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The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
White House pushes Smithsonian to comply with review to receive federal funding | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s un...
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
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🧵For those who missed it, they just Trump-proofed the Fed.
A big fuck you to Trump.
The sleepy old pedo has to be losing his shit over this.
Trump will probably take it to the Supreme Court, who will rule that Trump has the power to fire and appoint regional Fed bank presidents.
A big fuck you to Trump.
The sleepy old pedo has to be losing his shit over this.
Trump will probably take it to the Supreme Court, who will rule that Trump has the power to fire and appoint regional Fed bank presidents.
The Fed just ‘Trump-proofed’ itself with a unanimous move to preempt a potential leadership shake-up | Fortune
“If I’m reading this properly, they just Trump-proofed the Fed.”
fortune.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🧵For those who missed it, they just Trump-proofed the Fed.
A big fuck you to Trump.
The sleepy old pedo has to be losing his shit over this.
Trump will probably take it to the Supreme Court, who will rule that Trump has the power to fire and appoint regional Fed bank presidents.
A big fuck you to Trump.
The sleepy old pedo has to be losing his shit over this.
Trump will probably take it to the Supreme Court, who will rule that Trump has the power to fire and appoint regional Fed bank presidents.
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We’ve seen the future of MAGA, and it is nasty, brutish, weird, and dangerous. JD Vance declares no “purity tests” for neo-Nazis; while Ben Shapiro calls out the bigots, conspiracists, and grifters.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The Baby Alligators Grew Up. Who Knew?
Plus: Bari spikes 60 Minutes, Shapiro's Choice
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We’ve seen the future of MAGA, and it is nasty, brutish, weird, and dangerous. JD Vance declares no “purity tests” for neo-Nazis; while Ben Shapiro calls out the bigots, conspiracists, and grifters.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Jane Fonda and co-star Robert Redford photographed with film director Gene Saks on location in Washington Square Park in New York, on the set of the 🇺🇸American romantic comedy “BAREFOOT IN THE PARK” (1967)
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December 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Jane Fonda and co-star Robert Redford photographed with film director Gene Saks on location in Washington Square Park in New York, on the set of the 🇺🇸American romantic comedy “BAREFOOT IN THE PARK” (1967)
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December 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Discuss:
"The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Discuss:
"The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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1. BREAKING
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
1. BREAKING
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
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Put Putin's 19 Dec speech next to Hitler's 1939 Reichstag address.
Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording.
"I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act."
The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response?
Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording.
"I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act."
The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response?
December 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Put Putin's 19 Dec speech next to Hitler's 1939 Reichstag address.
Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording.
"I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act."
The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response?
Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording.
"I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act."
The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response?
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Oliver Stone's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲American war film "PLATOON" starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1986
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December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Oliver Stone's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲American war film "PLATOON" starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1986
🎬 Orion Pictures
🎬 Orion Pictures
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Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
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December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Congress continues to appropriate funds for specific purposes after it is passed by both chambers, and King Donald continues to seize the money to redirect it where he wants it to go instead.
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Congress continues to appropriate funds for specific purposes after it is passed by both chambers, and King Donald continues to seize the money to redirect it where he wants it to go instead.
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Scenes from a personalist regime:
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Scenes from a personalist regime:
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center based on a recommendation by the Trump appointed board.
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“Cassandras are not reasoning on the basis of fear; rather, their reasoning has led to a conclusion that is frightening. Indeed, I would say being a clear, critical thinker is the first of the things that make someone more likely to have “got it” early.”
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Cassandras are not reasoning on the basis of fear; rather, their reasoning has led to a conclusion that is frightening. Indeed, I would say being a clear, critical thinker is the first of the things that make someone more likely to have “got it” early.”
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
newrepublic.com/article/2042...