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Whitney Johnson
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Honestly, Trump's decision to offer pardons for $250,000 is his biggest move to reduce prices.
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Pope Says If You Turn Away Strangers, You Turn Away God Himself. Got That?

IS THAT TOO SUBTLE FOR YOU, TRUMP NAZIS?

Yes, I wrote this up on Christmas, so read/share/subscribe, etc.!

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Pope Says If You Turn Away Strangers, You Turn Away God Himself. Got That?
IS THAT TOO SUBTLE FOR YOU, TRUMP NAZIS?
evanhurst.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Thinking it’s impossible for a person to be cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, AND a bumbling incompetent on the order of a Scooby Doo villain is a crazy take during the Era of Donald J. Trump, who is relentlessly all three.
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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diannepost.bsky.social
Scene of the crime.
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Scene of the crime.
Women’s bodies are a crime scene.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Every time a fascist degenerate quote tweets a TPM article a golden dukes fairy gets its wings
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Spotted in Sedona.
December 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building. Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties. Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
randomatoms.bsky.social
Same story. Different day.
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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friendlyatheist.com
A soccer scholarship brought a young woman to Truett McConnell University, a Baptist school in Georgia.

What the school's vice president did to her nearly destroyed her life.

Now, years later, he's finally been indicted for lying to police.

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Former Christian college administrator indicted for lying to cops in sex abuse investigation
After escaping prosecution for years, former Truett McConnell University vice president Bradley Reynolds now faces felony charges
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December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
randomatoms.bsky.social
AZ Peeps
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Got questions about the #Arizona State Legislature? We did - like what's a hopper and how do bills get into it before the Legislative Session even starts? We asked Legal Director Dianne Post for answers!

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#secularaz #politics #congress #senate #publicpolicy
What's a Hopper? Secular AZ Explains the Bill Filing Process at the Arizona State Legislature
YouTube video by Secular AZ
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December 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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thetraecrowder.bsky.social
A banner week for tyrants, racists, and dummies (or banner decade, really)
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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ffrf.org
You're not fighting “the atheists,” and you're not winning.

You're fighting the Constitution, religious freedom, and the millions of Texans of all faiths and none who know it's not government’s job to impose one religion on every public school student.
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I spoke in Warren County, Indiana tonight. The organizer of the event said they usually have around 30 folks who come to their holiday supper. Tonight there were 150 people there.

Things are changing. Especially in red states.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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secularaz.bsky.social
In light of this morning’s news, please join us at 12p/MST to discuss with Arizona Families for Vaccines

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December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Arizonans: The Corporation Commission doesn't want you to spend less on your energy bills. Time to clean house.
Arizona utility regulators scale back APS energy efficiency incentives
Arizona regulators scaled back a program operated by the state’s largest utility designed to encourage energy efficiency, arguing they were trimming ineffective initiatives and eliminating…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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sosarizona.org
🗳️#TeamSOSAZ is dedicated to registering AZ's to vote and ensuring every voice is heard. From phonebanking to door knocking and attending community events — we're on the ground across the state, meeting people where they are.

Join the SOSAZ Voter Registration Squad ➡️ www.mobilize.us/sosarizona/e...
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
Tying our healthcare to our employers was a brilliant move for the billionaires…

Not so much for the rest of us.
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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sydney-bauer.com
I need every cis person who is framing the OU situation as an academic controversy to read this for the context they are missing and so desperately need to be loudly fighting against.
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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loufromboston.bsky.social
Forthcoming follow up book
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM