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forbes.com
The grand jury materials are not expected to be explosive, however.
Florida Judge Orders Epstein Grand Jury Documents To Be Released
The grand jury materials are not expected to be explosive, however.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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roseinoregon.bsky.social
Please tell me this is for real, and if there was a response from the moron in chief for finally being called on his rudeness.
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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musingsbykevin.com
Trump thinks we forgot……. But we haven't!
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
zeptepi.bsky.social
Demand a recount now!
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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democracynow.org
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line.
“This Is a Union Town”: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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newrepublic.com
Surprise, surprise: House Republicans don’t want the public to hear what Jack Smith has to say about President Donald Trump—even though the president claims he’d prefer it. trib.al/yFoP4in
December 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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nateturner.bsky.social
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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frankamari.bsky.social
Today at 5:07 AM

"FAKE NEWS" is Nazi rhetoric, which he knows.
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Democracy defenders to connect with! Say Hi 👋, Vet, F&R. Ty!💙
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December 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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npr.org
Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they'll meet on Saturday for talks aimed at ending the war. n.pr/4a2ftug
Russia unleashes drone and missile attack on Ukraine as diplomatic talks continue
Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they'll meet on Saturday for talks aimed at ending the war.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Don’t forget sleeping his way through the presidency. 😜
December 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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meidastouch.com
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
Reddit post from Inside-Specialist-55 in r/povertyfinance: "I have always went here when things were bad. This year our family could not afford anything nice for christmas dinner so we turned to a local church food bank. I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year. We have only been to this one 4 times since 2017 but this year the line wraps around the building a second time to the left behind those rows of cars. Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold and shivering. If this is a sign that America isnt doing well IDK what is. I am in a small town in Kentucky with a population of less than 4,800 people. Literally 10% or more of the county residents are here. This is insane." Image of long line at food bank
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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rollingstone.com
The word "retarded" was once an accepted medical term before it became an insult. It was gradually phased out.

Now, it has been revived by Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Elon Musk's "Free Speech" for me, not for thee.
Elon Musk has presented X as a platform with limited content protections and an emphasis on what he describes as “unrestricted speech”. Independent analyses of X since Elon Musk’s takeover have found that the platform’s actual moderation practices diverge from its public presentation as a venue for unrestricted speech. While Musk has repeatedly stated that X is committed to maximal free expression, several documented policy changes and technical interventions indicate that the platform engages in forms of content limitation that critics describe as selective or opaque. Researchers at multiple institutions, including the University of Washington and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, have reported that X continues to remove posts, limit account visibility and apply algorithmic “deboosting” to certain users or topics, often without clear explanation or transparent appeals processes. The platform has also acknowledged the existence of visibility filters, though it argues they are necessary for managing harmful or low quality content. Investigations by media organisations have shown that X has restricted or downgraded the reach of accounts across a wide political spectrum, sometimes affecting journalists, civil society organisations and government critics. In several documented cases, users reported substantial reductions in engagement after posting material critical of governments with which Musk was publicly negotiating or maintaining commercial ties. X has not disclosed the criteria used for such downranking, and the opacity surrounding these decisions has led analysts to conclude that the platform retains broad discretionary control over what circulates widely and what does not. Regulatory bodies in Europe and academic observers have argued that these practices amount to a form of selective moderation rather than the absence of moderation. In particular, researchers point to instances in which content critical of certain authoritarian or semi-authoritarian governments appears to have been restricted, while material from state aligned accounts in those same countries continued to circulate without similar impediments. Such patterns have been noted in relation to Turkey, India and China, states where Musk’s companies have significant business interests and where governments have historically demanded compliance from foreign technology firms. X has complied with a number of takedown requests from these governments, even when they involved political speech. While the platform promotes itself as a defender of free speech, its operational decisions reveal a willingness to limit speech when doing so protects commercial interests, satisfies regulatory demands from powerful states or reduces conflict with governments that hold leverage over Musk’s business operations. In practice, this means that speech may be free only to the extent that it does not jeopardise relationships with governments capable of imposing legal or economic consequences.
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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supreme court to decide whether part of constitution is part of constitution
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The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I was reminded of the despicable Supreme Court amicus brief written by 24 philosophers and associated right-wing cranks that have suffered no social repercussions for their harming of trans people. All of them are a disgrace to the profession; all operate with impunity www.aei.org/wp-content/u...
INTERESTS OF THE AMICI CURIAEI Amici are Daniel Kodsi (B.A., B.Phil., and D.Phil., University of Oxford); John Maier (B.A., University of Oxford; M.Sc., London School of Economics); Robert P. George (B.A., Swarthmore College; J.D., M.T.S., Harvard University; D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., and D.Litt., University of Oxford); and 21 other philosophers listed in Appendix A. Amici share with the public at large an interest in seeing the law be formulated using clear, precise and principled distinctions, rather than unclear, vague and invidious ones. Consequently, they have an interest in seeing that the laws ensuring fairness in sports be formulated in sex-based terms, which are much clearer, more precise and more principled than any relevant alternatives. Amici have a further interest in familiarizing the Court with a general philosophical distinction, between more and less "natural" categories, which in their professional judgement is highly relevant to problems of categorization in general, including in the natural sciences and mathematics. Recognizing this distinction enables a perspicuous explanation of why it is so costly to abandon sex categories in sports in favor of alternative categories to which ad hoc exceptions have been built in. APPENDIX A - List of Individual Amici® The individual amici are as follows, including relevant experience: 1. Tomás Bogardus Professor of Philosophy, Pepperdine University 2. Peter Carruthers Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland 3. Adam Caulton Associate Professor of Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford 4. Cora Diamond University Professor and Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia 5. Rona Dinur Ph.D. in Philosophy (Hebrew University), LL.M. (Harvard University) 6. Paul Elbourne Professor of the Philosophy of Language, University of Oxford 7. Gary Francione Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University 8. Molly Gardner Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Florida 9. Robert P. George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University 10. Moti Gorin Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University 11. Joel David Hamkins John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Logic, University of Notre Dame 12. Daniel Kodsi D.Phil. in Philosophy (University of Oxford) Editor-in-Chief, The Philosophers' Magazine 13. Holly Lawford-Smith Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne 14. Mary Leng Professor of Philosophy, University of York 15. John Maier Emerging Scholar, Mercatus Center at George Mason University 16. Jeff McMahan Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford 17. Kate Phelan Lecturer, RMIT University 18. Jon Pike Professor of Philosophy, The Open University 19. John Schwenkler Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 20. Bradford Skow Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philoso-phy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 21. Scott Soames Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California 22. Roger Teichmann Lecturer in Philosophy, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford 23. Timothy Williamson Senior Research and Teaching Fellow and Emeritus Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford, and A. Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor, Yale University 24. Crispin Wright Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New York University, and Professor of Philosophical Research, University of Stirling
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job - NYT Editorial Board

On Monday, “the court hears a challenge to Mr. Trump’s power to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission — an action that flew in the face of a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
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December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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forbes.com
The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.
L.A. Kicks Coal As It Fires Up The World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Power Plant
The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM