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Retired. Views are my own. RT ≠ endorsement.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Supreme Court upholds new US House districts backed by Trump that could help Republicans win an extra seat.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

MORE: The Justice Department has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. https://t.co/GZ3bnFIwQ6

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

FLAG: NPR and MS NOW report Trump-related files are missing from the DOJ's Epstein release.

There's at least one witness for whom three 2019 interviews with the FBI are missing.

That woman is the same person who, in a 2025 FBI presentation, is identified to have accused Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
https://t.co/Kjqp9lqwMl

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“We know about this violence largely because of video and photographic evidence taken by everyday citizens, many of whom have purposefully set out to make sure that they are recording what is happening for the world to see” https://t.co/SoBfArcetQ

[SilenceBeDamned🇺🇸🦅 @SilenceDamned]

From James Hodge on Facebook
“One man shoved a woman to the ground. Another man stepped in to protect the woman. The man who shoved the woman then pepper sprayed the man trying to protect her. The guy who shoved the woman continued to pepper spray them both and the man who stepped in tried to use his body as a shield to protect the woman. The guy who shoved the woman then started trying to drag the man shielding the woman away. The woman shoving man failed to drag the man shielding the woman so several more men jumped in to stop the man from shielding the woman. The woman shover and his friends then stomped, punched, and kicked the man who had been trying to shield the woman. As they assaulted him they realized the shielding man had a holstered gun. The shielding man fought to get free to protect the woman, but never reached for his gun. One of the stomping men grabbed the shielding man’s gun and cleared himself before a single shot was fired. The other men then, after he had been disarmed, shot the shielding man ten or more times despite never having reached for his gun and after he’d already been disarmed.

That is exactly what happened. A man was murdered for trying to protect a woman who’d been assaulted.

He wasn’t a terrorist, he was a hero. He was the one protecting someone and he was gunned down for doing what any decent man should do when he sees a woman being assaulted. Alex Pretti died a hero. Alex Pretti exemplified the best of America and was murdered for it.

If you have any honor, any love for your country, and basic human decency, you will applaud the Alex Pretti and condemn the men who murdered him.”

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Liam Ramos is just a baby. He should be at home with his family, not used as bait by ICE and held in a Texas detention center.

I am outraged, and you should be too.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Incredible results out today.

The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines- is now cutting melanoma recurrence and death nearly in HALF by training the immune system to recognize cancer.

This is why we fund science and support mRNA technology.

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

If only the tsar could rid himself of these bad boyars.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

It's been one month since the deadline to release all of the Epstein files. The Trump Justice Department has released less than 1% of all the files.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

On December 25, 1983, Ronald and Nancy Reagan quietly broke presidential protocol in the most beautiful way imaginable. Before dawn, at 6 a.m., they slipped out of the White House without fanfare, drove themselves to a small suburban Virginia nursing home, and spent the morning serving breakfast to elderly residents who had no family to visit them on Christmas Day. Nancy stood at the griddle flipping pancakes, while Ronnie sat beside a 90-year-old woman with dementia who kept calling him “son.” He never corrected her. He simply held her hand and whispered, “I’m here, Mama. I’m here.”

The Secret Service was frantic—there was no full security detail, no advance planning, no press. This wasn’t a staged moment or a political gesture. It began because Nancy had read a letter from a nursing home administrator describing the crushing loneliness many residents felt during the holidays. She turned to Ronnie and said, “We have to do something. These could be our parents.”

What few people knew at the time was that this wasn’t a one-day act of kindness. It became a private tradition the Reagans repeated every Christmas throughout all eight years of the presidency. Always in secret. Always without cameras. Nancy baked cookies herself the night before. Ronnie brought letters from soldiers overseas and read them aloud to veterans whose eyes could no longer manage the words.

One Christmas, Reagan spent forty-five minutes sitting beside a dying Korean War veteran, holding his hand and praying quietly so he wouldn’t have to leave this world alone. When Nancy found them, Ronnie was crying. “No hero,” he told her, “should die without someone telling them thank you.”

These stories only surfaced years later, shared by nursing home staff after Reagan’s death. They endure because they reveal something rare and enduring—that the most meaningful acts of love and service are often the ones no one sees, done not for recognition or applause, but simply because the heart knows it must show up.

[Scott Korzenowski @Skorzo60]

States with the most illegal immigrants…

1. California
2. Texas
3. Florida
4. New York
5. New Jersey
6. Illinois
…
23. Minnesota

Yet Feds have 13% of ICE agents in Minnesota. This, obviously is a targeted attack.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

HILARIOUS: ELI MANNING SURPRISED HIS BROTHER PEYTON WITH A MASSIVE BOARD COMMEMORATING HIS HISTORIC 28 INTERCEPTIONS IN ONE SEASON…

Eli found the cards of each player who intercepted Peyton that season and had them custom-made.

All-time gift 🤣🤣🤣

[NFL Films @NFLFilms]

"Just a little baby stiff arm."

"Uh oh, it might be trouble"

@MoneyLynch breaking down the Beast Quake will never get old 😂

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This review of the videos of the ICE killing of a US citizen in Minnesota suggest that the victim was simply trying to leave and did not endanger anyone. ICE then refused to allow people to provide medical aid to the dying woman. And then the administration lied about it. https://t.co/gMZJr3yZOv

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

24 Hours

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.

[Seattle Mariners ON Tap @MarinersONTap]

I love how much Cal Raleigh supports all Seattle sports 🔥

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

Flashback. Seems relevant.