They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

First-hand experience: many manuals, blueprints, photos, specifications, & test data of Apollo, Skylab, Viking Mars, etc devices and equipment have not yet been digitized. This will be lost forever! Https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html

Debut of latest Novichok variant? Https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/12/31/8014171/

Destroying libraries - EXACTLY the same as burning books

The new launch position also puts Boston, NY, & Washington in range of this weapon.

Chemist here. Short-term toxicity aside (!!), ClO2 is well-known to cause DNA damage - longer term ticking cancer time bombs?

When folks like Oxfam & MSF are getting thrown out... It truly looks like right-wing Zionists have chosen genocide

Moving nuclear weapons closer to European targets - not a move by those wanting peace. Bonus FunFact: also places Boston, NY, & Washington, DC within range. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Folks gloss over a CRITICAL fact: Russia has the GPS coordinates of over 100 American cities pre-programmed into their nuclear warheads. They are NOT our "friend"!

A United States Senator... refusing to pay federal taxes

Gold & silver continue trend. How much is dollar collapse vs Banks & Sovereigns buying?

Pesticide Contamination in the Hair of Children From Colonia San Juan, a Rural Community in Paraguay #DTA #MassSpec analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Post-Christmas reminder: Mary, Joseph, & Jesus... As refugee migrants, fleeing political violence in their home country. (wood carving from Notre Dame, Paris)

Suing artists - a great way to attract future talent to a venue!

Force de frappe? Ne jamais!

Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.

MAHA supporters... decide to expose Indiana children to more mercury neuro-toxins. Https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/24/trump-administration-orders-2-indiana-power-plants-to-keep-burning-coal/

N. Korean ammunition & troops for Russia's Ukraine war... Repaid with Russian submarine technology. N Korean missiles sitting 10 minutes flight time from US cities? Https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-submarine.html

While Richard Nixon never went to prison, his attorney general, John Mitchell, was convicted of perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice and served 19 months in federal prison.

Note that the SAME appeal for a holiday truce was made by Ukraine to Russia, & Putin said "nyet!"

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

FunFact: China has spent *decades* of R&D to become the world's leader in "robotics use in shipyards"

Venezuela, Cuba, Canal Zone, Greenland... Is the USA now treating neighbors just like Putin would?

Serious question: How are business managers going to decide to make multi-billion dollar investments, if negotiated permits can just go "poof"?

USA claims "we are at war with Venezuela" & "being invaded by immigrants". We are not sleeping in basements on Christmas Eve, for fear of being bombed in our sleep!

Putin, getting an Ethnic Cleansing "two-fer" www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/vladisl...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Definitely not a bubble in any kind of way

Folks really need to understand... The US is not the world's hottest economy

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

When US foreign policy aligns with Exxon & Chevon business models:

Latest shot across the bow for. Smithsonian Museums. Obviously written by folks ignorant of how museums work. Smithsonian belongs to ALL the people, not just MAGA. Https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/letter-to-the-smithsonian-review-of-smithsonian-exhibitions-and-materials/

"Just Words"! Actions: NASA personnel chopped, NASA R&D support cut, limited coordination among SpaceX, BlueOrigin, Boeing, etc. astronaut safety de-emphasized. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Incredibly unsupported by any science, particularly proteomics studies of these viruses. Good surgeon, terrible biochemist.

1.5-2.0% of babies are born with indeterminate genitals &/or sex chromosomes. These kids no longer get appropriate medical care? Https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/18/nx-s1-5647789/transgender-gender-affirming-care-rfk-jr-dr-oz-trump

FunFact: actually, 1.5-2.5% of all children born are "intersex", with indeterminate genitals &/or chromosomes. Most parents & physicians are understandably hesitant to discuss this much.

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

FunFact: In 1954, the CIA & United Fruit overthrew the Democratic government of Guatemala. "They stole our land & crops" Screwing with Latin American systems is a "dark US tradition". And we wonder why S & Central Americans have unstable governments.

So the USA is going to war for Chevron, Baker Hughes, & Halliburton?

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

The bottom just fell out of the Russian budget.

Serious nautical & geography question: How is a small open boat off the western coast of Colombia going to get across open sea to "narco-tracfic" to San Diego?

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Breaking Overnight: Ukraine has blown up a Russian submarine for the first time, using its Sub Sea Baby underwater drones The cost of a Varshavyanka-class submarine (Kilo-class by NATO) is estimated at around $400 million. Due to sanctions, building one could cost up to $500 million.