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@ai6yr Speaking of school buses… 😫

https://m.ai6yr.org/@conejoclint/115907443947967445

As the old joke goes, an American diplomat and Soviet diplomat met up, and the American says "I really admire your country's propaganda." The Soviet says, "True, it is good, but it is nothing compared to American propaganda." The American, confused, responds "We don't have propaganda."

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From a reliable source. https://www.thehandbasket.co/c/about

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How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks

Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/las-vegas-police-free-tesla-cybertrucks

Woman deported before she could see dying husband in ICE custody: ‘I never saw him again’

Francisco Gaspar-Andrés died in El Paso hospital after being detained at Fort Bliss – his wife was deported to Guatemala without a chance to see him

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/man-dies-ice-custody-wife-deported

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all.

It went up.

But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”

https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/

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Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role

Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy-theorist-election-denier-fema-gregg-phillips

US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ actions

Civicus, a non-profit that monitors global civic freedoms, moved the US from the ‘narrowed’ to ‘obstructed’ category

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/us-civic-health-rating-trump

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court

More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

https://coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/childrens-immigration-court/

DHS Tells Citizens to Report Illegal Neighbors to Get Affordable Housing

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has publicly encouraged citizens to report migrants without legal status in their area, framing the action as a potential pathway to more affordable housing.

https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-tells-citizens-to-report-illegal-neighbors-to-get-affordable-housing-11150393

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic

Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/monterrey-mexico-air-quality-industrial-pollution

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/human-exceptionalism-essay

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/millionaire-tax-that-inspired-mamdani-fuels-5-7-billion-haul-in-massachusetts

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds

Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people

Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/12/fossil-fuel-projects-health-research