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Journalist Jasper Nathaniel helped bring international attention to the case of Mohammed Ibrahim, the Palestinian American teenager who was released in late November after more than nine months in an Israeli military prison.
Jasper Nathaniel on “Israel’s Archaeological Apartheid,” the Jailing of Mohammed Ibrahim & More
Part 2 of our conversation with Jasper Nathaniel, the New York–based writer and reporter who covers Israel’s occupation of the West Bank on his Substack, Infinite Jaz. Nathaniel helped bring national...
www.democracynow.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Journalist Jasper Nathaniel helped bring international attention to the case of Mohammed Ibrahim, the Palestinian American teenager who was released in late November after more than nine months in an Israeli military prison.
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Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer? How about a gift subscription to @motherjones.com secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer? How about a gift subscription to @motherjones.com secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
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NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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WILSON COUNTY: School board member Donnie Self (Republican) arrested for indecent exposure at a chicken shop — “His genitals were exposed the entire time he was ordering… victim told police it was the 2nd time he exposed himself to her…”
More: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
More: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
WILSON COUNTY: School board member Donnie Self (Republican) arrested for indecent exposure at a chicken shop — “His genitals were exposed the entire time he was ordering… victim told police it was the 2nd time he exposed himself to her…”
More: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
More: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
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Elon Musk is currently worth $648 billion, according to Bloomberg.
To put that in perspective, if Musk spent $1 MILLION EVERY DAY, it would take him 1,774 YEARS TO SPEND $648 billion.
To put that in perspective, if Musk spent $1 MILLION EVERY DAY, it would take him 1,774 YEARS TO SPEND $648 billion.
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Elon Musk is currently worth $648 billion, according to Bloomberg.
To put that in perspective, if Musk spent $1 MILLION EVERY DAY, it would take him 1,774 YEARS TO SPEND $648 billion.
To put that in perspective, if Musk spent $1 MILLION EVERY DAY, it would take him 1,774 YEARS TO SPEND $648 billion.
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A professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home, and authorities have launched a homicide investigation
MIT Professor Fatally Shot At His Home, Police Launch Homicide Investigation
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.
www.huffpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home, and authorities have launched a homicide investigation
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Chrrrrriiiiiiiiiisssssstttttt
"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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In 2022, a former LA County district attorney was put on administrative leave after he based a prosecution around tips from a right-wing group that promoted election fraud conspiracy theories.
Now, he's the top voting rights official at the DOJ, according to a legal filing reviewed by Mother Jones.
Now, he's the top voting rights official at the DOJ, according to a legal filing reviewed by Mother Jones.
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 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In 2022, a former LA County district attorney was put on administrative leave after he based a prosecution around tips from a right-wing group that promoted election fraud conspiracy theories.
Now, he's the top voting rights official at the DOJ, according to a legal filing reviewed by Mother Jones.
Now, he's the top voting rights official at the DOJ, according to a legal filing reviewed by Mother Jones.
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As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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Support from Trump administration officials played a crucial role in the release of Andrew Tate from Romania, where he is accused of rape and coercing women into pornography, a New York Times investigation found.
How Andrew Tate, Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking, Was Freed
Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Support from Trump administration officials played a crucial role in the release of Andrew Tate from Romania, where he is accused of rape and coercing women into pornography, a New York Times investigation found.
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"Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both." - Billy Corriher
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
To Protect Gerrymanders, GOP Lawmakers Target Judges — and Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both." - Billy Corriher
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
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This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is too much.
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“You hear the hard, gut-wrenching punches,” he said, “the screams, the ‘I’m sorrys,’ ‘I can’t breathes,’ ‘You’re going to kill me.’ You hear ‘Mom,’ and it gets quiet and you just keep hearing the thuds.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“You hear the hard, gut-wrenching punches,” he said, “the screams, the ‘I’m sorrys,’ ‘I can’t breathes,’ ‘You’re going to kill me.’ You hear ‘Mom,’ and it gets quiet and you just keep hearing the thuds.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
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MIAMI — picking up on the open racism Trump has unleashed, racist lady blocks brown Americans from leaving a garage and tries to wait for ICE to get there
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
MIAMI — picking up on the open racism Trump has unleashed, racist lady blocks brown Americans from leaving a garage and tries to wait for ICE to get there
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Here’s what happened when the federal government ripped a 12-year old girl from her only living parent. An important story from @angieleventis.bsky.social and Laura Turbay @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c...
Her dad was taken by immigration agents. Now a 12-year-old girl fears she’s lost her only living parent.
The separation illustrates a tragic consequence of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown: children left behind after a parent is detained or deported.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here’s what happened when the federal government ripped a 12-year old girl from her only living parent. An important story from @angieleventis.bsky.social and Laura Turbay @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c...
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Keep this story in the news.
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Keep this story in the news.
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
"Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney"
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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So this is what #KavanaughStops now look like - surrounding a Superior Court Judge's car and threatening to smash in windows ...
“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So this is what #KavanaughStops now look like - surrounding a Superior Court Judge's car and threatening to smash in windows ...
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also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
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Everything Trump is doing is SO OBVIOUS that it actually makes people think “surely not” and construct an alternate rationale.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Everything Trump is doing is SO OBVIOUS that it actually makes people think “surely not” and construct an alternate rationale.
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1. Dick Cheney’s legacy is not complicated.
He did extraordinary damage to the Middle East and the reputation of the United States.
He has the blood of Americans on his hands.
He did extraordinary damage to the Middle East and the reputation of the United States.
He has the blood of Americans on his hands.
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
1. Dick Cheney’s legacy is not complicated.
He did extraordinary damage to the Middle East and the reputation of the United States.
He has the blood of Americans on his hands.
He did extraordinary damage to the Middle East and the reputation of the United States.
He has the blood of Americans on his hands.
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In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:
Rep. Clay Higgins’ racist tweet is only the tip of the iceberg
His record includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one his three ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept: