Donald Antoinette is grinching your Christmas but wants to bill taxpayers up to $45 million for his birthday party.
“When asked about the price tag, Mr. Trump said it would be ‘peanuts compared to the value of doing it.’”
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Army anniversary parade on Trump's birthday could cost up to $45 million
A military parade next month will feature hundreds of Army vehicles and thousands of soldiers.Eleanor Watson (CBS News)
Textual Analysis for Attack Recognition: Application to Real Data
Applying textual analysis to detect patterns in real logs collected from several servers — how well does this work on real data?Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
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THE RISE AND FALL OF ELAGABALUS ROME'S TRANSGENDER TEEN EMPEROR
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President Tinubu to Attend Pope Leo XIV’s Inauguration Mass at Vatican
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja for Rome, Italy, on Saturday to attend a solemn mass at St. Peter’s Square marking the beginning of Pope LeoOlumide Johnson (CreebHills)
After SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Asks FAA to Change Starship 9 Flight Plans
Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads.ProPublica
Gold Recovers Some Losses as Weak US Data Spur Rate-Cut Bets
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Chinese Startup Trials First AI Doctor Clinic in Saudi Arabia
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Trump administration officials say Secret Service is investigating Comey's '86 47' social media post
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Meta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial
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Meta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial
Meta has asked Judge James Boasberg for summary judgment based on partial findings in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit over Instagram and WhatsApp.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
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EFF to California Lawmakers: There’s a Better Way to Help Young People Online
We’ve covered a lot of federal and state proposals that badly miss the mark when attempting to grapple with protecting young people’s safety online.Electronic Frontier Foundation
UN forecasts slower global economic growth following Trump's tariffs and trade tensions
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Tornare bambini in 3, 2, 1... Ecco il mio breve reportage della mostra #BackInTimeTheExhibition a Marcallo con Casone con annessa intervista a #KevinPike per celebrare #RitornoAlFuturo e i suoi primi quarant'anni.
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US poised to dial back bank rules imposed in wake of 2008 crisis
US poised to dial back bank rules imposed in wake of 2008 crisis
Regulators preparing to cut capital requirements that are the target of vigorous criticism from Wall StreetMartin Arnold (Financial Times)
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#Smith, #woman from #Georgia was declared brain-dead in February She was 9weeks #pregnant, #abortions are allowed till 6, so she's kept on #life-support without rights as mere vessel
Her son thinks she's alive
Her fetus has #health issues if he can be born, he probably will be severely #disabled
Her family is retraumatized every day!
Has to pay for #medical expenses without any choice
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Georgia hospital keeping brain-dead woman alive due to abortion ban, family says
A pregnant woman declared brain-dead has been kept on life support for months to comply with Georgia's strict anti-abortion law, family members say.Jeff Amy, Sudin Thanawala and Geoff Mulvihill | The Associated Press (NBC New York)
In 2012, Pope Leo XIV Slammed the Media for Its Liberal Bias and Promoting Abortion
From Lifenews.com
More than a decade before he was elected and addressed the media as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV had spoken about evangelisation amid modern media in an address that is still accessible, a Vatican expert spotlighted this week.
In 2012, then-Father Robert Prevost gave an address at a Synod about evangelisation convened by Pope Benedict XVI, Sandro Magister explained in a May 13 article for his blog. The address considers how several Church Fathers responded to the non- and anti-Christian media of their time, which in turn provides insight for evangelising amid the present-day’s media culture.
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Magister described then-Fr. Prevost’s remarks as “astonishing, for the acuteness of the diagnosis of the mediatic distortions of today’s society, but even more for the reference to the Fathers of the Church — from Augustine to Ambrose and Leo the Great to Gregory of Nyssa — as teachers brilliant in taking up the challenges of communication of their time, and therefore in understanding how to best evangelize the society of the late empire.”
In his address during the 2012 Synod on Evangelization, then-Fr. Prevost said that mass media in the West “is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel; for example, abortion, homosexual lifestyle, euthanasia.”
Mass media may be tolerant of religion when the latter does not directly contradict the media’s positions on ethical problems, but if religious leaders do speak out, the media label their messages “as ideological and insensitive in regard to the so-called vital needs of people in the contemporary world,” he said.
In order to effectively evangelize against media-created ethical falsehoods, catechists and religious leaders need to develop better understanding of laboring amid the current media climate, he urged.
Church Fathers were successful in evangelizing “in great part because they understood the foundations of social communication appropriate to the world in which they lived,” then-Fr. Prevost said. “Consequently, they understood with enormous precision the techniques through which popular religious and ethical imaginations of their day were manipulated by the centers of secular power in that world.”
Magister shared the full text of the address, which can be accessed here.
LifeNews Note: McKenna Snow writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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Pope Leo XIV in 2012 spoke about evangelization amid modern media in an address that is still accessible, a Vatican expert spotlighted.McKenna Snow (CatholicVote.org)
Red Sea Adventure Depleted US Stockpiles — Navy Secretary
The United States has used large amounts of air defense munitions against the Houthis since October 2023 and is now replenishing its stockpiles with industry help, US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan said on Wednesday.Sputnik International
This is the kind of thing they wouldn't even put in a terrible satirical movie about the dumbing down of America.
Food stamps are one of the most cost effective programs ever devised. Not only do you feed people who need it, which is the most pro-life thing I can think of, but the money goes to stores, truck drivers and delivery personnel, and farmers.
For every dollar spent on food stamps, $1.50 to $1.79 in stimulus to the economy is generated.
This is both stupid and cruel.
Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts - The American Prospect
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Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts
House Republicans plan to cut a staggering $300 billion from SNAP, far more than they’d originally planned.Emma Janssen (The American Prospect)
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food. Literally just food. “You wanna eat? Fuck you.”
We could have a lengthy discussion about how poverty, hunger, and lack of health support is the source of economic breakdowns in society. About how they are the root of crime and violence.
But let’s just break it down to something simple: food. They want people to be hungry.
That’s some primal malevolence.
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The video game website Polygon was founded in 2012 by Vox Media and while it still exists, it's vastly changed as a result of being sold to Valnet a couple of weeks ago, with the majority of staff being laid off. @aftermath.site's @nathangrayson.bsky.social spoke to former staff, some of whom had been there since the beginning, about why their time at the site meant so much to them. "Sometimes it’s tough to work in something fun like games, because when the world crumbles around you, it all starts to feel a little meaningless," said Ryan Gilliam, former guides producer. "But — stupid as it sounds — I always tried to tell myself that, with our guides, we were helping people enjoy their hobby a little more, and make their game time a little more relaxing. I wasn’t making a difference in my 9 to 5, but in my head, there were people who were making a difference who would come home and try to relax for a few hours before getting back out there. And in those moments of relaxation, they’d pull up a Polygon guide for 'Persona 5' classroom answers, or a walkthrough on how to get the latest 'Destiny' Exotic. I don’t know if that ever happened, but the thought always made me smile."
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NEW: DHS wants 20,000 National Guard troops to help with migrant deportations. Will they be transporting, securing, or even arresting people? What could go wrong?
🔴🇺🇸An Old American Sting In Progress: Rubio attempts to create a framework for Trump to blame Ukrainians for refusing Putin’s terms after Trump agrees to them using Kremlin propaganda of ‘Putin’s terms are reasonable’, and “let’s just get it over with” (The Guardian VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
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Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of software engineering AI models, claiming its largest model matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
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Windsurf, a startup the develops popular AI coding tools, announced the launch of its first-ever frontier AI models.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
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Trump’s Corruption Is a Huge Problem. But It’s a Hard Sell to Voters.
The scant polling evidence suggests that corruption is not a decisive factor for voters—yet there is a way for Democrats to leverage the president’s malfeasance in next year’s midterm elections.The New Republic
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There are plans to completely redo the area around the central train station in Stockholm and I was just amazed at how much of the planned improvements are from removing cars.
The website is in Swedish but its worth taking a look if you're interested.
Israeli Army Bombs Gaza Hospital after False Tunnel Claim
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Israeli military falsely claimed the existence of a Hamas tunnel under the European Gaza Hospital before launching two deadly airstrikes on the site within 24 hours, killing 34 Palestinians, according to local reports.Tasnim News Agency
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NATO's procurement agency, NSPA, is under investigation for alleged corruption and fraud involving military equipment purchases. The investigation involves current and former NSPA employees and stretches to Spain and Luxembourg.
The probe focuses on possible irregularities in the awarding of contracts to defense companies and suspected bribes exchanged for winning contracts.
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NATO's procurement agency under investigation for alleged corruption linked to military contracts
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday that the organization’s procurement agency is cooperating with police investigating corruption and f…Associated Press (Winnipeg Sun)
>alleged corruption and fraud
No shit. Government contracts are insanely corrupt, military and civilian. Privatization is insanity---it's begging for corruption and misuse. Then, once you open the door to privatization, you provide a payoff for more corruption and bribery via lobbying.
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#Microsoft abruptly cuts Microsoft 365 services – including OneDrive, OneNote, and SharePoint to Chinese university, genomics firm https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3305889/microsoft-abruptly-cuts-services-chinese-university-genomics-firmsocial.anoxinon.de - Mastodon
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