PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

Gesundheitsakte & Co: Warken verspricht Betriebsstabilität und Ausfallsicherheit
Warken verspricht auf der Digital Health Conference nicht nur eine bessere Stabilität von E-Rezept und Patientenakte, sondern auch digitale Souveränität.

:pacmanblinky:⁠:pacmanclyde:⁠:pacmaninky:⁠:pacmanpinky:⁠:pacman:

they're right behind me, aren't they?

https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/26/belgium-rewards-ethical-hackers-who-uncover-government-it-vulnerabilities/
Belgium rewards ‘ethical hackers’ who uncover government IT vulnerabilities

Belgium rewards 'ethical hackers' who uncover government IT vulnerabilities
The Belgian Cyber Security Centre (CCB) launched #HackTheGovernment2025, a national initiative involving 71 professionals and students, aiming to strengthen the resilience of federal public services

RE: #Mauve is but one of 140 (!) small satellites on that Falcon 9, collectively known as Transporter 15. What's interesting about the satellite is its commercial approach - you *buy* astronomical UV data: https://bssl.space/mauve/ and https://space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/06/blue-skies-space-to-launch-mauve-satellite-demonstrating-a-new-model-for-delivering-space-science-data/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/startup-pioneers-subscription-service-space-based-astronomy

Godot’s API gets nullability hints. This is going to be delightful
https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/2241

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115611262294196579
Molly’s gloriously-outsider take on “crypto treasury” companies is excellent. For an insider take on the same issue, see Matt Levine, who in the same column covers sports betting, various colorful fra…

A digital pass available through the reservation site Recreation.gov includes “America-first pricing” at some parks.
Starting on Jan. 1, nonresidents without an annual pass will have to pay a $100 surcharge to enter 11 of the most-visited places in the system
https://www.<…

National parks announce ‘America-first’ upcharges for foreign visitors
The National Park Service's new America-first pricing policy will see foreign visitors pay more to access popular national parks, including Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.

It’s funny how we had AI that can cure all diseases and solve all societal problems for years now and we still have diseases and the problems are only getting worse

Back at Basen*
Working out in the field in Dronning Maud Land, the first results from LISA and finally "home" for Christmas..
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/25/back-at-basen/

おはようございます（午前中にいろいろやっつけるぞい）

from my link log —
Implementing dependent types: how hard could it be? (Part 1)
https://jerrington.me/posts/2025-05-23-depty-impl.html
saved 2025-11-25

Sources: WBD asks bidders to submit improved offers by December 1 and might enter a period of exclusive negotiations with one of the companies after those bids (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/warn…

@… Indeed. And there are many different multilingual settings, and I don’t think research is taking this into account.

Liquid Aloha!

Thinking of starting a Blame as a Service (BaaS) called "Blame Khalid”. For a monthly fee, you can blame all your #dev woes on me.
When your boss asks why you're behind.... Khalid
When your stakeholders ask why the feature is broken... Khalid
When you miss deployment deadlines… You guessed it, Khalid!
Reach out to find the right service plan for you and your team. Ther…

Italy adds ‘femicide’ to the criminal code to curb violence against women | Women News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/26/italy-adds-femicide-to-the-criminal-code-to-curb-violence-against-women?traffic_source=rss

Was #Qualcomm und #Broadcom in die Finger bekommen, versuchen sie zu Gold zu machen. Aber wie bei #Midas verdorrt auch jedes Leben.

Russia helping China prepare for war with Taiwan, leaked documents say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/27/russia-helping-china-prepare-for.html

One night, many years ago, I was sitting in this pub when suddenly there was a bang and a bullethole appeared high in the window (picture right). Wild times.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/20…

Loving the light: Colm Keena on why November is his favourite month
I was obviously not the first person to think like this

»Folgen des KI-Booms - In Virginia schiessen die Rechenzentren wie Pilze aus dem Boden:
Nirgends auf der Welt ist die Dichte an #Rechenzentren so gross wie im Bundesstaat #Virginia in den #USA. Für die G…

KI-Boom lässt in Virginia Rechenzentren wie Pilze aus dem Boden schiessen
Im US-Staat Virginia liegt der Ort mit der weltweit höchsten Dichte an Rechenzentren. Die Anwohner sind nicht erfreut.

Im Fall von #ArminWolf gegen #X geht's offenbar doch in die nächste juristische Runde:
https://www.arminwolf.at/2025/10/27/aktenz…

Heute mal wieder ohne Karte...
#ciddle 2025-11-26 (81)
1. ❌ ⬆️ 167km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Ciddle - A Daily City Riddle

No Gawds, No Mustards.

US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,
but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/a

Neeeein!! Wieder mit 4 Stimmen überstimmt und rausgekickt! Wer seid ihr vier, will ich wissen?
Klar, Tomaten sind Früchte, aber Knoblauch sollte auch nicht als vollwertiges Gemüse zählen! Oder macht sich heute Abend jemand ne schöne Portion? 😋
https://fnordon.de/@Gemueseturnir/115620138828020464

Anwohner*innen mit großen Vorgärten und riesengroßen Gärten sehen keine andere Wahl als ihr #PrivatproblemAuto illegal in den öffentlichen Raum zu stellen und erwarten, dass ihr Verhalten geduldet wird selbst wenn sie damit die Müllabfuhr behindern. Die #Falschparlker sehen sich vom ABK …

Immer wieder Strafzettel: Anwohner in Kiel-Wellsee fühlen sich schikaniert
Im Kieler Stadtteil Wellsee sind Anwohner einer schmalen Straße verärgert. Wer hier vor seinem Haus parkt, bekommt einen Strafzettel. Sie fühlen sich vom Ordnungsamt schikaniert. Doch die Stadt verteidigt ihr Vorgehen.

They did the Monster Slash:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3gJ5Kirk

De #babbelbox wil weten:
Hoeveel essentiële elektronica hebben jullie in de kelder geïnstalleerd?

@… Indeed. And there are many different multilingual settings, and I don’t think research is taking this into account.

Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats

The past and future of Shiny - Posit

"Emperor... will free our hands in all manners of surveillance, search & seizure."
"Why can't they just leave us in peace?"
"It's going on everywhere."
Sounds familiar.
▶️ Andor: The Death of Truth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cVBVSS9f

"S.F.’s Union Square comeback is taking shape — despite two major question marks"
Somehow neither of them is the complete lack of bike parking anywhere near the block-wide 7-story Macy's. Biking to and around Union Square sucks.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/…

Tidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/21/tidalwave-raises-22-million-se…

Tidalwave raises $22 million Series A to improve the mortgage process with AI
Tidalwave, which builds agentic AI for mortgage origination, has now raised its $22 million Series A, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Steam Frame: Was kann die VR-Brille bewirken?
Steam Frame ist eine ambitionierte VR-Brille, die sich gängigen Kategorien entzieht und deren eigentliche Bedeutung über Virtual Reality hinausreicht.
https://www.

Trash icon over the years

UV-irradiated outflows from low-mass #protostars in Ophiuchus with JWST/MIRI: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/11/aa54977-25/aa54977-25.html -> On the trail of ultraviolet radiation in Ophiuchus / Puzzling ultraviolet radiation in the birthplaces of stars: https://portal.umk.pl/en/article/on-the-trail-of-ultraviolet-radiation-in-ophiuchus / https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2025/7

As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela,
U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow.
The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats,
killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers.
On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cšrtel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organiza…

Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan
As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow. The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats, killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers. On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cártel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, alleging President Ni…

from my link log —
Implementing dependent types: how hard could it be? (Part 2)
https://jerrington.me/posts/2025-07-31-depty-impl-part-2.html
saved 2025-11-25 <…

The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative
https://www.wired.com/story/myanmar-kk-park-scam-compound-destruction/

The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.

Operation Homefront distributes holiday meals to Guard members as food requests surge
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2025/11/operation-homefront-distributes-holiday-meals-to-guard-members-as-food-requests-surge/

you can play this game here btw: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Planet_of_the_Robots_1986

Russian drone attack causes fires, damage to 'critical infrastructure' in Vinnytsia Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/27/russian-drone-attack-causes-fires.html

My Xmas present! Discount tests!

»Kanadisches Gericht — OVHcloud aus Frankreich muss Nutzerdaten herausgeben:
Das Gericht von Ontario hat OVHcloud angewiesen, bei ihm in den Rechnerwolken gespeicherte Daten zu liefern. Das wirft Fragen zur digitalen Souveränität auf.«
Ich pers. sehe OVH kritisch als Service, doch was nun Kanada gegenüber Frankreich verlangt ist sehr bedänklich. Digitale Souveränität geht anders doch viele haben Angst vor Machtverlust.
😐

Kanadisches Gericht: OVHcloud aus Frankreich muss Nutzerdaten herausgeben
Das Gericht von Ontario hat OVHcloud angewiesen, bei ihm in den Rechnerwolken gespeicherte Daten zu liefern. Das wirft Fragen zur digitalen Souveränität auf.

@… Félicitations! Ça me fait Š nouveau considérer l’idée d’utiliser Cosma avec pandoc-lecturenotes…

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/clover-security-funding-wiz-crowdstrike-no…

Exclusive: Wiz founders back AI security agent startup
Clover Security provides agentic tools that help companies embed security throughout their products and ensure that their products remain secure during their lifecycle.

The time I made a "DIY Mouthpiece Puller" for a stuck trumpet part...
#DIY

DIY Mouthpiece Puller
Last year my youngest daughter took up the trumpet, and shortly after she started she managed to get the mouthpiece stuck. This is pretty common, from what people in the know tell me. The problem is, the school used to have a mouthpiece removing tool, but it either broke, or it no longer has it, [...]

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Deutsche Bahn spart Millionen mit 3D-Druck-Ersatzteilen
https:/…

#Kraftklub und #Faber haben zusammen ein Lied gemacht! 🤩
Nur noch 2 Tage bis Sterben in Karl-Marx-Stadt!
https://song.link/y/ETVURQYiwtY<…

KRAFTKLUB (Official Video)“ by KRAFTKLUB, FABER „All die schönen Worte
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Well, it looks like you can't buy #Samsung any more:
"Unremovable #Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on #Galaxy Series Devices"

'In Nederland is men niet dol op het aanpakken van zorgorganisaties (als/waar het mis gaat)'.
Goh ... 🙈🙈
#Nieuwsuur

Notable at Fri Dec 5th SFMTA engineering hearing:
👍 Item 1: Slow Golden Gate Ave gets concrete diverter
🙅‍♂️ Item 7: Kirkham neckdown to be removed and replaced by less effective traffic calming
https://www.sfmta.com/media/43965/download?inline

🍳🦐

A NASA mission that studied the interior of hurricanes collected its final data on Nov. 12, as the last two CubeSats in its fleet were powered down prior to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere: #TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) mission originally consisted of four identical, milk carton-sized satellites that launched in May 2023.

The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/anthropic-google-cloud-quantum-xch…

Exclusive: Anthropic CEO called to testify on Chinese AI cyberattack
The request comes weeks after Anthropic said China used Claude Code in an espionage campaign.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kensington-chelsea-westminster-council-cyber-attack-b2872495.html
Multiple London councils hit by ‘cyber attack’ and initiate ‘emergency plans’

Multiple London councils hit by ‘cyber attack’ and initiate ‘emergency plans’
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it is ‘too early’ to determine whether any data has been compromised

Amram is a composer, musician, author, conductor and boundlessly connected collaborator who has been cheerfully ignoring musical categories since the 1940s.
His output includes jazz tunes, symphonies, operas, film scores, theater music, off-the-cuff talking blues and idiom-hopping folk-festival performances where he’s likely to play piano, pennywhistle and percussion.

At 95, David Amram Still Makes Music. And Nobody Can Put Him in a Box.
Jazz, classical, folk, world music — for this composer, categories were never confining.

Weird how we build houses to escape the harshness and dangers of nature and then once a year we move trees inside the house

Mehr KI: HP streicht bis zu 6000 Jobs
Künstliche Intelligenz lässt amerikanische Tech-Unternehmen tausende Jobs abbauen. Jetzt setzt auch ein Computer-Vorreiter den Rotstift an.
https://www.heise.de/news/…

light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
— by @…
🖌️ https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learne

light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
`light-dark()` and `prefers-color-scheme` treat the defined `color-scheme` values differently.

@… Ja, zwei minuten ;-)

Argh... woke up in so much pain, but luckily had physical therapy this morning. We're shifting gears on my stretches and exercises (good!) but also a little confused about what is going on with my body (bad!)

from my link log —
The Penicillin myth.
https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/SIP0B.html

The Penicillin Myth
Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.

ICE detainees seek contempt order against DHS over 26 Federal Plaza conditions | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/ice-detainees-seek-contempt-order-against-dhs-over-26-federal-plaza-conditions/

NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
#NOS #Twitter

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000 global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Pony AI Rises After Guangzhou Robotaxi Operations Break Even
Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago, after the robotaxi firm said its Guangzhou operations had broken even on a per-car basis in an early indication its business model is sustainable.

The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets,
it may be able to sink this bad deal
The U.S.-Russia plan to end the war has other ideas for the future of these assets,
which total roughly $300 billion and are mostly held at
EU-based institutions.
A clause in the 28-point road map suggests that the reserves would serve as the equivalent of a signing bonus for the United States,
which may he…

The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets, it may be able to sink this bad deal.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Chinesische Produkte geschmuggelt? Razzien bei Amazon in Italien

20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for #DarkMatter annihilation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209 -> After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00433.html -> Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/data-breach-victims-0b01a5ab
“Nearly one-third said a breach had affected their physical well-being. And nearly a quarter said their relationships were negatively affected.”
Now triple that for cybersecurity defender…

The Hidden Emotional Toll on Victims of Data Breaches
We all know there’s a potential financial impact when a company’s data is hacked. But victims’ suffering goes far beyond that.

Well ripped out the broken CPU cooler in my gaming PC and replaced it with a new AIO and PC works great again (or whatever counts as "great" wrt to Windows 11).
I haven't fully restored the RGB barf inside, working on it; meanwhile enjoy a picture of Eero a few years ago.

@… Daumen sind gedrückt, werde an euch denken, wenn ich nachher durch Mainz fahre!

from my link log —
Nonpareil: high-fidelity HP calculator simulator.
https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/
saved 2025-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/5L3DB.html

BBC confirms it edited out historian's criticism of president: 'Trump’s threats worked' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-bbc/

»You already have a git server:
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it.«
Actually, this is only logical and correspondingly simple, but you should also use this. Now I came across this with the help of a link to this guide.
🧑‍💻 https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/

Meta vor milliardenschwerem Kauf von Googles KI-Chips? Nvidia-Aktie sackt ab
Ein Bericht über Pläne von Meta, eventuell eigene Rechenzentren mit KI-Chips von Google auszurüsten, hat Nvidias-Aktien absacken lassen. Der Konzern reagierte.

After a week of reprimands, some in Congress are having second thoughts
The recent onslaught of disciplinary actions has diminished their effect, said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota),
who was removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee last Congress.
Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to censure Omar earlier this year for comments accusing conservatives of using Charlie Kirk’s death to advance their political goals and suggesting that Kirk did not support “civil debate.”

After a week of censures, some in Congress are having second thoughts
Censures were historically rare rebukes against lawmakers. But members of the House are increasingly using them in ways their peers say are political.

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6

AI video start-up takes wide-angle view to boost growth
Seeing limited potential in its niche dubbing product, Synthesia built an AI tool to appeal across industries

from my link log —
The essence of LR parsing: Partial evaluation can turn a general parser into a parser generator.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/215465.215579
saved 2025-11-25

Amazon investiert 50 Milliarden Dollar in KI-Infrastruktur für US-Behörden
Amazon Web Services will ab 2026 spezialisierte KI-Rechenzentren für US-Regierungsbehörden bauen. Die Investition umfasst 1,3 Gigawatt Rechenkapazität.

@… @… Yes, and that’s precisely one of these things that depend on the setting. Code switching requires that interlocutors can code-switch, too. In a formal setting, it may not be acceptable. And so on.

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying $37M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an unauthorized external wallet (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his &qu…

Forschung in China: 1000 spezielle Drohnen könnten Taiwan von Starlink abklemmen
In China wird weiter überlegt, wie Taiwan im Falle einer Auseinandersetzung von Starlink abgeklemmt werden könnte. Die jüngste Idee setzt auf tausende Drohnen.

@…

watchTowr: 80K sensitive credentials were found via publicly accessible "Recent Links" pages on online code formatting tools JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Now that the Epstein Transparency Act has passed both Houses,
the Department of Justice is obligated to share with the public thousands of previously secret documents, emails, and photos.
Although many critics are concerned that redactions will make these documents ineffectual in exposing the predators and predator protectors,
there is still hope that these women will finally be able to reveal the corruption that has survived multiple presidential administrations.
…

Thanks to Epstein, America’s elite are losing control of the narrative
The Epstein Transparency Act may trigger the most significant crack in oligarchic power in a generation. With Congress compelling the DOJ to reveal Epstein’s secret files, the protective wall around America’s most powerful men is beginning to crumble. This moment could be the first genuine challenge to the impunity enjoyed by the country’s wealthiest predators.

If all goes according to plan, I won’t have to change trains again: as long as the train doesn’t break down, I should eventually get to Bonn.
#TrainTravel

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…

How Witkoff coached Putin's aide on pitching Trump, according to a Bloomberg report
President Donald Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a Ukraine peace plan. That's according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published Tuesday by Bloomberg News. The news agency said it reviewed a recording of the call. It said Trump envoy Steve Witkoff advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call the U.S. leader to c…

Going on another rail adventure today: in theory, I should arrive at Bonn Hbf in 7 hours and 7 minutes.
Here goes nothing!
#TrainTravel

This is a bold but absolutely feasible solution, which would immediately bring Putin to the negotiation table in earnest,
ready to make real concessions rather than aiming to swindle and take away Ukrainian sovereignty diplomatically.
Europe needs to step up before it's too late.
https://…

Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social)
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for Europe to deploy up to 20,000 troops behind Ukraine’s front lines, establish an air shield with around 150 combat aircraft and unlock frozen Russian assets.

@… Thank you for interesting post! While I struggle with different issues, I can very much relate to the trilingual challenges…
Every time I see a study about the supposed benefits of multilingualism for your brain I think, hopefully I eventually get to reap these benefits, because for now, I’m just struggling to express myself in three languages, a…

Kash Patel’s days as FBI director may be numbered. 
MS NOW reported Tuesday that Trump is considering firing the embattled director as his errors pile up.
Three anonymous sources told MS NOW that Patel had drawn Trump’s ire for his presumptuous social media posts during ongoing cases,
using a government jet for a date night with his 27-year-old girlfriend,
and assigning a SWAT team for her security detail. 
Andrew Bailey, the FBI co–deputy director, is reportedly …

Trump Secretly Considering Firing Kash Patel as Blunders Pile Up
Donald Trump seems to have had enough of Kash Patel and his negative headlines. Here’s who could replace him as FBI director.

The Justice Department plans to expand "gun-rights" protections
with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms
The office, called the
Second Amendment Rights Section,
expects to open on December 4
and will be dedicated to investigating local laws or policies limiting gun rights.

Angered by the Democratic leadership’s fecklessness and lack of a bold vision for the future,
a group of senators including Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
has formed an alliance to push back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the party’s campaign arm ahead of next year’s critical midterm elections.
The “Fight Club” is pressing the Democratic Party to
“embrace candidates willing to challenge entrenched corporate interests,

Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership | Common Dreams
"So glad there are some Senate Dems willing to fight back," said one progressive strategist.

Dr. Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns.
Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/controversial-louisi…

Controversial Louisiana surgeon general tapped for CDC leadership role
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham — a vocal supporter of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement and a harsh critic of Covid shots — has been named principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention