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ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Make no mistake—there’s more to Trump’s immigration stance than meets the eye.

Follow the money. Who stands to win the contracts? Then trace it back.

Power talks. Money whispers.

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Today in History — Dec 8, 1902
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. joins the U.S. Supreme Court!

We sure could use him today.

#TodayInHistory #SCOTUS #OliverWendellHolmes #OnThisDay #LegalHistory

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Vaudeville’s Legacy: How It Shaped Modern Entertainment SECTION I — The Republic of Eccentrics: Vaudeville’s Tumultuous Birth There was a time in America—before the movies learned to speak, before radio taught the nation to gather around a glowing box—w…

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Could you please let me know why you're reposting stuff from last year?

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Jeffrey Epstein & Donald Trump: A Chronicle of Proximity “Twenty separate entries for Trump in Epstein’s Black Book confirm a level of familiarity far beyond a casual acquaintance.” Prologue: A Network of Power In the late 1980s, two men — both operating…

Twenty separate entries for Trump in Epstein's Black Book confirm a level of familiarity far beyond a casual acquaintance. danstepel.com/2025/11/19/j...

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The IDF ‘Obelix’ who single-handedly held off a violent mob of keffiyeh-clad protesters - The Jewish Chronicle IDF soldier Jonathan Karten – whose heroism went viral in a clip last weekend – reveals what inspired him to fight back

I want everyone in the world to see this video. Is he a hero? Most would say yes, and I cannot argue with that. However, all he did was what we, as Jews, have been forced to do for thousands of years: fight when all we wanted was to live in peace.
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The right is thrilled about Mamdani—not for his policies, but for the spectacle. His mere presence is a campaign ad: NYC elects its own caricature.

Dems, as always, boxed themselves in. If he fails, he’ll be proof that progressives can’t govern. If he succeeds, it’s gulags behind Whole Foods.

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Trump's ambassador nominee struggles to explain antisemitic record in contentious Hill hearing Both Republican and Democratic senators grilled Amer Ghalib over his extremist comments; GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said he’ll vote against him

Trump’s ambassador nominee struggles to explain antisemitic record in contentious Hill hearing
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Page 155 from Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book, Hey
Donald Trump
I can see your house from here.

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They’ve signaled to the worst among us that rape and murder aren’t just tolerated—they’re strategic and profitable. In betraying victims and moral seriousness, Britain’s conscience dims, fading with appeasement and the clink of dirty coin.

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The Hebrew Orphan Asylum: A Home Between Two Worlds In the heart of New York City, nestled between the tumult of immigration and the quiet ache of abandonment, there once stood an institution unlike any other. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York (H…

In the heart of NYC once stood the Hebrew Orphan Asylum—a place of order, resilience, and unexpected warmth. More than a shelter, it was home to thousands of Jewish children. This isn’t just history—it’s about the lives shaped inside those walls. danstepel.com/2025/07/27/t...

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The Inherited Folly: Chelm Literature and Its Ancestry “In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of frightened and hopeful Humanity.”Isaac Bashevis Singer It begins, as many stories do, in a place both nowhere a…

The Texture of Folly: A Framing of a Yiddish Folk Tradition. #JewishGenealogy
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Hey Mr. Scalise, does a healthy 35-year-old even qualify for Medicaid? Maybe instead of punching down, we raise the corporate tax and stop pretending billionaires need more help than working people.

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This feels like payback for Trump handing millions in our tax dollars to El Salvador, just to lock up victims kidnapped by ICE. Now the cover-up is unraveling.

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Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion

More hidden gems for researchers focused on Ireland! #genealogy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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The worst part is there’s not even anything of value in the bill. Just cruelty and cuts. Over 50,000 lives lost every year—for what?

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What Immigrants Ate on Ellis Island: A Taste of Hope and Hardship It was not a restaurant. It was not a kitchen in any romantic sense of the word. And yet, it fed dreams. Imagine Ellis Island, 1907. The buildings smell faintly of disinfectant and sea salt. The wa…
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On this day in 1949, Captain Video & His Video Rangers beamed onto DUMONT-TV — making history as television’s very first sci-fi series. The future started in black & white. 📺✨ #OnThisDay

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On this day in 1984, Prince dropped Purple Rain.
25M+ copies sold. 2 Grammys. 1 Oscar.
A genre-defying masterpiece that turned music into myth.
What’s your favorite track from the album?

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How far did Israeli killings of Iran’s top nuclear scientists set back its program? Israeli diplomat says it will be 'almost' impossible for Iran to build weapons from whatever nuclear infrastructure and material may have survived; others are less optimistic

How much damage did Israel really do to Iran’s nuclear program?
A top Israeli diplomat claims assassinations made it “almost impossible” for Iran to build a bomb.
Others say: not so fast.
Who’s right? 👇
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No confirmation from Israel or Iran says it all.

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A corrupt theocracy in Tehran, rotting from within, plays straight into the hands of a vain, incompetent narcissist whose only talent is for self-delusion. Tragically, this is precisely the spectacle both regimes seem to crave.

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The Iranian Revolution: How a Theocracy Shook the Modern Middle East Introduction: An Empire Unmasked Few political convulsions have so unseated a regime, realigned global alliances, and redefined a region as the Iranian Revolution of 1979. That year, a turbaned fir…

The Iranian Revolution: How a Theocracy Shook the Modern Middle East. #Iran #Israel

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On this day in 1979, Supertramp’s Breakfast in America hit No. 1 on the US charts! 🥐🇺🇸
Featuring timeless tracks like Take the Long Way Home, the album became a prog-pop classic that still resonates.
#OnThisDay #Supertramp #MusicHistory

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Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites

Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites
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Israel-Iran live updates: U.S. warplanes carry out strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, Trump says, calling the attack ‘successful’ The B-2 is the only U.S. aircraft able to carry the bunker-busting bombs thought to be capable of penetrating Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility.

U.S. warplanes carry out strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran #shavuatov
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Yes, 16 billion passwords leaked online. No, it's not what you think. Think of the leak as a hacker's version of a "Best of" list.

Yes, 16 billion passwords leaked online. No, it's not what you think.

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It is what they should be saying because they are currently on the losing side of the argument.

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YYou cannot negotiate with individuals whose only goal is to destroy you.

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Four Mothers and the Mitochondrial Thread on Ashkenazi Ancestry We do not arrive here clean. We come trailing the dust of those who came before us. And in some very real sense, we are them. Their fears. Their recipes. Their missteps and their endurance. All of …

We do not arrive here clean. We come trailing the dust of those who came before us. And in some very real sense, we are them. Their fears. Their recipes. Their missteps and their endurance. All of it, coiled up inside us like a tightly wound string.

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