CHIP YOUR PET:  Cat lost during Hurricane Helene miraculously reunited with family after 443 days: ‘A Christmas miracle’.

IT’S THEIR CHIEF PROPAGANDA ARM, OF COURSE THEY DEFEND IT:  Labour is battling to protect the BBC from the reform that’s long overdue.

WE’VE HAD A SIMILAR PROBLEM IN AMERICA:  This perverse government is a greater threat to the British way of life than Russia.

IT’S THEIR SPECIAL TALENT:  Hey, Dems, When CNN Can’t Save You on How You’ve Handled the Epstein Files, You’ve Really Screwed Up.

THANKS FOR THE MEMERIES:  The Epstein Files Memes Are Pouring in, and They’re Hilarious.

IT COULD BE JUST PERSONAL VENDETTA:  Keep An Eye.

THERE IS NO ARROW OF HISTORY. TIMES DON’T ALWAYS CHANGE FOR THE BETTER:  Bondi. Thoughts on a massacre.

HE’S NOT WRONG:  Winning the AI race against China is one thing; But winning the AI race for all Americans is no less important, and indeed an altogether under-discussed issue.

I’M DIVIDED ON THIS:  Trump Green‑Lights Marijuana Drug Schedule Change, But Stops Short of Federally Legalizing Weed.

I do believe people have the right to go to h*ll any way they please. OTOH there’s a difference between legalizing a psychoactive substance in times of plenty and well being, and legalizing it when the vast majority of the young feels marginalized and despondent. The second can go really ugly fast. Right. I know. Not a prefect time, ever. And yet–

THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT ISN’T IN DANGER, BUT THE NONSENSE NEEDS TO BE STOMPED EVERY TIME:  Ben Shapiro at TPUSA: Conservative movement in danger “from charlatans who … traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty”.

WELL, IT’S THAT OR DIE:  Farmers are rising up in Europe, fighting the EU Bureaucratic Tyranny.

GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM:  4 People Dead, 9 Injured After Mass Stabbing Attack and Smoke Bombing at Train Station.

FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH:  Clays Upon the Sands (The Stone Moon Trilogy).

OPEN THREAD: It’s all you.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s new boss says the race is on between SpaceX and Blue Origin to build a moon lander.

STOCKING STUFFER: Toenail Clippers for Thick Toenails. #CommissionEarned

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: A Much-Needed Exposé of Academic Fraud: A new book reveals why academic-publishing incentives must change. “Perhaps the most (in)famous case of research fraud is that of Dutch professor Diederik Stapel, who published many papers on social psychology and was something of a rock star in the academic world—until he was exposed as a fraud. Bazerman writes, apropos of one of his papers, that ‘Stapel was confident his hypothesis was true, but the actual data didn’t support it. So Stapel sat at his kitchen table and began typing numbers into his computer that would produce the intended effect.’ After initially getting away with that, Stapel stopped doing any research at all, merely fabricating data to support his conclusions. When finally exposed, he admitted everything.”

FREE SPEECH: UW Professor’s Parody of Land Acknowledgment in Class Syllabus Protected by First Amendment.

AT AMAZON, Shop Same Day Delivery. #CommissionEarned

MAGA ADMINISTRATION REDNECKS BASE VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS ON [CHECKS NOTES] DENMARK: U.S. to drop childhood vaccine recommendations as it looks to Denmark, Washington Post reports.

NO THANK YOU: “Unintended Steering Wheel Movement.” “If you’ve noticed the steering wheel in your BMW X3 moving without you touching it, you’re not going crazy. According to a new recall submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, several thousand 2025 and 2026 BMW X3 crossovers have a problem with their steering system software that could cause the wheels to move unintentionally.”

READER FAVORITE: 10inch Under Cabinet Lighting, 2 Pack Rechargeable Motion Sensor Light. #CommissionEarned

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: DOJ Lawsuit Accuses Virgin Islands’ Incompetent PD of Ignoring Bruen, Systematically Violating Citizens’ Gun Rights.

TREAT YOUR FACE: La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Face Moisturizer. #CommissionEarned

SCIENCE: Women are better at recognizing illness in faces compared to men, study finds.