Mathematics is the only superpower we have.

Who remembers those mystery drones that appeared this time last year? Was there ever any resolution to that story?

Christmas Bible Study -- The Nativity. You can profitably skip the first seven minutes: youtu.be/mUW5ksNaxI8?...

After the psychotic shitstain designated antifa a terrorist group, antifa decided to turn itself in to the FBI. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

"Finally, there’s the sneakiest thing, which has gone almost entirely under the radar: the plot to undermine the regional Fed bank presidents." @crampell.bsky.social on Trump's quieter threats to the Fed: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iTaf6l

If I had cash lying around right now I would leave it in the bank because there is the strong possibility of a stock market collapse once Trump appoints a new Chairman of the Federal Reserve. I would wait until that particular controversy is over before investing. Build up your emergency fund!

Those sanctions on Russian oil Trump got public praise for? Never really materialized. No enforcement on Russia’s customers. As critics warned, the Trump admin pressures Ukraine but never puts real pressure on Russia, especially not if it requires effort. Because they’d like to see Russia succeed.

Scored a big fat zero on Connections today. There goes my (modest) winning streak! #Connections

Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.

"I don't remember Jeffrey Epstein because of the dementia" might not be as brilliant a response as Trump thinks.

What is Antifa? Why does the FBI consider it the greatest threat to the United States? Trump's FBI explains it all (2 mins): youtu.be/k-XBpm1uJII?...

USA To Be 100% Globalized Under Trump Cash-for Citizenship Scam. Russian oligarchs can buy aquifers/raise cost of water, CCP can buy the land, Sharia advocates can get box stores. Middle class to be serfs as lower class starves: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"In this latest purge, it blocked abortion hotlines in countries where abortion is legal, banned queer and sex-positive accounts in Europe, and removed posts with even non-explicit, cartoon depictions of nudity." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

REUTERS: Trump Demands *International* Immunity for His Crimes

How the British Invented Fire Within three years someone will discover that fire was invented in China 500,000 years ago & within three more someone will find fire in Africa that is 600,000 years old. So we must start boasting about this right away, while we still can! www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

MacKenzie Scott’s $7 billion year: fortune.com/2025/12/10/m...

“The world really has to wake up and do something about chemical pollution. I would argue that the problem of chemical pollution is every bit as serious as the problem with climate change.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"US army veteran faces deportation as more non-US citizen military members are swept up by ICE raids" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump now says, bizarrely, that the farmer bailout wouldn’t be possible without the tariffs. Hilariously, it also wouldn’t be necessary were it not for the tariffs.

One scientist said the new research "provides rare causal evidence" and "not just a correlation" of the dangers posed by forever chemicals to infants. ​

When ICE can pepper spray a three-year-old girl you have to ask yourself some hard questions about what it means to be an American in 2025.

This is what happened when the pedophile president's ICE Nazis raided a neighborhood in Elgin, Illinois. 😳👇

Pam Bondi and Scientology #cults www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-do...

MAGA-on-MAGA violence continues:

The question, "What is the correct spelling of Hanukkah?" is the wrong question. The real question is, "Are there any spellings of Channuka that we can confidently say are wrong?"

Russia Is Hurting Too (Simon Tisdall)

"It's December and all of Rome is in fever-pitch! Unrestricted festive fun at the state's expense is given free license. . . Preparations on an enormous scale. . . The Saturnalia holiday is meant to be different. . . but now celebrations begin so early there is hardly any difference at all" Seneca

500 games of Connections at four or five minutes each -- that's like a whole forty-hour work week!

What people, including me until just now, have forgotten is how Trump's support for Putin created the necessary conditions for a Russian invasion of Ukraine by undermining ahead of time the American support for the innocent victim that would normally have been taken for granted in such a situation.

Time at last to release my V̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ P̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ Christmas Album, entitled Christmas Reimagined. Have a listen! It starts with a typical jolly holiday song then moves into a kind of concept album about the main players in the Nativity, ending with a few extra new songs: open.spotify.com/album/73UGj2...

I got a comment from CBP on this. They claim this woman was driving her "illegal alien boyfriend's" car and refused to show ID when stopped. Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)

"The constant threat of arrest *is* freedom" -- another one Orwell missed.

I wonder which corporation will be first to introduce the reverse CAPTCHA, where you have to prove that you are *not* a human before you are allowed to post anything. But maybe they already exist and we just weren't informed. I do get the impression that Facebook prefers AI writers. . .

Short sermon from a Missouri farmer: youtu.be/AYdMP03_vC8?...

Guy shot another guy who was carrying an AR-15 at a rally. He apparently thought the guy was about to carry out a mass shooting. But the guy had a legal right to carry the AR-15, so now the man who shot him finds himself charged with manslaughter. Just madness: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is very cool -- three Amazon buildings in downtown Seattle are heated this way -- but you can't do it with the bloated, gigantic 1GW data centers they're trying to build these days. Gotta break them into smaller pieces.

The (Economic, Rhetorical, And Physical) Beatings Will Continue Until The Presidential Approval Rating Improves! https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-economic-rhetorical-and-physical-beatings-will-continue-until-the-presidential-approval-rating-improves/

"How we generate sustained long-term economic growth is an extremely important question, but it’s also a pretty hard one. . . Whether your personal financial contribution to a very poor person in a very poor village in a very poor country would make humanity better off on net is a pretty easy one."

"Kris Kobach (R) announced the charges just one day after Ceballos won reelection in Clearwater . . . Homeland Security has warned that it may begin deportation proceedings to send Ceballos back to Mexico — a country he has not lived in since early childhood." wtfdetective.blog/republican-m...

Apparently, more than two thirds of Laos's GDP comes from cyber fraud. There are several nations that seem to be dependent on it, affecting tens of millions of people: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The war is fake but the war crimes are real.

An archeology program with a fresh approach: youtu.be/2xoNJHMp5Q0?...

"This wholesale deregulation will allow banks to load up on more debt and have less of their own money available to absorb losses when their investments go south." www.ms.now/news/trump-f...

47 Violates Rule 47 Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat Rule 47. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. A person hors de combat is. . . (b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, *shipwreck*, wounds or sickness ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

Corporations are likely going to be able to install something like Grok directly into our brains so that we will have access to encyclopedic information that we cannot distinguish from our own thoughts, BUT it is going to be subtly programmed with the evil agenda of billionaire racists and fascists.

Could we transition to Medicare for all by automatically enrolling babies?

Trump pardons top drug traffickers while murdering small-time hustlers in cold blood and without trial: www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

'Hegseth, following the first striking of a boat in the Caribbean in September, issued a verbal directive to U.S. service members to "kill everybody" with a second strike that would leave no survivors, according to a new report from the Washington Post.' www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Saheb described Cook County’s guaranteed basic income pilot as a "historic success" & said that when the federal government was "stepping back from its responsibilities to working families, Cook County is leading the way to ensure people can afford basic necessities." www.foxnews.com/media/cook-c...

People Ruin Lives (Song of the Week) Something cynical and depressing to cleanse the palate in these difficult days between the season of gratitude and the season of Joy: youtu.be/W1V5O0np6Y4?...