Mary E Losch
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Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.
Epstein Files May Finally Come Out This Week—But Could Be Missing Details On High-Profile Friends
Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.
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It’s been a particularly heavy start to Hanukkah this year.
May the memories of those who were killed be a blessing.
May we keep in our minds the suffering of those injured.
And may we share our prayers with their families and the Jewish community in Australia.
May the memories of those who were killed be a blessing.
May we keep in our minds the suffering of those injured.
And may we share our prayers with their families and the Jewish community in Australia.
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It’s been a particularly heavy start to Hanukkah this year.
May the memories of those who were killed be a blessing.
May we keep in our minds the suffering of those injured.
And may we share our prayers with their families and the Jewish community in Australia.
May the memories of those who were killed be a blessing.
May we keep in our minds the suffering of those injured.
And may we share our prayers with their families and the Jewish community in Australia.
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If you lose Fox News on basic human decency, you’re not leading. You’re rotting.
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
If you lose Fox News on basic human decency, you’re not leading. You’re rotting.
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A.I. isn’t going to end humanity by taking over STRATCOM and launching nukes.
It’s going to do it by drowning us in bullshit.
It’s going to do it by drowning us in bullshit.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A.I. isn’t going to end humanity by taking over STRATCOM and launching nukes.
It’s going to do it by drowning us in bullshit.
It’s going to do it by drowning us in bullshit.
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Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth, because of their ability to spread diseases.
The most widespread of these is Dengue.
14 million contracted it last year but the real number is much higher.
There is a cure, but companies have walked away for more profitable ventures.
#Pinks
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth, because of their ability to spread diseases.
The most widespread of these is Dengue.
14 million contracted it last year but the real number is much higher.
There is a cure, but companies have walked away for more profitable ventures.
#Pinks
The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem.
No one wants to make it.
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth, because of their ability to spread diseases.
The most widespread of these is Dengue.
14 million contracted it last year but the real number is much higher.
There is a cure, but companies have walked away for more profitable ventures.
#Pinks
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth, because of their ability to spread diseases.
The most widespread of these is Dengue.
14 million contracted it last year but the real number is much higher.
There is a cure, but companies have walked away for more profitable ventures.
#Pinks
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Wow, this 🔥
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Wow, this 🔥
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
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the difference between the level of competence and professionalism shown in the US and AU mass shooting investigations is night and day.
We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
December 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
the difference between the level of competence and professionalism shown in the US and AU mass shooting investigations is night and day.
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Trump didn’t just “disparage Rob Reiner‘s political views.” He said Reiner brought it on himself when he was stabbed to death because he criticized Trump.
If you want us to think you’re not in the Trump tank, CBS, you need to write better headlines than this.
If you want us to think you’re not in the Trump tank, CBS, you need to write better headlines than this.
Trump disparages Rob Reiner's political views a day after his murder
Actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their Los Angeles home over the weekend.
www.cbsnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Trump didn’t just “disparage Rob Reiner‘s political views.” He said Reiner brought it on himself when he was stabbed to death because he criticized Trump.
If you want us to think you’re not in the Trump tank, CBS, you need to write better headlines than this.
If you want us to think you’re not in the Trump tank, CBS, you need to write better headlines than this.
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Rob Reiner was a magnanimous, caring, thoughtful, and gracious man.
His impact on American culture — through film, storytelling, and civic engagement — was profound. It’s devastating to lose both Rob and his wife Michele under such tragic circumstances.
His impact on American culture — through film, storytelling, and civic engagement — was profound. It’s devastating to lose both Rob and his wife Michele under such tragic circumstances.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Rob Reiner was a magnanimous, caring, thoughtful, and gracious man.
His impact on American culture — through film, storytelling, and civic engagement — was profound. It’s devastating to lose both Rob and his wife Michele under such tragic circumstances.
His impact on American culture — through film, storytelling, and civic engagement — was profound. It’s devastating to lose both Rob and his wife Michele under such tragic circumstances.
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Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’
Vandals destroyed Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity. It replaced Mary with a sign saying she’s in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
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“Americans are seeing what it looks like when you send masked people out to pick people off the street in vans… and this is not what they had in mind.” trib.al/fMgXDqE
Transcript: Trump Explodes Over Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Worsen
As this week’s brutal GOP election losses show Latinos shifting hard against Trump and the GOP, the author of a piece on Trump’s agenda of ethnic persecution explains why naked bigotry is also backfiring politically.
trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“Americans are seeing what it looks like when you send masked people out to pick people off the street in vans… and this is not what they had in mind.” trib.al/fMgXDqE
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Miller's goal of net-negative migration is a recipe for decline. It all but guarantees a vastly expanded immigrant carceral state, at enormous cost to us in taxpayer money and in the searing social tensions he's unleashing with his masked agents across the country.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Miller's goal of net-negative migration is a recipe for decline. It all but guarantees a vastly expanded immigrant carceral state, at enormous cost to us in taxpayer money and in the searing social tensions he's unleashing with his masked agents across the country.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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I’ve see no evidence that generative AI will do the hard work of ideas. There are a lot of regimes where it can cut down on the time it takes to complete tasks and various other kinds of AI can do sophisticated analyses. But:
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I’ve see no evidence that generative AI will do the hard work of ideas. There are a lot of regimes where it can cut down on the time it takes to complete tasks and various other kinds of AI can do sophisticated analyses. But:
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He’s the worst of us. The absolute worst of us. And yes, that’s a big problem. But the much, much bigger problem is that the American people put him in power again. The American people put the absolute worst of us in power.
This whole Trump thing is much more about us than him.
This whole Trump thing is much more about us than him.
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
He’s the worst of us. The absolute worst of us. And yes, that’s a big problem. But the much, much bigger problem is that the American people put him in power again. The American people put the absolute worst of us in power.
This whole Trump thing is much more about us than him.
This whole Trump thing is much more about us than him.
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Straight to the point, no bullshit, honest headline.
More like this, please.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
More like this, please.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims
Comments from Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) reflect a brazen Islamophobic sentiment being voiced by some in the party.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Straight to the point, no bullshit, honest headline.
More like this, please.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
More like this, please.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Yikes
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Yikes
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New stories out about Official NIH Policy about "remediating" NIH applications so that they can be considered for funding.
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
1/9
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
1/9
NIH specifies how grant reviewers should ensure alignment with Trump priorities
In a memo obtained by STAT, the NIH gives specific steps on how grant reviewers can check for alignment with administration priorities.
www.statnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New stories out about Official NIH Policy about "remediating" NIH applications so that they can be considered for funding.
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
1/9
First, a story in STAT...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...
1/9
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Wow. Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson called out Trump’s grotesqueness too. Seems there is a post-Trump movement gaining traction.
I am trying to think of a time when so many right-wing Christian folks have come out as strongly against Trump as they currently are re: his Rob Reiner comments.
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Wow. Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson called out Trump’s grotesqueness too. Seems there is a post-Trump movement gaining traction.
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A sane country.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A sane country.
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Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
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Hey MAGAs, there could be consequences.
Two attorneys and an aide who all worked on President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign appeared in court Monday for a preliminary hearing in Wisconsin on felony forgery charges related to a fake elector scheme.
https://to.pbs.org/3KMZpSQ
https://to.pbs.org/3KMZpSQ
Former Trump aides appear in Wisconsin court over 2020 fake elector scheme charges
The Wisconsin case was filed a year ago, but it has been tied up as the Trump aides have fought, unsuccessfully so far, to have the charges dismissed.
www.pbs.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hey MAGAs, there could be consequences.