Source: SFGate
“Patrick Hotze’s three daughters made it home safe from Camp Mystic after July’s catastrophic floods that killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors. He attended some of the funerals and says he understands the outrage over the Texas camp’s plan to partially reopen next year. He also intends to send his girls back. … For the first time since the roaring flood, the 100-year-old all-girls Christian sleepaway retreat plans to sign up campers in January, forging ahead with a reopening that has divided families and stunned some lawmakers. Campers will start arriving in May, bunking on higher ground than the area where fast-rising waters on the Guadalupe River swept away two cabins. Some families say the decision to let their daughters return is a vital step in their own healing from the disaster that is still under scrutiny.” (12/23/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/parents-are-divided-on-whether-their-girls-should-21258675.php
Source: Independent Institute
by Allen Gindler
“President Trump and his administration have recently lost numerous court cases, raising questions about the qualifications of his legal team. While I am not a lawyer, I believe one civil case involving his Mar-a-Lago estate could have been won if he had a competent economist on his team. President Trump was accused not of violence or theft, but of assigning a higher value to his own property than government officials and expert witnesses deem acceptable. If we scrupulously examine this court case in essence, we can see that it touches upon the main problem that occupied the minds of economists of the past, namely, what value is and how it is determined.” (12/22/25)
https://www.independent.org/article/2025/12/22/courts-cannot-determine-the-correct-price-of-property/
Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“If you’re a little too online, you likely know that Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana. It was later said, when kingpin Mario Tabraue became a main character on the monstrously popular documentary series Tiger King, that the cocaine was actually stuffed into the bodies of vipers and boa constrictors, though an 80-page indictment of the enterprise makes no mention of that, and Tabraue has been known to sue those who accuse him of animal cruelty. ‘I dealt to support my animal habit,’ Tabraue humbly told the Netflix documentarians about the drug ring that imported and distributed $79 million worth of drugs between 1976 and 1987. It was Rubio’s job, the current secretary of state wrote in his memoir, to clean the cages.” (12/23/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/narco-terrorist-elite-rubio-south-america-iran-contra/
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump expressed sympathy Monday for powerful and influential people caught up in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, including former President Bill Clinton, telling reporters that he doesn’t ‘like the pictures of other people being shown.’ … Photos included Epstein with well-known figures, including Trump, on his plane or at social events. Clinton has appeared in multiple photos that were released last week as part of the first batch of documents the DOJ made available. There has been ‘tremendous backlash’ to the documents, Trump said, because they’ve ensnared ‘people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago,’ including successful lawyers and businesspeople. … Trump briefly acknowledged that there were photos of himself included in the recent document dumps, but didn’t provide any details on his relationship with Epstein at the time, except to say that he threw him out of Mar-a-Lago.” (12/22/25)
https://archive.is/KRED9
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Leftist Pigs Rewrite ‘Animal Farm.'” (12/22/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/madd-leftist-pigs-rewrite-animal-farm
Source: The UnPopulist
by Samantha Hancox-Li
“And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling.” (12/22/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweetheart-favoritism-isnt-driving
Source: Reuters
“Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones in a new air attack on Tuesday, authorities said, killing at least three people including a child and triggering emergency power cuts across the country as Ukrainians gear up to celebrate Christmas. Moscow’s latest combined strike hit energy facilities in western regions the hardest, said Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, and came days after another round of U.S.-led peace talks to end the nearly four-year-old war.” (12/23/25)
https://archive.is/yd2Lc
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: ‘I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe.’ … Duffy-Alfonso’s condemnation of TSA is refreshing regardless of whether it spurs the Trump administration to repent. But the outrage that her comment evoked on Twitter does raise the question: How many Trump voters abandoned their opposition to unleashing federal agencies after Trump was back in the Oval Office?” (12/22/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/12/22/did-tsa-finally-grab-the-wrong-groin/
Source: Reason
“Can J.D. Vance Stop a MAGA Civil War?” (12/22/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/22/can-j-d-vance-stop-a-maga-civil-war/
Source: The Hill
“The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, [murdering] one ‘narco-terrorist.’ U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) shared a 27-second video of the strike on X, adding that the vessel was ‘operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters’ and was ‘transiting along known narco-trafficking routes’ in the eastern Pacific. No U.S. military forces were injured in the latest operations, Southcom noted. The U.S. military has now conducted a minimum of 27 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea since early September, [murdering] at least 105 people.” (12/22/25)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5660638-us-military-strikes-alleged-drug-boat/
