Washington is pressing Taiwan to shift half its chip production to U.S. soil—an urgent bid for security that risks dismantling the island’s “silicon shield,” the fragile leverage anchoring its survival and the global economy.
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

ALERT: Trump Hands ICE a Dangerous Surveillance Tool Please Share Widely: Everyone Needs to Know ICE Will Soon Have Graphite Spyware

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Another Possible Risk of Microplastics? Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Microplastics are seemingly everywhere—and now growing research suggests they could be generating drug-resistant bacteria

Microplastics are seemingly everywhere—and now growing research suggests they could be generating drug-resistant bacteria

Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court In theory, the nice thing about having a Supreme Court is that it provides some level of legal certainty. You know how the system works: lower courts make decisions based on law and precedent, part…

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I sat across the deposition table from Ghislaine Maxwell when she lied repeatedly – one question after the next. We have witnessed that again with the release of Maxwell’s interview where this convicted felon repeatedly and brazenly lied on the record to the government. Maxwell ruined countless young lives with impunity for too long. Her effort to recreate history and distance herself from Epstein should not and will not be tolerated. The documents don’t lie, the multiple witnesses that testified against her at trial didn’t lie – the only person lying is Maxwell.

Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.”

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Trump’s USDA eliminates support for renewable energy, a lifeline for farmers The agency claims farmland is being consumed by wind and solar facilities—which occupy only a tiny portion.

Trump’s USDA eliminates support for renewable energy, a lifeline for farmers

Well this is scary. And sounds pretty much exactly like what @jennycohn.bsky.social has been trying to warn us about for years.

ES&S voting software is not something we can trust.

Kyle Goon: John Harbaugh should have thought twice before visiting Trump White House The Harbaugh Coaching Academy focuses on caring for those you lead. Why visit the most divisive president in modern history, then?

Kyle Goon: John Harbaugh’s ‘amazing’ visit to Trump White House goes against his own principles

This is, without question…my favorite post from 2025:

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming - Nature Geoscience The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest warming, according to an a...

This one means madness! Can also be translated to persisting flooding in the vicinity of these events feeding back on the heatwave intensifying it - we trigger a steam engine to go into self amplification mode!

This Parrot Accuracy is insane.

I'm on Kash Patel's 'enemies list.' Just as I expected, the retribution has begun. New investigations of John Brennan and James Comey are just the latest examples of a troubling trend under the second Trump administration.

Despite what Trump and his merry band of amnesiacs may be pushing, Russian interference is real, and investigating those who informed the public about it is textbook political retribution. We ignore it at the peril of our individual liberty.

New for @msnbc.com.

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Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Warns of Trump Administration’s Assault on the Law

All of the Trump administration officials in question who are attorneys must be disbarred.

This is a sprawling conspiracy to undermine U.S. rule of law that involves attorneys, and that is something my profession cannot allow.

There should be massive state bar investigations across the board here.

Trump suggests taking over Washington and running NYC if Mamdani elected The president escalates attacks with threat of ‘tremendous power’ to ‘run’ cities if his political opponents are elected

Trump suggests running NYC if Mamdani elected and the White House taking control of DC

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

By the way, the US striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure gives Russia the green light to strike Ukraine’s nuclear facilities & infrastructure. This is another reason it’s forbidden under international law. Trump is escalating danger everywhere.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state Sanewashing didn't end with the 2024 campaign.

New in PN: The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state

"Despite the endless handwringing about Biden Old, a sitting president acting like a cross between a 4Chan thread and Q truly is a major concern — one the mainstream media actively minimizes."

In South Park, San Diego, US citizens stigmergically rose up against Trump’s Gestapo. The revolt erupted midday when ICE began rounding up people at a restaurant; patrons and passersby alike dropped everything to confront the regime storm troopers. #3E #EndImpunity #StopICE

#FACTS

Why the record-breaking number of cyberattacks could be a prelude to the ‘big one’

📖 THE LONGER READ | A ‘perfect storm’ for hackers in 2025 has already impacted millions across the UK. Speaking to security experts and critical infrastructure workers, Anthony Cuthbertson investigates what’s behind the recent surge – and how the worst-case scenario might play out

Israel latest: UN says Gaza aid still blocked amid warnings 14,000 babies could die UN says only a few dozen trucks have entered Gaza but authorities were unable to distribute aid

#Israel #Gaza

🔴 UN says no aid distributed yet in Gaza
🔴 14,000 babies in Gaza could die within 48 hours, UN warns

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A reminder that Marco Rubio’s parents fled a dictator in Cuba - only to have Secretary of State Rubio do the bidding for a dictator in America. Pitiful. Shameful. Marco has forgotten where he came from !!

Global retailers' tariff strategy risks spreading pain beyond US consumer Global retailers including sandal maker Birkenstock and jeweller Pandora are looking at spreading the cost of U.S. tariffs by raising prices across markets to avoid big hikes in the United States that could hurt sales.

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#ProudBlue

This is why I NEVER understood why people voted for them.

And why I’m incensed that people weren’t noticing.

People complain about the quality of life, then vote in those that CAUSED it in the first place! 😡

I’m not an exceptionally intelligent person, but I know a con when I see it.