ICYMI and Free Chat: December 24, 2025

Below, you will find some headlines and events we may have missed. Feel free to share what you have found interesting or….chit and chat amongst yourselves!

Happy Holidays to all of you from News Views! Be safe, everyone!

‘WINNING!’:

Supreme Court rules against Trump in National Guard case

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump’s ability to send National Guard troops into Illinois over the objections of its governor.

The administration argued in its appeal in October that it needed to federalize the National Guard to stop what Trump has said is unremitting violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at detention facilities in the Chicago area. But two lower courts ruled against Trump’s claim that the protests in the Chicago area constituted a “rebellion or danger of rebellion” against the United States government that the president has the right to put down.

National Guard News🗞️

— Conscientious Ice🧊 (@conscientiousice.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T23:11:09.164Z

Updates:

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials.Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T22:21:58.118Z

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.…

— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) December 23, 2025

Garbage People Get ‘Clean’ Coal:

Jesse Watters: We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history. (2025) @Acynpic.twitter.com/FvRbdlLzUN

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) December 23, 2025

The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T16:14:47.353Z

This Did Not Age Well:

— Governor Newsom Press Office (@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov) 2025-12-23T18:47:18.131Z

Sounds legit

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-24T05:13:19.358Z

Craven Assholes:

Broken Clock Alert and Note to ALL MAGAts Still Protecting Their KKKult Leader:

“Only evil people would hide this and protect those who participated.”

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T17:20:47.538Z