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November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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What did Trump and Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman discuss on the phone after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi? trib.al/g176eDo
Dem Demands Transcript of Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Killing
What did Trump and Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman discuss on the phone after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi?
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November 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Congressional maps are typically redrawn every 10 years—but Texas’s decision to do so in the middle of the decade, at Donald Trump’s direction, raised alarm.

A judge has ruled the Lone Star State must return to its 2021 maps for the 2026 election. trib.al/kbPDdOx
Judge Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Texas Gerrymandering Scheme
Donald Trump has suffered yet another setback in his efforts to influence the 2026 midterm elections.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The House speaker said he expected the bill to stall in the Senate. Chamber Majority Leader John Thune has other ideas. trib.al/uEPV7Dc
Mike Johnson’s Gamble on Releasing Epstein Files Blows Up in His Face
The House speaker said he expected the bill to stall in the Senate. Chamber Majority Leader John Thune has other ideas.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/SQ0LTb0
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/oX4FTOF

Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now
Political analyst Michael Podhorzer discusses why the Republican candidates in New Jersey and Virginia came nowhere near matching Trump’s 2024 support among voters of color and young voters.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Last weekend, human feet walked the grounds of the ABQ BioPark’s newly finished Mexican Wolf Conservation Facility for one of the last times before Mexican gray wolves arrive to fill the chain-link enclosures nestled between the Rio Grande and the residential backyards of Old Town Albuquerque.
New lobos in town: Albuquerque's zoo prepares to open Mexican wolf conservation facility
The new site will breed and rehabilitate the endangered wolves, but the animals will not be on display for visitors.
www.santafenewmexican.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A sitting president shouting that people should be jailed for telling the military to follow the law.

You can hear the panic in every capital letter.
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Um. Did he forget what happened? The dementia is really, really bad.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It's outrageous that Spotify is running ICE ads. Let's move to another streaming platform that doesn't profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE.
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
app.sosha.ai
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Amtrak is reporting new record ridership nationally with over 34.4 million riders for Fiscal Year 2025. For Amtrak Cascades, ridership hit a new high of 951,397 for Fiscal Year 2025. That’s up from 938,439 in Fiscal Year 2024, or 1.4%. 🚆 media.amtrak.com/wp-content/u...
media.amtrak.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says.
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kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/18/h...
Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says • Kentucky Lantern
Homicide rates among pregnant women increase with the rate of firearm ownership, finds a state-by-state study.
kentuckylantern.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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At least he was consistent. All the rest that refused to sign the discharge petition and spent months minimizing the scandal at every turn are no better.
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Trump sides with murderer MBS and ignores the sex trafficked women and unanimous votes to release.

The Trump reign is over.
This is the #NoKings Era now! Stop protecting predators. !
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Please tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside.
Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
On November 9, Chuck Schumer surrendered in the fight for affordable healthcare, supplying Republicans the votes necessary to advance a budget that will cause premiums to double and triple for million...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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The Indiana State Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s call for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. The move preserves Indiana’s current map and represents yet another rebuke of Trump’s national gerrymander push.
Indiana GOPers Defy Trump, Vote Against Gerrymander Session
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard tells Jen Psaki in an exclusive interview tonight that the people to whom she was trafficked include well-known names and some names that "have not been out there yet."
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM