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Monday, December 15, 2025

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is accelerating the demonic Trumpf junta's plan to provide massive amounts of power to private sector AI data centers with publicly-funded US nuclear energy by co-locating them on four sites: Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and Savannah River Site.


The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. "On Dec. 15, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters," SOUTHCOM wrote on X. "Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking."


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The latest move follows a judgment in September in which all five members of Pussy Riot were sentenced in absentia by the Basmanny district court.

That saw prison terms handed down ranging from eight to 13 years, after judges found the band guilty of spreading false information about the Russian army.


Dec 12, 2025 #maga #christiannationalism #christian

Isn't Christian nationalism just Christians bringing their faith into the public square, or another word for Christians being patriotic?

Skye unpacks these common misconceptions and explains what Christian nationalism actually is, and why it conflicts with the gospel's call to love our neighbors, uphold human dignity, and reject domination


In a complaint filed on Monday evening, Trump sought $5bn in damages each on two counts: alleging that the BBC defamed him, and that violated Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, when it broadcast an edited version of his Jan 6, 2021 speech.


President Donald Trump has taken action classifying fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction" as his administration escalates efforts to combat the flow of illicit drugs into the United States. Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Dec. 15, to formalize the designation, which comes after the president signed off on unprecedented airstrikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean from Venezuela. "No bomb does what this is doing," Trump said in remarks from the Oval Office, pointing to overdose deaths caused by fentanyl in the United States. "So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction."


A Connecticut judge disbarred Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, for violating the state's attorney conduct rules after complaints tied to his federal gun and tax cases. Read more


And then the White House re-posted it on their taxpayer-funded 'X' account...


For most voters, the economy and affordability are the big issues and Donald Trump's grade on this keeps dropping. A new AP/NORC poll has Trump's approval rating on the economy at a dismal 31%, his lowest ever. Among all voters, 68% say the economy is in poor shape. Even 44% of Republicans agree with this. Half of Americans say it is harder than usual to afford holiday gifts and half are cutting back on nonessential purchases. A vast majority say groceries and electricity are getting more expensive. Even among Republicans, 40% are hunting for lower prices more than they normally would.


Picea Robotics and its partner entered into a buyout deal with Roomba producer iRobot via court-supervised bankruptcy proceedings. iRobot, the maker of the Roomba floor vacuum, announced Sunday it signed-off on a "restructuring support" agreement to merge with Santrum Hong Kong Co. and Shenzhen Picea Robotics Co. -- its secured lender and its primary contract provider -- to acquire the consumer robot company.


He is descended from Russian Jews"you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.

Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.

How far will Miller's sadistic designs go?


The president is deeply unpopular, his policies are failing, and Republicans are losing"everywhere.


On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate. For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They'd culled USAID's staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank. There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field. Read more


Measles is spreading to more people and more parts of Utah since an initial outbreak on the Arizona border, with 115 people diagnosed statewide and recent cases confirmed in Davis, Salt Lake and Wasatch counties, the state's top public health officer said Thursday. "We haven't had that many measles cases in Utah for over 30 years," state epidemiologist Leisha Nolen told reporters Thursday. "So this is very extreme, and it's really concerning. But also of concern to us is the fact that we're now seeing measles in more parts of the state." Nolen noted the virus can hang in the air for two hours. She and Salt Lake County Health Department Executive Director Dorothy Adams said they're especially concerned about the danger it poses to babies too young to be vaccinated, who may be exposed to measles in waiting rooms in clinics and hospitals.


"I don't think [US President] Donald Trump is really motivated by US national security interests, or NATO, or Ukrainian interests. I think he wants the Nobel Peace Prize -- I think it's been on his mind since the first term," argues former US national security adviser John Bolton in an interview with FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee. "Putin thinks time is on his side. This is not the time for the US or Europe to give up and say 'let's get the best deal we can'," he adds.


In Dec 2024, Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas passenger Michael Virgil (35) was served with 33 alcoholic drinks before flying into a drunken rampage, threatening passengers and physically assaulting crew members, then dying shortly after security personnel finally restrained him, according to a new lawsuit filed by the runamok's family.


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