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Karen Wickre
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Stubborn San Franciscan. Connector, reassurer, dog enthusiast, art collector, veteran technology observer and yes, optimist. Wrote Taking the Work Out of Networking. #resist
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This cuts close.
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Good story about Trump & Co’s enrichment scheme but it leaves out two public companies with ties to the Trump family: Alt5Sigma $ALTS and Dominari Holdings $DOMH.
2025 has obviously been a busy year for the Trump businesses, and there's been a lot of good reporting on it in various outlets, some of which didn't get much pick-up. In this year end piece, I pulled some of it together:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
www.newyorker.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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they have no move but doubling down, ever, even as they pick losing fight after losing fight and their poll numbers are in freefall

sure, guys, let’s keep having a fight with an astronaut about the war crimes and murder you did, great plan
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Hungary: “Resign! Resign!”, citizens crowds chant outside Viktor Orbán’s and president’s offices in Budapest. 🇪🇺🇭🇺
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Newsom is doing what I predicted he and other governers would: building parallel institutions to the ones the Trump administration is destroying at a federal level: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Inaccurate word choices here, NYT: “casts aside caution” and “has revived.” With this guy there was never any caution, and we we have always known.
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Americans asked for comment replied with baffled looks and questions including, "Wait, you can just do that?" and, "Gun...laws...? Like, giving guns more rights...?"
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This. What journalism SHOULD be doing to respond to this moment of democratic crisis (from the always brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social):
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Over 2 months in NYC courts, churches & safe houses, @hunterw.bsky.social spoke to 50 migrants, activists, ICE agents & lawmakers

His Undocumented Underground series dives into the Trump admin's extralegal excesses—and the lengths people are going to fight back
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...
Life Inside the Undocumented Underground
During President Donald Trump’s second term, dramatic raids staged by the Immigration...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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these days you learn something new and horrible every 5 seconds
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:

City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Imagine having to evince some semblance of respect for Jared Kushner.
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Rob Reiner was an American Icon who, through his art and activism, held a mirror up to American culture. His talent, humor, activism, and patriotism will be missed. Our heart breaks at the senseless loss of our friend.
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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we should all watch a rob reiner movie tomorrow, this entire site, just pick one and put it on at like 8pm est
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Donald Trump says that questioning his military campaigns amounts to treason, a crime punishable by death. Democrats predictably disagree. Have the parties fully given up on finding middle ground?
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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New from me: Watching wealthy powerful interests capitulate to Trump or embrace him outright this year has radicalized me in ways I never thought possible. open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
The Great Recoil
The embrace of Trump’s corruption isn't an accident—it’s a calculated backlash against the last decade of progress.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM