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DOT chief Duffy finds half of NY commercial drivers are illegal aliens

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:19 UTC
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, NY Gov Kathy Hochul
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, NY Gov Kathy Hochul
Threatens to pull $73 million in federal funding

The Department of Transportation is threatening to pull $73 million in federal highway funding from New York after an audit found that half of the state's commercial trucking licenses were issued to illegal immigrants.

"What New York does is if an applicant comes in and they have a work authorization — for 30 days, 60 days, one year — New York automatically issues them an eight-year commercial driver's license," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday during a press conference at DOT headquarters, adding "That's contrary to law."

"But we also found that New York many times won't even verify whether they have a work authorization, they have a visa, or they're in the country legally.

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Suicidal empathy on display:




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Chile Turns Hard To The Right: Tough-On-Crime, Anti-Immigration Candidate Easily Wins Presidency

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:55 UTC
Jose Antonio Kast
© Esteban Felix - AP via El PaisJose Antonio Kast has promised to build physical barriers on the country's northern frontier.
In an election where the decisive themes echoed mounting concerns in the Americas and Europe, a conservative who's vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and crime trounced his Communist opponent in Sunday's presidential election in Chile. The result confirms a major political current that now has many Latin American countries embracing right-wing politics.

With 98% of the votes counted, 57-year-old José Antonio Kast was coasting to a 58%-to-42% clobbering of Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party. Kast, a devout Roman Catholic and father of nine, will replace incumbent leftist President Gabriel Boric. It was Kast's third presidential bid. Underscoring the comprehensiveness of his victory, Kast won all of Chile's regions, including historic leftist strongholds.

"Chile will be free from crime again, free from anguish, free from fear," said Kast in a victory speech at his campaign headquarters in the capital city of Santiago. "Chile needs order." He assured supporters he would clamp down on criminals and "lock them up." Supporters displayed banners with slogans like "Bye-Bye Illegals" and "Play Time is Over."

Comment: Good question.

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Porsches deactivated across Russia

Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Econmics
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:59 UTC
Porsche
© Top Gear
Porsche owners across Russia were unable to start their vehicles without warning. The German automaker claimed the sudden immobilization was due to an issue with the Vehicle Tracking System, a satellite security feature intended to protect against auto theft. In reality, Porsche admitted to the world that automakers have the ability to control modernized cars in real-time.

The loss of satellite connectivity signaled a potential auto theft and, therefore, an immediate deactivation. The engine immobilizer turned on simultaneously for hundreds of vehicles across Russia without warning. The blackout that affected every model post-2013 that contained the tracking satellite programming. Some owners reported success after disconnecting their car batteries for 10 hours, and others managed to reboot the VTS module, but the majority instantly lost access to transportation.
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Brown University Shooting: Gunman still at large, first victim ID'd as Ella Cook who was VP of school's Republican Club


New York Post
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:49 UTC
Ella Cook
Ella Cook
A 20-something "person of interest" in the Brown University mass shooting was nabbed at a local hotel before dawn Sunday — as witnesses revealed he shouted something before opening fire.

Detectives are still trying to figure out what was said by the gunman, whose firearm had a "unique characteristic" that helped cops tie him to the deadly shooting, according to NBC News.

The giveaway was a laser scope on the handgun, sources told The Post.

The shooting, which killed two students and wounded nine others, happened around 4:30 p.m. during a final exam review session at the Ivy League university for an economics class run by Rachel Friedberg, who also serves as a faculty associate of the school's Program in Judaic Studies.

Comment: Many people on social media are pointing out that despite the campus being surrounded by surveillance cameras, police have not released any information as to who might be the shooter.





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Best of the Web: Bondi Beach Shooting: 16 Dead, 38 Injured After Father & Son Terrorists Attack During Hanukkah Celebration

Anthony Blair, Nicholas McEntyre and Alex Oliveira
NY Post
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:16 UTC
bondi beach shooting
© APEmergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025.
The death toll in antisemitic terror attack on Australia's world-famous Bondi Beach has surged to at least 15 — with 40 injured in the harrowing onslaught, which lasted more than 10 minutes.


Comment: The New South Wales Minister told AFP that the death toll is now at 16.


The victims include a 10-year-old girl, a popular rabbi and an elderly Holocaust survivor.

Footage from the scene shows the two terrorists, one of whom had a shotgun and the other a bold-action rifle, firing round after round from a bridge overlooking the family-friendly Chanukah by the Sea 2025 event — which had a petting zoo and a bubble station for the kids.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the slaughter, "a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah." Jewish leaders, including several of the victims, warned the left-wing government — as recently as days before the attack — that antisemitism was dangerously escalating in the nation of 27.5 million people.

One of the suspects has been identified as Naveed Akram, 24, who is in critical condition after being hit by police. The other terrorist, 50, is was killed.
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UK faces backlash as teacher dismissed for telling student Britain is a Christian country

Efrat Lachter
Fox News
Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:57 UTC
king charles
© Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images
An elementary school teacher in London was dismissed and referred to authorities after telling a Muslim pupil that Britain was a "Christian country," according to the lawyer supporting his legal challenge.

The case from earlier this year has added to the broader debate about free expression, multiculturalism and the use of safeguarding mechanisms in British schools — the system designed to ensure a safe environment in which children can learn.

Lord Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, told Fox News Digital that the central accusation was triggered by the teacher's statement that Britain remains a Christian country. "To claim that Britain is a Christian country and to point out that the king is the head of the Church of England isn't a particularly politically contentious thing to say. It's just stating a pretty straightforward fact."

King Charles III serves as head of the Church of England — a fact the dismissed teacher cited when telling a student that Britain is still a Christian country.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Demands 'Elimination' of Childhood Vaccine Exemptions

Ben Bartee
Armageddon Prose
Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:51 UTC
vaccine
© PeopleImages / iStock
American Academy of Pediatrics issues fatwa against child vaxx exemptions

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement in which it advocates the wholesale, totalitarian revocation of any non-medical exemptions granted to children attending any school.

Via American Academy of Pediatrics (emphasis added):
"Routine childhood immunizations against infectious diseases are an integral part of our public health infrastructure. They provide direct protection to the immunized individual and indirect protection to children and adults unable to be immunized by reducing spread of vaccine-preventable diseases in the community. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have regulations requiring proof of immunization as a condition for child care and school attendance as a public health strategy to protect children in these settings and to secondarily serve as a mechanism to promote timely immunization of children by their caregivers. Although all states and the District of Columbia have mechanisms to exempt school attendees from specific immunizations for medical reasons, the majority also have a heterogeneous collection of regulations and laws that allow nonmedical reasons for exemption. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports certification of immunization to attend child care and school as a sound means of providing a safe environment for attendees and employees of these settings. The AAP also supports medically indicated exemptions to specific immunizations as determined for each individual child. The AAP advocates for the elimination of nonmedical exemptions from immunizations as contrary to optimal individual and public health."
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Regenerative farming just went mainstream: Why it matters

Mollie Englehart
ZeroHedge
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:43 UTC
regenerative farm organic
My phone started dinging almost all at once.

Text messages, links, alerts — people were telling me that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was about to make a major announcement on Dec. 10 related to regenerative agriculture. A YouTube link was circulating. The livestream was about to begin. There was a sense of anticipation in the air.

When the video came on, Rollins stood alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others. What stood out immediately was not the funding amount, but the language: soil health, human health, nutrient density, the microbiome, and microbiology. The living systems beneath our feet and within our bodies were finally being discussed as part of one connected reality.

That language matters.

Then the announcement itself came: $700 million allocated toward regenerative agriculture.

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Confirmed: Ditching the SATs was a big mistake

Jonathan Miltimore
ZeroHedge
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:22 UTC
sat test preparation books
© Mario Tama / Getty Images fileSAT test prep books at a Barnes & Noble store in New York.
In early 2020, the University of California set the tone for the rest of the country when its regents voted to drop SAT and ACT admissions requirements through 2024. That decision, initially framed as a pandemic necessity, quickly reshaped admissions nationwide. By late 2022, roughly 1,750 schools, or about 80 percent of U.S. universities, had adopted test-optional policies, according to Forbes.

"It's a sea change in terms of how admissions decisions are being made," Robert Schaeffer, of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, told NBC News.

"The pandemic created a natural experiment."

Five years later, the results of this "natural experiment" are in. A report released by UC San Diego in November tells the story.

Comment: Well, who could have predicted that? [/sarcasm]. The whole point of testing is to weed out those who do not have the aptitude for academics, music, sports, trades or whatever. Contrary to the libtard view of people as interchangeable widgets, innate abilities are real and measurable.

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Eurovision winner hands back trophy over Israel participation


RT
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:29 UTC
Swiss singer Nemo
© Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press/Getty ImagesSwiss singer Nemo
Swiss singer Nemo's decision follows boycott announcements by a host of EU nations.

Swiss singer Nemo announced on Thursday that he is returning his 2024 Eurovision Song Contest trophy in protest over Israel's continued participation in the competition.

Nemo, who won last year's contest with the song 'The Code', said on Thursday that the trophy "no longer belongs on my shelf."

"Eurovision says it stands for unity, for inclusion and dignity for all people," Nemo said in a social media post, adding that Israel's participation during what the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry said is a genocide shows "a clear conflict" with those principles.

The singer said he would send the trophy back to the European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) headquarters in Geneva and urged the organization to "live what you claim."

According to Nemo, he is not protesting artists or fans but how the contest has been "used to soften the image of a state accused of severe wrongdoing."

Comment: See also:
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

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