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Judi Brown
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Flâneuse, Washington DC
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In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.

Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:

A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses

www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
ICE Releases Grandma With Green Card After 5 Months in Time for Christmas
Donna Hughes Brown's case was highlighted during a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
www.star-telegram.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“Striving for happiness directly, in the abstract, is not possible,” @arthurbrooks.bsky.social. The ancient Christmas story of Magi proves you must choose proxy goals: metaphorical stars in the sky that lead you to the greater well-being you desire:
How to Follow the Right Star
The ancient Christmas story of the Magi contains a message that can guide your modern search for happiness.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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1/ A Trump-appointed federal judge, Gary R. Brown, ordered the immediate release on bail of a noncitizen and directed the government to show cause why it should not be held in contempt over ICE’s repeated failures to follow court orders.

www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
www.courthousenews.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.

"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.

Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] 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 3:24 PM
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When satire needs government approval, it’s no longer satire. #holdfast
December 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic
December 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Trump: “At the request of the Board, and just about everybody else in America, I am hosting the event. Tell me what you think of my “Master of Ceremony” abilities. If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make “hosting” a full time job?”
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Sculptor Steven Weitzman placed books under the floorboards of the Barbara Johns statue's self-base (dedicated last week in The Capitol Building) with titles from prominent African American scholars and authors to signify materials the students were missing in their classrooms. 🗃️
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Trump, in his panic over #Epstein reveals, has again raised the specter of action to take possession of Greenland as a distraction.

He appointed a special envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA).

The Greenland Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, responded...

🧾 www.cnbc.com/2025/12/22/g...
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.
December 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Denmark summons US ambassador after Trump names special envoy to Greenland
🇩🇰 Le Danemark a annoncé lundi la convocation prochaine de l'ambassadeur des États-Unis à Copenhague, après que le président Donald Trump a annoncé la nomination d'un envoyé spécial pour le Groenland, territoire autonome danois qu'il a menacé d'annexer.
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM