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January 9, 2025, PM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Senate advances ‘Laken Riley Act’ with bipartisan support, setting up final vote. If passed, the act would mandate the detention of illegal immigrants charged with an array of crimes. Only nine Democrats voted against moving forward on the Laken Riley Act, a signal the legislation could pass next week.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/09/congress/laken-riley-act-advances-in-senate-00197364

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk Finally Admits DOGE Is Going to Be a Total Bust. Musk is backtracking on his biggest promise about the “Department of Government Efficiency.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-finally-admits-doge-150804597.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency to Speed Tariff Rollout: Donald Trump’s unwavering faith in the power of tariffs was on display again this week as he threatened to use import taxes “at a very high level” against Denmark in his quest to acquire Greenland, and the president-elect is reportedly now considering declaring a national emergency once he takes office to speed the rollout of a new set of tariffs potentially aimed at friends and foes alike.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-considers-declaring-national-emergency-002222982.html

National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins told lawmakers today that the Internal Revenue Service has made significant progress in improving taxpayer service but warned that “continued funding is critical to enable the IRS to successfully deliver on its mission and transform how it works with taxpayers going forward.”
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/national-taxpayer-advocate-delivers-annual-report-to-congress-flags-erc-identity-theft-victim-assistance-processing-delays-and-calls-for-adequate-funding-to-improve-taxpayer-services

# Education / Schools
The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real. The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down.
https://www.wired.com/story/school-swatting-torswats-brad-dennis/

# Gov / Politics
“Outrageous”: Rep. Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland & Canada. At a news conference Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his threats against Gaza, Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/8/trump_panama_greenland_canada

Trump faces growing threat of ‘gray zone’ warfare. He’s contending with a growing threat of ‘gray zone’ attacks from foreign adversaries, from drone surveillance to acts of sabotage in the air, sea and on land.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5072969-hybrid-attacks-threat-trump/

Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/01/09/can-nonviolent-struggle-defeat-a-dictator-this-database-emphatically-says-yes/

Donald Trump’s Imperial State of Mind. The president-elect’s musings about annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal may just be bluster—or misdirection. But they could have chilling implications on the global stage.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trumps-imperial-state-of-mind

The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term. The Roberts court used a novel doctrine to blunt or undo many of Biden’s policy initiatives. But the president-elect was left curiously untroubled by this de facto judicial veto during his last term.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190016/supreme-court-major-questions-trump

The Democrats’ Shameful, Immediate Surrender to Trump. The president-elect hasn’t even taken office yet, and already Democrats of all stripes are pledging to work with him.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190043/laken-riley-immigration-bill-trump-democrats-surrender

A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada! It’s a much sweeter deal. More social mobility, more representative government, plus everybody gets health care.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190031/trump-america-surrender-canada-freedom

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story. As Trump unleashes vile attacks on Democrats over the Los Angeles horrors, a leading historian of conservatism explains how this fits into the right’s broader project of degrading public life.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-new-republic-1991457/3752282360043-trump-s-ugly-hateful-eruptions-over-ca-wildfires-hint-at-darker-story

# Gov / Politics / Global
Spanish premier accuses Musk of leading ‘far-right international,’ backing ‘heirs of Nazism’: ‘The fascism that we thought we had left behind is now the 3rd political force in Europe,’ says Spanish premier, warning that autocratic regimes are advancing
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/spanish-premier-accuses-musk-of-leading-far-right-international-backing-heirs-of-nazism/3445641

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez denounces Elon Musk at Franco anniversary event. Sánchez accuses X owner of inciting hatred as country marks 50 years since start of its return to democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/spain-pm-pedro-sanchez-denounces-elon-musk-at-franco-anniversary-event

Starmer urged to scrap funding for Musk’s firms after billionaire receives £190m from UK taxpayers. Firms owned by Elon Musk have raked in more than £190m of taxpayer cash since 2016, sparking calls for Keir Starmer to prevent any further public funds going to the billionaire’s sprawling business empire
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-musk-tesla-grooming-x-b2675852.html

UK Prime Minister Slams Elon Musk For ‘Amplifying The Far Right’ With ‘Lies’ About Rape Gangs. Keir Starmer defended his record investigating “grooming gangs,” after Elon Musk inserted himself into British politics and called on the prime minister to resign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/06/keir-starmer-elon-musk-grooming-scandal/

Winston Churchill’s grandson warns Elon Musk to ‘come through me first’ in staunch defence of Jess Phillips
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/soames-winston-churchill-elon-musk-jess-phillips-b2676443.html

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers arrested a man who attempted to set his car on fire along First Street, NW, near the Grant Memorial. 35-year-old Adrian J. Hinton, of Virginia, was arrested for Unlawful Activities.
https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-arrests-man-who-attempted-light-car-fire

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term: The Roberts court used a novel doctrine to blunt or undo many of Biden’s policy initiatives. But the president-elect was left curiously untroubled by this de facto judicial veto during his last term.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190016/supreme-court-major-questions-trump

Speaker Johnson says House will vote to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court to protect Israel and U.S. interests. Johnson vows to put ICC prosecutor Karim Khan ‘back in his place’
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/01/08/speaker-mike-johnson-international-criminal-court/

# Medical / Health News
UnitedHealth units ordered to pay $165M for misleading consumers
https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/unitedhealthcare-units-ordered-to-pay-165m

# Medical Bio-Engineering / Bio-Science
How CAR-T could help vanquish some autoimmune diseases. CAR-T therapy, in which a patient’s own T cells are engineered to recognize and wipe out disease-causing cells, has completely changed how some cancers are treated in recent years. Like other autoimmune diseases, those in which the immune system attacks one’s own body, lupus is a chronic condition, it doesn’t simply go away.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/09/lupus-treatment-car-t-therapy-breakthrough-german-scientist-georg-schett/#:~:text=The%20therapy%2C%20known%20as%20CAR,the%20body’s%20attack%20on%20itself

# Military / General News
Why Greenland and the broader Arctic have had the Pentagon’s growing attention for years. President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that the United States must take possession of Greenland cast a spotlight upon U.S. military operations on the landmass, as the Arctic ice thins and competition with Russia and China grows.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2025-01-08/trump-greenland-air-base-16416575.html

# Other Interesting Things
Unexpected And Unexplained Structures Found Deep Below The Pacific Ocean. Supercomputer unveils unexpected anomalies lurking in Earth’s lower mantle
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-sunken-worlds-pacific-high-res.html#google_vignette

# Security / Surveillance
What’s this mass surveillance program? Mass surveillance programs allow the U.S. government to warrantlessly and “incidentally” vacuum up Americans’ communications, metadata and content, and store their information in data centers and repositories such as the database authorized by Section 702 – a provision up for reauthorization in 2023.
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3750161714323-whats-this-mass-surveillance-program?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzY0MjY5MTc1NzE%3D

Mass Surveillance Is Dangerous for American Communities: Reforming the Section 702 Spying Regime. Warrantless surveillance of Americans is once again in the public eye, at a moment when its impact on communities of color, immigrants, and protesters has become increasingly clear
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/technology-and-the-law/mass-surveillance-is-dangerous-for-american-communities/

NSA Spying: The US government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in massive, illegal dragnet surveillance of the domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

# Social Media
U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Remained at Historic Levels in 2021, With 27 Percent Rise in Antisemitic Messaging. ADL’s annual assessment found white supremacist events more than doubled year-over-year
https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/phrc/documents/U.S.%20White%20Supremacist%20Propaganda%202021.pdf

White supremacist groups using social media to promote hateful propaganda. White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media. The social media posts are of a distinct type. They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings. They traffic in racist, sexist and homophobic tropes. They revel in the prospect of a “white boy summer.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-supremacists-are-riling-up-thousands-on-social-media

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Samsung teases two tri-fold phones for 2025. One of the biggest teases at CES 2025 this year were two tri-fold phone display concepts shown off by Samsung – and we’re hoping that these prototypes are developed into fully featured smartphones
https://www.techradar.com/phones/samsung-galaxy-phones/samsung-shows-off-two-tri-fold-concept-phones-at-ces-2025-and-i-hope-the-right-one-gets-made

# Veterans / VA
Acute leukemia and cancers to be covered under PACT Act for veterans who served in Mideast, central Asia
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/10/2024-31776/presumptive-service-connection-for-leukemias-multiple-myelomas-myelodysplastic-syndromes-and

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Voices, The Peoples News

January 9, 2025, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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On January 28th, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal
the 2025 Doomsday Clock time at the United States Institute of
Peace in Washington, DC. The announcement will occur during
a live, in-person news conference at 10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT.
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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Republicans Look To Revive Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ With New GOP Trifecta
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3281057/republicans-look-revive-trump-remain-in-mexico-gop-trifecta/

The walls have eyes: How Trump plans to supercharge border security with tech
https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/the-walls-have-eyes-how-trump-plans-to-supercharge-border-security-with-tech/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Expert warns U.S. headed towards ‘small revolutions’: I’m an ex-CEO. My peers are facing the reality that many Gen Zers see corporate America as the enemy
https://fortune.com/2024/12/20/unitedhealthcare-murder-ceos-gen-z-corporate-america-enemy/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Scientists push for a global overhaul of chemical safety to protect kids’ health
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/01/scientists-issue-call-to-arms-to-protect-childrens-health-from-chemicals-causing-disease/

Mitsubishi Chemical cancels Louisiana MMA plant project
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/mitsubishi-drops-plans-for-1-billion-geismar-chemical-plant/article_762a5dea-cdcb-11ef-bc56-af46ba5137cc.html

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk says DOGE’s $2 trillion target for federal spending cuts was just a best case scenario,  now it seems the goal may be too lofty.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-doge-2-120244265.html

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Amazon threw ‘feel-good blitz’ for staff worked so hard they were ordered to bathe: “As many white-collar workers log back on to work after the holiday break, Amazon staffers are reeling from the annual crush known internally as ‘peak,’ which runs from November’s Black Friday through the flood of returned gifts in January.”
https://www.rawstory.com/amazon-warehouses/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump’s energy plans face hurdles beyond Biden’s offshore drilling ban
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/biden-offshore-oil-gas-drilling-ban

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Global
Unveiling Iran’s Secret Oil Operations. A visual deep dive showing how Iranian company Sahara Thunder moves unsanctioned oil around the globe, reconstructed using more than 10,000 leaked emails.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-OIL/zjpqngedmvx/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
“Not enough firefighters”: Historic wildfires rage unabated in Southern California
https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/not-enough-firefighters-historic-wildfires-rage-unabated-in-southern-california/

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials are raking in enormous taxpayer-funded paychecks as its fire hydrants run dry amid massive fires in the area. The department saw “scores” of fire hydrants run dry overnight as firefighters tried to contain raging fires that destroyed hundreds of buildings and continue to burn out of control
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/08/los-angeles-water-and-power-officials-fat-salaries-fire-hydrants-run-dry/

What to Expect from State Governments on Renewable Energy Policy in 2025. As states focus on carrying out existing laws, don’t hold your breath waiting for big moves.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012025/inside-clean-energy-state-government-policy-2025/

# Food General News / Recalls / Alerts
Lawsuit targets FDA for failure to ban harmful food packaging chemicals
https://earthjustice.org/press/2024/health-advocates-sue-fda-to-remove-phthalates-from-food

States step up bans on plastic foam foodware as pollution concerns rise
https://earth911.com/business-policy/eps-foam-packaging-products-bans-expand-to-oregon-california-and-three-other-states/

# General News
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days. After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany’s constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/historian-reveals-how-hitler-dismantled-democracy-in-less-than-two-months/ar-AA1xbNBe

Trump Cares More About Starting Fights Than L.A. Fire Victims. Any suggestion that the disaster — which has already killed two people, destroyed about 1,000 structures and caused 70,000 people to be placed under an evacuation order, would lead to a moment of national unity was in vain.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5075334-trump-sparks-wildfires-battle/

Top Dem Backs Renaming Gulf of Mexico on One Condition: “Well, let me say this: I’d agree to working with Donald Trump on renaming the Gulf of Mexico only if he first agrees to work with us on an actual plan on lowering costs for Americans,” he added. “That’s what the American people want us to focus on first, not on renaming bodies of water.”
https://www.newsweek.com/schumer-will-work-trump-rename-gulf-mexico-one-condition-2012103

Bernie Sanders Shreds Elon Musk Over Foreign Worker Visas In Brutal Fox News Op-Ed: “In recent weeks, the H-1B program has sparked intense debate. Billionaires like Elon Musk claim it is crucial to our economy, arguing that the United States faces a shortage of highly skilled engineers and technology professionals. They are dead wrong.”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bernie-sanders-shreds-elon-musk-over-foreign-worker-visas-in-brutal-fox-news-op-ed/

# Gov / Politics
Senate GOP gears up to dismantle Biden’s regulations. The Congressional Review Act allows a new Congress to nullify late-term regulations, making this period pivotal for reversing policies on climate, consumer protections and financial transparency. The process could shape federal regulations for years and reflect sharp partisan divides on regulatory control.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/senate-gop-gears-up-to-dismantle-bidens-regulations-2670778651.html

Trump has a fighting chance to prevent Arctic meltdown. He should take it.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/trump-has-a-fighting-chance-to-prevent-arctic-meltdown-he-should-take-it/

President-elect Trump and top advisers previewed ambitious plans for 100 executive orders during a meeting with Senate Republicans
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller

Donald Trump huddles with Senate Republicans as GOP leaders disagree on how to pass his agenda
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5070332-trump-gop-agenda-strategy-reconciliation/

Elizabeth Warren Claims Trump’s Threats to Take Foreign Territory Are a Distraction From His Embattled Nominees
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elizabeth-warren-claims-trumps-threats-to-take-foreign-territory-are-a-distraction-from-his-embattled-nominees/

House Republican bill would pave way for Trump to acquire Panama Canal for US: Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) will introduce a bill that would authorize the president to purchase the Panama Canal and put it under U.S. control, an acquisition that President-elect Trump has been pushing over the last several weeks. Johnson plans to introduce the Panama Canal Repurchase Act on Thursday, The Hill has learned.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5074775-republican-bill-panama-canal-trump-purchase/

Other nations are ‘actively pissed off’ by Trump’s territorial ambitions: Other countries, are going from irritated to actively pissed off about this type of type of talk.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-territorial-expansion/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Greenland may become independent if its residents want, but is unlikely to become a U.S. state
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/greenland-independence-is-possible-but-joining-the-us-unlikely-denmark-says/ar-AA1xbI5z

Greenland’s strategic significance is partly due to its mineral, oil, and gas resources. The island’s location between Russia, Europe, and the US is also advantageous for defense and trade purposes, including being home to the northernmost US military base
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/what-would-greenlands-independence-mean-arctic

Canadian politician urges THREE U.S. states to join their country in response to Trump… with an enticing offer. A top Canadian politician has suggested some U.S. states should leave and join their neighbors to the north after Donald Trump’s threats to take over the country. She said they would benefit from universal healthcare and stricter gun laws if they chose to secede.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14264227/canada-politician-states-join-trump-elizabeth-may.html

Denmark Says It’s Open To Conversations With Trump—But Greenland Won’t Become A US State
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/01/08/denmark-says-its-open-to-conversations-with-trump-but-greenland-wont-become-a-us-state/

Elon Musk seeks to install himself as global dictator – and ‘so far it’s working’: expert
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/elon-musk-helped-trump-win-and-is-now-looking-at-europe-many-politicians-there-are-alarmed

Elon Musk’s interference in national debates angers Europe’s leaders
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/08/elon-musks-interference-in-national-debates-angers-europes-leaders

European leaders turn on Elon Musk over attempts to sway voters amid Keir Starmer row. Elon Musk rejects criticism from European leaders of attempting to sway elections outside the US
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/elon-musk-keir-starmer-row-emmanuel-macron-grooming-gangs-b1203290.html

Germany, who once invaded most of Europe, warns Trump about his Greenland plans. Trump reiterated his desire to acquire Greenland, saying that the Arctic island was “critical” for national and economic security.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9gvg3452o

Iran pledges to support Canada, Panama and Greenland against US ‘aggression and terrorism’
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/iran-pledges-support-canada-panama-899555

Russia says closely watching Trump’s Greenland claims. Europena Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says that Greenland’s sovereignty must be respected.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/9/russia-says-closely-watching-trumps-greenland-claims

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
“What message does that send?”: Capitol police chief suggests J6 pardons hurt law enforcement. U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said there should be accountability for those who attack law enforcement
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/06/what-message-does-that-send-capitol-police-chief-suggests-j6-pardons-would-hurt-law-enforcement/

Family Of 5-Year-Old Black Child Allegedly Frisked By Ohio Police During Routine Traffic Stop Speaks Out. Wilson said he complied with all the police orders during the traffic stop to help keep his son calm and knew he had done nothing wrong.
https://www.aol.com/ohio-cops-caught-video-searching-095220598.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
AG Merrick Garland intends to release Special Counsel Jack Smith report on Trump election case
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/08/doj-jack-smith-trump-2020-election-classified-docs

Justice Department to release report related to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case, will withhold information on classified documents case
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5073879-garland-jack-smith-jan-6-report-trump-mar-a-lago/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

# Media
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors. The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

# Medical / Health News
UnitedHealthcare Interrupted Cancer Patient’s Surgery to Demand Justification for Overnight Hospital Stay: ‘Insurance Is Out of Control’: A surgeon shared her frustration with medical insurers after her patient’s operation was interrupted by a phone call from a UnitedHealthcare representative demanding justification for the patient’s overnight hospital stay. Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a board-certified plastic surgeon specializing in DIEP flap bre
https://www.newsbreak.com/latin-times-560143/3750263996010-unitedhealthcare-interrupted-cancer-patient-s-surgery-to-demand-justification-for-overnight-hospital-stay-insurance-is-out-of-control

Hawaii Gov: RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Misinformation Left Dozens Of Kids Dead In Samoa
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaii-gov-rfk-jr-anti-223319777.html

Never-before-seen parasite is resistant to ivermectin. Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related to the whipworm parasite. However, it is significantly more resistant to treatment
https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/never-before-seen-parasite-is-resistant-to-ivermectin

# Military / General News
Pentagon says it has no plans to take Greenland by force: Reporters asked Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh if such plans existed. “I’m certainly not going to get into hypothetical situations. I think that’s for the incoming administration to speak to,” Singh said. “We’re concerned with the real national security concerns that confront this building every day.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_28e95ab6-cdff-11ef-ac7a-77fe587fbe6f.html

# Military General News / Global
An Iranian general said Russia was bombing the empty desert while saying it was attacking Syrian rebels
https://www.aol.com/top-iranian-general-said-russia-050128256.html

# NASA / Space Force
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Evacuated as Los Angeles Burns, it’s a rapidly changing situation.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-closed-due-to-raging-la-fires

# Social
Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds. It turns out that many of the country’s most powerful landlords are using the same AI to jack up your rent — and here’s how.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-rent-too-high

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies. This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/tencent_catl_chinese_military_company_list/

OpenAI Cuts Ties With Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle. “We proactively identified this violation of our policies and notified the developer to cease this activity.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-cuts-off-chatgpt-robot-rifle

Algorithm of Meta developer finds company mission correlates with yerrorist organization, gets fired instantly
https://www.newsbreak.com/winbuzzer-com-302470011/3749052097722-algorithm-of-meta-developer-finds-company-mission-correlates-with-terrorist-organization-gets-fired-instantly

If you’re waiting for Windows 12 I have bad news: Microsoft is seemingly focused on cramming more AI into Windows 11 instead. Microsoft bets on Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11, with no Windows 12 on the horizon
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/if-youre-waiting-for-windows-12-i-have-bad-news-microsoft-is-seemingly-focused-on-cramming-even-more-ai-into-windows-11-instead

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January 8, 2025, PM
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
11 migrants found locked in U-Haul in rural New Mexico: One person is facing human smuggling charges after 11 migrants were found padlocked in the back of a U-Haul box truck shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection said on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJb2wcwHvdc

48 Democrats Vote for a Racist Law to Detain More Immigrants and Empower the Right. The passage of the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act shows what the Right’s anti-immigrant agenda will look like, and how Democrats will aid these attacks.
https://www.leftvoice.org/48-democrats-vote-for-a-racist-law-to-detain-more-immigrants-and-empower-the-right/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Michael Barr Hands the Fed’s Financial Regulation Powers to Trump. The Fed’s vice chair of supervision is stepping down to avoid a fight with the incoming president. It is nearly impossible to pass normal legislation anymore, the federal agency structure is never rationalized or streamlined. New agencies are just piled up over time in an endlessly growing tangle of bureaucracy. That’s why the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is also tasked with some financial regulation responsibilities, along with the SEC, CFTC, OCC, and CFPB.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-08-michael-barr-hands-feds-financial-regulation-powers-to-trump/

# Education / Schools
Vivek Ramaswamy calls out American parents for celebrating ‘the jock over the valedictorian.’ The CEO-turned-politician’s assessment? “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-america-mediocrity-over-excellence-immigration_n_676daaafe4b0186e1db6cfb5

# Food General News / Recalls / Alerts
Eggs More Expensive Than Beef in Some Places as Prices Hit New High. prices increased by 2.7 percent in the U.S. compared to the year before — marking the second consecutive month of inflation creeping up in the nation. These increases weigh on Americans’ finances and savings, adding another burden on those still suffering from the post-pandemic inflation hangover.
https://www.newsweek.com/eggs-more-expensive-beef-some-places-prices-hit-new-high-2010875

# General News
‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles: “There is no ‘firefighting’ in these kinds of conditions,” said one meteorologist. “There is only saving as many lives as possible and getting the heck out of the fire’s way.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wildfires-los-angeles

Amid LA Inferno, Home Insurers Under Fire for Policy Cancellations: One observer said it “really feels like the climate crisis is putting the home insurance industry on a fast track to being almost as reviled as the health insurance industry.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-wildfire-insurance#:~:text=As%20deadly%20wildfire%20incinerated%20more,hardest%20by%20the%20current%20blazes

New tracker spotlights corporate criminals Trump could let off the hook. Out of nearly 200 companies currently facing federal investigations and cases, a third of them have connections to President-elect Donald Trump
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-corporate-criminals

# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad. After Trump unleashes some wildly crazed ideas to reporters, an expert in authoritarian rhetoric says Trump revealed deeper intentions that are dangerously alarming and designed to normalize the abnormal.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189964/trumps-angry-unhinged-rants-presser-show-things-will-get-bad

Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers. Biden and Congress squandered a chance to end the legal underpinnings of the forever war. The president-elect will once again reap the powers afforded to him.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189446/trump-war-powers-congress-aumf

The Surprising Obstacle Standing in the Way of Trump’s Agenda, Something is rotten in MAGAland. Trump’s biggest congressional obstacle may be MAGA diehards.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189945/surprising-obstacle-standing-way-trumps-agenda

Merrick Garland Tells Trump to Screw Off on Jack Smith Report. Donald Trump was just dealt a (partial) blow on Jack Smith’s reports.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189986/merrick-garland-donald-trump-jack-smith-report

# Gov / Politics / Global
Mexican president hits back at ‘misinformed’ Trump: ‘Why don’t we call it Mexican America?’ ‘I think that yesterday, President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump,’ Claudia Sheinbaum stated after his Gulf of America suggestion
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-donald-trump-b2676131.html

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Video shows deadly fight on NYC subway after alleged thieves target sleeping 79 year old passenger. Footage reveals the chaos that erupted in the confined train car. Authorities are investigating the incident.
https://local.newsbreak.com/cbs-news-510078/3747721878170-video-shows-deadly-fight-on-nyc-subway-after-alleged-thieves-target-sleeping-passenger

# Media
Billionaire and top Donald Trump ally Elon Musk is renewing calls to defund NPR and PBS, now Republicans in both chambers of Congress are preparing bills to cut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s funding. Rep. Ed Markey; “The question is not, ‘Can we afford it?’ but rather, ‘Can we afford to lose it?’”
https://www.freepress.net/blog/elon-musks-plan-defund-public-media-and-defend-trump

# Medical / Health News
This one floored me folks. I am gobsmacked! Anti-natalists say they’re going child-free to protect the kids they won’t have. The anti-natalists say giving birth is immoral. Antinatalists thus argue that humans should abstain from having children. Some antinatalists consider coming into existence to always be a serious harm.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/selfish-selfless-anti-natalists-going-132221735.html
Also:Antinatalism or anti-natalism is a philosophical view that deems procreation to be unethical. Their views are not necessarily limited only to humans but may encompass all sentient creatures, arguing that coming into existence is a serious harm for sentient beings in general
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism#:~:text=Antinatalism%20or%20anti%2Dnatalism%20is,always%20be%20a%20serious%20harm.

Biden Is About to Hand Over a Vast and Unconstitutional DNA Database to Trump. Every person’s privacy, security and civil rights are implicated by this program.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-is-about-to-hand-over-a-vast-and-unconstitutional-dna-database-to-trump/

Biden Reduces Medical Debt ‘Burden’ For Millions of Americans. Joe Biden has blocked unpaid medical bills from appearing on credit reports according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration. Unpaid medical bills showing on credit reports can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans.
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-blocks-medical-debt-credit-reports-2010916

GOP attack on Medicaid puts millions of Americans at risk of losing coverage
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/01/08/gop-attack-on-medicaid-puts-millions-of-americans-at-risk-of-losing-coverage/

# NASA / Space Force
NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
https://info3.com/space/205254/text/short/nasa-eyes-spacex-blue-origin-to-cut-mars-rock-retrieval-costs

# Social
Megalandlords sued by DOJ for scheming millions of renters
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/megalandlords-doj-scheme-renters/

# Space Exploration  / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
US company Firefly Aerospace to launch for Moon next week
https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/firefly-moon-mission-launch-date/
Firefly Aerospace
https://fireflyspace.com/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees. Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and concerns over editorial independence.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/journal-editors-resign-to-protest-ai-use-high-fees-and-more/

President-elect Donald Trump revealed a major foreign investment into the United States economy Tuesday, Jan. 7,  in an effort to keep up with the fast-moving advancements of artificial intelligence.
https://san.com/cc/trump-announces-emirati-businessmans-20-billion-investment-in-us-data-centers/

# Transportation / Travel
With CDL downgrade rule in full effect, number of ‘Prohibited’ CDL/CLP drivers rises to over 180K, 137,888 of those drivers had not yet begun the RTD process necessary to restore their commercial driving privileges.
https://www.ccjdigital.com/regulations/safety-compliance/video/15708156/how-cdl-downgrades-for-drug-alcohol-violations-could-affect-trucking

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight: Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country. The tunneling company is building Musk’s vision beneath the city’s urban core thanks to an unlikely partner: the tourism marketing organization best known for selling the image that “What Happens Here, Stays Here.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature

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January 8, 2025, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
US House passes border measure requiring Homeland Security to take into custody undocumented immigrants who have been charged with theft and other crimes; Senate expected to take up the bill this Friday
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/07/house-passes-laken-riley-act-2025

Biden Admin To Dole Out Millions In Refunds To Illegal Migrants Who Applied For Failed Amnesty Program. The Biden-Harris administration will issue millions of dollars in refunds to illegal migrants who applied for an amnesty program that was struck down in court.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/08/biden-refunding-mass-amnesty-applicants/

Migrants left stranded in troubled resort as Mexico disperses them far from US border: Mexico is working to move migrant caravans away from the United States border. Mexican officials told the Associated Press they’re using a “dispersion and exhaustion” method to spread the migrants throughout the country while limiting how many gather in one place.
https://san.com/cc/mexico-moves-migrants-from-us-border-ahead-of-trumps-second-term/

US Border: Heavy Weapons Bound for Mexican Cartels Seized. Rocket-propelled grenade launcher, grenades found by US officers.
https://www.usbordernews.com/p/us-border-heavy-weapons-bound-for-mexican-cartel-seized-in-arizona?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

The Dominican Republic’s expulsion of thousands of Haitians shows the brutality of mass deportations: As he prepares to fulfil his campaign promise, it’s important to understand how these types of mass deportations are carried out. The Dominican Republic (DR) offers a cautionary tale.
https://theconversation.com/the-dominican-republics-expulsion-of-thousands-of-haitians-shows-the-brutality-of-mass-deportations-245545

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Fluoride linked to IQ drop in major review of global studies. Its publication Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics will likely further inflame the politicized controversy over the widespread practice of adding fluoride to water.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/fluoride-iq-jama-pediatrics-critiques-meta-analysis/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Government Efficiency Shouldn’t Come at the Cost of Rural Healthcare
https://dcjournal.com/government-efficiency-shouldnt-come-at-the-cost-of-rural-healthcare/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Beware, that Social Security email could be hiding dangerous malware. Hackers are spoofing the Social Security Administration to deploy a RAT
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/beware-that-social-security-email-could-be-hiding-dangerous-malware

Trump is considering a national economic emergency declaration to allow for new tariff program, sources say
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/trump-mulls-national-economic-emergency-declaration-allow-new-tariff-programme-cnn

# Education / Schools
“They’re Illiterate.” High School Teacher Says Her Students Don’t Even Know How to Text Anymore.  Educator Miss Mackenzie says that her students are so poorly versed in proper communication and writing techniques that they are unable to even text anymore.
https://www.distractify.com/p/teacher-says-students-dont-know-how-to-text-anymore

Report: Department of Justice awarded millions for ‘anti-racism’ programs and ‘knitting circles’
https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/accountability/article_2094c29e-ca10-11ef-843b-7f3a50bf2d02.html

What states passed school choice measures in 2024, and what’s in store for 2025? While many states expanded and adopted school choice programs in 2024, some advocates are excited about new education options for families in 2025 – made possible because of this year’s election results.
https://www.insidenova.com/news/national/what-states-passed-school-choice-measures-in-2024-and-whats-in-store-for-2025/article_15c6c8cd-b191-5d20-b675-90e93685c51e.html?=/&subcategory=7%7CFilm+%2F+Cinema

Book bans or content moderation? Here’s what opponents say happened in 2024
https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_9832f964-c160-11ef-a4cb-e74b226c7674.html

# Employment / Labor / Unions
‘Really Hard to Find a Job’: 1.7 Million Job Seekers Have Been Looking for Work for at Least 6 Months
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/its-taking-longer-for-unemployed-americans-to-find-work/485175

Bezos’ paper exposes Amazon’s horrific working conditions, what it discovered: Demanding schedules and extremely challenging working conditions as the company implemented ‘mandatory extra time’ (MET) which required some employees to work five, eleven hour shifts instead of their usual four, ten hour shifts
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/jeff-bezos-own-newspaper-washington-post-exposes-horrific-working-conditions-at-amazon-heres-what-it-discovered/articleshow/117033433.cms?from=mdr

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
625 Million Acres of Ocean Now Off-Limits to Oil Companies. A bold and positive step towards clean energy and a healthy marine ecosystem.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/bidens-ocean-action-bering-sea-closed-off-to-oil-and-gas-drilling/

Arizona receives approval to build 600-megawatt utility-scale solar power plant; one of the biggest solar projects in the US, the facility will power an estimated 180,000 homes
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/arizona-gets-biggest-solar-project

Exxon fights back against California’s claims of plastic deception.  California and environmental groups sued Exxon over plastics. Now Exxon is striking back. In a retaliatory lawsuit, Exxon says claims against it are motivated by “sordid for-profit incentives and outright greed.”
https://grist.org/accountability/exxon-sues-california-attorney-general-bonta-environmental-groups-chemical-recycling/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Biden establishes new national monuments in California’s deserts and forests
https://www.ehn.org/biden-establishes-new-national-monuments-in-california-s-deserts-and-forests-2670760537.html

Carbon dioxide has been regulating Earth’s climate for hundreds of millions of years – new study
https://theconversation.com/carbon-dioxide-has-been-regulating-earths-climate-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-years-new-study-246712

# General News
Trump’s Greenland MAGA Guy Alleged to Have Dark Criminal Past
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-truth-social-drug-offender-2011196

The Harvard Law-educated biographer Seth Abramson speculated Musk might be “going mad” in a setting for all to see, brought on by his growing stress, history of mental illness, and self-described heavy drug use.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-biographer-details-why-152313024.html

‘They Should Give It Up’: Trump Says ‘People Don’t Know’ If Denmark Actually Has ‘Legal Right’ to Greenland
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3747177967057-they-should-give-it-up-trump-says-people-dont-know-if-denmark-actually-has-legal-right-to-greenland?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzYyOTM3OTI1MTM%3D

Donald Trump Jr. gripes about ‘Danish fake news’ as he flees Greenland after less than day
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jr-leaves-greenland/

Fact Check: Unpacking the Claim That 37 Countries Will Ban Trump as a Felon: The claim Trump is automatically banned from entering 37 countries as a felon are inaccurate.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/06/12/trump-banned-from-37-countries/

Fox Host Tells Ontario Premier It’d Be ‘A Privilege To Be Taken Over’ by the U.S. After Trump Calls Canada the ‘51st State’
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-host-tells-ontario-premier-itd-be-a-privilege-to-be-taken-over-by-the-u-s-after-trump-calls-canada-the-51st-state/

Hot spots where war may break out or escalate in 2025
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3268575/hot-spots-war-start-escalate-2025/

# Gov / Politics
Trump declines to rule out military force in potential US expansion into Greenland, Panama Canal: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gulf-of-america-fa66f8d072eb39c00a8128a8941ede75

Even Republicans Are Dismissing Trump’s Plan to Make Greenland American
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-lawmakers-pooh-pooh-trump-210616843.html

Trump Imagines New Sphere of U.S. Influence Stretching from Panama to Greenland
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-foreign-policy-expansion-canada-greenland-panama-canal-b1cbe478

Donald Trump’s Icebreaker Leaves Greenland And Denmark Adrift
https://www.ft.com/content/a0148d3e-2fa6-4afd-979e-1db371a8344c

Why does Trump want Greenland and the Panama Canal? The two locations, which are nowhere near each other geographically, pose different interests to the incoming president. But Mr Trump’s intentions has caused immense backlash.
https://news.sky.com/story/why-does-trump-want-greenland-and-the-panama-canal-13285350

Fact check: Trump makes false claims about January 6, Europe, NATO and Canada
https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2025/01/07/fact-check-trump-makes-false-claims-about-january-6-europe-nato-and-canada/

Georgia GOP boots ex-Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan from party, claiming the Harris supporter wasn’t a loyal Republican
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5071440-geoff-duncan-georgia-gop-donald-trump/

GOP senator: U.S. needs to take back Panama Canal in case of war with China
https://www.rawstory.com/tommy-tuberville-2670763891/

Johnson says no cuts to Social Security and Medicare to fund Trump’s agenda. “The Republican Party will not cut benefits,” Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said. Also in the news: Medicare drug price negotiations, the House transgender bathroom ban, and more.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-says-no-cuts-social-162403651.html

Physician governor urges Capitol Hill to block RFK Jr.’s confirmation: ‘Our children’s lives depend on it’: Hawaii’s Democratic Governor and practicing physician, Josh Green, is visiting Capitol Hill this week to lobby lawmakers against the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
https://foxwilmington.com/physician-governor-urges-capitol-hill-to-block-rfk-jr-s-confirmation-our-childrens-lives-depend-on-it/

The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person: It’s a fact the Project 2025 playbook written for Donald Trump’s administration is just a roadmap for the first 180 days . Based on the contents of that manual, the MAGA movement’s longer-term goals aren’t exactly a mystery. If people want a broader sense of what’s coming down the pike in the months and years ahead, it’s instructive to look at litigation involving rights granted under a Reconstruction-era addition to the Constitution.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3748585998674-the-gop-is-rewriting-what-it-means-to-be-a-person?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzYzNDI2ODE3Mzk%3D
See also: Project 2025: The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track, including:
https://www.project2025.org/

Trump kicks off rambling press conference by airing grievances — then starts threatening U.S. allies
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-panama-greenland-press-conference-b2675353.html

Dem senator declares ‘The fight is just beginning’ after Trump win certified
https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/democratic-senator-declares-fight-is-just-beginning-after-trump-win-certified-richard-blumenthal-connecticut-congress-election-results-certification-capitol-washington

Trump team fires back after Dem senator declares ‘The fight is just beginning.’ Sen Blumenthal claimed that Trump tapped ‘malignly motivated’ nominees
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-team-fires-back-after-dem-senator-declares-the-fight-just-beginning

Trump: ‘All hell will break out’ if hostages aren’t released by inauguration. Trump added a warning for the outgoing Biden administration to get the hostages back now, or else.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/hostages-hamas-terrorists/2025/01/07/id/1194152/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Trudeau hits back at Trump on Canada annexation: “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner,” Trudeau said on the social platform X.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5072230-trudeau-trump-canada/

Danish King Tweaks Coat Of Arms To Enlarge Greenland Symbol As Trump Vies For Territorial Expansion. Frederik X of Denmark tweaked his country’s royal coat of arms to enlarge the symbols of Greenland amid Trump’s overtures to acquire the Danish territory.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/01/07/danish-king-tweaks-coat-of-arms-to-enlarge-greenland-symbol-as-trump-vies-for-territorial-expansion/

Foreign Leaders, And The EU, Step Up Challenges To Musk As His Feuds With Global Politicians Heat Up
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/01/06/foreign-leaders-and-the-eu-step-up-challenges-to-musk-as-his-feuds-with-global-politicians-heat-up/

France’s Foreign Minister urges tougher EU action on Musk, says laws must be enforced
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-08/frances-foreign-minister-urges-tougher-eu-action-on-musk-says-laws-must-be-enforced

French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot says EU will not let Trump ‘attack its sovereign borders’
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/french-foreign-minister-trump-greenland-b2675664.html

Ukraine Is Sending A Message To Trump And Republicans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/05/ukraine-ambassador-trump-republicans-military-aid/

# Medical Technology
Brain monitoring may be the future of work. Neuroergonomics is the study of human behavior while carrying out real-world activities, including in the workplace. It involves recording a person’s brain activity in different situations or while completing certain tasks to optimize cognitive performance.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/brain-monitoring-may-be-the-future-of-work-20019813.php

# Military / Militia / Bio-weapons / General News
New Orleans attack a reminder of ongoing ISIS threat: The New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans is a warning that ISIS, and foreign terror groups in general, still have influence in the United States, the Pentagon’s civilian head of special operations said
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2025/01/new-orleans-attack-reminder-ongoing-isis-threat/402014/

Hints more new versions of the B61 nuclear bomb could be on the horizon for the U.S. military. This is in addition to the planned B61-13 announced in 2023 and might include a true successor to the highly specialized deep-penetration B61-11 variant
https://www.twz.com/air/hints-at-more-b61-nuclear-bomb-variants-in-the-u-s-militarys-future

# Military General News / Global
Tailless Fighter-Like Airframe Appears At Chinese Jet Manufacturer Shenyang’s Main Plant. The appearance of the object comes after two new tailless heavy tactical jet designs appeared in Chinese skies on Dec. 26.
https://www.twz.com/air/tailless-fighter-like-airframe-appears-at-chinese-jet-manufacturer-shenyangs-main-plant

How Chinese Hackers Graduated From Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons. Massive ‘Typhoon’ cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecoms sought to lay groundwork for potential conflict with Beijing, as intruders gathered data and got in position to impede response and sow chaos
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/typhoon-china-hackers-military-weapons-97d4ef95

# NASA / Space Force
Money, Musk and mission creep: How Trump could shape DOD’s space drift. The path to a larger Space Force budget isn’t clear, even as Trump, who oversaw the creation of the service, prepares to take office
https://aerospace.org/news/money-musk-and-mission-creep-how-trump-could-shape-dods-space-drift

# Other Interesting Things
Extraordinary giant structures discovered beneath the surface of Mars. The first of these, confirmed by researchers in a fascinating paper, is an underground mass measuring around 1,750 kilometres (just over 1,000 miles) across, at a depth of 1,100 kilometres (684 miles). The mysterious anomaly is lurking beneath Tharsis Montes, a vast volcanic region which holds the largest volcano in the solar system: Olympus Mons.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/mars-mysterious-structures-2670759291

# Social Media
Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook. “I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms.”
https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-meta-announcement-hate-speech

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media. The Meta boss’s decision to drastically change Facebook and Instagram’s factchecking programme has set the stage for a fact-free four years online
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/07/new-era-of-lies-mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media

Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities
https://futurism.com/the-byte/book-app-ai-mocking-minorities

Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines: Meta’s revised content policy permits calling women ‘property,’ along with relaxed rules on gender-based content, raising concerns about the spread of harmful narratives and misinformation
https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/meta-allows-calling-women-property-new-content-policy-update-125010800375_1.html

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
New research links 5G rural uploads to higher radiation levels
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2025/01/urban-areas-show-higher-5g-radiation.html

“This sounds like science fiction right now, and somewhat crazy to even talk about it.” Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI. Sam Altman, on OpenAI’s rapidly-approaching AGI-led future.
https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections

Chinese hack of US telecoms compromised more firms than previously known, WSJ says
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/chinese-hack-us-telecoms-compromised-more-firms-than-previously-known-wsj-says-2025-01-05/

Tesla battery cell partner CATL threatens to sue Pentagon after landing on China ‘blacklist’
https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/electric-vehicle/pentagon-adds-worlds-largest-ev-battery-maker-to-blacklist-posing-problems-for-tesla-ford-and-gm/

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January 7, 2025
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# Border / Immigration / Gangs
Gov. Healey orders inspection of state-run shelters following migrant arrested with fentanyl, AR-15 at a Revere hotel. House Republicans also demand answers after Leonardo Andujar Sanchez arrested
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/01/06/gov-healey-orders-inspection-of-state-run-shelters-following-migrant-arrested-with-fentanyl-ar-15-at-a-revere-hotel/

Afghans arrive in the Philippines to complete visa processing for resettlement in US. Their arrival comes as part of an agreement between the Filipino and U.S. governments.
https://www.voanews.com/a/afghans-arrive-in-the-philippines-to-complete-visa-processing-for-resettlement-in-us/7925603.html

A caravan of migrants has left Tapachula, Mexico, on foot, attempting to cross the U.S. border before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Sources say the majority of the caravan is from Venezuela. Mexican immigration authorities have stepped up efforts to deter and block the caravan from reaching Mexico City. Dubbed “Operation Carousel,” officials are negotiating with these caravans to travel to other Mexican states.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/migrant-caravan-tapachula-mexico/

As TdA expands in 22 states, Texas law enforcement continue crackdown
https://gazette.com/news/wex/as-tda-expands-in-22-states-texas-law-enforcement-continue-crackdown/article_fe6b69ca-ce4b-5d7c-86a5-2c1dd2d9363a.html

# Children / Youth
Kids Are Huffing Galaxy Gas Until They Get Tremors, Limps and Losing Bowel Control. Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to sweep America’s youth and it sounds like folks are already developing debilitating addictions and alarming side effects.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kids-huffing-galaxy-gas-until-201254734.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
National debt to increase $196 billion after Social Security Fairness Act signed
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_da7263e2-cc5e-11ef-bdce-bbab9a224583.html

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Federal employee unions are trying to block Trump’s agenda. Federal employee unions are trying to block Trump’s agenda
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/5044129-trump-fight-federal-workers-contract/

Pro-Trump Pundit Says Elon Musk Is Trying To Distract From Fact He ‘Sided With Foreign Workers Over American Workers’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/pro-trump-pundit-says-elon-musk-is-trying-to-distract-from-fact-he-sided-with-foreign-workers-over-american-workers/

It’s the third working day of 2025 – and some CEOs have already made the average worker’s yearly salary
https://www.indy100.com/news/ceo-earnings-average-uk-salary

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
House GOP sets sights on expanding oil drilling and weakening federal land protections
https://www.ehn.org/house-gop-sets-sights-on-expanding-oil-drilling-and-weakening-federal-land-protections-2670750571.html

Mining concerns put Arizona community’s water future at risk
https://www.dailyclimate.org/mining-concerns-put-arizona-communitys-water-future-at-risk-2670757119.html

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Congress Is Setting Up for a Public Lands Sell-Off. On Friday, the House of Representatives for the 119th Congress approved a rules package that reintroduces a provision making it easier for lawmakers to cede control of federal lands to local authorities. That, in turn, could result in vast swaths of the West being opened up to drilling or auctioned off to private owners, according to critics.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/house-rules-public-lands

Climate change worsens global water cycle, driving extreme droughts and floods
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250106133458.htm

# General News
Senate Budget Committee Investigation into Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts Yields Extensive New Findings, Reveals Bank’s Historic Pattern of Obstruction. Independent Ombudsperson’s Interim Update to Committee at Close of 118th Congress Provides New Details, Promises Comprehensive Final Report
https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/senate-budget-committee-investigation-into-nazi-linked-credit-suisse-accounts-yields-extensive-new-findings-reveals-banks-historic-pattern-of-obstruction

Trump Actually Seems Serious About Buying Greenland and Canada. Donald Trump is starting to take his preposterous joke seriously.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-actually-seems-serious-buying-142707866.html

# Gov / Politics
Team Trump Admits Jack Smith Found Evidence of Vast ‘Criminal Conspiracies’
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-election-supreme-court-0b9969b480036bb1f7c61a73980d406c
Also: Breaking down evidence in newly unsealed filing in Trump election case. The filing cites previously unknown accounts offered by Trump’s closest aides to paint a portrait of an “increasingly desperate” president who, while losing his grip on the White House, “used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-election-supreme-court-0b9969b480036bb1f7c61a73980d406c

Trump threatens to fire presidential archivist to prevent future classified docs charges
https://time.com/7205121/trump-promises-to-replace-national-archivist/

Trump’s attorneys reviewed draft of final special counsel report and want it blocked from public release
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-special-counsel-report-blocked

Trump Struggles to Staff Ranks After Using Loyalty Tests to Vet Candidates
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-struggles-staff-ranks-using-224500350.html

Columnist warns America is in the middle of a decade of ‘dangerous instability.’ The emerging political violence in the United States is indicative of a more serious threat to American democracy, and the country appears to have reached a turning point, wrote the Atlantic’s Stephen Marche.
https://www.rawstory.com/political-violence-2670751308/

Stephen Colbert Gives Trump Supporters A Serious ‘Reality’ Check About Jan. 6
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stephen-colbert-gives-trump-supporters-113504697.html

Trump escalates plans to acquire Greenland after resident pleads: Trump’s push for Greenland grows stronger after resident urges, ‘Buy us. Buy Greenland’, criticizing Danish exploitation. Donald Trump, after a Greenlander’s plea to ‘buy Greenland’, pushed for US ownership, claiming it would benefit the island. His son, Donald Trump Jr., is set to visit Greenland.
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/trumps-greenland-acquisition-push-intensifies-after-resident-urges-buy-us-we-dont-get-our-riches-11736259048225.html

Trump Jr arrives in Greenland after dad says US should own the territory. During his first term as president, Donald Trump expressed an interest in buying the Arctic island. He was rebuffed then, as he has been now. When asked about Trump Jr’s visit to Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Danish TV that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders” and that only the local population could determine their future.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv10knyd9o

US in negotiations with Taliban to swap Americans in Afghanistan for prisoner in Guantanamo
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1269646-us-in-talks-with-afghan-taliban-to-swap-detained-americans-for-guantanamo-prisoner

# Gov / Politics / Global
Musk Completely Derails UK Political Establishment, Accuses PM’s Party Of Pakistani Rape Gang Cover-Up. Elon Musk ignited a political firestorm in the UK after accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being complicit in grooming gangs’ “rape of Britain.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/06/elon-musk-keir-starmer-grooming-rape-gang-islamic-cover-up-prime-minister-labour/

‘I find it worrying’: European leaders fire back after Elon Musk’s hostile X posts. Starmer has joined the leaders of France and Germany in responding to a series of hostile posts by Musk backing far-right political parties and attacking leftwing politicians in Europe.
https://nationalpost.com/video/fa60f19a-cc64-11ef-8530-32073a9663ca/european-leaders-hit-back-at-elon-musk-following-his-hostile-posts

“We’ve seen this playbook before”: British PM says Elon Musk is spreading “lies and misinformation”
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/06/weve-seen-this-playbook-before-british-pm-says-elon-musk-is-spreading-lies-and-misinformation/

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Miami Police Body Camera Video Of US Olympian Fred Kerley’s Violent Arrest Seems To Contradict Cops’ Story. Arrest footage renews familiar questions about police use of force
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2025/01/04/fred-kerley-arrest-footage-police-use-of-force/77443113007/

# Medical / Health News
Father of hospital NICU attack victim says babies had one thing in common, they wee all boys. Virginia nurse Erin Strotman charged with child abuse, malicious wounding after newborns suffered ‘unexplainable’ bone fractures
https://www.foxnews.com/us/father-hospital-nicu-attack-victim-says-babies-had-one-thing-common

Americans’ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage – the author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ points to 3 reforms that could help
https://theconversation.com/americans-rage-at-insurers-goes-beyond-health-coverage-the-author-of-delay-deny-defend-points-to-3-reforms-that-could-help-246598

# Medical Technology
Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning medical necessity
https://bioethics.com/archives/95453

# Military / Malitia / Bioweapons / General News
US transfers 11 prisoners out of Guantánamo Bay
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/7/us-transfers-eleven-yemeni-detainees-from-guantanamo-bay-prison-to-oman

# NASA / Space Force
Ex-NASA astronaut probes ‘military link’ after shock near-miss with ‘two metallic orbs flying at 150mph’ at 9,000ft. He credited ‘dumb luck’ with his survival that day
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13218529/ex-nasa-astronaut-ufo-military-link-metallic-orbs/

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program. “The Moon is a distraction.”
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-scrap-nasa-moon-program

# Other Interesting Things
Unexpected shift of ancient ‘Wheel of Ghosts’ structure has archaeologists baffled. Recent research has revealed an unexplained shift in one of the stones that form the wheel’s central axis which means it hasn’t consistently lined up with celestial bodies.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/wheel-of-ghosts-astronomical-purpose

# Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals could be an overlooked source of PFAS contamination. The medications we rely on daily may be leaving a toxic legacy in our water, as wastewater treatment plants struggle to filter out fluorinated chemicals linked to serious health risks.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/climate/forever-chemicals-pfas-drinking-water-drugs-wellness/index.html

# Science
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery Behind Basketball-Sized Octagons They Kept Finding on Arctic Seafloor
https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-kept-finding-octagons-on-the-seafloor-now-they-know-why-69751

# Social
‘Absolutely disgusting!’ rages woman over eviction notice for 900 families leaving them with ‘nowhere to go.’ Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park will be redeveloped into an affordable housing facility.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13229226/eviction-notice-lil-abner-mobile-home-park-sweetwater/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
Top secret ‘living lab’ robot city of the future built near volcano will welcome first human residents later this year. Toyota has been building its Woven City since 2021 which will serve as a test ground for driverless cars, smart homes and robotics.
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13233734/toyota-woven-city-futuristic-robot-humans-moving-in/

# Veterans / VA
VA to waive co-pays for Whole Health medical services, aims to assist Veterans in becoming more actively involved in their health care and continue to seek services through these important programs.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/01/06/va-to-waive-co-pays-for-whole-health-medical-services/

# Water
Water disputes and sewage woes test U.S.-Mexico diplomacy
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/16/nx-s1-5075171/water-treaty-mexico-united-states

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January 6, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Feral hogs terrorizing Texas town, infuriating locals: ‘I can’t go out there and start blasting’:  At least 10 wild hogs have been making a nuance of themselves in one Texas suburb. Frustrated locals are demanding officials step in or they will take matters into their own hands.
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/feral-pigs-are-terrorizing-a-texas-town-frustated-locals-speak-out/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Global
China is “determined” to continue opening up its economy to the world in 2025, a top economic planning official said Friday
https://chinaglobalsouth.com/2025/01/04/china-says-determined-to-open-up-to-world-in-2025/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump prepares swift energy policy reversals as Inauguration Day nears/ President-elect Donald Trump plans to dismantle Biden-era climate regulations, boost fossil fuel
https://www.ehn.org/trump-prepares-swift-energy-policy-reversals-as-inauguration-day-nears-2670741156.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Global
Illegal mining in Colombia fuels environmental and social crisis: A Closer Look at Colombia’s Illegal, Artisanal, and Small-Scale Mining
https://www.csis.org/analysis/closer-look-colombias-illegal-artisanal-and-small-scale-mining

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
EPA staff brace for potential departures amid Trump’s return
https://www.ehn.org/epa-staff-brace-for-potential-departures-amid-trumps-return-2670740972.html

# General News
Retired General Has No Idea ‘How We Got in This Mess’ Over Musk’s Government Ties
https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-general-no-idea-got-222433140.html

U.S. Can’t Let Guard Down Against Terrorist Groups, Foreign and Domestic: Terror threats have not ceased to exist in the U.S. since September 11, 2001 and now people are being radicalized online and committing terror acts more often on American soil.
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-01-02-us-cant-let-guard-down-against-terrorist-groups-foreign-and-domestic/

# Gov / Politics
Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war. A nuclear expert explains how Project 2025 could push the United States into an expensive, dangerous, and destabilizing nuclear confrontation, unseen since the darkest days of the Cold War
https://thebulletin.org/2024/07/trump-has-a-strategic-plan-for-the-country-gearing-up-for-nuclear-war/

‘Catastrophic impact’: Trump aide worries about ‘serious error’ that could tank new term
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/catastrophic-impact-trump-aide-worries-about-serious-error-that-could-tank-new-term/ar-AA1x0uEC

‘It should still shock us’: Ex-GOP insider rips DC for brushing off Trump’s coup attempt
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coup-2670748831/

‘Refuse to bow down’: Rick Wilson shares theory on how Trump will destroy himself
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2670748298/

‘You can run but you can’t hide’: DOJ lawyer resigns and immediately gets threat from MAGA
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/you-can-run-but-you-cant-hide-doj-lawyer-resigns-and-immediately-gets-threat-from-maga/ar-AA1x0PhJ

ATF head warns that the Trump administration’s funding cut plans could risk lives.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/atf-head-warns-trump-administrations-013439315.html

Donald Trump Is Building a New Army of Foot Soldiers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-building-army-foot-110000711.html

Trump plans ‘mega MAGA’ bill to ram his most controversial policies through
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-plans-one-big-beautiful-190251080.html

Trump’s eyeing Greenland – but other Arctic investment is frozen
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/01/06/as_trump_eyes_greenland_other_arctic_investment_is_frozen_1082616.html

Biden Approves Sale of $8 Billion in Additional Bombs, Missiles and Arms to Israel
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/04/biden-arms-deal-israel-8-billion

Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/06/trump-transition-electoral-college-certification/

The First Amendment is fundamental, and it’s under attack.  Christian Nationalism wants to bring America’s church and state into one entity, just like Hitler did, which is incompatible with the most basic principle of our democratic framework.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/09/20/crisis-of-faith-christian-nationalism-and-the-threat-to-u-s-democracy/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Iran vs. Israel redux: The enormous difficulties and ramifications if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites
https://viimes.org/publication/iran-vs-israel-redux-the-enormous-difficulties-and-ramifications-if-israel-attacks-irans-nuclear-sites/

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expected to resign within days amid public outcry for Canadian leader to step down: Why has Justin Trudeau resigned – and what’s next for Canada? After spats with allies, pressure from Donald Trump and falling poll numbers, Trudeau has decided to call it quits.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/6/why-has-justin-trudeau-resigned-and-whats-next-for-canada

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Former Capitol Police officers call Trump’s vows to pardon Jan. 6 rioters ‘a betrayal.’ Dunn said that forgiving insurrectionists for their violent actions shows a lack of accountability from the commander-in-chief.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5067236-january-6-pardons-officers-donald-trump/

Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective. Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/oath-keepers-rightwing-militia-police

Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has links with police
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/oath-keepers-rightwing-militia-police

# Medical / Health News
Mask mandates return in multiple states as doctors warn of ‘quad-demic’ of 4 viral infections
https://www.yahoo.com/news/public-health-experts-warning-quad-212352378.html

# Military / Malitia / Bioweapons / General News
Mysterious fog sweeping U.S. sparks bioweapon fears,amid echoes of secret 1950 military program. A thick, “mysterious” fog has descended upon a wide swath of the U.S., sparking fears of another ‘Operation Sea Spray.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-alarmed-chemical-fog-spreading-173029805.html
Operation Sea Spray: In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco. This was one of hundreds of bioweapon simulations carried out in the 1950s and 1960s
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-bioweapon-san-francisco-180955819/

One Man Spent Years Infiltrating a Far Right Militia — This Is What He Found: John Williams went undercover to expose the operations of notorious fascist militias like the Oath Keepers and AP3.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

# Military General News / Global
Israeli Lawmakers Call for Even More Violent “Complete Cleansing” of North Gaza. A group of Knesset members are urging the Israeli military to destroy all sources of water, food and energy.
https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-lawmakers-call-for-even-more-violent-complete-cleansing-of-north-gaza/

Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker pilot’s rare account of the changing air war. The rare interview details combat operations over Ukraine, including the employment of Western guided munitions from Su-27 Flankers.
https://www.twz.com/air/ukrainian-su-27-flanker-pilots-rare-account-of-the-changing-air-war

Turkish navy starts construction of three new warships  based on domestic designs: a submarine, an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the highly anticipated TF-2000 air-defense destroyer series.
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/turkish-navy-starts-construction-of-3-major-projects-mugem-aircraft-carrier-tf-2000-destroyer-and-milden/

Another 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrive in Haiti to battle gangs
https://our.today/another-75-guatemalan-soldiers-arrive-in-haiti-to-battle-gangs/

Israel Bombs Gaza Over 100 Times in 3 Days, Killing Scores of Palestinians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2Yjhty4hM

German army gets nod to buy Israeli PULS rocket launchers: The pick, offered by Elbit and KNDS, puts an end, for now, to a highly contested race for Germany’s next-generation, multiple-rocket launcher system
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/01/06/german-army-gets-nod-to-buy-israeli-puls-rocket-launchers/

# NASA / Space Force
NASA announcing update to Mars sample return plans Jan. 7
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-host-media-call-highlighting-mars-sample-return-update/

# Nuclear / Bioweapons / Global
The nuclear year in review: Welcome to the antechamber of the next nuclear crisis. This past year, there has not been a single week without a reminder of the danger posed by nuclear weapons. The biggest change this year in international security is, arguably, the instability now at the doors of nuclear powers, and the looming possibility of a nuclear crisis.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/what-a-second-trump-administration-may-mean-for-the-saudi-nuclear-program/

What a second Trump administration may mean for the Saudi nuclear program. If the United States and Saudi Arabia do not reach a nuclear agreement during the second Trump term, the kingdom might expand its relationship with China thereby reshaping the nuclear landscape in the Middle East.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/what-a-second-trump-administration-may-mean-for-the-saudi-nuclear-program/

# Social
# Space Exploration  / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
Blue Origin is expected to launch 1st New Glenn rocket
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/blue-origin-ready-to-launch-1st-new-glenn-rocket

# SpaceX
SpaceX’s first Starlink satellite launch is set for today
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-6-71

# Sports
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft is asking for 30 dollars to keep Windows 10 safe for a year after it’s put out to pasture
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/microsoft-is-asking-for-30-of-your-american-dollars-to-keep-windows-10-safe-for-a-year-after-its-put-out-to-pasture/

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# Indigenous
Biden to create two new California national monuments protecting tribal lands
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5065936-joe-biden-tribal-land-monuments-california/

WWI Native American Code Talkers get new look for Medal of Honor. Following a new program to give heroic Indigenous soldiers from WWI renewed consideration for awards, some may now be eligible for the Medal of Honor.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/12/24/indigenous-wwi-veterans-get-long-awaited-medal-of-honor-review/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents an “Unreasonable Risk” to Public Health. The report was published after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant and can trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problems
https://www.propublica.org/article/formaldehyde-epa-report-public-health

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
9 States Are Cutting Income Taxes in 2025. Residents of nine states will see their state income taxes go down in this year, according to a roundup from the Tax Foundation, a tax policy research and analysis nonprofit.
https://money.com/states-cutting-income-taxes-2025/

President-Elect Donald Trump’s Tax Cut Proposals Come With Unforeseen Consequences for Social Security. If the OASI’s asset reserves are fully depleted, sweeping benefit cuts of up to 21% may be necessary to support payouts (inclusive of COLAs) through 2098 without the need for any further reductions.
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2025/01/04/donald-trump-tax-consequences-for-social-security/

Republican Congressman hits Musk over false claims: ‘What he said was not true’: In the waning days of 2024, the Tesla CEO fired off a series of tweets against a bipartisan bill to keep the government funded through March. Some of Musk’s broadsides were patently false, including a claim that the bill paid for “bioweapons labs.”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/republican-congressman-hits-musk-over-false-claims-what-he-said-was-not-true/

Social Security Fairness Act set to get Biden’s signature: Biden to sign into law new Social Security bill that boosts benefits for 3M public sector workers. Last week, Congress passed the Social Security Fairness Act, a bill that has been decades in the making, and President Biden will sign it into law on Monday.
https://www.benefitspro.com/2025/01/02/biden-to-sign-into-law-new-social-security-bill-that-boosts-benefits-for-3m-public-sector-workers-/?slreturn=20250104112959

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Biden blocks sale of US steel: $14.9b Nippon Steel bid deemed national security risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0QwgADApY

Steelworkers react after Biden rejects U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel deal. Fetterman welcomes president’s action; Kelly and Thompson do not
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2025/01/03/us-steel-nippon-biden-fetterman-deluzio/stories/202501030054

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How drillers offload costly cleanup onto the public: Reporter Mark Olade and illustrator Peter Arkle outline the “unmistakable pattern” of how companies offload their oldest and dirtiest assets, allowing them to avoid the costs to properly plug and clean up these wells, leaving the responsibility with taxpayers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-orphan-wells-cleanup-playbook-siana-tom-ragsdale

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Global
Nippon Steel slams Biden’s block of US Steel deal as ‘incomprehensible’, vows to take legal actions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foUalLXRH68

Nippon Steel Likely To Sue US Govt After Biden Blocks US Steel Acquisition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCs0v_K3HRY

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Americans alarmed by ‘chemical fog’ spreading across the US: Phenomenon sparks bioweapon conspiracy theories after drone sightings. Parts of the US have been blanketed by a “mysterious” fog, sparking concern from locals who claim it has a “chemical” smell and exposure can result in flu-like symptoms.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/04/lifestyle/americans-alarmed-by-chemical-fog-in-multiple-us-states-phenomenon-sparks-bioweapon-conspiracy-theories-after-drone-sightings/

Sahara desert covered in snow, marking 7th time in over 40 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwxWDUDzM0A

# Food / Farming / Bio-engineering
Echoing RFK Jr., Newsom executive order cracks down on food dyes, ultra-processed foods
https://www.yahoo.com/news/newsom-targets-highly-processed-foods-140000232.html

# Food General News / Recalls / Alerts
Walmart issues major recall in 20 states over alarming issue – full list of stores and products
https://www.thestreet.com/retail/walmart-issues-major-recall-in-20-states-over-concerning-food-contamination

# General News
Donald Trump fumes over flag flying at half-staff to honor Jimmy Carter during inauguration: U.S. flags have been flying at half-staff at all federal properties including the Capitol since Dec. 29, when President Joe Biden ordered the measure of respect following Carter’s death for 30 days ‒ the prescribed federal timeframe for lowering flags after a president’s death since 1954.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/03/trump-fumes-flag-half-staff-carter-inauguration/77436106007/

Nassau County executive refuses to lower flags for late President Jimmy Carter
https://www.rawstory.com/jimmy-carter-2670737927/

Tesla could see 40% of its profits evaporate when Trump takes office, JPMorgan says
https://wallstreetpit.com/122101-jpmorgan-teslas-profits-could-plunge-40-under-trump/

US considers potential rules to restrict or bar Chinese drones
https://www.forth.news/threads/677665e8493eece628464a50

Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About ‘Grooming Gangs’: Musk’s posts, which have racked up hundreds of millions of views on X, are his latest effort at inserting himself into UK politics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxdzng92lno

# Gov / Politics
‘Deeply, Deeply, Dangerous’: Morning Joe’s Lemire Blasts Trump’s ‘Outright Lies’ Tying New Orleans Terrorist Attack to the Border
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/deeply-deeply-dangerous-morning-joe-s-lemire-blasts-trump-s-outright-lies-tying-new-orleans-terrorist-attack-to-the-border/ar-AA1wUejy?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

Donald Trump is riding into the White House on a wave of campaign promises, and some of them, if fulfilled, could amount to “child abuse,” an ex-prosecutor said.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fight-back-family-separation/

Could the Equal Rights Amendment be added to the U.S. Constitution? The ERA will protect against the rollback of rights, provide a vital tool for the judicial branch to decide sex discrimination cases, and pave the way for further legislative progress toward sex and gender equality.
https://www.lwv.org/take-action/president-must-immediately-publish-equal-rights-amendment#:~:text=Yet%2C%20the%20Equal%20Rights%20Amendment,that%20the%20ERA%20is%20published
Also: Equal Rifgts Amendment
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109330/documents/HHRG-116-JU10-20190430-SD013.pdf

New House rules package makes booting speaker harder, includes major changes to vote timing
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/3/new-house-rules-package-makes-booting-speaker-hard/

Twin attacks cast shadow over Trump transition and inauguration
https://gazette.com/news/wex/twin-attacks-cast-shadow-over-trump-transition-and-inauguration/article_640b065f-0c5e-5c84-9f98-24165d90b25a.html

Donald Trump Can’t Torch All of Joe Biden’s Legacy. Donald Trump has vowed to reverse countless policies enacted by the Biden administration, on everything from immigration to transgender rights.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-cant-torch-all-of-joe-bidens-legacy?srsltid=AfmBOora14-i9Lkg1bo1yTP2ll06W9HrRxAE6yNNyb0xdjbEVzW_4L_3

Gaetz’ resignation read into congressional record. Formal reading into the congressional record of the resignation by Matt Gaetz from the U.S. House of Representatives and the 119th Congress was done Friday ahead of U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson winning the speakership.
https://www.themountaineer.com/news/national/gaetzs-resignation-read-into-congressional-record/article_6959d909-9703-53a7-a076-cd0d10ec02ed.html

Trump says New York judge should be disbarred after refusal to throw out hush money conviction. Trump said he hid nothing regarding the documents. “It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department…”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fake-made-charge-trump-calls-150535379.html

‘We live or die’: James Carville has a plan to force GOP’s implosion
https://www.rawstory.com/james-carville-2670730401/

Anti-life culture means chaos in America
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/3275024/anti-life-culture-means-chaos-in-america/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Elon Musk calls on King Charles III to overthrow UK government. Musk has set his sights on the United Kingdom after he successfully backed President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. election
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-urges-king-charles-dissolve-parliamentwhat-can-uk-monarch-do-2009393

China Hits US Companies With Trade Controls—How Will It Impact the Economy?
https://www.newsweek.com/china-hits-us-companies-trade-controls-impact-economy-2009566

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Prison guards throughout the US using inmate work assignments to isolate and rape female prisoners
https://apnews.com/article/prison-rape-women-inmates-guards-001a816334d8745fd29557f02b2f0e5a

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
In Major Twist, Trump Will Face Consequences for Something After All
https://newrepublic.com/post/189832/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-sentence

Judge in Trump hush money case expected to sentence him to ‘unconditional discharge’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-in-trumps-hush-money-case-signals-no-jail-time-will-be-imposed-at-his-sentencing

‘Witch Hunt’: Trump spokesman lashes out after Trump ordered to appear for sentencing. Justice Juan Merchan rejected president-elect’s push to dismiss verdict on grounds of presidential immunity, finding no legal impediment to proceeding
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-news-sentencing-inauguration-updates-b2673522.html?page=5

One Possible Explanation for Justice Merchan’s Last-Second Decision to Sentence Trump. If Trump seeks an emergency stay blocking the sentencing, we expect he will succeed.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/judge-merchan-sentence-trump-no-prison-time-inauguration.html

# Military / Malitia General News
The Militia and the Mole: Disgusted by Jan. 6, John Williams set out on a two-year operation to infiltrate American militias. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

# Military General News/ Global
US vs. Chinese cruisers: China is building its top surface warship at breakneck speed, and it’s a match for its US rival. China’s new Type 055 cruiser is its most modern and powerful surface combatant. The ship China labels as a destroyer is so large it compares more to US cruisers
https://www.newsweek.com/china-news-navy-leads-us-fleet-one-lethal-way-2004933

Estonian anti-drone mini missile to be tested in Ukraine. Frankenburg Technologies’ Mark-1 missile is meant to be a cheap and mass-producable weapon, according to the manufacturer.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/01/02/estonian-anti-drone-mini-missile-to-be-tested-in-ukraine/

# Other Interesting Things
Scientists Discover a Whole New Ecosystem Teeming With Life in a Hidden Lake Beneath the Antarctic Ice. Microbes from at least 21 phyla live under this 44-foot layer of ice—and some might even be working together to survive.
https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-discover-invisible-ecosystem-trapped-under-antarctic-ice

Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery Behind South Carolina-Sized Hole That Shows Up Once in a While on Antarctic Ice. Behind the open-close dance of this mysterious giant hole lurking in Antarctic ice is an effect called the ‘Ekman spiral.’ A team of determined researchers employed advanced technology and even recruited some seals to solve this 50-year-old mystery. They published their findings in the journal Science Advances.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/scientists-finally-solve-the-mystery-behind-south-carolina-sized-hole-that-shows-up-once-in-a-while-on-antarctic-ice

Strange structures discovered in the Pacific could change our understanding of Earth. There was something very strange about this seafloor, and it has taken our study of rocks laid down in New Zealand, at the other end of the Earth’s long history, to make sense of it.
https://theconversation.com/strange-rock-formations-beneath-the-pacific-ocean-could-change-our-understanding-of-the-early-earth-223718

# Pharmaceuticals
As of Jan. 1, more than 250 branded drugs from pharmaceutical giants including Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Pasteur, Merck, Pfizer, and more will see price hikes in the U.S., according to data analysis conducted by health care research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
https://fortune.com/well/2025/01/03/pfizer-drug-price-increase-2025/

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, millions of Americans who get their prescription drugs through Medicare could get a major financial break when a $2,000 out-of-pocket spending cap on medications goes into effect.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-2000-prescription-drug-cap-january-1-2025-how-it-works/#:~:text=Starting%20Jan.%201%2C%202025%2C,on%20medications%20goes%20into%20effect

# UFO Disclosure
Ex-NASA astronaut who nearly collided with two ‘metallic orbs’ while piloting plane reveals they had ‘no visible means of propulsion’
https://nypost.com/2024/12/25/us-news/nasa-commander-had-near-collision-with-two-metallic-orbs-in-private-plane/

# Veterans / VA
Boosted Support for Veteran Caregiver, Homelessness Programs Signed into Law by Biden
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/03/boosted-support-veteran-caregiver-homelessness-programs-signed-law-biden.html

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# Border / Immigration / Cartels / Trafficking
Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration allowing migrants into U.S. with ‘taxi cab’ scheme, says shelter operator
https://www.wavy.com/border-report/mexicos-national-institute-of-immigration-allowing-migrants-into-u-s-with-taxi-cab-scheme-says-shelter-operator/

Second Homeland Security agent in Utah charged with selling illicit drugs from evidence
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-agents-drug-conspiracy-9c48878d50fcacc73f6c0e90e4ecdecf

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Temu’s Takeover Is Now Complete. Despite the arrival of new competitors and growing political tensions between the US and China, the ecommerce juggernaut Temu proved in 2024 it’s here to stay.
https://www.wired.com/story/temus-takeover-is-now-complete/

# Communications / Censorship
State Department documents reveal secret plans to route ‘censorship’ office to new hub
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/disinformation/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has just gotten its first report from one of its top advisers, the far-right Cato Institute, on how to cut $2.5 trillion in government spending. The goal of DOGE is to “pave the way to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
https://www.cato.org/blog/catos-report-department-government-efficiency-doge

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
‘New Year’s Eve Ethics Massacre’: House Panel Quietly Drops Campaign Finance Probes. One analyst said the House Ethics Committee has “effectively legalized the conversion of campaign funds for personal use.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ethics-committee-campaign-finance

Food stamps, environmental safeguards and denying Ozempic: The ways Republicans could pay for Trump’s tax cuts. Incoming administration is expected to cut federal spending to federal programs they don’t prioritize like environmental regulations
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tax-cut-spending-cuts-b2672982.html

Sanders gets Finance perch to push Social Security, Medicare expansion, tax reform. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who supports expanding Social Security and Medicare and raising taxes on the wealthy, will get a seat on the Senate’s powerful Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over those big issues.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/sanders-gets-finance-perch-to-push-social-security-medicare-expansion-tax-reform/

Trump eyes axing key programs to help his friends get richer, including raising tariffs on foreign goods, repealing clean energy programs, and axing some of the nation’s largest federal agencies. Trump’s tax plan overwhelmingly benefits corporations, would balloon the national debt, which currently sits at $36.2 trillion.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189792/donald-trump-axing-programs-tax-cuts

Another $20 Billion Cut from IRS Funding. The battle over enhanced funding for the IRS took a new twist in December as Republican lawmakers set up another $20 billion cut for the tax agency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/26/irs-funding-cut-20-billion-shutdown/

# Education / Schools
Linda McMahon Has No Education Experience Except Wanting to Defund Public Schools. Her most important qualification is being a longtime Trump loyalist, and carry out his vision to gut the Department of Education.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/30/linda-mcmahon-trump-education-schools-wwe/

I asked dozens of teachers why they’re quitting. Their answers are heartbreaking. These are teachers who love kids and love teaching. We need to listen to them.
https://www.upworthy.com/why-teachers-are-quitting-rp

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM [Bureau of Land Management]
Banks Celebrate the New Year by Quitting Their Climate Pledges. This should surprise no one. And it shows the practical considerations that have always undergirded these sorts of moves.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189788/morgan-stanley-bank-of-america-citi-climate-pledge

# General News
Elon Musk Demands Release of Jailed Far-Right Activist
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/2/musk-calls-for-jailed-uk-far-right-activist-tommy-robinson-to-be-released

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts. A network of Facebook pages has been advertising “fuel filters” that are actually meant to be used as silencers, which are heavily regulated by US law. Even US military officials are concerned.
https://blog.systmadeinc.com/facebook-and-instagram-ads-promote-gun-silencers-disguised-as-car-parts/

Green Beret identified as driver in Cybertruck blast at Trump Hotel: Driver in Las Vegas Cybertruck blast was decorated US army soldier, officials say. Suspect, 37 served as Green Beret deployed twice to Afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/02/cybertruck-explosion-driver-las-vegas

Trump Blames Biden Immigration Policy for NOLA Attack Committed by US Citizen. The suspected attacker in New Orleans was a Texas resident, a military veteran and a US-born citizen.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-blames-biden-immigration-policy-for-nola-attack-committed-by-us-citizen/

‘The American People Did Not Vote for Whatever the Hell This Is,’  Republicans are “doubling down on their extremism” by moving to further diminish the power of the minority party and paving the way for a legislative agenda that rewards billionaires and large corporations.
https://newscoop.com/news/the-american-people-did-not-vote-for-whatever-the-hell-this-is-warns-house-democrat-2025-01-03.html

# Gov / Politics
‘Peddle misinformation’: Analyst says Trump flunked 3 presidential tests in single day
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-trump-flunks-3-141208877.html

How Trump’s inaugural address could deliver the biggest shock of all
https://thehill.com/opinion/5063475-trump-inaugural-address-humility/

Uncertainty Looms as Trump’s Inauguration Day Approaches
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-uncertainty-looms-trump-inauguration-225211563.html

US government says companies are no longer allowed to send bulk data to these nations. US data is off the table for China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and more
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/us-government-says-companies-are-no-longer-allowed-to-send-bulk-data-to-these-nations

Trump Fans Are Finding Out How Much He Actually Cares About Them. Spoiler alert: It’s not a lot.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189809/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-fans-angry

Get Ready for a Long, Ugly Vote for House Speaker. Representative Mike Johnson may not have enough support.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ready-long-ugly-vote-house-141512918.html

Trump Pushes Bonkers and Dangerous Conspiracy About New Year’s Attacks. It’s only January 2, and Donald Trump has already found a way to blame his favorite scapegoat. In a lengthy Truth Social post early Thursday, Trump claimed that the domestic terrorism incident was the result of open borders, distracted authorities, and the Democratic establishment.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189766/donald-trump-conspiracy-new-year-new-orleans

Election conspiracy theories fueled a push to hand-count votes, but doing so is risky and slow
https://apnews.com/article/hand-counts-ballots-voting-elections-93af22f5f7691e57b4a675a64c217627

Now ‘Things Get Much Worse’: Palestinian Rights Movement Under Threat as Trump Returns: “This administration will likely be coming very quickly to try to take down the Palestinian rights movement,” said a Jewish Voice for Peace Action leader.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-palestinians

MAGA voters thought they elected an America First government. Tech billionaires think they are running the show. Oligarchs like Musk and David Sacks say that the H-1B program is vital because Americans are too stupid and lazy to learn technical skills.
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-01-02-president-musk-american-workers-h1b-visas/

# Gov / Politics / Global
JD Vance’s Nazi-Era Defense of Far-Right Party Quickly Shot Down By Germany’s Ambassador: ‘Historical Context Can Be Tricky’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/jd-vances-nazi-era-defense-of-far-right-party-quickly-shot-down-by-germanys-ambassador-historical-context-can-be-tricky/

China punishes dozens of U.S. companies, including 10 for arms sales to Taiwan
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/01/02/punitive-measures-American-companies-Taiwan/2001735833009/

Israel’s Invasion of North Gaza Is “Precursor” to Annexation, UN Experts Warn. Israeli military authorities have said that they intend to block Palestinians from ever returning to north Gaza.
https://truthout.org/articles/israels-invasion-of-north-gaza-is-precursor-to-annexation-un-experts-warn/

Outrage Over Global ‘Silence’ as Israel Continues Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza. “History will reveal those who spoke out against this genocide, and those who did not,” said one rights group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ethnic-cleansing

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘DEI Hire’: Racists Target FBI Agent Alethea Duncan, A Black Woman, After New Orleans Car Attack
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wingers-think-orleans-attack-dei-174451844.html

# Media
Trump eyes PRIVATIZING United States Postal Service during second term. Can Trump Privatize The Postal Service? What To Know As President-Elect Says He’s ‘Looking At’ USPS Changes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/12/16/can-trump-privatize-the-postal-service-what-to-know-as-president-elect-says-hes-looking-at-usps-changes/

# Medical / Health News
Medicare Advantage Is Scamming You. The privatized version of Medicare doesn’t just provide worse care than traditional Medicare—it also rips off American taxpayers with fraudulent claims. And Trump wants to double down on it.
https://prospect.org/health/2024-01-12-great-medicare-advantage-marketing-scam/

Brain cell aging linked to common pesticide exposure.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9515138/

# Medical Bio-Engineering / Bio-Science
Researchers discover novel class of anti-malaria antibodies. New antibodies could lead to next generation of interventions against malaria.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-researchers-discover-novel-class-anti-malaria-antibodies

# Other Interesting Things
He thought it was gold, but inside this 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite he found something even stranger
https://www.earth.com/news/he-thought-it-was-gold-but-inside-this-4-6-billion-year-old-meteorite-he-found-something-even-stranger/

# Recycle / Repurpose / Reuse
Why Gardeners Should Collect Pine Cones: Nature’s Hidden Gem
https://gardeningsoul.com/why-gardeners-should-collect-pine-cones-natures-hidden-gem/

# Science
Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees. Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, [paleoanthropological research] citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and concerns over editorial independence.
https://cedirates.com/news/editors-at-science-journal-resign-en-masse-over-bad-use-of-ai-high-fees/

# Space / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
Parker Solar Probe beams 1st detailed message after sun flyby
https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2025/01/02/nasas-parker-solar-probe-reports-healthy-status-after-solar-encounter/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
The Death of Net Neutrality Is a Bad Omen. While Americans might not mourn the loss of net neutrality, an appeals court’s ruling sets a troubling precedent for consumer protections in every industry.
https://www.wired.com/story/net-neutrality-ruling-dead/

# Veterans / VA
U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence. The mass murder in New Orleans and Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas fit a troubling pattern among U.S. vets, research says.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/02/military-veterans-extremism-attack-new-orleans-vegas/

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Dog owner sounds warning over newly approved  arthritis drug, Librella ‘miracle’ pain medication. Librela is a monthly injection used to treat pain and inflammation created by osteoarthritis. More than 8000 “adverse reactions” have been reported to the FDA since May of 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3SFWuxG1s

# Border / Immigration / Cartels / Trafficing
‘This Is What Makes Us Rich’: Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab: New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/world/americas/inside-fentanyl-lab-mexico.html

Mexican authorities said they recovered a total of 31 bodies from pits in a southeastern state plagued by cartel violence since they began excavating the improvised graves at the weekend.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hidden-graves-dozens-bodies-chiapas-mexico-cartel-turf-war/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Big Lots CEO reveals going-out-of-business process could ‘be reversed’ as bankrupt chain may get second chance
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13183394/big-lots-bankruptcy-second-chance-reversed/#:~:text=All%20Big%20Lots%20stores%20subsequently,email%20obtained%20by%20The%20Hill

Fact Check: Photo Showing Large Temu Warehouse Fire in China Is Fake
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/temu-warehouse-fire-china/

Japan’s Nippon Steel offers governmental veto power for U.S. Steel production
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/02/biden-japan-nippon-steel-acquisition

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
US Treasury Department Admits It Got Hacked by China. Treasury says hackers accessed “certain unclassified documents” in a “major” breach, but experts believe the attack’s impacts could prove to be more significant as new details emerge.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-by-china-afp-reports-2024-12-30/

TD Bank Insider Arrested And Charged With Facilitating money laundering to Colombia through the financial institution, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/td-bank-insider-arrested-and-charged-facilitating-money-laundering

Update on $1.8 billion dollars unaccounted for in South Carolina
https://www.newsbreak.com/news19-wltx-524558/3738252306384-update-on-1-8-billion-dollars-unaccounted-for-in-south-carolina

# Education / Schools
“Not Qualified for Fifth Grade.” Teacher Cites Shocking Holes in American Elementary Education. “I see what you mean about the bar being on the floor.”
https://www.distractify.com/p/skills-fifth-graders-should-have

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM [Bureau of Land Management]
Miami’s beachfront high-rises are sinking fast. It’s a warning for coastal properties worldwide. 35 buildings along the coasts of Miami’s barrier islands sunk into the ground by 2 to 8 centimeters between 2016 and 2023.
https://www.aol.com/miamis-beachfront-high-rises-sinking-090301177.html

12 Grocery Tips That Could Save You Hundreds This Year
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3737904983493-12-genius-grocery-tricks-that-could-save-you-hundreds-this-year?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU3ODEzNjMxNTM%3D

Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania’s Freshwater Mussels. Researchers detected increased radioactivity in mussels downstream of oil and gas wastewater discharge points, raising concerns about effects up the food chain.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02012025/elevated-levels-of-radium-found-in-western-pennsylvanias-freshwater-mussels/

# General News
As Musk gains influence, questions hover over US probes into his empire. Last month, in the waning days of the Biden administration, the SEC set a tight deadline of several days for demanding that Elon Musk pay a settlement or face civil charges relating to alleged securities violations during his $44 billion takeover of Twitter in 2022.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-gains-influence-questions-hover-over-us-probes-into-his-empire-2025-01-02/

New Jersey drones mystery sees craft banned in 30 areas as national security threat fears grow
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-drones-mystery-sees-886141

# Gov / Politics
One week until Congress meets to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election
https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/local/dc/one-week-until-congress-meets-to-certify-the-results-of-the-2024-presidential-election/65-426136be-a82c-4708-b67b-f4826239d855

Report to Congress on Iran: Setbacks in 2024 may raise questions about the future of the Iranian government’s longtime strategy to erode U.S. influence in the Middle East and project power in neighboring states by backing a range of regional armed groups (sometimes known as the ‘axis of resistance’
https://news.usni.org/2025/01/01/report-to-congress-on-iran

Enshittification Comes to Washington: Our tech overlords have ruined the online platforms that Americans depend on. Now, as Donald Trump returns to the White House with Elon Musk in tow, expect the same to happen to our government.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189701/trump-2025-enshittification-civil-service

Struggling Mike Johnson Has a New Plan to Keep His Job. Mike Johnson is scrambling to cling to power.
http://socket.newrepublic.com/post/189763/mike-johnson-speaker-new-rules

‘Emergency break glass option’ on the table for Republicans to rush Trump certification
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-break-glass/

‘Techbro goons’ ruined the economy — and Trump now wants them to ruin government: Tech billionaires have run many facets of the economy as we know it into the ground — and now President-elect Donald Trump is putting them in charge of doing the same to the government
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/techbro-goons-ruined-the-economy-and-trump-now-wants-them-to-ruin-government-analyst/ar-AA1wOYyz

House GOP proposes new rules for next Congress — including a ‘crucial alteration’: report
https://www.alternet.org/house-rules/

Stop Trump’s mad Greenland scheme before it gets started
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5061620-stop-trumps-mad-greenland-scheme-before-it-gets-started/

Gold Bars, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes and Turkish Campaign Donations: The Most Insane Dem Corruption Scandals Of 2024. Democratic politicians have long found themselves at the center of corruption scandals, but 2024 may have been a year like no other in the double-dealing department.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/01/gold-bars-cash-stuffed-envelopes-and-turkish-campaign-donations-the-most-insane-dem-corruption-scandals-of-2024/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Xi says China’s annexation of Taiwan can’t be stopped
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/12/31/taiwan-annexation-economy/9361735679112/

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Wisconsin police search for convicted felon after multiple children found dead
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-police-search-convicted-felon-after-multiple-children-found-dead

New Orleans Truck Attack Responsible for 15 Deaths, FBI Searches for Accomplices. US Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas was shot and killed by police after he targeted New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street.
https://www.wdsu.com/article/new-orleans-terror-attack-jabbar-live-updates/63320965
Also: FBI Statement on the Attack in New Orleans
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-the-attack-in-new-orleans

FBI found 150 homemade bombs at Virginia home during search in December, prosecutors say
https://apnews.com/article/homemade-bombs-seized-virginia-firearms-c68488480ef8bd3de7b432272399aa28

Lawsuits, FBI probe engulf South Dakota doomsday bunker complex
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/lawsuits-fbi-probe-engulf-south-dakota-doomsday-bunker-complex/

‘The CIA Must Get Involved, NOW’: Trump Urges Agency To Take Action Amid ‘Virtually Nonexistent Leadership’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/the-cia-must-get-involved-now-trump-urges-agency-to-take-action-amid-virtually-nonexistent-leadership/

Feds, NYPD raid home of ex-top cop Jeffrey Maddrey in latest probe of NYC Mayor Adams’ admin
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/02/law-enforcement-raid-aide-eric-adams-00196205

Mass shooting outside Amazura nightclub in New York leaves 10 injured after ‘4 men open fire over 30 times at revelers’
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/new-york-mass-shooting-in-queens-live-updates-ny-queens-nightclub-amazura-11-shot-suspect-latest-news-2-january-2025-11735801056555.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Donald Trump Urges Supreme Court to Pause TikTok Ban Decision Until After Inauguration
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-urges-supreme-court-to-pause-law-threatening-tiktok-ban

# Medical / Health News
Parents of toddler who died from flu after hospital failings speak out on five-year wait for answers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-toddler-died-flu-hospital-120630986.html

People who drink bottled water issued urgent health warning. Roughly 10% to 78% of bottled water samples contain contaminants, including microplastics. These are often hormone (endocrine) disruptors. Microplastic contamination is associated with oxidative stress, immune system dysregulation, and changes in blood fat levels.
https://www.aol.com/scientists-urgently-warn-stop-drinking-130000353.html

Some states on track to restore abortion access, while others push for fetal rights in 2025
https://www.aol.com/states-track-restore-abortion-access-183840740.html

Bernie Sanders’ nine-point plan to overhaul America’s healthcare system. Bernie Sanders unveils bold plan to reform U.S. healthcare and address inequality. “Our real problem is not so much a healthcare crisis as it is a political and economic one,” he wrote in an op-ed.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/01/02/bernie-sanders-nine-point-plan-to-overhaul-americas-healthcare-system/

# Medical / Health News / Global
Chinese scientists find common blood pressure drug could cure rare brain tumour. Treatment for an invasive, noncancerous brain tumour that causes complications including diabetes could lie in a cheap medication often prescribed for high blood pressure.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/health/joint-china-us-team-develops-new-drug-for-aggressive-brain-cancer/3325304

# Military General News
‘Without honor’: Marine vet raises red flag about key Trump defense nominee
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3738778378987-without-honor-marine-vet-raises-red-flag-about-key-trump-defense-nominee?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU4MjY2MzE4NjU%3D

# Military General News/ Global
Chinese Ships Carrying Autocannons Trouble US Ally Japan
https://www.newsweek.com/china-news-ships-carrying-autocannons-trouble-us-ally-japan-2008407

# Ongoing Wars
US military hits Houthi targets in Yemen after attacks on Israel
https://nypost.com/2024/12/31/world-news/us-launches-multiple-strikes-on-houthi-targets-in-yemen/

Yemen’s Houthis defiant after new US strikes: CENTCOM says it struck ‘Houthi targets’ in Sanaa and coastal locations in Yemen, days after Israel targeted the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/31/yemens-houthis-defiant-after-new-us-strikes

On e-scooters and ATVs, Russian forces swarm Ukrainian positions in the east
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/on-e-scooters-and-atvs-russian-forces-swarm-ukrainian-positions-in-the-east

How suicide drones transformed the front lines in Ukraine. Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer drones with explosives — bringing a brutal new form of violence to 21st-century warfare
https://www.pbs.org/video/russian-invasion-1727375055/

Iran Issues Warning About US Bases in Syria
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/7/where-does-iran-stand-on-syrias-fast-moving-conflict

# Other Interesting Things
Archaeologists shocked by mystery building complex found by complete luck
https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/archaeology/castle-ward-co-down-dig-b2672750.html

# Planetary
New Study Reveals Decades of Groundwater Pumping Has Impacted Planet’s Motion Significantly, Tilted by Nearly 80 Centimeters. Earth’s tilt has changed by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) between 1993 and 2010 because of the amount of  groundwater humans have pumped from the planet’s interior.
https://www.space.com/earth-tilt-changed-by-groundwater-pumping

# Science
Microplastics linked to organ lesions while scientists may have found how to clean them from nature. Mmicroplastics are less than five millimeters long. Their tiny size has allowed them to get into everything, from human blood and breastmilk to the food we eat, stretching to every corner of the globe.
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/02/microplastics-are-linked-to-lesions-on-organs-scientists-may-have-found-a-way-to-get-rid-of-them/

# Space / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
Transforming the Moon Into Humanity’s First Space Hub. The small step back to Earth’s satellite will provide a giant leap for exploring our solar system.
https://www.wired.com/story/moon-humanity-industrial-space-hub/

10,000-kilometer precision: Astronomers pinpoint origin of mysterious space signals: Every day, several times a day, massive explosions of radio waves burst forth from distant corners of the universe, each carrying more energy than our sun produces in a month.
https://www.sciencealert.com/mystery-signals-may-be-coming-from-one-of-the-rarest-stars-in-the-galaxy

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Automate software testing for aerospace and defense. Ensure mission success with advanced AI test automation
https://www.keysight.com/us/en/cmp/2024/automated-software-testing-for-aerospace-and-defense.html

Future-Proof Testing: Software Adaptability Guide. Learn about Future-Proof Testing to ensure software stays relevant with adaptability strategies. Discover its key traits, its types, components, and more.
https://www.lambdatest.com/learning-hub/future-proof-testing

Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War. Artificial intelligence is coming to warfare. Can it learn ethics?
https://newrepublic.com/article/189236/inside-plan-teach-robots-laws-war

NATO is working to reroute data through space, fearing Russia could slice undersea internet cables
https://www.businessinsider.com/nato-plan-to-defend-undersea-internet-from-sabotage-using-satellites-2025-1

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# Border / Immigration / Cartels / Trafficing
Experts warn Trump’s plan to name cartels ‘terrorists’ could open door to military operations in Mexico. President-elect’s latest suggestion threatens to escalate tensions between the U.S. and Mexico
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mexican-cartels-terrorist-organizations-b2672186.html

Lawler contends US must face depopulation ‘reality’ amid H-1B visas debate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3271880/lawler-us-depopulation-reality-h-1b-visa-debate/
See also: The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire non immigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b

Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gangbangers are repeatedly attacking border crossings in desperate move to force their way into US before Trump takes office
https://www.aol.com/knife-wielding-tren-aragua-gangbangers-113808272.html

Armed Tren de Aragua gang members attacking US border crossings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlSYkqisEg

Mexican immigration agent killed by Venezuelan migrants near Texas crossing where Tren de Aragua threatened to attack Texas troops
https://nypost.com/2024/12/31/world-news/migrants-accused-of-killing-mexican-border-agent-who-asked-for-id-papers/

Drone discovers ‘narco tunnel’ between Arizona, Mexico
https://www.newsweek.com/drone-drug-tunnel-us-mexico-border-2007897

Migrants allegedly beat Mexican agent to death
https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-allegedly-beat-mexican-agent-190536258.html

# Business / Industry / Corporations / Global
Chinese Companies Have Sidestepped Trump’s Tariffs. They Could Do It Again.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/trade/exports/insights/chinese-companies-have-sidestepped-trumps-tariffs-they-could-do-it-again/articleshow/116845821.cms?from=mdr

On December 26, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland et al., that effectively pauses beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements established by the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).
https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2024/12/corporate-transparency-act-nationwide-injunction-in-place-again

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
New breed of nearly invincible bed bugs that are 20,000 times tougher to kill is discovered
https://www.mentalfloss.com/genetic-mutations-make-bed-bugs-hard-to-kill

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Billionaire Bill Ackman says he expects Trump to privatize the nation’s two largest government-owned lenders
https://www.newsbreak.com/trending/top/Ackman-Predicts-Trump-to-Privatize-Lenders

Congress Passes Social Security Reform That Could Help Few, Harm Many
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3736867566194-congress-passes-social-security-reform-that-could-help-few-harm-many?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU2NzYxNDM3MzE%3D

House Passes H.R. 82, the “Social Security Fairness Act of 2023”
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_122324.html
Also: Social Security Fairness Act
https://www.afscme.org/about/downloadable-asset/118th%20Social%20Security%20Fairness%20Act%20030323.pdf

Republican proposes senior tax exemption as Democrats contemplate raising rates
https://www.aol.com/republican-proposes-senior-tax-exemption-212700225.html

Social Security Full Retirement Age to Increase in 2025: Starting with those age 62 in 2025, increase the normal retirement age (NRA) 1 month every 2 years until the NRA reaches 69. Also increase the age up to which the delayed retirement credit may be earned at the same rate (from 70 to 72). No change to earliest eligibility age.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/solvency/provisions/retireage.html#:~:text=C1.6-,Starting%20with%20those%20age%2062%20in%202025%2C%20increase%20the%20normal,change%20to%20earliest%20eligibility%20age

Schmitt on H-1B program: ‘American workers have been left behind by this economy’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/eric-schmitt-h-1b-visa/2024/12/29/id/1193241/

# Education / Schools
Anytime can be the right time to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Explore our favorite experiments, engineering challenges and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities! Materials are easy to find, most activities take an hour or less, and the STEM learning is limitless.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities

20 End of year science activities
https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/articles/20-end-of-year-science-activities/?srsltid=AfmBOoo-vcYo8c9KvIhSlaU3SQeSpiBPZoCsXD5GEIr5RQEFKlftWhCX

17+ Fun and Easy Science Experiments for Kids
https://www.splashlearn.com/blog/kids-science-experiments-to-make-learning-engaging/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Global
Ukraine halts transit of Russian gas to Europe after a prewar deal expired
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-gas-transit-supplies-gazprom-7775fea34a7be9723b991d835a7ebd6f

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM [Bureau of Land Management]
Government buys Grand Teton National Park land for $100 million to protect from developers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2024/12/31/wyoming-grand-teton-national-park-kelly-parcel/77357410007/

Huge US underwater volcano set for imminent eruption after ‘swelling’ warning. Axial Seamount, situated a striking 470 km off the Oregon coast and well beneath sea level, is showing tell-tale signs of being ready to burst in 2025. Scientists herald this advanced notice of an impending eruption as “pretty unique” and an impressive accomplishment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14237183/underwater-volcano-west-coast-erupt-2025.html

Outgoing Biden Interior Department announces flurry of new wilderness protections
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5059879-biden-admin-proposes-environmental-protections/

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier. It’s never good when a report on a glacier includes the phrase “vigorous melting.” Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise
https://www.good.is/scientists-who-drilled-deep-into-doomsday-glacier-startled-by-what-they-found-beneath-its-concerning

# Foods / Things that impact your health
Top 9 Cheapest and Healthiest Green Veggies
https://www.dfdrussell.org/cheapest-and-healthiest-veggies/

# General News
Pennsylvania Amish Build 12 Houses In Less Than Two Days For North Carolina Hurricane Victims
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2024/12/25/amish-from-pennsylvania-built-homes-in-boone

Elon Musk Assumes New X Identity Linked to White Supremacists
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3736877347334-elon-musk-assumes-new-x-identity-linked-to-white-supremacists?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU2NzYxNjQzMTY%3D

Fact Check: Texas Banned Shariah Law in December 2024? No, But 2017 Bill Was Described as ‘Anti-Islamic’: In 2017, Texas passed a bill regulating foreign legislation in “certain family law cases” but it did not specifically mention Shariah law.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anti-shariah-law-texas/

Anti-Sharia Bill Dead, but Sentiment Alive. Third time not a charm for foreign law ban in Texas
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-05-22/anti-sharia-bill-dead-but-sentiment-alive/

New Jersey drones mystery ‘just the beginning’ with huge announcement ‘in 30 days’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/drone-crisis-just-beginning-expert-34403108

# Gov / Politics
Congress just committed a ‘New Years Eve ethics massacre’: Schuman accuses both Republicans and Democrats on the committee of passing rule changes that make corruption easier to get away with. “Under the cover of the New Years’ holiday, Ethics Committee Democrats and Republicans pulled a fast one, legalizing a money laundry blatantly corrupt.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/congress-just-committed-a-new-years-eve-ethics-massacre-watchdog/ar-AA1wM1FY

Trump plan ‘would provide legal framework’ for unilateral attacks in Mexico: Foreign policy experts are warning that President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations could give him authorization to launch military strikes inside of Mexico.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-plan-would-provide-legal-framework-for-unilateral-attacks-in-mexico-expert/ar-AA1wM52X?ocid=avres007

US imposes new sanctions on Iranian and Russian entities for election influence
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/12/31/us-sanctions-iranian-russian-entities/77353399007/

Mike Johnson Gets More Terrible News as Republican Skepticism Grows: Mike Johnson’s bid to hold on to the speaker’s gavel just got a whole lot more difficult.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-gets-more-terrible-161549727.html

North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences in final day in office. Roy Cooper’s historic clemency action comes a week after Biden’s resentencings shielded dozens from execution
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/31/north-carolina-governor-commutes-death-row-sentences

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia rejects Trump’s Ukraine peace proposals
https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/world-news/russia-rejects-trump-teams-proposed-peace-deal-for-ukraine/

Why has Russia rejected Trump’s Ukraine truce plan? Vladimir Putin and top Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov have said a deferral in Ukraine’s NATO entry won’t be enough.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/30/why-has-russia-rejected-trumps-ukraine-truce-plan

# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
FBI seizes its largest ever cache of homemade explosives from alleged extremist’s farm
https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/fbi-largest-cache-homemade-explosives-virginia-vvwkj5n5h

2 security guards shot after confronting shoplifting suspect in Los Angeles
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-security-guards-shot-confronting-184626983.html

A Black inmate’s fatal beating at New York prison ignited outrage: Here’s what we know about the case
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/new-york-prison-death-robert-brooks-b2672132.html

NYC jail staff blocked medics from treating 23-year-old woman with a possible case of scarlet fever who died weeks later
https://apnews.com/article/rikers-island-death-charizma-jones-1c6886fdededfe2d73db3ce74333c56a

Ten dead after driver rams truck into New Year’s Eve crowds at ‘speed & fires weapon’ in New Orleans ‘terror attack’
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2025/01/01/10-dead–30-injured-after-car-plows-into-a-crowd-in-new-orleans

# Media
New law in Texas requires parental consent for children to use social media
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/09/13/scope-act-texas-hb-18-social-media-children-personal-data-online-judge-robert-pitman-block/75178891007/

# Medical / Health News
Frantic hunt for ‘unknown abuser’ breaking babies bones at Virginia hospital after seven infants in NICU are found with fractures
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3736689958656-frantic-hunt-for-unknown-abuser-breaking-babies-bones-at-virginia-hospital-after-seven-infants-in-nicu-are-found-with-fractures?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU2NzYyODgzMjQ%3D

# Military General News
Guantánamo Detainee Held Without Charge for Over Two Decades Is Repatriated. There are now 26 detainees remaining, the majority of whom have never been charged and have been approved for release. The move came as the Biden administration faced pressure to clear the notorious military prison of all uncharged detainees before Donald Trump takes office.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/guantanamo-detainee-repatriated

# Military / DOD / Militia
U.S. amplifies strikes on Yemen’s Houthis as tensions with Israel flare. The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by the Iranian-backed militant group.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-strikes-houthi-targets-yemen-warships-attacked/

# NASA / Space Force
US prepares to de-orbit International Space Station amid China competition
https://jang.com.pk/en/28368-us-to-deorbit-international-space-station-amid-space-rivalry-with-china-news

# Other Interesting Things
Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be. They might just rewrite the history of human migration.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63304852/ancient-human-footprints-discovered-migration-history/

# Space / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
How Voyager 1 is still bringing us surprises from the very edge of our solar system
https://www.the-independent.com/space/voyager-1-surprises-nasa-solar-system-b2669118.html#:~:text=Out%20there%2C%20they%20are%20used,that%20would%20otherwise%20be%20impossible

What Voyager Found at The Edge of The Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKGaCGdZeQ

Gravity Mapping Detects Large Hidden Structures Under Surface of Mars. The Red Planet may not be as geologically “dead” as once believed.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/hidden-structures-under-mars-surface?utm_term=Futurism%20//%2012.31.2024&utm_campaign=Futurism_Newsletter&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Science
Scientists Want To Entangle Human Brains With Quantum Computers To Learn About Consciousness
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-entanglement-in-neurons-may-actually-explain-consciousness

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
Self-driving ‘humanoid robot’ with AI and remote control capabilities will start building cars as soon as 2026. The third generation of GoMate was unveiled by the state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group at an event in Shanghai.
https://aibusiness.com/automation/humanoid-robot-to-build-cars-for-chinese-automaker#close-modal

Unitree’s B2-W robot dog gets an epic upgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ue2pLsBkCM

What Makes Unitree B2-W the Most POWERFUL Robot Yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMIWeW4yOU

# Transportation / Travel
Real ID required for travel starting in 2025. Starting May 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will enforce the use of REAL ID at airports and some federal facilities.
https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/driver-license/federal-real-id-act

# Weather
Map shows where Arctic blast will arrive today – and there’s more to come
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/map-shows-arctic-blast-arrive-883172

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