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The great Dionne Warwick turns 85 today.
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The great Dionne Warwick turns 85 today.
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
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Jamaica Strong concert live right now!
Raising money for hurricane relief. Give if you can!
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Raising money for hurricane relief. Give if you can!
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December 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Jamaica Strong concert live right now!
Raising money for hurricane relief. Give if you can!
champ.ly/tH2jWXev
Raising money for hurricane relief. Give if you can!
champ.ly/tH2jWXev
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One banal point from all of these photos is how tawdry it all looks. Like a run-down hotel full of disheveled oddballs you try to avoid.
I'm not certain, but I think this might be the first photo of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak from an Epstein release
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One banal point from all of these photos is how tawdry it all looks. Like a run-down hotel full of disheveled oddballs you try to avoid.
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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As a GOP activist, Harmeet Dhillon frequently insisted that the federal government has “little to say” about how states run their elections. Now, as head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), she claims the feds have “sweeping” authority to seize state voter rolls.
Harmeet Dhillon Was an Outspoken Advocate for the Right of States to Run Elections. Then She Took a Top Job at Trump’s DOJ
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
As a GOP activist, Harmeet Dhillon frequently insisted that the federal government has “little to say” about how states run their elections. Now, as head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), she claims the feds have “sweeping” authority to seize state voter rolls.
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"US media simply accepts, without pushback or critical thinking of any kind, the US State Department’s premise that the US is the leader of the whole world and gets to unilaterally dictate what is and isn’t 'international law.'" www.columnblog.com/p/us-media-r...
US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy
Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?
www.columnblog.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"US media simply accepts, without pushback or critical thinking of any kind, the US State Department’s premise that the US is the leader of the whole world and gets to unilaterally dictate what is and isn’t 'international law.'" www.columnblog.com/p/us-media-r...
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TSA “provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people.”
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
TSA “provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people.”
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i think the other thing that's going on here that the primary players don't want to talk about for obvious reasons is that shutting your state out of the House Democratic Caucus entirely is a really bad idea if you think Dems are about to take the House.
Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i think the other thing that's going on here that the primary players don't want to talk about for obvious reasons is that shutting your state out of the House Democratic Caucus entirely is a really bad idea if you think Dems are about to take the House.
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Trump raises utility bills by going after clean energy
He spikes costs on groceries with tariffs
He increases health care premiums with his inaction on tax credits
Does this seem like someone that cares even a little about your prices?
He spikes costs on groceries with tariffs
He increases health care premiums with his inaction on tax credits
Does this seem like someone that cares even a little about your prices?
December 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Trump raises utility bills by going after clean energy
He spikes costs on groceries with tariffs
He increases health care premiums with his inaction on tax credits
Does this seem like someone that cares even a little about your prices?
He spikes costs on groceries with tariffs
He increases health care premiums with his inaction on tax credits
Does this seem like someone that cares even a little about your prices?
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I'm not certain, but I think this might be the first photo of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak from an Epstein release
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm not certain, but I think this might be the first photo of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak from an Epstein release
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THIS LETS ME BRING OUT THIS POST AGAIN
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
THIS LETS ME BRING OUT THIS POST AGAIN
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Colorblindness was bad, but people being afraid to be racist in public, or to publicly support racists, is better than whatever this is.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Colorblindness was bad, but people being afraid to be racist in public, or to publicly support racists, is better than whatever this is.
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allowing open bigotry in the workplace is one mechanism for driving marginalized folks out of the workplace
You can disagree with fact but that's on you.
You can disagree with fact but that's on you.
Ok, he is socialist and he is against firing ppl. I am too. Haven’t read the article yet, and I will.
However, I already do not agree with you that not firing ppl for bigotry means bigotry is ok.
However, I already do not agree with you that not firing ppl for bigotry means bigotry is ok.
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
allowing open bigotry in the workplace is one mechanism for driving marginalized folks out of the workplace
You can disagree with fact but that's on you.
You can disagree with fact but that's on you.
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I do not want to be part of a left that thinks bigotry is ok. In fact, I don't think that's left.
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I do not want to be part of a left that thinks bigotry is ok. In fact, I don't think that's left.
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The emerging left-right consensus--from "socialists" to JD Vance--that it's ok to be openly racist should worry us all.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The emerging left-right consensus--from "socialists" to JD Vance--that it's ok to be openly racist should worry us all.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
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I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
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Rough day on the “I-solved-eight-wars” beat. 🤡
@washingtonpost.com @wsj.com
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
@washingtonpost.com @wsj.com
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Rough day on the “I-solved-eight-wars” beat. 🤡
@washingtonpost.com @wsj.com
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
@washingtonpost.com @wsj.com
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
A grand jury just rejected the Trump Justice Department's third attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations she engaged in mortgage fraud, according to two sources familiar with the presentation.
A grand jury just rejected the Trump Justice Department's third attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations she engaged in mortgage fraud, according to two sources familiar with the presentation.
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
BREAKING on MS NOW:
A grand jury just rejected the Trump Justice Department's third attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations she engaged in mortgage fraud, according to two sources familiar with the presentation.
A grand jury just rejected the Trump Justice Department's third attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations she engaged in mortgage fraud, according to two sources familiar with the presentation.
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Kinda wild that the organization the FBI considers the biggest domestic threat is ... largely imaginary.
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Kinda wild that the organization the FBI considers the biggest domestic threat is ... largely imaginary.
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“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
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It's been over a year since Trump promised it, and we still don't have the Republican "concept of a plan" for healthcare.
It's time to extend the ACA tax credits and end their political games.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
It's time to extend the ACA tax credits and end their political games.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's been over a year since Trump promised it, and we still don't have the Republican "concept of a plan" for healthcare.
It's time to extend the ACA tax credits and end their political games.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
It's time to extend the ACA tax credits and end their political games.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Would be really nice if we had a functioning federal government.
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Would be really nice if we had a functioning federal government.
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Judge Emil Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer who Trump then appointed to the federal bench, has been hit with an ethics complaint for attending Trump's rally last night.
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
Judge Bove Faces Complaint Over Trump Rally Attendance - Law360 Pulse
U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove, who previously served as President Donald Trump's personal defense attorney and a top official at the U.S. Department of Justice, has been hit with a judicial misconduct ...
www.law360.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Judge Emil Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer who Trump then appointed to the federal bench, has been hit with an ethics complaint for attending Trump's rally last night.
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
"[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."
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They are "accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old."
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
They are "accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old."
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...