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Representative Doug LaMalfa, CA-01, and his family have been sucking in our tax dollars. He was also there at the trough for PPP money. With the passage of Proposition 50, we have a chance to oust the MAGA Republican.

www.ewg.org/news-insight...

The biggest windfall from taxpayers’ pocketbooks went to the family of Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who received nearly $5.5 million in commodity subsidies for rice and wheat. LaMalfa holds a third of the family’s farm partnership, making his share almost $1.8 million.

December 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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@klaaskid8.bsky.social

Good.

Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is probably a new era of grand jury practice where there is communal awareness of abusive policing.

The GJ just doesn't believe the state.

I'm not an expert on the history of grand juries, but my sense is that this is the first time we are seeing that phenomenon at scale.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.

That means the grand jury refused to indict.

December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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The New York Times

@nytimes.com

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y

December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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@klaaskid8.bsky.social

squareword.org 1408: 13 guesses

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December 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone

CBS NEWS

News the White House can trust

December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM

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Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn.bsky.social

We really are on the brink of a health golden age.

Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients

Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

www.bbc.com

December 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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muscular baby jeb lund

@mobute.bsky.social

The internet's pal @kevinmkruse.bsky.social said a thing the other day that got me thinking about the dissembling rhetoric of white flight being ripped out of GOP discourse at about the same rate that an adult reasoning capacity is being stripped from Trump's brain and how shitty reality is for it.

The Sheriff of Sundown City - Truthdig

As the final regulators burn out of the machine, Trump's mental retrogression has no limit but his expiration date.

www.truthdig.com

December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Michael Wildone

@michaelwild.bsky.social

December 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Robert Downen

@robertdownen.bsky.social

Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.

A large group of young Republicans and Texas GOP leaders at the Texas Governors Mansion.

December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 2d

Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.

December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM