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RecsFor the "Janet Mills is too old" crowd--and to her supporters as well - 5
Recs'Nonsense': The Wall Street Journal debunks 'stolen' election story in takedown of Trump's 'delusion' - 3
RecsTrump dealt huge Epstein blow by his own party - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen - 3
RecsAdam Smith Asks Pete Hegseth Point-Blank If the U.S. Plans to Invade Greenland or Panama - Liberal Lens - 3
RecsDuke University cut $299 million through buyouts, building closures in response to federal cuts
More than 75% of US adults may meet criteria for obesity under new definition: Study
December 29, 2025, 1:23 PM A new definition of obesity could nearly double the prevalence of U.S. adults with the condition, according to a study published Monday. For decades, doctors have relied on body mass index (BMI) -- a tool that uses height and weight to estimate body fat -- to determine obesity. A team of researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Yale University and Yale New Haven Health, found that BMI alone may significantly underestimate how many ...
Working Families bet on 2026 as the right time for a third US party after a wave of wins
Mon 29 Dec 2025 07.00 EST Last modified on Mon 29 Dec 2025 07.03 EST The “time has come” for the Working Families party, the progressive third party’s national director said after a year of big wins and a growing hunger among voters for a home outside the two major political parties. “For 26 years, we’ve been building this argument,” Maurice Mitchell said. “And the argument has met the moment.” The party, founded in 1998, helped elect Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor, worked to get rid ...
Telluride Ski Resort Closed Indefinitely As Ski Patrol Union Strikes
Telluride Ski Resort was closed yesterday for the second consecutive day in the midst of a ski patrol union strike aimed at securing better wages and will remain so indefinitely. by Unofficial Networks 5 hours ago Telluride Ski Resort was closed yesterday for the second consecutive day in the midst of a ski patrol union strike aimed at securing better wages and will remain so indefinitely. There are no current plans to reopen the Colorado ski resort as the ski patrollers are standing firmly be ...
Trump admin can share immigrants' Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules
12/29/2025 05:18 PM EST A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration can resume sharing location data about undocumented immigrants receiving public health insurance benefits with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, starting next month. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria’s ruling is a victory for President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation agenda as it allows ICE to use Medicaid data in deportation cases beginning Jan. 6. The agency had been blocked from doing so for months amid ...
US could block asylum on public health grounds under Trump regulation
December 29, 2025 12:02 PM EST Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. could deny migrants access to asylum on the grounds they present a public health risk under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in President Donald Trump's first term. The regulation, effective on Wednesday, allows U.S. authorities to bar asylum based on "emergency public health concerns generated by a communicable disease," according to a copy posted in the Feder ...
Trump says the U.S. took out a 'big facility' in Venezuela amid strikes on alleged drug boats
(NBC News) President Donald Trump said in an interview with WABC radio in New York that the U.S. had “knocked out” a Venezuelan facility, a move that would be a major escalation in U.S. military strikes to counter alleged drug-trafficking by the South American country. The apparent attack follows months of U.S. military pressure, including dozens of strikes on boats in international waters. The White House has claimed that the boats carried drugs, though officials have not provided evidence.
Stephen Miller reportedly told White House that they could invoke 18th-century law to expedite deportations
(Latin Times) White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller reportedly told White House officials that the Trump administration could expedite deportations through the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act if the U.S. and Venezuela were at war, according to a new report. The revelation is part of a broader report published by The New York Times about Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's leading role in the administration's escalating military campaign against regional cartels and, more specifically, the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela.
Trump's Inner Circle Braces for a New Year's Shakeup
(Daily Beast) President Donald Trump may be plotting a radical purge of top advisers as his administration staggers into the second year of his second stint at the White House. “I think we will see some senior advisers in the West Wing leave,” CBS News’ senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs told the network Sunday. Jacobs clarified that Trump’s “main pack” of inner circle advisers—Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt—are likely to remain insulated from any cull—but said she believed other departures may be possible.
In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are
(Salon) The president has spent most of his first year in office engaged in an increasingly frantic but unsuccessful effort to block the release of the infamous Epstein files, the nickname given to the million-plus documents the Justice Department has on the investigation into the wealthy financial manager, who died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking minors. Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ has been stalling the release of the files, which were supposed to made available to the public on Dec. 19. But Trump’s most loyal voters, the MAGA base, have developed elaborate mythologies to deny the truth about the president.
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- Foreign AffairsPutin's Enormous Secret Palaces - Simon Whistler - Places
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- Liberal YouTubersAdam Smith Asks Pete Hegseth Point-Blank If the U.S. Plans to Invade Greenland or Panama - Liberal Lens
- Liberal YouTubersTrump ATTACK on Canada and Mexico BACKFIRES in His FACE - Legal AF
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- Atheists & AgnosticsI debated a Christian on the Dr Daf Show on Youtube. Here's the video
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- IowaIA-SD16:: Iowa Holds Special Election for State Senate District 16 Amid Republican Supermajority Bid
- FloridaFlorida Supreme Court Allows $165,000 Fine Against Homeowner for Parking in Her Driveway to Stand
- AlabamaPre-filed bill would allow Alabamians with disabilities to receive absentee ballot help
- MichiganStatus report: Michigan's federal lawsuits against the Trump administration
- South CarolinaAs long as voters make such 'Bright decisions,' nothing will change at Statehouse
- MichiganThe Great Lakes are RAGING!!!
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RecsFor the "Janet Mills is too old" crowd--and to her supporters as well - 5
Recs'Nonsense': The Wall Street Journal debunks 'stolen' election story in takedown of Trump's 'delusion' - 3
RecsTrump dealt huge Epstein blow by his own party - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen - 3
RecsAdam Smith Asks Pete Hegseth Point-Blank If the U.S. Plans to Invade Greenland or Panama - Liberal Lens - 3
RecsDuke University cut $299 million through buyouts, building closures in response to federal cuts
Trump says he might sue Fed Chair Jerome Powell for 'gross incompetence'
6 min ago - December 29, 2025 at 5:26 p.m. EST President Donald Trump on Monday said he might sue Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell for what the president called "gross incompetence," injecting new tension into the already strained relationship between the ... (Washington Post)
States step into the breach as Obamacare subsidies lapse
30 min ago - 12/29/2025 04:00 PM EST At least a dozen states are working to shield people from soaring health insurance costs following Congress’ failure to extend Obamacare subsidies for tens of millions of Americans. The efforts, which include actions take ... (Politico)
Duke University cut $299 million through buyouts, building closures in response to federal cuts
1 hr ago - Updated 3:41 PM EST, December 29, 2025 Following his inauguration in January, U.S. President Donald Trump brought along a new team of advisers and a playbook for higher education. The administration unleashed a slew of demands on colleges and univers ... (AP)
New Year's Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
4 hrs ago - The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was “evidently” connected to President Trump’s name being added to the arts center. By Adam Nagourney and Neil Vigdor Dec. 29, 2025Updated 7:52 p.m. ET A veteran jazz ensemble and a New Yo ... (nytimes.com)
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast
5 hrs ago - Quotes from the article, 12/29/2025; 10:50 PM EST QUOTE The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target insid ... (CNN)
Starbucks workers in Reston and McLean seek to unionize amid strike
7 hrs ago - By Angela Woolsey Published December 29, 2025 at 10:00AM Updated December 29, 2025 at 3:30PM Workers at two more Starbucks in Fairfax County could unionize, as a labor strike continues in response to stalled contract negotiations. Petitions for union ... (FFXnow)
Judge dings DOJ for contemplating warrantless search of Comey friend's files 'in direct contravention' of court orders
8 hrs ago - Dec 29th, 2025, 10:18 am A federal judge over the weekend tersely reminded the DOJ that it cannot simply search the long ago seized files of James Comey's former lawyer and friend for "classified material" absent a "valid search warrant," as the gov ... (Law & Crime)
Colorado revokes hundreds of CDLs after feds threaten to withhold $24M in funding from state
8 hrs ago - Posted 11:21 AM, Dec 29, 2025 and last updated 1:46 PM, Dec 29, 2025 The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles canceled 262 commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) after an internal audit—prompted by federal findings—determined they were i ... (Scripps News)
Doctors' effort to end bias training won't get Ninth Circuit rehearing
8 hrs ago - December 29, 2025 (CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on Monday, declined to rehear a petition filed by a group of doctors and a conservative advocacy group that were suing California over a 2019 law requiring doctors to take 50 hours of ... (Courthouse News Service)
Trump Says Netanyahu Pardon 'On Its Way'; Herzog's Office Disputes It
9 hrs ago - Dec. 29, 2025, at 2:40 p.m. PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israeli President Isaac Herzog had told him a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “on its ... (US News and World Report/Reuters)
Working Families bet on 2026 as the right time for a third US party after a wave of wins
9 hrs ago - Mon 29 Dec 2025 07.00 EST Last modified on Mon 29 Dec 2025 07.03 EST The “time has come” for the Working Families party, the progressive third party’s national director said after a year of big wins and a growing hunger among voters fo ... (The Guardian)
Trump admin can share immigrants' Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules
10 hrs ago - 12/29/2025 05:18 PM EST A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration can resume sharing location data about undocumented immigrants receiving public health insurance benefits with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, starting next mont ... (Politico)
Many Filipino healthcare workers in the US live in fear of ICE: 'This is my place of work. I should feel safe'
10 hrs ago - Mon 29 Dec 2025 10.00 EST Last modified on Mon 29 Dec 2025 12.06 EST In the Philippines, she spent three years providing end-of-life care for a family’s grandmother. When the grandmother died, family members told the healthcare worker to arrange ... (The Guardian)
DOJ stalling case against 2020 election denier accused of planting bombs 'outside the RNC and DNC' day before Jan. 6
11 hrs ago - Dec 29th, 2025, 12:39 pm Newly released court documents accused a Virginia man of confessing to planting pipe bombs "outside" the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., just one d ... (Law & Crime)
US could block asylum on public health grounds under Trump regulation
12 hrs ago - December 29, 2025 12:02 PM EST Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. could deny migrants access to asylum on the grounds they present a public health risk under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic i ... (Reuters)
McIver files appeal after judge rejects effort to dismiss charges against her
12 hrs ago - 12/29/25 1:50 PM ET Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) on Monday appealed a judge’s order allowing her criminal prosecution to proceed. McIver’s notice of appeal begins her fight at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which hears fed ... (The Hill)
More than 75% of US adults may meet criteria for obesity under new definition: Study
13 hrs ago - December 29, 2025, 1:23 PM A new definition of obesity could nearly double the prevalence of U.S. adults with the condition, according to a study published Monday. For decades, doctors have relied on body mass index (BMI) -- a tool that uses height a ... (The Guardian)
Telluride Ski Resort Closed Indefinitely As Ski Patrol Union Strikes
13 hrs ago - Telluride Ski Resort was closed yesterday for the second consecutive day in the midst of a ski patrol union strike aimed at securing better wages and will remain so indefinitely. by Unofficial Networks 5 hours ago Telluride Ski Resort was closed yest ... (Unofficial Networks)
China stages military drills around Taiwan to warn 'external forces' after US, Japan tensions
14 hrs ago - Updated 12:09 PM EST, December 29, 2025 HONG KONG (AP) — China’s military on Monday dispatched air, navy and missile units to conduct joint live-fire drills around the island of Taiwan, which Beijing called a “stern warning” again ... (AP)
French split over Brigitte Bardot tribute due to her far right views
15 hrs ago - Updated on: December 29, 2025 / 8:14 AM EST Paris — French politicians were divided on Monday over how to pay tribute to the late Brigitte Bardot who, despite her screen legend, courted controversy — and convictions — in later life wi ... (CBS News/AFP)
