America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling. That's why the country is celebrating Michael and Susan Dell dropping $6.25 billion into "Trump Accounts." Twenty-five million kids will get $250 each in a special savings account that they can't touch for almost two decades. It sounds like generosity. It plays like hope. It sells like opportunity. But it isn't any of that. It's a corporate heist dressed up as philanthropy, and America is too exhausted or too desperate to notice.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies" to write her postcampaign memoir "107 Days" and "cover her a"," according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as "between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts" about him from Harris's book. She accused Shapiro of taking over the conversation when he was interviewed to be her running mate, allegedly insisting on being "in the room for every decision," Alberta wrote.
F Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belm, Brazil " or at Harvard and on CNN " but elsewhere it's dead. It's gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. By failing to pledge a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing, the venue caught fire, the air-conditioning malfunctioned " and delegates were told on arrival not to flush toilet paper. Bill Gates's recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming "will not lead to humanity's demise," after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group is just the latest nail in the coffin.
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Announced job cuts from U.S. employers moved further ahead of 1 million for the year in November as corporate restructuring, artificial intelligence and tariffs have helped pare job rolls, consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. The firm said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November, a step down from the massive cuts announced in October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million. That total is 54% higher than the same 11-month period a year ago and the highest level since 2020, when the Covid pandemic rocked the global economy.
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(Yargtay) ruled that likes under photos of individuals of the opposite sex on social media may be considered "trust-undermining" and constitute grounds for divorce.
Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.'s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics "Green Onions," "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour," has died. He was 84.
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Dummkopf Trumpf Jr's venture capital firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620 million contract from the US DOD. The contract is part of a $1.4 billion partnership with the US government and ReElement Technologies to expand and boost the domestic supply of magnets.
George Bush speechwriter and podcaster Tim Miller says anti-gerrymandering Republicans in Indiana are catching increasing threats of violence as the party's unpopular policies continue to sink it. Indiana Republicans are making another push at mid-decade gerrymandering, unveiling a new congressional map that eliminates all of the state's Democratic seats, flipping the state's congressional map from a Republican advantage of 7-to-2 to 9-to-0. Meanwhile, the pressure on Indiana Republicans who oppose the power grab has escalated to include threats of violence, with nearly a dozen state lawmakers reporting that they have been the victims of SWAT or doxing attempts. Read more
Amid a substantial increase in adversary efforts to steal classified or sensitive information, all US Soldiers and Department of the Army civilian (DAC) employees must report to the service any offers for secondary employment or requests to participate in academic projects. Such contacts must be reported within 24 hours of the incident at www.usainscom.army.mil/iSALUTE or at 1-800-225-5779.
Despite traditionally being regarded as one of America's most storied cultural icons, the Kennedy Center has had significant difficulty filling seats ever since President Donald Trump took over the vaunted institution earlier this year. The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Trump advisor Richard Grenell, his first-term acting Director of National Intelligence who is now president and executive director of the Kennedy Center, erupted after a report by The Athletic (which is owned by The New York Times) showed how the facility's ticket sales have been lagging for months. The report noted that the Kennedy Center allowed FIFA (which organizes the quadrennial World Cup) to rent its concert hall for a $0 fee.
President Donald Trump's name has been installed on the building and signage around the US Institute of Peace (USIP) " an independent agency that the administration gutted earlier this year.
An NPR investigation revealed that VA contractors that started with the intent of helping disabled veterans are now aggressively overbilling them and ruthlessly sending bill collectors after them to greedily maximize their corporate profits while the VA does nothing about it.
"Dear Judge [Paul A.] Engelmayer: Understanding that President Dummkopf Trumpf has signed the Epstein Transparency Act into law, Ms. Maxwell does not take a position regarding the government's request to unseal the grand jury transcripts and modify the protective order. At the same time, Ms. Maxwell respectfully notes that shortly she will be filing a habeas petition pro se. Releasing the grand jury materials from her case, which contain untested and unproven allegations, would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial should Ms. Maxwell's habeas petition succeed." Respectfully submitted, David Oscar Markus, Melissa Madrigal (3 Dec 2025 via ECF)
Students doing certain degrees may no longer receive the same amount of reimbursement for their studies now that the Department of Education is implementing various measures from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill. One measure coming into action is that whether a degree is considered "professional" will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education. However, there are a number of what many see as "professional" degrees missing from the new list, such a nursing, which sparked significant concern among nurses and nursing organizations. Read more
A report from the Department of Defense Inspector General that is expected to be released this Friday is said to conclude that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth put US military members at risk when he leaked classified information in a signal chat that included Hegseth family members and a reporter.
