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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria on Thursday hit an area populated overwhelmingly by Muslims, who bear the brunt of terrorist attacks there, analysts and groups that monitor conflict say, even as President Trump said the targets were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians.
Trump’s Claims About Nigeria Strike Belie a Complex Situation on the Ground
President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria on Thursday hit an area populated overwhelmingly by Muslims, who bear the brunt of terrorist attacks there, analysts and groups that monitor conflict say, even as President Trump said the targets were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians.
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“Psychologically, no one can withstand this anymore.” Citizens of Odesa, Ukraine, have been living under hellish conditions after two weeks of repeated Russian bombardment.
No Power, No Heat, No Water: Odesa’s Days of Hell Under Russian Fire
The toll on older people and those with disabilities is especially severe as Moscow’s forces repeatedly attack the port city’s infrastructure.
nyti.ms
December 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“Psychologically, no one can withstand this anymore.” Citizens of Odesa, Ukraine, have been living under hellish conditions after two weeks of repeated Russian bombardment.
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Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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Ukraine war latest: Kyiv confirms loss of key town as Pope slams Putin over truce
Ukraine war latest: Kyiv confirms loss of key town as Pope slams Putin over truce
Ukraine war latest: Kyiv confirms loss of key town as Pope slams Putin over truce
www.independent.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Ukraine war latest: Kyiv confirms loss of key town as Pope slams Putin over truce
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The US #measles count for this year has topped 2,000 cases for the first time since 1992. These are confirmed cases only, ie there have been more. 3 reported deaths.
The vast majority of the cases are in unvaccinated kids & adults. 11% needed hospitalization. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
The vast majority of the cases are in unvaccinated kids & adults. 11% needed hospitalization. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The US #measles count for this year has topped 2,000 cases for the first time since 1992. These are confirmed cases only, ie there have been more. 3 reported deaths.
The vast majority of the cases are in unvaccinated kids & adults. 11% needed hospitalization. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
The vast majority of the cases are in unvaccinated kids & adults. 11% needed hospitalization. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissenting.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurring on narrower grounds.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurring on narrower grounds.
#BREAKING The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the State of Illinois on National Guard deployment.
Under the law invoked by President Trump, he must be unable "with the regular military" to "execute the laws of the United States," it finds.
Full ruling here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/80/88/05a75e...
Under the law invoked by President Trump, he must be unable "with the regular military" to "execute the laws of the United States," it finds.
Full ruling here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/80/88/05a75e...
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 25A443 _________________
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. ILLINOIS, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [December 23, 2025]
Federal immigration-enforcement efforts have encoun- tered significant resistance, as well as some violence, in Chicago. According to the Government, federal officers have been obstructed, threatened, and assaulted as they at- tempt to perform their duties. The Government also alleges that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, has been the site of frequent and sometimes violent protests, damaging federal property and threatening the safety of federal officers. These at- tacks, the Government says, have greatly impeded its ef- forts to enforce the immigration laws.
On October 4, 2025, the President called 300 members of the Illinois National Guard into active federal service to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois, particu- larly in and around Chicago. The following day, members of the Texas National Guard were also federalized and sent to Chicago. In calling forth the Guard, the President relied on 10 U. S. C. §12406(3), which empowers him to federalize members of the Guard if he is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”
The United States District Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Illinois entered a temporary restraining order bar- ring the federalization and deployment of the Guard in Illi- nois. The Seventh Circuit denied in relevant part the Government’s motion for a stay, permitting the Guard to](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreigkgum5sfni47efippr7j6ykofa7anuo6cqpkfjztkzkfnvubdafe@jpeg)
![remain federalized within Illinois but maintaining the bar on deployment.
The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court’s order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties’ initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term “regular forces” in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Govern- ment argues that the term refers to civilian law enforce- ment officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service. Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili- tary.
We conclude that the term “regular forces” in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili- tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be “unable” with the regular military “to execute the laws of the United States.” Because the statute requires an assess- ment of the military’s ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from “execut[ing] the laws” “except in cases and under circumstances ex- pressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.” 18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the reg- ular military and must be “unable” with those forces to per- form that function.
At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. The President has not in- voked a statute that provides an exception to the Posse](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreico7h4hdwfyr6byznbn2d7y2wuhraae6jhvupnyew5s7kwjegnpva@jpeg)
![Comitatus Act. Instead, he relies on inherent constitu- tional authority that, according to the Government, allows him to use the military to protect federal personnel and property. But the Government also claims—consistent with the longstanding view of the Executive Branch—that performing such protective functions does not constitute “execut[ing] the laws” within the meaning of the Posse Comitatus Act. See Supp. Letter Reply Brief for Applicants 8; 1 Supp. Op. OLC 343, n. 1 (1971) (collecting sources). If that is correct, it is hard to see how performing those func- tions could constitute “execut[ing] the laws” under §12406(3). See Azar v. Allina Health Services, 587 U. S. 566, 574 (2019) (“This Court does not lightly assume that Congress silently attaches different meanings to the same term in the same or related statutes”). Thus, at least in this posture, the Government has not carried its burden to show that §12406(3) permits the President to federalize the Guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect fed- eral personnel and property in Illinois. We need not and do not address the reviewability of findings made by the Pres- ident under §12406(3) or any other statute.
The application for stay is denied.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreigpypa435od2mqkxeftymwgbg2uepclp6razy2u5gc3efakb7v2kq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissenting.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurring on narrower grounds.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurring on narrower grounds.
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Meanwhile in Russia: State Duma's First Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Vyacheslav Nikonov (Vyacheslav Molotov's grandson) said that war will go on until all goals are achieved. He was overjoyed with the new US National Security Strategy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2HR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2HR...
Vyacheslav Nikonov is pleased with the National Security Strategy of the United States
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Meanwhile in Russia: State Duma's First Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Vyacheslav Nikonov (Vyacheslav Molotov's grandson) said that war will go on until all goals are achieved. He was overjoyed with the new US National Security Strategy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2HR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2HR...
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I wonder how many CBS employees knew this was going to be broadcast outside the US and thought, well, no need to bother our new boss with such a trifling matter.
December 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I wonder how many CBS employees knew this was going to be broadcast outside the US and thought, well, no need to bother our new boss with such a trifling matter.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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BREAKING: We reached a settlement with Travis County, Texas to ensure everyone arrested in the county is provided with an attorney at their first criminal court appearance.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
BREAKING: We reached a settlement with Travis County, Texas to ensure everyone arrested in the county is provided with an attorney at their first criminal court appearance.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
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“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
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Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Andrey Klintsevich argued that Russia doesn't need a peace deal and will disabuse Europeans of the notion that they can contain Moscow when Russian troops show up on the border of the EU.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
Military expert Andrey Klintsevich argues Russia does not need a peace deal
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Andrey Klintsevich argued that Russia doesn't need a peace deal and will disabuse Europeans of the notion that they can contain Moscow when Russian troops show up on the border of the EU.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRU...
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled the Trump administration is unlawfully depriving potentially thousands of people in ICE custody in New England of the opportunity to challenge their detention.
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
BREAKING: A federal court ruled the Trump administration is unlawfully depriving potentially thousands of people in ICE custody in New England of the opportunity to challenge their detention.
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States need to push back hard here. ICE is saying Real ID isn't valid because some states extend it to those lawfully present and now a state issued birth certificate is deemed insufficient, in this case Maryland. This is very dangerous.
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
States need to push back hard here. ICE is saying Real ID isn't valid because some states extend it to those lawfully present and now a state issued birth certificate is deemed insufficient, in this case Maryland. This is very dangerous.
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Mixed-status families have been caught in limbo since President Trump began his efforts to end birthright citizenship.
Parents shouldn’t live in fear, not knowing if their kids will be targeted — we’re fighting back at the Supreme Court.
Parents shouldn’t live in fear, not knowing if their kids will be targeted — we’re fighting back at the Supreme Court.
Immigrant Parents Confront Fear, Uncertainty Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats
Families share how Trump’s threat to end birthright citizenship turned moments of joy into doubt about their children’s futures.
www.aclu.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Mixed-status families have been caught in limbo since President Trump began his efforts to end birthright citizenship.
Parents shouldn’t live in fear, not knowing if their kids will be targeted — we’re fighting back at the Supreme Court.
Parents shouldn’t live in fear, not knowing if their kids will be targeted — we’re fighting back at the Supreme Court.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Brought to you by DOGE and two billionaires who don't care about the consequences of their actions.
Internal Forest Service report finds ‘unpassable trails, unsafe bridges’
A report obtained by The Post says the U.S. Forest Service’s trails are deteriorating rapidly due to staff cuts under the Trump administration, posing risks to visitors.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Brought to you by DOGE and two billionaires who don't care about the consequences of their actions.
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A man detained at California's largest ICE facility likely has cancer but he's been continuously denied medication and urgent treatment as his condition worsens.
We filed an emergency motion in court demanding he gets access to the care he needs that could save his life.
We filed an emergency motion in court demanding he gets access to the care he needs that could save his life.
Immigrants Detained by ICE Sue Immigration Detention Center for Medical Neglect and Other Conditions
Seven people sue the California ICE detention center, citing punitive conditions, medical neglect, and more.
www.aclu.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A man detained at California's largest ICE facility likely has cancer but he's been continuously denied medication and urgent treatment as his condition worsens.
We filed an emergency motion in court demanding he gets access to the care he needs that could save his life.
We filed an emergency motion in court demanding he gets access to the care he needs that could save his life.
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Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say
Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say
The White House says it’s targeting the “premier research stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy.”
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December 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say