Not so difficult: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized after experiencing 'flu-like symptoms' www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Der Spiegel writes about Stephen Miller in all of its brutality: open.substack.com/pub/derspieg...

“Just one more thing, sir. You said Epstein files a hoax, you’re in them thousands of times. Affordability is a hoax, yet you’re on an affordability tour. Tough on drugs, then freed a 400-ton trafficker. Law & order who pardoned 169 who assaulted cops. Frankly, Mrs. Columbo says you’re a criminal.”

Looks like the LA Kings and Carolina Hurricanes announcers are doing a jam for today’s game.

“Vocalist and founder of Gun Ghaol, Colin Stone, told The National that while the languages have been combined in folk and traditional music before, they were yet to collide in heavy metal music – something that he was keen to change.” www.thenational.scot/news/2581378...

Auditors at Bitpanda’s German subsidiary flagged information security issues, echoing regulator’s concerns www.icij.org/investigatio...

If Canada keeps offering, one of these times we’ll say yes: www.kiro7.com/news/local/c...

California has joined the World Health Organization’s GOARN on its own after the US’s departure. We are not a sovereign member state with full voting rights but are part of its network for disease detection and response. www.abc10.com/article/news...

After snub, Newsom completes Davos mission to excoriate Trump on world stage www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Forecasting Winter storms in Texas:

Denmark and Greenland lets us know exactly what they think: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

New state capital in Solvang? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

None of this suddenly appeared: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

More truths from Scotland: www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

What a mess—multiple planes all getting out of the projected crash zone without hitting each other. Then there’s all the post explosion trash in the ocean and coming up on the beach: www.propublica.org/article/spac...

I just received a “snow begins in 24 minutes” weather message. Feh…,

First Santa grabbed by ICE this week: comicskingdom.com/oddly-enough...

Deer here!

And the storm is still offshore. link.sfchronicle.com/view/5e7400a...

Good luck with this! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd... What’s going to be in the Public Domain (yay!)

Frustrated Trump Struggling To Find Any Infrastructure Left In Indiana To Destroy — theonion.com/frustrated-t...

“The Department of National Defence is scrambling to figure out how it will clothe, equip and train hundreds of thousands of new reservists envisioned under an ambitious mobilization proposal that Canada’s top military commander describes as a work in progress.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Well, this is a hearty “f-you governor” by the Indiana legislature: “This could be the first time in decades that legislators have not abided by a governor’s call for a special session. The state Constitution and code don’t explicitly require it.” indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/14/i...

Because even with the FAA warning, and the major airlines cancelling flights, *someone* is going to wander into Venezuelan airspace.

Um, shooting down commercial and civilian aircraft? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Indiana legislators, fearing for their lives, vote against what their constituents overwhelmingly want: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“The Index of Consumer Sentiment, a continuing survey that has been maintained by the University of Michigan since 1958, is the lowest it has been in 40 years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/d...

The Tartan Army is coming to the US! Don’t worry—they’re really quite nice. www.thenational.scot/sport/256423...

“…Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of Google engineers in order to spy on Google employees. Accordingly, the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information,” www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Local wolves have figured out how to get to the traps and eat the bait: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UT Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue fed a lot of “low quality” items to LLMs, and guess what? GIGO still works! arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928

“The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that forgery charges filed in Clark County can move forward against Nevada’s six so-called “fake electors” who sought to overturn the 2020 election for President Donald Trump.” thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

Scientists hope to find out why the Lynx is leucistic: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I don’t blame them. www.techradar.com/pro/the-inte...

Yay! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Oops… www.latimes.com/california/s...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Without access to their phones, students went to the school library: www.wweek.com/news/schools...

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nancy Pelosi is sick of their bullshit.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...