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Horrified by the terrorist attack in Australia targeting Jewish people celebrating the first night of Hanukkah.
Antisemitism has no place in this world.
As so many light their candles tonight, we’ll come together to pray for a future where the light will triumph over darkness.
Antisemitism has no place in this world.
As so many light their candles tonight, we’ll come together to pray for a future where the light will triumph over darkness.
December 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Horrified by the terrorist attack in Australia targeting Jewish people celebrating the first night of Hanukkah.
Antisemitism has no place in this world.
As so many light their candles tonight, we’ll come together to pray for a future where the light will triumph over darkness.
Antisemitism has no place in this world.
As so many light their candles tonight, we’ll come together to pray for a future where the light will triumph over darkness.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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The Trump administration's cuts to tax enforcement have been substantial. The IRS' criminal enforcement section lost 10% of its workforce, more than 300 people. Some of those who remain have been diverted to other types of cases. And DOJ lost at least a third of its lawyers who focused on tax crime.
December 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Trump administration's cuts to tax enforcement have been substantial. The IRS' criminal enforcement section lost 10% of its workforce, more than 300 people. Some of those who remain have been diverted to other types of cases. And DOJ lost at least a third of its lawyers who focused on tax crime.
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found.
www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
December 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found.
www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
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“.. Agricultural lenders expect less than half of farm borrowers to be profitable in 2026, with liquidity, income and inflation as their top concerns ..”
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December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“.. Agricultural lenders expect less than half of farm borrowers to be profitable in 2026, with liquidity, income and inflation as their top concerns ..”
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For someone who has spent time working at sea, the big question is why a small craft powered by outboard motors needed a crew of 11. One or two (tops) would have sufficed. The other nine or ten took up space that would better have been used for cargo. The Hegseth version makes absolutely no sense.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
For someone who has spent time working at sea, the big question is why a small craft powered by outboard motors needed a crew of 11. One or two (tops) would have sufficed. The other nine or ten took up space that would better have been used for cargo. The Hegseth version makes absolutely no sense.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
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The details about how the Trump Regime is murdering people keeps changing … that is generally a very bad sign.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The details about how the Trump Regime is murdering people keeps changing … that is generally a very bad sign.
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YO YO YO CALIFORNIA PEEPS!!!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
YO YO YO CALIFORNIA PEEPS!!!
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
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ICE DRIVES OVER A PERSON’S LEGS IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON.
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
ICE DRIVES OVER A PERSON’S LEGS IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON.
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There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
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Bob Kagan: "I think we’re at a moment of a real break and a real discontinuity. We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades...The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945."
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
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Bob Kagan on whether we are entering into a new period of history
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
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December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Bob Kagan: "I think we’re at a moment of a real break and a real discontinuity. We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades...The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945."
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
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One of the tricks the right has successfully pulled is convincing voters they should only care about if they are paying taxes or not — rather than how their tax dollars are being used to help them and their communities vs grifts & violent adventures.
You have to shop at the dollar store while Trump raises the military budget to fund his illegal bombings in the Caribbean, kidnaps citizens, and threatens to drag us into multiple wars seems like a good message when Americans across the spectrum don't want the US intervening overseas or at home.
The awful arithmetic of our wars
If we don't figure out a way to fight far more cheaply, we won’t be able to afford to win a single battle.
www.defenseone.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
One of the tricks the right has successfully pulled is convincing voters they should only care about if they are paying taxes or not — rather than how their tax dollars are being used to help them and their communities vs grifts & violent adventures.
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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On the bubble: "in the first half of 2025, the US was arguably in a recession absent AI CapEx spending which was scarcely a ripple in terms of people saying, 'hello, we’re running a giant private sector stimulus program that’s keeping the US out of recession...'"
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
On the bubble: "in the first half of 2025, the US was arguably in a recession absent AI CapEx spending which was scarcely a ripple in terms of people saying, 'hello, we’re running a giant private sector stimulus program that’s keeping the US out of recession...'"
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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Ukraine was not told what happened.
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Ukraine was not told what happened.
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
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ICE is moving from illegal raids & brutality to ethnic cleansing, just like any good Gestapo would do...
U.S. citizen was detained by ICE on her way to work during a traffic stop.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
No masks, no swapped out plates, no badgeless enforcement!
#StopGestapoICE
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U.S. citizen was detained by ICE on her way to work during a traffic stop.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
No masks, no swapped out plates, no badgeless enforcement!
#StopGestapoICE
2/2🧵
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ICE is moving from illegal raids & brutality to ethnic cleansing, just like any good Gestapo would do...
U.S. citizen was detained by ICE on her way to work during a traffic stop.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
No masks, no swapped out plates, no badgeless enforcement!
#StopGestapoICE
2/2🧵
U.S. citizen was detained by ICE on her way to work during a traffic stop.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
No masks, no swapped out plates, no badgeless enforcement!
#StopGestapoICE
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Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody.
Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights.
What are you still waiting for, America?
ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics!
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Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody.
Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights.
What are you still waiting for, America?
ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics!
Thread 1/2🧵
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody.
Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights.
What are you still waiting for, America?
ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics!
Thread 1/2🧵
Overcrowded facilities, poor medical care, and deaths in custody.
Systematic violations of civil and constitutional rights.
What are you still waiting for, America?
ICE continues to kidnap people & use violent tactics!
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It’s kind of incredible that The Onion’s aiming to surpass the Washington Post in print circulation but I’m here for it.
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It’s kind of incredible that The Onion’s aiming to surpass the Washington Post in print circulation but I’m here for it.
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Here is that Commander who was "just following orders."
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Here is that Commander who was "just following orders."
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No less than €180 billion in frozen Russian assets are dispersed across the European Union.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
Making Russia pay: the EU’s plan to rebuild Ukraine
A proposal to loan Ukraine billions in frozen Russian assets has split members of the EU on the right course of action
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
No less than €180 billion in frozen Russian assets are dispersed across the European Union.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.