Source: Associated Press
“The former court clerk in South Carolina who helped out with the murder trial of attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Monday to criminal charges for showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court. Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Mary Rebecca ‘Becky’ Hill pleaded guilty in Colleton County Circuit Court to four charges — obstruction of justice and perjury for showing a reporter photographs that were sealed court exhibits and then lying about it — as well as two counts of misconduct in office for taking bonuses and promoting through her public office a book she wrote on the trial. Judge Heath Taylor sentenced Hill, 58, to three years of probation.” (12/08/25)
https://apnews.com/article/becky-hill-alex-murdaugh-court-clerk-5e25491cb1dc802f9a0a8e1c0151dda8
Source: The Dispatch
“Yankee in Kevin Williamson’s Court | Interview: Colin Woodard.” (12/08/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/yankee-in-kevin-williamsons-court-interview-colin-woodard/
Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
“Musk’s irate philippics against the Brussels machine might be driven by self-serving impulses. His conversion to what we might call the Brexit spirit followed the EU’s slapping of a €120million fine on X for breaching the transparency rules in its authoritarian Digital Services Act. In response, Musk taunted EU officials on X and openly called for the EU’s dismantling. ‘The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people’, he tweeted. So it was the EU’s meddling with his bank balance, rather than its meddling with the European people’s sovereign rights, that pushed him over the edge into Euroscepticism. He’s still right, though.” (12/08/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/12/08/elon-musk-is-right-about-the-eu/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The blue whales have stopped singing / because the krill are vanishing / because the oceans are warming / because we are ruled by long-toothed liars / whose insides are full of dead leaves. / The great whales have gone silent / and my bird has gone blind / and there are chatbots in the basement / and corpses in the corn. / Under the overpass it is dry and still. / You would never know that everything is dying. / You should come and visit me. / Meet me over there under the sepia streetlights / with the strangleporn perverts and fentanyl fallen, / all the stillborn scar tissue extractions / from the wreckage of a banished womb, / the NAFTA-noosed factory towns full of deserted buildings / and the window-snarling meth towns full of deserted people, / where the cries of orphaned Palestinians mingle / with the cries of the last baby orangutan / ever born in the wild …” (12/08/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/12/08/the-blue-whales-have-stopped-singing/
Source: Fox News
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is warning that Illinois officials are releasing violent criminal illegal [sic] aliens despite active immigration detainers, a move the agency says is putting the public at risk. In the letter shared with Fox News Digital, Todd Lyons, ICE’s senior official performing the duties of director, said Illinois has ‘tens of thousands of criminal illegal [sic] aliens’ in custody – individuals who, he noted, have committed crimes ranging from murder and rape to child pornography and armed robbery. Lyons said these offenders ‘should be swiftly removed from the United States … and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens’. According to data provided by ICE, Illinois has released 1,768 criminal aliens with active detainers since January 2025. ICE said the crimes tied to those offenders include homicides, assaults, burglaries, weapons offenses and sexual-predatory crimes.” (12/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-warns-illinois-releasing-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-despite-detainers-risking-public-safety
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (12/08/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2564
Source: US News & World Report
“The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to weigh the legality of Donald Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission member in a major test of presidential power that could imperil a 90-year-old legal precedent. The court will hear arguments in the Justice Department’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that the Republican president exceeded his authority when he moved to dismiss Democratic FTC member Rebecca Slaughter in March before her term was set to expire. The case gives the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, an opportunity to overturn a New Deal-era Supreme Court precedent in a case called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States that has shielded the heads of independent agencies from removal since 1935.” (12/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-12-08/fight-over-trumps-power-to-fire-ftc-member-heads-to-us-supreme-court
Source: EconTalk
“Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly).” (12/08/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/colonialism-slavery-and-foreign-aid-with-william-easterly/
Source: Orange County Register
by Sal Rodriguez
“Today marks the 97th birthday of Noam Chomsky, known both for his status as ‘the father of modern linguistics’ as well as his prolific political commentary. I’m aware that as the opinion editor of an editorial page that tilts libertarian he’s an unusual figure to highlight, but he was intellectually influential to me ever since I read a booklet of his (‘9/11’) sometime in 2002 (I would’ve been 11). Though I came to identify more with thinkers like Milton Friedman, Chomsky is still someone whose writings and speeches I return to.” (12/08/25)
https://archive.is/8l2Bh
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“About 100 children who were abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria last month have been freed. They arrived in the Niger state capital, Minna, in a fleet of minibuses escorted by military vans and armoured vehicles, and were received by Governor Umar Bago. Details about their release remain unclear, including whether it was secured through negotiation or by force, and whether any ransoms were paid.” (12/08/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjvg4ylwpo
