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This opinion is bad news for the Trump administration, which is going to have to defend itself against Abrego Garcia’s claim he’s being vindictively prosecuted. But that claim is supported by some of the government’s own emails. Read the details here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Unsealed: Abrego Garcia
The sealed order in the Abrego Garcia case that I wrote about in Sunday night’s “The Week Ahead” column was unsealed today.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This opinion is bad news for the Trump administration, which is going to have to defend itself against Abrego Garcia’s claim he’s being vindictively prosecuted. But that claim is supported by some of the government’s own emails. Read the details here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
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Another example of what fascism anticipated, wanted, and so far hasn't gotten: per Heritage boss Kevin Roberts' '24 book Dawn's Early Light, he wanted elite colleges not to just bend the knee but to be destroyed. Put out of business. He got a lot of capitulation! But not the victory MAGA wants.
December 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Another example of what fascism anticipated, wanted, and so far hasn't gotten: per Heritage boss Kevin Roberts' '24 book Dawn's Early Light, he wanted elite colleges not to just bend the knee but to be destroyed. Put out of business. He got a lot of capitulation! But not the victory MAGA wants.
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An example of what fascism anticipated, wanted, & didn't get: per Pete Hegseth's 2024 book, The War on Warriors, he looked forward to an end to cold civil war and a beginning of a hot one. He didn't plan for the whistles and inflatable frogs.
December 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
An example of what fascism anticipated, wanted, & didn't get: per Pete Hegseth's 2024 book, The War on Warriors, he looked forward to an end to cold civil war and a beginning of a hot one. He didn't plan for the whistles and inflatable frogs.
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I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives.
But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.
But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.
December 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives.
But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.
But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.
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The Trump administration is trying to get groypers to raid daycares with your kids in them. America, you are in a hybrid war. You are being attacked by your own traitorous government and foreign governments. Wake up!
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Trump administration is trying to get groypers to raid daycares with your kids in them. America, you are in a hybrid war. You are being attacked by your own traitorous government and foreign governments. Wake up!
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WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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 2:24 AM
WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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A bill with bipartisan support to bring safe drinking water to people in Colorado is vetoed by Trump.
Why?
It appears he’s pressuring Colorado to free his crooked ally who is imprisoned for tampering with voting systems.
Trump doesn’t give a crap about anything but his own money and power.
Why?
It appears he’s pressuring Colorado to free his crooked ally who is imprisoned for tampering with voting systems.
Trump doesn’t give a crap about anything but his own money and power.
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley Conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A bill with bipartisan support to bring safe drinking water to people in Colorado is vetoed by Trump.
Why?
It appears he’s pressuring Colorado to free his crooked ally who is imprisoned for tampering with voting systems.
Trump doesn’t give a crap about anything but his own money and power.
Why?
It appears he’s pressuring Colorado to free his crooked ally who is imprisoned for tampering with voting systems.
Trump doesn’t give a crap about anything but his own money and power.
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Also, the man who literally destroyed the White House, is giving $1,000,000,000,000 of your money to billionaires who support him, funding it all by taxing you through tariffs and taking away your healthcare is trying to make you believe your life is worse not because of him but Somalis.
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Also, the man who literally destroyed the White House, is giving $1,000,000,000,000 of your money to billionaires who support him, funding it all by taxing you through tariffs and taking away your healthcare is trying to make you believe your life is worse not because of him but Somalis.
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I worked as an election inspector the last 2 years and I really encourage everyone to do it at least once. They rarely have enough people and it’s a great insight into how the voting process works, who is allowed to vote and who gets turned away for being at the wrong location or not registered
December 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I worked as an election inspector the last 2 years and I really encourage everyone to do it at least once. They rarely have enough people and it’s a great insight into how the voting process works, who is allowed to vote and who gets turned away for being at the wrong location or not registered
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Putin's extraordinary security measures and why an attack on his palace is so unlikely
As we still await (in vain, I suspect) even a shred of evidence for the alleged attack, in @theipaper.com, I write about why it was so implausible
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
As we still await (in vain, I suspect) even a shred of evidence for the alleged attack, in @theipaper.com, I write about why it was so implausible
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
Putin's extraordinary security measures and why an attack on his palace is so unlikely
Moscow claimed this week that Ukraine launched a drone attack on one of the Russian president's residences
inews.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Putin's extraordinary security measures and why an attack on his palace is so unlikely
As we still await (in vain, I suspect) even a shred of evidence for the alleged attack, in @theipaper.com, I write about why it was so implausible
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
As we still await (in vain, I suspect) even a shred of evidence for the alleged attack, in @theipaper.com, I write about why it was so implausible
inews.co.uk/news/world/p...
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This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
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JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.
December 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.
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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Mali and Burkina Faso announce travel ban on US citizens in tit-for-tat move
Mali and Burkina Faso announce travel ban on US citizens in tit-for-tat move
The two states say they are taking reciprocal measures after the US announced full-entry restrictions on their citizens.
www.bbc.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Mali and Burkina Faso announce travel ban on US citizens in tit-for-tat move
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“A lot of white men should be holding a lot of white men accountable.” - Tim Walz on Somali fraud in Minnesota
December 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“A lot of white men should be holding a lot of white men accountable.” - Tim Walz on Somali fraud in Minnesota
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Boebert suggests that Trump vetoed a water project in her district because she voted to release the Epstein files.
December 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Boebert suggests that Trump vetoed a water project in her district because she voted to release the Epstein files.
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US regulators collected 61% less in fines for money laundering and sanctions breaches in 2025, after watchdogs took a more lenient approach under Trump. Total fines imposed by the US for dirty money offences were under $1.7bn in the year to Dec 19, a sharp drop from the $4.3bn in such penalties.
US fines for dirty money drop 61% as Trump retreats from enforcement
Total penalties imposed by financial watchdogs fell to $1.7bn in the year to December 19
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
US regulators collected 61% less in fines for money laundering and sanctions breaches in 2025, after watchdogs took a more lenient approach under Trump. Total fines imposed by the US for dirty money offences were under $1.7bn in the year to Dec 19, a sharp drop from the $4.3bn in such penalties.
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An update on Trump's golden smartphone grift, or how MAGA furnishes an abundant base of marks. www.ft.com/content/29fc...
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch gold-coloured smartphone this year
Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made device
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
An update on Trump's golden smartphone grift, or how MAGA furnishes an abundant base of marks. www.ft.com/content/29fc...
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"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
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Pam Bondi... What is This? We know it’s an August 2019 email that was sent 9 days after Jeffrey Epstein’s death. The email was sent to a Detective in the NYPD/FBI Child Exploitation Human Trafficking Task Force. The subject reads: “Epstein Co-conspirator Pics.” But all the pics are redacted.
December 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Pam Bondi... What is This? We know it’s an August 2019 email that was sent 9 days after Jeffrey Epstein’s death. The email was sent to a Detective in the NYPD/FBI Child Exploitation Human Trafficking Task Force. The subject reads: “Epstein Co-conspirator Pics.” But all the pics are redacted.
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"Russia is approaching a grim milestone: by mid-January, President Vladimir Putin's
'special military operation' in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and ended with the fall of Berlin
'special military operation' in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and ended with the fall of Berlin
December 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"Russia is approaching a grim milestone: by mid-January, President Vladimir Putin's
'special military operation' in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and ended with the fall of Berlin
'special military operation' in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and ended with the fall of Berlin
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Between his murderous attacks on suspected drug-running boats and his repatriation of captured suspects, Trump is undermining the process usually used to gather intelligence on cartel leaders. Intel used for lethal strikes against civilian targets has now repeatedly proven inaccurate.
Even as U.S. Blows Up Boats, Coast Guard Captures Others at Sea
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Between his murderous attacks on suspected drug-running boats and his repatriation of captured suspects, Trump is undermining the process usually used to gather intelligence on cartel leaders. Intel used for lethal strikes against civilian targets has now repeatedly proven inaccurate.
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Trump keeps expanding his Gulag.
December 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump keeps expanding his Gulag.