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Meanwhile, in VenezuelaThis is even more pathetic than accepting the FIFA Peace Prize.
President Donald Trump is keeping Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize after she presented it to him during their meeting Thursday, a White House official said.
“It was my Great Honor to meet María Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”
Machado left the medal at the White House, and it is currently in the president’s possession, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Regime Change in Iran ...Gulf states and Turkey warned Trump strikes on Iran could lead to major conflict
US allies’ lobbying appears to have helped persuade president to hold off for now on military assault
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Recipes 2026Used our Instant Pot on the slow cooker setting for the first time since I bought it, what, ten years ago? Actually worked quite well.
Nothing fancy, just everyday winter comfort food. Slow cooker paprika chicken:
I used a big can of San Marzano tomatoes that I chopped up and I cooked some orzo separately and then dumped it in just before we ate. I think some crumbled feta would be a great addition.
edit: I forgot to stir in the sour cream at the end.....but it was still pretty good!
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Meanwhile, in VenezuelaThey hustled her in the back door for her meeting with Trump, and back out without any press photo op with the orange one.
And:
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she “presented” US President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal at their meeting Thursday.
“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said, before launching into an anecdote about Latin American revolutionary Simón Bolívar.
“I told him this,” Machado continued. “Two hundred years ago General (Marquis de) Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar since then kept the medal for the rest of his life.”
“Two hundred years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”
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Weather where you are threadIt was almost 60 last week. Then we got snow and it dropped down to the 20s. Tomorrow we get more snow. And the temps will be single digits overnight starting on Saturday night and into the early part of next week. Winter isn't giving up yet, not by a long shot.
Time to do garden planning. In the safety and warmth of my house....
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I'm suffering from whiplashThe Trump administration has reversed cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs that were valued at nearly $2 billion.
Thousands of federal grants supporting the programs were suddenly terminated late Tuesday before sources confirmed to CBS News that the decision was reversed.
The abrupt cancellations at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration would have impacted 2,706 of the agency's discretionary grants, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.
President Trump's political appointees moved to terminate the funding, not career officials working for SAMHSA, according to the source.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-cuts-grants-mental-health-addiction-treatment/
Bring out the clown car....
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The disturbing true story of Peter Pan@Axtremus said in The disturbing true story of Peter Pan:
Hulu
30 day free trial of Hulu. You'd have to binge it!
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So about GreenlandI just do a search for the title of the article. Sometimes I get lucky and there's a non-paywall version on MSN or Yahoo.
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Statins and sore musclesMr wtg tried two different statins and had the muscle pain (and other side effects). He switched to an OTC product with plant sterols and stanols (Cholestoff Plus) that isn't a statin but that does reduce cholesterol very nicely. Problem solved!
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So about GreenlandHere's a non-paywall version of the article:
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Statins and sore musclesHelp may be on the way.
A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness. Researchers found that certain statins can latch onto a key muscle protein and trigger a tiny but harmful calcium leak inside muscle cells. That leak may weaken muscles directly or activate processes that slowly break them down, offering a long-sought explanation for statin-related aches.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260114084122.htm
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The Big GameFrom Tangle. Scroll down to Today's Topic.
https://www.readtangle.com/the-latest-on-the-minnesota-fraud-somalia/?ref=tangle-newsletter
I found the whole discussion on the Minnesota fraud interesting, but this quote stood out.
One of the most consistent aspects of President Trump’s governing style is how his solution to a problem completely devours giving any attention to the root problem itself.
It’s Trump’s Big Game. It invigorates his supporters, it frustrates his opponents, and it confuses everyone else in between.
It starts with a real issue that has been publicly reported on but doesn’t gain purchase across the political spectrum (the way something like the Epstein files grabbed public attention). Then, a right-leaning outlet makes the issue a cause célèbre, adding in a healthy, editorialized dash of urgency. That story makes its way to President Trump, who takes the most divisive aspects of the narrative and dials them up to 11. Democrats get caught in a trap, decrying Trump’s response without acknowledging the problem, allowing Republicans to hammer them for not caring about the root issue. But is Trump’s solution addressing the root issue? Soon, that question becomes the main discussion; Trump’s solution trumps the problem, and now the thing we’re all talking about — again, seemingly unendingly — is Trump.
Trump always wins Trump’s Big Game — he dominates the news cycle and owns the narrative regardless of whether he’s solving the problem at the center of the media firestorm.
This pattern fits the Christmas Day strikes in Nigeria. It fits the administration’s capture of Maduro. It fits the National Guard deployments and DOGE and the war on universities and can even be drawn back to the singular issue that boosted him to the top of the Republican Primaries in 2015: the border wall.
You’re reading Tangle, so I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m tired of playing Trump’s Big Game.
Today, let’s see what happens when we decide not to play it.
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About that Ford employeeHell, you could buy a new one.
Thomas “TJ” Sabula is asking people to please stop sending money.
The UAW member, suspended from his job by Ford Motor Co. after he shouted “pedophile protector” at President Trump during a factory tour in Dearborn on Tuesday, said he is grateful for overwhelming public support and now asks that people send their money to other deserving causes.
Fundraising on his behalf collected $810,000 from Tuesday through Wednesday.
“We greatly appreciate the outpouring of support! At this time we are closing donations to this campaign and encourage you to look for other causes and organizations to support,” said a note at the bottom of both original GoFundMe pages. “We appreciate every single donation, comment, share, and sign of support!”
https://phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/ford-worker-pauses-gofundme-campaign
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Little MarcoNew Yorker profile on Rubio.
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Dogs adopt their humans@Daniel said in Dogs adopt their humans:
AI? I'm so naive!
I've started checking the descriptions on YT videos. They often tell you if the video is AI-generated. From the dog video:
This video was created using advanced generative AI technology (Sora 2) to visualize and recreate the powerful, often-untold narratives of human and animal connection. While these specific scenes are synthetically generated, they are inspired by the very real, unscripted bonds that occur in shelters and rescue organizations every single day. At Life is a Movie, we use technology to capture the heart of the human experience and show the "soul recognition" that words can't describe.
How this was made
Altered or synthetic content
Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated.
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It's a Conclave!
(I tried three times for a three cornered biretta but this freebie image generator must not be religiously inclined)
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About that Ford employeeTens of thousands of dollars have been raised for an autoworker at a Ford plant in Michigan who was suspended without pay after heckling Donald Trump.
TJ Sabula is said to have called the president a “pedophile protector” as Trump toured the automotive giant’s River Rouge complex on Tuesday.
Trump then appeared to give Sabula the middle finger, according to a video published by celebrity news and gossip site TMZ, which claimed that Trump also yelled obscenities prior to making the gesture.
The GoFundMe is over $320K.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/trump-suspended-michigan-autoworker
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It's a Conclave!Best winter bird sighting here - two hawks in the front yard. One was having his squirrel tartare meal in the driveway while the other one watched.
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It's a Conclave!That's very cool. Whatever is in your feeders must be pretty damn tasty.
I don't think I've ever had more than four hanging around our yard at one time. These days we hear one or two of them every day at dawn and at dusk. And the juncos are feasting on the sweet autumn clematis seeds.
