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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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malwarejake.bsky.social
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 28, a source in Ukraine's Presidential Office said.
Zelensky, Trump set to meet on Dec. 28 in high-level peace talks on Russia's war in Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine and the U.S. had agreed to meet "in the near future," suggesting there could be progress in peace talks to end Russia's war before the New Year.
kyivindependent.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
Sad.
Rob Reiner, wife dead in homicide at Brentwood home; police interview family member
Longtime Hollywood star Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday in what police are describing as an apparent homicide.
www.latimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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reuters.com
Kosovo starts accepting third-party deportees from the US reut.rs/44S3yM0
Kosovo starts accepting third-party deportees from the US
Kosovo has started accepting migrants deported from the United States and who are not originally from Kosovo, caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti said.
reut.rs
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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thefred.bsky.social
This man has placed himself outside the protection of the law.
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16d
New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording

www.404media.co/border-patro...
Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
My new podcast "Burn Order" is about the decision to incarcerate tens of thousands of Japanese-American families during World War II, and the remarkable fight against it.

Episodes #1-4 are up now... free on any podcast app.

Final two episodes post Monday 12/15:

podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
News Podcast · Series ·
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December 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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thebulwark.com
A foreign-born person who becomes naturalized is an *American*. It couldn't be more clear that Trump's immigration regime is about nativism, not immigration status. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans
He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
I'm not sure what Trump thought he was doing by posting the Cuellar daughters' letter & his "lack of LOYALTY" rant, but, in addition to making clear the transactional nature of the pardon in his mind, he also admitted that a transparently flattering letter is all it takes for him to grant a pardon.
Can you imagine??? The Democrats, under the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who always use extreme force and jail-time to destroy their political opponent, wanted to put Congressman Henry Cuellar, and his wife, Imelda, in PRISON, for 15 years, ... The Dems mercilessly went after Henry with everything they had! They were looking to destroy him, his lovely wife, his two young daughters, and anyone close to them. When the Democrats overwhelmingly lost the 2024 Presidential Election, and power with it, they, regardless, did everything they could to keep going after the Cuellar family. The Dems were vicious, and all because Henry strongly wanted, correctly, BORDER SECURITY! ... It was all very unfair what they were doing to him and his family, so much so that his daughters wrote me a beautiful letter about their parents (Just posted on TRUTH!). After reading it I decided, in the interest of justice, and based on the daughter's loving request, that I would give Henry and Imelda a Full and Complete Pardon. I never spoke to the Congressman, his wife, or his daughters, but felt very good about fighting for a family that was tormented by very sick and deranged people - They were treated sooo BADLY! I signed the papers, and said to people in the Oval Office that I just did a very good, perhaps life saving, thing. God was very happy with me that day! THEN IT HAPPENED!!! Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be "running" for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison - And probably still do! Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry's daughters, will not like. Oh' well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP November 12, 2025 The Honorable Donald J. Trump President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Subject: Request for Compassion and Clemency for Our Parents, Henry and Imelda Cuellar Dear President Trump, First, we want to thank you for your service to our nation and for the leadership you continue to provide to millions of Americans. We understand that the responsibilities of your office are immense, and we are deeply grateful for the time and compassion you extend to families like ours who are seeking mercy and understanding. We write to you simply as two daughters — two women who love their parents more than words can express and who have spent countless nights praying for strength, hope, and understanding. This has been the hardest chapter of our lives. There have been sleepless nights, anxious mornings, and quiet moments when the weight of it all feels overwhelming. We've watched our parents, Henry and Imelda Cuellar - two of the kindest, most selfless people we know, who have given everything to others — endure something so heavy and public, carrying a burden that no good-hearted person should ever have to bear. This ordeal has taken a deep emotional and financial toll on all of us. It has tested our faith in ways we never expected, but it has not broken it. We still believe in justice. We still believe in America — a country built on truth, fairness, and compassion, even during the hardest of times. This experience has shown us how easily good people and good intentions can be misunderstood and how deeply that can affect a family. Still, we hold onto our faith and keep praying that the justice system we were taught to respect will reflect that same fairness and humanity. We also believe that our father's independence and honesty may have contributed to how this case began. He has never been afraid to speak his mind, especially when it comes to protecting the people of South Texas and securing the border from the policies of the previous administration. President Trump, you once publicly said that you believed the indictment was wrong — and later, at a White House picnic, you told me personally, as you pointed to my father, that he was "a good man." Those words meant more than you could ever know. Those words meant more than you could imagine. I still hold on to them because they remind us that good people recognize good character, even in difficult times. When you and your family faced your own challenges, we understood that pain in a very human way. We watched from afar through the eyes of daughters who knew what it felt like to see parents under fire. We prayed for you and your family - for your strength, your peace, and your faith to stay strong — because we know that behind the headlines, there are real people who hurt, who love, and who still hope for better days. That's what unites us as families and as Americans - the shared belief that no matter how dark things seem, faith and compassion can still light the way forward. Thank you, President Trump, for your time, compassion, and willingness to listen. We are grateful beyond words for the hope you bring to families like ours — the hope that forgiveness, fairness, and faith still have a place in our justice system. May God bless you, guide your decisions as you continue to lead our country, and keep your family in His care. With deepest gratitude and faith, pat fat Christina Cuellar Catherine Cuellar Daughters of United States Congressman Henry and Imelda Cuellar
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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davidrlurie.com
Hegseth is just the kind of guy you want to have in your foxhole, if you want to die.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Mark Kelly on Hegseth: "He doesn't look out for anybody. When you see what happened with this boat strike, it's not leadership to throw your people under the bus. He turned away and ran from this as fast as he could."
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
Decided for oneself.
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Mike Johnson is set to swear in Republican Matt Van Epps about 36 hours after he won his election.

It took Johnson 50 days to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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byjacobward.bsky.social
A new paper at the top AI conference shows that all the big AI models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, the whole gang — collapse our ideas into the same narrow middle lane. Different models. Same answers. That’s not “assistive.” That’s a hive mind. No, really: The paper is entitled “Artificial Hive Mind:
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.

The class wars.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
America. Understand the assignment.
Pentagon's Signalgate review finds Pete Hegseth violated military regulations
The report outlines the findings of a more than eight-month investigation into Hegseth’s use of Signal to share details of planned U.S. strikes in Yemen.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
America First = America alone

And anyone who thinks America is better off alone is profoundly ignorant.
Shashank Joshi @shashj Not only is Rubio skipping the NATO foreign ministers' meeting, a break from 20 years of practice, but the US is sending @DeputySecState , a man who publicly questioned NATO's need to exist less than six months ago. Message received loud & clear.
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
Don't just think, do. ~Horace
#givingtuesday #globalgamechangers
#giftsmatter
#DO
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
― Henry David Thoreau
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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abarbashin.bsky.social
This EU statement reads as a de-facto rejection of 28 point plan. "The plan is great but let's change all the key points".
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Home Depot looking like they in the FO stage of FAFO 🤝https://www.newsweek.com/home-depot-ice-involvement-boycott-calls-grow-11082610
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
✨🫶🏻🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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freetic.bsky.social
“Sometimes I wonder if we truly deserve this planet. We take so much from it, yet give so little back. Maybe the Earth isn’t punishing us. Maybe it’s just reminding us of everything we forgot to respect.”

#Earth #Humanity #Truth #WakeUp #RespectNature #ThinkDeep #RealityCheck #UnfilteredThoughts
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
Is he calling for himself to be put to death for January 6th?

I'm confused.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
nmsummersdodge.bsky.social
KNOW the DIFFERENCE! 🇺🇸🦋
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM