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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Holiday shoppers are feeling stressed as rising costs, family expectations, and social media pressures lead many to overspend and hide expenses from loved ones.


Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday warned that President Donald Trump's focus on Venezuela may lead to a "fracture" among those who were drawn in by his campaign promise of avoiding foreign wars. In an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," the Kentucky Republican told host Margaret Brennan that an invasion of Venezuela or even a renewal of subsidies to Ukraine could see "a splintering and fracturing of the movement that has supported the president." Read more


From The Guardian: The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belm, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal. Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope -- at a conference held in the Amazon " to chart an end to deforestation. But in a fractious era of nationalism, war and distrust, the talks did not collapse as was feared. Multilateralism held -- just. "We knew this Cop would take place in stormy political waters," said Simon Stiell, the UN's climate chief, after a long and occasionally angry final plenary at the climate summit. "Denial, division and geopolitics has dealt international cooperation some heavy blows this year."


While the threat posed by COVID-19 remains relatively low nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that infections are growing or likely growing in 19 states across the nation.


Remember the crazy girls that tried to kill a classmate because they believed it's what Slender Man wanted? Well one of the stabbers has gone missing


Meet the Ambitious, Duplicitous, Semi-Fictitious MAGA Upstart Driving Trump World Nuts Read more


Fri 21 November 2025

"Nobody cares if you know how to play scales," Neil Young once said. "Nobody gives a shit if you have good technique or not. It's whether you have feelings that you want to express with music, that's what counts, really." Read more


The Liberty Counsel issued its 23rd annual Naughty and Nice List' that catalogs stores they want American consumers to waste their money at this Christmas season.


Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has quietly introduced a feature in recent days that publicly displays key background information about user accounts. Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform"with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be originating from overseas. "You got a peek behind the curtain at just how much of the MAGA hatred is just Russian propaganda," said author and academic Adam Cochran. Read more


Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has quietly introduced a feature in recent days that publicly displays key background information about user accounts. The revelations went far beyond a few isolated cases. Entire bot farms appeared to be operating for months. Users posing as "North Gaza survivors" were actually in Pakistan. Self-described "Rafah residents" were in Indonesia. Accounts claiming to be members of Hamas's Nukhba unit uploaded videos from Malaysia. Even fake profiles presenting themselves as IDF soldiers " "officers," "snipers" and "reservists" supposedly operating in Gaza " were traced to London. Read more


Saturday, November 22, 2025

Some have said she was a made up character. However, she appears in the Epstein files released by the House committee. Katie Johnson (a pseudnym) withdrew in fear from a scheduled press conference 2 days after Trump's 2016 election. Read more


Katie Johnson's (a pseudonym) video description was captured before Trump became President and matches perfectly with what's described by 100's of other underage girls.


Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years for illegal donations to Obama campaign


I may have asked this question here before, just with a different number of years, but...

Where were you 62 years ago today, November 22, 1963? Read more


A TikTok video went viral showing a worker slamming frozen ribs on the filthy pavement - next to a garbage bin and mop bucket. The stomach-churning clip, which has garnered 5 million views since it was posted Wednesday, shows the worker repeatedly smashing a giant rack of ribs on the dirty ground of an alleyway in an attempt to break them up. Read more


Do you really want tomorrow's Windows to be controlled from Redmond?


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