Afghan Taliban backed-militants ambushed and shot dead five police officers on patrol in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Pakistan on Tuesday, the AP reports.

“The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation. Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” posted a clearly enraged convicted felon President Trump at 12:32 AM on Tuesday.

Less clear is precisely what reporting he’s responding to as nothing from them particularly sticks out over the last day or so. There’s “Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office” laying out how the oligarchs who have spent on his stupid ballroom and other vanity projects have been rewarded with pardons and what not. But that basically spreadsheeting and compiling the public record of corruption that Trump never felt the need to hide. True, this is the same format of the article the last time Trump really lost his shit at the Times, but that one’s subject matter – the steady deterioration of his physical and mental health – is something he cannot hide.

Could be them quoting a retired Navy admiral mocking the new “Trump-class” fleet, saying “These ‘battleships’ will achieve none of these tactical goals,” but the guy, Mark Montgomery, a former director of operations at US Pacific Command, was named and on the record in the article. So you’d think Trump would at least scream at Montgomery AND the Times for platforming him, right?

Oh well. Maybe we’ll find out soon what the hell it was got him to throw yet another impotent tantrum at the paper he’s already suing for who the hell even remembers how many billions of dollars so now he’s gotta up the ante and declare them a threat to national security. Surely these harsh words toward the Times will get them to apologize and bow to his will once and for all.

Iran’s regime on Saturday announced they had Mike Penced yet another one of their citizens convicted of spying for Israel, the tenth so far this year since their June conflict, per Al-Jazeera, who report the latest condemned was a 27 year-old architecture student named Aghil Keshavarz who was arrested earlier this year for taking photos of a military headquarters building.

Weird that a guy interested in pursuing architecture as a career would be taking pics of a building.

They claimed they had a shit ton of other evidence against him, but international organizations say the usual MO is to just make shit up once they already have a suspect in custody.

Convicted felon President Trump and binge drinking date rapist Pete Hegseth are going to unveil the new “Trump-class battleship” to be built for the US Navy, per the Wall Street Journal.

“The Epstein Files Transparency Act imposes a clear legal duty on the US Department of Justice to produce the full and complete record the public demands and deserves. However, what the Department of Justice has released so far, and the manner in which it did so, makes one thing clear: someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why. But we do know this: We need no such protection. Accordingly, we call on President Trump to direct Attorney General Bondi to immediately release any remaining materials referring to, mentioning, or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton. This includes, without limitation, any records that may exist and are subject to disclosure under the Act, including grand jury transcripts, interview notes, photographs, and findings by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (as referenced under oath to Congress by President Trump’s first-term Attorney General).”

“Refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion the Department of Justice’s actions to date are not about transparency, but about insinuation – using selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same Department of Justice, over many years, under Presidents and Attorneys General of both parties,” said a spokesman for former President Bill Clinton in a statement challenging them to bring it on.

In a move that could be seen as possibly counterproductive to what’s already an unpopular cause to everyone else in the state of Israel, members of the Peleg Yerushalmi sect of Ultra-Orthodox Jews on Sunday blocked traffic along Highway 4 east of the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak to protest the government’s moves towards ending the exemption from compulsory military service granted to them and other Haredi groups since the country’s founding in 1948, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Blocking traffic to draw attention to your refusal to serve two years – like the vast majority of the adults stuck in the gridlock you’re causing did – is a way to push back on the gradual end of the exemption, voided last year by the country’s Supreme Court. Might not be the best way however.

Fun fact: There had been an understandable, reasonable cause for implementing the exemption back in 1948 as after the Holocaust there were precious few religious scholars left – about 400 – to carry on Judaic tradition and there was plenty of reason to exempt them from constant wars with hostile Arab states on three sides. That was the loophole that was exploited to end with modern estimates of about 25 percent of fighting age men exempted from serving in the IDF which, it should be noted, does not necessarily mean every single soldier fights in combat every day.

This is friggin funny. Jerome Powell has Trump beat by 8 percent AND Jaydee, Marco, and Bobby Brainworms are also more popular than him in this Gallup survey? Lol. Also this is the Orange God Emperor’s second month in a row at 36 percent job approval with Gallup, hovering just above his all-time low of 34 percent he got right after the goddamned Capitol riot in January 2021.

Never one to forego an opportunity to live it up in style and on the taxpayer’s dime, FBI Director K$H Patel is being driven around in a mini fleet of custom-armored BMW X5s, MS Now reports.

“Government agencies, including the FBI, routinely evaluate, replace and update vehicle fleets based on usage, security needs or budgetary decisions,” said FBI PR agent Ben Williamson, confirming the reporting. “The specific decisions referenced in this article were evaluated partly as a way to save taxpayers millions by picking cheaper selections or making cost structures more efficient.”

MS Now dutifully notes that Williamson did not make any effort whatsoever to provide them with the relevant documentation let alone even name the prices. Also what the fuck, why BMW? If it were Cadillac Escalades then yeah that’d be an overpriced luxury model too but at least he’d be able to say they’re buying American and from a UAW shop in Michigan rather than a German brand that thrived under the Third Reich and assembled at a non-union plant somewhere in the south.

George Conway, the lawyer who in the mid-1990s while working pro bono for wealthy conservative interests quarterbacked the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit that ultimately led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment for lying under oath about a sexual relationship with then-22 year-old White House intern before he went all “RINO,” on Monday filed to run in the already pretty crowded Dem primary to replace retiring Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler, the New York Post reports.

Conway, who must’ve “moved” to Manhattan in the last few weeks, joins JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, March for Our Lives organizer Cameron Kasky, and a handful of local and state pols in the field. If there’s any district where it’s not so carpet-baggy to run it’d be one south of 110th Street, so that attack line’s probably not going to work as well as it might’ve been elsewhere.

MAGA Congressman Russell Fry on Monday found Dems’ outcry over convicted felon President Trump unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after himself to be “incredibly rich coming from the party that spray paints monuments, desecrates memorials, tears down statues,” as though Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had personally dumped buckets of red paint on a Columbus statue.

But even they had then why’s that an argument for Trump breaking the law? Aren’t Republicans supposed to be more decorous and reverent than Dems? Is it just two “wrongs” make a right now?

A new national survey by Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio’s outfit finds Democrats leading Republicans 45 to 38 percent on the generic congressional ballot, newsworthy simply because it’s Trump’s pollster who found this. The polling itself is aimed at pitching some national AI safeguard legislation and the question is then framed with “If the Republican candidate for Congress (supported/opposed) all of the policies just discussed to create national standards to regulate Al, would you be more likely to vote for the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate?”

If yes then it’s GOP 45 to Dems 32 percent, if no it’s Dems 45 to GOP 29 percent. Yes, this is “push-polling” in the purest sense as well as industrial-scale focus grouping of some way to channel populist anger toward Big AI to try to salvage the midterms for Republicans. The only way it’s going to work is if Trump starts hanging out with his lowly servants in Congress more than he does his billionaire “friends” and that doesn’t seem all that likely. Likelier than any actual legislation happening, lol, but still it’s hard to see how this comes together as a campaign issue when (A) Dems are going to say the same thing and more convincingly so and (B) the AI companies can just buy off the Republican candidates one by one and neutralize the threat of any legitimate regulation.

“Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a resolution directing the Senate to initiate legal actions against the Trump Administration for illegally refusing to release the complete Epstein files and heavily redacting the files that are released. Leader Schumer will force consideration of this resolution in January when the Senate reconvenes. In response to the Trump administration’s blatant disregard of the law by releasing heavily redacted documents and refusing to release the complete Epstein files, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution which would direct the Senate to initiate legal actions to hold the DOJ accountable. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed unanimously in the Senate and with only one vote against in the House. The directive and intent of the law was clear – the Trump administration must provide transparency to the American people,” says Schumer’s office in a press release issued Monday.

“‘The law Congress passed is crystal clear: release the Epstein files in full so Americans can see the truth,’ said Leader Schumer. ‘Instead, the Trump Department of Justice dumped redactions and withheld the evidence-that breaks the law. Today, I am introducing a resolution to force the Senate to take legal action and compel this administration to comply,'” the press release continued.

Toothy. Not just “strongly worded” as Schumer is known for – also note he’s the first one to put in the paperwork to get such an effort started – but toothy because it forces either a political and/or legal outcome that Trump and Republicans don’t want. One Republican stands up to block it and they’re tarred with covering up for Epstein and his buddies. Normally that’d be Tommy Tuberville but doubt he wants to hand that issue to Doug Jones in the Alabama gov race. If it passes then the Republican-majority Senate sues the Justice Department for access to the files. Maybe then the GOP finds some way to stall or sabotage it but that’s still a bad headline for their team.

The AI slop generated to illustrate Jared Kushner and that other scrotum Steve Witkoff’s vision for Gaza in 10 years isn’t unrealistic enough, National Zero reports based on a cursory viewing of the pitch deck slides obtained by the Wall Street Journal last week. Where are the flying cars and floating holographic billboards? Why are the skyscrapers so modest rather than triple the height of the Burj Khalifa? Who left “SpaceX port with galactic commerce ships docked” out of the prompt?

Fire that son of a bitch right now, Jared. He’s got no place on your team.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday announced that he’s pulling the plug on five offshore wind turbine projects that are literally currently under construction currently because binge-drinking date-rapist Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth thinks they interfere with military radar, Fox News reports without mentioning that convicted felon President Trump publicly pledged to cut American ratepayers’ electricity prices in half by 2026 during his lie-filled 2024 comeback campaign.

The latest pretext for gives Interior, “along with the Department of War [sic] and other relevant government agencies, time to work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects. The prime duty of the United States government is to protect the American people,” Burgum said in a press release. “Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers. The Trump administration will always prioritize the security of the American people,” Burgum continued. It’s not clear how many workers these projects employ and fuck you if you think Dougie would come anywhere close to broaching that angle here.

Denmark Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Monday he was “deeply angered” by convicted felon President Trump’s moronic appointment of scumbag Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland and that Rasmussen will be summoning the US ambassador to demand an explanation for the renewed angling to conquer the vast, frozen territory, CBS News reports.

Rasmussen said the move was “totally unacceptable” and that “As long as we have a kingdom in Denmark that consists of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland, we cannot accept that there are those who undermine our sovereignty.” It’s not clear why the hell Trump thinks that Landry, a governor with no foreign policy experience and who already has a job, is the right person to fly to Greenland repeatedly during the winter to try and sell them on surrendering their sovereignty.

Yes, Trump is fucking stupid but it’s still impressive how he’s doing pretty much the exact opposite of what one would do if they really wanted to capitalize on what is theoretically a unique opportunity to expand American territorial claims peaceably and with the consent of Greenlanders.

Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will preside over a second, ceremonial swearing-in of New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani at City Hall on New Year’s Day next week, WNBC’s Melissa Russo reports, adding that the first actual swearing-in will be administered privately by New York State Attorney General Letitia James shortly after the clock strikes midnight.

Convicted felon President Trump and binge-drinking date rapist Pete Hegseth will make a “major” announcement from friggin Palm Beach, Florida on Monday afternoon and of course it’s about something something Iranian and Venezuelan oil tankers, the Independent reports.

A little present placed under Russian Army Lt General Fanil Sarvarov lit up like a Christmas tree on Monday, sending him to kingdom come and dictator Vladimir Putin’s goons looking for the likely Ukrainian saboteurs who had delivered the gift to Sarvarov, NBC News reports.

“Investigators are pursuing various theories regarding the murder,” Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement following the kaboom. “One of them is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence agencies.”

Like clockwork, all the lib shitposting accounts are going on and on with claims of this massive spike in usage of Grindr this weekend in Phoenix during Turning Point USA’s America Fest MAGA fan-con, and like clockwork it’s all based on unsubstantiated anecdotes and/or sourced from reports submitted to DownDetector – a platform that’s useful for folks to confirm it’s not just them experiencing outages of Instagram or Apple TV or whatever other platform/app.

Example from an Ookla research blog post recapping 2025 in crash-outs: “The second largest global outage stemmed from the gaming sector, with over 3.9 million reports to the PlayStation Network Downdetector page. This network-wide disruption affected users for over 24 hours, locking out players from major titles like Call of Duty and Fortnite. Downdetector’s Incident Attribution analysis concluded the cause was internal to PSN, with no major cloud or ISP involvement” that last part being key because the largest outage was Amazon Web Services in October, in third was CloudFlare last month, both of which bricked thousands of services/apps/platforms downstream of them.

Over 3.9 million reports from gamers worldwide during the February 7th outage, for which Sony gave no explanation but some fans speculated could’ve been due at least in part to high network traffic from a demo of the then-hotly-anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds, which debuted on the 28th.