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December 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Authorities identified suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, 48 (sp.), a fmr Brown U student and Portuguese national who's a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and lives in Miami. Police are still investigating a possible connection to murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, also from Portugal.
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Authorities identified suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, 48 (sp.), a fmr Brown U student and Portuguese national who's a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and lives in Miami. Police are still investigating a possible connection to murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, also from Portugal.
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When the Epstein files are released without enforcement, compliance becomes theater, redactions are weapons, and the truth depends entirely on who controls the scissors and what transparency means.
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"The Art of Strategic Transparency"
When the Epstein files are released without enforcement, compliance becomes theater, redactions are weapons, and the truth depends entirely on who controls the scissors and what transparency means.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When the Epstein files are released without enforcement, compliance becomes theater, redactions are weapons, and the truth depends entirely on who controls the scissors and what transparency means.
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The MAGA movement wants fewer undocumented workers in America and more babies born to American mothers—but research suggests that those two goals are at odds, Olga Khazan argues:
The Truth About Immigration That MAGA Doesn’t Acknowledge
American families rely on immigrants to take care of their children.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The MAGA movement wants fewer undocumented workers in America and more babies born to American mothers—but research suggests that those two goals are at odds, Olga Khazan argues:
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To Trans Youth: YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
To Trans Youth: YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
There are MILLIONS of loving, caring people who will continue to fight to protect you and your future.
Reply below with love for young trans people. 🩵🩷🤍
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For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
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Free Press has published a report summarizing the many acts of the Trump Administration attacking free speech, describing acts of resistance, and recommending ways to respond. 29 pages, heavily endnoted for another 28 pages.
Please read and pass around.
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Please read and pass around.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Free Press has published a report summarizing the many acts of the Trump Administration attacking free speech, describing acts of resistance, and recommending ways to respond. 29 pages, heavily endnoted for another 28 pages.
Please read and pass around.
www.freepress.net/download/cho...
Please read and pass around.
www.freepress.net/download/cho...
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Eighteen minutes of Trump shouting, inventing numbers, and economic fantasy; all while Americans keep paying higher bills and wondering why the president is yelling at them.
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"Stop YELLING At Us"
Eighteen minutes of Trump shouting, inventing numbers, and economic fantasy; all while Americans keep paying higher bills and wondering why the president is yelling at them.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Eighteen minutes of Trump shouting, inventing numbers, and economic fantasy; all while Americans keep paying higher bills and wondering why the president is yelling at them.
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Calling it enforcement doesn’t change reality: a blockade is war, Congress was bypassed, law was ignored, and American families are left to pay the price.
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"One Post Away From War"
Calling it enforcement doesn’t change reality: a blockade is war, Congress was bypassed, law was ignored, and American families are left to pay the price.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Calling it enforcement doesn’t change reality: a blockade is war, Congress was bypassed, law was ignored, and American families are left to pay the price.
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Would subscribe to a newsletter that’s just Stephen Miller’s family calling him out
Stephen Miller's cousin unloads on him:
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
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“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
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December 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Would subscribe to a newsletter that’s just Stephen Miller’s family calling him out
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The federal government shouldn’t have access to your private data.
Common Cause will keep fighting to protect voters’ data privacy in Maryland and nationwide. www.commoncause.org/maryland/pre...
Common Cause will keep fighting to protect voters’ data privacy in Maryland and nationwide. www.commoncause.org/maryland/pre...
Civil Rights Groups, Maryland Voters File Motion to Protect Voters’ Privacy
Common Cause, Out for Justice, and three Maryland voters joined the ACLU National Voting Rights Project and the ACLU of Maryland on Friday in filing a motion to intervene in United States of States of...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The federal government shouldn’t have access to your private data.
Common Cause will keep fighting to protect voters’ data privacy in Maryland and nationwide. www.commoncause.org/maryland/pre...
Common Cause will keep fighting to protect voters’ data privacy in Maryland and nationwide. www.commoncause.org/maryland/pre...
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Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate. May this season’s light inspire hope, resilience, and community.
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate. May this season’s light inspire hope, resilience, and community.
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Day 15 of the Common Cause Advent Calendar! Grab your Common Cause repeat tee before they’re gone! https://shop.commoncause.org/common-cause-repeat-red-unisex-white-tee/?source=socmed_20251215_advent15_bluesky
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Day 15 of the Common Cause Advent Calendar! Grab your Common Cause repeat tee before they’re gone! https://shop.commoncause.org/common-cause-repeat-red-unisex-white-tee/?source=socmed_20251215_advent15_bluesky
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This year, Common Cause helped thousands of voters navigate their local and state elections.
We trained 530+ volunteers to monitor polling places in 14 states.
This is a people-powered democracy.
We trained 530+ volunteers to monitor polling places in 14 states.
This is a people-powered democracy.
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This year, Common Cause helped thousands of voters navigate their local and state elections.
We trained 530+ volunteers to monitor polling places in 14 states.
This is a people-powered democracy.
We trained 530+ volunteers to monitor polling places in 14 states.
This is a people-powered democracy.
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The real revelation in the recent interviews with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is not in what she said, but in how Trump’s supporters are spinning it, Jonathan Chait argues.
The Real Revelation in the Susie Wiles Interviews
It’s not the crime, but the cover-up.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The real revelation in the recent interviews with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is not in what she said, but in how Trump’s supporters are spinning it, Jonathan Chait argues.
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A president responds to murder with grievance, reminding us that in Trump’s America, even tragedy is repurposed as a weapon against perceived enemies.
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"The Weaponization of Death"
A president responds to murder with grievance, reminding us that in Trump’s America, even tragedy is repurposed as a weapon against perceived enemies.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A president responds to murder with grievance, reminding us that in Trump’s America, even tragedy is repurposed as a weapon against perceived enemies.
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"The standout in Burlington started with two people and has grown to as many as 750..."
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Activists hit the road to rally against ICE raids in Massachusetts - Daily Hampshire Gazette
NORTHAMPTON — In organizing a street theater performance in front of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Burlington this week, activists from western Massachusetts relayed, both orally ...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"The standout in Burlington started with two people and has grown to as many as 750..."
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Thoughts and prayers have become America’s ritual of surrender; comforting the powerful, silencing accountability, and ensuring the next memorial is already being planned.
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"The Politics of Hollow Platitudes"
Thoughts and prayers have become America’s ritual of surrender; comforting the powerful, silencing accountability, and ensuring the next memorial is already being planned.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thoughts and prayers have become America’s ritual of surrender; comforting the powerful, silencing accountability, and ensuring the next memorial is already being planned.
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A wave election is within our reach next year — but only if we invest in the grassroots organizing that helped deliver our big wins throughout 2025. Chip in if you can to support the nationwide work it will take over the next 324 days to win back power and put real checks on this lawless regime.
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December 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A wave election is within our reach next year — but only if we invest in the grassroots organizing that helped deliver our big wins throughout 2025. Chip in if you can to support the nationwide work it will take over the next 324 days to win back power and put real checks on this lawless regime.
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While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:
Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:
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"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
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We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
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"What Are We Doing to Our Children?"
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
therealmichaelcohen.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
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"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
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This US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent and detained, video shows | CNN
Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.”
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December 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
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