Investors share what to remember while raising a Series A

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'F*cking Weirdo': GOPer Put On Blast For AI Images Of Him Beating Up Santa

The right wanted the left to lighten up on political rhetoric following Charlie Kirk's shooting death, but the violent expression has been coming from the right. Case in point: Indiana state Sen. Chris Garten posted AI-generated images on Christmas Day depicting him beating up Santa Claus. After critics poured in on the Bad App, he called them "snowflakes."

"When you find out the North Pole is trying to bring more bureaucratic overreach & unfunded mandates down the chimney disguised as "Christmas cheer." Not on my watch," he wrote. "We The People run Indiana, not the bureaucrats."

"Take it back to the North Pole big guy," he added. "Merry Christmas, Hoosiers!"

In a separate post, he called everyone intolerant "snowflakes."

Lots of intolerance, swearing, and outrage on display over a few AI pics I had a blast designing with my kids.

Some of you clowns are just insufferable. Hopefully your negativity stays in the comments and not directed at your families.

Merry Christmas, snowflakes! https://t.co/UKyVLL3MRB pic.twitter.com/lX5nAn2qLm

— Chris Garten (@Sen_ChrisGarten) December 25, 2025

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How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming

French insect farming company Ÿnsect was recently placed into judicial liquidation for insolvency, despite raising over $600 million.

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Trump Spent Christmas Bombing Likely-Innocent Nigerian Muslims

Donald Trump bragged about ending a make-believe war on Christmas but he and Defense Secretary Pete “Whiskeyleaks” Hegseth used what is supposedly their sacred Christian holiday to wreak real needless death and destruction in Nigeria. No word yet on whether Hegseth had hit the eggnog previously.

According to an unnamed military official who spoke to The New York Times, the U.S. launched more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles in two ISIS camps in northwest Nigeria. The initial assessment of U.S. Africa Command was that ‘multiple’ ISIS terrorists were killed.

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that Trump is either lying about what happened or delusional or just plain ignorant, or all of the above.

Worse, it looks like the Muslims killed were not terrorists and there is no Christian genocide there.

The New York Times tried to make this latest round of Trump/Hegseth murders sound as bland as possible in an article titled, “Facts Clash With Trump Claim of Hitting ISIS and Shielding Nigerian Christians.”

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As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help

We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

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‘Mongolian Jingle Bells’ Is The Throat Singing Viral Christmas Song Of The Season

What started as a short clip on Instagram became a full-length version and soon went viral.

Source: Bored Panda

Oh, what fun it is to ride on a Mongolian open sleigh.

Move over, Mariah Carey and Wham! A Dutch DJ has released a modern Christmas carol that has everyone dancing this year.

Combining the traditional Jingle Bells song with a techno beat and Mongolian throat singing, Ummet Ozcan created a catchy hit that has taken social media by storm.

Ozcan initially posted a short clip of the song on Instagram to spread holiday cheer—but fans begged for more.

After being flooded with requests to release the full version, he shared the festive music video on December 21, along with the complete track on Spotify.

Mongolian “Jingle Bells” takes social media by storm

Dutch DJ Ummet Ozcan added a new layer of flavor to the famous Christmas song — and listeners loved it. pic.twitter.com/wjRNh7Z9HX

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The No Kings Protesters Get The Good Guy Crookie Award, Obviously!

Approximately 7 million Americans attended the No Kings protests at 2,700 rallies across the country in October. In response to the planned demonstrations, Republicans called it a"hate America" rally, but there was no hate there. People showed up in droves to proudly protest against Trump's cruel authoritarian regime. Those Americans included mothers, fathers, children, veterans, students, and grandparents.

Because if you don't speak up, you're part of the problem, so Americans turned out en masse to take to the streets. Trump's response was shocking, but predictable. Trump took to Truth Social to post an AI video depicting himself as a king, complete with a crown on his head in a military-style jet dumping a vast amount of shit all over "No Kings" protesters, and the cities where they gathered.

And that's why we protested. Trump's disregard and pure hatred toward anyone who doesn't kiss Pumpkin Pol Pot's large ass is palpable, so he even made an AI video of his hatred for a good portion of the country he is supposed to represent.

The sheer numbers in the streets were emboldening. NYPD announced that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are somehow really violent terrorists.

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Best 'Dish What They Dish Out' Team Crookie: Gavin Newsom's Press Office

There are many good things I can say about Gavin Newsom, but the very best thing is his excellent decision to hold a mirror up to Trump and do to him what he does to the rest of us.

The Gavin Newsom Press Office account is a combination of actual press releases and efforts to troll the hell out of Trump. For example, this is a recent post intended to mock Trump's juvenile "Hall of Fame" photo descriptions.

WOW! LOOK AT THE PLAQUE UNDER TRUMP’S PHOTO

— Governor Newsom Press Office (@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov) 2025-12-17T22:13:07.517Z

Or this one, which is deadly serious about the fact that the LA Fire survivors (of which John Amato is one) are getting no federal funds.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER — GCN

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Trump Admin Lawsuit Aims To Flood DC With AR-15 Rifles For 'Common Use'

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has sued the District of Columbia to end a ban on assault-style weapons, including the AR-15.

In a nine-page lawsuit filed on Monday, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division noted that "the District denies law-abiding citizens the ability to register a wide variety of commonly used semi-automatic firearms, such as the Colt AR-15 series rifles, which is among the most popular of firearms in America, and a variety of other semi-automatic rifles and pistols that are in common use."

The suit sought a "permanent injunction prohibiting all DC Defendants from arresting and levying fines against otherwise law-abiding citizens for possessing the AR-15 and all other firearms protected by the Second Amendment and being possessed or used for lawful purposes."

Attorney General Pamela Bondi argued that "DC's ban on some of America's most popular firearms is an unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment — living in our nation's capital should not preclude law-abiding citizens from exercising their fundamental constitutional right to keep and bear arms."

"Today's action from the Department of Justice's new Second Amendment Section underscores our ironclad commitment to protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans," Bondi said in a statement.

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‘Exactly What We Don’t Need’: Experts Slam Trump’s Demand For ‘Cool-looking’ Battleships

Experts are speaking out against President Donald Trump's plan to announce a new "cool-looking" battleship.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump was expected to unveil plans for new "battleships" on Monday at Mar-a-Lago with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan.

The new ships were said to be an upgrade to the Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and will align with Trump's plan to build a "Golden Fleet."

Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery called the new $5 billion ships "exactly what we don't need."

"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."

"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said.

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Hackers stole over $2.7B in crypto in 2025, data shows

This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.

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MAGA Hosts Say Trump Should Die Before Renaming Kennedy Center

Hosts of the pro-MAGA Real America's Voice network agreed that the Kennedy Center should not be renamed until President Donald Trump is dead.

Hosts Emily Finn, Gina Loudon, Terrance Bates, and David Brody discussed the name change on Monday.

"Now, Congress does have the ultimate authority to change the name," Finn noted. "The new chairman of the Kennedy Center, Ric Grenell, is pushing back on this notion."

"There are also procedures and processes in place to change those," Bates explained. "Again, based on everything that I've read, it does appear that Congress has to ultimately approve a name changer. Congress would have to initiate the name change or pass a name change in order for it to become official."

"So my guess is it'll stay up there," Brody argued. "And then if there's a Democrat president, it'll get taken down."

Loudon suggested that the name change should not take place until after Trump died.

"I have to say, just for purposes of consistency, I am somebody who does not believe you should ever name anything ever after a living human. I don't agree with that at all," she said.

"I would say I do agree with that," Bates told Loudon.

Loudon insisted that former President John F. Kennedy "would be proud to share His name with President Trump of that building after how the Democrats desecrated it."

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Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40B Larry Ellison backing

It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.

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ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped

The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.

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Hoo Boy, Here Comes Jeff Bezos's $40M Bribe 'Melania' Movie

In case you missed it, the trailer for Melania Trump’s new self-titled documentary dropped Wednesday—and it looks as uninteresting as you might have imagined. 

The one-minute glimpse of “Melania” portrays the first lady as a strutting fashionista, complete with dramatic scene cuts and music that aspire to make the Amazon MGM Studios-produced documentary a blockbuster-style flick. 

But the only real scoop gleaned from the teaser is that Melania is still mostly removed from her husband’s affairs. 

“Did you watch it?” Donald Trump can be heard asking from the other end of a phone line. 

“I did not, yeah” she replied. “I will see it on the news.”

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A rough week for hardware companies

iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes were very different companies, but they faced some similar challenges.

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TPUSA Fascist Fest Turns Into MAGA Infighting Cage Match

TPUSA was hosting an event this weekend, which was meant to be unifying the MAGA morons as Professional Widow and Tammy Faye impersonator Erica Kirk is enthroned as Queen of TPUSA. Instead, it turned into a battle of the right-wing egotists, with a lot of the speakers taking potshots at each other.

It started on the first night, when Ben Shapiro took the stage and went nuclear on almost everyone:

Ben Shapiro, the first speaker after widow Erika Kirk, ripped into those who would take the same stage in the coming hours and days. He called out conservative commentators, blasting Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Steve Bannon as “frauds and grifters.”

“The conservative movement is in serious danger,” Shapiro said, arguing the danger is not just on the left, but “from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.”

He called Bannon “a PR flack for Jeffrey Epstein” ahead of the imminent release of files related to the late convicted sex offender, while praising President Donald Trump and his administration’s handling of the issue. Trump pushed to stop Republicans in Congress from voting to release the files, though he signed the legislation once it was passed. Both Bannon and Trump appear in photos with Epstein that were released by House Democrats.

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TN Man Sues After Being Jailed For 37 Days Over Charlie Kirk Meme

Retired Tennessee law enforcement officer Larry Bushart is suing after he was jailed for over a month after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme quoting Donald Trump following conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death. Bushart's crime was quoting Trump when the president said, "We have to get over it," in response to a 2024 mass shooting at Perry High School in Iowa.

Bushart was arrested and held on $2 million bail over a meme. Charges were eventually dropped, but Bushart is suing.

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In a 30-page lawsuit filed in federal court in Tennessee, Bushart argues he was unlawfully prosecuted over the meme and that officials violated his free speech rights, targeting him “simply for speaking his mind.”
“It is clearly established that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from arresting people for protected political speech,” lawyers for Bushart wrote in the complaint.

He’s being represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

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‘It felt so wrong’: Colin Angle on iRobot, the FTC, and the Amazon deal that never was

The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker -- and what it means for American innovation.

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OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level

ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use.

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Hundreds of Cisco customers are vulnerable to new Chinese hacking campaign, researchers say

Cisco warned that Chinese government hackers are exploiting a zero-day in some of its products. Researchers now say there are hundreds of vulnerable Cisco customers.

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From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt?

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy.  Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas competition. From […]

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Pickle Robot adds Tesla veteran as first CFO

Jeff Evanson recently joined Pickle Robot as the company's first CFO as the startup has allegedly expanded its partnership with UPS.

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ChatGPT’s mobile app hits new milestone of $3B in consumer spending

ChatGPT has reached $3B in lifetime mobile consumer spending in just 31 months, faster than TikTok and major streaming apps.

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YouTube to pull music data from Billboard’s charts because it doesn’t like its ranking formula

YouTube takes its ball and goes home by pulling Billboard's access to its music data.

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Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day

Cisco said it discovered a Chinese hacking campaign targeting its customers by exploiting a zero-day in some of the company's most popular products.

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Trump Vendetta With Venezuela Nearly Causes Mid-Air Crash

Donald Trump's obsession with attacking Venezuela and stealing its oil is having unintended consequences, as the latest air traffic disaster under his administration was barely avoided.

The New York Times reports

The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.

“They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous,” the JetBlue pilot told an air traffic controller, after identifying the type of plane he had encountered. “We almost had a midair collision up here.”

The radio transmissions detail the experience of JetBlue Flight 1112, bound for New York after leaving Curaçao, a small island in the southern Caribbean about 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the aircraft suddenly leveled off midclimb, according to flight tracking data. On the radio, the JetBlue pilot said he was forced to stop the plane’s ascent to its cruising altitude to avoid a collision with the tanker.

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Slate crosses 150,000 reservations despite waning EV truck enthusiasm

It took Slate Auto about seven months to grow its customer list by 50%, but new reservations appear to be outpacing any cancelations.

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Even The Lickspittles On Fox Are Condemning Trump Over Vile Rob Reiner Comments

Looks like Trump went too far for his apologists on Fox this time. I always wonder which contemptible, vile, illegal, vulgar, disgusting latest move out of the narcissist is finally going to be a bridge too far for the sycophants to continue to sit silently, or worse yet condone and make excuses for Trump, and his vile behavior and doubling down on it following the tragic death of Rob Reiner and his wife may finally be one of them.

Here's Bret Baier and his panel from this Monday night discussing Trump's comments, with all of them tossing him under the bus.

BAIER: Howie, know on this other story, Rob Reiner and his wife being killed in their home in Los Angeles. You have interviewed uh Rob Reiner before.

KURTZ: Yeah, and I got to know him a little bit, he, you know, tremendously successful movie actor, director, son of the comedy legend Carl Reiner, and yet there was an everyman quality about him. He hung out at the same Santa Monica restaurants that everybody else did, and he was a mensch.

And he spoke out and denounced the murder of Charlie Kirk and had very gracious things to say about his widow, Erika.

Now, it's no secret, I sparred with him about this on the air in the first term, that Rob Reiner was a very liberal Democrat who had very strong criticism of President Trump.

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Official White House Account Reposts Trump's Reprehensible Attack On Rob Reiner

The White House's official Rapid Response team reposted President Donald Trump's controversial attack on Rob Reiner following his death.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the liberal Hollywood director a "tortured and struggling" person after he and his wife were killed.

Trump said the murder was "due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS."

"He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before."

Within minutes, an official White House account, Rapid Response 47, had shared the president's words.

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Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital

The massive fund haul will allow the Silicon Valley firm to continue to invest in cash hungry AI startups.

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Google’s ‘dark web report’ feature will no longer be available starting in February

Google has revealed that its “dark web report” feature will be discontinued starting February 16, 2026. Launched initially about a year and a half ago, this tool aimed to help users monitor their personal information on the dark web For some users, the dark web report seemed like a valuable tool, scanning various data breach […]

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Gaslighting Bartiromo Parrots Trump, Calls Affordability A 'Hoax'

Dear Leader put out his talking points on the economy, and the propagandists on Fox "news" are more than happy to repeat them. Trump's numbers on the economy are in the toilet, and no amount of gaslighting by Trump and his enablers is going to change what people are experiencing in their everyday lives. But that won't stop the likes of Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo from trying to tell them how wonderful everything actually is.

HANNITY: Okay, gas prices alone, the lifeblood of the world's economy, that alone, that massive, that drastic a cut is huge. The drop in inflation, huge. Nevermind where I think all the growth areas are. What's your analysis?

BARTIROMO: Well, Sean, first of all, it's great to see you. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. Secondly, this is no surprise, Sean. They always do this over and over again.

The Democrats are known for this. What they do is, everything they're actually doing, they attack the Republicans for. We've seen this repeatedly over and over again, and they're doing it again.

Of course we all remember that the Democrats spent $7 trillion on Joe Biden's watch, And at that time, because of all of that spending for things like the Inflation Reduction Act, which never reduced inflation, or the CHIPS Act, and so many other packages, that $7 trillion sent inflation, that is the consumer price index, to 40-year highs.

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What A Shocker: ICE Tracking Pregnant Women, Even During Labor

This sounds so project 2025-y, doesn't it? For the party of alleged "small government," the Republican Party is all up in our business.

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In early September, a woman, nine months pregnant, walked into the emergency obstetrics unit of a Colorado hospital. Though the labor and delivery staff caring for her expected her to have a smooth delivery, her case presented complications almost immediately.

The woman, who was born in central Asia, checked into the hospital with a smartwatch on her wrist, said two hospital workers who cared for her during her labor, and whom the Guardian is not identifying to avoid exposing their hospital or patients to retaliation.

The device was not an ordinary smartwatch made by Apple or Samsung, but a special type that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had mandated the woman wear at all times, allowing the agency to track her. The device was beeping when she entered the hospital, indicating she needed to charge it, and she worried that if the battery died, ICE agents would think she was trying to disappear, the hospital workers recalled. She told them that, just days earlier, she had been put on a deportation flight to Mexico, but the pilot refused to let her fly because she was so close to giving birth.

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DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying customers’ food

A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.

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AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects

Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates.

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Flailing Republican On Healthcare: Give Us Another Week

Rep. Mark Harris had no idea what healthcare plans Republicans had to show the public so he proclaimed on Fox Business that in maybe a week, something will be unveiled.

Even Maria Bartiromo appeared frustrated with these jack-offs, since two bills in the Senate died yesterday so the MAGA Queen wanted answers.

Rep. Harris obliged with gobbledygook.

MARIA: What is that plan?

HARRIS: Well I think you're going to see some things in the next week that we're going to be talking about and putting them maybe even on the floor next week, and that is starting to see these association health plans the president talked about that's going to open up more opportunities, it's going to open up really for us to look at the health savings accounts, or in this particular case looking at choice accounts that folks would be able to establish.

Again, you've got to remember Obamacare actually was, really has been a failure at every level.

Take a breath, dude. Nothing he said is a concrete health plan, just random thoughts put on a napkin at a McDonald's.

If you believe Obamacare is a failure then either fix it or come up with a comprehensive solution to the problem. Republicans have done neither.

By the way, 45% of Republicans want ACA subsides extended and approve of Obamacare.

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Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant

Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.

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Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming ‘massive’ copyright infringement

Disney is accusing the tech giant of unauthorized distribution of its copyrighted characters without permission via Gemini AI.

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ICE Barbie Called Out On Her Lies, Then Lies Again, Then Leaves Early

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got called out in real time while testifying on national security threats before the House Homeland Security Committee. Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar, who has introduced two articles of impeachment against Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, wasn't having any of ICE Barbie's shit today. So he called her out for her lies, and she kept lying.

"Secretary, it is a fact that you ignored federal court orders in March and in May of this year," Thanedar said. Do you plan on ignoring more federal orders?"

"We always comply..." Noem falsely said.

"I'm sick of your lies, and the American people demand the truth," the Michigan Democrat shot back.

"Because you keep saying it doesn't make it true," Noem said.

"I am sick of your lies," Thanedar said. The American people are sick of these lies. American people demand truth."

"America is very happy that finally they have a President in the White House that gets up every day to keep them safe," Noem insisted.

"Madam Secretary, your incompetence and your inability to truthfully carry out your duties as Secretary of Homeland Security, if you're not fired, will you resign?" Thanedar asked.

"Sir, I will consider your asking me to resign as an endorsement of my work," she said.

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YouTube TV to launch genre-based subscription plans in 2026

The new packages will give consumers more flexibility over the content that they want to pay for. YouTube notes that users will still get access to popular features like unlimited DVR, multiview, key plays, and fantasy view.

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Three in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing

While teenagers may start out using AI chatbots for basic questions, their relationship with chatbot platforms has the potential to turn addictive.

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Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train AI models.

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Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction

More than 230 organizations signed a public letter urging members of Congress to take action.

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'Low IQ Traitor': Trump Throws Major Fit Over MTG's 60 Minutes Interview

Donald J. Trump threw a major fit on Truth Social over Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's interview with 60 Minutes, likely because (and I'm just guessing since just about anything sets this guy off.) the Trump supporter turned critic said she's seen colleagues who previously made fun of the president pivot to "kissing his ass" and wearing a MAGA hat.

"The only reason Marjorie “Traitor” Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!)," he wrote. "Too much work, not enough time, and her ideas are, NOW, really BAD - She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple! Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person."

"That was proven last night when washed up, Trump hating, 60 Minutes “correspondent,” Lesley Stahl, who still owes me an apology from when she attacked me on the show (with serious conviction!), that Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP FROM HELL was produced by Russia, not Hunter himself (TOTALLY PROVEN WRONG!), interviewed a very poorly prepared Traitor, who in her confusion made many really stupid statements," he continued.

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Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds

Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.

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GOP Candidate Whitesplains Slavery To Black Democrat

Because Tom Tiffany is already tanking against Democratic frontrunner Mandela Barnes, he went to get some free airtime from squawk radio host Dan O'Donnell.

Heartland Signal caught the interaction between the two, and it was not a meeting of the minds by any stretch of the imagination.

On conservative radio, Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany insists a African-American Democratic opponent represents “the party of slavery." pic.twitter.com/MmBFd1V6hj

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) December 4, 2025

Yes, Dan, isn't it amazing that Mandela Barnes should sound like himself? And they actually pay him for this? But then Tiffany took the cake by whiteslpaining slavery to Barnes, who is Black:

TIFFANY: But I would remind Mr. Barnes, he belongs to the party that was the party of slavery. I happen to belong to the party, the Republican party, that was started in 1854 right here in Wisconsin that ended slavery. And we were the ones that said all men should be created equal. Why he belongs to the Democrat Party if he believes those things that he was just saying, I don't understand it for the life of me.

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Meta reportedly delays mixed reality glasses until 2027

aMeta lready sells VR headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses, but these new glasses sound a bit different. Their format factor would reportedly be similar to the Apple Vision Pro, with a puck-like power source.

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Is it time to ‘refound’ your startup?

Sometimes, founding a startup just once isn’t enough.

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Trump's Racist Attack On Ilhan Omar Revives A Debunked Conspiracy

Donald Trump went on a racist tirade against Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, and then claimed she married her brother, which is a long-debunked conspiracy.

Someone needs his nap time and his binky.

JD Vance's racism about migrants eating dogs has caught Somalians in its crosshairs, and it's frightening. Trump is also attacking the country of Somalia because Rep. Omar immigrated from there. She's got the wrong skin color and is a woman, which is Trump's preferred target.

Q: The Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying that he's actually proud to have the largest Somali community in the country, and his police chief is also saying that he might.

TRUMP: Well, he's a fool.

Q: Well, his police chief is also saying he might.

I wouldn't be proud to have the largest Somalian.

Look at their nation.

Look how bad their nation is.

It's not even a nation.

It's just people walking around killing each other.

Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.

They've taken billions and billions of dollars.

What does the economic state of Somalia have to do with Rep. Omar or these immigrants?

Nothing. He's the worst racist in this country because he lives in the White House.

Nothing is off the table with Trump when it comes to smearing those he dislikes.

TRUMP: hey have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother.

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You Can Blame Senator Cassidy For The Destruction Of HHS

Sen. Bill Cassidy just told the media this week he believes Kennedy's HHS has a "prejudice against science" after their new plans to do away with the birth doses of the hepatitis B vaccine.

That's a day late and a dollar short.

RFK Jr's has forced the CDC to pull their recommendation for administering hepatitis B vaccine for children as soon as they are born and to wait two months. Sen. Cassidy jumped on this announcement and attacked the HHS like he always does. Sen. Cassidy is a huge proponent of birth doses and the data has proven him correct.

Sen. Cassidy was interviewed on PBS this week and was asked how he can you hold Kennedy accountable for breaking his promises to the Senator. Cassidy cast the deciding vote to get RFK Jr's nomination out of his committee and later supporting him for the position of Sec of HHS.

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ChatGPT’s user growth has slowed, report finds

ChatGPT's global monthly active users only grew by around 5% from August to November, while Gemini's users grew by about 30%.

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Raskin: TN-7 Election Threw Big Wrench In GOP Redistricting Spree

Susie Madrak already posted about how progressive Democrat Aftyn Behn’s double-digit overperformance in Tuesday’s special election probably frightened the s**t out of Republicans across the country. That’s not counting the fact that Behn says she plans to run again in the upcoming midterms.

Rep. Jamie Raskin brought up another way Behn’s electoral loss was probably a bigger loss for Republicans. She likely threw their big gerrymandering plot into disarray, if not stopped it altogether.

“Unless you’ve got a district that's up 15, 20, 25 points, you're not going to be interested” in gerrymandering it,” Raskin said on MS Now Tuesday night.

That’s because, as host Lawrence O’Donnell further explained, you have to take Republican voters out of a very safe Republican district and redistribute them so that they can swing another district. Those Republicans representing districts won by 18, 22 or 12 points are told, O’Donnell said, “You don't need to win by 12, you can win by eight, you can win by seven. It'll be fine. We're going to shave off 3 or 4% of your Republican vote from your district and move it over here.”

But now, with Behn having turned a 22+ district into a 9+ point one, Republicans will be a whole lot less eager to shave points off their own districts.

How delicious it would be to watch the Trump gerrymandering plan fizzle out or, better yet, totally backfire!

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From the NFL to Startup Battlefield: How Alltroo built a brand that wins

On season one of Build Mode: Product, Meet Market, we explore what it really takes to get your product into the hands of customers. 

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Judge Napolitano: Pete Hegseth Guilty Of War Crimes Over Boat Strikes

Former Fox News Senior Legal analyst, and now doing the same for Newsmax, Judge Andrew Napolitano blasted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and all those who carried out the orders to execute two "narco terrorist" Venezuelan boaters who survived the initial attack.

Napolitano first demanded to know what legal opinion the Trump administration was following that gave them permission to assassinate alleged drug traffickers in international waters since they have refused to share those with the media.

NAPOLITANO: Well, I wish the White House would reveal to us the laws on which the president is relying.

He says he has an opinion from the Justice Department, but neither the Justice Department or the White House will offer it for public scrutiny.

And it gives me no pleasure to say what I'm about to say, because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News.

This is an act of a war crime, ordering survivors, who the law requires be rescued, instead to be murdered. There's absolutely no legal basis for it.

On that point, most credible pundits, analysts and legal scholars agree. In American, drug smuggling, dealing and or distributing is not a capitol offense.

Napolitano spares no one. "Everybody along the line who did it, from the Secretary of Defense to the admiral to the people who actually pulled the trigger, should be prosecuted for a war crime for killing these two people," he said.

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Amazon Aims At Killing Smaller Ultra-Fast Delivery Services

Sounds like Amazon is trying to siphon off the customers from GoPuff, which offers a very similar delivery service for $9.99. (Walmart's doing rapid delivery, too.) Now they've started testing a new ultra-fast delivery option in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia, offering 30-minute drop-offs for thousands of everyday items through a program called Amazon Now. Via Kiro7.com:

The service, integrated directly into the Amazon app and website, gives customers in eligible neighborhoods access to household essentials, groceries, electronics, personal care items, baby products, pet treats, and other frequently purchased goods.

According to Amazon, Prime members will pay discounted delivery fees starting at $3.99 per order, compared with $13.99 for non-Prime customers.

A $1.99 small basket fee applies to orders under $15.

Amazon says the goal is to make last-minute shopping easier.

Sounds like it makes it even more expensive, but of course that's understood. Not to mention even more pressure for for the famously-stressed Amazon employees!

Items include staples like milk, eggs, produce, toothpaste, cosmetics, over-the-counter medicine, paper goods, chips, dips, seasonal items and more.

Customers can also track their deliveries and tip drivers through the app.

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Android 16 adds AI notification summaries, new customization options, and more

The rollout of the new Android 16 features, which are first coming to Pixel devices, marks a new chapter in how Android updates work, as the company is shifting from a single yearly update to more frequent releases.

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Trump Tosses Whiskey Pete Under The Bus And Backs Over Him

We've gone from defending Pete Hegseth to the Sergeant Schultz defense with Trump.

Trump was asked about the possibility that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likely committed a war crime when he ordered the murder of civilians clinging to wreckage after surviving his first military strike on a fishing boat in the Caribbean by a reporter on Air Force One this weekend, and Trump tossed Hegseth right under the bus and backed over him a few times.

REPORTER: Can you talk a little bit about the strikes and controversy around Sec. Hegseth..

TRUMP: I don’t know anything about it. He said he did not say that, and I believe him.

REPORTER: You don’t know if there was a second strike to kill the two men?

TRUMP: He said he didn’t do it. He said he never (inaudible)

REPORTER: Would you be okay with that if he did?

TRUMP: He said he didn’t do it so I don’t have to make that decision.

In another clip captured by Acyn, Trump told reporters he wouldn't have ordered the second strike:

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Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035

New planned data centers promise to consume even more energy than expected. Meanwhile, a grid monitor is blaming such growth for high electricity prices.

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PeeWee Goebbels' Wife Really Doesn't Like Him Being Called A Nazi

Shame on CNN for platforming this nutjob in the first place. Abby Phillip already hosts one of the worst talking heads political panel shows on television due to the presence of Scott Jennings on there night after night. Her producers apparently decided that wasn't enough to drive viewers away and booked Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, as a guest on this Friday's show, and things went about as well as expected.

Miller is still very upset that podcaster Jennifer Welch said this about her husband during an episode where Phillip was a guest:

"What do you do when the racists are in charge, like they are now?" Welch asked.

"I mean, like Stephen Miller is a White supremacist. I mean, he is. And he's basically running the White House. They keep Trump busy with his decorating projects. He's got building the arch now. He's got his Oval Office design," she continued. "And then you have these real sociopaths that are real antisemites, true White supremacists like Steven Miller. And even though he's Jewish, he's like a Nazi Jew."

While discussing the influence of Nick Fuentes on the Republican party, things blew up quickly:

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Jeanine Pirro Lashes Out At Critics Of Trump's DC National Guard Deployment

U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, with yet another version of "everything is Joe Biden's fault" during an unhinged interview on Fox & Friends this Friday where she announced the suspect in the Washington D.C. shooting of two National Guard members would be charged with first degree murder:

Meanwhile, Pirro addressed criticism of Trump’s decision to deploy troops to Washington, saying Americans “should be grateful” that Trump is prepared to take such swift action to keep them safe.

“There’s a part of me that thinks that the left is disappointed that the National Guard didn’t shoot someone,” Pirro said.

[...]

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Supabase hit $5B by turning down million-dollar contracts. Here’s why.

Vibe coding has taken the tech industry by storm, and it’s not just the Lovables and Replits of the world that are winning. The startups building the infrastructure behind them are cashing in too.  Supabase, the open-source database platform that’s become the backend of choice for the vibe-coding world, raised $100 million at a $5 billion valuation just months after closing $200 million at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO […]

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Clueless Kash Patel Gives Presser Not Knowing Suspect Was In Custody

Once again. FBI Director Kash Patel embarrassed himself and the agency by leading the press conference in the aftermath of two National Guard soldiers being shot in Washington, DC, and vowing to bring the suspect to justice, and then not knowing a suspect was already in custody.

Patel was heavily criticized for his initial handling of the Charlie Kirk shooting, when he gave misleading information to the press, saying the shooter was in custody when he wasn't

Now, he is two for two.

PATEL: As you can see behind me, we have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies to prepare all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act.

We have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies to prepare all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act.

And make no mistake, they will be brought to justice.

Although heavy-handed, Patel sounded somewhat reasonable. Enter Jeff Carroll:

CARROLL: My name is Jeff Carroll.

I'm the executive assistant chief here at the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Open Thread: Nominations Open For The 2025 Crookie Awards!

It's time to nominate folks and events for the 2025 Crookies! From December 24 through January 1, we'll be highlighting the highs and lows, greats and awfuls, of the political year.

One caveat: We will not give one. single. award. to Donald Trump. He deserves nothing. He's a loser. So hey Donald:

The awards will go to both the Good Guys and the bad guys, and we need input from our readers!

Leave your suggestions in the comments. What was the biggest HAPPY surprise of the year for you? The worst public figure not Trump? Best Cable News moment? Favorite Crooks and Liars post? (yes, we're partial to this blog, and we prefer nominees for whom we have videos in our amazing archives.)

Let us know your nominees in comments, and thanks!

And please don't forget to include our blog in your holiday giving. This site doesn't operate without your support.

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Mike's Blog Round Up

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lawyers, Guns and Money: We regret to inform you of a minor editing error.

Darwinfish²: I thank you.

From the Smithsonian, more on the real history of Thanksgiving, the myths, five ideas to change teaching about the subject, and more native perspectives.

From Addams Family Values, the subversion of the Thanksgiving play (video).

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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This Thanksgiving’s real drama may be Michael Burry versus Nvidia

Is Burry the canary in the coal mine, warning of a collapse that's inevitable? Or could his fame, his track record, his now unrestricted voice, and a fast-growing audience trigger the very implosion he's predicting?

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Thanksgiving Day Football Open Thread

Today's games are as follows: Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 27, 2025)

1 p.m. ET: Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions (FOX)

4:30 p.m. ET: Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys (CBS)

8:20 p.m. ET: Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens (NBC)

Times shown are Eastern.

How are you celebrating today? What's your pick for the winning team(s)?

It's a Thanksgiving Day open thread, too.

We at Crooks and Liars are SO grateful to you, our readers and commenters. Thank you.

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Redwood Materials reportedly cuts 5% of staff after $350M raise

The battery recycling and cathode production company, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has started using recycled battery materials to create energy storage solutions for AI data centers.

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Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

Three London councils reported disruption, prompting officials to shut down phone lines and networks and activate emergency plans.

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Karoline Leavitt: 'Can't Have' Soldiers Asking If Orders Are Legal

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that the United States "can't have" soldiers questioning whether orders are legal after Democrats pointed out that troops have a responsibility not to follow illegal orders.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Leavitt said Democrats were giving "a wink and a nod to the 1.3 million active duty service members who serve in our United States armed forces and essentially encourage them to defy the orders of their commander-in-chief."

"Not a single order this president or administration has given to our military has ever been illegal, nor will it ever be," she insisted. "This administration respects and abides by the law."

"You can't have a soldier out on the battlefield or conducting a classified order questioning whether that is lawful or whether they should follow through. There must be a chain of command in our military."

Despite Leavitt's claim, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) states that service members can be liable for following unlawful orders like burglary, murder, assault, rape, and property destruction. The UCMJ also prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses."

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OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it

Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.

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AOC Questions Trump's Mental State

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped into Trump's mental state after he continually mischaracterized, lied, and called for the death penalty after several Democrats released a video reminding the military to not obey illegal or unconstitutional orders.

To be honest, the president's remarks are, I think, indicate a level of instability.

It's not just shocking, it's not just offensive, it's bizarre, it is erratic, it's volatile. And I think it indicates a mental state that we should all be questioning right now, whether that's emotional, mental, what have you.

It is not normal to make these accusations, it is not normal to invoke these kinds of threats of violence. And it's also not normal to also dramatically misquote, as Karoline Leavitt was doing, what these members of Congress said.

They made a very clear message to U.S. service members, which is that you do not have to obey an illegal order.

And I think that's an important message to reiterate, because this administration seems to be increasingly trying to go down that path.

AOC described Trump as not being stable.

Release your acuity test, Piggy.

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X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers.

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Mamdani Asked If He Still Thinks Trump Is A 'Fascist' And A 'Despot'

While the president changed his tune as to how he views Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Mayor-elect, on “Meet the Press” with moderator Kristen Welker, said that he still believes Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot." We agree!

"In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is, in fact, a fascist, a word that you've used in the past," Welker said. "You were about to answer, then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that's okay, you can just say yes, it's easier than explaining it. So Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?"

"And after President Trump said that, I said yes," Mamdani said.

"So you do?" Welker said as if that needed any clarification.

"And that's something that I've said in the past, I say it today," the mayor-elect said. "And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers."

"You've also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our democracy," Welker said. "You've called him a despot. "Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?"

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X’s new About This Account feature is going great

A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.

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Waymo gets regulatory approval to expand across Bay Area and Southern California

Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robotaxi company posting Friday that it’s now “officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State.”

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Trump’s Mamdani Bromance May Have Just Killed Stefanik Campaign

In case you missed it, Donald Trump fell head over heels on Friday for New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, the guy he once called a “communist lunatic,” had threatened to arrest, and vowed to cut off federal funding to the city if Mamdani won the November election.

That was so pre-White House meeting ago! Democratic socialist Mamdani so charmed Trump at the White House Friday, Trump said he now expects to be “a big help” to the future mayor and said they share some of the “same ideas” about affordability.

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Trump Admin No Longer Considers Nursing As A 'Professional Degree'

Donald J. Trump's Big, Hideous Bill contains a doozy. The Department of Education has excluded nursing from professional degree programs. A lot of what is in that travesty of a bill is a slap in the face of Americans, but I didn't think they'd take a shot at nurses, too, who were deemed "essential workers" when the COVID pandemic hit. And there is already a significant nursing shortage. This move will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education.

Via Blavity:

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” changed the definition of what is considered a professional program, as well as the eligibility to receive up to $200,000 in student loans, according to Newsweek. The Department of Education will now only consider these fields as professional programs: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology.

It means that physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists and audiologists are excluded from this list. They will no longer have access to the same student loans as they did before.

Via Nurse.org:

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years

The startup’s rapid growth suggests that enerprises are embracing AI agents.

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The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you can buy right now

We compiled all the hottest AI wearables currently available, including Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

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CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider’ who passed information to hackers

Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike denied it had been hacked following claims from a hacker group, which leaked screenshots from inside CrowdStrike's network.

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Mixup is a new, Mad Libs-style app for creating AI images from photos, text, and doodles

The new app lets anyone use Google's Nano Banana in a fun new way, with fill-in-the-blank AI "recipes."

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Warner Music settles copyright lawsuit with Udio, signs deal for AI music platform

The subscription service will allow users to make remixes, covers, and new songs using the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who choose to participate.

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Rising data center electricity use risks blackouts during winter storms

Data centers are driving record electricity demand, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation is warning that a sever winter storm could push the grid over the edge.

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Monarch Tractor sued over tractors that were ‘unable to operate autonomously’

The lawsuit is the latest problem to crop up for the startup.

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Fox News' War On Christmas: Don't Buy Granny Any Slippers

Fox News host Dana Perino highlighted the rising costs in America with Jade Warshaw, who painted a bleak picture for most Americans, and suggested that in order to budget for Christmas, don't buy granny any slippers.

In an outlier segment on Fox News, Perino focused on the affordability crisis and the challenges facing the US due to Trump's inflationary tariffs, and posted a graphic highlighting the worries of most Americans.

Warshaw, a co-host of The Dave Ramsey Show advised people to move into smaller apartments and dump their car if they have lengthy payment schedules.

"If you're living in an apartment, sometimes you have to go from a two-bedroom to a one-bedroom," Warshaw said. "These are things that I don't like telling people."

"It's the same thing, Dana, with car payments. We're looking at people whose car payments are $700 and $800," she continued. " If you can't pay off your car in the next 18 months, yeah, you need to consider selling it."

Didn't Trump promise Nirvana if he was elected president?

Perino then asked for a spot of advice for the holidays.

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Ford turns to Amazon to give used cars sales a boost

Amazon Autos, which kicked off last year with Hyundai, initially started with new cars. The deal with Ford pushes it into used car territory.

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Ramp hits $32B valuation, just three months after hitting $22.5B

In 2025 alone, Ramp has leapt from being worth $13 billion to $32 billion with new rounds every few months.

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'Just Sink The Boats': Trump Judge Implicated In Plot To Murder Alleged Drug Traffickers

New reporting suggests that Judge Emil Bove, a former member of President Donald Trump's legal team, spoke in favor of murdering people aboard alleged drug boats without proving they had done anything wrong.

While serving as acting deputy attorney general after Trump took office, Bove told the federal government's top drug prosecutors that the administration was no longer interested in intercepting boats carrying narcotics, multiple sources told NPR.

Since that time, the U.S. military has killed more than 75 people in boat strikes without providing any direct evidence to support the claim that they posed a threat to Americans.

During his February address to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Bove reportedly shocked attendees when he said the new policy should be to "just sink the boats."

"He said that we're not going to worry so much about interdictions, we're just going to sink the boats," one person who attended the conference confirmed.

"I looked around at others in that room when he said that, and jaws literally dropped," the person added. "The way people interpreted that was not, 'We're going to interdict and process the folks in the boats.' People took that as, 'We're just going to blow up the boats with people in them.'"

One former DOJ official who was present for the speech did not take Bove's remarks seriously.

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'Super Genius' Trump Can't Explain Why He Needed An MRI

File this one under the "imagine if Joe Biden did this" category. Trump was asked on Air Force One this Friday about his "perfect" MRI scan during a recent visit to Walter Reed, and the brain-addled Trump couldn't explain why he needed it or what they scanned.

He just kept insisting again how wonderful the results were before bragging, again, about acing a cognitive test that they give to dementia patients.

REPORTER: Can you tell us why you needed to get an MRI, understanding the results of this. What was it for?

TRUMP: Because it's part of my physical. Getting an MRI is very standard.

[...]

I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor. That's it.

I had an MRI as part of my standard yearly, or every I think they do it every two years, but I have a physical every year, and the result was outstanding.

[...]

I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well, and they said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen.

Now, the other thing I took is I took, as you know, a advanced, very advanced test on mental acuity, because I think a president should have to do that.

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Why Did Kash Patel Exempt Dan Bongino From Clearing Polygraph Exams?

ProPublica has the scoop on the waiver that allowed Bongino to get his top job without clearing a lie detector test. Two other top employees got similar waivers: Nicole Rucker, Kash Patel’s personal assistant, and Marshal Yates, the FBI liaison with Congress. ProPublica was able to determine that Rucker and Yates did not clear their polygraph exams.

However, ProPublica was not able to determine whether Bongino underwent a polygraph exam or what its results were. “It is possible Bongino received a preemptive exemption, a former senior FBI official with knowledge of the vetting program told ProPublica.”

What we do know points to Bongino having not cleared the exam.

One does not technically pass or fail a polygraph test, ProPublica’s article pointed out. “But a person is not cleared for approval if the examiner finds deception or is unable to reach a conclusion about the veracity of the answers given. Officials said that a person may not have technically failed the exams; the results could be deemed inconclusive, which would not meet the FBI’s standards for hiring or security clearances.”

When asked for comment, the FBI denied what ProPublica seemed not to have reported. “It is false that the individuals you referenced failed polygraphs,” wrote spokesperson Ben Williamson. He also claimed the article was “riddled with falsehoods.” But when asked to specify those alleged falsehoods, ProPublica got no response.

Oh.

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JPMorgan doesn’t want to pay Frank founder Charlie Javice’s legal bills

A lawyer representing JPMorgan said Javice’s legal team billed for expenses including luxury hotel upgrades, 24 hours of work in a single day, and cellulite butter.

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Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology.

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'Betrayed': Trump Kicks Off His Morning By Lashing Out At 'Traitor

Donald J. Trump's thin skin is on display again as he took to Truth Social to lash out at MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene again. On Friday, Trump pulled his endorsement for Greene after the Georgia Congresswoman refused to back down on the Epstein Files, which doesn't make him look guilty at all (wink wink).

This is, without a doubt, the wildest breakup in politics. Greene, who has overlooked Trump's staggering corruption, finally drew a line in the sand with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the now-deceased wealthy financier who trafficked and raped underage girls (also known as children), and had a longstanding friendship with the president, among other influential figures.

Pulling his endorsement wasn't enough for the Pumpkin Pol Pot. Dipshitler just can't let go of Marge.

"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was," Donald wrote. "Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

About 30 minutes later, Trump posted, "Marjorie “Traitor” Green is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!"

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Tesla releases detailed safety report after Waymo co-CEO called for more data

The new data, released Friday, finally addresses some of the biggest criticisms of the paltry "safety reports" Tesla's released for years.

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Oura Ring 4 Ceramic review: a colorful glow up

If you want a pop of color and style, then the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic might be the smart ring for you.

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Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’

Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

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Uber quietly pilots in-app video recording for drivers in India

Uber's in-app video recording pilot is currently live in 10 cities across India.

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Heads Up: Here's Mike Johnson's 2019 GOP Healthcare Plan

You may not remember that Mike Jesus Johnson was a member of the Republican Study Group, the largest and most extreme Republican caucus. Back in 2019, Mike Johnson was the chairman. Here's their 2019 healthcare plan. (The full link is missing, but here's a summary.)

As someone who already knows far too much about insurance, I can tell you there's not much difference today. Republicans will propose what they always propose: Plans that will increase our costs, lower coverage, and increase insurance company profits.

First up, this old favorite:

The proposal ... explains how Obamacare has distorted the job market with the employer mandate and how Medicaid Expansion hurt the vulnerable by extending the program to abled-bodied individuals without dependents that compete with traditional Medicaid recipients, such as poor, pregnant women, looking for care.

We already know this is bullshit. Next?

"Promoting the use of innovative healthcare solutions such as telemedicine, direct primary care, association health plans, and health sharing ministries."

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Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages

A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.

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Pardons Are 'Call To Interfere In Upcoming Elections': Ex-prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner argued that President Donald Trump had issued a "calling-all-insurrectionists" recruiting tool by pardoning people who participated in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Over the weekend, Trump pardoned scores of people accused of backing Republican efforts to overturn his 2020 loss, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and others who supported the scheme to use ballots of fake electors.

Many of those people continue to face state charges despite the pardons.

Kirschner took issue with reports that Trump's pardons were "primarily symbolic."

"These pardons serve as a recruiting call for people to interfere in the upcoming elections, both the midterms and the 2028 presidential race," the former prosecutor noted on Monday. "What do these pardons signal? If you are alleged to have committed crimes designed to interfere in an American election, Trump will have your back with a presidential pardon."

"Trump might as well post a job announcement: Election interference co-conspirators wanted," he said.

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AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says

Gamma is growing quickly, and profitably, its co-founder CEO Grant Lee says.

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Coward Mike Johnson Holds 6 Minute Presser; Refuses Questions On ACA

Mike Johnson fled his press conference after he spoke for roughly six minutes, with none of his usual colleagues beside him, and refused to answer any questions about health care and the ACA subsidies after the Senate agreed to reopen the government.

Since the government shutdown, Jebus Johnson's press briefings have been over 40 minutes, with a cadre of his House colleagues speaking to the press and blaming all their woes on the Democratic party, but not today.

Watch how he rushes off after thanking Senate Democrats and refusing to take any responsibility for the shutdown.

JOHNSON: This has gone on too long.

Too many people have suffered. It's long overdue.

That's the update I wanted to give you this morning.

There are probably lots of questions, but I'm going to get a lot of my own questions answered later today.

So stay tuned for more.

Thanks so much.

The usual loquacious Johnson was apparently mummified over the weekend. He refused to answer any questions from the press and fled like his pants were on fire.

Making Americans suffer has been part of their plan.

Is he nervous that some of his colleagues will force an Epstein files vote?

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