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hartmannreport.com
When dissent becomes an “indicator,” the First Amendment stops being a right and starts being a risk…

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America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal”
When dissent becomes an “indicator,” the First Amendment stops being a right and starts being a risk…
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December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The attack on the Venezuelan boat was legal in the same way that Pete Hegseth is sober
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered testimony next week from DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni and deputy assistant attorney general Drew Ensign in the criminal contempt of court inquiry in the original Alien Enemies Act case.
SHOWTIME: Boasberg Summons Key DOJ Witnesses in Contempt Inquiry
DOJ Whistleblower to Take Center Stage U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines.

When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d
If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:

Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle

And more.
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This interview confirms again that Trump is just catastrophically unfit to be making any of these decisions. Dems should use this to hound Republicans to the ends of the earth if they don't agree to get to the bottom of all of it.

Some questions to pursue here:

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December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
New info on oversight: Rep Adam Smith tells me Pentagon hasn't turned over written orders for bombings. Defense bill now restricts funding to press for release of these & unedited video of strikes to Congress.

As @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com says Cong *can* act!

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December 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Trump begins his rebrand. Are Democrats ready?

My latest 👇
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Trump Begins The Rebrand. Are We Ready?
Today is Election Day in Miami - Let's bring it home for Eileen Higgins and end 2025 strong everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A screenshot of a social media post from a parody account styled as a governor’s press office. The post uses all caps and mocks a political figure by describing a fake award in exaggerated, insulting language. Below it is another post sharing a short video clip from a televised event at the Kennedy Center. In the video still a man in a suit is being given a large decorative medal by another man while cameras and a news chyron run along the bottom. The scene takes place on a stage with a blurred backdrop.
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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natalkakyiv.bsky.social
This is an absolute must-watch!

I don’t know who created this video, but it’s brilliant, hysterical, and sad at the same time.
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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schumer.senate.gov
Pete Hegseth must release the unedited videos of his reckless and dangerous strikes in the Caribbean.

Congress will withhold a big chunk of his travel budget until he does so.

The American people deserve full transparency.
A headline by Politico reads: “Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos”
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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NEWS: Judge Boasberg orders Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign to testify in court next week as part of his ongoing contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act flights.
Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 200 Filed 12/08/25 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA J.G.G., et al., Plaintiffs, V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 25-766 (JEB) ORDER In response to the Court's Order of November 28, 2025, the Government has submitted cursory declarations from Secretary Kristi Noem and attorneys then at the Department of Justice who advised her. Noem avers that she made "the decision to continue the transfer of custody of the Alien Enemies Act detainees who had been removed from the United States before this Court issued its temporary restraining order in the evening of March 15, 2025." ECF No. 198-1 (Declaration of Secretary Noem). As this declaration does not provide enough information for the Court to determine whether her decision was a willful violation of the Court's Order, the Court cannot at this juncture find probable cause that her actions constituted criminal contempt. See United States v. Young, 107 F.3d 903, 907 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (contempt requires finding that (1) court order was "clear and reasonably specific; (2) "the defendant violated the order"; and (3) "the violation was willful") (internal quotation marks omitted). A referral for prosecution, consequently, would be premature. The Court thus believes that it is necessary to hear witness testimony to better understand the bases of the decision to transfer the deportees out of United States custody in the context of the hearing on March 15, 2025. The events surrounding this decision should shed light on this question. The Court accordingly ORDERS that: 1. Plaintiffs shall attempt to secure the presence of Erez Reuveni for testimony on December 15, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.; 2. The Government shall produce Drew Ensign for testimony on December 16, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.; and 3. Both sides shall appear in person at such hearings and will have the opportunity to question witnesses. /s/ James E. Boasberg JAMES E. BOASBERG Chief
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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dailykos.com
Trump claims he’s “saving 25,000 lives” with boat strikes on hypothetical drug traffickers… while pardoning actual kingpins who moved 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

You can’t make this shit up.

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Trump reminds us that laws are for the little people
While the Trump administration insists that invoking the magic words “drug traffickers” justifies murdering people on the high seas , when it comes to actual big-time drug traffickers, President ...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Andy borowitz on fb - trump boasts that international criminal court in the hague has invited him to receive award - pic of trump thumbs up
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"I am no longer accepting the things I can not change. I am changing the things I can not accept." - DR. ANGELA DAVIS
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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indivisible.org
(alongside photos of Trump pointing) (checkmark emoji) Defunding public radio and television stations (checkmark emoji) Removing data and information from government websites (checkmark emoji) Firing prosecutors who won't target his opponents (checkmark emoji) Blocking press access to the White House (checkmark emoji) Launching assaults on colleges and universities (checkmark emoji) Suing news outlets (checkmark emoji) Firing agencies' inspectors general (checkmark emoji) Censoring media platforms (checkmark emoji) Erasing topics from museums (checkmark emoji) Altering public data and information (checkmark emoji) Firing staff for reporting the truth (checkmark emoji) Banning books (checkmark emoji) Banning DEl This is the authoritarian playbook.
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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thewarningses.bsky.social
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are vandals of humanity’s progress. They are arsonists and nihilists who seek to take, not explore.
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Vandals of humanity's progress
Three years into writing every day about something, I don’t yet feel like a writer, but I have become familiar with the rhythms of the craft.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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jaywillis.net
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. 16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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normornstein.bsky.social
Absolutely. This is utterly disgraceful. At some point, the perpetrators need to be brought to justice.
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM