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Environmental group sues in bid to get Trump's image removed from new national park passes The Center for Biological Diversity is asking a federal judge to find the Trump administration in violation of a law that sets the rules for images on the annual passes.

An environmental group wants President Trump’s image removed from next year's national park passes, and it’s suing to try to make that happen.

Top 3 Impeachable offenses? With Trump we need to keep a running list...

In Paris, a New Wave of Chocolate Boutiques

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‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary Food Delivery depicts those struggling with the superpower to retain their trade. The director describes capturing their boats getting rammed by the Chinese coast guard

‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China

Fighting raged Thursday along the border of Cambodia and Thailand, with explosions heard near centuries-old temples

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AFP’s Aditya Aji and Chaideer Mahyuddin photograph the aftermath of devastating floods that killed hundreds in Aceh and Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

An Open Letter to the Soft Millennial Man Now Facing Extinction Dear Soft Millennial Man, You’ve been quiet lately, but we know you’re still out there. You’re probably hiding out at Whole Foods until this whole ...

"Keep standing in line for cronuts, listening to Mumford & Sons, and watching videos of men unboxing sneakers. We know we complained about these things in the past, but we’ve come to realize that you, the man who brews beer in our closet, are the most evolved of your species."

year over year international visitors to the US as a column chart, monthly from May 2024 to September 2025, showing major drops beginning with the Trump administration in February. From May to August, tourism dropped by 5-10 percent from the year before. In September it was down 11 percent.

Here are the reported drops in US visitors from overseas. This reflects a loss of billions of dollars in tourism revenue.
Data from Trump's Department of Commerce, until he hides it.

Underwater ‘storms’ are eating away at the Doomsday Glacier. It could have big impacts on global sea level rise | CNN Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

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Aaron - how do we get the names of these officers? what judge can compel them to identify themselves or appear in court? how is this going to work?

“Mr. Maduro’s, accept the election result and step down” — Jørgen Watne Frydnes, president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. #venezuela #mariacorinamachada #nobelpeaceprize

Trump, not the US, and a small faction at that of his goons pushing this. It will not last long.

Frightening.

We cannot though overlook the massive failures of Dem leadership that got us here. In any sane world that leadership would have stepped aside and yet...

Names please? One supposes there were reporters somewhere in the room....

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse

The Batang Toru ecosystem, already under pressure from a hydroelectric project, gold mining, oil palm plantations & illegal logging, was also just hit hard by the flooding in Sumatra. @gloriadickie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

Instagram and Facebook Users in Europe Get Option of Sharing Less Data The European Commission said Meta, which owns both platforms, is giving users the option of sharing less data in exchange for less personalized ads.

Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union will soon be able to share less personal data with Meta, the social media giant that owns both services, in exchange for receiving ads that are less personalized.

What happened to the all the regular megalomaniac billionaires we used to have? Is there really no one less shitty who can step in here?

Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

'It’s not safe to live here.' Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade.

Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade.

Compulsive bullshitter. Liars actual attempt to hide something, Trump asserts right to just make up whatever he wants

Indiana Republicans just passed their new congressional gerrymander out of Senate committee, setting up a vote in the full chamber on Thursday

Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge Seventeen states led by New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump in May to overturn the president's ban.

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Trump to Unveil $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs.

1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt

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Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few countries Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more concentrated than that.

Where are the world’s religious groups most concentrated?
➡️ 95% of Hindus live in India
️️➡️ 67% of the religiously unaffiliated live in China
➡️ 47% of Jews live in Israel
➡️ 52% of Buddhists live in Thailand, China and Myanmar
Full analysis here:

Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.

Netflix deal not done yet. Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...