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Trump is cutting up to 67,000 positions at the VA, stretching overworked doctors and nurses even further. Experts warn it’s “a perfect patient safety storm.” From Suzanne Gordon and Russel Lemle: trib.al/9y9y7TF
Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA - The American Prospect
Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.
trib.al
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump is cutting up to 67,000 positions at the VA, stretching overworked doctors and nurses even further. Experts warn it’s “a perfect patient safety storm.” From Suzanne Gordon and Russel Lemle: trib.al/9y9y7TF
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Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband's death in ICE shooting
The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card
The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card
Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband’s death in ICE shooting
A Texas woman received a letter approving her late husband’s request to move forward with obtaining legal status — two months after he was killed in a Dallas ICE facility shooting.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband's death in ICE shooting
The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card
The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card
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NAP TIME FOR THE BIG GUY
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NAP TIME FOR THE BIG GUY
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SpaceX denied my request to release how many millions of dollars Jared Isaacman paid for spaceflights. Now, the Senate has confirmed him as NASA Administrator. This is a reckless move that completely ignores his deep financial ties to Elon Musk.
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
SpaceX denied my request to release how many millions of dollars Jared Isaacman paid for spaceflights. Now, the Senate has confirmed him as NASA Administrator. This is a reckless move that completely ignores his deep financial ties to Elon Musk.
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Barack Obama just released the list of his favorite books from 2025. I’m sure Trump is finalizing his list of favorite books from this year as well.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Barack Obama just released the list of his favorite books from 2025. I’m sure Trump is finalizing his list of favorite books from this year as well.
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Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
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It's going to feel so good "renaming" the Kennedy Center and demolishing the "ballroom" when he's gone.
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's going to feel so good "renaming" the Kennedy Center and demolishing the "ballroom" when he's gone.
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Imposter syndrome cured
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Imposter syndrome cured
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It's really a shame that California regulators stuck with fuel cell cars despite early consensus that it was a dead end technology. Now the car owners are taking matters in their own hands with a class action lawsuit against Toyota.
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Bay Area hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle owners part of a lawsuit against Toyota
The lack of fuel availability for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles has prompted 700 Mirai owners to sue Toyota, an attorney said.
www.cbsnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It's really a shame that California regulators stuck with fuel cell cars despite early consensus that it was a dead end technology. Now the car owners are taking matters in their own hands with a class action lawsuit against Toyota.
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
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Today the California Public Utilities Commission will decide whether the state’s utility companies can hike bills by $340 a year. @ddayen and James Baratta uncover what California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer calls “a sweetheart deal for corporate utilities.” trib.al/dpi2iRg
Why Californians Will Pay $340 More for Electricity Next Year - The American Prospect
The state public utility commission is poised to approve a rate of return that critics say overcharges customers by $4.4 billion per year.
trib.al
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today the California Public Utilities Commission will decide whether the state’s utility companies can hike bills by $340 a year. @ddayen and James Baratta uncover what California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer calls “a sweetheart deal for corporate utilities.” trib.al/dpi2iRg
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As Brendan Carr testifies before the Senate, check out my @lawfaremedia.org piece on Carr and his role in the Jimmy Kimmel saga
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
Amy Klobuchar just tore FCC Chair Brendan Chair a new one over his hypocritical stance that Trump supporters deserve all the free speech but liberals shouldn't get any at all
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As Brendan Carr testifies before the Senate, check out my @lawfaremedia.org piece on Carr and his role in the Jimmy Kimmel saga
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
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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
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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So it is Sensible Medicine doctors who are doing Tuskegee again.
December 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So it is Sensible Medicine doctors who are doing Tuskegee again.
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lmao
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
lmao
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"Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science" by Rafi Schwarz for @theweek.com: theweek.com/politics/tru...
Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science
By moving to dismantle Colorado’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, the White House says it is targeting ‘climate alarmism’
theweek.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science" by Rafi Schwarz for @theweek.com: theweek.com/politics/tru...
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kids, this is what you call a perfectly baited hook [utterly sincere/complimentary]
AI ran our office vending machine for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation, bought a live fish—and taught us a lot about AI agents, writes Joanna Stern.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
on.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
kids, this is what you call a perfectly baited hook [utterly sincere/complimentary]
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Popularism has always been an attempt to beat progressives over the head with spreadsheets but the spreadsheets aren’t even that good.
Morris’s work here — and his transparency about the limits of data, which operatives readily understand — has been indispensable.
Morris’s work here — and his transparency about the limits of data, which operatives readily understand — has been indispensable.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Popularism has always been an attempt to beat progressives over the head with spreadsheets but the spreadsheets aren’t even that good.
Morris’s work here — and his transparency about the limits of data, which operatives readily understand — has been indispensable.
Morris’s work here — and his transparency about the limits of data, which operatives readily understand — has been indispensable.
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The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Grifters gonna grift, and in the energy sector, the biggest grifts are always in nukes.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI
The combined company says it plans to find a site and begin construction next year on the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant,” with aims to provide the electricity needed for artificial i...
www.pbs.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Grifters gonna grift, and in the energy sector, the biggest grifts are always in nukes.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
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"the worst kind of guns are those that can shoot a lot of bullets quickly, easily, and accurately ... The harder it is to get these types of guns, the better." prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Australia Proves Gun Control Works - The American Prospect
The Bondi mass shooting would have been a lot worse if not for Aussie gun regulations—which if anything aren’t strict enough.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"the worst kind of guns are those that can shoot a lot of bullets quickly, easily, and accurately ... The harder it is to get these types of guns, the better." prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
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Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.