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It’s another Friday hodgepodge. But first, warm thoughts to all the Shadesters deep in snow and cold this week.
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Trump put his name on the Institute of Peace building this week. Gavin Newsom’s brilliant social media corps clapped back.
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Jasmine Crockett offers some interesting detail on the Supremes’ ruling on the Texas gerrymander.
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More trouble from RFK and his friends with the vaccine scaries.
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ICE is struggling to recruit enough people to meet their targets so they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel, hiring 18 year olds and 65 year olds, the unfit, ex-police problem cases, the illiterate, drug users, and criminals.
And they’re drawing prison workers, leaving prisons short handed. Well, more short handed.
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Is bribery funding that big ballroom? Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues are on it.
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Exclusive: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are pressing leaders of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Meta for details on their donations to support President Trump’s White House ballroom.
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— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Using the DOJ to punish personal enemies doesn’t work as well as one might think.
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Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social
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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Big cars? Small cars? The administration goes haring off in both directions. In typical conservative fashion (“bring back the good old days that I remember so fondly and inaccurately!”) Sean Duffy wants to revive wood paneled station wagons.
The Trump administration's proposal to slash Biden-era fuel economy standards could bring back the once popular station wagons, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNBC.
"This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon - maybe a little wood paneling on the side," Duffy said. (MSN)
Just when Trump steps away from promoting oil guzzling.
He saw small cars in Japan and thinks they’re cute. Even if they’re electric. Go figure.
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All sorts of theories are circulating about the January 6 pipe bomber. The news that he’s pro-Trump lends some credence to the theory that he placed the bombs with the intention of drawing police away from events at the capitol.
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Brian Cole, Jr., the Virginia man charged with planting two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill the night before Jan. 6, 2021, has told investigators he believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
— Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In an interesting twist, he seems to be pre-pardoned.
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What if New York elected a socialist mayor and nobody fled?
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It’s fathers day on the birthday list.
Lorenzo Langstroth (1810-1895) - Considered the Father of American Beekeeping.
Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-1942) - Known as the Father of Mammalogy (the study of mammals).
Clyde Vernon Cessna (1879-1954) - Founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corp.
Richard Wayne Penniman (1932-2020) - Singer also known as Little Richard.
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On this day in...
1792 - George Washington was re-elected President.
1804 - Thomas Jefferson was re-elected President.
1832 - Andrew Jackson was re-elected President. There seems to be a pattern here.
1848 - President Polk confirmed gold had been discovered in CA.
1932 - Albert Einstein was granted a visa to enter America.
1933 - The 21st Amendment was ratified to allow states regulate or prohibit alcohol.
1946 - President Truman created a civil rights committee.
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It’s National Bartender Day!
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And National Repeal Day. Prohibition was ushered in by the enactment of the 18th amendment in 1920. It ended with the 21st amendment in 1933. Cats do not drink alcohol but this one runs a liquor store.
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It’s National Sacher Torte Day. It celebrates a torte so famous that ownership of the original recipe was argued in court almost a century after the cake was invented.
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It’s Faux Fur Friday! For cats who lack real fur.
It’s Bathtub Party Day! Soak with a friend.
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It’s also National Back Friday! Not to be confused with Black Friday, this is the day for de-stressing with a back massage.
Tomorrow is St. Nicholas’ Day, the patron saint of children who is not known for having anything to do with sardines.
