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And as things fell apart nobody paid much attention…
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump is moving to privatize legal aid for migrant children and hand it to a for-profit ICE contractor. Yes, the same agency trying to deport them would help control their “legal support.” Advocates say it breaches confidentiality, strips protections and pushes kids toward faster removal
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Protesters opposed to ICE temporarily shut down City Council meeting

A tense standoff between members of the New Orleans City Council and a group of protesters calling for more protection for immigrants ended with the protesters being forcibly removed from City Hall during a Dec. 4 meeting, with…
Protesters opposed to ICE temporarily shut down City Council meeting
A tense standoff between members of the New Orleans City Council and a group of protesters calling for more protection for immigrants ended with the protesters being forcibly removed from City Hall during a Dec. 4 meeting, with New Orleans Police Department officers physically carrying out one individual. 
veritenews.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🚨 REVEALED: Members of Congress who enter leadership see their stock returns jump by as much as 47 points. Researchers say the gains are driven in part by trades that move in step with the legislation they control.
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Trump had such a hard reading this name that he almost seized up
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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👀 A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code www.wired.com/story/new-an...
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A federal judge has denied the early unsealing of decades-old FBI surveillance files involving Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Bernard S. Lee, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), according to a joint statement from SCLC.
FBI surveillance files on MLK to remain sealed, judge rules
A federal judge denied early release of FBI surveillance files on Martin Luther King Jr., siding with his family’s privacy concerns.
amsterdamnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"We’re stuck in a sort of mass political psychosis: with pundits and strategists advising Democrats to compromise on their most powerful and popular issue and Democrats acquiescing—forever hedging their language and refusing to go on offense."

jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-b...
The Most Unpopular Laws in America
Nobody wants abortion bans—not even deep red states
jessica.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.

It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.

USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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BREAKING: Suspect in pipe-bombing case identified as 30-year-old Brian Cole of VA. Carol Leonnig has the latest.

www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.

Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Darcie Little Badger, a member of the Lipan Apache Tribe, said she was “taken aback” by the prohibitions under HB261 and calls it censorship.
An Indigenous author felt compelled to cancel her Utah appearance after this university gave her a list of banned DEI words
Darcie Little Badger, a member of the Lipan Apache Tribe, said she was “taken aback” by the prohibitions under HB261 and calls it censorship.
www.sltrib.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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NEW: Wildlife authorities in Louisiana are now detaining people for ICE—part of this year's nearly 700% expansion of the 287(g) program that deputizes state and local authorities to conduct immigration enforcement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/story/...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Speaker Johnson thinks Americans worried about affordability need to just “relax”
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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the real story is the way the country's obscenely rich have hijacked new and old media to pour lemon juice in the country's unhealed race and gender wounds to divide the electorate and derail genuine progressive reform, justice-oriented taxation, and corporate oversight

now THAT's a story
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Im planning on contacting Ford and Stellantis and asking if their CEOs agree with the racist comments spoken by Trump when they were standing behind him in the Oval Office today. Join me.
www.ford.com/help/contact...
secure.ethicspoint.eu/domain/media...
@indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Trump’s signature on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He has until December 20th to release them in a public, searchable format.
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ten years into this bullshit and journalists are still out here operating as if anything this administration does is actually in the public interest, or anything it says has any real-world value
Trump said he’s looking into an Australian-style retirement program for America. Here’s how it works | CNN Business
The Trump administration is looking Down Under for inspiration on how to improve the United States’ retirement savings system.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Their behavior indicates that they are (now at least) aware that this was illegal and they've failed to keep it secret, so they will do their best to twist reality to prove they're in the right.
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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we need to aggressively rebuild a culture where men like this are afraid to publicly and proudly advertise their psychopathy
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM