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Immigrant families held at a detention facility in Texas describe prolonged stays, despondent children, limited access to potable water and agents offering money for families to voluntarily leave the country, according to new court declarations. https://cnn.it/4pr3VW5
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Immigrant families held at a detention facility in Texas describe prolonged stays, despondent children, limited access to potable water and agents offering money for families to voluntarily leave the country, according to new court declarations. https://cnn.it/4pr3VW5
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#Fungi art,mycological adventures, the release of my manuscript about the costs of war on our #veteran family, #farm and #traditionalskill share, adopting #sheep, and the chance to help conserve land????
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The Fungi Resistance and The Orchards at Funny Farm | Patreon
A regenerative orchard/sheep farm,fungi and watercolors
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December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
#Fungi art,mycological adventures, the release of my manuscript about the costs of war on our #veteran family, #farm and #traditionalskill share, adopting #sheep, and the chance to help conserve land????
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The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
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"Local businesses were ready to push back. Posted on store- and restaurant-front windows were signs: 'Private area', '4th Amendment Workplace' and 'There’s always room at our table, but to enter past this point, we’ll need to see a warrant signed by a judge'...”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘We’ll need to see a warrant’: the group teaching businesses a vital tool to fight ICE raids
Siembra in North Carolina gives owners fourth amendment rights trainings should federal agents show up at their door
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Local businesses were ready to push back. Posted on store- and restaurant-front windows were signs: 'Private area', '4th Amendment Workplace' and 'There’s always room at our table, but to enter past this point, we’ll need to see a warrant signed by a judge'...”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
*would not be *necessary* without the tariffs.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
*would not be *necessary* without the tariffs.
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The casus belli for the boat strikes is a lie at every level. @jvl.bsky.social examines each part of it so that you understand exactly how and why it is a lie, and how Trump has used lies like this to short-circuit American democracy.
Today's Triad: lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z
Today's Triad: lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The casus belli for the boat strikes is a lie at every level. @jvl.bsky.social examines each part of it so that you understand exactly how and why it is a lie, and how Trump has used lies like this to short-circuit American democracy.
Today's Triad: lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z
Today's Triad: lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z
On the one hand, this is really cool.
On the other, conspiracists will get really worked up over it, I’m sure.
apple.news/AxD1uujI7S2-...
On the other, conspiracists will get really worked up over it, I’m sure.
apple.news/AxD1uujI7S2-...
The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable — The Atlantic
This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.
apple.news
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
On the one hand, this is really cool.
On the other, conspiracists will get really worked up over it, I’m sure.
apple.news/AxD1uujI7S2-...
On the other, conspiracists will get really worked up over it, I’m sure.
apple.news/AxD1uujI7S2-...
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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one of the sorcerers Eric Adams went to was the real deal
New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
one of the sorcerers Eric Adams went to was the real deal
Arsonist offers fire extinguisher, while also making sure to praise the fire.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Arsonist offers fire extinguisher, while also making sure to praise the fire.
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Here's a statement from the NSS which is an easy way to tell Stephen Miller played a key role in it.
Imagine thinking that the single most important aspect of national security was the border?
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Imagine thinking that the single most important aspect of national security was the border?
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here's a statement from the NSS which is an easy way to tell Stephen Miller played a key role in it.
Imagine thinking that the single most important aspect of national security was the border?
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Imagine thinking that the single most important aspect of national security was the border?
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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🔥HOPE WALZ: “Oh Don Jr, it is so clear your dad doesn’t love you… my family will always be richer than yours, because we find joy in each other - not tearing other people down. I really hope you get the help you need.”
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🔥HOPE WALZ: “Oh Don Jr, it is so clear your dad doesn’t love you… my family will always be richer than yours, because we find joy in each other - not tearing other people down. I really hope you get the help you need.”
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And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.
Trump is giving another $12 billion of taxpayer money to bail out farmers again from his disastrous policies. Just like he had to bail them out in his first term from his disastrous policies. But they will continue to vote Republican, as long as they keep getting their welfare checks.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.
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Keep in mind #Palantir as a company has commited more than 3 crimes. Wonder how he would feel about being publicly hung. Also, what the fuck does he mean “If I’m in charge later”. If only we still had the wild west justice available as an option. #JoeLonsdale www.common-dreams.org/news/joe-lon...
Billionaire Palantir Co-Founder Pushes Return of Public Hangings as Part of 'Masculine Leadership' Initiative | Common Dreams
Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale calls for public hangings to restore "masculine leadership" in the US.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Keep in mind #Palantir as a company has commited more than 3 crimes. Wonder how he would feel about being publicly hung. Also, what the fuck does he mean “If I’m in charge later”. If only we still had the wild west justice available as an option. #JoeLonsdale www.common-dreams.org/news/joe-lon...
As Gorsuch simultaneously decries judicial activism…
Justice Gorsuch: Is it possible--"just maybe"--that we're setting our sights far too low and we should be blowing up many more structures of modern government?
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Gorsuch simultaneously decries judicial activism…
Yet another way Trump is a national security risk.
It’s well known among reporters that Trump answers his cell phone. If you can get the number, he picks up.
Not the most important thing, but how is it that a Pro Publica reporter (frankly, any reporter) can call the President of the United States and he just... picks up the phone?
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Yet another way Trump is a national security risk.
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It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century
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🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
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When Pete Hegseth spoke to reporters about National Guard members shot in DC, he said: “I mentioned the faith of this country, the Christian faith.”
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
Not a Single Senator Probed the Most Dangerous Part of Pete Hegseth's Background: His Ties to White Christian Nationalism
It’s hard to find strong enough adjectives to describe the unmitigated disaster the senate hearing on Pete Hegseth truly was. Even the few Republicans who had expressed previous concerns about his nom...
religiondispatches.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When Pete Hegseth spoke to reporters about National Guard members shot in DC, he said: “I mentioned the faith of this country, the Christian faith.”
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
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At one point in 2024, Brazil imported 60% of its motor vehicles from China. That's down to 40% in Oct. '25, but it should be clear to everyone that China is rolling up the global car market aggressively. The frontlines of this battle are in emerging markets. The losers are European car makers...
December 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
At one point in 2024, Brazil imported 60% of its motor vehicles from China. That's down to 40% in Oct. '25, but it should be clear to everyone that China is rolling up the global car market aggressively. The frontlines of this battle are in emerging markets. The losers are European car makers...
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China is plowing massive resources into becoming a global player in cars. Its push to electrify the economy by burning lots of fossil fuels is part of that. None of this is about being "green." It's the same old mercantilism that's always driven China...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-rac...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-rac...
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
China is plowing massive resources into becoming a global player in cars. Its push to electrify the economy by burning lots of fossil fuels is part of that. None of this is about being "green." It's the same old mercantilism that's always driven China...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-rac...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-rac...
Can’t wait for another Trump rant about being electrocuted by an electric boat.
"Studies have shown that long-distance electric ships with up to 5,000 km of range can be successfully utilized using today’s battery capabilities, without significant weight and volume."
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/c...
CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine div...
cleantechnica.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Can’t wait for another Trump rant about being electrocuted by an electric boat.