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NFL Wild Card Weekend goes off the rails, plus Texans-Steelers playoff picks and 2025 All-Pro team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wil

Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393509/metacomp-raises-35-million-alibaba

For those who aren’t local / don’t have an encyclopedic memory of 2020:
Keith Ellison and the MN AG office are the folks who successfully prosecuted Derek Chauvin. They are a crack legal team who know how to win. I’m making no bets about the short or long term outcomes of this lawsuit — especially not with a radical right-wing SCOTUS completely off the rails — but I’m confident these are some of the very best people to be leading it.

When all of this is “over”, it's not going to be good enough to say “We shouldn't have let that happen. It'll be better now.” That's just lying to yourselves and everyone else for 4 years.
The only acceptable outcome from a world power who has gone this far off the rails is “we've made it so that it *can’t* happen again.”

Diplomats said Robert Fico described Donald Trump as dangerous and worried about his psychological state, appearing traumatised and saying Trump seemed out of his mind after their meeting.
Slovakia’s PM rails against Politico report he was ‘shocked’ by Trump’s psychological state https://ground.news/article/slovakias-pm-rails-against-politico-report-he-was-shocked-by-trumps-psychological-state

Trump rails against 'the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein' in latest Christmas message (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/25/us-news/trump-rails-against-sleazebags-who-loved-jeffrey-epstein-in-latest-christmas-message/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p24#a251225p24

Hannah Spencer's speech.
Good speech.
One criticism: why is it called the Green party? What about the ecosystem and climate emergency? You have to use opportunities like this to level with people.
"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently - Manchester Evening News

"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently
The Green Party secured a big win in the Gorton and Denton by-election

The vibe is not even the sort of “excessive show of force” vibe you get when militarized law enforcement goes off the rails and starts rioting. (I live in Minneapolis. I’m quite familiar with what •that• looks like.)
This is more like…hundreds of high school gym bullies get all hopped up on Red Bull and decided to take daddy’s SUV on a joy ride to randomly kidnap the first brown person they can corner…but only if nobody’s watching.
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Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205313/mike-johnson-goes-off-rails-vile-gaslighting-display-trump-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p116#a260115p116

This budget battle over DHS that’s happening in the Senate now — it’s not about accountability or guard rails. It’s about whether a force like this should exist at all in the USA.