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Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. This is a big one. Noem runs out of a hearing after getting destroyed and Indiana Republicans reject Trump. That and everything else that happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. 12/11/25
… A contentious exchange took place today between Kristi Noem and Rep.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. This is a big one. Noem runs out of a hearing after getting destroyed and Indiana Republicans reject Trump. That and everything else that happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Donald Trump and David Sacks aren't making policy – they're running a con. This executive order does little to protect innovation or the interests of Americans.
California will continue building a nation-leading innovation economy while implementing common sense safeguards.
California will continue building a nation-leading innovation economy while implementing common sense safeguards.
Trump signs order to fight state AI laws
President Trump signed Thursday night an executive order to impose a national AI standard, a move that would limit states’ efforts to enact their own AI laws. “We have to be unified. Chin…
thehill.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Donald Trump and David Sacks aren't making policy – they're running a con. This executive order does little to protect innovation or the interests of Americans.
California will continue building a nation-leading innovation economy while implementing common sense safeguards.
California will continue building a nation-leading innovation economy while implementing common sense safeguards.
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Trump threatened to pull the state's federal funding, he sent Vance there multiple times, his allies (including his son) are currently threatening to oust all the Republicans who rebuked him, and he's already sicced his goons on these lawmakers, bringing them countless death threats. But ok.
Reporter: The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort.
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Trump threatened to pull the state's federal funding, he sent Vance there multiple times, his allies (including his son) are currently threatening to oust all the Republicans who rebuked him, and he's already sicced his goons on these lawmakers, bringing them countless death threats. But ok.
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A federal judge orders troops out of California, another protects Epstein survivors, one may halt a Comey re-indictment, and another may make criminal referrals against Trump officials. Watch Legal AF LIVE at 8pm ET/5 PT!
LIVE: Judge DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump & SENDS TROOPS HOME + BREAKING LEGAL NEWS | Legal AF
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December 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A federal judge orders troops out of California, another protects Epstein survivors, one may halt a Comey re-indictment, and another may make criminal referrals against Trump officials. Watch Legal AF LIVE at 8pm ET/5 PT!
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.
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lol. Calling their bluff. These aren’t part of the 300G of data the justice department has (and could have released anytime.) the deadline is 12/19. Tick tock, Pamela Jo.
Breaking:
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
lol. Calling their bluff. These aren’t part of the 300G of data the justice department has (and could have released anytime.) the deadline is 12/19. Tick tock, Pamela Jo.
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Rand Paul out there sounding sane all the time because we’re living in the upside fucking down.
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rand Paul out there sounding sane all the time because we’re living in the upside fucking down.
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James Garfield was murdered by a man who thought he deserved a government job. Chester Arthur—once a machine politician—responded by helping create civil service reform.
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The GOP’s War on Civil Service: A Rejection of Its Own History
A look at how Garfield’s murder and Arthur’s unexpected courage created modern civil service protections—and why today’s GOP is trying to dismantle them.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
James Garfield was murdered by a man who thought he deserved a government job. Chester Arthur—once a machine politician—responded by helping create civil service reform.
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This! Attn @bookcritics.bsky.social
if you want your book to be reviewed...
...go review a book! people need to write reviews for books to be reviewed!
...go review a book! people need to write reviews for books to be reviewed!
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This! Attn @bookcritics.bsky.social
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The North Carolina Writers’ Network's 40th Anniversary Online Auction is now open!
Prizes include A virtual three-hour consultation, divided into three sessions, with Abby Freeland, senior acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kentucky.
Read more and place your bid here: buff.ly/rvP2qam
Prizes include A virtual three-hour consultation, divided into three sessions, with Abby Freeland, senior acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kentucky.
Read more and place your bid here: buff.ly/rvP2qam
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The North Carolina Writers’ Network's 40th Anniversary Online Auction is now open!
Prizes include A virtual three-hour consultation, divided into three sessions, with Abby Freeland, senior acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kentucky.
Read more and place your bid here: buff.ly/rvP2qam
Prizes include A virtual three-hour consultation, divided into three sessions, with Abby Freeland, senior acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kentucky.
Read more and place your bid here: buff.ly/rvP2qam
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“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.”
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
Twin Cities religious leaders unite to support Somali community and condemn Trump attacks
Religious leaders from churches, Jewish temples and mosques from across the state opposed remarks from President Donald Trump that included calling Somalis “garbage.”
www.startribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.”
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
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"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'
She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Woman forcefully detained in Keys was driving ‘illegal’ boyfriend’s car, feds say
The woman in medical scrubs, who was a U.S. citizen, was yanked from her car and wrestled to the ground by federal immigration agents in a Key Largo traffic stop Wednesday before she was released.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'
She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."
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"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."
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www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations
“The only losers are the children.”
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December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The North Carolina Writers’ Network's 40th Anniversary Online Auction is now open!
Prizes include a 2-Hour Personal Coaching/Editing with Russell Worth Parker. Over two hours, used as you need them, Worth will assist you in moving forward with your project.
Read more here: buff.ly/fLPkeIT
Prizes include a 2-Hour Personal Coaching/Editing with Russell Worth Parker. Over two hours, used as you need them, Worth will assist you in moving forward with your project.
Read more here: buff.ly/fLPkeIT
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The North Carolina Writers’ Network's 40th Anniversary Online Auction is now open!
Prizes include a 2-Hour Personal Coaching/Editing with Russell Worth Parker. Over two hours, used as you need them, Worth will assist you in moving forward with your project.
Read more here: buff.ly/fLPkeIT
Prizes include a 2-Hour Personal Coaching/Editing with Russell Worth Parker. Over two hours, used as you need them, Worth will assist you in moving forward with your project.
Read more here: buff.ly/fLPkeIT
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With FEVERDREAM waiting in the wings, if you wanted to get a copy of my previous collection, POSTSCRIPTS, you can get it for just over $6 on Amazon or an ePub version on Bookshop for $3.99.
a.co/d/dTYy7OY
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#poetry #christmaspresent #readpoetry
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bookshop.org/p/books/post...
#poetry #christmaspresent #readpoetry
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
With FEVERDREAM waiting in the wings, if you wanted to get a copy of my previous collection, POSTSCRIPTS, you can get it for just over $6 on Amazon or an ePub version on Bookshop for $3.99.
a.co/d/dTYy7OY
bookshop.org/p/books/post...
#poetry #christmaspresent #readpoetry
a.co/d/dTYy7OY
bookshop.org/p/books/post...
#poetry #christmaspresent #readpoetry
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Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
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The new CDC #2 has a history of supporting medical gibberish.
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The new CDC #2 has a history of supporting medical gibberish.
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
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Lindsey Graham says the Pope better get on the “right side of history” and support Trump’s push to use military force to overthrow the government of Venezuela
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Lindsey Graham says the Pope better get on the “right side of history” and support Trump’s push to use military force to overthrow the government of Venezuela
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"As heavily armed and camouflage-clad Border Patrol agents crowded into the plaza outside the Japanese American museum...
Ms. Fujimoto heard the commotion and tore out of the store, shouting that immigration agents were there. 'I felt like Paul Revere,' she said..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Ms. Fujimoto heard the commotion and tore out of the store, shouting that immigration agents were there. 'I felt like Paul Revere,' she said..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"As heavily armed and camouflage-clad Border Patrol agents crowded into the plaza outside the Japanese American museum...
Ms. Fujimoto heard the commotion and tore out of the store, shouting that immigration agents were there. 'I felt like Paul Revere,' she said..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Ms. Fujimoto heard the commotion and tore out of the store, shouting that immigration agents were there. 'I felt like Paul Revere,' she said..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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"U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted..."
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US manufacturing stuck in doldrums as tariff headwinds persist
U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted.
www.reuters.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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"The 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.
Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...
Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill, even if the politics haven’t | CNN Politics
As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its only health clinic.
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"The 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.
Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...
Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...