“Once groundwater contamination happens, it’s too expensive to remediate. So when it occurs, that’s basically it. You’ve ruined that resource.”
Dec 26, 2025
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Trump says the US military strike targeting fighters in Nigeria was originally supposed to take place on Wednesday, but he ordered it delayed by a day.
“They were going to do it earlier,” Trump told Politico in an interview. “And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a Christmas present.’ … They didn’t think that was coming, but we hit them hard. Every camp got decimated.”
The US bombings followed a threat last month by Trump to attack Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if the country’s government did not curb attacks on Christians.
Northwestern Nigeria — including Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, and parts of Kaduna State — is suffering a complex security crisis, plagued by armed criminal groups, herder-farmer disputes, and Islamist militants including Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP/ISIS) and Boko Haram. Both Christians and Muslims have been attacked.
Since emerging in Borno State in 2009, Boko Haram has waged war on the Nigerian state — which it regards as apostate — not against any particular religious group. In fact, the majority of its victims have been Muslims.
“According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, more Muslims than Christians have been targeted in recent years,” Chloe Atkinson recently wrote for Common Dreams. “Boko Haram has massacred worshipers in mosques, torched markets in Muslim-majority areas, and threatened their own coreligionists.”
“It is true that Christian communities in the north-central regions have suffered unimaginable horrors as raids have left villages in ashes, children murdered in their beds, and churches reduced to rubble,” she said. “The April massacre in Zike and the June bloodbath in Yelwata are prime examples of the atrocities taking place in Nigeria.”
“The crisis in Nigeria is not a holy war against Christianity,” Atkinson continued. “Instead, it’s a devastating cocktail of poverty, climate-driven land disputes, and radical ideologies that prey on everyone and not just any distinct group.”
“By framing Nigeria’s conflict as an existential threat to Christians alone, Trump is not shining a spotlight on the victims,” she added. “Instead, he is weaponizing right-wing conspiracy theories to stoke Islamophobia, the same toxic playbook he used to fuel his ban on Muslims, and which left refugee families shattered at America’s borders.”
Former libertarian US Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) noted on X that “there’s no authority for strikes on terrorists in Nigeria or anywhere on Earth,” adding that the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) — which was approved by every member of Congress except then-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) — “is only for the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.”
“The War Powers Resolution doesn’t grant any authority beyond the Constitution,” Amash added. “Offensive military actions need congressional approval. The Framers of the Constitution divided war powers to protect the American people from war-eager executives. Whether the United States should engage in conflicts across the globe is a decision for the people’s representatives in Congress, not the president.”
‘People Are Dying’: Nearly 14,000 Nigerians Sue Shell Over Devastating Oil Spills
“At a time when Shell is making unprecedented profits, it is high time that it addressed the ongoing pollution caused to these communities by its operations,” said one attorney representing plaintiffs from the Niger Delta.
Onward Kirkian Soldiers: They want to be boats on the ground in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Nicaraqua, Mexico, Nigeria?
President of TPUSA chapter twice denied by university’s student government vows to fight: ‘not backing down’
Catholic school’s student government association blocks conservative organization twice, citing student discomfort
Loyola New Orleans University student Anistin Murray, who has been battling the school’s student government to start a Turning Point USA chapter, stands next to a TPUSA banner at AmericaFest in Phoenix on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025.
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Fucking Taiwan, man, good little Fortune Cookies — crunch on the outside, air bubble on the inside.
China Sanctions U.S. Defense Companies Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Anduril
China’s government sanctioned 20 U.S. companies and 10 individual executives in the defense sector as retaliation for a large-scale arms sale to Taiwan.
Shares of defense companies rose this year, in the aftermath of Trump’s return to the White House and escalating geopolitical tensions. Of the companies included in China’s sanctions list Northrop Grumman is up 25% in 2025, Leidos 30%, L3 Harris 40%, and the more service-oriented VSE rose close to 90%.
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Some of the top performing stocks of the year are major military contractors from the U.S. and its allies. For example, in 2025 GE Aerospace (GE) and the largest naval warship builder Huntington Ingalls (HII) are both up just a hair under 90%. Meanwhile, the German weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall (RNMBY) is up around 185% and Elbit (ESLT), Israeli defense company specializing in drones, is up 125% year to date.
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So, a so-called cuntry, Israel, is the first? Beware, fucking Somalia, beware. The Jews will eat you for lunch: Israel has become the first country to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign state, a breakthrough in its quest for international recognition since it declared independence from Somalia 34 years ago.
The Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, announced on Friday that Israel and Somaliland had signed an agreement establishing full diplomatic relations, which would include the opening of embassies and the appointment of ambassadors.
The recognition is a historic moment for Somaliland, which declared its independence from Somalia in 1991 but until now had failed to be recognised by any UN member states. Somaliland controls the north-west tip of Somalia, where it operates a de facto state, and is bordered by Djibouti to the north-west and Ethiopia to the west and south.
A man wearing a green and white kofia sits in front of a poster of himself holding the Somaliland flag.
Exclusive: Somaliland president says recognition of state ‘on the horizon’ following Trump talks
The Israeli prime minister’s office said the declaration was “in the spirit” of the Abraham accords, a series of normalisation agreements between Israel and mostly Arab states signed in 2020.
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The only guy with guts? A muscian?
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
Chuck Redd, who has toured with Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Brown, said he called off the event he has presided over since 2006 after hearing of the building’s name change.
“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player who has toured with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Ray Brown, has been presiding over holiday “Jazz Jams” at the Kennedy Center since 2006, succeeding bassist William “Keter” Betts.
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Shit, the fucking head honchos of CatholiLandia (Gestapo) are on the case:
The Archbishop of Boston will meet with a Dedham priest after the holidays to discuss a controversial “ICE was here” nativity scene.
The display outside St. Susanna’s Parish went up shortly after Thanksgiving. Jesus, Mary and Joseph are missing from the traditional nativity, with the suggestion being that they were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Archbishop Richard Henning told The Boston Globe on Wednesday that he has scheduled the meeting with the church’s priest, Father Stephen Josoma. A spokesman for the Archdiocese confirmed to WBZ-TV it will happen sometime in January.
“My first thing will be just to hear him out and listen,” Henning told the newspaper. “He was the one that asked to speak with me. I’d like to hear him first.”
St. Susanna’s Parish has a history of making statements with its nativity displays, including one in 2018 that depicted baby Jesus in a cage. Josoma said earlier this month that “our hope was to create dialogue around contemporary life.”
They defended the parish Nativity as “faithful to the Gospel and Catholic teaching” and a “prophetic reflection that challenges the faithful to find new paths to bring the Good News announced that first Christmas to all of God’s people.”
They also pointed out that the Vatican itself displays different themed Nativity scenes each year highlighting social issues to contemporary life.
“Some of these have also been controversial (like one focused on the plight of refugees in 2016) all moving beyond static traditional figures and designed to evoke emotion and dialogue,” the statement said, adding that it was the parish’s hope to similarly evoke dialogue around an issue that is at the heart of contemporary life.“That some do not agree with our message does not render our display sacrilegious or is the cause of any ‘scandal’ to the faithful,” the statement said.
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One species at a TIME: This is how fucked up Homo Consumopethicus and Erectile Dysfunction IS . . .
There are animals that are especially charming, like the Irrawaddy dolphin, which is considered the sweetest and most enigmatic animal in the world. And also one of the most endangered. In Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Indonesia, they have lived alongside fishermen for years, cooperating with them, but now there are threats that put their survival at risk.
Fishermen did not go alone to the river
In places like the Ayeyarwady River in Myanmar, fishing begins with a simple gesture: the fishermen gently tap the side of the boat and wait. A few minutes later, they appear, the most beautiful dolphins in the world.
The dolphins push schools of fish toward the nets and make the catch easier, and they also take advantage of the fish that lag behind to feed. No one forces anyone, it is true cooperation, learned and passed from mothers to calves like another tradition of the river. Truly incredible.
Unprecedented
This type of collaboration is extremely rare in nature, because it is not only instinct but social learning, memory, and above all something very important in any relationship: mutual trust.
Some dolphins even developed their own signals to communicate with their fishermen. The most famous was Gotama, who became a local legend. His story is still told along the riverbanks.
A cultural symbol
For riverside communities, this dolphin is part of the soul of the place. In some legends they are said to be children transformed. In others, protective spirits of the river. That respect has allowed decades of coexistence, a balance, a friendship.
A dolphin full of peculiarities
In addition to helping with fishing, the Irrawaddy dolphin has unique behaviors. Some spit jets of water to group fish. Others use movements that scientists believe serve to communicate or even to court, and they are very special because they can live in both fresh and salt water. That is, they are adaptable, intelligent, and yet very vulnerable animals.
On the edge of the abyss
In rivers such as the Mekong, the Mahakam, or the Ayeyarwady, many populations are far below the endangered threshold. Nearly invisible gillnets, pollution, dams, river traffic, illegal fishing: everything is causing this friend to slowly disappear, and scientists fear it could end up like the Yangtze dolphin or the vaquita marina, animals that are extinct.
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Oil in Our Veins, Data up Our Asses.
Homo DefunctoPetrolerectus:
Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection
Fluids traveled 12 miles underground before reaching an abandoned oil well and shooting to the surface. It’s the first scientific proof of a phenomenon local landowners have long warned was occurring.
Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new study from Southern Methodist University.
It’s the first study to draw specific links between wastewater injection and recent blowouts in the Permian Basin, the nation’s top producing oil field, where old oil wells have lately begun to spray salty water.
It raises concerns about the possibility of widespread groundwater contamination in West Texas and increases the urgency for oil producers to find alternative outlets for the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater that come from Permian Basin oil wells every day.
“We established a significant link between wastewater injection and oil well blowouts in the Permian Basin,” wrote the authors of the study, funded in part by NASA and published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The finding suggests “a potential for more blowouts in the near future,” it said.
Paul Haeder, Author 