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Please donate if you're able. This is a crucial hearing!!
We must regulate AI!
Once robots are on their own with AI we are done.
The existential risk here is enormous.
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🆘 We have begun crowd-funding to get us to the next hearing which will be placed on the calendar sometime prior to January 23rd.

🆘 We have lots of work to do and we are up against billion dollar companies.

🆘 We will need at least 250 people at that next hearing.

🆘 Please consider a donation.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Trump’s attacks on Vineyard Wind are attacks on union jobs and American wallets. This will make our nation weaker, our energy costs higher, and our families less certain about how they’re going to make ends meet.
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Oh.... He meant 'American *Oligarchs* First' not 'America First'
Now it makes more sense, I suppose.
December 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Mass shooting:
5 wounded including a child in shooting in Jacksonville, Florida,
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Santa w/b an immigrant to the US. No doubt ICE would detain and then deport him. Poor kids would have no toys under the tree.
ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Sounds like an awesome, and well-paid job in journalism.
HIRING: We're looking for a statewide editor at Free Press Indiana! Job posting here: www.freepressindiana.org/jobs/statewi...
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!?

Where is Congress? Where are they?

I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.

Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!

I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I don't know how this doesn't also deter customers from shopping there.
“A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.”
Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say
Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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- Trump's FTC kills an investigation into Pepsi price-gouging.
- Musk minion Jared Isaacman takes the reins at NASA.
- The EPA weakens formaldehyde regulations at the chemical lobby's behest.

All that and more in this week's Corruption Calendar!
Today: Renaming the Kennedy Center. Tomorrow: Renaming The Moon | Revolving Door Project
Corruption Calendar Week 47-48: Trump’s giveaways to corporations continue to pile on as Americans suffer from an affordability crisis. This newsletter was originally published on Revolving Door…
therevolvingdoorproject.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I wish everyone he sued would do this.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/qgeXZca
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I demand to see video of Vance apologizing for being white.
Truly alarmed for the mental health of his kids once they are old enough to understand what he is doing.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
For the good of the country, Kaine needs to retire.
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?

KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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What if Mar-a-Lago was the real Comet Pizza basement all along?
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I'm guessing we all assume DJT was guilty of trafficking young girls as well, right?
December 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I suppose the felon's name is so prevalent in these files that ELEVEN MONTHS wasn't enough time to get it all redacted. With 1,000 agents and some overtime at that. Truly amazing. Go for the bank records. Always follow the money, esp with this guy.
Would it be fair to question the literacy of this administration as a whole at this point?
I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.
December 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It's as if he's put his name on someone else's tombstone. It's a *memorial* after all. It's not just another building. He must be afraid he won't get one of his own when his time comes. (Probably some weirdos in FL will do one, but maybe not.)
Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Closing in on a quarter of our goal aint bad, but we still need a lot more support. We’re tired, too, but we aren’t done ensuring the Blade’s survival in 2026. Our quality reporting doesn’t happen automatically. So please consider the role of local leftist journalism in this time, & donate or share.
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.

Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
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December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There should probably be massive class action suit on behalf of 70 million or so Americans.
Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. https://to.pbs.org/49kcIU2
Federal judge weighs Trump's claim of immunity from civil litigation over Capitol attack
Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol to ...
to.pbs.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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ACS data users: It's time to show your support for the survey *and* for implementing the new race/ethnicity standards described in SPD-15.

Start drafting those comments!

For those new to the public comment process, we'll be sharing more info in coming weeks.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; American Community Survey and Puerto Rico Community Survey
The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information colle...
www.federalregister.gov
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I suppose native-born citizens who aren't sufficiently respectful of the dictator will be next. I'm not kidding. This is absurd.
The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship.

They want 100-200 naturalized citizens per month to scrutinize and disgustingly deport after they already went thru the process!

#ICELawlessness 🚫🧊
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t www.propublica.org/article/rx-i...
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I don't think we've ever seen a party with so much to run & hide from as this current regime. It's amazing. The Epstein files are very bad news as this hide & seek & delay, delay, delay proves.
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM