In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Two female gymnasts file lawsuit alleging USA Gymnastics and Olympic sports watchdog failed to address sexual abuse by coach (More) | Antitrust trial against NASCAR begins, with fate of NBA star Michael Jordan's team at stake (More)

> "Zootopia 2" earns $556M internationally over Thanksgiving holiday, marking the highest-ever global opening for an animated film and the highest global opening for any film in 2025 (More)

> NFL announces Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile, and Coco Jones as headliners for Super Bowl LX pregame show Feb. 8 (More)


Science & Technology
> China's DeepSeek debuts two new AI models challenging Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT (More)

> Engineers create artificial tendons that allow robots to pinch with 30 times more force and three times faster than before, potentially enabling advances in surgical tools and autonomous exploratory machines (More) | Want more? Sign up for our weekly science and technology deep dives (More)

> New DNA analysis suggests humans first traveled to Australia and New Guinea about 60,000 years ago, roughly 9,000 to 13,000 years earlier than previous genetic evidence indicated (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow -0.9%, Nasdaq -0.4%) as December kicks off (More) | Bitcoin falls in largest daily drop since March (More)

> Nvidia takes $2B stake in chip-software designer Synopsys as part of expanded multiyear computing power partnership (More) | Eli Lilly cuts price for weight-loss drug Zepbound on direct-to-consumer site (More)

> Starbucks to pay over $35M to more than 15,000 New York City workers, along with over $3M in civil penalties, to settle allegations it violated labor laws (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Tennessee voters head to the polls in special election to replace Rep. Mark Green (R, TN-7), who announced his resignation earlier this year (More) | Former Trump attorney Alina Habba disqualified as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, appeals court rules (More)

> Son of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán pleads guilty to two drug-related charges, months after his brother enters similar plea deal (More)

> Transportation Security Administration announces $45 fee for travelers without a federally compliant driver's license or identification card, known as a REAL ID, beginning in February (More) | What is a REAL ID? (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Space Visitors

 

EXTRATERRESTRIALS...

Do they exist?   or not?

If they do exist, where do they live:

• On another planet,
• or on a spaceship,
• or In another dimension,
• or are they from another dimension?

According to AI, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude, there is NO EVIDENCE to support the existence of extraterrestrials, therefore to them, they do not exist.

However, they do admit anomalies but have reasonable explanations for all of them.

Still, there is a growing concern and belief that extraterrestrials do exist and that UFOs are and have been visiting our planet.

So, like religion, you must decide what you believe and what you don't believe and suffer the consequences if you share those believes with someone who does not share your views.

Consequently, most people don't say anything, nor do they think anything regarding the concept they don't want to talk about.

For a variety of reasons, too many to explore here, I believe that extraterrestrials do exist and that they have visited our planet.

QUESTION:  If they have visited our planet before, why do they not visit again?

That's a really good question and not easy to answer because, the Bible says God/Jesus visited our planet and yet God/Jesus has not visited again.

WHY NOT?

The only way to find out that answer is to ask God/Jesus himself.

That ain't going to be that easy, now is it?

Somewhat Political

 

Laser light coherence offers a consistent approach

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems.


In 1798, the officer and physicist Benjamin Thompson (a.k.a. Count Rumford) observed the drilling of cannon barrels in Munich and concluded that heat is not a substance but can be created in unlimited amounts by mechanical friction.


Rumford determined the amount of heat generated by immersing the cannon barrels in water and measuring how long it took the water to reach boiling. Based on such experiments, thermodynamics was developed in the 19th century. Initially, it was at the service of the Industrial Revolution and explained, physically, for instance, how heat can be efficiently converted into useful work in steam engines.

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Jazz Sax

 

VINCE

 

Death Hunter

 

Shannon Joy Show

 

Dinesh D'Souza

 

The Hat

 

The White House

 

The Big MIG

 

TimcastIRL

 

Native Americans

 

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Bitcoin had a bad day. Amid a wider crypto (and overall market) selloff, bitcoin plunged yesterday, briefly dipping below $85,000 before regaining some ground to end its worst day since March. With markets volatile, the digital currency is down more than 30% since its record high in October. Traders use liquidation data to get a sense of risk appetite, and Bloomberg reports that nearly $1 billion in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated yesterday. Other digital coins, including ether, also fell sharply as macroeconomic concerns—among them whether the Fed will cut interest rates this month—continue to loom large for investors.

NYC poised to get three casinos. New Yorkers may soon no longer have to find out what happens in Vegas, as a state gaming board signed off on three casino licenses yesterday, paving the way for its first facilities. One license will go to Mets owner Steve Cohen and the Hard Rock to open a gaming den, hotel, and event complex next to Citi Field in Queens. Another will go to gaming company Bally’s, which plans to open a casino on a former Trump Organization golf course in the Bronx (which could net the president’s company $115 million), and the other is for Genting Group, which will add gaming to its racetrack in Queens. The projects—which supporters say will generate billions worth of economic activity—still need one final approval, but they’re all expected to get it.

White House says second strike on alleged drug boat was lawful, despite lawmakers’ concerns. With lawmakers on both sides of the aisle supporting an investigation into the legality of the US ordering a second strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela that killed two survivors of a prior lethal attack (with at least one legislator calling it a potential war crime), the White House yesterday backed the decision to order the strike. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Navy admiral who gave the order acted “well within his authority and the law.” On Sunday, President Trump said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had told him he did not directly order the second strike.—AR

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Robert Reich

The Monetization of Rage
Why We’re So Polarized (II)





Friends,

The publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary has named “rage bait” its phrase of the year.

Call it the monetization of rage. Rage has become a valuable commodity. (Always follow the money.)

A growing number of online creators are making rage bait. Their goal is to record videos, produce memes, and write posts that make other users furious: conspiracy theories, lies, combustible AI-generated video clips — whatever it takes.

The more content they create, the more engagement they get, the more they get paid.

The rage bait market is worldwide. Since X, Facebook, and Instagram pay certain content creators for posts that drive engagement, people all over the globe have a financial incentive to share material that feeds the anger of American users and will therefore get reposted.

Last week a new feature on X permitting users to see where accounts originate showed that a number of high-engagement MAGA accounts that claim to be those of patriotic Americans are in fact from Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Nigeria, Thailand, and Bangladesh.

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At A Glance

 

White House gets festive with 51 trees and 120 pounds of gingerbread.

"Rage bait" among 2025's words of the year.

Teens pioneer groundbreaking Lyme disease research.

Could Homer Simpson support his family in today's economy?

Record-breaking 75-year-old albatross prepares to lay eggs.

The 20th-century giant sponge craze, captured in vintage photos.

... and the sticking power of the $13 lunch bowl craze.

No one—not even Santa—owns the North Pole, and other Arctic facts.

Clickbait: The real-life Krusty Krab.

Historybook: Abolitionist John Brown dies (1859); Scientists achieve first human-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction (1942); Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace born (1946); US Environmental Protection Agency is created (1970); Britney Spears born (1981); Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is killed (1993).

1440 Trivia: What's older: the United States or Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Check back tomorrow (or dig for it here) to see if you were correct.

Quick Clips

 

In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Ole Miss Rebels coach Lane Kiffin leaves the team to accept position coaching LSU Tigers (More) | See rivalry week results (More)

> Oscar- and Tony-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard dies at age 88; Stoppard wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "Leopoldstadt," and "Shakespeare in Love," among other works (More)

> Miss Universe Africa cuts ties with the organization amid ongoing allegations of vote rigging, with co-owners investigated for alleged drug ties (More)


Science & Technology
> Overheated data center forces the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest derivatives exchange operator, to suspend global trading Friday for roughly 10 hours (More)

> Internal FDA memo claims at least 10 children died from complications due to the COVID-19 vaccine between 2021 and 2024; experts accuse agency of not providing details, misusing data from the unverified VAERS reporting platform (More)

> Genetic analysis suggests domesticated cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe and East Asia roughly 2,000 years ago, more recently than previously believed (More)


Business & Markets
> Markets rise Friday (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq +0.7%) during shortened holiday trading week; analysts peg possibility of coming Federal Reserve interest rate cut at 80%-85% (More)

> US online sales hit an estimated $11.8B on Black Friday, up more than 9% from last year; order volume down 1%, with higher average sales prices (More) | The best resources we found researching Black Friday (1440 Topics)

> Switzerland rejects 50% inheritance tax for gifts and assets exceeding about $62M; wealthy entrepreneurs threatened to leave country (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan citizens after Afghan who was granted asylum shoots two National Guard members in Washington, DC, one fatally (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Hondurans vote in presidential election as US President Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to the country if right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura loses (More) | The US gave Honduras $194B in aid in 2023, the last fully reported year (More)

> Twelve young Muslim girls freed after abduction in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, near hideout used by Islamist militant group Boko Haram (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

The Radical Left

 

Democratic Socialists or the radical left as they are sometimes called, are meticulous, patient, and annoying.  They are playing the LONG GAME and hoping no one is paying attention.

The long game to them, is planting several people in various districts in RED STATES and have these people run for the State Legislature.  Once inside the State Legislature, they can begin to convince other politicians of their political views that would turn this country farther and farther into SOCIALISM.

Not just State Legislature seats but Mayoral seats as well, like what has recently happened in NYC.

The OLD DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS DEAD...  The new Democratic party is comprised of DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS who want government to own the MEANS OF PRODUCTION.

What does that mean?

Example: 

All the farms are owned by individuals or by large corporations, so they for the most part control production and control the prices  of the food they produce.

Now, if the government owned those farms, they could reduce the prices because the govternment has no reason to make a profit.

ERGO - CHEAPER FOOD.

The same logic can be applied to:

• Housing
• Apartments
• Clothes
• Furniture
• Automobiles
• Computers
• Cell phones
• WIFI
• Artificial Intelligence
• Robots

If the government OWNED EVERYTHING, then they could reduce prices

UNFORTUNATELY,

just about every country that has tried this has failed but it has taken several years sometimes several decades for this to happen.  The slowly the failing process is, the more destructive it becomes for the country.

CAPTIALISM has made the USA number one in the world today, economically...  not socialism...

Somewhat Political

 

Graphene’s Superconductivity

Scientists studying ‘magic-angle’ graphene have captured the clearest evidence yet of the electronic signature behind its superconductivity, cutting through years of speculation over what actually drives its exotic behaviour.

‘When superconductivity was first discovered in magic-angle graphene, it was surprising,’ says Jeong Min Park at Princeton University. ‘Graphene by itself was not a superconductor, yet simply twisting layers turned it into one.’

This is because when two or more graphene layers are twisted at a very specific angle – the magic angle – electrons in the system slow down dramatically. ‘When [this happens], they interact with each other much more strongly, and this gives rise to … new behaviours that don’t exist in the individual layers,’ says Park.

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THE GRASS ROOTS(VIDEO CLIP)- "MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS"(LYRICS)

Clarity

 

Sarah Westall

 

Alex Jones

 

TimcastIRL

 

Three Faces

 

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Over 12k flights delayed yesterday due to winter storm. Our long Thanksgiving travel nightmare is not yet over. FlightAware reported 12,008 delays into or out of the United States yesterday, as well as 977 cancellations into or out of the US, mostly due to a major winter storm that has impacted the Midwest, the western Great Lakes, and parts of the East Coast (which will get hit with another storm today and tomorrow). According to the National Weather Service, affected areas received six to 12 inches of snow and endured gusty winds and other hazardous travel conditions. The FAA reported that the airports of Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Rochester, BWI, and Ronald Reagan all had to deice planes. Airlines for America had predicted that a record-breaking 31 million passengers would fly for the Thanksgiving holiday, with 3.4 million expected to pass through the airports yesterday, before the weather disruptions.

Witkoff to meet with Putin in Russia following Rubio meeting with Ukraine. Steve Witkoff, special envoy to President Trump, is headed to Russia today to meet with President Vladimir Putin. Yesterday, a Ukrainian delegation met with Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Florida to continue discussing terms to end the war. Both the Ukrainian and US sides called that meeting productive, though few details were disclosed. It was the first gathering without Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former chief of staff, who was instrumental in softening a draft proposal circulated by the Trump administration that was seen by the international community as heavily favoring Russia. Yermak resigned on Friday, the same day his home was raided, amid a $100 million embezzlement scandal rocking Zelensky’s inner circle. Yermak’s quick departure was intended to keep the focus on negotiations without risking the US extracting heavy demands from Ukraine in light of the revelation.

Zootopia 2 dominated the Thanksgiving weekend. A PG-rated movie sequel centered on a dynamic partnership in a world of talking animals trounced box-office records—but it’s probably not the film you were expecting. Zootopia 2 earned a slew of superlatives, including the highest global debut of 2025 and the No. 1 movie globally, domestically, and internationally for the weekend. Its domestic receipts tallied $156 million since Wednesday, including $96.8 million over the traditional weekend, according to Variety. Wicked: For Good did pretty all right, though, bringing in $93 million over the weekend. But Zootopia 2 also garnered more encomiums from critics than the second installment of Wicked did. It’s Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 91%.—HVL

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