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Cristina Mittermeier’s show A Greater Wisdom celebrates the beauty of Earth in stunning photographs
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/nov/04/cristina-mittermeier-earth-most-spectacular-inhabit…

Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night
blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week.
Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay.
The “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings <…

Breaking: D.C. Circuit's Trump appointees again block Judge Boasberg's contempt inquiry
DOJ keeps going to the D.C. Circuit, where Trump appointees on the court have repeatedly stopped the district court's effort to hold the Trump admin accountable.

79 Yr Old Man Uses Oval Office Powers To Discover Magnets
Announces : "Nobody knows what a magnet is"
However, seconds later the polarizing US #SupremeLeader claims victory in the war on his own #magnetic awareness by announcing " Now, in two years, we’ll have

Trump can only afford to lose the support of four Republican senators in a vote for a new #Fed chair
-- which means #Tillis and #Murkowski’s vows not to support any nominee until the case against Powell is resolved carry significant …

Backlash Builds Against Trump DOJ's 'Unprecedented' Investigation of US Federal Reserve Chairman | Common Dreams
The US Department of Justice's criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sparks bipartisan backlash and threats to oppose Fed nominees.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Ahkatari (14) twisted teens (12) Dillon & Paten Locke (9) place on earth (5) Slik Jak & Vincent Pryce (5). #myweekcounted 54 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

#ClevelandRocks
#OTD in 1973 For $6 At The Door with Mott The Hoople & #Aerosmith at the 2,000 capacity John Carroll Jesuit college gym . If I'm not mistaken, school alum and future

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday,
a day after federal authorities used #tear #gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists
and state and local leaders #sued to fight the enforce…

Tensions flare in Minnesota as federal agents and protesters square off
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense. Federal officers sprayed eye irritant and dropped tear gas at a swarm of activists Tuesday in Minneapolis. Students, meanwhile, walked out of a suburban school, part of the ongoing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement sweeps. Minnesota and its two largest cities are suing the government to try to halt or limit the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a woman…

art by Daniel Warren Johnson
#FuckICE

#OTD in 1969, in the midst of #SanFrancisco #GoodTimesBadTimes gigs opening for Country Joe & The Fish at Bill Graham's Fillmore West at Van Ness & Market (formerly the Carousel Ballroom),

The Justice Department refuses to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
The decision to keep the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of #Renee #Good marks a sharp…

DOJ sees no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting
A top Justice Department official says there is not currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. The decision to keep the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good marks a sharp departure from past administrations, which have moved quickly to probe shootings of civilians by law enforcement officials for potential…

Having a laugh at the Bottlerock lineup. Whew, that's quite a mix 😂

35 yrs ago #OTD
made this flyer for an Indie Rock showcase in #SF as the US invades Iraq
with #VomitLaunch & X-Tal

Indonesia and Malaysia block #Grok access
UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows
Elon Musk has called the government intervention
an attack on free speech
https://mashable.com/article/grok-bloc<…

Grok blocked by Indonesian and Malaysian governments as UK threatens full ban
Musk has called the government intervention an attack on free speech.

#SouthernCalifornia residents stunned to hear a #BayArea tech company had acquired their local municipal owned #airport from city without any advance knowledge.
A press release was first indicator that the

Resident Evil Showcase for Requiem set for January 15 #ResidentEvil

Resident Evil Showcase set for January 15
Capcom will host Resident Evil Showcase on January 15 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET / January 16 at 7:00 JST, the company announced.

Trump says he is
‘unafraid to use military force on Iran’
#Epstein
#Epstein
#Epstein

National Trust non-partisan non-profit preservation org created by #Congress sues over #Drumpf Demolition Squad's defiant destruction of #WhiteHouse wing for ballooning ballroom

InteractivePolls • @IAPolls...
AP/NORC -
Trump Approval
🔸Approve: 36%
♦️Disapprove: 61%
Trump's net approval on key issues:
Border Security: 2
Crime: -12 (was 8 in Aug)
Immigration: -22 (new low)
Foreign policy: -23
The Economy: -36 (new low)
Healthcare: -40 (new low)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot #Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks,
including classified systems,
as part of a broader initiative to
💥incorporate AI technology across the military.
Speaking at SpaceX headquarters in South Texas, Hegseth said Grok will go live inside the Defense Department this month …

Hegseth Announces Grok Access to Classified Pentagon Networks
Defense Secretary Hegseth announced Grok AI will access Pentagon classified networks amid a global deepfake controversy.

Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil,
the largest U.S. oil company.
On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon:
"#Uninvestible."
That's how Woods described Venezuela
—more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry.
His remark came during a meeting of s…

Hiltzik: Trump's Venezuelan oil adventure is coming apart at the seams
Trump thinks the spigots will soon start flowing with Venezuela's oil. The oil industry isn't eager to see that happen

In 1920, Charles Garland,
the wealthy heir to a banking fortune, made newspaper headlines for doing the unthinkable:
he declined to accept an inheritance of more than a million dollars from his late father’s estate. 
Garland was disillusioned by the era’s gross #inequality
— the top 10 percent of American income earners took in half the country’s annual national income.
Garl…

‘The Radical Fund’: How a spurned inheritance fueled progressive change
In his new book, Yale’s John Fabian Witt details how a little-known foundation funded by a wealthy banking heir sought to bring about a more just society in the first half of the 20th century.

25 years ago today,
five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights,
and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause,
told Florida it could not finish counting ballots
despite the Florida Supreme Court ruling to the contrary
because of an equal protection principle never used before or since.
-- Eric Segall

Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social)
25 years ago today, five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights, and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause, told Florida it could not finish counting ballots despite the Florida SCT ruling to the contrary b/c of an equal protection principle never used before or since.

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
-- Jamellebouie.net
https://bsky.app/profile/theatlantic.com/post/3m7sdbto26f2r

The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com)
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues: https://bit.ly/48wTLxe

Palantir co-founder #Peter #Thiel has donated 👉$3m to a California lobbying group advocating AGAINST a proposed wealth tax that would target billionaires in the state.
The seven-figure contribution comes as several ultra-wealthy tech moguls have left or threatened to leave California over the tax.
Thiel, worth so…

Former Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115884691724308951
"If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it's uninvestible, and so significant changes have to be made."
-- ExxonMobil Chairman Darren Woods

Eyewitnesses say Iranian government forces have begun opening fire,
apparently with automatic weapons and at times seemingly indiscriminately,
on unarmed protesters.
Hospital workers say protesters had been coming in with pellet injuries but now arrive with gunshot wounds and skull fractures.
One doctor called it a “mass-casualty situation.”
Despite the communications blockade, a recurring image has made its way out of Iran:
rows and rows of body bags.

As Iran’s Government Tries to Quell Protests, Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge
As many as 3,000 feared dead as witnesses describe government forces firing on unarmed protesters.

Wall Street decries the government putting its thumb on the scale
— except when the thumb belongs to Trump
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-attacks-free-markets-wall-street-1235498727/<…

Wall Street Is Dancing While Trump Assaults Free Markets. It Won’t End Well
Donald Trump has been attacking free markets, including by going after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. It won't end well.

Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold,
wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed;
she then appeared to pass out.
An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young f…

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

As Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more,
renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is
“an empire in decline,”
following a predictable pattern
of militarism abroad and political instability at home
as it loses power and influence on the world stage.
“American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,”
says McCoy.
“I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, …
…

“Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond
As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is “an empire in decline,” following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. “American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,” says McCoy. “I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade…

Since November, a total of 35 people across California have been poisoned by mushrooms,
leading to three people receiving liver transplants
in addition to the three deaths.
Health officials in Sonoma County reported the latest death last week.
Michael Stacey, Sonoma’s interim health officer, attributed the cases and deaths to
an extraordinary boom in the prevalence of death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides),
noting that in an average year the state sees…

Wild mushrooms keep killing people in California; 3 dead, 35 poisoned
Officials have linked the poisonings to the death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides).

More than Donald Trump,
more than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,
more than anyone in ICE’s leadership,
J. D. Vance has made himself the lead defender of the killing in Minnesota.
The day after the shooting, Vance announced a new administration effort to prosecute welfare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere.
Vance’s message started hot and got hotter.
He blamed immigrants in general
—and Somali immigrants in particular
—for ch…

Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA.

Trump gave the middle finger to a heckler during a campaign tour at a Ford plant in Michigan Jan. 13,
-- mouthing "F you" in what the White House described as
"an appropriate and unambiguous response."
The ruffian was touring a Ford F-150 assembly facility in Dearborn when a worker on the plant floor shouted what sounded like
“pedophile protector”
as Trump stood on an elevated walkway
Trump turned toward the person and appeared to respond…

Trump flips off 'lunatic' heckler at Ford plant in Detroit
A cell phone video shows Trump flipping off a heckler at a Ford facility in what the White House says was 'an appropriate' response

Fed Changes Course
and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight
The Justice Department’s decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell,
the chair of the Federal Reserve,
is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.
“Trump is now exercising the nuclear option,
so there is no longer a reason for Powell not to speak his mind,”
said Maurice Obstfeld,
a senior fellow at the Peterson Instit…

Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight
The Justice Department’s decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.

The Trump regime is ramping up violence and terror
in part because its grip on the nation -- and even on its own party, seems to be slipping.
Last week it suffered two humiliating defeats in Congress,
one in each chamber.
⭐️The House passes ACA subsidies
⭐️The Senate tries to restrain Trump’s warmongering
The administration will probably be able to contain the damage
-- But the signs of revolt in the legislature highlight the extreme and increasing…

Republicans in Congress show signs of life
Trump's grip on his party is weakening.

Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell
The investigation, which is said to center on renovations of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in Washington,
is an escalation of Trump’s long-running pressure campaign on Jerome H. Powell
Powell commented
“This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions
— or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or…

Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell
The investigation, which is said to center on renovations of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in Washington, is an escalation of the president’s long-running pressure campaign on Jerome H. Powell.

Federal immigration officers have started using Renee Good’s death to threaten more U.S. citizens.
A video posted to Reddit showed a screaming ICE agent repeatedly threatening to kill a man who was sitting in his car, asking how he didn’t “learn from what just happened.”
In the two-minute clip, a masked agent wearing a Minnesota Timberwolves hat approached the vehicle already furious, while the driver rolled down his window.
“Stop fucking following us, you are impeding opera…

“You Did Not Learn?”: ICE Uses Renee Good’s Death as Threat
One protester said an agent told her, “That is why we killed that lesbian b*tch.”

Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers,
the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Virginia winery at a pay rate nearly $2 an hour below what it previously offered
—highlighting the company’s continued reliance on overseas labor even as Donald Trump argues Americans are being pushed out of jobs

Trump Vineyard Seeks Foreign Workers At Lower Wages After Trump Administration Policy Shift
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.

Trump -- openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda
-- is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections
-- and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity.
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion,
challenging long-established democratic norms.

They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional di…

Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

Under Donald Trump, the E.P.A.
plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants,
fine particulate matter and ozone,
when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
It’s a seismic shift that runs counter to the E.P.A.’s mission statement,
which says the agency’s core responsibility is to protect human health and the environment, env…

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

GoFundMe Ignores its Own Rules
by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
https://www.wired.com/story/gofundme-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good-fundraiser/

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.

Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year.
The next-generation version of Siri is expected to be introduced with iOS 26.4,
which will likely be released to the general public in March or April.
The new capabilities will include better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls.
For example, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri abou…

Apple Confirms Google Gemini Will Power Next-Generation Siri This Year
In a statement shared with CNBC today, Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch...

Described by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) as “a highly survivable command, control and communications center,” the Los Angeles Times noted that the Thursday landing by the aircraft—a militarized version of the Boeing 747—may have been its first-ever landing at LAX.
The aircraft was carrying Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to Southern California as part of a nationwide “Arsenal of Freedom” tour,
which the administration has described as a
“call to action to revitalize America…

'Doomsday Plane' at LAX Sparks Online Alarm
The appearance of an E‑4B “Nightwatch” aircraft at LAX sparked concern from numerous X users.

Scarcely a week ago, U.S. warplanes and drones were streaking across the Caracas night sky to deliver a swift end to the reign of the Venezuelan strongman Nicolšs Maduro.
The extraordinary display of kinetic violence delivered a stunning reminder about the reach of the world’s most powerful military—and symbolized the start of a new chapter for the man who commands it.
Donald Trump has been emboldened.
The president and his advisers believe that the strike both reignited …

A Breathtaking Week of Pure Trump Id
Military success in Venezuela has emboldened the president to flex his power even more.

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft
💥 painted to look like a civilian plane
in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September,
according to officials briefed on the matter.
The aircraft also
💥carried its munitions inside the fuselage,
rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
⭐️The nonmilitary appearance is significant,
according to legal specialists,
👉because the …

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

‘No fascist USA!’:
Baltimore marches against ICE
https://therealnews.com/baltimore-marches-against-ice

‘No fascist USA!’: Baltimore marches against ICE
“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”

It is less than the price of a Super Bowl ticket
(with even a nosebleed seat costing at least $4,000).
Still, at $1,500 per person for dinner, served by the chef whose restaurant has been named the best in the world four times, it may give pause to even the most dedicated food enthusiasts
h…

Why the meal at Noma LA is priced at $1,500 according to Rene Redzepi
Less than a Super Bowl ticket, more than almost every other L.A. restaurant: A meal at Noma's Los Angeles residency will cost $1,500. Copenhagen chef Rene Redzepi explains the price and how he's come up with more affordable ways to experience the restaurant's flavors.

The number two prosecutor in the US attorney’s office for the eastern district of Virginia has been fired,
⭐️the latest in a series of dismissals in an office that is leading controversial criminal prosecutions of James #Comey and Letitia #James.

Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …

China fertility facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates. When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered […]

Like today’s ICE,
Depression-era INS agents indiscriminately rounded up Mexicans,
presuming they were here illegally.
In Los Angeles, they targeted parks, hospitals, and work sites in Mexican communities,
demanding proof of citizenship.
High-profile raids and media campaigns announcing impending roundups served as tools of intimidation,
creating widespread fear that led to “voluntary” deportation via free one-way train tickets to Mexico.
Entire famil…

Opinion | When deportation was called repatriation: The US once expelled 1.8 million people to Mexico
Like today, Americans in the 1930s were reeling from economic hard times. Leaders made Latinos scapegoats and deported immigrants and some US citizens.

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…

Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over Israeli arms maker protest
The judge urged the jury to do away with personal feelings about the war on Gaza or the legality of the proscription.

A federal appellate court ruled that
the Trump administration must remove California National Guard troops from Los Angeles by Monday.
The decision upheld a lower court order that halted the mobilization that had roiled the nation’s second-largest city for six months.
The ruling late Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit substantially upheld a district court decision from earlier this week
that found the federal government had illegally prolonged t…

Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday
While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.

Last July, Wilmer Chavarria, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Vermont,
was returning from Nicaragua, where he had visited his mother and other relatives,
when he was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston
for no apparent reason.
👉Chavarria was held for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer.
T…

CBP agents held a U.S. citizen for hours until he let them search his devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) dipped into her campaign funds
to attend a concert hosted by MAGA artist Kid Rock,
amid ongoing rumors that the two are dating
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-boebert-torched-for-using-cam…

Lauren Boebert Torched for Using Campaign Funds to See Rumored Rockstar Lover
It’s unclear how seeing Kid Rock contributed to Lauren Boebert’s campaign.

Lauren Boebert is vulnerable -- she's is in Congress because of just 𝟱𝟰𝟲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀
And now she's spreading a sinister conspiracy that 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗝𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 “𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻”
-- Democrats 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be killed as a result! Here's why:
Her theory is based on the ideas of Holocaust denier David Icke,
who claims that Jews and powerful people across the globe are disguised reptilians working to 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.
👉 When your enemies are inhuman it is …

Trisha 4 Colorado
Hometown candidate to beat Lauren Boebert

Pete Buttigieg and Robert Reich have highlighted our plan to
✅ defeat Citizens United:
“Interesting things are happening across the country…
Montana is trying to address this through attention to what a corporation can and can’t do,
because that’s actually decided at the state level.
So instead of working it at the ‘speech’ side of the equation,
💥they’re working at the
‘what is a corporation’ side of the equation.” --Secretary

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Progressive Launches Primary Challenge to Democrat Who Once Got $2M From AIPAC
AIPAC spent $2 million to oppose progressive Nida Allam from being elected in North Carolina in 2022.

We are going to save America.
It’ll get worse before it gets better,
but MAGA fascism is a house of cards.
https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3m7vlyhw6kk2j

Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov)
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

LA Times Investigation:
Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucl…

Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their investigation. Here's why.

A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and U.S. legal resident, was deported in March, when the Trump administration wrongly alleged, without evidence, that he was associated with the MS-13 gang. When it became clear that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was improper, the administrati…

Judge Bars Trump Admin From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia After Release
“I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way,” Abrego Garcia said.

Columbia faculty received notification from the university that we can submit claim forms asking for part of the $20 million Columbia is paying out to Jewish or Israeli members of the community who have been victims of antisemitism.
Quite a few of my Jewish colleagues are trying to figure out if they qualify
-- because of what happened to them when they expressed opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong)

The Situation at Columbia XXXV
A quick update on what has been going on here at Columbia in recent months: The campus has been rather quiet this semester, about to get much more so as the semester ends and we go into winter brea…

On November 12, the Israeli government issued an order outlining plans to -- “expropriate” 450 acres of land from ancient Sebastia -- and the village’s entire archaeological park, which includes homes and businesses.  
Israel’s seizure of the lands of Sebastia and the nearby village of Burqa will form part of a plan to create a “national park” for Israeli settlers -- on one of the most significant Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank out of 6,000 others.
Israeli settlers …

An ancient Palestinian town in the West Bank may soon no longer exist - because Israel plans on stealing it
The ancient Palestinian town of Sebastia in the northern West Bank is a testament to 5,000 years of Palestinian history. Israel announced that it plans to seize the village and its archaeological sites.

From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”

Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign
as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
Congressmember Delia Ramirez, announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment.
The Department of Homeland Securityis “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadership, Ramirez tells Democracy Now!
“She thinks that she is above…

“A Force of Terror”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach DHS Chief Kristi Noem
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday. We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who reiterated her call during the hearing for Noem to resign and announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment. The Department of Homeland Security is “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadershi…

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.
Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for insurance premiums — or for most health related necessities such as baby formulas or toothbrushes
HSAs are tax shelters for the rich, masquerading as healthcare insurance.
Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to …

Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums - KFF Health News
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

People born here do not have immigration documents.
If you're an American born POC with only a Real ID to show for yourself, be prepared to be manhandled and detained by the secret police
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Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…

House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.

Park Service orders changes to staff ratings, a move experts call illegal
A top National Park Service official has instructed park superintendents to limit the number of staff who get top marks in performance reviews
-- a move that experts say violates federal code and could make it easier to lay off staff.

Parks leadership generally evaluate individual employees annually on a five-point scale,
with a three rating given to those who are successful in achieving their go…

Park Service orders changes to staff ratings, a move experts call illegal
Lower performance ratings could be used as a factor in layoff decisions and will demoralize staff, advocates say.

House Republicans unveiled a new health care proposal Friday
as they aim to address concerns about rising health insurance costs just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.

The legislation would codify and expand health plans for small businesses, fund reductions of premiums for low-income people in the individual health insurance market and increase transparency in prescription drug pricing, according to House Republican leadership aides.

The proposal …

House Republicans unveil health care plan, set up vote for next week
House Republicans unveiled a plan to address rising health insurance costs and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The Trump administration is today’s comprehensive belittler of conservative ideas.
Its solicitude for “conservative ideas” will not encompass this one:
-- Many things are beyond government’s proper scope and actual competence.
Watching today’s politics toy with an institution of MIT’s complexity and importance is like watching a toddler play with Sèvres porcela

Let’s take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump’s blunderbuss
It’s alarming to see such a complex, important institution subject to the whims of today’s politics.

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia,
over records related to the 2020 election,
escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s
false claims that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged.

Citing a need to investigate “compliance with federal election law,”
the lawsuit demands Georgia election officials turn over
“all used a…

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
President Donald Trump has increasingly pressured his administration to find widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by the courts.

Imagine thinking now is the time to remove a protection on freedom of speech on the internet.
https://bsky.app/profile/judiciarydems.senate.gov/post/3m7sjbvhbms2z

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (@judiciarydems.senate.gov)
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.

One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…

Church nativity displays on immigration draw praise, outrage in Illinois and Massachusetts
Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates. At Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus lies with zip-tied wrists in the kind of emergency blankets given ICE detainees. At St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, the manger sits empty, beneath a sign reading “ICE was here.” Supporters say Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees, comparing them to immigrant communities facing federal raids. Critics call the displays political and sacrilegious. The controver…

Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of “totally illegal” retaliation by Apple.

The European Union on Friday
indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe
to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia,
both with Moscow-friendly governments,
can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencies,
the EU blocked the assets until Russia gives up its war on Ukraine
and compensates its neighbor for the heavy damage that it has inflicted for almost four years.
EU Cou…

EU set to lock up Russia's frozen assets so Hungary and Slovakia can't veto their use for Ukraine
The European Union is set to lock up Russia’s assets in Europe until Russia ends its war on Ukraine and compensates for the damage. The move expected on Friday would allow EU leaders to decide how to use Russian Central Bank assets to support Ukraine financially and militarily when they hold a summit next week. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opposes the decision. He has accused the European Commission of “raping European law.” The EU has frozen $247 billion in Russian assets. Most…

Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists
asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group,
is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom project,
which already has involved razing the East Wing,
until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental asses…

Trump sued by preservationists over White House ballroom project
President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is asking a federal court to stop Trump’s White House ballroom project until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, public comments and wins approval from Congress. The National Trust argues that Trump, by fast-tracking the project, has committed multiple violations of the Administrative Pr…

Apple and Google have released several software updates
to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users.
On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser,
-- noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to patch it. 
Unusually for Google, the company provided no further details at the time.  But on Friday, Google updated the page to say that t…

Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks | TechCrunch
Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings
“would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,”
part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services.
Department of Justice attorneys haven’t elaborated on how doing so might hamper the portrayal Trump seeks to present to the public.
But overturning p…

White House says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's public image
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public image. This stance is part of a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Deaf, which claims the lack of ASL interpretation denies deaf Americans access to important communications. The Justice Department suggests alternatives like online transcripts and closed captioning provide what's neede…

Preston Damsky was a student at the University of Florida’s law school that made the most of a Trump-appointed judge teaching a class by rehashing Klan constitutionalism.
And while the paper he wrote about killing Mexicans and disenfranchising non-whites got him some notoriety,
he wasn’t in trouble over it per se.
He got in trouble after he took to Twitter to announce that
“Jews should be abolished by any means.”
That tweet was read as a threat by the univers…

White Supremacist’s Return To Law School Put On Pause
Not so fast, Preston!

What's the biggest story in the country today?
It's not Erika Kirk's town hall
but the CBS website already has at least 14 stories on it
and an entire special section on the home page.
https://bsky.app/profile/newsjennifer.bsky.social/pos…

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social)
What's the biggest story in the country today? It's not Erika Kirk's town hall but the CBS website already has at least 14 stories on it and an entire special section on the home page. www.cbsnews.com

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform
It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth’s War Crimes
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pentag

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth’s War Crimes
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.

On Monday, Trump said
neither bidding party
“are friends of mine.”
He added that he had not spoken to his son- in-law Jared Kushner about the Paramount bid.
Netflix’s bid has already drawn sharp criticism from bipartisan lawmakers and Hollywood unions
over concerns that it could lead to job cuts as well as higher prices for consumers.
“While it is perhaps a sad commentary on the US that Paramount thinks its closeness to the occupant of the Oval Office wil…

NTV Kenya: Warner Bros fight heats up as Paramount counters Netflix with $108bn hostile bid
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery,

14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight
While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

Republican Indiana State Senator:
We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president.
It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3m7sobkh65e2v

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)
Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.

The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market
and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies,
according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The inquiry by the congressional watchdog was requested nearly two years ago by top members of the Senate
in the wake of an investigation about the 2…

The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds
Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall.

The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political
is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president
rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3m7snmxfri52h

The Economist (@economist.com)
The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest https://econ.st/3KHKcm2

A rarely seen seven-arm octopus was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
The species
— formally known as the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus)
— was recorded by the remotely operated vehicle Ventana, operated by the team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
According to MBARI, the encounter occurred during a recent expedition in Monterey Bay and marks only the fourth time the organisation has observed…

Rarely-Seen Seven-Arm 'Blob' Octopus Filmed by Underwater Camera
These researchers have only filmed the species four times in 40 years.

On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission voted to approve a permit allowing the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, perched above Avila Beach of San Luis Obispo County,
to continue operating through at least 2030.
The controversial decision was conditioned on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the plant’s operator, agreeing to permanently conserve 4,000 acres of surrounding land from commercial or residential development.
The decision carries powerful consequences for the…

Diablo Canyon Clears Hurdle to Stay Open Until at Least 2030
The California Coastal Commission approves permit allowing state’s last nuclear power plant to continue operating past its 2025 shutdown deadline.

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“Fraktur is often associated with being the official Nazi font
and is still being used by Neo-Nazi groups in Germany today.
The fact that it was, ironically, banned by the Nazi Party is just a part of its long and strange history” writes 99 Percent Invisible.
-- h/t @…

A Nazi font banned by Nazis? Fraktur and its legacy in the must-listen design podcast - TypeRoom
“Fraktur is often associated with being the official Nazi font and is still being used by Neo-Nazi groups in Germany today. The fact that it was, ironically, banned by the Nazi Party is just a part ...

CAPITOL HILL CELEBRATES
JENNER & BLOCK:
Congressional Republicans and Democrats
came together last night
for a bipartisan event celebrating the release of
“When Congress Comes Calling,”
a newly updated handbook on congressional investigations
published by Jenner & Block and the Project on Government Oversight.
Jenner & Block is a prominent law firm which remains locked in a bitter legal fight with the Trump administration.

Top House Republicans cheer law firm tangled in bitter battle with Trump
Top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill came together this week to praise a prominent law firm and government watchdog group – even as the firm remains locked in a bitter legal fight with President Donald Trump’s administration.According to a new report in Politico, lawmakers from both parties...

The Biden administration may have shot the serif,
switching from Times New Roman font on the grounds that serif-less fonts such as Calibri are more accessible to readers with disabilities.
That’s all over now.
The State Department Action Request reads:
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products
and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program,
the Department is return…

Marco Rubio Has Spoken! Please Remove All of Your Woke Fonts.
Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri!

Delaware's acting U.S. Attorney Julianne Murray
resigned her post on Dec. 12,
and the courts appointed her successor immediately,
an unusual turn of events after months of questions about the legality of Donald Trump's attempts to fill federal prosecutor roles around the country with loyalists.
Murray, who has served as both "interim" and "acting" U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware since the summer,
posted her resignation on …

State's top federal prosecutor resigns; court quickly names successor
Delaware's top federal prosecutor resigned Friday morning and the courts appointed a successor, capping months of controversy about the position.

Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace,
a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents carrying out an immigration raid at the Bro-Tex distribution center.
As community members rallied to halt the raid,
federal agents cordoned off the area and began trying to clear protesters.
Agents used pepper balls, OC canisters and pepper spray on the crowd
as they tried to clear a path for a convoy of their vehicles, s…

Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE - UNICORN RIOT
Unicorn Riot heard from two locals who mobilized in response to an immigration raid in St. Paul on the morning of Nov. 18.

Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire.
What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad.
Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats.
You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up? TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

NEWS: Dan Richman
— key figure in now-dismissed Comey case
— wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices.
Judge finds his rights were violated,
orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant.
Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.
https://

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
NEWS: Dan Richman — key figure in now-dismissed Comey case — wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices. Judge finds his rights were violated, orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant. Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.