Not unrelieved disasters, but Resistance from the Good Guys, and Epic Fails from the baddies that undo their intended evils.
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,383: Trump's 'plan' sells out Ukraine, Europe, and American leadership.
Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets a refinery in Tambov
ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: "Meat Assaults" Not Working So Russian "Special Forces" to Pokrovsk
Europe and Ukraine variously accepted some points and rejected others. Putin rejected the EU and Ukrainian points. Tmurp demanded his Nobel Peace Prize, with no recognition that that would require actual peace. Russia continued glide bomb strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine, i. e. war crimes that are provoking more pushback. Ukraine struck effectively at military targets.
Ukrainian forces likely continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian energy and military infrastructure on the night of December 1 to 2. Russian opposition outlet Astra reported that Ukrainian forces struck the Orelnefteprodukt Oil Depot and PhosAgro phosphate fertilizer production facility in Livny, Oryol Oblast, and footage shows explosions and fires at a fuel depot in Oryol Oblast.[49] Oryol Oblast Governor Andrey Klychkov acknowledged that Ukrainian drones struck a fuel and energy facility in Livensky raion, Oryol Oblast.[50] Astra also reported and geolocated footage confirms that likely Ukrainian drones struck an FSB building in Achkoy-Martan, Chechnya, causing explosions.[51]
Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them
Not Bad News about the no good Kill Them All behavior of the Nogoodniks alone, only where there is effective pushback from the Resistance in court, in Congress, in the streets, or Epic Fails from the Dark Side itself due to greed, hatred, and delusion (The Three Fires of Buddhism) or just outstanding incompetence.
Those who declare us the Enemies of the People WANT those multitudes to die, and have tried to cut off numerous research and treatment efforts based here in the US. Those of us who celebrate want to see all of the better treatments and vaccines and steps toward cures for this and the other dread diseases, and are taking steps to revive and expand those programs. Our pushback has rescued some programs, and is provoking others to take up the research that the US has abandoned.
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On World AIDS Day, we give appreciation to scientific research, which has saved millions of lives from AIDS, while focusing on the continued fight to expand access to prevention, treatment, and care.
For the sake of us all, scientific research must be fully funded.
— Rep. Dan Goldman (@repdangoldman.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
George W. Bush created the hugely successful global PEPFAR program to get AIDS medication to vast multitudes. Here is one of many current efforts to tackle this scourge.
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Scientists in Seattle are on the frontlines of the groundbreaking research to cure HIV/AIDS.
Meanwhile, Trump has slashed funding for science and research across the country. We must restore this funding to save lives. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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— Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (@jayapal.house.gov) December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Indiana state Sen. Michael Bohacek said he would vote no on a GOP push to redraw congressional districts after Trump used a slur for intellectually disabled people.
Actually, it turns out that Indiana is already maximally gerrymandered, and trying for more would just make Rs there much more vulnerable in the coming wave.
This just doesn’t get OLD!
Embedding pointlessly not permitted when I can just copy and paste.
Saw a talking head for Trump on CNN trying to convince me the economy is good. “We’re having a record-breaking Black Friday,” he said. 🤔 Didn’t pass the smell test in my house, but I thought maybe (?), googled it & Reuters says browsing is breaking records but spending is down. SMH 😏
#blackfriday
The Black Friday paradox: more shoppers, fewer dollars
As a general rule, don’t believe the prognosticators.
Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy that attracts throngs of bargain hunters to stores, faces a paradox this year: record crowds are expected, but consumers' appetite to spend has drop…
So there was more ONLINE shopping, but less in person.
🎩 strawbale.
You may remember Signalgate back in March.
The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
Now, today, the Pentagon Inspector General’s office is going to release its official report on the matter. No, We don’t have an advance, leaked copy, but Congress has seen it. We know from earlier reports that Hegseth is accused of endangering US forces in and around Yemen. It’s the second story in Jen Psaki’s The Briefing yesterday. The third story is about the Pentagon press corps, where all of the real reporters were thrown out in October. Jen reports (and NPR, Axios and others confirm)
Pentagon Stacks Press Corps with Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists
The Briefing With Jen Psaki 12/3/25 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 BREAKING NEWS TODAY December 3, 2025 [Actually, MSNOW]
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MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
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— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
OK, then, what level of. fail would you rate this story at?
…TOTAL exoneration of Secretary Hegseth @PeteHegseth and proves what we knew all along - no classified information was shared. This matter is resolved and the case is closed.”
Politico: House Republicans sweat Tennessee election
“If our victory margin is single digits, the conference may come unhinged,” one senior House Republican said. A loss would be catastrophic and the conference would “explode,” the Republican added.
Palate Cleanser/Brain Bleach
Shady Grove (traditional) - Murphy Campbell
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Voyager 1, which launched in 1977 and explored Jupiter, Saturn and points beyond, will reach a light-day milestone in November 2026 when it becomes the first craft to travel 16.1 billion miles from Earth.
Read more: bit.ly/4amNLbv
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— USA TODAY (@usatoday.com) November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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r/UpliftingNews—Life originated from elements preferentially created in the Big Bang and in stars, mostly CHON—Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, with a little of various metals and salt-forming and acid-forming elements such as iron, copper, magnesium, iodine, sulfur, and sodium and potassium and calcium chlorides. It is then no surprise that these elements are found in planets and asteroids and comets.
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The Common Ground HQ website lists eight key things Americans widely agree on with a brief description of what they mean:
1. Ban Congress from Trading Stocks
Members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to profit from the laws they write—it’s time to restore trust and end insider trading in government.
2. Single-Issue Bills for Transparency
Each bill should focus on one topic so every law is clear, transparent, and accountable to the American people.
3. Term Limits
Fresh leadership keeps our democracy healthy—it’s time to limit career politicians and make room for new voices and ideas.
4. Healthy Food and Consumer Protection
Every American deserves access to food free from harmful chemicals and additives that put profits over public health.
5. Ban Corporate Homeownership
Billion dollar corporations and hedge funds shouldn’t outbid families for single-family homes—housing should be for people, not profit.
6. End Corporate Welfare
Stop billion-dollar companies from using taxpayer-funded programs to cover low wages.
7. Close Billion-Dollar Tax Loopholes
We need a tax system that works for working people—not one written by and for the ultra-wealthy.
8. Limit Corporate Lobbying
Money shouldn’t speak louder than voters—it’s time to break the grip of corporate lobbying on American democracy.
Discuss.
I’m definitely for 1, 4, 6, 7, and against 2, 3, 8 (MORE free speech, not less, but prosecute disinformation). We certainly have a broken housing market, but 5 doesn’t get to the root of the market failure.
Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness!
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Help the #endangered Giant Ground #Pangolin 🙏🌿 of #Africa and boycott #Chinese medicine using them. Spoiler alert: their scales DO NOT CURE ANYTHING! Another threat is #palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-7jM
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— Mel 🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 (@norska11.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is how the early Earth was in the Hadean Eon, more than 4 billion years ago. All of the water and salt on the surface were in the atmosphere until the oceans rained down enough to cool the surface below the boiling point.
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A giant impact between proto-Earth and a planet called Theia produced the Moon. Hopp et al. use isotopic measurements of lunar samples and cosmochemical modelling to show that Theia formed in the inner Solar System, probably closer to the Sun than Earth. ☄️ #planetsci
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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— Keith Smith (@drkeithsmith.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Ice shell thinning on small icy satellites in the outer Solar System can cause subsurface oceans to boil, according to a study in Nature Astronomy. This process may help to explain surface features and geological activity on moons such as Saturn’s Mimas and Enceladus. go.nature.com/3JVCJ2p 🔭 🧪
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— Nature Portfolio (@natureportfolio.nature.com) December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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How exactly do painkillers work? 🧪 Protoxin-II, a newly researched painkiller from UC Davis, blocks pain by binding to sodium channels to close them. Where as morphine acts on receptors that lower the neuron's excitability, so sodium channels open less often. See it in VR here:
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— 10k Science (@10k.science) December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
Comics about the [redacted—you know who, what, and why] just aren’t funny. There is too much of him in DK Comics. Similarly for political cartoon collections on YouTube. The Onion is off its game this week.
Well, as I say, fuggedaboudit for those. But all is not lost.
Desi Lydic EXPOSES Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Meltdown on LIVE TV
Funny Music
Tom Lehrer - It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
Muppet Songs: Rita Moreno - I Get Ideas [Reverse Apache dance]
RFK! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
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