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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

11.12.2025 16:22 — 👍 51749 🔁 16932 💬 2173 📌 1786

Republicans currently hold a very slender majority in the House. Control of the House determines whether subpoenas will be issued to hear from witnesses & obtain additional evidence to provide context for the Epstein pictures that were released this morning.

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Replacing working men with billionaires.

Hard to imagine a better way of summing up 2025.

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Profiting Off the Presidency: Why Gold and Gifts Matter YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

Hi folks:

For those asking, here's a link to this morning's "History Matters" conversation about Swiss gold bars, FIFA awards, QATAR jets, and why they're dangerous.

www.youtube.com/live/cVmh471...

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Judge Breyer on Trump's Continued Federalization of the California National Guard Federal District Judge Charles Breyer issued a ruling in the California National Guard case earlier this week.

If you’ve lost track of the Calif. National Guard case, earlier this week, the Judge issued an important ruling. Why now, seemingly out of the blue? This post explains its significance, as Trump tries to create a national police force & deploy troops in US cities open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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December 11, 2025 On Tuesday, President Donald J.

December 11, 2025

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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

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Yup.

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The clear takeaway from today is that Donald Trump is not unstoppable and you are not powerless.

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How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed

The Trump Administration got the Romanian government to lift the travel restrictions on the Tate brothers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

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Dr. Joanne Freeman Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

Tomorrow on my live podcast, History Matters:

Profiting Off the Presidency:
Why the Gold and Gifts Matter

The founders and framers had STRONG feelings about public officials not accepting foreign gifts.

Why?

Let’s take a dive into corruption.

Friday 10AM ET
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

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Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

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Administration fails again to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James A grand jury has refused to indict New York attorney general Letitia James, the second panel to refuse to do so, dealing a major setback to President Trump.

At some point if you’re the government, & you understand what doing justice means, you let this case go. If a grand jury won’t indict, a trial jury definitely won’t convict. But it’s hard to move on when the boss wants to get revenge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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YouTube video by Mike Caulfield Critical Thinking with AI Mode #64: In which I dispute Gillian Anderson's memory of things

This was a fun little one that is a good workshop example that an LLM is constrained by the knowledge in the underlying discourse. Also I say Gillian Anderson remembers her X-files scene wrong but I bring good evidence! youtu.be/I5DgXgI8BUY?...

11.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

1/ The government filed a motion to dissolve a judge's ban on deporting Abrego Garcia (this is in his civil case). Now, the Judge has ordered his immediate release & ordered the parties to jointly file a proposal on resolving the dissolve motion a week from today.

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Yesterday I argued in the Supreme Court to defend a 50 year old law that prevent corruption in our campaign finance system. Meanwhile, Republicans are attacking the 60 year old Voting Rights Act in SCOTUS as well. We won't let them gut democracy without a fight.

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Judicial Ethics Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke.

"The complaints against Bove may get traction or they may go nowhere. But that’s not the point. Federal judges shouldn’t engage in arguably improper behavior and then shrug it off by claiming they did it in their personal capacity." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control.

All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Gallego: "This administration, since they started striking these boats illegally, has been very happy to show their snuff films . Now suddenly they're willing to show the first hit but not the second. Why? ... they're afraid the public is going to see the military killed 2 men that had surrendered."

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This.

It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.

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Judicial Ethics Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke.

Unlike Supreme Court Justices, the rest of the fed’l judiciary is governed by canons of ethics. Among other things, they’re not supposed to attend political events & should avoid even an appearance of impropriety. joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-e...

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Someday we’ll live in a nation where there are repercussions for political leaders who break the law.

Where empathy matters.

Where community matters more than division and exclusion.

I have faith.

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December 8, 2025 Last Wednesday, December 3, a reporter asked President Donald J.

December 8, 2025

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