Parody of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
President Trump continues to make misleading statements about affordability despite the Consumer Price Index indicating an increase in costs for many goods and services. The Onion assesses the veracity of the president's claims.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody while she fights potential deportation, an immigration judge ruled Monday. Bruna Ferreira, 33, a longtime Massachusetts resident, was previously engaged to Leavitt's brother, Michael. She was driving to pick up their 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when she was arrested by ICE agents in Revere, Massachusetts, on Nov. 12. Ferreira later was moved to a detention facility in Louisiana, where an immigration judge ordered that she be released on $1,500 bond, her attorney Todd Pomerleau said. "We argued that she wasn't a danger or a flight risk," he said in a text message. "The government stipulated to our argument and never once argued that she was criminal illegal alien and waived appeal."
Reversing declines seen in some tech hubs, such as San Francisco and San Jose, during the pandemic, all 30 markets experienced growth in independent workers in the past year. The surge aligns with other data showing that U.S. businesses have increased freelance hiring by 260 percent in recent years. The U.S. now has an estimated 6.9 million independent professionals and nearly 4 million freelancers concentrated in the top 30 cities -- an annual increase of 4.3 percent. The report also shows independent professionals in the U.S. are estimated to generate $319 billion in revenue, representing 1.1 percent of U.S. GDP, and $208 billion in just the top 30 markets. Read more
Detroit Dispensing Solutions has introduced its FX-8 Flower Infusion Machine, which is designed to bring added safety, consistency, and efficiency to infused-flower production. As the infused-flower category accelerates across legal markets, DDS said it identified a critical need to replace outdated infusion practices that are slow, inconsistent, and often pose risks to both product integrity and worker safety. For years, producers have relied on manual or improvised infusion methods that introduce excessive touchpoints, uneven application, and elevated temperatures that can degrade terpenes and cannabinoids. Read more
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has chosen a formerly incarcerated rapper to serve on his City Hall transition team as he prepares to take office in New York City Jan. 1, according to reports. The controversial selection comes as Mamdani, who won November's election on a progressive platform, assembles his transition team. Mamdani's appointment of Mysonne Linen, 49, was announced in a Nov. 26 Instagram post from Until Freedom, a New York City"based social-justice organization, where Linen is a leader.
Convicted Russian cryptocurrency fraudster Roman Novak and his wife Anna watched each other being tortured to death in the UAE desert after their kidnappers failed to extract 380 million UK pounds from their accounts.
Dummkopf Trumpf viciously insulting a reporter: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. You are an obnoxious, terrible reporter. It is always the same thing with you!" And here is the Dotard-in-Chief suddenly jolting himself awake during a boring Cabinet meeting prior to haranguing the journalist: "Zzzzz"
MAGA extraordinaire Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is preparing to enter the race for NYS governor...
This is like something you might see in a Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon where Wile E. Coyote gets an Acme Su-34 and the ejector seat slams him into the roof of the hangar.
Russia keeps coming up with new and inventive ways to fuck up.
The passage of the law will end a legal challenge pending in Springfield federal court challenging the Minority Teachers program for unconstitutionally favoring people based on race in the name of "diversifying" the ranks of public school teachers in Illinois. Those who brought the challenge declared victory in the days after Pritzker signed the new law. "Illinois cannot disqualify students from competing for a taxpayer-funded college scholarship because of their race," said attorney Samantha Romero-Drew, of the nonprofit constitutional legal advocacy organization, the Pacific Legal Foundation. "Race-based discrimination is a blatant violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief " some of which former military leaders said would be illegal " Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.
Two former DHS officials who served under both Dummkopf Trumpf and former POTUS Joe Biden report the Dotard-in-Chief is considering firing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem "really soon" in a staff shakeup that could come in time for the New Year.
After two separate federal courts ruled that Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan were unequivocally disqualified from their positions at the Justice Department, the self-serving Trumpf junta continues describing the two attractive ambulance chasers as AUSAs on official government websites.
The state's worst grades went to energy, inland waterways, roads and stormwater, all receiving a D. California roads are often picked on for being some of the worst in the country, and according to the report, about a third of the state's roads are in poor condition. Bridges also fared poorly in the report with a grade of C-. More than 65% of the structures are older than 50 years, the typical lifespan, and need significant reinvestment to ensure their longevity. Even the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the state's biggest tourist attractions, still needs to secure more funding to finish an ongoing retrofitting project. Earlier this year, a report from the National Transportation Safety Board found that seven California bridges had an "unknown level of risk" for collapse. Read more
To protect their money, the United States and European nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups of outside experts, known as supervisory boards, to monitor spending, appoint executives and prevent corruption. Over the past four years, a New York Times investigation found, the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged that oversight, allowing graft to flourish. Read more
