Navajo citizens in Southwestern states have reported "negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants" in the week since Trump issued a series of strict immigration-related executive orders, according to Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren.
Elon Musk popularity: Despite his role in Trump's inner circle and overseeing DOGE, Elon Musk's popularity is waning. A recent poll shows he's becoming more unpopular with the public. Elon Musk's popularity has been decreasing since he took over the Department of Government Efficiency. A Wall Street Journal poll shows half of the respondents view his advisory role under Trump unfavorably.
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The last of 43 escaped monkeys has returned to the Alpha Genesis research lab in Yemassee, S.C., nearly three months after an attendant accidentally left two doors unsecured. read more
About a year ago, security researcher Sam Curry bought his mother a Subaru, on the condition that, at some point in the near future, she let him hack it. read more
@#13 ... Obama said in 2007 ...
Conservatives said in the 1990's ...
How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate (2013)
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... This came up at Tuesday's Western Republican Leadership Conference Debate, where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich tussled on the question:
ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.
GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.
GINGRICH: Wait a second. What you just said is not true. You did not get that from me. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: And you never supported them?
GINGRICH: I agree with them, but I'm just saying, what you said to this audience just now plain wasn't true.
(CROSSTALK)
ROMNEY: OK. Let me ask, have you supported in the past an individual mandate?
GINGRICH: I absolutely did with the Heritage Foundation against Hillarycare.
ROMNEY: You did support an individual mandate?
ROMNEY: Oh, OK. That's what I'm saying. We got the idea from you and the Heritage Foundation.
GINGRICH: OK. A little broader.
ROMNEY: OK.
(Romney was prepared to go on, but Michele Bachmann, in her usual role as the person who makes the debates less useful, interjected and changed the subject. Here's a YouTube video of the entire debate. The Gingrich-Romney exchange begins at the 27:38 mark.) ...
@#42
Found this ...
Donald Trump calls China's AI DeepSeek breakthrough a 'wakeup call' to US industry
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@#2
Well, yeah.
Ethics watchdog issues conflict of interest warning to Musk's Doge agencywww.theguardian.com
... A leading ethics watchdog has issued warnings to Donald Trump's billionaire ally Elon Musk and the "department of government efficiency" (Doge), an agency Trump has stated he will create, claiming its use of encrypted messaging apps potentially violates the Federal Records Act (FRA).
American Oversight, which uses litigation to obtain public records and expose government misconduct, argues that Musk's leadership of Doge raises "significant ethical concerns about potential conflicts of interest", given his business empire and the substantial impact that Doge could have on federal agencies.
The warnings stem from reports that members of Doge, which aims to carry out dramatic cuts to the US government, are using the encrypted messaging app Signal with an auto-delete feature, which could hinder the preservation of official records. ...
fwiw, another view ...
Tests identify H5N9 avian flu at California duck farm
www.cidrap.umn.edu
... Highly pathogenic H5N9 avian flu has been identified for the first time in US poultry, on a duck meat farm in California that experienced an outbreak in November 2024, according to a notification today from the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH).
Both H5N9 and H5N1 were detected at the duck farm in Merced County, according to tests conducted by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratory. The event began on November 23, with clinical signs that included increased deaths in the ducks.
State officials quarantined the affected farm, and a culling operation of the facility's nearly 119,000 birds was completed on December 2. Scientists with the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), state partners, and wildlife officials are conducting a comprehensive epidemiologic investigation. ...
Paul Overstreet - Love Helps Those (1988)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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