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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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Trump is now calling for Stephen Colbert to be killed
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Trump is now calling for Stephen Colbert to be killed
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
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Here is a ‘clean’ copy of the 60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment originating from the Global TV app.
This version is 15:04 minutes long, because it includes the full introduction for the (original) entire 60 minutes episode, the Inside CECOT segment starts at 1:25 :)
archive.org/details/60mi...
This version is 15:04 minutes long, because it includes the full introduction for the (original) entire 60 minutes episode, the Inside CECOT segment starts at 1:25 :)
archive.org/details/60mi...
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway.
The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
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The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
1/5
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway.
The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
1/5
The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
1/5
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About those Venezuelan immigrants Trump cruelly sent to CECOT
A judge ordered that the administration must facilitate their return to the United States so they can pursue their removal claims “with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process”
A judge ordered that the administration must facilitate their return to the United States so they can pursue their removal claims “with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process”
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
About those Venezuelan immigrants Trump cruelly sent to CECOT
A judge ordered that the administration must facilitate their return to the United States so they can pursue their removal claims “with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process”
A judge ordered that the administration must facilitate their return to the United States so they can pursue their removal claims “with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process”
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Not even Christmas is spared from ICE Gestapo. Instead of immigrant children being allowed to believe in the magic of Christmas and Santa Claus Kristie Noem has an entire new version of Santa as an ICE agent raiding homes and kidnapping children while tearing families apart. Disgusting #ProudBlue
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Not even Christmas is spared from ICE Gestapo. Instead of immigrant children being allowed to believe in the magic of Christmas and Santa Claus Kristie Noem has an entire new version of Santa as an ICE agent raiding homes and kidnapping children while tearing families apart. Disgusting #ProudBlue
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No one believes this is about national security. This is Trump’s war on cheap, clean power. Electricity costs are going to soar and good union jobs will suffer.
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
No one believes this is about national security. This is Trump’s war on cheap, clean power. Electricity costs are going to soar and good union jobs will suffer.
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Big ups to Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social who flagged this argument that SCOTUS relied on (that regular forces refer to military forces, not federal law enforcement).
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Big ups to Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social who flagged this argument that SCOTUS relied on (that regular forces refer to military forces, not federal law enforcement).
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Unknown number injured in Bristol, Pa., nursing home explosion
www.upi.com
Unknown number injured in Bristol, Pa., nursing home explosion - UPI.com
twp.ai
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Unknown number injured in Bristol, Pa., nursing home explosion
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This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
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Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine
Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev arrived at a Miami golf club for another round of golf club diplomacy with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine
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So this means DOJ confirms Rolling Stone’s report that a 2023 Epstein-Nassar Letter existed and confirms CNN’s report that it was sent from MCC but now says it was a fake letter. Without explanation of how that could be and no indication the supposed forgery and major infiltration of MMC was probed.
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So this means DOJ confirms Rolling Stone’s report that a 2023 Epstein-Nassar Letter existed and confirms CNN’s report that it was sent from MCC but now says it was a fake letter. Without explanation of how that could be and no indication the supposed forgery and major infiltration of MMC was probed.
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NEW: The Guardian says a 2023 DOJ dump included an MCC-guard email confirming “It appeared [Epstein] mailed [a note] out [to Nassar] and it was returned back to him. I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?” DOJ hasn’t explained how this was “faked.”
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
NEW: The Guardian says a 2023 DOJ dump included an MCC-guard email confirming “It appeared [Epstein] mailed [a note] out [to Nassar] and it was returned back to him. I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?” DOJ hasn’t explained how this was “faked.”
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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Tell CBS how you feel about their censorship of 60 Minutes here: www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tell CBS how you feel about their censorship of 60 Minutes here: www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
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Now that the note is publicly available, there must be an independent handwriting analysis. Chain of custody confirms it was found in Epstein's effects after being returned as undeliverable.
So either it was a plant to cover up a murder, or it's a damning pre-suicide revelation.
So either it was a plant to cover up a murder, or it's a damning pre-suicide revelation.
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Now that the note is publicly available, there must be an independent handwriting analysis. Chain of custody confirms it was found in Epstein's effects after being returned as undeliverable.
So either it was a plant to cover up a murder, or it's a damning pre-suicide revelation.
So either it was a plant to cover up a murder, or it's a damning pre-suicide revelation.
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US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
NO.
It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."
Our media is BROKEN.
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BREAKING: Epstein files include FBI tips about Trump and others involved in Epstein crimes; Trump calls allegations false. (Gift)
Story will be updated throughout the day.
Story will be updated throughout the day.
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 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Epstein files include FBI tips about Trump and others involved in Epstein crimes; Trump calls allegations false. (Gift)
Story will be updated throughout the day.
Story will be updated throughout the day.
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America’s closest allies increasingly view Trump-era US as 'negative force' in the world
www.alternet.org
America’s closest allies increasingly view Trump-era US as 'negative force' in the world
twp.ai
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
America’s closest allies increasingly view Trump-era US as 'negative force' in the world
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(🎶)
DAY 22 DECEMBER 2025
🌲MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS 🌲
In these tumultuous times
Christmas Joy for all children
I have been honored to see the Nutcracker in NYC
But this clip
Bar None
These beautiful Lttle Ballerinas
The best I will ever witness
DEI ❤️LOVE for the Children🌲
(🎶)
DAY 22 DECEMBER 2025
🌲MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS 🌲
In these tumultuous times
Christmas Joy for all children
I have been honored to see the Nutcracker in NYC
But this clip
Bar None
These beautiful Lttle Ballerinas
The best I will ever witness
DEI ❤️LOVE for the Children🌲
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(🎶)
DAY 22 DECEMBER 2025
🌲MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS 🌲
In these tumultuous times
Christmas Joy for all children
I have been honored to see the Nutcracker in NYC
But this clip
Bar None
These beautiful Lttle Ballerinas
The best I will ever witness
DEI ❤️LOVE for the Children🌲
(🎶)
DAY 22 DECEMBER 2025
🌲MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS 🌲
In these tumultuous times
Christmas Joy for all children
I have been honored to see the Nutcracker in NYC
But this clip
Bar None
These beautiful Lttle Ballerinas
The best I will ever witness
DEI ❤️LOVE for the Children🌲