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“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." - Madeleine Albright
“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." - Madeleine Albright
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Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
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Made possible by the Roberts Court.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Made possible by the Roberts Court.
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
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If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.
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Mere Christmas from Anonymous
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Mere Christmas from Anonymous
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How do you just “uncover” over a million Epstein documents out of nowhere like they were misplaced in a desk drawer? You don’t, and when accountability gets slow-walked like this, it usually means the same powerful people involved have enough power to force the DOJ to delay it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
How do you just “uncover” over a million Epstein documents out of nowhere like they were misplaced in a desk drawer? You don’t, and when accountability gets slow-walked like this, it usually means the same powerful people involved have enough power to force the DOJ to delay it.
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On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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“Imran Ahmed, chief executive of Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for digital affairs; and Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index.”
US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
apnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Imran Ahmed, chief executive of Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for digital affairs; and Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index.”
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{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
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Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
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I don’t know why we’d trust the federal government again.
This is evil for the sake of it.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This is evil for the sake of it.
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 12:44 PM
I don’t know why we’d trust the federal government again.
This is evil for the sake of it.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This is evil for the sake of it.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The entire statement is a pathetically torturous attempt to obscure the simple facts: "Trump and Miller want to deport naturalized US citizens and their American-born children, which would be illegal and unconstitutional. They intend to break the law."
December 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The entire statement is a pathetically torturous attempt to obscure the simple facts: "Trump and Miller want to deport naturalized US citizens and their American-born children, which would be illegal and unconstitutional. They intend to break the law."
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Literally any other attorney general before Bondi would have fought tooth and nail and then resigned over this alone. Letting White House staff take over making public statements in the name of DOJ is in and of itself completely insane.
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Literally any other attorney general before Bondi would have fought tooth and nail and then resigned over this alone. Letting White House staff take over making public statements in the name of DOJ is in and of itself completely insane.
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“Last year [national parks] hosted 320 million visitors—they weren't all Democrats! And the other aspect of it is that it's a money generator. Existence and visitation of the national parks generates over $55 billion to the American economy.” slate.trib.al/mHieevk
Gutting Our National Parks | 2025 Year in Review
Step 1: Ruin everyone’s national park experience.
slate.trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“Last year [national parks] hosted 320 million visitors—they weren't all Democrats! And the other aspect of it is that it's a money generator. Existence and visitation of the national parks generates over $55 billion to the American economy.” slate.trib.al/mHieevk
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1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
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Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
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The Trump administration will begin seizing the pay of people in default on their student loans in the new year.
Starting January 7th, the Department of Education will start withholding a chunk of the wages from some student loan borrowers in default.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Starting January 7th, the Department of Education will start withholding a chunk of the wages from some student loan borrowers in default.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Wage garnishment for defaulted student loans to resume early next year
The Education Department had stopped collecting wages to repay defaulted loans during the coronavirus pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Trump administration will begin seizing the pay of people in default on their student loans in the new year.
Starting January 7th, the Department of Education will start withholding a chunk of the wages from some student loan borrowers in default.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Starting January 7th, the Department of Education will start withholding a chunk of the wages from some student loan borrowers in default.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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"Someone told the party that Donald Trump had invited them all to a party at Mar a Lago. REDACTED told Villeneuve she wanted to go, but Villeneuve told REDACTED it wasn't that kind of party, it was for prostitutes."
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Someone told the party that Donald Trump had invited them all to a party at Mar a Lago. REDACTED told Villeneuve she wanted to go, but Villeneuve told REDACTED it wasn't that kind of party, it was for prostitutes."
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Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security posts deranged video turning Santa into an ICE agent. Making people suffer is just all fun and games for the Trump administration.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security posts deranged video turning Santa into an ICE agent. Making people suffer is just all fun and games for the Trump administration.
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#GVerse Dear #FuckMAGA
Former President Clinton has called for the complete Epstein files. -- that INCLUDES all files mentioning him & #Shit4Brains
Pictures with Clinton: released
Pictures with #ShitFace: hidden
Clinton calls for them ALL to be released.
"We need no such protection."
Waiting...
Former President Clinton has called for the complete Epstein files. -- that INCLUDES all files mentioning him & #Shit4Brains
Pictures with Clinton: released
Pictures with #ShitFace: hidden
Clinton calls for them ALL to be released.
"We need no such protection."
Waiting...
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
#GVerse Dear #FuckMAGA
Former President Clinton has called for the complete Epstein files. -- that INCLUDES all files mentioning him & #Shit4Brains
Pictures with Clinton: released
Pictures with #ShitFace: hidden
Clinton calls for them ALL to be released.
"We need no such protection."
Waiting...
Former President Clinton has called for the complete Epstein files. -- that INCLUDES all files mentioning him & #Shit4Brains
Pictures with Clinton: released
Pictures with #ShitFace: hidden
Clinton calls for them ALL to be released.
"We need no such protection."
Waiting...