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Work the land, and don’t mind being smart….ass.
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As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you
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Lauren Boebert just reacted to Trump blocking clean water for her district after she voted to release the Epstein Files:
“I hope this veto has nothing to do with retaliation for calling out corruption…
I thought Trump’s campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
“I hope this veto has nothing to do with retaliation for calling out corruption…
I thought Trump’s campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
December 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Lauren Boebert just reacted to Trump blocking clean water for her district after she voted to release the Epstein Files:
“I hope this veto has nothing to do with retaliation for calling out corruption…
I thought Trump’s campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
“I hope this veto has nothing to do with retaliation for calling out corruption…
I thought Trump’s campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
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The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir. https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=UCDbzicHDPZE7T7S
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir. https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=UCDbzicHDPZE7T7S
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Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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I am saddened to hear of the passing of Senator Nighthorse Campbell. He will be missed here in Colorado and across the country, and his contributions leave a lasting legacy to our state and nation.
https://ow.ly/Qzfz50XQwBn
https://ow.ly/Qzfz50XQwBn
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I am saddened to hear of the passing of Senator Nighthorse Campbell. He will be missed here in Colorado and across the country, and his contributions leave a lasting legacy to our state and nation.
https://ow.ly/Qzfz50XQwBn
https://ow.ly/Qzfz50XQwBn
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The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump's name was added to the facility. n.pr/4qx6Ts7
Kennedy Center renaming prompts a new round of cancellations
The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump's name was added to the facility.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump's name was added to the facility. n.pr/4qx6Ts7
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AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.
go.nature.com/4azZYda
go.nature.com/4azZYda
Let 2026 be the year the world comes together for AI safety
AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.
go.nature.com/4azZYda
go.nature.com/4azZYda
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Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs
go.nature.com/4j1dLeY
go.nature.com/4j1dLeY
Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs
go.nature.com/4j1dLeY
go.nature.com/4j1dLeY
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Tariffs, inflation, and other federal policies have battered U.S. farmers' bottom lines. Now many farmers say the expiration of federal health care subsidies will make their coverage unaffordable. n.pr/44SZfA5
Farmers are about to pay a lot more for health insurance
Tariffs, inflation, and other federal policies have battered U.S. farmers' bottom lines. Now many farmers say the expiration of federal health care subsidies will make their coverage unaffordable.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Tariffs, inflation, and other federal policies have battered U.S. farmers' bottom lines. Now many farmers say the expiration of federal health care subsidies will make their coverage unaffordable. n.pr/44SZfA5
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The Affordable Care Act tax credits expire at midnight.
Millions of everyday Americans will lose their healthcare coverage.
Republicans don’t give a damn.
Millions of everyday Americans will lose their healthcare coverage.
Republicans don’t give a damn.
December 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The Affordable Care Act tax credits expire at midnight.
Millions of everyday Americans will lose their healthcare coverage.
Republicans don’t give a damn.
Millions of everyday Americans will lose their healthcare coverage.
Republicans don’t give a damn.
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If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever
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Remember what I’ve been telling you about Iowa? I’m there almost every month to speak to organizers.
I see it. They see it. MAGA is in trouble.
I see it. They see it. MAGA is in trouble.
December 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Remember what I’ve been telling you about Iowa? I’m there almost every month to speak to organizers.
I see it. They see it. MAGA is in trouble.
I see it. They see it. MAGA is in trouble.
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I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi.
The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.
The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.
HHS freezes all child care funding for Minnesota
HHS freezes all child care funding for Minnesota
The move comes as the Trump administration has accused the state’s leaders of complicity in a wide-ranging fraud scandal.
dlvr.it
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi.
The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.
The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
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I never planned on doing this, but when Jon Husted voted to put billionaires and special interests over Ohioans, I knew I couldn’t sit on the sidelines.
December 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I never planned on doing this, but when Jon Husted voted to put billionaires and special interests over Ohioans, I knew I couldn’t sit on the sidelines.
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🚨 Bad news for farmers and rural America: In just the first 5 months of the Trump administration, the Department of Agriculture has lost nearly 20% of its workforce.
That includes the workers who help farmers struggling with tariffs and who respond to avian flu outbreaks.
That includes the workers who help farmers struggling with tariffs and who respond to avian flu outbreaks.
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🚨 Bad news for farmers and rural America: In just the first 5 months of the Trump administration, the Department of Agriculture has lost nearly 20% of its workforce.
That includes the workers who help farmers struggling with tariffs and who respond to avian flu outbreaks.
That includes the workers who help farmers struggling with tariffs and who respond to avian flu outbreaks.
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The Trump-Republican “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually a “Big Ugly Nightmare.”
Much of what’s included in it will begin in 2026.
Here’s what you should know.
Much of what’s included in it will begin in 2026.
Here’s what you should know.
Is This Trump’s Biggest Scam Yet?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Trump-Republican “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually a “Big Ugly Nightmare.”
Much of what’s included in it will begin in 2026.
Here’s what you should know.
Much of what’s included in it will begin in 2026.
Here’s what you should know.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
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Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he’s moving to kill it.
Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he’s moving to kill it.
The Trump administration has halted 5 already approved offshore wind projects despite rising electricity demand.
dlvr.it
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he’s moving to kill it.
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5