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May be obvious, but worth saying - Elon Musk knows this, big tech companies know what their algorithms do, can monitor this, experiment on us - we on the other hand have to wait someone to manage to work out a way to study this and publish a paper in Nature to be read by a handful of academics.

What did people think was going to happen? I draw your attention again to this excellent reporting by @drewharwell.com in which I was interviewed on the change in ownership of TikTok as a power grab bsky.app/profile/wash...

1-16.000 - Department of Justice Policy On Use Of Force

www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-d...

Omg: dude today in his 50's had misheard me, thought I was in my 20's so in disagreeing was talking to me like when you're older you'll grow up and understand and be be conservative and he has a degree and knows better. I pointed out I'm *cough* and have 4 degrees so stop being a patronising berk.

YouTube video by Cory Booker The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See

This should be mandatory viewing by all Americans. We have monsters running our justice system and our country.

youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...

This summer, my colleagues were reporting out a story about the Department of Education’s “final mission,” its effort to undermine public education even as the Trump administration worked feverishly to close the agency.

link.propublica.net/view/5f0a09d...
" Trump has called the press “fake news” and called individual reporters derogatory terms. In this environment, our journalists have found that their efforts to get the real story and be fair were vilified rather than appreciated. Condemned, not commended."

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate

Good to see this action by US government blocked. All researchers are placed in danger by this kind of speech policing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

“WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS” –ROBERT INGERSOLL https://thetruthseeker.net

An editorial written by Robert Ingersoll, December, 1897.
"What I want for Christmas" - 5 min video. Enjoy.

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From the Pro Who Knows!

mailchi.mp/dd90a0ba580a...?

Trump’s Pulitzer Prize Board Lawsuit Advances To Discovery, Raising Questions Over Tax And Medical Records Donald Trump's 2022 defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board has entered the discovery phase, with the board demanding Trump's complete tax returns

Bring on the popcorn!!!

allaboutlawyer.com/trumps-pulit...

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.

Cannot make this up: abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

Wow. Give her another prize.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but

If he wasn’t in the Epstein files, he would’ve released them by now

Stop giving your data to these companies folks. We need to create a data minimisation ethic throughout business, government and society.

Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power He’s the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety,” Stevens said.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...?

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

" Even that older assessment significantly underestimated the dangers posed by formaldehyde, ProPublica found last year. "
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

HE RECEIVED THE FIFA AWARD.
"F***ING IDIOT FROM AMERICA"

Connecting calls via cord switchboard 1970, 'long distance operator'
Yes, I am that old.

In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...

A legendary US manufacturer

www.propublica.org/article/pete...

YouTube video by CBC News: The National ‘FIFA is a bundle of hypocrisy’: Haiti World Cup fans shut out of matches

“The World Cup is being designed to fit with American politics.”

youtu.be/glgGRfRLuh8?

Todd Blanche To White-Collar Lawyers: Criticize Trump Administration And We’ll 'Notice' - Above the Law Brrrr... is it getting chilly in here?

"MAGA has blown straight past insulating itself from criticism, to actively threatening the people who provide it."

abovethelaw.com/2025/12/todd...

War crimes don't need a war, not least because they can involve acts that would be acceptable in wartime, that are unacceptable when targeting civilians or outside the context of war.

Honestly, because TPUSA has an annual budget of hundreds of millions of dollars. We don’t.

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — we do. It’s Voters of Tomorrow.

We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation.

Can you chip in before midnight to help us win? 👇

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Efforts like this are often barely known about because they aren't using shock tactics and engaging in culture wars that get into reporting.

"That figure represents the minimum possible transportation distance if you could travel in a perfectly straight line (by air, by sea, or by a hypothetical “as‑the‑crow‑flies” route) from one border to the other."

Lumo offers the following perspective.
" The straight‑line (great‑circle) distance between the two closest points on the international borders of Venezuela and the United States is roughly 2 300 km (≈ 1 430 mi).

Re: Trump attacks on Venezuelan boats. Most of the pics and video show these are small outboard motor vessels. HOW MANY TIMES WOULD THEY NEED TO REFUEL TO REACH THE US? Why am I not hearing this question in reporting???

See my first comment below

The fake peace deal fell apart, what a shocker.