Jim
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Smith is starting the firm with Tim Heaphy, David Harbach and Thomas Windom, each a former federal prosecutor with decades of public service.
Trump prosecutor Jack Smith to launch firm with ex-Justice Department lawyers
Jack Smith, the former U.S. Justice Department special counsel who prosecuted Republican President Donald Trump following his first term in the White House, is teaming up with three other ex-prosecuto...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Smith is starting the firm with Tim Heaphy, David Harbach and Thomas Windom, each a former federal prosecutor with decades of public service.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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Data analysis of social media posts painting Taylor Swift as a Trump supporter or white supremacist revealed a network of inauthentic accounts.
Taylor Swift's Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Data analysis of social media posts painting Taylor Swift as a Trump supporter or white supremacist revealed a network of inauthentic accounts.
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"Sutter’s latest decision means three of the five largest hospitals in the Bay Area have stopped or sharply restricted gender-affirming care for minors"
NorCal’s largest hospital to end gender-affirming care for kids
Sutter is the latest clinic to bow to federal pressure and stop treatment, leaving Bay Area families in medical limbo.
sfstandard.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"Sutter’s latest decision means three of the five largest hospitals in the Bay Area have stopped or sharply restricted gender-affirming care for minors"
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Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.
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Authoritarian regimes often work by co-opting people into their crimes and thus giving them a vested interest in maintaining the regime lest crimes get punished. Old as the hills. Do none of you study history?
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Authoritarian regimes often work by co-opting people into their crimes and thus giving them a vested interest in maintaining the regime lest crimes get punished. Old as the hills. Do none of you study history?
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The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes
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Construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant is now set to begin after the European Commission approved Warsaw’s request to allocate 60 billion zloty (€14.2 billion) in state aid for the project
Poland to launch construction of first nuclear plant after EU approves €14bn in state aid
notesfrompoland.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant is now set to begin after the European Commission approved Warsaw’s request to allocate 60 billion zloty (€14.2 billion) in state aid for the project
Umm... That's WHY formula exists. It IS superior in all the ways it is needed to be.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Umm... That's WHY formula exists. It IS superior in all the ways it is needed to be.
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hoping the EU has the sack to fight fire with fire. all Trump aligned oligarchs, above all Elon Musk, should be considered enemies of European freedom
This is far beyond 'NATO as we've known it is done.'
"The Trump administration had “a clear and consistent vision for Europe: one that prioritises US-Russia ties and seeks to divide and conquer the continent, with much of the dirty work carried out by nationalist, far-right European forces.”
"The Trump administration had “a clear and consistent vision for Europe: one that prioritises US-Russia ties and seeks to divide and conquer the continent, with much of the dirty work carried out by nationalist, far-right European forces.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
hoping the EU has the sack to fight fire with fire. all Trump aligned oligarchs, above all Elon Musk, should be considered enemies of European freedom
So close... So, so close.
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So close... So, so close.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Ohnoes! Did anyone break into her home and beat her with a hammer?
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It's easy for me to say a prayer for him and forgive him. But the part that I have had a very hard time with is the fact that he called me a traitor, and because of his words, that brought serious threats against myself and my family."
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ohnoes! Did anyone break into her home and beat her with a hammer?
You will never understand it 'cause it happens too fast...
TFW when video songs you played on your college radio station show up on the Reelin’ in the Years YouTube page devoted to ancient media clips. 👴🏻 youtu.be/s7IBcSKGqqo?...
Faith No More • Epic • 1990 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
You will never understand it 'cause it happens too fast...
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JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
And the winner of the inaugural Oscars Peace Prize is....
we can just do the oscars this year right i dont need to hear about this business
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And the winner of the inaugural Oscars Peace Prize is....
I'm going to start shorting the stocks of all the companies that bend the knee, so when the next Administration reviews things, I'll make mint.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I'm going to start shorting the stocks of all the companies that bend the knee, so when the next Administration reviews things, I'll make mint.
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there’s a yank who ate one of those dumb chocolate orange things like an apple and the brits are losing their minds
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
there’s a yank who ate one of those dumb chocolate orange things like an apple and the brits are losing their minds
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L'esprit de l'escalier
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
L'esprit de l'escalier
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Hope, flags, fireworks as Syria starts to celebrate a year without al-Assad
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Hope, flags, fireworks as Syria starts to celebrate a year without al-Assad
Syrians gathered to celebrate days before the December 8 anniversary, which will mark the day the capital was liberated.
www.aljazeera.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Hope, flags, fireworks as Syria starts to celebrate a year without al-Assad
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?