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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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BREAKING: Alexander’s convoy. Under fire. Front line. Christmas mission.

I just got a call from the military telling me that Alexander — “Voice from Ukraine” — and his convoy came under fire while delivering generators and essential aid near the Kharkiv–Donetsk front line.

Please pray 🙏 🙏🙏🙏
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I wasn’t planning on writing anything today, but since terrorist Russia doesn’t stop for even a minute, it was important to document what happened on Christmas Day with Russia murdering more civilians in Ukraine, nuclear-capable bombers flying near Britain & airspace provocations involving Poland
Russia Escalates War on Christmas Day With Attacks on Ukraine and NATO Airspace
From drone strikes on Ukrainian homes to nuclear bombers near Britain and airspace provocations involving Poland, Moscow used Christmas Day to escalate on multiple fronts.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Hoping that in 2026 news organizations and standards desks frame peace efforts as solutions to end “Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine”.

If Russia stopped their invasion, the war would end, if Ukraine stopped fighting there’d be no Ukraine.
No words to describe this.
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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We can’t blame any nation for not trusting the United States under Trump.

I just hope they forgive us after he’s gone, quickly.
UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
December 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Kinda seems like Trump punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters (who tried to help him steal the election) from prison should be a bigger story
December 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The party of “national security”
Once again, this stuff about taking territory from 🇨🇦, 🇩🇰/🇬🇱, & 🇵🇦 is not funny, especially in the current moment. It’s a massive threat to global security & US national interests, & in a more serious world, it would end his presidency before it even starts.
Also, again, if anything actually mattered & we were a serious country, in an era where the illegal seizure of the territory of another sovereign state is again a central issue in IR (🇷🇺/🇺🇦), comments like this about our closest neighbor & ally would end his presidency the second it restarted.
December 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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When I read the DOJ statement, I just thought, what clowns. But after a moment’s thought I am more incredulous and suspicious.

A million documents? When they’ve been on high alert for months? And DOJ and FBI do have filing systems. (That’s why they’re the Epstein FILES.)

Something’s rotten in DOJ.
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes.
The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it.
But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond?

By garnishing their wages.

When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?

By extending their tax cuts.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This will never be built.
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Merry Christmas!
“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”
Latest Epstein files name Trump multiple times
In the more than 10,000 files released Tuesday, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, said the sex trafficker was killed because he was going to name co-conspirators.
www.miamiherald.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Do you remember Betty Reid Soskin? She was the oldest serving National Park Ranger in the United States, we celebrated her retirement at the age of 100.

Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025) passed away on Sunday, but she lived an extraordinary life.

“The answers are only temporary.”
— Betty
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Trump lackey Mike Johnson is super pissed that we were able to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits.

Imagine how mad he’ll be when we get it passed. Make your voice heard and demand that Congress vote yes on this as soon as they come back:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Imagine the smell
NEWS

Russell Brand has been charged with one additional count of rape and one additional count of sexual assault.

These charges are in addition to two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of oral rape.
December 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels.

I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”

www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
www.sltrib.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM