Rubio: Here's the problem with vetting people. You can't have a perfect vet no matter who that person is, for a couple reasons. The first is we don't -- you can only vet information that exists, right? So it is possible that in many cases there are things about these people you just don't know. No matter how much you vet them, you just don't have certain information. And in some parts of the world where there's very limited documentation, very limited, you can't just go out and interview people in many cases because of the presence of the Taliban, et cetera. It becomes very difficult. Read more
the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too
The DODIG report is 65 pages long and mildly redacted.
Thanksgiving travelers were surprised last week when Airbus grounded roughly six thousand A320-family jets for an urgent software rollback. The cause of the delay? Fears of radiation from cosmic rays and solar storms.
Outgoing Islamophobic sore loser NYC Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order barring NYC from making business or pension investment decisions that discriminate against Israel to continue sabotaging the popular NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani who wants to divest NYC funds from the ethnic cleansing Pariah nation, which would include an NYPD contract worth $567,000 with Tel Aviv-based Terrogence Global.
... What if he didn't really change"what if the bureaucrats changed him? That's the puzzle piece America and the Trump administration are examining right now. Biden's hard turn left after taking office arrived without an external shock. Which invites a different reading, one that might sound cynical in any other era. Maybe the shift that began with a stack of pardon certificates wasn't evolution. Maybe it was a revolution by the people who held the pen
Staged just a mile from the White House, Friday's World Cup draw will have a distinctly political feel. The glittering ceremony will take place at the Kennedy Center, the famous Washington arts venue now chaired by US President Donald Trump after he overhauled its board this year. Proceedings, however, seem to have been planned with the US president very much in mind. Read more
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.
Trump Voter Finally Realizes Trump Is A Moron
The Supreme Court of Turkey/Türkiye
(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.
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.
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)
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.
