Scheer Post • Dec 23, 2025
The Zohran Mamdani Count: Lina Khan, Familiar Progressive Faces and Key Allies Populate Transition Team
Mamdani’s 400+ person transition team signals — for the most part — an encouraging representation of the movement.
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Lever News • Dec 23, 2025
Regulators Want Spectacle To Trump Safety Protections
Echoing a young Brett Kavanaugh, Trump workplace regulators say jobs in entertainment, sports, and other fields are too dangerous to be covered by safety protections.
Democracy Now • Dec 22, 2025
"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR. “He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege. Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”
Scheer Post • Dec 22, 2025
California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers
Positioned and disguised as a bill to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism expressions, it is really an attack on academic freedom, teachers’ freedom to teach, and freedom to criticize a foreign government, which happens to be the Jewish state.
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025
France to build first aircraft carrier in decades
Though the vessel will not be ready until 2038 at the earliest, Macron said it was necessary to boost France’s maritime capabilities.
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025
Ukraine peace talks in Miami hailed as ‘productive’
Talks focused on security guarantees for Ukraine.
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025
US's Venezuela campaign could have global impact
The Trump administration has struck a series of vessels it argues were trafficking drugs to the US.
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025
Budget chair Graham plots next Republican party-line bill
Graham said it would be “political malpractice” not to do another reconciliation bill.
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025
Congress eyes hearings on Warner Bros. Discovery battle — but nothing binding
There’s little prospect for passage of any legislation that might affect Netflix’s or Paramount’s bids in time.
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
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Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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