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"There's only one profession that is protected in the Constitution of the United States, and that is a free press. That is because the founders understood that, for a democracy to survive, it needs to have an informed citizenry," says Jonathan Capehart. https://to.pbs.org/4qKNgxr
Capehart and Abernathy on the backlash against Trump's immigration operation
Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW and Gary Abernathy of The Abernathy Road newsletter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the political backlash against President Trump's immigration ...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:30 AM
"There's only one profession that is protected in the Constitution of the United States, and that is a free press. That is because the founders understood that, for a democracy to survive, it needs to have an informed citizenry," says Jonathan Capehart. https://to.pbs.org/4qKNgxr
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very much like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where the fact of the administration's wrongs against you makes you an enemy to be fought by all available means.
This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
January 13, 2026 at 10:42 PM
very much like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where the fact of the administration's wrongs against you makes you an enemy to be fought by all available means.
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“Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?'
The influential podcaster, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, has been increasingly critical of the president’s mass deportation strategy.
www.nbcnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
“Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up:
The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area."
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The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area."
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January 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM
This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up:
The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area."
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The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area."
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Where’s Congress?
January 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Where’s Congress?
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“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
From the NPR archives.
From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
From the NPR archives.
From the NPR archives.
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Here it is
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Here it is
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“They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to become benumbed to the mounting horror. They want us to think their success is inevitable & there’s nothing we can do about it. This is how they win. It’s our job in the coming year to prove how wrong they are.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...
www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...
We Can't Stop Caring
It remains in our power to create a more just future
www.americaamerica.news
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to become benumbed to the mounting horror. They want us to think their success is inevitable & there’s nothing we can do about it. This is how they win. It’s our job in the coming year to prove how wrong they are.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...
www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...
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60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
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This is a great example of a major failure mode of offloading your research to an AI assistant. Another is a lot of us are hard-wired to think we understand something when we get a summary, but that’s often just fooling yourself. Summaries miss subtleties, hide complexities, avoid contradictions.
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is a great example of a major failure mode of offloading your research to an AI assistant. Another is a lot of us are hard-wired to think we understand something when we get a summary, but that’s often just fooling yourself. Summaries miss subtleties, hide complexities, avoid contradictions.
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The Education Department was investigating a Texas middle school for allegations that Black students were being harassed with racial slurs and monkey sounds.
Then Trump closed the civil rights division’s Dallas office, indefinitely stalling the case.
Then Trump closed the civil rights division’s Dallas office, indefinitely stalling the case.
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Education Department was investigating a Texas middle school for allegations that Black students were being harassed with racial slurs and monkey sounds.
Then Trump closed the civil rights division’s Dallas office, indefinitely stalling the case.
Then Trump closed the civil rights division’s Dallas office, indefinitely stalling the case.
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Watching 60 Minutes as a kid is a big part of why I became a journalist.
I hope we get it back one day.
I hope we get it back one day.
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Watching 60 Minutes as a kid is a big part of why I became a journalist.
I hope we get it back one day.
I hope we get it back one day.
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the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾
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Probably just a coincidence www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
'60 Minutes' Suddenly Drops Segment on Major Trump Controversy
The show announced a programming change just before its Sunday night timeslot.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Probably just a coincidence www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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Commentary: "It’s never a good sign when the United States’ national security plan is praised by Russia as being 'largely consistent with our vision.' But that’s the bizarro world we’re living in."
Trump Shares Russia's Twisted Vision of 'Peace' in New National Security Strategy
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Commentary: "It’s never a good sign when the United States’ national security plan is praised by Russia as being 'largely consistent with our vision.' But that’s the bizarro world we’re living in."
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NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
NIH funding rates for early-career researchers plunged in 2025, new data show
A Trump administration change to how NIH awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding.
www.statnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
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More of this kind of rich person, please.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
More of this kind of rich person, please.
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I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement
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"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
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The amount of time and psychic energy I've spent on figuring out our healthcare going into next year has been engaging and revealing.
The lack of widespread anger says to me that a lot of folks do not understand what is about to happen
The lack of widespread anger says to me that a lot of folks do not understand what is about to happen
I don't expect them to operate with compassion but it's like the ideology has totally hijacked even their most dim sense of political survival
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The amount of time and psychic energy I've spent on figuring out our healthcare going into next year has been engaging and revealing.
The lack of widespread anger says to me that a lot of folks do not understand what is about to happen
The lack of widespread anger says to me that a lot of folks do not understand what is about to happen