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'Is this actually helping?' How Trump's tourist disclosure plan would affect Australians The US appears to be cracking down on speech criticising the government but experts say Australians may not have much to worry about.

San Francisco-based organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking whether it's appropriate for the government to ask for such data and suggested it may be overkill to force tourists to hand over their social media histories.

🧊 ICEbreaker News — December 12, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today ICE is not just enforcing laws—it’s violating them. It’s time to dismantle the cruelty, end the detentions, and protect our communities. We must organize, resist, and demand a future rooted in dignity

🧊 ICEbreaker News — December 12, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today
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The Case for Selective Economic Decoupling with Autocracies US leaders should continue selectively decoupling in key economic and security domains

The Case for Selective Economic Decoupling with Autocracies
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BREAKING: Judge Blocks ICE From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia Sua Sponte and Nunc Pro Tunc In a dramatic series of overnight...

My full write-up:

In a dramatic series of overnight developments, the Trump administration took extraordinary steps to try to re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia within hours of his court-ordered release, but a federal judge stepped in and blocked the move.

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"I Refuse To Be Intimidated": The Historic Stand in Indiana A Bipartisan Coalition of Hoosiers Stands Up for Democracy

"I Refuse To Be Intimidated": The Historic Stand in Indiana
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Donald Trump, Security Threat The call is coming from inside the White House

Donald Trump, Security Threat
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Barron Trump sought 'dating advice' from convicted rapist and human trafficker's inner circle A snapshot of how misogyny and grievance politics are being normalized at the highest levels.

Barron Trump sought 'dating advice' from convicted rapist and human trafficker's inner circle
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Whitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption.

This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.

Trump Loses Big In Indiana - And Again And Again All Over Washington Today Rep. Dalia Ramirez was a hero today - watch her rip into Kristi Noem

Trump Loses Big In Indiana - And Again And Again All Over Washington Today
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Convenient Delusion: Money = Intelligence How “scientific racism” has become the justification for a Palantir Reich.

Convenient Delusion: Money = Intelligence
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Rudolf Steiner Conference at Harvard Divinity School Reflections on my trip to Harvard next week to speak about Steiner's Spiritual Science

Rudolf Steiner Conference at Harvard Divinity School
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The Regime Redefines Dissent As Violence How the Regime Is Destroying the First Amendment. And What YOU Can Do. Part II of a series.

The Regime Redefines Dissent As Violence
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Trump's Fog of Snore: MAGAworld is Breaking Apart While the King Sleeps | The Strategy Session A new crop of candidates is rising by talking about what voters actually feel, not what parties want to debate.

Trump's Fog of Snore: MAGAworld is Breaking Apart While the King Sleeps | The Strategy Session
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Who is running this country?

This man 👇🏽 can’t catch his woefully obvious (now daily) flubs because his brain is telling him this is correct, or worse, his words don’t match what his brain is telling him to say.

Forget the 25th - his regime is enjoying their free “lame duck” reign over everyone.

Is Trump’s Embrace of Russia the Greatest Betrayal in American History? The convergence of pro-Kremlin policy, tech giveaways to rivals, and rising domestic repression is a five-alarm warning that we ignore at our own peril…

Is Trump’s Embrace of Russia the Greatest Betrayal in American History?
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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe

America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
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Trump’s National Security Strategy An Incoherent Disaster Filled With Grievance That Punishes Allies and Cedes Terrain and Initiative to Enemies

Trump’s National Security Strategy
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🧊 ICEbreaker News — December 10, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today ICE is not just enforcing laws—it’s violating them. It’s time to dismantle the cruelty, end the detentions, and protect our communities. We must organize, resist, and demand a future rooted in dignity

🧊 ICEbreaker News — December 10, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today
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Nordics, Not “Shithole Countries” How American eugenics shaped U.S. immigration policy for decades, inspired Hitler, and paved the way for Trump, Musk and Miller.

Nordics, Not “Shithole Countries”
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I ❤️Pope Leo!!!!!

There has NEVER been a Pope like him who refuses to remain politically correct and will call leaders out!

Pope Leo says he thinks Donald Trump is trying to break apart the alliance between the United States and Europe:

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Damning Report Finds Trump’s ‘Paramilitary’ Immigration Goons Regularly Mistreat Citizens — The Daily Beast A Senate probe says ICE and Border Patrol under Trump detained citizens for days, used force, and targeted people who filmed them.

A Senate probe just blew the lid off Trump’s “paramilitary” immigration forces detailing U.S. citizens detained for days, violent tactics, and retaliation against anyone who dared film them. This is what unchecked power looks like.

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COURIER covers ICE attacking Democratic congresswoman and neo-Nazi rally in Arkansas Scandal in New Hampshire, Trump's comments on Somali Americans, and more

COURIER covers ICE attacking Democratic congresswoman and neo-Nazi rally in Arkansas
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Russia knosws what's in the deal before we do.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva was pepper-sprayed by ICE agents during a raid last week.

Remember: ICE is getting $170B in new funding from Trump's Big Ugly Bill and lowering its hiring standards.

If Trump's thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.