post from The Tennessee Holler criticizing Medicaid funding cuts. The post quotes another account and includes a split-screen TV interview image showing two men in suits speaking separately on a Fox News program, with a news banner along the bottom.
December 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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This 2007 reporting in the New York Post ties in with today's WSJ report about Mar-a-Lago: "Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there."
ALT TEXT: Screenshot of a Page Six celebrity news article dated October 15, 2007, titled “Sex Case ‘Victims’ Lining Up,” reporting on Jeffrey Epstein’s legal case. The article describes lawyers anticipating lawsuits from up to 40 girlss, allegations involving underage girls and massage sessions at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, and references to police reports and settlement discussions. A highlighted section on the right quotes claims that Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago, followed by a line stating that Epstein denied being banned and said he was recently invited to an event there.
December 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Smith: I think who should be accountable for this is Donald Trump. These records exist because, in the case of the senators, Donald Trump directed his co-conspirators to call these people to further delay the proceedings. He chose to do that.
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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statesnewsroom.com
In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”

via @floridaphoenix.com
Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented Maine Family Planning, said Wednesday that clinic leaders have decided to focus their resources on treating patients.
Appeals court says Medicaid funding cuts for Planned Parenthood can stand while lawsuit proceeds
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented Maine Family Planning, said Wednesday that clinic leaders have decided to focus their resources on treating patients.
www.bangordailynews.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Smith: We had also interviewed Boris Epshteyn… He corroborated that they were, in fact, trying to call senators. He dissembled and tried to imply that the president hadn’t directed him to do it, even though there was a text message saying specifically that they had.
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Story here:

www.pressherald.com/2025/12/30/r...
Republican lawmakers call for accountability after MaineCare provider accused of fraud
Republican leaders also said Rep. Deqa Dhalac, a South Portland Democrat who formerly worked for a nonprofit that is a sister organization to the company accused of fraud, should step down from the Le...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This statement seems to be admitting that they don’t have proof use a single provider’s MaineCare fraud against Maine’s entire Somali-American community, but they’d sure like to try and dig up some reasons to do so. #mepoltiics
From a Portland Press Herald article “Republican leaders in Maine on Tuesday drew parallels with the cases in Minnesota. Asked by a reporter whether the Gateway case is an example of “one or two bad actors” or if it is more broadly indicative of actions by Somali Americans in the United States, Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart, R-Presque Isle, said he believes “more and more systemic fraud” is likely to come to light. “It has nothing to do with certain populations, unless and until it does,” Stewart said. “I think that’s what we’re seeing play out in Minnesota, is that there’s a strong (correlation) there. We should be looking to see if there’s a strong correlation here in Maine as well.”
December 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
HERE Jack Smith sets out Trump’s direct culpability and complicity in the federal election interference case, including January 6th:
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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propublica.org
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did.
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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thebulwark.com
Mark Cuban: Dems are “not offering any solutions and they’re certainly not saying ‘Break up the big insurance companies, break up the big hospital networks.’ At least if they said that, it would show that they understood what the hell was going on.” lnk.thebulwark.com/3L9cCFO
Mark Cuban Tells Us How He Can Fix America’s Shitty Health Care
The entrepreneur wants to do what many in his position have tried and failed to accomplish.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM