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Clarification hardly needed.
December 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Clarification hardly needed.
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A few things to remember about elections:
1.) Federal government has no authority over elections
2. Mail in ballots are still legal
3. Vote is certified by States.
4. Federal and State laws ban the military from polling places.
5. Observers can't interfere with elections or interact with voters.
1.) Federal government has no authority over elections
2. Mail in ballots are still legal
3. Vote is certified by States.
4. Federal and State laws ban the military from polling places.
5. Observers can't interfere with elections or interact with voters.
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
A few things to remember about elections:
1.) Federal government has no authority over elections
2. Mail in ballots are still legal
3. Vote is certified by States.
4. Federal and State laws ban the military from polling places.
5. Observers can't interfere with elections or interact with voters.
1.) Federal government has no authority over elections
2. Mail in ballots are still legal
3. Vote is certified by States.
4. Federal and State laws ban the military from polling places.
5. Observers can't interfere with elections or interact with voters.
Debating Away Our Humanity
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Debating Away Our Humanity
CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Debating Away Our Humanity
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Oxfam official says Israel blocking Gaza aid regardless of rules - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/oxfam-official-says-israel-blocking-gaza-aid-regardless-rules
Oxfam official says Israel blocking Gaza aid regardless of rules
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Oxfam’s policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory, Bushra Khalidi, on Wednesday said that the new Israeli requirements will prevent NGOs from operating in Israel but should not prevent them from operating inside Gaza and the West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.</p>
<p>Khalidi said that the organisations are still registered under the Palestinian Authority and must be allowed to work in Palestine. </p>
<p>“Israel continues to block us whether we’re registered or not and has continued to deliberately obstruct humanitarian aid regardless of these rules,” Khalidi said. </p>
<p>“It does impact what we can bring into Gaza, but we’ve been blocked anyway from entering materials into Gaza since March,” she added. </p>
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December 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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As Towns and Cities Fight Off Data Centers, Calls Grow for a National Moratorium truthout.org/articles/as-...
As Towns and Cities Fight Off Data Centers, Calls Grow for a National Moratorium
The battle to build new data centers has pitted communities across the country against Silicon Valley.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
As Towns and Cities Fight Off Data Centers, Calls Grow for a National Moratorium truthout.org/articles/as-...
47’s wrecking ball hits the VA: Veterans Health Care Policy Institute.
In recent days, the VA has expunged 10s of 1000s of critical VA jobs, including doctors, nurses and psychologists,... to fundamentally shrink the VA at a time of growing need. prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
In recent days, the VA has expunged 10s of 1000s of critical VA jobs, including doctors, nurses and psychologists,... to fundamentally shrink the VA at a time of growing need. prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA - The American Prospect
Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
47’s wrecking ball hits the VA: Veterans Health Care Policy Institute.
In recent days, the VA has expunged 10s of 1000s of critical VA jobs, including doctors, nurses and psychologists,... to fundamentally shrink the VA at a time of growing need. prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
In recent days, the VA has expunged 10s of 1000s of critical VA jobs, including doctors, nurses and psychologists,... to fundamentally shrink the VA at a time of growing need. prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
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ICE was at East 42nd street and 21st ave south around 8:30pm on 12/29/25.
Neighborhood drove them out ✊
Minneapolis
Neighborhood drove them out ✊
Minneapolis
December 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICE was at East 42nd street and 21st ave south around 8:30pm on 12/29/25.
Neighborhood drove them out ✊
Minneapolis
Neighborhood drove them out ✊
Minneapolis
“The pain in my eyes is unbearable,” he said, referring to the severe optic nerve pain caused by glaucoma, which affects around 4,000 patients in Gaza...
“There has been no medicine at all since the war started,” Alshaqra said. electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
“There has been no medicine at all since the war started,” Alshaqra said. electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
Israel blocks entry of eye drops for blind people in Gaza
Despite the October ceasefire, thousands could develop conditions affecting their vision.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“The pain in my eyes is unbearable,” he said, referring to the severe optic nerve pain caused by glaucoma, which affects around 4,000 patients in Gaza...
“There has been no medicine at all since the war started,” Alshaqra said. electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
“There has been no medicine at all since the war started,” Alshaqra said. electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
popularresistance.org/hunger-strik... Prisoners for Palestine- held without trial for 18 months, on hunger strike, with UK authorities letting them die rather than confront UK role in the Palestinian genocide.
Hunger Striker Loses Ability To Stand As Strike Hits Day 55 - PopularResistance.Org
Prisoners for Palestine have announced that hunger striker T Hoxha has lost the ability to stand. Hunger striker Heba Muraisi, meanwhile, is losing the ability to speak. The hunger strikers have endur...
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December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
popularresistance.org/hunger-strik... Prisoners for Palestine- held without trial for 18 months, on hunger strike, with UK authorities letting them die rather than confront UK role in the Palestinian genocide.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ghalya. Ghalya is only 15 years old. She wants to study and become a pharmacist. Her father was killed during the Nuseirat Massacre a she has been struggling to take care of her family including her siblings Marah, 17, Sama, 11 and Abdul, 11.
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ghalya. Ghalya is only 15 years old. She wants to study and become a pharmacist. Her father was killed during the Nuseirat Massacre a she has been struggling to take care of her family including her siblings Marah, 17, Sama, 11 and Abdul, 11.
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Measles was eliminated in the U.S. 25 years ago.
Now it’s back—and children are paying the price.
In 2025 alone: 1,900+ cases, 200+ hospitalizations, and deaths that never should have happened.
Vaccines save lives. Period.
Now it’s back—and children are paying the price.
In 2025 alone: 1,900+ cases, 200+ hospitalizations, and deaths that never should have happened.
Vaccines save lives. Period.
The year measles came back
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
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December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Measles was eliminated in the U.S. 25 years ago.
Now it’s back—and children are paying the price.
In 2025 alone: 1,900+ cases, 200+ hospitalizations, and deaths that never should have happened.
Vaccines save lives. Period.
Now it’s back—and children are paying the price.
In 2025 alone: 1,900+ cases, 200+ hospitalizations, and deaths that never should have happened.
Vaccines save lives. Period.
December 28, 2025. The Pine Ridge Massacre, Dec. 29, 1890 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
December 28, 2025. The Pine Ridge Massacre, Dec. 29, 1890 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
'Free Them All': One Year After Dr. Abu Safiya Abducted, Israel Urged to Release Gaza Health Workers www.commondreams.org/news/free-dr...
'Free Them All': One Year After Dr. Abu Safiya Abducted, Israel Urged to Release Gaza Health Workers | Common Dreams
"We won't forget him nor the 360+ health workers Israel has abducted from Gaza since October 2023," said CodePink.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
'Free Them All': One Year After Dr. Abu Safiya Abducted, Israel Urged to Release Gaza Health Workers www.commondreams.org/news/free-dr...
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Bluesky managing to delete an account immediately after I share it 🙄. Here is a video Amir made of where he is staying right now- he is really hoping to be able to rent a room ❤️
December 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Bluesky managing to delete an account immediately after I share it 🙄. Here is a video Amir made of where he is staying right now- he is really hoping to be able to rent a room ❤️
Which side is Google on? They’ve chosen the side of the criminal industrial complex, surprise, surprise! www.404media.co/google-has-c...
December 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Which side is Google on? They’ve chosen the side of the criminal industrial complex, surprise, surprise! www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Always have that smug little sense of satisfaction when I get the woodstove lit with a single match and a whoosh from the start. The secret to fire is air. Well, and super dry kindling, a little brown paper, and a handful of dried clementine peels (sparky).
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Always have that smug little sense of satisfaction when I get the woodstove lit with a single match and a whoosh from the start. The secret to fire is air. Well, and super dry kindling, a little brown paper, and a handful of dried clementine peels (sparky).
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I'm not an artist, so I typically enjoy #ArtAdvent because I can see everyone's lovely art. But this year I was really jealous because for the first time since high school I did a lot of art, just for Christmas presents so I couldn't share them.
But now I can!
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But now I can!
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2025 Art Roundup
This year I have been inspired by the artists in my life who remind me that I can view art as a process-- something I can do for the sake of practicing my techniques, flexing my creativity, and relaxi...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'm not an artist, so I typically enjoy #ArtAdvent because I can see everyone's lovely art. But this year I was really jealous because for the first time since high school I did a lot of art, just for Christmas presents so I couldn't share them.
But now I can!
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But now I can!
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The Old Man Along The Highway
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The Old Man Along The Highway
A short story that encompasses what must change in our United States of America
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December 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Old Man Along The Highway
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In WW2 "The United States did not defeat fascism; it rehabilitated and absorbed fascism into the capitalist empire that Washington built after WWII, centered in Wall Street and based on the dollar.” popularresistance.org/when-the-uss...
When The USSR And China Saved Humanity - PopularResistance.Org
2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in World War Two. Unfortunately, the history of this extremely important conflict is not very well understood today. It was not the United St...
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December 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In WW2 "The United States did not defeat fascism; it rehabilitated and absorbed fascism into the capitalist empire that Washington built after WWII, centered in Wall Street and based on the dollar.” popularresistance.org/when-the-uss...
"In the 1930s, the US State Department spoke positively of fascism as an alternative to communism, and the US chargé d’affaires in Germany praised the supposedly “more moderate section of the [Nazi] party, headed by Hitler himself … which appeal[s] to all civilized and reasonable people”."
December 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"In the 1930s, the US State Department spoke positively of fascism as an alternative to communism, and the US chargé d’affaires in Germany praised the supposedly “more moderate section of the [Nazi] party, headed by Hitler himself … which appeal[s] to all civilized and reasonable people”."
The Bombs of Anti-Christmas
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The Bombs of Anti-Christmas
Military strikes in Nigeria reveal a distorted moral narrative
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December 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Bombs of Anti-Christmas
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The Bombs of Anti-Christmas
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The Bombs of Anti-Christmas
Military strikes in Nigeria reveal a distorted moral narrative
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December 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The Bombs of Anti-Christmas
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Ending 2025 with the grounded sense of hope I picked up in Chicago, as told here:
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ending 2025 with the grounded sense of hope I picked up in Chicago, as told here: