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Lisa Ortiz
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee.

Will Jordan release the video to the public?

If not, why not?
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
PITTSBURGH — Trump’s racist ice goons repeatedly punch a man in the face on camera

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December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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cutes118.bsky.social
The same voices that cannot be trusted with our histories, certainly cannot be trusted with a story unfolding ….
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Representative Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee:

“Pete Hegseth happily releases a video after each strike... He recognizes when the American people see this video, they will be repulsed. It is basically the summary execution of two people clinging to wreckage.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.
lizszabo.bsky.social Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 1d
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
👇🎯

- Lots of people will need to go to jail for a very long time
- The institutions & laws will need to be completely reformed
- All the illegal policies will need to be totally reversed

All the norms have been shredded. We simply can’t pretend it’s politics as usual again once this is done.
jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21h
A great deal of the Biden administration was spent in "the former guy" mode: get back to normal by calmly trying normal stuff, not by noisily and aggressively responding to all of the crazy and evil crap from Trump 45's term.

In ways large & small, Trump 47 is making that impossible going forward.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
lol. lmao even
December 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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jokeb0i.bsky.social
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
So… he’s giving them their own money?

Where’s the tariff money?
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.

When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.

The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
illinoisdhr.bsky.social Illinois Department of Human Rights @illinoisdhr.bsky.social · 18h
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."

Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social
Turns out fascism is a real downer.
90% of Americans Didn't Have a Great Time in 2025
If you’re struggling to remember anything about 2025 that felt genuinely “great,” you’re with the majority...
www.vice.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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hunterisntdunn.bsky.social
That’s literally a Lolita quote.

They wrote pedophile quotes from the pedophile book on the girls they were trafficking. The Epstein clique made their pedophilia into *memes.*

The pedophilic corporate elite hates you, and they have spent billions to empower a fellow predator to make you suffer.
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
Please make sure every military member you know knows this.
brunojnavarro.bsky.social Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 15h
Trump’s promise Wednesday to pay troops a “warrior dividend” bonus is actually a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, and not a generous new White House program.
Trump claims credit for military bonus that Congress already approved
The White House’s plans for a “warrior dividend” to reward troops this holiday season are actually housing assistance funds approved this summer.
www.politico.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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lebassett.bsky.social
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
repbeatty.bsky.social Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · 20h
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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donachaidh.bsky.social
These people care about nothing, believe in nothing, love nothing. They're soulless, miserable creatures who think money or power is going to fill the gnawing void within them but it never will and we're the ones who are going to pay for it.
grantmarek.bsky.social Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 21h
Utah Sen. Mike Lee has proposed changes to the Senate appropriations bill that could open the door for the sale of national parks, according to national park advocacy groups.

via @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
'Nobody wants this': Senator axes language protecting national parks
A Utah Senator cut an amendment protecting parks in the appropriations bill.
www.sfgate.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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newyorkstateag.bsky.social
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
One woman, then a model and college student in her early 20s living in Manhattan, said she attended four parties at the mansion. She cannot recall the names of most of the men she met at the gatherings, not even those Mr. Epstein directed her to “take care of” at two of them. Recruited by Ms. Maxwell and then abused by Mr. Epstein, she buried her shame and kept their secrets for years. But Mr. Trump’s presence stood out, she told The Times. He was a household name, someone Mr. Epstein often bragged about to the women around him, yet also seemed to compete with. “It was like a pissing contest — who had the most women,” she recalled. She requested anonymity to describe her experiences in detail, saying she feared for her family’s safety after Mr. Trump said some of his critics could be executed for sedition.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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alcappuccinoit.bsky.social
Imagine if a Democrat had pulled this shit.
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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atrupar.com
lol. lmao even
I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.
December 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Wiles' admission "raises troubling questions about what other life-and-death decisions are being made without the president’s awareness — and by whom."

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December 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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jacobharr.is
Awesome, more of this!
From Reveler's Hour Spotted by NOTUS: While dining with a guest at the Adams Morgan restaurant, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was heckled in front of dozens of diners by a woman who bashed the administration's sanctions. Restaurant patron Olivia DiNucci repeatedly struck her glass to garner attention and mockingly toast Bessent, who called her ignorant and asked staff why they weren't stopping the scene. He exited the restaurant soon after, with bystanders observing he was upset. "He's eating in this nice restaurant in Washington, D.C., when sanctions cause starvation across the world," DiNucci told NOTUS' Daniella Diaz, who was also eating at Reveler's Hour, in a brief interview. "We should be confronting them with our voice as much as we can because people across the world are affected by this."
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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johnjharwood.bsky.social
what has always made America exceptional is the beacon of freedom, opportunity and equality it shines to the world

Donald Trump wants to turn it off to keep white people in charge

most Americans don't

my @zeteo_news column

zeteo.com/p/trump-us-p...
Trump Wants to Define the US by Its Past. Americans Don’t
Only MAGA seeks a ‘Christian nation’ shielding whites from immigrants.
zeteo.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
He's lying. How do we know?

Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM