When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Most people think checking "yes" on their driver's license settles it. It doesn't.
When the moment comes, hospital staff turn to your family — not your license. If they don't know what you wanted, that conversation becomes a burden they carry for a long time.
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If your smart TV is more than a few years old, its built-in apps may be starting to slow down or even crash entirely. Here’s why that happens and what to do about it. nyti.ms/4bhpjIH
If something happened to you tomorrow, would your family know what to do?
I’ve sat with both kinds of families. The difference isn’t luck.
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NEW: Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued his push for U.S. Tomahawk missiles during a meeting with American senators on the sidelines of #MSC2026.
The Ukrainian leader has said these weapons could help Kyiv strike targets deep inside Russia.
More on our blog: www.politico.eu/article/muni...
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Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.
While this is true, nobody in the Trump admin or MAGA movement believes this.
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer.
🚨 Dept of Homeland Security is sending tech companies administrative subpoenas for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize ICE agents
Google, Meta & Reddit complied
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#RealityCheck
He did mention that the UN ‘couldn’t fix…’ Gaza or Ukraine.
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
People need to stop pretending the U.S. government isn’t actively rebranding as a white supremacist movement.
🚨 The Trump administration has rolled out a coordinated campaign across departments, using imagery and messaging straight from right-wing and white nationalist circles.
This isn’t subtle.
Yes… and I’m exhausted and cranky.
Vermont State Police say both lanes of Vermont Route 100 in Eden are obstructed due to a fire incident in the area of the Eden General Store.
After Rob Reiner’s murder, Donald Trump used his megaphone not to unite the country but in service of his political grievances, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
I've stopped using "good death" language in my work as an end-of-life doula.
If there are good deaths, there are bad deaths. And whose fault are those?
My new Substack post on why "supported death" is what we actually need:
patriciamsears.substack.com/p/a-supporte...
I have a hard time avoiding procrastination. I follow it everywhere.
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What a line-up of guests for Season 2:
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Winter Solstice is nearly here! Join us as we celebrate the mystery and wonder of birth, death, and the art of dying.
21 December 2025
2p Eastern | 1p CT | 12N MT | 11a PT
7p London | Western Europe
8p Central Europe | Africa
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What truth have I learned as an end-of-life doula? These conversations aren’t just about preserving memories for after someone is gone.
They’re about honoring the fullness of someone’s life while they’re still here to tell it.’ 🌟
@gracefultransition.bsky.social
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Hide Reply is a miracle of modern social media. Thanks BlueSky.
One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
