Donald Trump berated Mike Pence, calling his then-vice president a "wimp" during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021, hours before Congress certified the 2020 election of Joe Biden, according to Pence's previously unpublished notes included in a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
According to court filings, had his case against Trump gone to trial, special counsel Jack Smith planned to use the handwritten notes -- hastily scribbled on Pence's day planner -- as evidence to document the hours before Trump allegedly directed a violent mob to storm the Capitol.
"You'll go down as a wimp," Trump told Pence about his decision not to block Biden's certification, according to Pence's notes about the call on the morning of Jan. 6, just before the president took the stage at the "Save America" rally on the Ellipse. "If you do that, I made a big mistake 5 years ago," Pence wrote Trump told him.The exclusive details are reported in Karl's upcoming book, "Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America."
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Meta AIMeta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info
An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex, race and celebrities..https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/
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Breakfast Cereals@Steve-Miller said in Breakfast Cereals:
Chris Van Tulleken
Hey! BBC News article:
A giant mug of instant black coffee and no food is not what you'd expect the host of a wellness podcast to have for breakfast.
Yet it's what Dr Chris van Tulleken, who hosts the BBC's What's Up Docs alongside identical twin brother Dr Xand confesses to having.
"I'm approaching middle age so don't want to eat all day. My way of not eating all day is not eating breakfast," he says.
It's this kind of honesty about not leading the perfect life and struggling with the stuff they know they should do but still don't, that makes them so relatable.
The brothers are both medical doctors who've become household names through their TV and radio work - they present children's series Operation Ouch! and Dr Xand is one of BBC's Morning Live resident experts while Dr Chris is well known for his bestselling book Ultra-Processed People.
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?This retention pond with the grasses is next to the Aldi parking lot.
Link to videoAnyone have a clue who the noisemakers are? We thought it might be birds but there wasn't a single one to be seen. I even tossed a small stone into the grasses to see if I could flush anyone out. Nada.
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2028Bannon says Trump will run and win in 2028. “There’s a plan.”
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Rand PaulSen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is calling on the GOP to “man up” against President Donald Trump.
While speaking on POLITICO’s “The Conversation” released Friday, Paul was asked about newly surfaced text messages allegedly sent by Paul Ingrassia, who withdrew his nomination from Trump to lead the Office of Special Counsel on Tuesday. In a chat to a group of Republicans, first reported by the outlet, Ingrassia reportedly said that he has “a Nazi streak” and that Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell.”
Ingrassia, who was initially set to appear before senators on Thursday, had also faced scrutiny after POLITICO revealed earlier this month that he had been accused of sexual harassment by a colleague. He denied any wrongdoing.
“What I say to the president and to his administration: you need to read the messages, and guess what? You need to make a decision on whether you want to send him forward,” Paul said when asked whether the Senate should halt consideration of Ingrassia for the top ethics spot until a full inquiry is conducted.
He continued: “I’m tired of being the only one that has to block everything and do everything... I hear a lot of flack from Republicans and they want me to do it. They say, ‘Oh, well, you’re not afraid of the president. You go tell him his nominee can’t make it.”
Paul described himself as the “whipping boy,” adding that “I’m tired of the only one that has any guts to stand up and tell the president the truth.”
“These Republicans, if they’re going to vote no, they need to man up and need to say, ‘We’re going to vote no because of this reason.’ And they need to tell the president,” Paul said, before adding: “But so far, what I’m hearing is rumbling and griping, and want me to do their job for them. So they need to step up."
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/trumps-whipping-boy-says-hes-tired-of-doing-the-dirty-work.html
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About that White House ballroom and the East Wingsaid in About that White House ballroom and the East Wing:
Price going up; inflation running rampant.
On Wednesday, Trump discussed his plans for the ballroom, saying it will cost “about $300 million.” The administration previously put the cost of the ballroom project at $200 million.
Who is supposedly on the list of people funding the project. The amount donated is conspicuously absent.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/ballroom-donors-white-house-trump
The donors and what they stand to gain.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ballroom-donors-white-house-stand-to-gain/
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About that White House ballroom and the East WingPresident Donald Trump will likely name his new $300 million White House ballroom after himself, according to senior administration officials.
Already, officials are referring to it as "The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom." That name will likely stick, ABC News was told.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-white-house-ballroom-after-officials/story?id=126843455
And they took down a couple of very old magnolia trees...
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Yes, things are pretty bad nowHe's been busy, hasn't he?
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Yes, things are pretty bad nowFrom Tangle:
The fundamental promise of this news publication is viewpoint diversity.
I built Tangle because I wanted a place where conservatives, liberals, and everyone in between could gather under one roof and trust the news they were reading. In an era when media trust is at an all-time low, polarization is increasingly extreme and so few people seem capable of talking to each other across the partisan divide, this North Star has always served us well.
In order to serve this mission, to earn the trust of the biggest Trump supporters and the most progressive leftists and all the people who land somewhere between them, we offer some simple promises: chief among them is viewpoint diversity in our content. Most days, this is “What the left is saying” and “What the right is saying,” though sometimes we’ll offer pieces that counter each other (for instance, a Tangle staff member is working on a piece responding to what I’m writing here today). We also lean into transparency in how we work by featuring corrections prominently and sharing (and explaining) our editorial policies. Finally, we try to show that we’re fallible humans who can make mistakes, learn and change their minds, rather than pretend we comprise a flawless high-minded institution (we regularly feature reader criticisms, and I encourage anyone who disagrees with today’s piece to write in or comment so we can consider your thoughts).
We’re not perfect, obviously. Our system has flaws. The left–right dichotomy in which we sort arguments is not always clean or appropriate. Some people skip to “My take” without reading the different perspectives we share. Readers of various political persuasions unsubscribe every day, upset that they don’t find their views represented the way they’d prefer in our coverage. We recognize these flaws and are always trying to improve.
Yet, I promise that whenever I write my opinions, I will always be honest. That I will share my view in the most fair and straightforward way I can. When I feel strongly about something I will say so, regardless of which political tribe that view aligns with. When I don’t know something, or don’t have a fully formed opinion, I’ll admit that, too. And my promise, when I’m sharing my view, is to do so regardless of the landmines I may step on or the people I may upset.
So, today, I want to share my perspective on the moment we are living in. And the honest truth, as I see it, is that things are actually pretty bad right now. Nearly everything in the political arena — the candidates, the policies, the extremism, the AI slop, the punditry, the writing, the thinking, the principles — it all seems to be getting worse in basically every meaningful way.
And, to me, one of the driving forces behind all of this is the Trump administration. Nine months into his presidency, I think the bad things Trump is doing vastly outweigh the good. Rather than pretending I don’t feel that way, I’m going to step forward and flatly make my case. Again, I say all this as an independent-minded thinker with no loyalty to any political party. I say it as someone who has published countless pieces criticizing excesses and failures on the left (including the media). I say it while holding a set of political views that I believe are decidedly middle-of-the-road in sum and all over the place from issue to issue.
So here’s the truth as I see it: If, on the day Trump was inaugurated, I had warned readers that in a few months law enforcement officers would be rappelling from helicopters like soldiers into civilian apartment buildings in Chicago; the military would be extrajudicially killing Venezuelans for alleged drug dealing; Americans would be getting arrested while being falsely accused of being here illegally; the Justice Department would be prosecuting the president’s political foes at his direction; and legal U.S. residents would be getting arrested, detained, and deported for protected speech; I would have been accused of having a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Yet nine months into this presidency, all of those things are happening. This isn’t hyperbolic fear-mongering — it isn’t sensationalist, or exaggerated. It’s literally just a list of the things the president has done, things I’m obligated to speak plainly about. Trump has, thankfully, largely obeyed court orders so far, but that may not be the case going forward — he’s gotten a lot of what he wanted from the courts so far, and he’s resisted or delayed obeying the major rulings that have gone against him.
The resistance libs, whom I’ve derided for hyperventilating about hypotheticals and living in a constant state of terror, have gotten a lot of things right about the contours of Trump’s second term.
And for conservative readers who may be sympathetic to Trump’s more extreme actions, I think it’s important to put it into terms that I hope clarify the issue. Hypothetical analogies are never perfect, but some of these frightening possibilities are legitimately much more plausible if we accept what Trump has done:
Imagine President Biden had won his election on a fundamental promise to end gun violence in America. So, in turn, he claims he has a “mandate” to send the National Guard into the three states with the highest rates of gun violence: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. The troops converge on small rural towns to round up gun owners suspected of violating a range of firearm laws. Gun shops are raided and trashed by federal agents; tables are flipped over, desks are emptied, customers inside are zip-tied and dragged onto the street in front of onlookers without any reasonable suspicion of having committed a crime. Helicopters buzz overhead as back-up. The agents don’t flash warrants or ID themselves; in fact, they’re all masked and it’s not always clear what agency they are with. They demand identification and proof of firearm licenses from everyone present. All the customers are detained without due process until the agents are sure they haven’t committed a crime. Local police and politicians try to intervene, but they are ignored and forced out of the way. Federal courts stacked with Democratic-appointed judges greenlight the troops’ actions. Then imagine a handful of the customers inside one of these shops ends up being guilty of something, and those people are pointed to as justification for the entire raid.
Even if you knew some of those people broke the law, would you trust this kind of power in the government’s hands? What would you do if that was your store, your community, or your due process rights being run over?
Here’s another: Every year, millions of pro-life activists descend on Washington, D.C. for the March for Life. Imagine President Barack Obama responding to the March for Life rallygoers by framing them all as anti-abortion “radical” extremists and terrorist “lunatics,” and then deploying the National Guard to protect federally funded facilities offering abortion services in Republican-led states. Imagine that when this move draws blowback from the protesters — and Republicans, and conservative media — Obama responds by having the troops tear gas crowds, incite violence, and then arrest anyone who fights back for assaulting police.
Or remove any living president from the picture and imagine a president-yet-to-be — perhaps a very progressive anti-Zionist like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Zohran Mamdani. Imagine this president decides that pro-Israel activists are a threat to the security of Muslims in America. So, exercising power the same way Trump has, they deploy ICE agents to snatch up Israeli immigrants in the country on green cards for opinion pieces they wrote defending Israel from claims of genocide in their university newspapers. While trying to deport them, this hypothetical president ships them off to a prison thousands of miles away from where they were arrested on the grounds that they support a racist, colonial, terrorist state called Israel.
These are not identical to the things Trump is doing, but they’re all similar to what Trump is doing now — just with the script flipped. As hypotheticals, they are also now far more possible with the precedent Trump is setting.
The central difference is that Trump is targeting the people many of his supporters want targeted. But Trump won’t be president forever, and what we deem acceptable now will — as it always does — come back to haunt us in the future.
What’s happening right now.
As I write this piece, Trump is deploying National Guard troops to American cities against the wishes of those cities’ and states’ elected officials. It was good to see Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, take a principled stance against this obscene overreach, saying, rightly, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if [Gov. JB] Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
Last week, after one of the president’s extrajudicial strikes on a boat off the coast of Venezuela, two survivors were found. This was a pretty interesting development, because these strikes have killed dozens of alleged drug smugglers about whom we know next to nothing.
And then something odd happened: Instead of charging the recovered survivors with the alleged crime the Trump administration tried to kill them for — narcoterrorism — they allowed the men to be repatriated to their own countries. This is, in some ways, standard procedure: People who are arrested in international waters are often sent back to their countries to face charges.
One of the most alarming aspects of this situation was that, in the case of at least one of the men who was killed in the strike, some evidence emerged that he was a fisherman. One of the survivors of the recent strike did have a prior record of trafficking drugs, but the other man, from Ecuador, was released by his country and won’t be charged because they said there was no crime to charge him with. In other words, it’s possible that the Trump administration just killed at least one innocent person. At the very least, they declined to detain and charge someone on U.S. soil they just got done trying to kill extrajudicially.
That this administration had not been fighting narcoterrorists but actually killing innocent fishermen off the coast of Venezuela was already something a few journalists had theorized. When Colombia’s president condemned the strikes, Trump pulled U.S. aid to the country, rather than admit a potential mistake.
The president is now entertaining strikes on Venezuela’s mainland, just as he has approved a $40 billion bailout for Argentina’s economy, funded by U.S. taxpayers. The price tag on that bailout, as we discussed this week in Tangle, is far greater than the combined savings from DOGE’s hamhanded operations early this year and the cuts to the budget of USAID. By the way: New reporting from The Associated Press is showing how children in Myanmar are starving due to those USAID cuts.
Other actions are less likely to spark a constitutional crisis or a new foreign entanglement, but are still indignities against the office that we now just accept. For example, here are a few lowlights from the Trump administration in just the last few weeks:
Trump said he would have the final say on whether the Justice Department pays him $230 million for damages related to charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election and other investigations.
Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance who has spent the last several months promoting Trump’s crypto company.
Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself dumping feces onto protesters in American cities.
Trump suggested U.S. cities should be “training grounds” for our own military.
Trump’s press secretary claimed, “The Democrat Party’s main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals,” a comment that was then echoed by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The White House communications director called Kamala Harris’s husband a cuck.
Trump’s press secretary responded to a reasonable question from a reporter by saying, “Your mom did.”
The official Department of Homeland Security X account now openly and frequently traffics in genuinely racist far-right imagery and terminology.
Senate Republicans posted an AI-generated video of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
New reporting emerged that the Trump administration engaged in a quid pro quo deal with El Salvador to send informants from MS-13 back to the government they had been confidentially leaking information about.
Each of these, on their own, might have constituted weeks-long scandals for past administrations. But now? They are barely blips on the news radar.
What this could mean for the future.
And there are far more worrisome things on the horizon. Yesterday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals greenlit Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland. One of the judges on the circuit put forward a concurrence that headlined a radical view of Trump’s power: Trump could deploy National Guard troops anywhere he wanted across the country, and the judiciary cannot intervene. This position introduced a new theory of executive power that sidelines the courts, essentially makes Trump’s authority totally unchecked, and opens the door to a slew of frightening new hypotheticals where the National Guard could be deployed any time the president wants to make a show of force.
At the same time, the president is openly considering invoking the Insurrection Act because he thinks governors and mayors are allowing their cities to turn into “war zones.” The law, signed in 1807, was designed to quell any “insurrection” against the United States. It would hand Trump extraordinary power to tap troops from any state he’d like and then send them into Democratic-run cities and states. It would allow him to command U.S. soldiers to begin policing American citizens all across the country.
Of course, there are no insurrections in our major cities. There is some crime, yes, but nobody is trying to foment an organized overthrow of the government. Trump’s declaration would actually vastly increase the likelihood of violent clashes between citizens and law enforcement — just as his troop deployment has in Portland, where protests had mostly fizzled out before Trump sent federal troops in and sparked a whole new wave of clashes. All of this amounts to shoving us ever closer to the kind of red-versus-blue civil clash that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.
Simultaneously, ICE is ramping up its surveillance power to target illegal immigrants and now “antifa,” a conveniently undefinable group of left-wing activists and radicals. ICE has purchased technologies like iris and face scanners, as well as spyware that can remotely hack smartphones and cellphone location data typically only accessible with a warrant. This is happening right now — for an agency that received tens of billions of dollars in additional funding when illegal border crossings are at an all-time low (which, in fairness, is a major success of the Trump administration).
Trump is obliterating the Overton window before our eyes. Whether it’s normalizing U.S. troops patrolling U.S. cities or pretending a press secretary responding to a journalist’s questions with “your mom” is a really funny joke, the administration continues to degrade the public discourse and normalize extreme and juvenile behavior. Again: it just feels like nearly everything in the political arena — the candidates, the policies, the extremism, the AI slop, the punditry, the writing, the thinking, the principles — is all getting worse in basically every meaningful way.
It isn’t hard to imagine a future, not so distant from now, where a half dozen Democrat-run American cities are being occupied by the National Guard against the wishes of the leaders and citizens of those cities. It isn’t hard to imagine Trump deploying National Guard troops to polling locations in swing states under the guise of “preventing voter fraud,” successfully suppressing the vote during the 2026 midterms. It is, actually, reasonable to envision a future where potential 2028 Democratic presidential nominees end up facing flimsy criminal charges from the Justice Department. Steve Bannon is now openly and directly suggesting that Trump will be president after the 2028 election and saying there are ways around the 22nd Amendment (to be announced later).
I know all of this sounds like Trump Derangement Syndrome, and if you had said it to me a few months ago, I may have even accused you of that. But now? After watching this administration for nine months? I’m honestly not so sure.
And it’s really hard to capture it all in one piece of writing. I’m roughly 3,000 words in, and I’ve said nothing about the threats to press freedom: ICE detaining a reporter on trumped-up charges, the new Pentagon press rules that nearly every news publication rejected, or the lawsuits against major media outlets. I’ve said nothing of the grift: the Trump family’s crypto wealth exploding to the tune of $5 billion while he’s in office, an unprecedented scheme to profit from the presidency, a Fox News host literally becoming a business partner with the president’s son. I’ve said nothing of the prosecutions: John Bolton, James Comey and Letitia James, only one of which seems to have any real chance of succeeding. I’ve said nothing of the laundry list of fraudsters and violent rioters who have now been pardoned by the president, or Trump’s border czar allegedly receiving $50,000 in cash in a bribery sting operation and it barely constituting a news cycle.
And we’re only nine months in.
Things worth remembering.
At the risk of doing too much hedging and throat-clearing, I want to make myself perfectly clear: None of this is to suggest there aren’t problems on the left, or that Democrats haven’t grossly abused executive power or acted in unconstitutional ways. Of course they have. I was one of the people criticizing Letitia James for her case against Trump, because I thought it was an inflated charge that would lead to the retribution we are seeing today. I was one of the people criticizing Biden for collaborating with social media companies to silence dissent during the pandemic, because I worried about the threat of executive power on Americans’ free speech. I was one of the people who hammered Hunter Biden for his shady dealings abroad, because it reinforced the idea that it’s okay for the president’s family to profit off the office. And even before Tangle, I was one of the people who criticized President Obama for spying on journalists, because I recognized the threat it posed to press freedom.
But Democrats aren’t the party in power right now — Trump and Republicans are. They have a governing trifecta, the Supreme Court on their side, and they very much appear to be drunk on that power. And, candidly, the issues we saw under the last administration — the free speech threats, the expansion of executive power, the corruption — were orders of magnitude less dangerous and extreme than what the Trump family and his administration are doing now.
It’s also not to suggest there isn’t any nuance or aren’t complicating factors to any of these stories. Trump’s troop deployment to Portland, for example, is more complicated as a legal question than many people think. One could easily make the argument that a lot of these problems would be solved if Democratic leaders did a better job quelling protests and civil disobedience on their own. Even the rappel-from-the-helicopter raid of the Chicago apartment building, however surreal and alarming, was a response to a complex situation that genuinely needed intervention. The New York Times’ reporting on the raid made it clear that the building in question was a den of crime occupied by many unauthorized migrants, which posed real threats to the community. One resident quoted in that story said they were hopeful the raid would offer the building and its residents a fresh start.
But these complexities shouldn’t obscure the full picture — the totality of what is happening, what Trump is normalizing, and what it might portend about the future. Every presidential administration has wins. Biden had wins, Trump 1.0 had wins, President Obama had wins, and even President Bush — the least popular president of my lifetime — had wins. But presidents are often judged by their biggest failures and their biggest scandals, not their biggest wins. Bush was ultimately judged by 9/11 and the disastrous wars in the Middle East. Obama was judged by a failed foreign policy and the bank bailouts in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Trump 1.0 was judged by the failed pandemic response and the January 6 riots. Biden was judged by inflation and the cover-up of his mental fitness.
Trump 2.0 already includes some wins, but his presidency will ultimately, like any other, be defined by the scandals, failures, and the legacy of the condemnable behavior he normalizes. And that list is growing fast.
In the spirit of fairness, I should, at least, acknowledge an alternative possibility to all this: Perhaps what looks to me like authoritarian drift is, in fact, a necessary course correction after years of drift in the opposite direction. I know plenty of conservatives who would argue that the institutions I cherish — the courts, Congress, our media — have not always served the country well. Many Americans believe they’ve been scorned and unfairly targeted by the very elites now crying foul about “norms.” They see Trump’s willingness to bulldoze bureaucracy as overdue disruption, not authoritarian behavior.
The National Guard deployments that alarm me might strike others as an imperfect but justified response to chaos Democratic leaders refused to confront. The strikes abroad, the hard line on immigration, even the prosecutorial zeal — supporters would say these are the predictable fruits of an electoral mandate, exercised through legitimate executive power, checked by courts that are still functioning as they always have but finally ruling in ways Democrats loathe.
They might also argue that my tone is itself a symptom of the privilege of stability. Maybe this administration’s rawness, its norm-breaking, and its bluster are expressions of the raw language of power, the only things capable of shaking complacent institutions and re-centering the forgotten Americans. Perhaps, in ten years, historians will say Trump 2.0 forced a reckoning we actually needed, that nudged us in a direction which ultimately bore far more positive fruit than I can imagine right now.
And to all of this I would just say: I hope they’re right. I’d welcome the humbling. Because the only thing worse than overreacting to a false alarm would be under-reacting to a real one, and I’d much rather discover that my fear was misplaced than that my silence was.
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AI still needs a little workAn artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.
Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.
“At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen told the WBAL-TV 11 News television station.
Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert.
“I was just holding a Doritos bag – it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun,” Allen said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos
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About that White House ballroom and the East Wing"Dictator Chic".
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877/
The article is from 2017.
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A lot of people say he's not guiltyKaitlin Collins asks about CZ's pardon. Her question starts at about :18
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-scolds-kaitlan-collins-asking-221710040.html
It should be noted that CZ plead guilty to the charges....
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They’ll get to it right after the Epstein files are releasedFormer special counsel Jack Smith is offering to testify in open hearings before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees about the federal investigations into President Trump's handling of sensitive documents and alleged efforts to subvert the transfer of power after the 2020 election, according to a letter from his lawyers to lawmakers.
In the letter obtained by CBS News, Smith's lawyers said he is prepared to answer questions from Congress about the investigations he oversaw and prosecutions of Mr. Trump that stemmed from them, but said doing so "requires assurance from the Department of Justice that he will not be punished for doing so.""
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-smith-asks-to-testify-publicly-before-congress/
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To laugh, then to thinkScientists that won an infamous 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus" may indeed have the last laugh. They've now completed a successful human trial testing the safety and tolerability of enteral ventilation, a technique that gets oxygen into the body via an unconventional route.
Japanese and US researchers, led by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, have completed the first-ever human trial testing the viability of enteral ventilation, where patients with severe respiratory failure could potentially have oxygen delivered through the intestine, allowing the lungs to recover and to prevent further injury. The procedure's safety and tolerability was examined on 27 healthy male adults in Japan, who had oxygen-rich fluid pumped into their anus.
“This is the first human data, and the results are limited solely to demonstrating the safety of the procedure and not its effectiveness," said researcher Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD, from the Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Osaka. "But now that we have established tolerance, the next step will be to evaluate how effective the process is for delivering oxygen to the bloodstream."
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Argentina and Rural America’s AwakeningIs rural America starting to fall out of love with Donald Trump?
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Lithuania and Lithuanians in the newsRussian military planes briefly violated Lithuania’s airspace Thursday evening, the Lithuanian president said, condemning what he called a blatant breach of the territorial integrity of his European Union and NATO-member country.
Lithuania’s foreign ministry planned to summon Russian Embassy representatives in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius to protest the violation, President Gitanas Nausėda said in a post on the social media platform X.
“This is a blatant breach of international law and territorial integrity of Lithuania,” Nausėda wrote on X. “Once again, it confirms the importance of strengthening European air defence readiness.”
There was no immediate comment from Moscow.