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Monday, November 24, 2025

President Donald Trump's pledge to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota is triggering fear ... read more


Guardian editorial: The Kremlin has barely lifted a finger in recent days. It hasn't needed to. The 28-point US-Russia peace proposal, leaked to the media last week, has thrown Washington, Kyiv and European capitals into disarray, creating precisely the conditions Vladimir Putin has long sought: a negotiating table sharply tilted in the Russian president's favour, with Ukraine cornered into weighing terms it cannot accept and the threat of losing its most important ally hanging over its head. read more


From The Guardian: The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belm, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal. read more


Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday warned that President Donald Trump's focus on Venezuela may lead to a "fracture" among those who were drawn in by his campaign promise of avoiding foreign wars. read more


(CNN) -- A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian Andes has baffled researchers for nearly a century. But a fresh look at the site, called Monte Sierpe, or "serpent mountain," may help archaeologists to decipher why ancient people constructed it hundreds of years ago. The "band of holes," as it's informally called, first garnered attention when National Geographic published aerial photos of the site in 1933. But there are no written records relating to the formation, leaving its purpose open to interpretation " and there have been many. Hypotheses about the holes' use have included defense, accounting, storage, gardening, water collection, and fog capturing purposes. People who support ancient astronaut theory, a belief that aliens are real and shaped early civilizations on Earth, have also suggested extraterrestrial connections. read more


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Unfortunately, the Democratic Party disagrees with you.

#87 | Posted by eberly

Only if the United States hasn't had a decades-long misinterpretation of the word . . .

The Democrats aren't smart enough or have b@ll$ enough to rebrand as Democratic Socialists. They'd attract more Millennials and Gen Xers than you could imagine.

And, Eberly, aren't you horrified at what's happened to the Republican brand? It's shot to hell. When will you abdicate? The national party isn't returning to your middle ground in your lifetime. And more of the local Rs are likely toting the national water than you know.

I've found that's the case in my rural county in Virginia. You write them about a purple issue (dementia) and get a somewhat cynical response (do you need us to vote for certain legislation?).

He advertises as Christian. Conservative. Compassionate. Don't they all?

A short little read from 1955 that I think would appeal to just about everyone interested in this topic:

Philip Wylie, The Answer

www.amazon.com

Major General Marcus Scott is a seasoned veteran of combat, a loyal American, and a skeptic in a volatile world. But amid the aftermath of a nuclear weapons test in the South Pacific, everything Scott believes -- and refuses to believe -- will be turned upside down.

In a pool of clear water lies a single casualty of the blast, a beautiful winged being certainly not of this earth. And when a second celestial creature is discovered following a Russian H-bomb test, the military establishments of two major powers are thrown into chaos. Sworn enemies, each pledged to the other's destruction, they must now deal with the unthinkable and the impossible: that the Cold War has transcended the boundaries of the world, reaching into heaven to bring down angels.

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