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A second person - Alex Pretti - was shot

Video shows that gun was secured before shots fired

Trump sent 3,000 feds to Minneapolis

Local police chief reports that his non-white off-duty officers keep getting illegally detained

Kristi Noem statement on Rene Good shooting

Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller statement

Minnesota US Attorney resigned in protest because of pressure to investigate Good’s widow

Trump threatening to invoke Insurrection Act

Internal memo says ICE can enter homes with “administrative warrant”

Last year DHS said it’s illegal to record ICE

Feds issued subpoenas to governor, two mayors, and two other officials

Some changes being made

ICE at Winter Olympics

Related?: Trump ended temporary protected status for Somalis

State Dept. is “pausing” visas from 75 countries

Trump threatening tariffs on all Nordic countries, France, Germany, & the UK

Wrote an insane letter to the Norwegian prime minster

Canada made a major trade deal with China

Trump is being super normal about it

More pardons for fraud guys!

Trump has made at least $1.4 billion since taking office

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Dream communication is happening!

TikTok recently showed a privacy-policy pop-up to users in the U.S. as part of a corporate restructuring

A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down

After a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance.

CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movements

Bad jobs numbers last year

Treasury Department bans international wire transfers for people on public assistance.

Lego releases “smart-bricks”

The ICE officer had been dragged 300’ by a car last year

Victim was a member of an “ICE Watch” group

Trump wants to 1.5x military budget

In an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machine

Anthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI team

RFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kids

Hegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal orders

Jerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate Fed

Trump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasons

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Small exposure to peanuts works for adults too, to a lesser degree!

Trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to 97.1 million today

Sanitation, diagnosis, and antibiotics have reduced it by 94%

An injection that blocks the activity of a protein involved in aging reverses naturally occurring cartilage loss in the knee joints of old mice

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New Epstein files released

Over 500 pages fully redacted

Asfura declared winner of Honduras election

SCOTUS says Trump can’t deploy national guard to Chicago

6-3, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch in minority

No deal on ACA subsidies

TikTok is finally divesting

Trump put up b****y plaques on portraits of former presidents

One of the board members is suing

60 Minutes pulled coverage of Salvadoran prison

Trump EO: Weed reclassified to Schedule III

Trump EO: nukes on the moon!

Fentanyl is now a “weapon of mass destruction” (??)

We’re blockading oil tankers from Venezuela

Bella 1 oil tanker refused to stop for boarding

Iran declares total war on US, Europe, and Israel

China having its largest ever military exercises in the Taiwan strait right now

Japan scrambling fighters

Russia and Ukraine having peace talks in Florida, results TBD

Trump boats!

10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods

Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death by their son

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2025 had the lowest murder rate ever recorded

Overdoses are also falling!

India passed the SHANTI act, which allows private companies to create and run nuclear power plants

Huge stock of rare earth minerals found in Utah by an existing mining site

A non-profit drone search and rescue team exists

You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

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For on Venezuelan boat, we did a second strike to kill them

Also we stole an oil tanker

Trump: “Well, we keep it, I guess”

Vaccine advisory committee eliminated recommendation that newborns get Hep B vaccine

Big measles outbreak in South Carolina

Honduras election is in chaos

Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández

Trump decided N

Zvi says this is a terrible idea

Trump EO is attempting to preempt state AI laws

AI has designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’

We’re bailing out the farmers

Huge welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota

Matt Van Epps (R) won special election in Tennessee

Australia banned social media for children under 16

Gen Z Protests organized through Discord

Trump commuted the sentence of a private equity CEO convicted of fraud

Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) of federal bribery charges

Trump is upset that he’s going to run for reelection as a democrat

Oliver Sacks made up many of the details in his famous case studies

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There’s an annual Wildlife Comedy Photography award! See this year’s finalists.

Min-readers learned to interpret the patterns as meaningful signals, which they could recognize and use. CNBC has signed a multi-year deal with prediction-market Kalshi, bringing real-time probability data into the network’s TV broadcasts and digital platforms starting next year,

3 ‘rebel’ nuns left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives

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UN security council adopted Gaza deal

“Epstein Files Transparency Act” passed

Federal 3-judge panel issued injunction against Texas redistricting

Judge Jerry Smith wrote an insane dissent

Trump “pausing” Afgan immigration after Afgani shot two national guard soldiers

James Comey and Letitia James indictments fell apart

Navy deciding whether to recall Mark Kelly to active service so they can court-martial him

MIT Technology Review on Gemini 3

Humai on GPT-5.1

Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic disclosed what it calls “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention

Grok 4.1 showed increased sycophancy scores and “slightly higher deception rates”

The White House’s response to AI concerns can be summarized as “f**k it, yolo, pedal to the metal!”

The Trump administration is reclassifying which degrees count as “professional” under a new student loan program.

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15yo Belgian just earned a PhD in quantum physics

Type one diabetes cured in mice

AI+EEG can diagnosis dementia vs. Alzheimer’s vs. healthy

Colombia has declared its entire Amazon biome as a reserve

CRISPR achieves 50% cholesterol reduction in first human trial

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Steven has a new podcast!

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FAA reducing flights at 40 major airports

Head Start programs shutting down

Congressional hemp restrictions threaten $28 billion industry

Trump cutting some tariffs to lower food prices

Utah judge threw out map for being too partisan

Indiana decided against redistricting

Genocide in Sudan (again)

Feds are investigating DC Mayor Muriel Bowser for accepting a foreign trip paid by Qatar

Trump pardoned fake electors and Rudy Giuliani

On November 14, Russia launched at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in an overnight attack on Kyiv

Ukraine simultaneously (basically) struck a major Russian oil depot in Novorossiysk

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Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion

China Achieves First-Ever Thorium-to-Uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion

Nuclear Startup Backed by Luckey, Lockheed Director Raises $130 Million

Polio cases down 99.9% since 1988

Norwegian island saved by whisky

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We’re also sending an aircraft carrier to hang out

Seven people arrested connected to Louvre heist

Judge orders administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund

Tump pardoned the founder of Binance after he made a deal with Trump’s crypto startup

Fed cut rates by .25% again

AWS outage turns off a big chunk of the internet briefly

US-China trade deal

Also some kind of deal with South Korea

4 Republicans joined Democrats in Senate to terminate emergency tariff powers

Also voted to terminate tariffs on Brazil

North Carolina decided to gerrymander their Congressional map

Altman pulls of world’s biggest theft, taking OpenAI (partially) private

OpenAI subpoena requests for suicide funeral guest list

OpenAI subpoenaing their critics for any and all documents related to regulations OpenAI opposes)

NBA Coach, player, and a bunch of mafia dudes arrested in gambling sting

Huel and plant-based protein powders have the same lead content as anything else

Interstellar object 3i/Atlas (comet?) flying through our solar system right now

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First human bladder transplant performed

US obesity rate down nearly 3 percentage points in 3 years

Newsom vetoes bill that banned port automation

CyberEyes are coming!

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Trump issued layoff notices for >4,000 employees

A federal judge has blocked some of them

Trump commuted George Santos’ sentence

At least one Venezuelan boat is maybe a fishing boat

Now he’s authorized some kind of CIA covert op

Rubio is on record that his strategy is to force Maduro out

US admiral in charge of the region retiring suddenly

US Senate votes down restricting president’s war powers against drug cartels

South America News

Noble peace prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader, but winner leaked to PolyMarket 12 hours beforehand

Winner dedicates peace prize to Trump

WaPo: Trump made a deal with Bukele to deport several FBI informants

Argentina continues to make huge strides under Milei

US bails out Argentina, buying $20B of pesos with dollars

Trade war with China

Trump said he’s doing 100% tariffs

US & Australia made a deal to supply some rare Earths

Press hand over badges and leave Pentagon after refusing to sign new press requirements

Trump reportedly trying to extort $230 million from the Justice Department

Big “No Kings” protests happened on Saturday

California passed SB 53. Zvi summary

Sam Altman announced ChatGPT erotica is coming soon

That Mad Olympiad

The Future Will Be Hyper-Local

Claude can tell when it’s being evaluated and scores much higher when this is the case.

Louvre heist! Smash-and-grab in 7 minutes in broad daylight, men make off with $100M in Napoleonic jewels!

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Waymos in London next year!

Niger eliminates “river disease” after 4 decades of Ivermectin treatment

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Youtube is the latest company to give Trump a payoff

Hegseth sent 200 national guard troops to Portland

E.J. Antoni nomination to BLS withdrawn

HHS said it is referring Harvard for suspension and debarment proceedings.

Trump defunding the ethics watchdogs

paused $2.1B in federal funds for Chicago infrastructure projects

Trump made an Israel-Hamas peace plan?

James Comey indicted

TrumpRX is apparently going to be a thing

Federal Judge: Trump Administration violated 1A by deporting Palestinian sympathizers

Hegseth called in all the generals to tell them they’re too fat

Trump apparently all-in on support for Ukraine.

EA bought out by (among others) the Saudi Public Investment Corporation

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San Fran Supervisor going YIMBY on business regulations

James Web Space Telescope is now examining the atmospheric make-up of exoplanets!

Denver’s Support Team Assistance Response (STAR) program is working!

city reports 45% decrease in street people

Recent study in Lancet shows people dying from chronic diseases globally fell in four out of five nations between 2010 and 2019

The 60th nation ratified the High Seas Treaty, meaning it’ll soon become legally binding

China has signed on to this one and a related treaty

20% increase in kids getting school lunches in last five years, worldwide

Huntington disease treated for the first time!

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Senate voted 51-49 to block release of Epstein files

SCOTUS granted cert on tariff cases

Hyundai plant delayed at least 3 months due to the ICE raid.

Samsung Withdraws Its Personnel From Its Texas Chip Plant

Local areas would lose representation in order to benefit their national-level opponents due to redistricting

The killing of Iryna Zarutska

A 71-yr-old on the scene confessed to Charlie Kirk killing to divert the police

Killer was recognized by parents, they convinced him to turn himself in

Jimmy Kimmel fired

Nexstar needs FCC approval for a merger (and a rule change)

Lots of other people getting fired

His widow is doing her best to avert civil war

Trump calling for Antifa to be designated a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”, which isn’t actually a thing

Patio11 articles 1 2

United States trying to reclaim Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan (diplomatically (for now))

Trump (accidentally?) posted a DM to AG Pam Bondi telling her to prosecute Comey, Schiff, and Letitia James

Trump EO: $100,000 fee for H1-B visas

Fed cut interest rates by 0.25%

D.C. Circuit prevented Trump from firing Lisa Cook

Lisa Cook fraud allegations seem fake

Stephen Miran confirmed as Fed Chairman

Russian drone incursion into Poland’s airspace

Russian manned aircraft incursion into Estonian airspace

Hours-long wait times at Russian gas stations due to Ukraine blowing up all their refineries

Russia arrested some kids for filming a burning oil refinery

Lockheed Martin revealed the Vectis drone from its Loyal Wingman program, controllable from F-22’s and F-35’s

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a defense pact

News You Can Ignore - Trump and RFK found out how to prevent autism

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A federal judge has blocked a California law banning political deepfakes

Third grand jury refuses to indict DC woman accused of assaulting agent during ICE arrest

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France keeps a fusion reactor running 22 minutes

The guy who was trying to assassinate Donald Trump challenged Trump to a golf match to the death

The Chicago river is now swimmable

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Eneasz - Castle Rat is worth high ticket prices

Wes - banning things is a last resort

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