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How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch
2025 was supposed to be the year Trump and the populist right humbled Big Tech. It didn’t work out like that.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts
“No rational person could think the USAID process was a good one.”
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Tesla misled customers about self-driving features, judge rules
Cali DMV: rename Autopilot, or face a sales ban.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Trump designates street fentanyl as a WMD, escalating militarization of the drug war
Trump already declared the drug cartels terrorist organizations and ordered military strikes against suspected drug boats. Now he's declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. Experts are skeptic...
www.npr.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The Student Loan Crisis Is About to Get Worse
Threats to the SAVE plan could raise payments and harm Black borrowers.
wordinblack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Arctic Warming Is Turning Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Johnson Rules Out House Vote to Extend Health Insurance Subsidies
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Trump Expands Travel Ban and Restrictions to 20 More Countries
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Susie Wiles Talks About the First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2)
In the first half of Vanity Fair’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated he...
www.vanityfair.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Kushner’s Serbian boondoggle collapses amid corruption scandal
This week, Jared Kushner abruptly canceled his plans to build Trump Tower Belgrade after the project became enmeshed in a criminal corruption scandal involving Serbian government officials.
popular.info
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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December 16, 2025
While President Donald J.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop
According to Nielsen, the Saturday night town hall saw a 41 percent decline in in the key 25-54 advertising demographic compared to the network’s standard programming in that time slot year to date.
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Trump Orders 'TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE' Of Oil Tankers Into Venezuela
The moves comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region.
www.huffpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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U.S. business activity growth hits 6-month low in December
U.S. business activity growth slowed in December to the weakest pace since June, with new orders sliding for both manufacturers and service providers to cap a year of volatility and uncertainty for th...
www.reuters.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Undocumented Underground
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Republican schism! Vivek Ramaswamy repudiating the current Republican party. (The enemy of our enemy is not our friend. This is just interesting.)
Opinion | What Is an American?
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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What Do We Want?: Trump as Rock Bottom and Choosing a Better Future
This article is free for educational and organizing purposes, but Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support.
substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Live cameras are tracking faces in New Orleans. Who should control them?
A private non-profit operates over 200 cameras with live facial recognition in New Orleans. The system raises questions about privacy, legal authority and who should control surveillance technology.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE
An advocacy group is pushing for the agency to release more information.
www.theverge.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM