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Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965, Second Set

In anticipation of the complete set being released soon, this was released on RSDBF2025, and since I just saw the great Ron Carter, it seemed like the right thing to put on.

This is part of the […]

[Original post on mas.to]
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🇺🇦 What person, country, or continent would invest, today, in “security guarantees” with the US? Volodymyr, remember the people in Atlantic City who signed contracts with Trump. Hold fast to your NATO ambition!

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his […]
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December 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Just to be clear: should I have the terrible misfortune to be killed in a mass shooting, please feel free to politicize the hell out of it. And go ahead and do so immediately. No time will be “too soon”.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🇺🇦 “…though Prigozhin never got within 100km of the Russian capital, the Russian leader preferred to get out of town than stay and lead the counter-mutiny. As far as we know, Putin has never visited Russian frontline positions, probably because he fears his own troops more than the Ukrainians […]
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December 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Nine former DoJ attorneys investigating University of California antisemitism have told The Los Angeles Times they felt pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff […]
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December 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Steve #bannon and Noam #chomsky in the latest Epstein documents. I think I’ve seen everything in this world now…
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Volodymyr sends Vlad a selfie, from ‘Russian-controlled’ Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, UA, 12 December 2025.

🇺🇦 Слава Україні!

📷 Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.

All the pixels, with operators available to assist you, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

#photography
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🔘 A Certain Ratio - Do The Du (The Graveyard) • https://youtu.be/woP8XPChxrs
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Beautiful light and mist from my backyard #landscape #naturephotography #winterscene #sunset #sunrise #goldenhour #mist
December 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”

*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.

In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there […]

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December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Last week, Health Secretary Kennedy’s handpicked advisers on a federal vaccine panel voted against universal hepatitis B shots for newborns,
reversing 35 years of CDCguidance that all newborns receive the vaccine within 24 hours of birth.

The Trump administration also recently altered the CDC’s […]
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c.im
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP. Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.

The upper chamber debated the bill for three hours ahead of the vote, with opponents […]

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December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Hong Kong - X5826, Extra 1959.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)

Title: Toni Frissell's Sports Illustrated Assignment in Hong Kong
Date: July 1959

Toni Frissell was an American photographer, best known for her work in sports […]

[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“…Prediction markets pitch themselves as a corrective for the media and a replacement for punditry, toward which their proponents usefully and I think honestly perform contempt — hating the media is good marketing, making fun of the media is good politics, and trying to replace it is good […]
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December 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]
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December 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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A federal judge in Maryland rules that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant wrongfully deported to El Salvador and then brought back to face criminal charges, should immediately be released from ICE custody […]
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Before someone told me it was Alina Habba who said it, I just assumed “you can take the girl out of New Jersey but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl” was from a Valtrex commercial
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Pete Hegseth is urging members of the military to embrace GenAI.mil, a "secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War." I'm sure this will be fine.

"I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it […]

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December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Every time I go to the supermarket I'm reminded of how scary the times are. People want to just live their lives, never has that been more understandable, but food prices are a constant reminder for everyone there's good reason to be scared. And if you want to really feel it, imagine what […]
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December 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
DOJ withheld Signal texts showing that before DHS started claiming that LaMonica McIver had assaulted two DHS guys, they had circulated video observing that their own actions look "bad."
www.emptywheel.net
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“I grew up on the sets of Robert Altman movies. My mom wrote Nashville. John Milius is a good friend…that was an amazing era full of really creative people. Half of the movies sucked, but occasionally they'd hit a home run. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲! Milius […]

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December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM