The state's parole board has released 39 "emerging adult" murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling. The Massachusetts Parole Board has issued 51 parole decisions since the Supreme Judicial Court last year ruled that emerging adults who were 18 to 20 at the time of the offense cannot be sentenced to life without parole. Read more
Scientists have identified a new species of ladybird spider in Morocco with an unusual and striking red coloration and an elusive endangered wild cat was seen in Thailand for the first time in 30 years.
A leaked Justice Department memo from USAG Pam Bondi directs federal prosecutors to press "domestic terrorism" charges against individuals who film or record immigration operations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning of a grave Iranian threat to Israel and the world for more than 30 years. United States President Donald Trump heeded those warnings in June and bombed Tehran's nuclear facilities. But it appears that Netanyahu is still not satisfied and will be pushing for more military actions against Iran when he returns to the US on Sunday to visit Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Read more
Beginning 2 Feb 2026, the federal requirement that nursing homes maintain a registered nurse on-site around the clock will no longer exist.
In a post on Truth Social earlier today, Donald Trump reminded everyone of Jeffrey Epstein - and he seems to be reverting back to his claim that much of it is a hoax. Read more
....Steal His Groceries
Trump's immigration agents are doing whatever they want. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers in Yakima, Washington, spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot"even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves. Read more
Defense attorney Joe Tamburino, who is not affiliated with the case, reviewed the decision and analyzed it for KARE 11 News. He says Judge West ruled that the state's case "relied heavily on circumstantial evidence," and that she believed the state didn't rule out other "reasonable inferences." "That in fact, there could have been other reasonable theories other than guilt in this case. That's what it comes down to," Tamburino said. Despite the ruling, even Judge West wrote that she is "troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated at Promise Health." Read more
Brief post-Christmas thoughts on Christianity and politics - Charlie Sykes
sh*t, what do we do now?
Big news for the USA!' The Dotard-in-Chief gleefully posted that he callously slashed 271,000 federal jobs since seizing power on 20 Jan 2025, even as polls show Americans are deeply dissatisfied with his inept mishandling of the US and global economy.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying millions of dollars' worth of new surveillance tools at the same time President Donald Trump has scaled back protections for use of civilian data -- a combination that could lead to a vast expansion of domestic surveillance that goes far beyond immigrants.
Leo XIV, the first American pope, decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza during his first Christmas sermon in an unusually direct appeal, saying the story of Jesus being born in a stable showed that God had "pitched his fragile tent" among the people of the world: "How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind, and cold?" he asked.
"At the direction of the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, and in coordination with Nigerian authorities, on 25 Dec 2025 USAFRICOM conducted strikes against ISIS terrorists in Sokoto State of Nigeria."
More trouble in MAGAville:
Nearly the entire legal and economic policy staff of the Heritage Foundation is departing the conservative think tank, and many will be taking up posts at Advancing American Freedom (AAF), a nonprofit founded in 2021 by former Vice President Mike Pence. The mass exodus represents a dramatic rebuke of Heritage President Kevin Roberts in the wake of his refusal to retract an October video defending Tucker Carlson for conducting a friendly interview with the antisemitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
A 2020 clip of a Fulton County election worker testifying under oath that she observed 100% of military absentee ballots go to Biden is now resurfacing amid the new revelation that over 300,000 ballots were illegally counted in Fulton County. Official: "I estimated that somewhere between 80 and 90 percent were going to Joe Biden. Throughout the day it kept making me sicker and sicker every time I saw another Biden, Biden, Biden, and then I'm going through batches"100 percent of the batches were Biden. I find that statistically impossible."
