President Donald Trump said Wednesday that U.S. forces have seized a "very large" oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, a major escalation of the administration's months of efforts to punish the South American petrostate. "As you probably know we have just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually," Trump said at an event at the White House. "It was seized for a very good reason." Read more
Best I've heard so far is F*** ICE.
The Trump administration seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation publicly, said the interdiction was carried out by the U.S. Coast Guard. Read more
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font instead of Calibri, reversing a change made under the Biden administration. Rubio's predecessor Antony Blinken had adopted Calibri in 2023, saying it was more accessible for people with visual disabilities. But Rubio said this was a "wasteful" diversity move and that Times New Roman was "more formal and professional". The new changes go into effect on 10 December, and apply to both external and internal documents. Read more
Rightwing white supremacist Nick Fuentes (27), a Latino with a long history of making misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic comments, admitted he has never slept with a woman before going on to bash the female gender and suggesting that they should not be allowed to vote.
"Activated on 5 December 2025 and headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC, US Army Western Hemisphere Command (USAWHC) is an operational warfighting theater command headquarters that is focused on homeland defense, defense support to civil authorities, and theater security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere."
Especially interesting that 'remigration' is being popularized in a nation that was built on immigration. But quite apparently, for the current regime of bigots, immigration is only acceptable if the immigrants aren't POC.
Hillbilly hi tech-millionaire VPOTUS JD Vance, who longs for his Brahmin Hindu wife Usha to one day accept Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, was met with jeers of 'Send your wife, kids back to India!' after calling mass migration a 'theft' of the American Dream.
Donald Trump has frequent claimed to have a great memory but new evidence demonstrates otherwise. Trump told members of the media on Dec 3 that "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release - no problem" when asked if he planned on releasing video of the second strike carried out by the US military strike upon a boat that has already been disabled. Just 5 days later on Dec 8, Trump was asked a question in which the reported stated ""you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd". Trump replied "I didn't say that. This is ABC fake news"
As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine
The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting -- covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter. At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence. Who knew?
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.
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.
