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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Bodycam footage from a workplace raid shows a gang of masked male ICE agents forcibly entering a restroom and telling a woman in a stall to "pull up" her pants. The Sept. 4 raid targeted a granola bar manufacturer in New York, though video has only now been released as part of ongoing legal proceedings. Federal agents can be seen in the footage wearing tactical gear as they kick the door open during the morning raid, ordering workers to the floor and then pushing a stall door as they call for female officers. Factory owners said agents claimed they were hunting a "violent felon," according to Syracuse.com. But it is argued that the Sept. 4 operation ultimately focused on workers and ended with rapid transfers to detention and deportations, separating parents from children.


America's population swelled with around 76 million births from 1946 to 1964, a spike magnified by couples reuniting after World War Two and enjoying postwar prosperity. Boomers were better educated and richer than previous generations, and they helped grow a consumer-driven economy. In their youth, they pushed for social change through the Civil Rights Movement, the women's rights movement and efforts to end the Vietnam War. "We had rock n' roll. We were the first generation to get out and demonstrate in the streets. We were the first generation, that was, you know, a socially conscious generation," said Diane West, a metro Atlanta resident who turns 80 in January. "Our parents played by the rules. We didn't necessarily play by the rules, and there were lots of us." Read more


KYIV, Ukraine -- The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year conflict, but sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, along with the management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, remain unresolved, Ukraine's president said. Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke as the U.S. showed the 20-point plan, hammered out after marathon talks in Florida in recent days, to Russian negotiators. A response is expected from Moscow on Wednesday, Zelenskyy said.


" and puts the ball in Putin's court

Zelensky said he expected to receive a response from Moscow Wednesday after the US side engages with the Kremlin. Read more


Dec 24, 2025 - SONG-KUL

In this episode, I am riding to Son Kul lake, which is another high alpine lake in Kyrgyzstan.


The former spokesperson for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Feldstein, said that immediately following the October 2023 surprise attack by Palestinian armed groups to seize Israeli hostages for a prisoner swap, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the catastrophic security breach.


Tuesday, December 23, 2025

the DOJ is already playing games with the Dead Pedo Bestie files sleazy photos of Preznit Fuckwit are mysteriously disappearing from the Epstein website


Last-Minute Holiday Gifts For The Christian Nationalist In Your Life! Whether you're shopping for an authoritarian fundamentalist, or that uncle who thinks vaccines make you gay, these gifts are sure to spread the true meaning of the season. John Fugelsang


...and I didn't speak out - because what in the stupidest fuck ever your Sunday shitwit round-up Read more


Cleaning up my computer a bit, I just came across this link that I had saved from May of last year. To many, I'm sure it sounded alarmist. But 18 months later, the predictions within were startlingly accurate. Even as it was all laid out in front of them, the Dems seemed powerless to stop most of it.


The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones DJI and Autel out of the US market.


Monday, December 22, 2025

San Francisco was affected by a massive power outage over the weekend. It started with a fire at a substation in the city on Saturday afternoon, causing a blackout that at times affected as much as a third of the city, leaving more than 130,000 homes without power. Among the city's affected critical systems were the traffic lights, which paralyzed Waymo's fleet of robotaxis, stopping them in their tracks and clogging traffic.


The U.S. has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, according to flight tracking data and current and former U.S. officials, in a sign of increased security cooperation between the countries. Reuters could not determine what information the flights are meant to obtain.


Heading into a year with midterm elections, 18 percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 73 percent disapprove, which is a record low job approval rating for them, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today.


Explanation: Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom.


Yall wont post it, but I will..


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