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Was offline. I understand were expanding our piracy portfolio into seizing ships on the high seas. This should do wonders for marine insurance. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Was offline. I understand were expanding our piracy portfolio into seizing ships on the high seas. This should do wonders for marine insurance. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
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Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Current interest rate projections at the Fed suggest that Hassett might promise the President lower rates, but -- unless something dramatic happens -- he won't be able to deliver.
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Current interest rate projections at the Fed suggest that Hassett might promise the President lower rates, but -- unless something dramatic happens -- he won't be able to deliver.
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The Missouri secretary of state is stepping into full-on lawlessness: missouriindependent.com/2025/12/09/m...
Missouri set to enact gerrymandered map despite 300K signatures for repeal referendum • Missouri Independent
Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.
missouriindependent.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Missouri secretary of state is stepping into full-on lawlessness: missouriindependent.com/2025/12/09/m...
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No one is going to want to come here
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
No one is going to want to come here
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the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
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I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.
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Everything 19th century is new again.
Not the biggest thing right now but my cheap La Quinta motel in Kenner - heart of the Latino community - blacks out MSNBC because we can’t expose visitors to the radical center-left
I forgot they do this in red states
I forgot they do this in red states
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Everything 19th century is new again.
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
You are kidding yes?
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
You are kidding yes?
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“What we’re seeing is the decades-long anti-vaccine playbook dressed up and delivered from one of the most consequential health committees in the United States,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist [told] STAT…. “When the process devolves into this kind of spectacle, kids are the ones who get hurt.”
In sweeping presentation, vaccine critic set to urge government advisers to rethink childhood shots
WASHINGTON — The future of children’s vaccines is on the agenda at today’s meeting of federal vaccine advisers, who are reviewing the childhood schedule.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“What we’re seeing is the decades-long anti-vaccine playbook dressed up and delivered from one of the most consequential health committees in the United States,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist [told] STAT…. “When the process devolves into this kind of spectacle, kids are the ones who get hurt.”
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The Court wrote a roadmap for illegal gerrymanders: Just wait to pass them until the “eve” of the election, and no one can stop you.
Supreme Court Just Okayed One Neat Trick to Illegally Gerrymander Your State
The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Court wrote a roadmap for illegal gerrymanders: Just wait to pass them until the “eve” of the election, and no one can stop you.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Thread. Recovering cradle Catholic concurs.
No one could’ve predicted that putting a lot of Opus Dei weirdos on the Supreme Court would end our democracy
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Thread. Recovering cradle Catholic concurs.
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Important @motherjones.com piece here:
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Important @motherjones.com piece here:
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@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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And beyond that, if DOJ is struggling this hard to get an indictment, it's hard to believe their evidence is sufficient for a jury to convict at trial, using the "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" standard the prosecution must meet.
By law, the Department of Justice CAN go to another grand jury and try again. But even if they succeed (a big IF in this case), the DOJ will have handed Letitia James even more evidence for her vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss the charges. And that motion was already quite strong.
A separate source familiar with the matter said there “should be no premature celebrations.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And beyond that, if DOJ is struggling this hard to get an indictment, it's hard to believe their evidence is sufficient for a jury to convict at trial, using the "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" standard the prosecution must meet.
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The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Supreme Court sided with this dissent: