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December 24, 2025
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# Indigenous
This Ojibwe Band Is Suing to Stop a Pipeline From Polluting Their Wetland Home. The lawsuit specifically targets a federal permit granted in October 2025, which would allow Enbridge to build a new 41-mile segment of the pipeline around the tribe’s reservation.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/16/bad-river-band-sues-army-corps-of-engineers-over-enbridge-pipeline-permit-approval/
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs
ICE Agents Break Into Women’s Bathroom: “Pull Your Pants Up!” Remember when Republicans pretended to care about men in women’s bathrooms? The officers justified their invasive actions by telling Cato’s owners that they had a warrant for a violent felon. In reality, the warrant they did have only allowed them to go into the building and seize documents, not kidnap a woman while she was on the toilet.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204732/ice-agents-break-in-women-bathroom-pull-pants-up
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump prays for favorable Supreme Court ruling on tariff authority, said his tariffs on foreign imports are fueling the nation’s economic growth.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_447fbeae-d52f-4cde-b5fa-4df49b7bc465.html
Cracks emerge as members of Congress try to curb their own stock trading. Republicans tease new plan as hopes dim for a compromise bill
https://rollcall.com/2025/12/18/cracks-emerge-congress-curb-their-own-stock-trading/
# Education / Schools
Expert says higher education must take new approach to AI
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_98b2830c-5180-400f-bedf-f8093f19908c.html
Education Department to start garnishing wages next year for those who defaulted on student loans
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/trump-administration-says-it-will-begin-garnishing-wages-of-student-loan-borrowers-in-default
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump ramps up pressure on Maduro as tanker seizures paralyze oil exports. to Donald Trump, Venezuela was first all about narcotics. Now it is all about narcotics, oil, and the theft of American assets.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/trump-venezuela-tankers-maduro/685347/
Trump’s Embrace of Natural Gas Exports Is Driving Up Energy Bills for Consumers. US households paid $124 more on natural gas in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17122025/liquefied-natural-gas-exports-driving-up-energy-bills/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed Texas another win in a lawsuit brought by Chinese nationals challenging a state law banning foreign adversaries from purchasing land in Texas.
https://nationalaglawcenter.org/federal-court-dismisses-challenge-to-texas-newly-enacted-foreign-ownership-law/
# FEMA / USAID
Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-funds-lawsuit-immigration_n_694b6990e4b080674cebdee8
# General Recalls / Alerts
FDA Confirms 83,000 Items Recalled: 83K bags of frozen shrimp recalled over radioactive concerns. The shrimp, imported from Indonesia and sold nationwide under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands, may have come in contact with Cesium-137, a radioactive substance. [More on site]
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/recalls/raw-frozen-shrimp-recall-radioactive-cesium/
# General News
More than a dozen staffers leave Heritage to join Pence-led nonprofit. It’s the latest in a string of departures from the embattled organization.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/heritage-staff-join-pence-nonprofit-00703192
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
New Epstein files add color but no new charges. While the files offer more detailed “color”—including photos, emails, and jail surveillance videos—they have not resulted in new criminal charges or major revelatory bombshells.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/19/us/epstein-files-release
Democrats’ push for Epstein files boomeranged with Clinton featured prominently throughout
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660274-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-files-democrats-trump/
New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappears. The Justice Department didn’t respond to requests for comment on the new documents or the decision to remove them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/epstein-files-release-justice-department-00704265
Department of Justice Releases New Epstein Files With Disclaimer Attempting to Exonerate Trump. Trump is mentioned numerous times in the latest batch of documents related to the elite sex trafficker.
https://truthout.org/articles/doj-releases-new-epstein-files-with-disclaimer-attempting-to-exonerate-trump/
# Gov / Politics
Trump ‘Sends a Dangerous Message’ With ‘America First’ Diplomat Purge, Says Union. The American Foreign Service Association said the move “tells our public servants that loyalty to country is no longer enough—that experience and oath to the Constitution take a back seat to political loyalty.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-state-department
Major allies see US as unreliable and destabilizing. Pluralities in Germany and France — and a majority of Canadians — say the US is a negative force globally
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scathing-polling-reveals-what-key-us-allies-really-think-of-america-under-trump/
Newhouse Becomes Latest GOP Lawmaker to Head for the Exit as Greene Says the “Dam Is Breaking”
https://newrepublic.com/post/204546/republican-rep-newhouse-retires-mtg-warns-dam-breaking
More than 10% of Congress won’t return to their seats after 2026. According to NPR’s congressional retirement tracker, as of Dec. 20, 2025, there are 55 current representatives and senators who are retiring or running for a different office — 11 senators and 44 House members.
https://www.wunc.org/2025-12-17/more-than-10-of-congress-wont-return-to-their-seats-after-2026
Rubio issues sanctions on European officials who attempted to censor American free speech. State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe
# Gov / Politics / Global
Too Early, Too Alone: France Prepares for Russia as US Withdraws. Paris has long worried the United States was an unreliable partner. Donald Trump is proving them right.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/21/france-europe-security-trump-00700889
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court
Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump can’t use National Guard troops in Chicago, in another blow to the president’s push for federalization nationwide.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/supreme-court-national-guard-ruling-00704962?utm_content=topic/politics&utm_source=flipboard
# LGBTQ / Transgender
California attorney general joins coalition to protect trans youth in sports. The amicus brief notes that courts have repeatedly held that policies inclusive of transgender students are consistent with Title IX’s language, which forbids exclusion “on the basis of sex.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-attorney-general-joins-coalition-000000385.html
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Condé Nast Upheaval Signals a New Level of Corporate War on Media Workers. Facing the impacts of mergers and displacement by AI, media unions are fighting for democracy and freedom of expression.
https://truthout.org/articles/conde-nast-upheaval-signals-a-new-level-of-corporate-war-on-media-workers/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits
Loophole Closed on Giving Welfare to Noncitizens. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today increased federal oversight to stop states from misusing federal Medicaid dollars to cover health care for individuals who are in the country illegally. As part of the action, CMS is ramping up financial oversight across the board to identify and stop improper spending.
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-increasing-oversight-states-illegally-using-federal-medicaid-funding-health-care-illegal
# Medical / Science / Research
How Overdiagnosis Turns Healthy People Into Patients by expanding disease definitions, lowering risk thresholds (like for blood pressure), and using advanced screening to find harmless abnormalities (overdetection), leading to unnecessary treatments, lifestyle changes, and the psychological burden of being labeled “sick” for conditions that never would have harmed them
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/web/overdiagnosis/
# Medical / Global
Chinese National Pleads Guilty and is Sentenced for Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the U.S. While Working at a University of Michigan Laboratory
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-and-sentenced-smuggling-dangerous-biological-pathogen
# Military / War Department
Pentagon Fails 8th Audit in a Row as Congress Grants It $1 Trillion Budget. This funding will enrich billionaires like Elon Musk and Alex Karp as Americans struggle to afford basic needs.
https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/19/pentagon-fails-financial-audit-for-8th-year-in-a-row/
USAF F-35As Have Arrived In The Caribbean. The F-35As bring enhanced capabilities to Operation Southern Spear, and are the first USAF fighters deployed for it.
https://www.twz.com/air/usaf-f-35as-have-arrived-in-the-caribbean
Battleship Missouri’s Sailors Brace For Incoming Missiles In Intense Desert Storm Video. Sailors aboard USS Missouri faced incoming anti-ship missiles and a suspected chemical attack on February 25, 1991.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/onboard-camera-brace-for-missile-impact-battleship-missouri-gulf-war/vi-AA1N3N6z?ocid=a2hs
US Army and Navy stretched the rules to misrepresent the academic qualifications of recruits, the inspector general says
https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-ig-report-army-navy-misrepresented-recruit-qualifications-2025-12
# Science / Science Engineers / Chemistry / Research
Humans create massive amounts of trash, and that’s a problem that doesn’t look to be going away anytime soon. Fortunately, some very smart people are turning that trash into useful things. This list highlights five ways trash is being repurposed to make our lives better.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/recycled-products-plastic-bricks-waste/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=01KCRZKH3Y5GB7KCJWVTG5A4BK&utm_id=01K2W29RSZZS5N96NWWDZ2SY6A
# Veterans / VA
‘Dangerous and Cruel’: Trump VA Quietly Bans Abortion. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued an internal memorandum immediately banning almost all abortion services and counseling for veterans and their dependents, including in cases of rape, incest, or serious health risks.
https://democracyforward.org/updates/trump-vance-administration-bans-abortion-care-and-counseling-for-veterans-in-secret/
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