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"They are actively choosing to go into the holiday break, knowing healthcare premiums are doubling and tripling for millions of Americans in 2026, and doing nothing about it."
'Gambling With Lives of Their Constituents,' House GOP Leaders Refuse Vote on ACA Tax Credits
"They are actively choosing to go into the holiday break, knowing healthcare premiums are doubling and tripling for millions of Americans in 2026, and doing nothing about it."
www.commondreams.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨

Mother Jones is looking for a blogger to join our fast-moving news desk—someone who wakes up checking headlines, pounces on breaking stories, and can turn around multiple posts every day.

Salary range: $65K to $75K annually

Applications close on or before Jan. 15:
Breaking News Reporter
Limited-time 2X match:Ends Friday
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December 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Accountability for ICE is coming...
open.substack.com/pub/thekenha...
Accountability for ICE is coming...
That's not a prediction...it's a PROMISE.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Trial of Judge Hannah Dugan: Substack Live with Reporter Adam Klasfeld
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The Trial of Judge Hannah Dugan: Substack Live with Reporter Adam Klasfeld
The view from inside the courtroom
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Shelter materials for 1.3 million in Gaza blocked at the border by Israel, as Israel facilitates one-way exit of 200 Palestinians from Gaza; Trump classifies fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction"
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Shelter materials for 1.3 million people in Gaza blocked by Israel; 200 Palestinians leave Gaza via Kerem Shalom; Trump classifies fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction"
Drop Site Daily: December 16, 2025
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December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In HS2-world, temporary is a long time.The people living beside it have endured half a decade of construction work. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#PaintingForToday The Factory Village by J. Alden Weir showing the Willimantic Linen Company mill through trees in 1897.
December 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
December 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Such a good one
Snow, Scotland, c.1958, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (National Galleries of Scotland).
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Newsom is doing what I predicted he and other governers would: building parallel institutions to the ones the Trump administration is destroying at a federal level: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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BLACK FARMERS AREN’T TAKING THE BAIT

Rejecting Trump’s bailout as structurally racist.

The $12 billion runs through the same USDA systems that systematically locked Black farmers out for decades. Loan denials, delayed paperwork, acreage rules, enrollment hurdles. The discrimination is documented.
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Dementia is no excuse for this disgusting statement!
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This painting by William Ratcliffe depicts a quintessential scene of a Swedish cottage in winter. Inspired by his great friend, and Camden Town Group founder, Harold Gilman’s visit to Sweden in 1912, Ratcliffe began his own exploration of Scandinavia the following year.
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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A sane country.
December 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
December 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
15 dead in Hanukkah terror attack amid wave of rising antisemitism in Australia www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
15 dead in Hanukkah terror attack amid wave of rising antisemitism in Australia
Sunday’s shooting is the deadliest in the country in three decades.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Happy Chanukah!
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
O Generous One!
Christmas Carols, 2/2
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December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#BirdForToday 'Winter Glow' by contemporary UK printmaker Annie Soudain
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM