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Edition · December 26, 2024
The Daily Fuckup — December 26, 2024
2 verified reports published on December 26, 2024.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
Closing take
The year ended the way Trump’s political operation so often does: with lawyers, money, and secrecy doing the heavy lifting where competence should be. Even on a light news day, the throughline was obvious — the incoming administration kept turning routine governance into a fog machine, and the courts kept being asked to clean up after it.
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