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Remember the poor. Help them. Movements that abandon the poor are morally bankrupt.
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Trump wants no more Epstein files released, and the whole Epstein story to go away. Why could that be?
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A billionaire first agenda is not an America first agenda. Merry Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
All gone now. Torn down to build the gaudiest ballroom. Breaks the heart when one dwells on it too long …
Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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staffer: you talked to the little girls?
trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked
staffer: what
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Jayne Mansfield
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond?

By garnishing their wages.

When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?

By extending their tax cuts.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Here come all the year-end “best of” lists, brace yourselves.
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an American organization that seeks to protect digital rights and privacy, called the announcement 'chilling and unconstitutional.' She said the administration was silencing its critics in the name of protecting free speech."
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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We reached out to numerous trump advisers, senior administration officials, others close to trump and in the Republican elite to grade the trump doj’s handling of the Epstein saga from July to today. All but one said F or F minus

Because that one said “F-minus-minus.”
Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an ‘F-Minus’

‘They keep making it look like we have something to hide,’ a White House official complains to Zeteo, writes @swin24.bsky.social, @premthakker.bsky.social, and @andrewperez.bsky.social.

Read it here:
zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an ‘F-Minus’
‘They keep making it look like we have something to hide,’ a White House official complains to Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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In the spirit of the awful year that’s just about to end, let me ask this question: What’s the sh*ttiest year you’ve lived through so far? Let me know your thoughts.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year
Office Hours: The Shittiest Year?
Is 2025 the worst you’ve lived through, or have you lived through worse?
robertreich.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was the perfect antidote to the Great Depression: in an inexpensive, hand-held serving, it contained the very richness and comfort that millions of people were forced to live without in the late 1930s. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gWviJq
December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Trump was a frequent traveler on Epstein Air, including trips with Epstein alone and a trip with just Epstein and a [redacted] trafficking victim.
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.
An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs
Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.
bit.ly
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Trump’s transpo Sec Duffy community noted for taking credit for what Biden did
December 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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It got Bari’d.
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 2:31 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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Hayden & Malena 🔥🥵💦
December 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps.
It's Christmastime — and if you live in the Alps, watch out! Krampus is coming
In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many fans in the present-day Central Alps.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM