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ICE officers shoot driver during immigration operation in Maryland, authorities say.
ICE officers shoot driver during immigration operation in Maryland, authorities say
The Department of Homeland Security said the driver of a van hit ICE vehicles as he tried to flee and officers fired in self-defense. The van’s passenger was injured in the crash.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
ICE officers shoot driver during immigration operation in Maryland, authorities say.
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Having a normal Christmas morning
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Having a normal Christmas morning
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Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to fall silent in Ukraine: https://cnn.it/4p7hBVr
December 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to fall silent in Ukraine: https://cnn.it/4p7hBVr
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
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In preparing for my most recent Supreme Court argument, I realized that I have something in common with the Court’s conservative members. Like them, I do not believe there should be “second-class” constitutional rights subject to judicial balancing. If something is a right, it must be protected.
The Right to Vote Deserves First-Class Protection
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
In preparing for my most recent Supreme Court argument, I realized that I have something in common with the Court’s conservative members. Like them, I do not believe there should be “second-class” constitutional rights subject to judicial balancing. If something is a right, it must be protected.
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Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
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"I finally had to admit that no matter how many times I reread the recipe and attempted to follow the instructions, it wasn't going to work. I was stumped," Brenda Goodman writes.
"Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?" https://cnn.it/3KPT5Kq
"Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?" https://cnn.it/3KPT5Kq
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"I finally had to admit that no matter how many times I reread the recipe and attempted to follow the instructions, it wasn't going to work. I was stumped," Brenda Goodman writes.
"Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?" https://cnn.it/3KPT5Kq
"Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?" https://cnn.it/3KPT5Kq
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This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.
December 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.
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I reported all of this and more in @washingtonpost.com some 20 days ago.
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I reported all of this and more in @washingtonpost.com some 20 days ago.
Trump lies to child on Christmas
Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Trump lies to child on Christmas
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Trump-backed candidate declared winner of Honduras’ presidential vote
Trump-backed candidate declared winner of Honduras’ presidential vote
The win by Nasry Asfura continues Latin America's shift to the right.
dlvr.it
December 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump-backed candidate declared winner of Honduras’ presidential vote
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Retailers turn to K Street to save Christmas
Retailers turn to K Street to save Christmas
Trade groups and companies representing everything from Christmas trees and decor to toys and spices bolstered their lobbying operations with massive sums as they jockeyed for tariff relief.
dlvr.it
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Retailers turn to K Street to save Christmas
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“Hey, I’ve got an idea. How about we wait until Christmas Eve and tell them we found a million more documents?” “Yes! brilliant!” www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
DOJ says it has found over a million additional documents potentially related to Epstein | CNN Politics
The Justice Department on Wednesday said it has uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and may need “a few more weeks” to process and release them to t...
www.cnn.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“Hey, I’ve got an idea. How about we wait until Christmas Eve and tell them we found a million more documents?” “Yes! brilliant!” www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...
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J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
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The Supreme Court’s decision blocking President Trump from sending the National Guard into American cities is likely to raise a politically fraught debate about the president’s willingness to invoke a 19th-century law to deploy the regular military on American soil instead. https://cnn.it/45qYuyn
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Supreme Court’s decision blocking President Trump from sending the National Guard into American cities is likely to raise a politically fraught debate about the president’s willingness to invoke a 19th-century law to deploy the regular military on American soil instead. https://cnn.it/45qYuyn
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And human beings are not packages, you fascist ghouls 🤷♂️🤦♂️
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And human beings are not packages, you fascist ghouls 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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The “60 Minutes” we have known is dead. The fearless program that many of us grew up with was strangled by corporate titans seeking favor with the Trump White House. I don’t know what is next for the storied franchise, but it will never be the same. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...
“60 Minutes” Obeyed in Advance
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The “60 Minutes” we have known is dead. The fearless program that many of us grew up with was strangled by corporate titans seeking favor with the Trump White House. I don’t know what is next for the storied franchise, but it will never be the same. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...
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NEW: Trump diplomacy 2.0: A billionaire developer and a monarchy scramble longtime U.S. alliances www.ms.now/news/trump-w...
Trump diplomacy 2.0: A billionaire developer and a monarchy scramble longtime U.S. alliances
Foreign diplomats say the president’s embrace of Steve Witkoff and the emir of Qatar is frustrating nations that have backed the U.S. for decades.
www.ms.now
December 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
NEW: Trump diplomacy 2.0: A billionaire developer and a monarchy scramble longtime U.S. alliances www.ms.now/news/trump-w...
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Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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 5:40 PM
Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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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."
"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
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."
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
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Since the DOJ is now saying they have "uncovered" one million more documents they claim to not know about, doesn't that put seriously in doubt this absurd claim by FBI Director Patel that Epstein had not trafficked anyone?
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Since the DOJ is now saying they have "uncovered" one million more documents they claim to not know about, doesn't that put seriously in doubt this absurd claim by FBI Director Patel that Epstein had not trafficked anyone?
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."