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Among important details picked up by @emptywheel.bsky.social: the pipe bomber started wiping his phone on Dec 15, 2020, one day after a visit to Capitol Hill mentioned in his arrest affidavit, but disappeared from his detention affidavit.
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Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020 - emptywheel
The accused pipe bomber, Brian Cole, started regularly wiping his cell phone the day after he traveled to Capitol Hill weeks before planting the pipe bombs. But DOJ dropped his December 14, 2020 trip ...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Among important details picked up by @emptywheel.bsky.social: the pipe bomber started wiping his phone on Dec 15, 2020, one day after a visit to Capitol Hill mentioned in his arrest affidavit, but disappeared from his detention affidavit.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...
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Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
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Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy
The thread of partisan power and control is stitched through America’s public...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
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“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
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About a quarter of American babies have no Bifidobacterium in their guts. Those are microbes that digest breast milk and foster healthy immune systems. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/babies-gut-bacteria-allergies-asthma
Many U.S. babies may lack gut bacteria that train their immune systems
Too little Bifidobacterium, used to digest breast milk, in babies' gut microbiomes can increase their risk of developing allergies and asthma.
www.sciencenews.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
About a quarter of American babies have no Bifidobacterium in their guts. Those are microbes that digest breast milk and foster healthy immune systems. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/babies-gut-bacteria-allergies-asthma
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I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice
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This is an important point. And as our information system has evolved over the past 10 years it has more obviously become a partisan press model. Not just websites and podcasts, but ownership of what were once mainstream/non-partisan news outlets. People consume propaganda without realizing it.
One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is an important point. And as our information system has evolved over the past 10 years it has more obviously become a partisan press model. Not just websites and podcasts, but ownership of what were once mainstream/non-partisan news outlets. People consume propaganda without realizing it.
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I assume this means he will get a pardon
“Federal prosecutors said Sunday the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to "speak up" for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen…”
Lies have consequences.
www.foxnews.com/us/dc-pipe-b...
Lies have consequences.
www.foxnews.com/us/dc-pipe-b...
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I assume this means he will get a pardon
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You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️
From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️
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In time, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would come to think of Operation Midway Blitz in an extraordinary way: “An invasion,” he said.
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
trib.al
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In time, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would come to think of Operation Midway Blitz in an extraordinary way: “An invasion,” he said.
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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I don't think there's any understanding of the First Amendment under which this ("our Savior") is constitutional. Yet they don't care, and they've eliminated all the attorneys who would've objected.
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
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December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I don't think there's any understanding of the First Amendment under which this ("our Savior") is constitutional. Yet they don't care, and they've eliminated all the attorneys who would've objected.
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
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Some people will commit human rights violations rather than just go to therapy
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Some people will commit human rights violations rather than just go to therapy
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Seems bad
Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the cusp of geological malfunction.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Seems bad
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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A deeply secure thing to say.
Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A deeply secure thing to say.
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Tennessee Republicans are planning to take over control of Memphis schools from local leaders: tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/24/h...
House GOP to push forward Memphis school takeover plan with ‘teeth’ • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee House Republican leaders will push forward a plan in 2026 to take over control of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.
tennesseelookout.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tennessee Republicans are planning to take over control of Memphis schools from local leaders: tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/24/h...
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What the holy hell is this
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What the holy hell is this
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The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.
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Disgusting.
“The administration’s goal, ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: ‘Like Prime, but with human beings.’”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
“The administration’s goal, ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: ‘Like Prime, but with human beings.’”
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 11:07 PM
Disgusting.
“The administration’s goal, ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: ‘Like Prime, but with human beings.’”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
“The administration’s goal, ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: ‘Like Prime, but with human beings.’”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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RFK Jr's wife Cheryl Hines is the star guest for an "exclusive" interview with anti-vaccine group, Children's Health Defense's morning show, just after their segment denying measles injury and deaths.
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
RFK Jr's wife Cheryl Hines is the star guest for an "exclusive" interview with anti-vaccine group, Children's Health Defense's morning show, just after their segment denying measles injury and deaths.
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It’s “easier to criminalize somebody than to get them help,” said a mother who for more than a decade has been trying to get her son the care he needs. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/criminally-ill-state-mental-psychiatric-hospitals-prisons-waitlists-ohio/
Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons - KFF Health News
There has been a steep rise in the share of people with severe mental illnesses being sent to state psychiatric hospitals on court orders after being accused of serious crimes. The shift has all but halted patients' ability to get care before they have ...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It’s “easier to criminalize somebody than to get them help,” said a mother who for more than a decade has been trying to get her son the care he needs. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/criminally-ill-state-mental-psychiatric-hospitals-prisons-waitlists-ohio/