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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

Donald Trump has been branded a "certified lunatic"
following his most strange warning yet to Canada
as tensions continue to escalate,
with some online claiming
the president's brain has been
'eaten away by dementia'
in fresh health concerns.

Donald Trump's brain 'completely eaten away by dementia' as he issues strange Canada warning
Donald Trump issued a striking warning to Canada, suggesting China could ban ice hockey if Canada pursues its strategic partnership with Beijing amid escalating trade tensions

Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users (Conor Murray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/si…

TikTok Competitor UpScrolled Hits No. 1 On App Store Following Allegations TikTok Suppresses Anti-ICE Videos
UpScrolled, a new social media platform that says it does not shadowban or censor users, ranks No. 1 on Apple’s U.S. app store as of Thursday—much higher than competitor TikTok, which is No. 27.

Mike Schultz, the same weirdo from Hooper, Utah who thought he should have a say in my Millcreek representative choice by creating and funding a PAC that tried to trans scare people out of voting for the progressive candidate.
Thankfully, my neighbors and I like trans people and voted for a candidate that does, too.
Now, it appears Mike is using public funds to attack a judge who is following the law and upholding the power of the people, from whom the legislature gets its power…

Utah House Speaker spends taxpayer money to attack judge
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz uses taxpayer funds to produce video attacking judge who struck down the state's gerrymandered congressional map.

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/declared-extinct-in-2025-a-look-back-at-some-of-the-species-weve-lost/

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…

Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of No. 10 Downing Street. No. 10 has apparently focused its attention on what are called

Beckstrom initially did not want to go to the capital because she was concerned about feeling lonely away from home.
“She hated it. She cried about it,” her boyfriend said.
But with time, she came to enjoy the deployment and bonded with other troops.
In her spare time, he said, she visited monuments and museums, taking pictures and soaking up D.C.’s history.
She was especially interested in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
Sarah Beckstrom, the slain West Virginia National Guard member, took a keen interest in criminal justice and dreamed of one day becoming an FBI agent.

SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coinshares-pulls-p…

Feeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.

France's CNIL fines Condé Nast €750K because vanityfair.fr placed cookies on user devices without proper consent, following a December 2019 complaint (CNIL)
https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-placed-without-consent-company-publi…