... indicted an ex-FBI informant on Thursday evening for allegedly lying about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden's involvement with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm. ...

Will MAGA change their narrative now that it seems to be based upon lies?

Also, along those lines...

@#2 ... Big Sales are always popular, and DJT and America are For Sale to the highest bidders. ...

That's the way it is looking.

The way to getting what you want from the Trump-elect administration looks to be through his ego and wallet.

More from the article...

... "We have a lot of great executives coming in, the top executives, the top bankers, they're all calling," Trump said at a press conference Monday in Florida, adding that he recently met with billionaire Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Alphabet Inc.'s Google.

The president-elect was speaking to reporters after announcing that SoftBank Group Corp. planned to invest $100 billion in the US following his meeting with Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son.

Trump has held a series of conversations with tech leaders at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks: a November dinner with Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg and meetings with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook last week. Trump also said he plans to meet with the billionaire founder of Amazon.com Inc. Jeff Bezos this week.

"I had dinner with, sort of, almost all of them, and the rest are coming," Trump said, describing the outreach from the business community as "one of the big differences between the first term."

"In the first term everybody was fighting. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend," he said.

The president-elect had a mixed record with top business leaders during his first White House term. Trump dissolved two economic advisory councils only months after forming them as business leaders quit en masse following his response to a White nationalist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Other executives kept Trump at arm's length, fearing backlash from employees or customers. ...

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... For the first time ever, the National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for San Francisco as a system roared on shore Saturday morning, bringing damaging winds.

The National Weather Service said that it received reports of downed trees and power lines throughout the region. As of early Saturday afternoon, it was unclear whether the damage was from a tornado. The National Weather Service said it is sending crews to survey the damage and determine if a tornado touched down.

Roger Glass, a meteorologist in the Weather Service's Monterey, California, office, told the Associated Press that San Francisco has not had a tornado touchdown since 2005. That tornado did not have a warning before it struck the city, he told the AP.

"This was the first ever warning for a possible tornado in San Francisco. I would guess there wasn't a clear signature on radar for a warning in 2005," he told the AP. ...

@#36 ... Sunset time is not a metric ...

I have only presented it as sunset time. In that respect, it is a metric.

And I may have also taken a position to try to educate folk that the sunset time is not the sole determination of the winter solstice.

:)

@#3 ... News feeds on itself. ...

I do not deny that.

But when the ~officials~ say things like ... ~we do not know what they are doing~ along with, ~but they are not posing a danger.~

That raises a level of concern for me.

If those officials apparently admit they do not understand them, then how can those very same officials state that the drones do not poses a threat.

OK, that aside, at this point for me, there seems to be too much evidence and not enough explanation.

While I do laud the public officials for saying, ~we have not a clue.~

I also castigate them for assuring that there is no threat.

If they admit they have no clue, how can they dismiss the drones?

... and now Germany?

More from the article...

... Legends Tower was originally intended as the USA's second-tallest skyscraper. But following a positive reception, it underwent a redesign to become the overall tallest skyscraper in the country.

It will be located on the site of a parking lot, near a railroad track and a U-Haul storage facility, and will comprise four towers, the largest of which will reach a height of 1,907 ft (581 m). This is a nod to the year Oklahoma became the USA's 46th state and means that it will be 130 ft (39 m) taller than the One World Trade Center in New York City, which is the USA's current tallest building.

It's this ambitious height that seems to be the sticking point. According to local newspaper The Oklahoman, the Oklahoma City Airport Trust's Airports Director Jeff Mulder has warned the building will endanger flight safety.

Records obtained by The Oklahoman show that Mulder contacted the Federal Aviation Administration with his concerns. Additionally officials at the Will Rogers International Airport, Wiley Post Airport, and Tinker Air Force Base believe that flights will be disrupted due to the building and that it will force pilots to spend more time circling before landing.

Whether or not these complaints will derail the project entirely or perhaps require some sort of compromise or redesign, remains to be seen. However, for now, construction work has been delayed until sometime in 2025. ...

@#34 ... The winter solstice does not apply in Connecticut? ...

Oh, the winter solstice applies here in the Nutmeg State. (and as an aside, Nutmeg State?)

But I digress.

The winter solstice is not defined by the sunset time, it is defined by the length of daylight.

Look at the link in @33.

Look at the two columns, "Sunrise/Sunset" and "Daylength."

@#3

Wow, lots of stuff in that comment.

So ... what's yer point?

@#2

At this point, I am wondering what Syria will be.

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...The idea seemed to capture a growing sense that traditional journalists have lost their position at the center of the media ecosystem. Polls show that trust in mainstream news media has plummeted, and that nearly half of all young people get their news from "influencers" rather than journalists.

In its place, they argue, are right-wing digital creators who have found hordes of fans online. Rumble, for instance, is tiny compared with YouTube, but it is a primary source of news for millions of Americans, according to Pew Research Center. On election night, its active viewership topped out at more than two million, and the company said in a statement that it averaged more than 67 million monthly active users in the final quarter of 2024.

If Rumble was the media now, I wondered what it would be like to consume an all-Rumble diet. So on Nov. 18, about two weeks after the election, I deleted my news apps, unsubscribed from all my podcasts and filtered all my newsletters to the trash. And for the next week, from early morning till late at night, I got all my news from Rumble.
An alternate reality

I started by visiting Rumble's homepage on Monday morning where I saw my first recommended video.

It was about the risk of nuclear war, with an A.I.-generated photo of President Biden laughing maniacally above a headline that read: "WWIII INCOMING?! Biden Authorizes Strike on Russia Ahead of Trump Taking Office!!" ...

Yeah, this article (likely an OpED, imo) raises a good point.

In Texas, apparently the land of "freedom" now seems to pass laws parading "freedoms" now, in their actions, appear to want to restrict freedom.

So, how does Texas rationalize their apparent conflation of freedom with their restriction of freedom?

@#32 ... I prefer standard time and it's the actual time. ...

Yup Standard Time has that going for it. Noon in Standard Time is when the sun is highest in the sky.

But here in Connecticut, we have just passed the day of the earliest sunsets. From now on, the sunsets will be later and later until next year. Even though that daylight length is still getting shorter. Quite the conundrum, eh?

And this one ...

OK, two songs just came up on the playlist here. Both seem apropos ...

The first is from way back when Pink Floyd was more of a "soundtrack" band for movies ...

@#22 ... This entire thread is a BS lie. ...

How so.

Please be specific.

Or is this just yet another of your unsubstantiated accusations?

So, yeah, please be specific.

@#5 ... Which party do you think gets more money from healthcare executives? ...

I'd say Democrats.

To wit ...

@#7

More details ...

@#4 .. You mean ABC and George Stephanopoulos? ...

In my view on that deflection...

Yes.

Pennies for Disney to contribute to a charity?

And you seem to think that is a victory?

OK, maybe this is just me, but there seems to be something occurring.

Why all these drone sightings?

What that "something" might be is unknown to me.

@#1 ... We have had enough of racism, ...

Your comment seems to imply some manner of an organization.

So ... Who is the "we" you speak of?

@#4 ... So, as I have mentioned previously, the less informed voters seem to choose the candidate more upon name recognition than policy proposals? ...