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European national security advisors arrive in Kyiv, Coalition of the Willing talks to be held later in the day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/european-national-security-advisors-arrive.html

A senior national security prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia
said in a farewell note taped to his door to colleagues on Friday
that he was apparently fired this week because a January 6 conspiracy theorist denounced him on social media
for having worked for the deputy attorney general in the Biden administration.
The veteran federal prosecutor, Michael Ben’Ary,
was fired on Wednesday,
the same day that Julie Kelly,
a pro-Trump commentato…

USC first non-SEC team to land top recruiting class in modern era; Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors heat up

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football

Two sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…

Trump Trumpets Peace in Africa Amid War on Drug Boats, in Day of Dissonance
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.

TIL from my Italian coworker that Italian TV broadcasts Trading Places every Christmastime and if it didn't happen it would be like, national news https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/why-do-italians-watch-trading-places-every-christmas.html<…

Trading Places: An unexpected Christmas tradition in Italy
It wouldn't be Christmas in Italy without Una Poltrona per Due on tv. Italy is home to some of the world's oldest and most spectacular Christmas traditions that have illuminated and enriched the Italian festive season for centuries. It also has some more unexpected modern-day traditions and few...

Jake Ferguson's fiancée Haley Cavinder rocks custom Ferg fit on National TE Day https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jake-ferguson-fiancee-haley-cavinder-custom-ferg-fit-national-tight-end-day

According to sources, today is also:
Equal Opportunity Day (aka Gettysburg Address Day and Dedication Day)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day
National Blow Bagpipes Day
National Camp Day
National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day (this is way too specific)
National Educational Support Professionals Day
National Macchiato Day
National Zinfandel Day
Play Monopoly Day
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
And last, but not least, “Have …

@… Have fun. If you do make it out to Sydney one day, I can recommend visiting the blue mountains national park. Wonderful area, short train ride.

2025 National Tight Ends Day: Packers' Tucker Kraft saves otherwise quiet day on annual celebration

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-na

Now Looney Bonespurs thinks he can rename Veterans Day.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/trump-veterans-day-speech-victory-day/3501762890394/

Good Morning #Canada
It's National Throw Out Your Leftovers Day, the fake holiday brought to you by greedy grocery conglomerates. I live on lunches that are 90% leftovers from our dinners so I know throwing out perfectly good food is a waste. But you need to be safe so here's some information about how to store food so that it doesn't kill you later that week. Most of it is common sense - like not storing leftovers on your stove top for 5 days before you decide to eat it. I won't do that again...
#CanadaIsAwesome #SmellTest
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/leftovers-food-safety-faq-1.7412668

NFL Week 8 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games to celebrate National Tight Ends Day https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6740976/2025/10/24/nfl-week-8-national-tight-ends-day-how-to-watch/

Holy sh*t, what timing. The National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, is furloughing 1,400 people on a day that I broke the story that a foreign threat actor infiltrated the NNSA's Kansas City manufacturing plant.
This story broke after my exclusive on how foreign threat actors infiltrated the NNSA''s Kansas City plant went live.

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday
The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Department of Energy.

Youth Privacy in Australia: Insights from National Policy Dialogues
https://fpf.org/blog/youth-privacy-in-australia-insights-from-national-policy-dialogues/
@…

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.

National Coming Out Day: For LGBTQ refugees, coming out isn't a choice
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/11/lgbtq-refugee-asylum-national-coming-out-day/

It's National Tight End Day!
Today, celebrate the blocks & receptions of your favorite, underappreciated Tight End.
#football #nfl #ncaa

Dallas Goedert, George Kittle among those who star on 'National Tight Ends Day' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6752014/2025/10/26/dallas-goedert-george-kittle-national-tight-ends-day/

Johnson and Trump Try to Avoid an Upset House Loss in Tennessee
Speaker Mike Johnson put the president on speakerphone during a Monday stop in the state, underscoring the unusual amount of national attention on a House special election.
ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW.
The entire political world is watching Tennessee. A district Trump won by 22 points is currently neck-and-neck. But we cannot risk a single vote being left on the table.
Our final, most audacious move is live ri…

I just gave to the Save America Movement!
Join the fight »

Good Morning #Canada
I hope you're waking up to a scrumptious smell from the kitchen because it's National Bacon Day. While you're waiting for it to finish cooking, here are some facts to salivate over:
- Canadian Bacon, aka Back Bacon or Peameal Bacon, is a Canadian invention. It's also healthier than regular bacon, with far less saturated fats
- 42% of Canadians prefer their bacon crispy while 49% enjoy it limp. I assume 9% eat it raw?
- Winnipeg, home of the Bacon Centre of Excellence, is the Bacon Capital of Canada
- Canadians consume over 50M kilos of bacon annually. I ate my 1.25 kilos this year.
- Canadian Bacon, the movie, was a box office flop, only earning $178K on a production budget of $11M
- The average weight of a pig prior to processing is 111.2 kilos
- Canadian producers exported 18.6M kilos of cured bacon and 202K kilos of back bacon
- There are over 14M hogs in Canada
- 82% of Canadians add bacon on their burgers
- Kevin Bacon is not Canadian
#CanadaIsAwesome #MMMBacon

🌴 Making LAZY plants stand up: Research reveals new pathway plants use to detect gravity
#plants <…

Making LAZY plants stand up: Research reveals new pathway plants use to detect gravity
A study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has revealed a previously unknown pathway plants use to detect gravity and orient the direction they grow in. Publishing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study may one day open the door for improvements in crop cultivation.

An ex-Pentagon press corps member says Pentagon day pass requests now require an hour-by-hour activity summary and a list of people they plan to speak to (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/pentagon-pres…

Yes, you there, in the front, in the red hat!
While veteran national security reporters can’t get their calls answered, members of the new, MAGA-friendly press corps have a hotline to the Department of War.

A day that will live in infamy. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html

FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech
Crafting a Call to Arms Winter 2001, Vol. 33, No. 4 | Our Heritage in Documents Enlarge The USS Arizona seen burning after the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the morning of December 7, 1941. It was 1 p.m. in Washington. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library) View in National Archives Catalog In the early afternoon of December 7, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt was just finishing lunch in his oval study on the second floor of the White House, preparing to work on his stamp album, when…

National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday (David Klepper/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/national-parks-free-trump-birthday-juneteenth-mlk-225b10728a9df22d54407ecaec1e5e5f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p10#a251207p10

The moment that will stick with me the most
—the video that still gives me chills
—came during an otherwise unremarkable baseball day early in the summer.
It was June 14, and the pop artist #Nezza was getting ready to sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.
A week earlier, ICE and DHS agents had descended en masse on Los Angeles work sites,
grabbing immigrants and U.S. citiz…

Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.

Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art

GOP uses AI-generated video in anti-Schumer ad
Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senate Committee features the Democratic New York senator appearing to say on camera about the shutdown, now in its 3rd week, “Every day gets better for us.” …

Trump administration replaces MLK Day, Juneteenth on National Park Fee-Free Day calendar with Trump's birthday - TheGrio
https://thegrio.com/2025/12/06/trump-admin-removes-mlk-day-juneteenth-fee-free-days-national-parks/

But wait, there’s more…November 19 is also:
World COPD Day
National Kentucky Day
International Journalist Day
American Made Matters Day
Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Warsaw today, Polish national day. Grannies, families and ...
#WhiteSupremacy normalised

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The National:
🎵 Day I Die
#TheNational
https://thenational.bandcamp.com/track/day-i-die
https://open.spotify.com/track/5tOQgKuJEU01GjoHhVFCjn

So, as we do most years before Veterans Day, me and the family spent part of this morning placing flags at the National Antifa Cemetery in Bourne, MA

NHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:

COVID-19 vaccine
NHS information about the COVID-19 vaccine, including what the vaccine helps protect against, who should have it and when, how to get it and side effects.

I knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…

Peter Williams, the former general manager at defense contractor L3Harris,
has pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to a Russian broker that buys “cyber tools,”
the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday. 
“The material, stolen over a three-year period from the U.S. defense contractor where he worked,
was comprised of national-security focused software that included at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components,”
read the D…

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker | TechCrunch
Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement.

It's #NationalComingOutDay and I know how scary and life-changing it can be to come out. So many don't have the freedom to come out. I am a general manager of a store and I strive for my employees to be able to be themselves.
…

Reminder--today is the last day to submit comments about the Executive Order designed to distort and restrict historical education. I just sent my statement in, I hope many people do the same! The American Historical Association has compiled a great set of resources to help you take this action! h…

@… Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" just won the National Book Award for nonfiction. You might appreciate his acceptance speech. (It starts a few minutes from here, which is the intro of the finalists.)

was trying to decide which match to watch in 15 minutes bc im not invested in anyone playing the rest of the day AND THEN I REMEMBERED that the Greece national manager looks like an evil wizard so I will be keeping tabs on his dark magicks
#fedifc

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We decided it was night again, so we camped for twenty minutes and drank
another six beers at a Young Life campsite. O.C. got into the supervisory
adult's sleeping bag and ran around in it. "This is the judgment day and I'm
a terrifying apparition," he screamed. Then the heat made O.C. ralph in the
bag.
-- The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs,
National Lampoon, October 1982

Just what public safety demands: Skilled workers in a complex environment requiring attention and awareness are now working second jobs. (When I worked in industry, many of the problems arose at the ends of long shifts, when workers were tired.)
"Most controllers are working mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown without pay, and some are taking second jobs to pay their bills, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has said."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday
he is deploying the state’s National Guard to help staff food banks
amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Newsom said the move mirrors steps he took during the COVID-19 pandemic a few years ago.
He warned that the prolonged shutdown
— now in its 22nd day
— could disrupt California’s CalFresh program,
which provides food benefits to about 5.5 million residents.

Newsom deploys California National Guard to help with food banks amid prolonged government shutdown
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday he is deploying the state’s National Guard to help staff food banks amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

we drove to negaunee ("iron city") and shopped a little. (i bought a 1963 henry mancini record and a 1930 pamphlet, "how to throw a party.")
negaunee has some cool old buildings.

‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is this week: What to know
https://thehill.com/homenews/5527054-national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Sir Hamilton Harty, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra & Proinnsías œ Duinn:
🎵 An Irish Symphony (2nd mvt: The Fair-Day)
#SirHamiltonHarty #RTÉNationalSymphonyOrchestra #ProinnsíasÓDuinn

Mautstation im Chaos - Gigantischer Verkehrsstau sorgt für Lichtermeer #News #Nachrichten

After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list,
there isn’t much else left to do but wait on "Match Day". 
In a few weeks
—as was the case in 2024—
overwhelming majority of senior applicants from U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medical schools will find a training position
through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match. 
But how does the system decide?
It all comes down to a
N…

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Voyager 1 almost one light-day away from Earth - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/12/09/voyager-1-almost-one-light-day-away-from-earth/

My son is in Ontario on Remembrance Day (our name for Armistice Day in Canada) for the first time and he was shocked it wasn’t a public holiday like it is in B.C.
He was disappointed to be in Ottawa, just a few minutes away from the National War Memorial by metro, but couldn’t attend because he has classes today.
I agree with him. It is very strange that this day, of all days, is not a national day.
So instead he rushed through his class so he could at least get to the small ceremony held on campus.
How sad that there is so little time and space made for it in our largest and most populous province.
Even in our nation’s capital.
#ontario #canada #remembranceDay #armisticeday #nov11 #lestweforget #canpoli #onpoli

Nowhere was quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara,
which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county's recorded history.
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday,
breaking the location's previous three-day total set in 2002 when it received 5.66 inches.
The downpour was so heavy because it pulled in moisture all the way from Hawaii as it rotat…

Santa Barbara hit hard by storms: record rainfall, flooded streets, moisture from Hawaii
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday, breaking the location'...

@… it’s also National Absurdity Day. Pretty sure the two might be related.

Upcoming rallies, protests, lobbying efforts in DC
#WashingtonDC #DC #resist #regime

Trump is just the worst!
The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule
so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year,
while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.
https://bsky.app…

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social)
Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees. https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/national-park-service-free-days-2026-trump-birthday-mlk-juneteenth

@… and today you can celebrate by bringing absurd since it is National Absurdity Day.

Daily Profile of COVID-19 Infections in Germany, throughout the Pandemic
Derek Marsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05721 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05721

Daily Profile of COVID-19 Infections in Germany, throughout the Pandemic
Progress of the COVID-19 pandemic was quantified, in the first instance, using the daily number of positive cases recorded by the national public health authorities. Averaged over a seven-day window, the daily incidence of COVID-19 in Germany reveals clear sections of exponential growth or decay in propagation of infection. Comparing with incidence profiles according to onset-of-symptoms shows that reporting of cases involves variable delays. Observed changes in exponential rates come from grow…

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Iran on Thursday said it was ending the agreement it signed in September
allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume inspections there,
after a resolution passed earlier in the day by the agency’s board
demanding “precise information” about Tehran’s enriched uranium and nuclear sites “without delay.”

A statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that countries that voted for the resolution
— backed by France, Britain, Germany and the …

Iran cancels new nuclear inspections it agreed to after bombing campaign
The termination of the agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency follows U.S.- and European-led charges that access has been denied.

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

It was National Voter Registration Day,
and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college
for a voter registration event.
That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice
was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list.
While the DOJ appearing as the official plaintiff was new,
what the federal government sought through the lawsuit
—access to Maine’s complete, unredacted voter roll file

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

Good Morning #Canada
Happy #Festivus everyone. I'm looking forward to the airing of grievances and performing feats of strength later today. But we also have to celebrate National Christmas Movie Marathon Day on December 23rd. Our pickings are slim if you want to limit yourself to Canadian classics of this holiday season. Sure, virtually every #Hallmak movie is filmed in Canada, apparently with variations of a single plot, but they don't count. Here's a list of 5 Canadian films provided by CBC to get you started and you can provide a community service by suggesting other titles for your fellow Canucks. For example, Uncle Buck feels like a Christmas movie solely because of John Candy. When your list is ready, you can wrap yourself in a Hudson's Bay blanket, munch on some Nanaimo Bars, and binge watch your favourites.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ChristmasMovie
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/have-yourself-a-canadiana-christmas-with-these-5-movies-1.3909749

Good Morning #Canada
Happy National Homemade Bread Day for all those with enough dough to celebrate. There's no data on how many of us make their own bread at home, but there are 1,321 bakery product manufacturing establishments and more than 1,406 retail bakeries in Canada. Canada annually ranks in the top 10 worldwide in wheat production, 6th or 7th, depending on the year, but we don't eat a lot of bread. #StatsCan says we consume approximately 30 kg per person yearly, which doesn't put us in the top 30 internationally - Turkey's citizens eat 6 times as much as us. We spend about 10% of our grocery bill on baked goods, and that has increased almost 30% over the past 5 years. Canada exports $5.2B in baked goods annually with $5B of that going to the U.S. market.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Sandwich
My favourite type of bread: Please boost for scientific significance.
Plain White (I leave my socks on too)
Bagels (Montreal preferred)
Sourdough (nothing to do with my personality)
French - loaf or baguette (I also support Bilingualism)
Italian - loaf, focaccia, calabrese (I'm also a pasta lover)

Good Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln