David Daniel

Taylor Swift's Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack Data analysis from startup GUDEA reveals inauthentic social media network that pushed false narrative about her ties to MAGA world and white supremacy

“The internet is fake,” says Keith Presley, GUDEA’s founder and CEO, only half-jokingly. He notes that some 50 percent of the web is now made up of bots. “This is something that we’ve seen escalate on our corporate side — this type of espionage, or working to damage someone’s reputation.”

Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.

My story:

A healthy man suffers a stroke and permanent damage after consuming numerous energy drinks | CNN A completely healthy man in his 50s suffered permanent damage following a stroke caused by consuming too many energy drinks, according to a case study.

He was healthy and fit at 54, an avid runner with no vices — he didn't smoke, drink or do drugs.

"Each day he consumed eight highly potent energy drinks to stay alert for his job — two cans at four different times during the day. Each of the drinks contained 160 milligrams of caffeine."

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to nonprofits in 2025, a major increase The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.

The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

LA has stopped repaving our streets The reason why is probably illegal

LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!

Exclusive | A Round of Golf Changed Trump’s Tone on the Concert Industry The president’s pardon of sports executive Tim Leiweke ended a major case from his Justice Department.

Sports executive Tim Leiweke faced charges of rigging the bid for a $375 million basketball arena.

Leiweke's lawyer raised the case to Trump after a round of golf together.

Weeks later, Trump pardoned Leiweke.

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...

New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording

www.404media.co/border-patro...

Judge says Ghislaine Maxwell court documents can be released as part of the push for information on Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal records from the investigation and criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell.

“The trove of documents, which will be redacted to protect victims’ identities and other identifiable information, includes grand jury transcripts, financial records, travel documents, and notes from victim interviews obtained during the investigations.”

It needs a related word for when you see such nonsense, search out the account, and find it’s already been suspended.

Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.

One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.

Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.

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I love that @edzitron.com can make me laugh while teaching me about a truly depressing situation.

Missing dog returns home after five years | CNN Five years after her dog Choco went missing, Patricia got a call she wasn’t expecting. He had been found in Lincoln, Michigan, 2000 miles away from his home in Sacramento, California. Thanks to the he...

"With the help of volunteers from California group Helping Paws and Claws, Choco was flown back to his home state. One volunteer even gave up their own air miles to get him there."

Bless you, volunteers. www.helpingpawsandclaws.net

Remarkable that just one day after the massive Fair Games Coalition held this rally to oppose the anti-worker actions of White House Republicans they got punked by the supposedly progressive leaders in their own city

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)

Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Republican voters and conspiracism - Lawyers, Guns & Money “Conspiracism” is the neologism that Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead have invented to describe what they call “conspiracy theory without the theory,” that is, the classic Trumpian claim that “a l...

Survey of GOP voters: nearly four in ten (37%) "believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe. Younger men are especially likely to hold this view (54% of men under 50 vs. 39% of women under 50)." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/repu...

Governor Walz: “This creates danger. We know how these things go. They start with taunts and it turns to violence”

MAGA cultists are driving past his house yelling the R slur

It’s only been a few months since Melissa Hortman & her husband were gunned down in their home in Minnesota

This must stop

It amuses me that AP used a photo of Kent, best known for his years with the Giants, in a Dodgers uniform.

Cool technology. Definitely worth running our water supply for this.

A pair of comments on the LinkedIn "flying in a straight line on the map from Europe to LA is more cost-effective" post: Kimran D says "To protect what remains of my faith in humanity, I'll assume this post is sarcasm...." [SMH emoji] Yolanda Cabrera, the original poster, replies "This is LinkedIn. We don't do sarcasm, we do actionable insights and disruptive thought leadership that drive optimal market synergies."

OP is saying it's a joke without saying it's a joke, and a poke at how seriously people take things on LinkedIn. (It's certainly effective engagement farming: 1,000+ reactions and 400+ comments on the initial post.)

Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

Burt Meyer, Chicago toymaker behind classics like Lite-Brite, Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, has died at 99 Mainly working for Marvin Glass & Associates, he contributed to Chicago becoming a vibrant center of toy design. In an age before video games, he also helped bring the world Mouse Trap.

Paywalled, here's a freebie.
Never heard of him, just his toys.
Guy lived an amazingly full-throttle life.
Biked coast to coast at 59.
Completed a 135 mile Arctic trek at 69.
Was a pilot until he was 90.
Met his wife of 50 years when they were in an eastern european folk-dance troupe.

December 6, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...

December 6, 2025

Here is my rant for the year and The Era:

We need to stop confusing the words “normal” and “common.”

It may seem trivial, but the differences between them are the differences between using stigmatizing language and descriptive language, they’re the whole piñata of difference.

Another tremendous cast, and I love that in each of these, Johnson and co. have a wonderful "co-lead" with Daniel Craig that gives the actor a spotlight which causes audiences to look at them in a new way: Ana de Armas, Janelle Monáe, and now Josh O'Connor.

According to Article 1(1) of the UN Convention against Torture, an act constitutes torture if four elements are present: (1) intention, (2) infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering, (3) a purpose such as coercion, intimidation, obtaining information or a confession, or discrimination and (4) a degree of official involvement.254 State agents at “Alligator Alcatraz” use the ‘box’ as a form of punishment. The conditions of the ‘box’ – an extremely small space that prevents sitting, lying or changing position –, combined with high temperatures and humidity levels, and the deprivation of water, sanitation and protection from harsh weather conditions and insects, would likely cause severe physical and psychological pain and suffering.255 Amnesty International considers that the use of the ‘box’ as a form of punishment at “Alligator Alcatraz” constitutes torture.

Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...