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1. Bill Jempty says:
   Monday, 15 December 2025 at 04:30

   Rob Reiner and his wife were found murdered yesterday. I know he did other things, but I always remember Reiner for All in the Family. RIP.

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2. Scott says:
   Monday, 15 December 2025 at 07:23

   Latest on Ukraine from the Institute for the Study of War:

   • The Kremlin is setting conditions to reject the Ukrainian and European peace plan drafts after it previously rejected key points of the US-proposed 28-point peace plan that overwhelmingly benefitted Russia.

   • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US negotiators in Berlin, Germany on December 14 to continue negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

   • Russian forces will likely continue to struggle to maintain the Kremlin’s desired multi-pronged offensive operations in different operational directions due to the long-term materiel and manpower costs of such operations.

   • Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign continues to degrade Russia’s oil refining and military capabilities in Russia and occupied Ukraine.

   • Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka direction. Russian forces recently advanced in the Hulyaipole direction.

   Bottom line: Russia will continue to pound their shoes on the table demanding maximalist conditions while Witkoff and Kushner will continue to conspire in their treason.

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3. Scott says:
   Monday, 15 December 2025 at 07:37

   Monster Tales:

   Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

   On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.

   For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They’d culled USAID’s staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank.

   There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field.
   …
   By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests, USAID was the largest humanitarian donor in the world. In just a month’s time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction.

   In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake.
   …
   Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.

   Happy Christmas!

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