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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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TIKTOKER SHOT BY ICE HAS INDICTMENT THROWN OUT
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
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Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
TIKTOKER SHOT BY ICE HAS INDICTMENT THROWN OUT
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
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Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
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ICE arrest father on Christmas morning—handcuff his kids & make them watch.
"We're just kids!" they cry—right before agent violently rips phone away breaking it.
Detain the 2 minor children & perp walk their dad in front of them—3 more witnesses just filming were also arrested.
Corona, California
"We're just kids!" they cry—right before agent violently rips phone away breaking it.
Detain the 2 minor children & perp walk their dad in front of them—3 more witnesses just filming were also arrested.
Corona, California
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ICE arrest father on Christmas morning—handcuff his kids & make them watch.
"We're just kids!" they cry—right before agent violently rips phone away breaking it.
Detain the 2 minor children & perp walk their dad in front of them—3 more witnesses just filming were also arrested.
Corona, California
"We're just kids!" they cry—right before agent violently rips phone away breaking it.
Detain the 2 minor children & perp walk their dad in front of them—3 more witnesses just filming were also arrested.
Corona, California
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This is Trump’s America. This must never be America.👇
ICE arrest father on Christmas morning—handcuff his kids & make them watch.
"We're just kids!" they cry—right before agent violently rips phone away breaking it.
Detain the 2 minor children & perp walk their dad in front of them—3 more witnesses just filming were also arrested.
Corona, California
"We're just kids!" they cry—right before agent violently rips phone away breaking it.
Detain the 2 minor children & perp walk their dad in front of them—3 more witnesses just filming were also arrested.
Corona, California
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is Trump’s America. This must never be America.👇
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Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
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Trump is implementing a strategy advised by some of his lawyers that all political prosecutions be brought before Aileen Cannon—the Roland Freisler of the US judiciary—where conviction would be guaranteed. Brennan seeks to preempt this strategy.
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Trump is implementing a strategy advised by some of his lawyers that all political prosecutions be brought before Aileen Cannon—the Roland Freisler of the US judiciary—where conviction would be guaranteed. Brennan seeks to preempt this strategy.
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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
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It didn't get enough attention that Susie Wiles said she had read materials protected by grand jury secrecy and other protective orders.
![Wiles told me she’d read what she calls “the Epstein file.” And, she said, “[Trump] is in the file. And we know he’s in the file. And he’s not in the file doing anything awful.” Wiles said that Trump “was on [Epstein’s] plane…he’s on the manifest. They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever—I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.” (Trump started dating Melania Knauss, whom he married in 2005, sometime in 1998. Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s most prominent accuser, who died by suicide earlier this year, first met Epstein while she was a Mar-a-Lago spa worker in 2000. Trump and Epstein reportedly had a falling out in 2004.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicrr4rb4hqynyivvjewudmis2jiuzqt2gruaed3bgum7lklkpkeja@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It didn't get enough attention that Susie Wiles said she had read materials protected by grand jury secrecy and other protective orders.
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Remarkable reporting by @nickconfessore.bsky.social @julietate.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Remarkable reporting by @nickconfessore.bsky.social @julietate.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
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My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
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I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
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Imagine serving as a Marine and then having a distinguished career in the FBI investigating actual terrorist threats and then having to go in front of Congress and say you’re afraid of Antifa. Absolutely humiliating.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Imagine serving as a Marine and then having a distinguished career in the FBI investigating actual terrorist threats and then having to go in front of Congress and say you’re afraid of Antifa. Absolutely humiliating.
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This is a fault line I wrote about for @liberalcurrents.com.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is a fault line I wrote about for @liberalcurrents.com.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
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Exactly. And this has been true of much of the Republican Party for some time.
This is a fault line I wrote about for @liberalcurrents.com.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Exactly. And this has been true of much of the Republican Party for some time.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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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
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
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
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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As officer Daniel Hodges sat at the witness table of a recent Senate subcommittee hearing, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) asked the witnesses to raise their hands if they supported the pardons of Jan 6 rioters, including those who beat officer Hodges
You can see Hodges looking at the responses
You can see Hodges looking at the responses
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
As officer Daniel Hodges sat at the witness table of a recent Senate subcommittee hearing, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) asked the witnesses to raise their hands if they supported the pardons of Jan 6 rioters, including those who beat officer Hodges
You can see Hodges looking at the responses
You can see Hodges looking at the responses
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Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.