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Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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And these folks support defunding education. 🤦🏽‍♂️
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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They must not be given a moment of peace. Ever. Shame them. Shun them. Call out their evil deeds.
December 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Worth reading this very carefully—not to spread panic, but to understand how civil rights are being threatened in specific ways by the use of new “indicators,” and of course all coming from an agency now run by conspiracy theorists
Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US
Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Breaking: The Trump administration announces that they will not be complying with today’s deadline to release the full Epstein Files.

They insist the files will be released in the next “couple weeks.”
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Good day to reread this story on Trump's very own modelling agency... www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Moments ago in Chicago's Little Village community: the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, along with local elected officials, labor leaders and other community groups held a presser to address "ICE/CBP escalation and Bovino’s return to Illinois."

Updates TK
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."

It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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After Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from custody, ICE was almost immediately back on his trail. Why? An immigration judge, reporting to the DOJ, retroactively “corrected” a 2019 ruling prohibiting the Maryland man from being deported to El Salvador.
‘Flagrantly Corrupt’: Judge Again Bars Abrego Garcia’s Arrest After Highly Unusual DOJ Move
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In Kenner, Louisiana, ICE was captured on video kidnapping and vanishing two children who were walking to school. Additionally, the area reported that 40% of its Hispanic students were missing from schools. (December 12, 2025)
December 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.

(Published Dec. 2024)
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained.

His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.

He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?

TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.

Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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🔥HOPE WALZ: “Oh Don Jr, it is so clear your dad doesn’t love you… my family will always be richer than yours, because we find joy in each other - not tearing other people down. I really hope you get the help you need.”
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM