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Lobbyists Stand To Make Millions From 'Pardon-Shopping Industry' Driven By Trump
$6 million bounties on the table for securing a Trump pardon: report
Donald Trump's significant increase in presidential pardons during his second term has attracted intense lobbying efforts, with millions of dollars being offered to secure clemency for wealthy convicted clients.According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump's pardon activity stands in stark contrast to...
www.rawstory.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Lobbyists Stand To Make Millions From 'Pardon-Shopping Industry' Driven By Trump
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The President of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it.
December 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The President of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it.
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Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A big lump of coal for Hoosiers this Christmas.
Trump administration issues emergency orders to keep 2 aging Indiana coal plants open
Two Indiana coal plants slated to retire at the end of the month will live to see the new year after the Department of Energy issued emergency orders to keep them open.
www.indystar.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A big lump of coal for Hoosiers this Christmas.
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Is there a sin of empathy? Does the Bible condone slavery? Did Jesus really say wealthy people might not reach heaven?
Religious scholar @maklelan.bsky.social on biblical misinterpretations and how politicians use—and abuse—the world’s most argued-over book.
Religious scholar @maklelan.bsky.social on biblical misinterpretations and how politicians use—and abuse—the world’s most argued-over book.
The Bible says so…or does it?
On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.
revealnews.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Is there a sin of empathy? Does the Bible condone slavery? Did Jesus really say wealthy people might not reach heaven?
Religious scholar @maklelan.bsky.social on biblical misinterpretations and how politicians use—and abuse—the world’s most argued-over book.
Religious scholar @maklelan.bsky.social on biblical misinterpretations and how politicians use—and abuse—the world’s most argued-over book.
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Too subtle for Trump and MAGA?
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Too subtle for Trump and MAGA?
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CBS is now state run media. Killing a story, then lying about the justification, is the death of integrity.
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
CBS is now state run media. Killing a story, then lying about the justification, is the death of integrity.
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
Merry Christmas. Love your enemies.
December 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Merry Christmas. Love your enemies.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a lower court block on Trump’s attempt to send the National Guard to Chicago, ruling the president unlawfully used an archaic statute to federalize hundreds of state troops.
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump’s Chicago Military Takeover
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a lower court block on Trump’s attempt to send the National Guard to Chicago, ruling the president unlawfully used an archaic statute to federalize hundreds of state troops.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked Trump's effort to deploy the National Guard in Illinois to protect officials carrying out his mass-deportation policy.
Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois
The 6-3 ruling comes more than two months after the Trump admin asked the justices to weigh in on the move.
www.politico.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked Trump's effort to deploy the National Guard in Illinois to protect officials carrying out his mass-deportation policy.
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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Why would anyone think Trump did something shady and repulsive with young woman while hanging with Epstein? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Why would anyone think Trump did something shady and repulsive with young woman while hanging with Epstein? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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New Kentucky Home was about taking the next big step in economic development, tourism and workforce development, and I am proud of the progress we've made as we celebrate the second-best year on record for investment. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/p...
How Beshear's New Kentucky Home is bringing new jobs, investment to KY
In 2024, Gov. Andy Beshear launched New Kentucky Home, an economic development and tourism plan to secure new jobs and investment. And it's working.
www.courier-journal.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New Kentucky Home was about taking the next big step in economic development, tourism and workforce development, and I am proud of the progress we've made as we celebrate the second-best year on record for investment. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/p...
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Worth repeating over and over - Trump’s secretaries can be this brash about being lawless bc John Roberts and his MAGA #scotus keep enabling them. This all goes back to Roberts.
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Worth repeating over and over - Trump’s secretaries can be this brash about being lawless bc John Roberts and his MAGA #scotus keep enabling them. This all goes back to Roberts.
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Take some time over the next few days to watch my interview with Gov JB Pritzker. I think you will learn something about politics, elections and the fight for democracy. youtu.be/oA0uttMI5rc?...
The Resistance Blueprint | Gov. JB Pritzker
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Take some time over the next few days to watch my interview with Gov JB Pritzker. I think you will learn something about politics, elections and the fight for democracy. youtu.be/oA0uttMI5rc?...
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EPSTEIN SURVIVOR WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP: “I am no longer supporting the Trump administration. Bondi & Patel should resign, and Trump should be impeached over this.”
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
EPSTEIN SURVIVOR WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP: “I am no longer supporting the Trump administration. Bondi & Patel should resign, and Trump should be impeached over this.”
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Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
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I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
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MEMPHIS FLYER: “Nearly 6 of every 10 ICE arrests in Tennessee since Trump took office involve individuals with no criminal convictions...”
So much for the violent criminals narrative, eh @GovBillLee?
www.memphisflyer.com/nearly-60-pe...
So much for the violent criminals narrative, eh @GovBillLee?
www.memphisflyer.com/nearly-60-pe...
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
MEMPHIS FLYER: “Nearly 6 of every 10 ICE arrests in Tennessee since Trump took office involve individuals with no criminal convictions...”
So much for the violent criminals narrative, eh @GovBillLee?
www.memphisflyer.com/nearly-60-pe...
So much for the violent criminals narrative, eh @GovBillLee?
www.memphisflyer.com/nearly-60-pe...
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This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.
Watching the segment: The first thing I'm going to zero in on is the crime stats. Here's how 60 Minutes set it up:
- Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst
- Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all
- Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst
- Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all
Here's the rest of Bari Weiss' memo. "We do not present the administration's argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT," and on Sec. Noem's trip "no comment from her or her staff about what her goal on that trip was... or if she had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees." LOL!
December 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.
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It's time to leave your lucrative office job and go work at a factory, where the robots have taken all of the jobs
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"
December 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's time to leave your lucrative office job and go work at a factory, where the robots have taken all of the jobs