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Hill staffer/Schedule C in another life. Navigating/parenting thru education and health care systems for kids with chronic illness. Military brat.
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Detained and deported Venezuelans told reporter Melissa Sanchez their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building. Read @propublica.org's investigation, part of a collaboration with FRONTLINE.
What the Trump Administration’s Chicago Immigration Raid Videos Don’t Show | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their Chicago apartment building.
www.pbs.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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AP: “.. Africa is the continent most affected by the removals, with ambassadors from 13 countries being removed: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/dipl...
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”

www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
www.sltrib.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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NEW: Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually.

The FDA reports testing only a few dozen of them every year, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.

Here’s what we found when we did our own testing:
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually. The FDA tests only a few dozen of them every year, its own records show, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contaminants, irregularities and other issues.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Page One:

“.. about a third of their gross income ..”

$XLY
@washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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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ALFONSI: “.. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

@nytimes.com $PSKY
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Good god

“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed.”
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
www.politico.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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James Talarico: Does your bill replacing counselors with untrained religious chaplains require them to have any training/qualifications?

Republican: No

Talarico: I offered an amendment to require school chaplains to respect freedom of religion, and you refused to accept that?

Republican: Correct
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.”

@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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#Florida legislators quietly working on a measure to give Big Sugar legal power to go after activists & news outlets and silence critics jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-po... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
Florida politicians may give Big Sugar legal power to go after activists and silence critics
Lawmakers in Tallahassee are quietly working on a measure that would give the sugar industry more ammunition to threaten Everglades advocates, news outlets and others with defamation lawsuits.
jasongarcia.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Silencing a black woman's voice is so on brand for that knuckle dragging knotty-pated dewberry. 🤬
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The new Polish president, endorsed by Trump, has ended the tradition of lighting a Menorah at Poland's presidential palace, a gesture of coming to terms with Jewish history. He said he ended the lighting because "I take my attachment to Christian values ​​seriously." forward.com/opinion/7919...
Why Poland’s president canceled his menorah lighting — and how the West helped make that happen
Karol Nawrocki canceled menorah lighting at the presidential palace, part of a broader failure to combat antisemitism, Holocaust revisionism.
forward.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Two videos have been falsely claimed to show the UK and Pakistan celebrating the Bondi Beach attack.

In fact, the clips show a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Manchester in June and a fireworks display in Karachi after Hamas's attack on Israel.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, agreed to merge with a nuclear fusion company in a deal worth $6 billion.
Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal
Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company in which President Trump holds a large stake, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.”
nyti.ms
December 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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...
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Lol. Lmao. And so on.
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Hegseth just held his #Christmas Worship Service at the Pentagon. Here's my report featuring remarks by Franklin Graham, who praised a "God of War" & read a Bible passage often used to justify genocide: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-pentago...
At Pentagon Christmas Service, Franklin Graham Praises “God of War”
Speaking at a “Christmas Worship Service” at the Pentagon, evangelist Franklin Graham celebrated that God is not just a God of love but also of hate and war.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM