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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
It's true that Garland did nothing about Trump and Epstein while being completely aware of the crimes. The crimes were public information! Garland was installed to protect the DOJ, which protects Trump and Epstein. It's explained in this free 2023 article. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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lizszabo.bsky.social
Over 91% of Clients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reach Undetectable Status www.poz.com/article/91-c...
Over 91% of Clients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reach Undetectable Status
New data confirm Ryan White’s success—undetectable equals untransmittable (and healthier)—but GOP leaders want to slash these HIV funds.
www.poz.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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danielwcarlson.bsky.social
When they ask me what radicalized me
The family of mice singing “No cheeses for us meeces” in the opening song (“Scrooge”) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinion—but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickens’s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since ’92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.

It must be read:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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guyoron.net
TONIGHT: Coinciding with the winter solstice at 4:21PM, volunteers with SHARE/WHEEL will hold a vigil for the 245 homeless people who died in the Seattle area this year. Since 2022, the group has honored more than 1,100 people who passed away while unhoused or in public due to violence.
chart shows 1,100+ homeless people died in the Seattle area since 2022
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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guyoron.net
The Homeless Remembrance Project has been holding monthly and yearly vigils for more than two decades. They will be meeting at Victor Steinbrueck Park near Pike Place Market. Note that the numbers in the flyer aren't updated with November data.
candlelight vigil: , PLEASE STAND WITH WOMEN IN BLACK ON THE SOLSTICE, Sunday, December 21st, “National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day!” This year already at least 245 homeless/temporarily housed people have died outside/in public/by violence. These deaths demand a reckoning. Please join us at our annual Women in Black Solstice Vigil and Ritual on Sunday, December 21st, to honor ALL who’ve died this year. We’ll start with an informal ritual at sunset (4:21 PM) at the Tree of Life (Victor Steinbrueck Park, north of Pike Place Market), and then do our silent, candlelight vigil from 5-6 PM at Westlake Park (4th/Pine, NE corner). There’ll be an aftergathering nearby with food and fellowship courtesy of our Health Care for the Homeless partners.
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released.

“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”

flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 25
NEW — I wrote about Beker Rengifo, a Montana resident from Venezuela who was taken by ICE on Thursday after a routine traffic stop, and how local law enforcement is working with the feds to ensnare people with legal status.
ICE abducts Montana resident with legal humanitarian status
Beker Rengifo is the latest victim of Trump's reckless and illegal war on migrants.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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rincewind.run
it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do
Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do
God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.
www.gq.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
www.pnas.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
If I see a rat in my fucking toilet there is no way I'm going to calmly close the lid and go get some Palmolive
www.facebook.com/KCPubHealth/...
December 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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propublica.org
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas.

One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work.

With @texastribune.org
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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kylebutoverhere.bsky.social
Trans rights are human rights and it's not negotiable, you fucks
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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chompmancobra.bsky.social
If you believe his job is to lead the media conglomerate to stable profitability ideally while producing content that is both good and popular, sure, he's terrible at his job.

If you believe his actual job is to enrich David Zaslav in a way no sane economic system could justify? Best in the world.
December 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
Tenant Union Holds Sit-in Over Neglected Maintenance, Demand Property Manager Be Fired

In late November, property management called Minneapolis Police on apartment tenants staging a sit-in over neglected health and safety issues. Full story in link.
Tenant Union Holds Sit-in Over Neglected Maintenance, Demand Property Manager Be Fired - UNICORN RIOT
A tenant union in Minneapolis confronted their property manager with a sit-in and demands that she be fired.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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kevincollier.bsky.social
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
They should invent a city that doesn't spend 60% of its budget on cops
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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sockynoob.bsky.social
It's absolutely CRIMINAL that the most biodiverse and important state in the US for wildlife and habitats just slashed its EPA budget. That comes at a time when southerners across the board are calling for stricter protections of natural resources. www.al.com/news/montgom...
Alabama slashed the state’s environmental department budget by half in 15 years: report
Only three states have made bigger cuts to their environmental agencies, according a report from an environmental watchdog.
www.al.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network
People need to understand that AI is a project and not a tool.
Picture of Trump at desk in Whitehouse surrounded by an array of goons for the occasion of his signing of an executive order to limit state regulation of AI.
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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unraveledpress.com
What do you even say anymore
Baker hasn’t been charged in the fatal shooting of his partner or the bar fight. He has been stripped of his policing powers but only after he allegedly called a nearby business posing as an investigator and tried to obtain video footage of what happened in the bar. Yolanda Rivera’s attorneys pointed to Baker’s lengthy record of disciplinary complaints, seizing on another incident, in which he was accused of accosting a woman at a bar in December 2022 and flashing a gun at her after she refused to date him. The woman stopped cooperating with investigators, and the case was closed.
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
"To attempt to find useful information and instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product."
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found: The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
What's it like to come w/ permission then have it taken away? "To tell them their safety has an expiration date while their home country remains mired in the same crisis they fled — and is now in the crosshairs of the U.S. military — is a painful contradiction. "

www.propublica.org/article/stat...
They Came to the U.S. Legally. Then Trump Stripped Their Status Away.
Yineska and her family are trapped between a homeland in ruin and Trump’s mass deportation campaign. “Status: Venezuelan” is a story of them trying to stay together — and stay in the U.S. legally.
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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alandettlaff.com
More evidence that providing direct, material assistance to families who need it significantly reduces child maltreatment.

www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...
Study: Rx Kids decreasing infant maltreatment allegations in Flint
A new study finds maltreatment allegations involving infants in Flint have dropped dramatically since the start of a stipend program for new moms.Rx Kids provides every pregnant woman with $1,500 duri...
www.michiganpublic.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20d
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
donzeko.bsky.social Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20d
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM