Do you know what Granny’s purse syndrome is? It is when kids root through grandma’s purse and find contraband like pills. Pediatricians warn to keep kids away from Granny’s purse. I used to replace my grandma’s cigarettes with playing cards.
đŞ President-elect Trump nominated pilot, astronaut and businessman Jared Isaacman as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
đ˝ A group of trans and non-binary people published this protest in a women’s bathroom at the U.S. capitol. They called it an act of “Cunty Civil Disobedience.”
đ¸ The Missouri Senate introduced a bill to ban central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) as legal tender within the state.
đ¨ The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump is considering replacing Pete Hegseth as his nominee for Secretary of Defense with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
đ° The parents of Jordan Neely have sued Daniel Penny, who awaits the jury verdict of his murder trial.
đŽđą A huge banner that reads “Yes it’s a genocide” was placed outside UK parliament on Wednesday. It refers to Israel’s attacks in Gaza.
đź The most popular name for baby boys in the U.K. is now Muhammed. The Telegraph found that two of the fastest-growing boysâ names were Arabic: Ayman and Hasan. Among girls, Arabic names Aizal, Ayzal and Inaya all grew in popularity in the U.K. too.
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The shell casing from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson reportedly had these words inscribed on them: deny, defend, depose.
That is the title of a 2010 book about the insurance industry’s failure to pay claims. Is that a clue as to the motive of his murder?
The shooter has not been found but online sleuths tracked a Citibike that left the scene of the crime and traveled up the Upper East Side. And police have also released this unmasked photo of the shooter.
Online, this has turned into a “John Wick-meets-Erin Brockovich” theory. Some have been celebrating the downfall of a powerful executive for the failures of his industry. That is Bolshevik.
Former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz posted the name of Thompson’s successor on Bluesky, along with fodder for why the company should be hated for their refusal to cover anesthesia for some surgeries.
“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” she said.
She was one of many celebrating the murder as a vigilante cause. He was a husband and father of two boys. This is nobody’s victory story.
Politico reports that the Biden White House is considering “preemptive pardons” for people who may get caught up in “Trump’s crosshairs.” These people would include “members of Congressâ Jan. 6 Committee… Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming” as well as “Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Why would they need pardons? If they are falsely accused by the Justice Department, shouldn’t they have to defend themselves like any other citizen?
Fauci manipulated research to throw the American public off of the lab leak. That is no longer a conspiracy. He also funded gain of function research and put in place non-scientific pandemic measures.
Adam Schiff punished Twitter, now X, for failing to find proof that Russian bots were perpetuating “misinformation” and asked Twitter to ban investigative journalists.
Liz Cheney selectively excluded exculpatory evidence in her January 6 investigative committees.
All of these people are heinous but are they criminals? It should be up to the courts to decide if these things are crimes against the American people, if they ever do get prosecuted. A preemptive pardon would feel like a miscarriage of any possibility of justice.
It is also interesting that pardons are now considered preemptive. Pardons are typically issued after the accused has served their time.
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Diplomatic Hope in Russia?Â
tucker carlson meeting with sergey lavrov credit:Â maria zakharova
What is this? Diplomacy with Russia?
Russia reports that the Russian Chief of General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, “held a phone call with the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown Jr.” last week.
The Biden administration has cut off all diplomatic ties with Russia so this is a first-in-a-long-time and long overdue.
Gerasimov said this about the call: “The US side was informed about the exercises in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea by the Russian Navy and Aerospace Forces groupings, involving live-fire drills and launches of high-precision missiles,â adding that this was “âto prevent possible incidents in connection with the presence of US and NATO ships near the area of the Russian exercise.”
The New York Times reported that the two generals had âtalked about how to manage escalation concerns between the two countries.â
Journalist Tucker Carlson was in Russia this week to discuss de-escalation and interviewed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. That interview will be published on Friday.
Paapa Essiedu is trending on speculation that he will play Severus Snape in the Harry Potter TV show. It doesn’t matter that he is Black as long as Snape has greasy hair because that is one of the character’s defining characteristics!
Pushpa 2 is trending because the sequel to the popular Indian film will be released in theaters today.
Tesco is trending because the UK grocer recalled popular chicken skewers.
News By The Numbers
$100,000. That is the milestone that one Bitcoin surpassed on Wednesday! It is currently trading over $101,000. Ethereum is also up 8%.
2,500. That is how many stolen pies were recovered in an abandoned van in the U.K. They were savory pies: steak and ale, turkey and butternut squash pies intended for a Christmas market in the city of York but they were reportedly too damaged to eat.
One year. That is how long Olympic equestrian Charlotte Dujardin will be banned from the sport after video leaked of her “excessively” whipping a horse. She was also fined 10,000 Swiss Francs. She says that she âfully respects” this punishment and will “forever aim to do better.”
Here is why you shouldn’t rely on AI for your research.
The View host Ana Navarro was making a point about past Presidents who pardoned family members in reference to President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden and wrote that “Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts.” No such thing ever happened. Hunter deButts is not even a real historical figure. She later said that she got this from ChatGPT, which is no excuse. She works for ABC News! Even if you get this from ChatGPT, wouldn’t you think, “Huh, I don’t know this story, let me research it a little before I post about it?”
This is something called AI hallucination. It is when AI just makes stuff up and presents it as fact. That is why you should not rely on it!
Just this week, a Stanford “misinformation expert” admitted that he used artificial intelligence to draft a court document that contained multiple fake citations about AI for a case about AI!
And if that isn’t bad enough, Esquire magazine published this story about how George Bush pardoned his son Neil when that is also not a thing that ever happened! The magazine added this note to the column before eventually deleting it: “An earlier version stated incorrectly that George H.W. Bush gave a presidential pardon to his son, Neil Bush. Esquire regrets the error.”
But how does that happen? How do you just make up historical facts? The EXTREME irony here is that the author of that column, Charles P. Pierce, is also the author of the book “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became A Virtue In The Land of the Free.” Is he proof positive of his own thesis?
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