Source: Space.com
“Scientists may have ‘seen’ dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this would mark the first direct detection of the universe’s most mysterious substance. Dark matter was theorized in 1933 by astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who found that the visible galaxies of the Coma Cluster lacked the necessary gravitational influence to prevent this cluster from flying apart. … If dark matter particles ‘annihilate’ when they meet each other and interact, much as matter and its counterpart antimatter do, then it should produce a shower of particles, including photons of gamma-rays that, while invisible to our eyes, could be ‘seen’ by sensitive gamma-ray space telescopes. … A team of researchers, led by Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo, trained the Fermi spacecraft on the regions of the Milky Way where dark matter should congregate, namely at the center of our galaxy, and hunted for this telltale gamma-ray signature.” (11/25/25)
https://www.space.com/astronomy/dark-universe/scientists-may-have-finally-seen-dark-matter-for-the-1st-time
Source: United Press International
“In just seven years, Jakarta, Indonesia, took a giant leap from 33rd biggest city in the world to surpass Tokyo at the top of the list. The city has grown to 42 million residents. Nearly half the world’s population now lives in cities, and the number of megacities such as Jakarta, which are home to more than 10 million people each, has ballooned from less than 10 to more than 30 in the last 50 years, according to a United Nations report. … According to the report, the world’s three largest cities are Jakarta and its 42 million residents; Dhaka, Bangladesh, with nearly 40 million residents; and Tokyo, with roughly 33 million residents, the report said. The only non-Asian city in the top 10, the U.N. found, is Cairo, Egypt.” (11/25/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/11/25/jakarta-worlds-biggest-city/6671764099677/
Source: Pioneer Institute
“U-NM’s NYT Bestseller Paul Andrew Hutton on the American Old West.” (11/25/25)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/u-nms-nyt-bestseller-paul-andrew-hutton-on-the-american-old-west/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Inside Bibi’s Diary.” (11/25/25)
https://rumble.com/v728b2y-inside-bibis-diary.html
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Source: USA Today
by Cameron Smith
“It’s hard to imagine a greater political opportunity than releasing the full, unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files. The late financier was an unscrupulous magnet for the world’s most powerful. The task from President Donald Trump’s base was simple: Release the names, prosecute the guilty and prove that the government, when properly led, won’t protect the rich and connected. Instead, we got months of resistance, bizarre denials and attempts to frame the issue as a ‘Democrat hoax’ …. After all the performative huffing and puffing, the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the House with just one dissenting vote, flew through the Senate and was signed into law by Trump. That’s nearly unanimous consent from a Congress that can’t agree on lunch. … One would think that would be the end of the story and transparency would flow like waterfalls. Unfortunately, that’s not how swamp water works.” (11/25/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/25/trump-epstein-files-republicans-bondi/87446919007/
Source: TomDispatch
by Alfred McCoy
“At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain. In Shelly’s stanzas, a traveler in Egypt comes across the ruins of a once-monumental statue, with ‘a shattered visage lying half sunk’ in desert sands bearing the ‘sneer of cold command.’ Only its ‘trunkless legs of stone’ remain standing. Yet the inscription carved on those stones still proclaims: ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ And in a silent mockery of such imperial hubris, all the trappings of that awesome power, all the palaces and fortresses, have been utterly erased, leaving only a desolation ‘boundless and bare’ as ‘the lone and level sands stretch far away.'” (11/25/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/ozymandias-on-the-potomac/
Source: Independent [UK]
“A volcano in Ethiopia has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending a vast ash cloud across major air corridors in the Red Sea and forcing airlines in India and the Middle East to cancel or divert flights. The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia’s Afar region near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours, spewing ash up to 14km (nine miles) into the atmosphere. Thick plumes were tracked drifting over Yemen and Oman before spreading across Pakistan and into northern India on Monday and Tuesday, according to the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre and the India Meteorological Department.” (11/25/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ethiopia-volcano-eruption-flights-delhi-dubai-b2871793.html
Source: National Review
“The Next Fed Chair Should Be Kevin Warsh.” (11/25/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/the-next-fed-chair-should-be-kevin-warsh/
Source: Drop Site
by Ryan Grim & Murtaza Hussain
“Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein — in the same week.” (11/25/25)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobby
