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Rebecca Solnit speaks on why we might not want to spend time arguing with MAGA supporters, but should spend time talking to other like minded Americans.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Rebecca Solnit speaks on why we might not want to spend time arguing with MAGA supporters, but should spend time talking to other like minded Americans.
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What?? The president said Rob Reiner and his wife were killed because Rob's Trump Derangement Syndrome made people angry?
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What?? The president said Rob Reiner and his wife were killed because Rob's Trump Derangement Syndrome made people angry?
Two continents hit by mass shootings, #Europe declares the Pax Americana over, Trump spins snake-bite fan fiction and his #FBI nabs the wrong guy.
The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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When the Adults in the World Leave the Room
Australia governs, Europe braces, Ukraine resists, and America, under Trump, forgets how to think, act, or protect its own.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
From NYC Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani on today’s attack on Jews in Australia
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
From NYC Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani on today’s attack on Jews in Australia
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"Any Europeans puzzled about the level of transatlantic ferocity in last week’s US National Security Strategy document should listen more closely to the broligarchs. Their arch-enemy is the EU and its digital privacy and digital services acts, which they want swept away."
December 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
#Trump isn’t just abusing the pardon power, he’s rewriting who counts as a criminal, who counts as a victim, and what this country claims to stand for. This is how a nation’s character unravels in real time. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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The Moral Injury of a Nation
Trump’s presidency as a collective trauma, and the undoing of American character.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"When Michigan’s residents overstate the extent of minority populations, they are not unusual. These results for Michigan are consistent with results from a number of studies all across the country."
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December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"When Michigan’s residents overstate the extent of minority populations, they are not unusual. These results for Michigan are consistent with results from a number of studies all across the country."
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“Section 702 was sold to Congress as a vital tool to target foreign adversaries,” said Brett Tolman... “We were given high-stakes assurances … that it would not be used improperly against honest Americans. I was in the room when they represented it would not be abused. That was a lie.”
Warnings Mount in Congress Over Expanded US Wiretap Powers
Experts tell US lawmakers that a crucial spy program’s safeguards are failing, allowing intel agencies deeper, unconstrained access to Americans’ data.
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December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Section 702 was sold to Congress as a vital tool to target foreign adversaries,” said Brett Tolman... “We were given high-stakes assurances … that it would not be used improperly against honest Americans. I was in the room when they represented it would not be abused. That was a lie.”
Senator Slotkin gives concise, warning speech about the recent executive order widening action against so called domestic terrorist groups.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Senator Slotkin gives concise, warning speech about the recent executive order widening action against so called domestic terrorist groups.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The program's disruption upended projects across hundreds of communities in both Republican- and Democratic-led states, thwarting plans to improve stormwater drainage, harden electrical lines and even help relocate households living in areas most vulnerable to disasters
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Mass. federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding
This decision favors 22 states and the District of Columbia, which sued over the canceled grants. The administration had called the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program wasteful a...
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December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The program's disruption upended projects across hundreds of communities in both Republican- and Democratic-led states, thwarting plans to improve stormwater drainage, harden electrical lines and even help relocate households living in areas most vulnerable to disasters
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"The [joint tour group]...entered a “fortified command facility” belonging to the Syrian Internal Security Forces leadership, where the assailant opened fire at the gate. The attacker who...had been under evaluation for extremist ideas, exchanged fire with...guards before being neutralized..."
Two US soldiers, one civilian interpreter killed in Syria | CNN Politics
Two US Army soldiers and one civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush by a single ISIS gunman in Syria on Saturday, US Central Command and the Department of Defense said in statements Saturday.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"The [joint tour group]...entered a “fortified command facility” belonging to the Syrian Internal Security Forces leadership, where the assailant opened fire at the gate. The attacker who...had been under evaluation for extremist ideas, exchanged fire with...guards before being neutralized..."