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Elected officials interfere with agency efforts to protect the land.
How ranchers accused of breaking the rules dodge oversight - High Country News
Elected officials interfere with agency efforts to protect the land.
buff.ly
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Elected officials interfere with agency efforts to protect the land.
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“The fact that we are even exploring this question is a little crazy in terms of financial risk.” interc.pt/4q7b9P1
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“The fact that we are even exploring this question is a little crazy in terms of financial risk.” interc.pt/4q7b9P1
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Today is the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. There are no words to express the grief and anger that our young people continue to be slaughtered in school.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today is the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. There are no words to express the grief and anger that our young people continue to be slaughtered in school.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
And for what? More guns?
This is a policy failure — and a moral one. Enough.
My heart is with Providence today.
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“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...
JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids ‘midair collision’ with US Air Force aircraft | CNN Politics
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing hi...
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...
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“These policies don’t just disrupt paperwork. They derail lives.”
Trump is “basically shutting down the legal immigration system”
In response to the DC shooting, the administration is blocking pathways for rule-following and vulnerable immigrants.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“These policies don’t just disrupt paperwork. They derail lives.”
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Five years ago today, extremist Donald Trump supporters reached a new level of desperation. www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-...
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Five years ago today, extremist Donald Trump supporters reached a new level of desperation. www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-...
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We’re living in a country with repeat survivors of school shootings.
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We’re living in a country with repeat survivors of school shootings.
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just. brutal.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
just. brutal.
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Pro-measles.
Pro-mass-shootings.
Pro-septic-miscarriages.
Pro-child-rape.
Never pro-life.
#GOP #RemoveTrump
Pro-mass-shootings.
Pro-septic-miscarriages.
Pro-child-rape.
Never pro-life.
#GOP #RemoveTrump
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Pro-measles.
Pro-mass-shootings.
Pro-septic-miscarriages.
Pro-child-rape.
Never pro-life.
#GOP #RemoveTrump
Pro-mass-shootings.
Pro-septic-miscarriages.
Pro-child-rape.
Never pro-life.
#GOP #RemoveTrump
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In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
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ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
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fascinating thread. give it a read.
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
fascinating thread. give it a read.
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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ABC cites Tricia McLaughlin's iles (and John Sauer's repetition of those lies in a bid to get the BWC video from the Marimar Martinez shooting released.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ABC cites Tricia McLaughlin's iles (and John Sauer's repetition of those lies in a bid to get the BWC video from the Marimar Martinez shooting released.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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New: Trump has never been an ally to Native tribes. But there's one he's been praising all year: the Lumbee Tribe of N.C.
Why? They backed him in 2024.
Now they're about to get full federal recognition -- infuriating other tribes who question their legitimacy. www.huffpost.com/entry/lumbee...
Why? They backed him in 2024.
Now they're about to get full federal recognition -- infuriating other tribes who question their legitimacy. www.huffpost.com/entry/lumbee...
They Supported Trump’s Reelection — And Got A Big Favor For Doing So
Lawmakers tucked language into a fast-moving defense bill to grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the only tribal provision in the 3,086-page bill.
www.huffpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New: Trump has never been an ally to Native tribes. But there's one he's been praising all year: the Lumbee Tribe of N.C.
Why? They backed him in 2024.
Now they're about to get full federal recognition -- infuriating other tribes who question their legitimacy. www.huffpost.com/entry/lumbee...
Why? They backed him in 2024.
Now they're about to get full federal recognition -- infuriating other tribes who question their legitimacy. www.huffpost.com/entry/lumbee...
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🚨 Air Strikes?
All the signs of an imminent U.S. air campaign against targets in Venezuela are flashing red today.
This is a huge mistake.
All the signs of an imminent U.S. air campaign against targets in Venezuela are flashing red today.
This is a huge mistake.
⚠️ MILITARY BUILDUP – While tracking ICE flights, we keep on noticing more and more of these (unrelated) military cargo planes going to and from Puerto Rico.
It’s accelerating 👀
It’s accelerating 👀
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🚨 Air Strikes?
All the signs of an imminent U.S. air campaign against targets in Venezuela are flashing red today.
This is a huge mistake.
All the signs of an imminent U.S. air campaign against targets in Venezuela are flashing red today.
This is a huge mistake.
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NEW: This week, Democracy Docket tracked every angle as Trump’s Department of Justice broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This Week at Democracy Docket: Every angle on DOJ’s anti-voting crusade — and the GOP isn’t giving up on gerrymandering
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
NEW: This week, Democracy Docket tracked every angle as Trump’s Department of Justice broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Boston’s affordable housing policies, accusing the city of engaging in a “racialist theory of housing justice” that discriminates against white people.
Trump's HUD accuses Boston of engaging in "redlining" against white people
More than 50 years ago, the Trump family faced a similar government challenge for refusing to rent to Black people.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Boston’s affordable housing policies, accusing the city of engaging in a “racialist theory of housing justice” that discriminates against white people.
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congratulations to sean o’brien www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump
National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
congratulations to sean o’brien www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/euILrS8
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/euILrS8
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Going into the 2026 midterms, Trump's DOJ has a new voting rights chief: an ex- Los Angeles prosecutor with ties to election deniers.
Scoop: New Justice Department voting rights chief had prior job suspension for ties to election deniers
California prosecutor Eric Neff relied on a right-wing group's intel to bring charges. Now, he's apparently in charge of voting rights at the DOJ.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Going into the 2026 midterms, Trump's DOJ has a new voting rights chief: an ex- Los Angeles prosecutor with ties to election deniers.
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#OTD in 1985, Wilma Mankiller took office as the first female Principal Chief of the #Cherokee Nation, one of the most prominent tribes in the U.S.
Serving until 1995, Mankiller was known for her accomplishments in education, healthcare, and government reform. #NativeAmerican #leader
Serving until 1995, Mankiller was known for her accomplishments in education, healthcare, and government reform. #NativeAmerican #leader
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#OTD in 1985, Wilma Mankiller took office as the first female Principal Chief of the #Cherokee Nation, one of the most prominent tribes in the U.S.
Serving until 1995, Mankiller was known for her accomplishments in education, healthcare, and government reform. #NativeAmerican #leader
Serving until 1995, Mankiller was known for her accomplishments in education, healthcare, and government reform. #NativeAmerican #leader