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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 9h

This past year, The Tribune spent $80,899 fighting various departments within the state of Utah for access to public records. Unfortunately, the legislature took note and passed no fewer than four laws that further restricted access to records in 2025.

We spent $258.53 on pizza: 2025 in numbers at The Tribune

Your support made Tribune journalism possible. Here's a look back at what we did.

www.sltrib.com

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, this is what it’s (also) come to.

Well past time to put out the dumpster fire

Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 12h

In the days after the Trump administration’s outrageous and reckless announcement to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, I worked to build a bipartisan coalition of over 100 lawmakers committed to protecting NCAR.

And we won’t back down!

trib.al/5RfVoNT

Colorado leaders mobilize bipartisan congressional coalition to protect NCAR

Elected leaders representing Boulder and Colorado in Congress have assembled a bipartisan coalition of nearly 80 lawmakers to push for continued funding for the National Center for Atmospheric Rese…

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 12h

ANTIFA film

Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 12h

In the days after the Trump administration’s outrageous and reckless announcement to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, I worked to build a bipartisan coalition of over 100 lawmakers committed to protecting NCAR.

And we won’t back down!

trib.al/5RfVoNT

Colorado leaders mobilize bipartisan congressional coalition to protect NCAR

Elected leaders representing Boulder and Colorado in Congress have assembled a bipartisan coalition of nearly 80 lawmakers to push for continued funding for the National Center for Atmospheric Rese…

trib.al

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 12h

Midnight blue creature darting
A trellis of waves
The sun a slumbering bear

#dailyhaikuprompt

12/27 prompt: bear; trellis

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 12h

Unfortunately, the entire point of nationalism is to talk about who “really” is a member of the “nation.”

To stop the inevitable violence and division this entails, we reject nationalisms of any sort.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 12h

The last thing this is about is helping people addicted to drugs.

The U.S. sank the alleged narco-terrorists’ boat — and let them go

In blowing up the vessel, destroying evidence and repatriating the survivors, the U.S. cut short a process that’s helped bring down traffickers.

wapo.st

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 16h

i am not going to pretend there’s a debate about what heritage american means. there is not. the debate over whether there’s a debate is a means of infiltration and normalization. if we are going to debate this then we must also debate if 2 and 2 make 5. it’s no less obviously stupid and malignant.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

I love how this short clip (from a longer film reel) has Sinatra correctly calling out nationalists as "Nazis." Very laudable.

However, if you watch the entire reel (available on YouTube), you'll see the US nationalism that Sinatra was upholding

All nationalisms bend towards fascism, as we can see

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about.

Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.

Alt text: Screenshot of a tweet from the verified HHS (@HHSGov) account. The tweet states that @HHSGCMikeStuart referred Seattle Children’s Hospital to @OIGatHHS for allegedly failing to meet professionally recognized health care standards, citing Secretary Kennedy’s declaration that sex-reassignment procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective treatments for gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or related disorders in minors. The tweet shows a timestamp of 2:47 PM on Dec 26, 2025, and 15.1K views.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

We have got to stop analyzing Trump's behaviour as if it is all in service of some "policy goal." It mostly is not.

It is in the service of enriching himself and those who continue to support him. That's it. That is, in a nutshell, what all states are, but particularly the authoritarian type.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, I remember this was a big talking point amongst right-wing conspiracy theorists: Biden is ignoring NC!

It was BS then, and Trump's "support" for NC is BS now.

Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.

More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.

www.washingtonpost.com

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

US attacks in Nigeria (Sokoto state, which is in NW Nigeria) struck where there is no presence of Islamic State in Nigeria.The closest location in Nigeria with IS activity are 1000 miles away.

Likewise, Boko Haram is active in the NE of Nigeria.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"

"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

12/26 “mirth profuse”

Heralds of cheer so profuse
A promise of mirth
Fall on frozen ground

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

Always fight back.

Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 2d

Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action.

What a Christmas gift!

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2d

One new war-crime for every Epstein document.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

Trump really is going to bring about WWIII, at the behest of the Tech Fascists.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/e...

EU, France, Germany slam U.S. visa bans as 'censorship' dispute deepens | CBC

The European Union, France and Germany condemned U.S. visa bans on European citizens combating online hate and disinformation, with Brussels saying on Wednesday it could "respond swiftly and decisivel...

www.cbc.ca

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

Just saw Eddington and WTAF?!

How did it receive glowing reviews? Like One Battle After Another, it is a dangerous caricature of the Left. Both of these films play into the Trump narrative that the Left is indeed a band of "terrorists," as we are told they are "critiques" of Trumpism.

Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 2d

Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action.

What a Christmas gift!

Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 3d

Nationalists always try to convince us that the nation-state, with its territories, immigration & border controls, and military violence are the equivalent to our homes and that the “nation” is a “family

They are not. These are nationalist tricks to try and garner support for fascism.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is building the infrastructure of a police state. People marked as "migrants" are its first and foremost targets.

But anyone who thinks "citizens" will also not end up in these national gulags is not facing reality.

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses

The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

www.washingtonpost.com

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d

Times, they are a-changing

Supreme Court hands Trump a major defeat on National Guard deployment

The Supreme Court holds that the president’s authority to deploy the National Guard for law enforcement purposes likely only applies in “exceptional” circumstances.

www.washingtonpost.com

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!

We play the “good migrant” vs “bad migrant” or “good citizen” vs “bad citizen” game at our collective peril.

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 4d

Moss on the branches
Overcoat of blue
One more day to remember

Word Distribution @gaussianwords.bsky.social · 5d

stratocumulous
ocean wears an overcoat
against the shore

#DailyHaikuPrompt (overcoat)
#haiku

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 5d

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

letter says: J. Epstein
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 5d

On Nov. 18, dozens of community members were alerted to an immigration raid at a warehouse in St. Paul. Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace, a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents. A week later, a rally denounced the raid.

Community Responds to ICE Raid That Took 14 People

YouTube video by Unicorn Riot

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