German warships are increasing their presence in Greenland, with the tanker Berlin making the first-ever visit in Aug. 2025, followed by frigates like the Sachsen this week, reinforcing Arctic security amidst tensions with Russia and US interest in the island.

"The panel found that in many cases Border Patrol officers were discharging their weapons out of frustration, rather than to guard their safety. It also suggested that officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them."

... meanwhile. Portland police, responding to a call for help, found a man and woman with gunshot wounds. "Officers confirmed that federal agents had been involved in a shooting." Federal agents involved in the shooting are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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In Plain Sight... Genovese mob family infiltrated the cement companies which controlled the construction of high rises in Manhattan, including Trump Plaza. This, while all high-rise construction until then was done using steel. An interesting story.

A Venezuelan-American explains a few things.

Both measures had been unanimously voted in favor by both parties. 1. The vote to override Trump’s veto on a Colorado water project, failed 248-177-1.. 2. The vote to override Trump’s veto on expanding lands for the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida failed 236-188.

Passive voice is strategically used to take agency off the perpetrator, and assign it on the victim.

There.

... meanwhile A theater professor at Austin Peay State University in TN who was fired in September for his “insensitive” social media post after Charlie Kirk’s murder, is back on the job and will receive a $500,000 settlement.

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Rubio worked for his late brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia. They imported & sold exotic animals as a front for moving half a million pounds of cocaine & marijuana. Later, when kingpin Mario Tabraue became a main character on Tiger King, that the cocaine was stuffed into the bodies of snakes.

This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol.

FT title, today.

A journalist hacked white supremacist dating sites, exposing 8,000 profiles and sensitive data. Leaked datasets exposed global white supremacist networks, run by a neoyatzi from Germany.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was dissolved today, ending 58 years the of funding PBS, NPR & local TV/radio stations. Trump & Republicans last year canceled the $1.1 billion in federal funding, the full amount CPB was set to receive over two years.

"For a fluent authority on the language, there’s not someone to turn to, who would have all the answers on definitive words and phrases. Moreover, Ute Mountain Ute tribal members speak a slightly different version of Ute than the Southern Ute tribal members."

In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of CO2 emissions per capita. In the same year, Colorado would have been 14th among the 200 countries on the world Bank's list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.

On this day in 1903, the US Supreme Court decides in the Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock case that Congress can change Treaty terms without tribes' consent. anticolonialhistory.com/event/2/

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In Jan. 2025 Trump declared a "national energy emergency," which led to the weakening of EPA, the canceling of environmental laws, and lots of drilling permits. And then, the "emergency was forgotten. Here are somew thoughts by an actual expert.

An excellent thread

Kindly p a y a t t e n t i o n (we've been inundated with AI fakes & bot/troll posts)

(... and Greenland, Canada, Panama).

Attention, shoppers.

An enlightening thread.

Craig 1 was closing for not complying with clean air regulations, & for economic reasons. In Dec. it also suffered a mechanical failure in a valve that shut down the plant. When it is up and running, Craig Unit 1 would cost $85 million a year to operate. #Colorado

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Most of the 142 buyers sourcing squid from vessels accused of environmental violations, crew abuse and deaths, are based in North America — nearly half in the U.S. and one-third in Canada.

Musk has been “spending time” with the Collinses. While NatalCon was beginning on Friday, Musk appeared on Fox; “Unless birthrates change, civilization will disappear.... Humanity is dying.”

"A permit [for land development]doesn’t actually protect artifacts; instead, it sets out the conditions under which artifacts can be damaged, removed or destroyed."

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

Utahn Shirley announced in December 2021 that he would be taking a two-year break from YouTube to serve on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Santiago, Chile.

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Trump and DOGE laid off 7,000 SSA employees, 12% of the total workforce. This left the agency with record backlogs, as the remaining SSA officers has “struggled to respond to up to 6 million pending cases, and 12 million transactions in its field offices.”

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How to Magically Make Gun Control a Reality: an irony. "The NRA supported the Mulford Act of 1967, a CA law banning the open carry of loaded firearms in public, primarily because it targeted the armed self-defense activities of the Black Panther Party."

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Sweeping science cuts in 2025 halted clinical trials, erased public health data, and forced researchers into impossible choices. Six researchers share their stories.

The brilliant light of Bishop Mariann Edgar Bubbe.

Well... "Garcia is home and free, and Republicans got crushed in elections this year." A good piece, but we are running out of time.