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A federal agent pointed a gun at a combat veteran’s face and said “
"bang, bang” and
“you’re dead, liberal”
during an immigration raid last week in Chicago,
the veteran is alleging in a new court filing.
https://…

Federal Agent Told Combat Veteran ‘You’re Dead, Liberal’ At Little Village Encounter, Attorneys Say
The allegation comes as ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly facing pushback for using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and other measures against peaceful protesters and bystanders.

Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

The chatter in my TL suggests that we are inching closer to the point where “Trump killed Epstein” becomes a thinkable thought in the mainstream, scrawled on toilet stalls and dumpsters across the USA as a routine rallying cry.
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“‘Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document,’” Trump told NYT.”
And how, pray tell, does this former real estate developer think ownership of things like real estate is established?
From just signing a document. 🤦‍♂️
His mind is mush wrapped in malicious childhood disappointment.

Trump insists he doesn’t need international law and his power is only limited by his own morality
In an extrordinary interview, Donald Trump defends his record on Venezuela and threats to others nations including Greenland, Colombia and Mexico in the last week

A family member of mine made a joke about trans people and I shut it down so fast I think they are still reeling a day later.
I got extremely serious, and loud, and told them it was bullshit, and I don't want to hear that sort of garbage again.
They tried to defend it with "Oh, it's just us, we're cool" and I called bullshit on that too.
We talked about it later and I think I got my point across. I ended with "We know you're a good person, so …

Sources: Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026; Google's VP of Global Ads says there are no plans for ads in the Gemini app (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed
-- of what use are literature, philosophy, and history when we have problems to solve right now?
And yet colleagues meeting in wartime Kyiv have a clearer sense of purpose, more esprit de corps, , and a better instinct for the essential.
And soldiers on the front (as they tell me) want to talk about history and culture.
In traumatic conditions, people think about where they stand amidst larger force…

Ukrainian History Global Initiative
The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction

Who knows whether somebody actually •did• have Epstein murdered, Trump or otherwise. It’s likely we’ll never have either a smoking gun or a definitive rebuttal.
And that may not matter — I’m talking about •vibes•, about the Overton Window of conspiracy theories, about just how many people are so sick Epstein and Trump and all these people that they don’t need any more evidence to want all their legacies flushed down history’s toilet.
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Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-silicon-va

Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20