"Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date," reports Science Daily. "This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption.
"The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices..."
Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever measured in a material that works within today's silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing.... The researchers created a nanometer-thin germanium epilayer on silicon that is placed under compressive strain. This engineered structure enables electric charge to move faster than in any previously known silicon-compatible material...
The findings establish a promising new route for ultra-fast, low-power semiconductor components. Potential uses include quantum information systems, spin qubits, cryogenic controllers for quantum processors, AI accelerators, and energy-efficient servers designed to reduce cooling demands in data centers. This achievement also represents a significant accomplishment for Warwick's Semiconductors Research Group and highlights the UK's growing influence in advanced semiconductor materials research.
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back.
It’s another bleak week in the courts, which is a distressingly common thing right now. How do you feel about religious fanatics getting to lie about abortion because Jesus says it’s cool? Are you down with giving the manifestly incompetent Jeanine Pirro multiple ways to indict people, which is necessary since she sucks at it?
We do have one bright spot here: Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl—remember those conspiracy theorists?—are actually facing some consequences for their actions. Weird, right?
If you love Jesus, you can lie about the abortion pill
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that New York cannot enforce a law barring the dissemination of misinformation about the abortion pill, because freeze peach.
Anti-abortion types have touted that the abortion pill can be “reversed,” which is both wrong and dangerous. In 2019, researchers from the University of California, Davis, looked into whether progesterone could stop a medication abortion after someone has taken the first pill in the two-pill process. Out of 12 women in the study, three suffered vaginal bleeding so severe that they needed to be rushed by ambulance to a hospital. And the study authors then determined it was too dangerous to proceed, so they ended it.
An abortion-rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills outside the Supreme Court in 2024.
But these plaintiffs in the case really want to be able to tell people this is a safe and real thing women can do.
Let’s face it: If this case were about anything other than abortion and conservative Christians hating it, this would be a slam dunk for New York. For example, there’s no way a court would sign off on there being a free speech right to tell everyone that knee surgery will kill you, or that, hey, why not remove your own bladder stent because the doctor should never have put it there anyway, because kidney stones aren’t real?
But these plaintiffs are compelled to share lies about a supposed abortion-pill reversal process because their religion says so, and that means it’s free speech, and they get to keep doing it.
Maybe Pam Bondi will like this judge now
Remember how poor U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro kept getting no-billed by federal grand juries when she tried to bring inflated criminal charges against people scooped up in President Donald Trump’s so-called crime crackdown?
Well, she came up with a neat little trick to solve this: Go to a local grand jury instead, get an indictment, then walk that back over to federal court.
Jeanine Pirro, shown in 2024.
It’s unhinged, but Judge James Boasberg just signed off on it, saying that the interplay of federal and D.C. laws is complex and therefore Pirro gets to have even more bites at the apple with her wildly overcharged cases.
Funny thing is, Boasberg has been the subject of relentless attacks from Attorney General Pam Bondi. She filed an absurd ethics complaint merely because he dared to tell the administration to turn around the planes filled with detainees heading for Venezuela, and then had the gall to tell the Justice Department it can’t defy court orders. The nerve. But since Boasberg has given Pirro this little treat, perhaps the DOJ will lay off for a bit.
Okay, it won’t, but we can dream.
Law school tuition is too damn high and it’s … the ABA’s fault?
Yes, that’s the logic of the Federal Trade Commission, but this isn’t really about tuition. It’s about the administration’s desire to replicate the recent Texas plan to cut the American Bar Association out of the law-school approval and accreditation process and instead let the state Supreme Court decide which Texas law school graduates will get admitted to the bar.
While this might sound benign, it’s scuzzy as hell. ABA accreditation provides both standardization and standards, meaning that it addresses both what law schools need to cover and at what level of quality and service. Texas’s proposal would result in nothing but fly-by-night, unaccredited law schools lobbying Texas justices to sign off on their sketchy schools.
The other problem here is that if Texas decides that students from unaccredited schools can sit for the Texas bar, those students likely could not sit for the bar in other states, which would require graduation from an ABA-accredited school.
This is all part of the administration’s attack on accreditors generally, because god forbid you impose any rigor or quality on higher education. How is Trump going to have Trump University 2.0 if these stupid accreditors hang about?
The FTC’s logic here is that since the ABA has a “monopoly” on accreditation, it has led to a shortage of lawyers, to which: lol.
The nation has over 1.3 million practicing lawyers, and the lawyer bubble has persisted for years, with law school graduates sometimes having double the unemployment rate of non-lawyers. This push likely results in nothing but Trump University Law School, which is a thing no one needs.
Blast from the past: Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl
Conspiracy theorists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl were everywhere in the first Trump administration, pulling the absolute weirdest stunts.
Conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl, shown in 2018.
Remember when they held a press conference to falsely announce that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren had hired a 24-year-old boy toy for sex, only for said boy toy to be unable to stop laughing behind the podium? Or when Wohl went to Minneapolis to “investigate” Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and declared the city a hellhole where he received death threats, except the threats he reported to police appeared to have been made … by him from an alt account?
Burkman and Wohl also committed crimes, such as using robocalls designed to suppress Black voters during the 2020 election. The robocalls had misinformation about voting by mail, particularly that it put people in a public database that would allow police to track them down and allow credit card companies to find them and collect debts.
In a rarity for conservative activists, however, these two fucked around and found out and were prosecuted or sued in multiple jurisdictions. And they just agreed to a no-contest plea in Michigan, which netted them a year of probation, which is a lot better than New York, where they are on the hook for over $1 million in fines.
Ed Martin seemingly can’t stop deleting government records
Oh, Ed Martin. We just can’t quit you because you just can’t quit being an unethical jackass. It seems that the pardon attorney/director of the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group/special attorney for mortgage fraud may have a problem with concealing and destroying records.
However, since the DOJ won’t voluntarily provide records or information via Freedom of Information Act requests, watchdog organization American Oversight sued the DOJ to try to unlock these records or to confirm that Ed’s a little heavy with the delete button.
Martin has been here before. When he worked for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, his alleged deletion habits ultimately forced the state to pay $500,000 to a lawyer who was allegedly fired after raising an issue about the office.
Martin is one of the key people helping Trump exact retribution from people he perceived as having wronged him. Of course, he’s not going to keep a paper trail—come on.
The Nobel Committee wouldn't give Donald Trump the time of day, but FIFA? FIFA understands greatness when it sees it.
As BBC Sport reports, President Trump is now the proud recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, an award that definitely existed before this week and wasn't just invented by his close ally Gianni Infantino. — Read the rest
The Make America Healthy Again movement has found its most enthusiastic supporters with chiropractors, who are sore from decades of grievances against mainstream medicine. According to Politico, the International Chiropractors Association has thrown its full weight behind RFK Jr.'s wellness revolution, with its president declaring that their "Mission, Vision, and Values align with the stated goals of the MAHA Initiative." — Read the rest
A personal assistant costs thousands of dollars a year, but Pansophy's AI Assistant offers a full experience on your computer for a one-time purchase of $79 (MSRP $199). — Read the rest
If there's one thing festive folks know deep in their jinglin' little hearts, it's that nothing brings pre-holiday chaos quite like living with a cat. You might be lighting candles, sipping cocoa, and trying to embrace the cozy winter spirit - but your feline friend has other plans. And by "other plans", we mean the cattest plans imaginable.
Maybe you're attempting to wrap gifts, only to discover your cat believes wrapping paper exists solely as a personal runway. Maybe you're trying to unwind under a blanket, and suddenly you're a human-shaped heating pad claimed by a purring loaf. Or maybe your cat has entered their "mysterious winter gremlin" era - zooming through the corridor at 3 AM like they're training for the Snowball Sprint Olympics.
Winter hits, and suddenly every cat becomes a fluffy agent of festive chaos: knocking over your decorative pinecones for sport, demanding treats with the persistence of a tiny floofy boss, or staring ominously out the window as if plotting to duel a snowflake. And yet… we absolutely love it. Because this is the magic: the soft paws kneading your sweater, the warm nose boops, the tail flicks of cattitude, the cozy company only a cat can give. They're the true stars of the season - not peaceful, not predictable, but delightfully, unapologetically chaotic. And honestly? Winter wouldn't feel the same without their purrfectly dramatic feline flair.
Customer: "I want to return this book."
I see an issue with this book immediately and already know how this is going to go. Still, I feel the need to play along.
Me: "Can I see the receipt?"
"A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational," reports Politico, "after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found."
[T]he large steel structure "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" when its outer cladding was set ablaze after being struck by Russian drones, according to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Beyond that, there was "no permanent damage to its load-bearing structures or monitoring systems," it said. "Limited temporary repairs have been carried out on the roof, but timely and comprehensive restoration remains essential to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in astatement.
The Guardian has pictures of the protective shield — incuding the damage from the drone strike. The shield is the world's largest movable land structure, reports CNN:
The IAEA, which has a permanent presence at the site, will "continue to do everything it can to support efforts to fully restore nuclear safety and security," Grossi said.... Built in 2010 and completed in 2019, it was designed to last 100 years and has played a crucial role in securing the site.
The project cost €2.1 billion and was funded by contributions from more than 45 donor countries and organizations through the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which in 2019 hailed the venture as "the largest international collaboration ever in the field of nuclear safety."
Welcome back to Caturday Medley, where your humble Cheezburger expawrts collect the weekly meme medley of feline funnies, the holiday-season edition - where the jingles are jinglier, the naps are nappier, and the cats? Oh, they're in full clawsmas meowing mode.
Yes, friends, Christmas is creeping closer, and you know what that means: Operation Protect the Tree is officially underway. Whether you've barricaded it with baby gates, wrapped it in tinfoil like a festive baked potato, or simply accepted your fate as your fluffy feline stares up at it like a mountaineer eyeing Everest, the annual standoff between cats and Christmas decor is upon us. And honestly? The cat is winning. The cat is always winning.
Meanwhile, winter cooking season has begun, filling the house with cozy aromas of cinnamon, roasting veggies, and suspiciously crinkly packaging. Your cat, naturally, assumes all of these smells are personally curated for them. Expect intense sniff-inspections, strategic leg weaving during meal prep, and at least one bold attempt to "supervise" the kitchen from atop the counter. 'Tis the season for little paws causing big chaos.
But amid the chilly weather, the holiday bustle, and the endless cat-proofing, we're here with our weekly whisker-warming tradition. This Caturday Medley is packed with meowgical moments designed to warm your heart, brighten your week, and remind you why winter is simply better with cats. Enjoy the cozy chaos, and let the meowing merriment begin!
Cashier: "No problem! What’s your phone number? I can sign you up right now."
Me: "No, thank you, I’m just passing through."
Cashier: "But you’ll miss out on sales."
Me: "I don’t need an account."
I'm on the till at a charity shop. I'm cashing out two women. One of them is gushing over these page corner bookmarks we sell.
Woman #1: "If you don't stop, I'm gonna slap your t*t in a minute!"
Woman #2: *While cupping her chest.* "Which one?"
To build three-wheeled, solar electric vehicles, Aptera has now launched its "validation" vehicle assembly line, reports the San Diego Business Journal.
"The validation line will set a technical foundation for the company's eventual low-volume assembly line, ensuring that manufacturing processes are optimized and refined, particularly for the company's composite body structure."
To date, Aptera has produced three validation vehicles, two of which are in use driving around the San Diego region, with plans to build another 10 in the coming weeks as progress continues on the validation manufacturing line. "You learn things when you start to put miles on vehicles, putting 10s of thousands of miles on these validation vehicles and learning a lot from the durometer of the suspension, ride quality, spring rates and braking pressure," Aptera co-founder and co-CEO Chris Anthony said. "We've been able to incorporate a lot of the usability stuff back, but also, just as we've gone through the process of building these, a lot of order-of-operation stuff that's educated us on what's going to make for the best initial assembly lines," he added....
Aptera made its public debut on October 16, with the company's executive team participating in the Nasdaq closing bell ceremony that evening. Shares of SEV have hovered between $6.50 and $8.50 for much of the company's first month on the exchange. The company's equity line of credit also took effect in mid-November... expected to aid in Aptera generating at least a portion of the $65 million the company has said it will need to complete validation manufacturing and begin low-volume production for customers. Aptera previously raised some $135 million from more than 17,000 investors in what the company touts as the most successful crowdfunding effort of all time, but Anthony argued Aptera will soon need to invest larger sums of capital to scale its production needs.
"Publicly listing the company gives us a lot more funding mechanisms to get into production," he said. "So just having access to the public markets, public liquidity and the kind of instruments and tools that banks offer to public companies, it just seemed like now is the right time." Alongside the IPO, Aptera made its formal transition to a Public Benefit Corporation, giving the company a legal obligation to consider its effect on employees, communities and customers in addition to the profit motives of its shareholders.
California's state government also awarded Aptera $21 million "to support its push toward scaled manufacturing," the article points out.
It also notes that Aptera's vehicles "are technically classified as motorcycles rather than standard passenger cars, presenting a potentially cheaper alternative for consumers on the hunt for an electric vehicle."
What happened when a school in Los Angeles gave a sixth grader an iPad for use throughout the school day? "He used the iPad during school to watch YouTube and participate in Fortnite video game battles," reports NBC News.
His mother has now launched a coalition of parents called Schools Beyond Screens "organizing in WhatsApp groups, petition drives and actions at school board meetings and demanding meetings with district administrators, pressuring them to pull back on the school-mandated screen time."
Los Angeles Unified is the first district of its size
to face an organized — and growing — campaign by parents
demanding that schools pull back on mandatory screen time. The
discontent in Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district
in the country, reflects a growing unease nationally about the amount of time children spend
learning through screens in classrooms. While a majority
of states prohibit children from using cellphones in class, 88%
of schools provide students with personal devices, according to the
National
Center for Education Statistics, often Chromebook laptops or iPads. The parents hope getting a district
that has over 409,000 students across nearly 800 schools to change
how it approaches screen time would send a signal across public
school districts to pull back from a yearslong effort to digitize
classrooms....
[In the Los Angeles school district] Students in grade levels as low as
kindergarten are provided iPads, and some schools require them to
take the tablets home. Some teachers have allowed students to opt
out of the iPad-based assignments, but other parents say they've
been told that they can't. Parents can also opt their children out
of having
access to YouTube and several
other Google products... The billion-dollar 2014 initiative to
give tablet computers to everyone became
a scandal after the bidding process appeared to heavily favor
Apple, and it faced criticism once it became clear that students
could bypass security protocols and that few
teachers used the tablets. Currently, the district leaves it up
to individual schools to decide whether they want students to take
home iPads or Chromebooks every day and how much time they spend on
them in class...
Around 300 parents attended listening sessions the district held
last month about technology in the classroom. Nearly all who spoke
criticized how much screen time schools gave their children in class,
pointing to ways their behavior and grades suffered as students
watched YouTube and played Minecraft... Several also asked district
officials to explain why children as young as kindergartners were
asked to sign
a form to use devices in which they promised they would honor
intellectual property law and refrain from meeting people in person
whom they met online. "Is it possible for children to meet people
over the internet on school-issued devices?" one father asked. The
district officials declined to answer, saying it was meant to be a
listening session.
In 2022, Los Angeles Unified started requiring students to complete benchmark assessments on educaitonal software i-Ready, the article points out, which generates unique questions for each students. "But parents and teachers are unable to see what children are asked, in part because the company that makes the program considers them proprietary information..."
One teacher says his school's administartors are requiring him to use i-Ready even though it doesn't have any material for the science class he's actually teaching. He's also noticed some students will use answers from AI chatbots, bypassing the school's monitoring software by creating alternate user profiles. But the monitoring software company suggests the school misconfigured their software's settings, adding "More commonly, when students attempt to bypass filtering or monitoring, they do so by using proxies."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.
Four Republican states have agreed to help the Trump administration gain access to state driver’s license data through a nationwide law enforcement computer network as part of the administration’s hunt for alleged noncitizen voters.
The Trump administration said as recently as October that federal officials wanted to obtain driver’s license records through the network.
The commitment from officials in Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio comes as part of a settlement agreement filed on Friday in a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was originally brought by the states last year alleging the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to help states verify voter eligibility.
Thesettlement, between the states and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, requires the federal department to continue its development of a powerful citizenship verification program known as SAVE. Earlier this year, federal officials repurposed SAVE into a program capable of scanning millions of state voter records for instances of noncitizen registered voters.
In return, the states have agreed to support Homeland Security’s efforts to access the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, an obscure computer network that typically allows law enforcement agencies to search driver’s license records across state lines. Nlets — as the system is known — lets police officers easily look up the driving records of out-of-state motorists.
The Trump administration and some Republican election officials have promoted the changes to SAVE as a useful tool to identify potential noncitizen voters, and Indiana had alreadyagreedto provide voter records. Critics, including some Democrats, say the Trump administration is building a massive database of U.S. residents that President Donald Trump or a future president could use for spying or targeting political enemies.
Statelinereported last week, before the settlement agreement was filed in court, that Homeland Security publicly confirmed it wants to connect Nlets to SAVE.
A notice published Oct. 31 in the Federal Register said driver’s licenses are the most widely used form of identification, and that by working with states and national agencies, including Nlets, “SAVE will use driver’s license and state identification card numbers to check and confirm identity information.”
A federal official also previously told a virtual meeting of state election officials in May that Homeland Security was seeking “to avoid having to connect to 50 state databases” and wanted a “simpler solution,” such as Nlets, according togovernment records publishedby the transparency group American Oversight.
The new settlement lays out the timeline for how the Trump administration could acquire the four states’ records.
Within 90 days of the execution of the agreement, the four states may provide Homeland Security with 1,000 randomly selected driver’s license records from their state for verification as part of a quality improvement process for SAVE.
According to the agreement, the states that provide the records will “make best efforts to support and encourage DHS’s efforts to receive and have full use of state driver’s license records from the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System” and state driver’s license agencies.
The language in the agreement is open-ended and doesn’t make clear whether the pledge to help Homeland Security obtain access to Nlets is limited to drivers from those four states or is intended to require the states to help the agency acquire the records of drivers nationwide.
An agreement to help
The agreement could pave the way for Republican officials in other states to provide access to license data.
Nlets is a nonprofit organization that facilitates data sharing among law enforcement agencies across state lines. States decide what information to make available through Nlets, and which agencies can access it. That means the four states could try to influence peers to share Nlets data with the Trump administration.
“They’re not just talking about driver’s license numbers, they’re talking about the driver’s records. What possible reason would DHS have in an election or voting context — or any context whatsoever — for obtaining the ‘full use of state driver’s license records,’” said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican, said in a statement to Stateline that the settlement agreement provides another layer of election integrity and protection as officials seek to ensure only eligible voters are registered. He didn’t directly address questions about Nlets access.
“The SAVE program provides us with critical information, but we must also continue to utilize information from other state and federal partners to maintain clean and accurate lists,” Pate said in the statement.
Two weeks before the Nov. 5, 2024, election, Pate issued guidance to Iowa county auditors to challenge the ballots of 2,176 registered voters who were identified by the secretary of state’s office as potential noncitizens. The voters had reported to the state Department of Transportation or another government entity that they were not U.S. citizens in the past 12 years and went on to register to vote, according to the guidance.
In March, Pate said his office gained access to the SAVE database and found 277 of those people were confirmed to not have U.S. citizenship — just under 12% of the individuals identified as potential noncitizens.
Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
Matthew Tragesser, a spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — the agency under Homeland Security that oversees SAVE — told Stateline last week that USCIS was committed to “eliminating barriers to securing the nation’s electoral process.”
“By allowing states to efficiently verify voter eligibility, we are reinforcing the principle that America’s elections are reserved exclusively for American citizens,” Tragesser said in a statement.
The SAVE program — Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements — was originally intended to help state and local officials verify the immigration status of individual noncitizens seeking government benefits. In the past, SAVE could search only one name at a time. Nowit can conduct bulk searches; federal officials in May also connected the program to Social Security data.
“It’s a potentially dangerous mix to put driver’s license and Social Security number and date of birth information out there … where we really don’t know yet how and when and where it’s going to be used,” Minnesota Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon said in an interview on Monday.
Democratic states object
As the Trump administration has encouraged states to use SAVE, the Justice Department has also demanded states provide the department with unredacted copies of their voter rolls. The Trump administration has previously confirmed the Justice Department is sharing voter information with Homeland Security.
The Justice Department has sued six, mostly Democratic, states for refusing to turn over the data. Those lawsuits remain pending.
On Monday, 12 state secretaries of state submitted a 29-page public comment, in response to SAVE’s Federal Register notice, criticizing the overhaul. The secretaries wrote that while Homeland Security claims the changes make the program an effective tool for verifying voters, the modifications are “likely to degrade, not enhance” states’ efforts to ensure free, fair and secure elections.
“What the modified system will do … is allow the federal government to capture sensitive data on hundreds of millions of voters nationwide and distribute that information as it sees fit,” the secretaries wrote.
The secretaries of state of California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington signed on to the comment.
The settlement agreement purports to make this year’s changes to SAVE legally binding.
The agreement asks that a federal court retain jurisdiction over the case for 20 years for the purposes of enforcing it — a move that in theory could make it harder for a future Democratic president to reverse the changes to SAVE.
But Becker, of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, said he doesn’t expect the settlement agreement would make it more difficult for a future administration to undo the overhaul.
“Should a different administration come in that disagrees with this approach,” Becker said, “I would expect that they would almost certainly completely change how the system operates and how the states can access it and what data the federal government procures.”
Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party.
After the transportation secretary told people to “dress up” at the airport as a way to make air travel better for everyone, the internet had their thoughts. And it can be summed up with a simple: What?
In response to the dress code, many ticketed passengers posted about their decision to wear cozy clothes over a suit or heels.
“Sorry but I’ll be wearing pajamas and slippers to the airport because I don’t remember my flight being free or comfortable,” one TikTok user wrote over a clip of her in cozy clothes next to her suitcase.
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.
President Donald Trump’s billionaire-focused economy is not improving, the Epstein files are not disappearing, and every distraction the administration throws out is meeting far more scrutiny and pushback than ever.
During a rally for Republican Matt Van Epps ahead of Tennessee’sspecial election on Tuesday, Johnson held his cell phone to the microphone so Trump could rant against Democratic candidateAftyn Behn.
Trump unveiled a new brand of MAGA mathematics during hisCabinet meeting. And while he didn’t repeat absurd claims likecutting drug prices by 1,500%, his assessment of his accomplishments was no less delusional.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessentwas interviewed by Andrew Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit, where Bessent attempted to spin Trump’spoor inflation numbers.
Winter is an especially hard time for stray cats. The unpredictable weather, the cold temperatures, and the lack of suitable shelters makes surviving purrfectly difficult, depending on where they live. So, if you hear meowing outside as this kid did, definitely go check it out - you might just save the kitty's life.
In the middle of a snowstorm, a child stumbled upon a fluffy kitten crying for help outside their home. He brought the frozen fur baby inside, and the mom immediately jumped into action. She wrapped the baby in blankets to warm it up, gave it a safe place to recover, and was thinking, "What should we do next?" Luckily, the online cat community came to her rescue, giving her purrfect advice and encouraging her to keep the kitten (which we're pretty sure she was already planning on doing).
We don't have any updates on how the kitten is doing, as this story was uploaded quite recently, but we know what that kitten is going to be getting for Christmas - a whole lot of love, a new family, and hopefully, all the scritches it could ever want.
Woman: "STOP TRYING TO UPSELL ME COMBOS! I WANT THESE ITEMS AND NOTHING ELSE! NO ADD ONS, NO COMBOS. JUST! THESE! ITEMS!"
Manager: "The combos don't add anything other than what you ordered; they're the same things, just cheaper."
Customer: "I DON'T CARE!"
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