Among many other things, this is a story about how real journalism works to expose the propaganda crew Hegseth has installed at the Pentagon.

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody

I don’t know Bobby. But I have loved ones who have waged similar fights to survive. And every gift in the battle, no matter the size, is a blessing beyond measure. For the giver as well as the recipient.

If you're feeling scuzzy,
from reading about Nuzzi ...

... here is something a whole lot worse!

I have highlighted a few bits in the comments.

All good!

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya said Monday that he had ordered Honduran authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Zelaya included a photo of the two-year-old order signed by a Supreme Court magistrate for alleged fraud and money laundering charges. The order says that it must be executed “in the case that the accused is freed by United States authorities.” Dozens of Honduran officials and politicians were implicated in the so-called Pandora case in which Honduran prosecutors alleged government funds were diverted through a network on nongovernmental organizations to political parties, including Hernández’s 2013 presidential campaign.

The arrest warrant is from 2023, on charges of fraud and money laundering (related to the Pandora affair); the request to Interpol appears to be new. IOW, it concerns other conduct, namely corruption. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.

No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.

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bsky.app/profile/prop...

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’ paychecks to collect unpaid bills.

NEW: Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay.

But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.

A Christian mom who tried to ban LGBTQ books just got arrested for kidnapping her own daughter From censoring LGBTQ books to staging a kidnapping, Tammi Hamby’s crusade shows how Christian Nationalist power harms the very communities it claims to protect

Tammi Hamby was just arrested for staging a fake kidnapping of her own daughter to teach her a lesson.

Turns out she's the same Christian woman who crusaded to remove LGBTQ books from the library in the name of child safety.

The hypocrisy is WILD.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...

em.. squint, surely

Say Hello to Hepatitis B, Baby Anti-vax ACIP are bumbling their way to higher rates of pediatric liver cancer...and worse

That’s another horrendous ACIP meeting on the books. This clown show did a lot more than weakly recommend delaying the HBV birth dose and compare vaccines to planes.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...

Screenshot of a Cloudflare site that says "500 Internal Server Error – Cloudflare"

Happy Cloudflare is down once again to all who celebrate

Cloudflare showing an HTTP 500

Uhoh, sites sitting behind Cloudflare are spitting out HTTP 500 errors again 💥

‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.

I have a fun presentation for you to watch, all about the AI-nuclear powered future Trump and Tech would love to deliver unto us all

In its chaotic Jan. 6 probe, the FBI wrongly questioned a Biden staffer about Capitol pipe bombs A Capitol rioter yelled the name "John Richter" on the floor of the Senate. Months later, the FBI showed up at the wrong John Richter's house.

EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: The Biden staffer wrongfully questioned by the FBI is NOT the pipe bomber. 😆😆😆😆😆

"My phone is blowing up haha. Omg," he texts me.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.

Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.

Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Additional background, here: www.kansas.com/news/state/a...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done! The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

New Sand Creek Massacre book revives letters and the moral courage of Capt. Silas Soule, the officer who refused to fire “Witness at Sand Creek” traces Capt. Silas Soule’s life through his letters that reveal why he refused to fire on Cheyenne and Arapaho families during the Sand Creek Massacre. The book highlights his ...

On this date in 1864, several hundred volunteers of the Third Colorado Cavalry at Sand Creek in what is now Colorado killed 150-230 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at a camp the Army had told the Natives to gather at if they wanted to be safe from attack. www.cpr.org/2025/11/28/w...

Cats are good, tho
escalation

How my marrrige went south

I love this.

An close-to-engineer, maybe more than one, I worked with in the 80s was like, Ozzimandius

are any of these people credit worthy

My person is likely to stop car jump out with keys

If he doesn't run over me, which he has also done

GI people should adjust their focus

So, I asked my insurer whether I should lie, and he almost died laughing

"YesYesYesYesYes"

Very sorry for the National Guard

prolly results in escalation, though

I don't think they would've wanted that

also, not why they signed up

(long-time next-door to Guard, like BOOM)

(also BOOM, BOOM, more BOOM, etc.)

Apparenly, am told, dreaming in calculus is also unusual

thanks

with, not for

tragedy

Between them, my grands had 13 languages.

Some duplicated. But, multilingal, because

if your neighbors in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky etc are monolinguial

I guess it's a European thing

My special talent was translating los viejos

then I moved to the east coast, so, much more Caribbean

music to my ears: also various other languages

joined a translating poetry group, for Syrians

I sometimes playback TV in other languages familiar, it helps me sleep

in the Midwest