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Anti-authoritarian. CT & PEI.
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“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”

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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.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines, but the U.S. has held off amid political and economic opposition.

Read our full investigation:
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.…
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Fox News shocked political observers on Saturday with a report in which the conservative network noted "elderly" Donald Trump's apparent hand bruising.
'Wait wait wait': Fox News shocks experts with medical report on 'elderly' Trump's bruises
Fox News shocked political observers on Saturday with a report in which the conservative network noted "elderly" Donald Trump's apparent hand bruising.Conservative commentator Elisha Krauss over the weekend addressed the prominent bruising, saying on Fox, "That doesn’t look suspicious to me at all, ...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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As climate change warms the planet, California's worsening wildfires have become unpredictable and extreme.

(from January 2025)
Wildfires in January? Here's why California wildfire season is worse
As climate change warms the planet, California's worsening wildfires have become unpredictable and extreme.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"Shut down Alligator Alcatraz and allow these people to return to their communities, where they belong."
Torture & Enforced Disappearances at Florida’s ICE Jails: Amnesty International Report
Lights on 24/7. Overflowing toilets and lack of access to showers. Solitary confinement in a 2×2-foot box. These are some of the torturous conditions documented in a new report from Amnesty Internatio...
www.democracynow.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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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/gcWulzo
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 3:22 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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RELEASE THE DAMN EPSTEIN FILES UNREDACTED!

NOW!
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Tracking shows that there have been 148 school shootings this year that have claimed the lives of 31 and wounded 86.

No other country even comes close to those horrific statistics, with Mexico following the US with eight incidents!
ACTIVE SHOOTER: Gunman Kills 2 And Wounds 8 On Brown University Campus, Suspect Still At Large
A shooter has killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campu...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Not to worry. The only peoples whose civil rights matter under this administration are white Christians and they hold all the power now.
December 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
Opinion | The Reasonable Majority Is No Longer Silent
Donald Trump is confronting a backlash of the reasonable.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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🇮🇹Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Prime Minister Meloni's budget.
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
#Wrldpoli🌐

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Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Meloni's budget – DW – 12/13/2025
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
www.dw.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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What Comes After MAGA Will Be Even Worse

If Democrats and the majority aren't smart or careful, America might welcome its first Nazi president in 2032. Even though MAGA is fracturing, white supremacists are waiting in the wings to rebuild.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/what-comes...
December 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The Indiana Lt. Gov. confirmed the #Trump regime threatened to withhold federal funding unless lawmakers gerrymandered the state—

Textbook quid pro quo extortion — In a normal administration this would be a national scandal
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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"..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.."
#BlueCrew
ICE Melts Under Noem’s Shadow
ICE isn’t just losing support; it’s imploding under its own cruelty, incompetence, and Kristi Noem’s vanishing act, leaving America questioning who the real threat is.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The US and multiple countries have what’s called A DEMOCRACY. America came into existence to escape a king. Why would we want another and one as completely ignorant to the people’s needs as this incompetent idiot? He’s in it for the grift and destruction. To hand us over to his rich oligarchs.
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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He keeps looping about wars he stopped and his cognitive tests. And I say even if it is remotely true ( it’s not ) a President shouldn’t be begging for validation on an app.
December 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM