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Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors

NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

In this age of authoritarians, online abuse of women is soaring – and it’s leading to ‘real-world’ violence | Julie Posetti Our UN report reveals the link between the online misogyny and offline crimes that are hounding women out of public life, says Julie Posetti, lead author of a new report published by UN Women

In this age of authoritarians, online abuse of women is soaring – and it’s leading to ‘real-world’ violence | Julie Posetti

Trump Personally Intervenes to Block Release of January 6 Documents Donald Trump is blocking access in a lawsuit brought by police officers injured in the January 6 riot.

Trump personally blocked the release of more than 4,100 documents requested as part of a lawsuit brought by injured January 6 police officers.

Just remember:

“The suppressing of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence.”

---Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger 1735

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The FDA’s Drug-Approval Problem Just Got Worse Another director of the agency’s drug evaluation office is stepping down amid the Trump administration’s push for accelerated approval timelines.

Here's what's at stake.

www.levernews.com/the-fdas-dru...

At least 400,000 kids dead & counting.

"The MAGA comebacks to cries that Trump is a fascist dictator often claim innocent people aren’t getting slaughtered as happened under Hitler or Mao Zedong or other despots. The truth is...death cult"

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it©

Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.

“I hate it,” VanderMeer said in an email. “If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social” www.404media.co/instagram-is...

///BREAKING//// A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has been charged in a federal indictment with robbing and raping women - including at least one at gunpoint - "under color of law" in Chicago's suburbs in 2022.
Luis Uribe, 44, is appearing in court now.

ACLU/ATTYs repping detainees at CC Detn Fac: requested a prelim inj forcing better trt -IMMs: detained there: exp conds -worse than convicted felons serving time -detainees:💔denied mental HC have become suicidal...
ICE facs are DEADLY. The California City ICE fac:

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Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...

Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...

IMPORTANT PSA: MAGA isn't banning books to protect children.
They are banning books to protect ignorance.

One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”

Excellent discussion today on the shaky ground of Trump regime’s lawlessness and extrajudicial killings of civilians on Sept 2. It’s factually clear the operation is outside the law, and that Hegseth is an unserious, blustering lackey. Great work @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social

The Supreme Court Is Poised to Revive a Key Feature of Nixon-Era Corruption The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, a case cooked up by the GOP itself.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments right now in a case engineered by the GOP to strike down a longstanding campaign finance law that prevents megadonors from bribing politicians for favors by laundering the money through political parties.

Guess how it'll go. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

We really are on the brink of a health golden age.

If someone in the White House press corps doesn't ask Trump today why he's so scared of strong women, they should all go home.

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...

New from 404 Media: a Border Patrol agent recorded recent immigration raid, where agents followed a flower seller into the woods, with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. Recording light is clearly on, according to vids sent to us. DHS bans use of personal recording devices www.404media.co/border-patro...

Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell records in sex trafficking case A federal judge says the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.

BREAKING: A federal judge said the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.

AM Dispatch: Trump’s ‘Self-Deportation’ Trap: Now They’re Arresting You for Leaving Plus, work permits slashed, Afghans mass detained, NOLA terror campaign continues, massive ICE surge in Hawaii, another deportation flight to Iran, and more!

AM Dispatch: Trump’s ‘Self-Deportation’ Trap: Now They’re Arresting You for Leaving

Plus, work permits slashed, Afghans mass detained, NOLA terror campaign continues, massive ICE surge in Hawaii, another deportation flight to Iran, and more!
migrantinsider.com/p/am-dispatc...

8. The FBI’s review included “digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored.”5 9. These searches uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence.”6 10. The review was conducted by approximately 1,000 FBI personnel, who spent tens of thousands of hours on this effort.7 11. The personnel conducting this review were instructed to “flag” any records mentioning Donald Trump.8 12. The Epstein Memo raised more questions than it answered, contradicting prior statements by Trump Administration officials and prior promises to release the Epstein files. 13. For example, in a February 2025 interview with Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”9 14. This statement directly conflicts with the Epstein Memo’s conclusion that no such client list exists. 15. Troubling allegations have also been raised regarding the training or instructions given to the FBI personnel who reviewed the Epstein files.

DOJ wants to force American Oversight to get rid of three pages of a FOIA complaint that lays out DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein cover-up.

Here's some of what they're asking to strike.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test - emptywheel The self-imagined competent boys who wrote Trump's National Security Strategy effectively wrote a list of standards they're affirmatively failing to meet.

White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

Indiana Senate Committee Advances Trump-Demanded Gerrymander Read more here.

BREAKING: Indiana Senate Republicans advanced a Trump-demanded gerrymander designed to wipe out the state’s last Democratic seats and hand the GOP all 9 House districts.

The map now heads to a full Senate vote, where GOP success remains uncertain.

How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

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Indiana Senate Committee Advances Trump-Demanded Gerrymander Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Indiana Senate Elections Committee voted 6–3 to advance a controversial mid-decade redistricting bill that would all but guarantee the GOP wins all nine of the state’s congressional seats. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A headline by Politico reads: “Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos”

Pete Hegseth must release the unedited videos of his reckless and dangerous strikes in the Caribbean.

Congress will withhold a big chunk of his travel budget until he does so.

The American people deserve full transparency.

Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE

Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE

By Ed Shanahan and Stella Raine Chu

17 y.o. William McKernan said, “Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped. I used to go to [P.S] 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country.”

Tell Congress: Demand DHS Secretary Kristi Noem resign Contact Congress today!

Tell Congress it's time to evict Kristi Noem.