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Retiring Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Monday her engagement to Brian Glenn, a pro-Trump pundit who works for the far-right news network Real America’s Voice.

“Happily ever after!!!” Greene posted on X. Glenn, who is chief White House correspondent for the MAGA-aligned network, also shared the engagement on social media with a photo of him embracing Greene while she shows off her engagement ring.

. . . The henchman is Eric Geressy, a former military officer who served with Hegseth in Iraq in the mid-2000s and now works as a senior advisor to our ever-tanked Secretary of Defense. The two men are reportedly good friends, and Hegseth recently awarded Geressy with a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during an ambush in Iraq in 2007, which is the sort of favor a SecDef can do for his warrior buddies.

Earlier this fall, the reporter, Dan Friedman, discovered that Geressy’s email address was linked to a Goodreads page for someone named Eric J. (Geressy’s middle name is Joseph.) And what a page it was! Apparently, Eric J had two major interests: accounts from soldiers about their experiences in military service and war, and “Asian wife sharing.”

. . . The Pentagon, as is standard in the Trump era, responded with a snarly statement accusing Mother Jones of hitting “a new low with this shoddy hit piece.” But in addition to a worn-out list of clichéd insults, the Pentagon has Jack Posobiec.

Posobiec has been many things in his less-than-illustrious career. Nazi troll. Conspiracy theorist. Urine sample handler. Now we can add “mouthpiece for Pete Hegseth” to the list.

Technically, he’s not supposed to be. As a reporter for wingnut “news” site Human Events, Posobiec is a member of the Pentagon press corps, which thanks to restrictions that caused all legitimate news organizations to pull their reporters off the beat, is now made up of mostly right-wing bootlickers who act more as Hegseth’s publicists than journalists.

The day after Friedman first contacted the Pentagon, Posobiec emailed him to ask if perhaps it was he who has a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” There were also other questions that mirrored the ones Friedman had sent the Pentagon about Geressy. What’s more, the deadline Posobiec gave for needing a response was the exact same time, to the minute, of the deadline Friedman had given the Pentagon. It was all part of a story about Friedman that Posobiec claimed to be writing.

. . . The funny thing is, if they had left it alone, the story would have gotten lost in the noise. With all the evil shit Hegseth and this administration get up to hourly, a guy reading cuck porn is not going to stand out, even if it might genuinely put national security at risk.

But as is typical of this crowd, they never have a backup plan in case their usual default to chest-thumping, empty threats doesn’t work. In this case, Posobiec went quiet, Geressy never responded, Friedman published his story, and it is getting more attention than it otherwise would have.

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From WABE Politics News:

ATLANTA (AP) — Even though Republican Brian Jack is only a first-term congressman, he has become a regular in the Oval Office these days. As the top recruiter for his […]

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It’s been 50 years since Godfrey Wade arrived to the United States from Jamaica at the age of 15 with his mother, moving to New York with a green card that granted him permanent residency.

The Black man enlisted in the U.S. Army a few years later, spending eight years in the service, where he was primarily stationed in Germany before he received an honorable discharge. He then began a civilian life in Georgia while raising a family, working as a fashion designer, master tailor, tennis coach and chef over the years while staying out of trouble.

That is, until September, when he was pulled over in Conyers, Georgia, for failing to use a turn signal, which was when police discovered he was driving without a license and arrested him.

. . . He has been incarcerated in overcrowded ICE detention centers since the arrest, a three-month ordeal where he was forced to sleep on a makeshift bed on the ground for the first 12 days, according to 11 Alive News.

In a telephone interview with local media from the Stewart Detention Center in Stewart County, Georgia, Wade said there are only two working urinals for an entire pod of 80 people.

“We don’t have any bunk space,” he told the news station. “We’re given what we call boats, and those are placed on the floor with a two-inch mat.”

“There’s sewage water flowing on the ground,” he said. 

11 Alive News also reported that it had obtained records of the Office of Detention Oversight, a unit within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that oversees the federal detention centers, which revealed 12 deficiencies within the Stewart Detention Center related to health and safety, food service, phone access, use of force, and more. 

“The agency also noted violations of the required 12-to-1 detainee-to-toilet ratio,” 11 Alive News reported, adding that the private for-profit company that runs the detention center, CoreCivic, has ignored various inquires by reporters seeking comment.

But the Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated it believes it is above the law and the Constitution.

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From WABE Politics News:

Mega billionaire Elon Musk, in a friendly interview with his aide and conservative influencer Katie Miller, said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only “somewhat successful” and […]

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

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By Hodari Brown, Contributing Columnist On November 25, 2025, the National Park Service (NPS), under the direction of the U.S. Department of the Interior overseen by Donald Trump, announced its 2026 “fee-free” days. Gone from the list: Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. Added instead: June 14 — the birthday of Donald Trump, which […]The post COMMUNITY VOICES: Trump Removes MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free National Park Dates, Adds His Birthday appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.

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Fred Hampton Assassinated (1969)

Thu Dec 04, 1969

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On this day in 1969, the Chicago Police Department assassinated revolutionary socialist and Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark. "You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution."

Hampton also served deputy chairman for the national Panther party. In this capacity, he founded the Rainbow Coalition, a multi-racial class-conscious organization that included the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, as well as an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them work for social change rather than fight amongst each other.

In 1967, Hampton was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a threat. The FBI attempted to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among activist and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers organization.

On December 4th, 1969, Hampton was assassinated in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the FBI. During the raid, another Panther, Mark Clark, was killed and several more were seriously wounded.

At a press conference the next day, police announced the arrest team had been attacked by the "violent" and "extremely vicious" Panthers, and had defended themselves accordingly.

In a second press conference on December 8th, police leadership praised the assault team for their "remarkable restraint", "bravery", and "professional discipline" in not killing all Panthers present.

Photographic evidence was presented of bullet holes allegedly made by shots fired by the Panthers, but this was soon challenged by reporters. It was later found that all but one of nearly 100 shots were fired by police.

Hampton's death was ruled a justified homicide at the time, although a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the survivors and the relatives of Hampton and Clark won $1.85 million dollars in damages in 1982.

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution."

- Fred Hampton

• Date: 1969-12-04
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• Source: [www.apeoplescalendar.org](https://www.apeoplescalendar.org/calendar/events/fred-hampton-assassinated -1969)

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Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source. The source has been around for a while but now it's all proper.

From the announcement they said:

Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.