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All those allegations that China is using TP-Link routers to spy or to lay the groundworks for attacks or whatever have cost the California-based but Chinese-owned company $1 billion, according to a lawsuit filed by TP-Link against Netgear.
Fwiw, the allegations began in Washington and were wholly unfounded, but that hasn't slowed the drumbeat to ban TP-Link.

No evidence that TP-Link routers are a Chinese security threat
Despite a request for a US government investigation into Chinese-made TP-Link, evidence presented by a US House committee fails to support allegations they are a national security risk, experts say.

Drone sampling of whale breath reveals first evidence of potentially deadly virus in Arctic
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-drone-sampling-whale-reveals-evidence.html

We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
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The totality of the evidence supports the thesis that displacement of long-established dietary patterns by ultra-processed foods is a key driver of the escalating global burden of multiple diet-related chronic diseases.
Monteiro CA, Louzada ML, Steele-Martinez E, Cannon G, Andrade GC, Baker P, et al. (2025): Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence. The Lancet 0. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01565-X

Last night we went to Timbl's interview at the #CheltLitFest on his memoir, This is for Everyone. It was both sad and evidence of courage with his devotion to openness in our little land of Web.
The book tour has evidently been exhausting. Whatever neurological event he's going through with the physical difficulty of speaking and his occasional aphasia, his brain is still ther…

Must be an "expert" in military AND maritime law...
GOP Senator: "No Evidence" Of War Crimes By US - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/gop-senator-no-evidence-of-war-crimes-by-us/

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“She also appears to have made another astonishing error, Judge Fitzpatrick said. In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence — perhaps better evidence — that would be presented at trial.”
Wow. I’ve served as a grand juror. That’s misconduct.

Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
The magistrate judge raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges against the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, altogether.

"…evidence shows…MAGA narrative of trans violence is entirely baseless…data from…Violence Prevention Project at Hamline…indicates…< 1% of shootings where 4 or more people were wounded in public were by trans people, &…over 97% of…mass killings…committed by cisgender men…PolitiFact also showed…“overwhelming” majority of shootings…perpetrated by cisgender men. And…trans people are 4x more likely than cisgender people to be…_victims_ of violent crime."

JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people - LGBTQ Nation
The suspect's alleged trans girlfriend is cooperating with investigators, but rightwingers are still using her identity to blame trans people.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--MI5 warns that China uses LinkedIn to recruit and compromise lawmakers,
--WhatsApp feature can extract 3.5B users' phone numbers,
--Police raid KT for allegedly hiding breach evidence,
--Beijing rumors cost TP-Link $1B,
--LG Energy Solution was hit by a cyberattack,
--Airlines won't sell passenger data to the US,
--Toronto schools wer…

MI5 warns that China uses LinkedIn to recruit and compromise lawmakers
WhatsApp feature can extract 3.5B users' phone numbers, Police raid KT for allegedly hiding breach evidence, Beijing rumors cost TP-Link $1B, LG Energy Solution was hit by a cyberattack, Airlines won't sell passenger data to the US, Toronto schools weren't prepared for PowerSchool breach, much more