New Year rituals - emphasis in Japan

 Purification

Gratitude

New Starts

many people watch the first sunrise

of the NEW YEAR; Joya No Kane

(108 bells in TEMPLES ring at

midnight); children receive money

in decorated, colorful envelopes . . .

Pres. Jeffrey R. Holland of LDS Mormon Church dies in office : Salt Lake City, UT

 Deseret_ dot-com

ONLINE News Platform

for Latter Day Saints readership

those paying tribute to his

LIFE and

WORDS / preaching

deseret.com/

Sat. Dec. 27, 2025

Apostle

also President of

the CHURCH of

LATTER DAY SAINTS

Spero House (drive collection) -- concludes Dec. 31, 2025 - ministry to Niles' homeless and disadvantaged families / individuals

SPERO located at 603 N. Second Street -- one block

west of Front Street Pizza location and Riverview Park

next to St. Joseph River in downtown Niles, MI

http://sperohouseniles.org

and FACEBOOK Spero House Niles, MI

269-240-7177 

Branch bank locations of United

Federal Credit Union

(North Branch @ Second

Street, Niles Downtown;

South Branch @ 11th Street

South, Niles Twp. near Wal-Mart)

are proudly supporting

a donation drive for

local charity SPERO HOUSE,

Niles, Michigan

These items are sought:

Canned goods

Pet food

Hygiene Products

Other non-perishable items

______________________

in each United Federal 

Credit Union lobby - 

main area there are 

collecting boxes to

place your Nov. / Dec.

donations; the charity

thanks you -- the CU

is NOT an affiliate nor

does it profit/benefit

from such in-kind giving.

Schurz Library (campus of IUSB) beginning Dec. 26, 2025 CLOTHES DRIVE and give-away to student body

 events.iu.edu/southbend/2138591-

winter-clothing-drive-at-schurz-library

STAFF seek

coats,

snow pants

hats

gloves

scarves

sweaters/hoodies

boots/winter shoes

HOSTED BY LIBRARY

student advisory board

______________________

RSVP at titanatlas.iusb.edu/event

Christmas TREE's old lights ignite injuring 4 people and 1 dog

 Details at Channel 4 Washington DC

re: Montgomery County, MD (Bethesda)

nbcwashington.com/news/local/christmas-tree-fire-

ignited-by-old-lights-injures-4-people-and-dog-in-Bethesda/

4034004

12/26/2025 updated story 7:08 p.m. by investigative reporters

Sundays before Epiphany 2026 (12th day of Christmas)

 Dec. 28, 2025

Jan. 4, 2026

Christmastide

First Sunday of Christmastide - - rainy, windy, high temp. of 60

 Dec. 28, 2025

high temperature of

60 degrees F.

expected during rain,

thundershower

IN 1776, how many were resident / men, women, youth, children / in the 13 colonies that would send Representatives to enact a "Declaration of Independence"?

 Historians / demographers /

specific experts of the era of

the American Revolution put the #

2.1 to 2.5 million persons (adults -

youngsters of all sorts)

Those counting the entire population

remind those us now alive that 

500, 000

of those 2 and 1/2 million were

of African descent (some who would

remain enslaved until Juneteenth 1865

and some who were free persons of color

due to their buying their freedom or 

the prior "owners" granting them 

emancipation).  twenty percent of

Americans in 1776 were either

under "servitude" or had been

granted freedom or had "run away". . .

Will people (average Joes and Janes) read the "Declaration of Independence" in the coming year?

 January 1, 2026 (day One

of the 250th Birthday of

the free, democratic

Constitutionally-ordered

representative government)

up to 

Dec. 31, 2026 (New Year's eve

one year from now)

Which POTUS deserves credit for East Wing to the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.) in 1902?

 Theodore Roosevelt

PURPOSE: to facilitate

public entrance & in

wartime, additional

office space.  It also

hid the Emergency bunker

(PEOC) where Trump and

Melania hid during the

noisy unrest/

protesting going on during

May 31 - June 1, 2020.

UPDATE: 2025

Trump has now demolished

the East Wing in favor of a

never-fully scrutinized "Trump

Ballroom" funded by BFF 

Billionaires / Corporations of

various constituencies . . .

Plans for size of Ballroom

dimensions are apparently

expandable given what the

funds raised have amounted to.

They remained in a bunker

until the Secret Service deemed

it was safe for the couple.

What would surprise Jesus about Christmas 2025? conversation with Bart Ehrman, Scholar of New Testament & Christianity

 Nicholas Kristof column

Dec. 21 OPINION 

nytimes.com/2025/12/20/opinion/jesus-christmas-religion.html

My rating on the interaction between Kristof (non-Christian

who challenges the Univ. Professor about Christian gap

between idealism and actual history of Christian tyranny,

hypocrisy, and lack of consistent application in fields of

ethics and Christian compassion (today's lack of empathy,

listening, charity for the most impoverished and marginalized) . . .

5* out of a possible 5!

Will Americans celebrate December 31 as a "Cake Day" or Hogmanay (Scottish word meaning "May I have an Oatmeal Cake, Please") ?

 Almanac dot-com

THE OLD FARMER's ALMANAC

is promoting

Dec. 31 as

Hogmanay Day;

Scotland's children ask

neighbors / relatives on that day,

"HogManAy?"

may I have an oatmeal cake, Please!

Was chattel slavery of American plantations different from the routine slavery of the ancient world?

 DISCUSSION:

Apologists for the acceptance of slavery in the Bible

have sometimes asserted that ancient slavery was 

different from the chattel slavery of American rural

plantation system.  Such an argument can be found in

writings by abolition-favoring writers who display

embarrassment with supporters who cite Bible 

exemplars with slave owning instances.  NO

SUCH HISTORICAL SUPPORT CAN BE MAINTAINED. . 

John T. Noonan, Judge - Author

his 2005 book A Church that can and cannot Change:

the development of Catholic Moral Teaching (Univ.

of Notre Dame Press)

His chapter X begins with granting in 1452 of perpetual

right to reduce Saracens, pagans, infidels to slavery 

by Pope Nicholas V to King of Portugal Alfonso V.

page 62

Chocolate Potluck Cake : Easy to make, easy to carry, easy to serve right out of the pan

 Chocolate Potluck Cake

from Anne Byrn's

2001 improvisational

Chocolate from the CAKE
MIX

Doctor (Workman Publishing)

Cake is from DEVIL's FOOD

Cake Mix, also 1 cup Vanilla

Yogurt, 1/2 cup Water, 1/2

cup vegetable oil, 3 large eggs;

Topping is 1/3 cup finely

chopped pecans, 1/3 cup light

brown sugar (packed in measuring

cup), 1/3 cup semi-sweet choc.

chips;

topping and cake bake together.

Trump removed envoys from countries from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia [ including Nigeria where a war against IS continues ]

Between Dec. 21 and Dec. 28, using excuse of alignment

of State Dept. resources with Trump 2.0 "America First" priorities

AMBASSADOR/Envoy position staff removed from 

Guatemala, Suriname

Nepal, Sri Lanka

Algeria & Egypt

Armenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia

6 Asian countries including Vietnam

13 African countries including Nigeria

[ where a war against ISLAMIC STATE has broken out ] 

Never before 2025 has the United states

Commander-in-Chief recalled 30

envoys / diplomats in charge of

our embassies from 30 countries such as these:

nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-administration-ambassadors-posts.html

In Memoriam -- 20 names we cherished -- international figures of renown

Jan. 1 - Dec. 27

these 20 figures of culture, politics,

entertainment, those of historic

and 21st century development

have died these last 51 weeks

and are among many we 

will long remember and memorialize:

Giorgio Armani;

H. Rap Brown;

Pope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio);

Dick Cheney (VP in 2000 decade);

Frank Gehry (architect);

Jane Goodall;

Gene Hackman;

Diane Keaton;

Val Kilmer;

Charlie Kirk;

David Lynch;

Chuck Mangione;

Willie Mays (sports star);

Rod Paige (Sec. of Education);

Robert Redford;

Rob Reiner;

David Souter (retired Justice);

Sly Stone;

Tom Stoppard;

Brian Wilson (composer;singer)

Latino Music

The GRAMMYs SALUTE:

Latin/Hispanic/Spanish language

songs - artists

in a 2-hour

CBS special 

new for 2025

8 - 10 p.m. 

SUNDAY Dec. 28, 2025

time approximate after 60 Minutes and 4 - 7 p.m.

NFL Football game

(check local listings) 

The re-release of an Extended LOTR: The Return of the King will require four and a-half hours

 DETAILS at

ign.com/articles/

all-3-Lord-of-the-Rings-movies-

are-returning-to-theaters-in-extended-edition-form-

so-prepare-yourself-for-hours-and-hours-of-

middle-earth-fun-all-over-again

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (re-release to DBOX theaters) : Jan. 16, 2026 for twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hit Global Feature success

 The Fantasy Adventure will be released in its

extended version

2 hours, 58 minutes in this

2026 movie-event (DBOX /4DX).

It is based on the Writings of

J.R.R. Tolkien : LORD of the RINGS

trilogy.

Director Peter Jackson

had also re-released it earlier in 2011 for

a 10-year anniversary.

Host of Christmas Eve Jazz Music Concert (D.C. annually) threatened with lawsuit by Grenell, Trump's deputy who oversaw new SIGN-lettering adding his boss' name out front

The Building (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)

was designated 

by act of Congress to be 

"living memorial" to JFK

(our 20th Century young President assassinated

Nov. 1963 in Dallas TX).

For 2 decades in D.C.

a variety of Jazz musicians 

would perform a Xmas Eve concert;

Mr. Chuck Redd began as host in 2006.

He decided last Friday when POTUS

Trump 2.0 and the current board/management

added the Trump name to the building

facade and the center's website that he would

cancel the Jazz concert. 

NYTimes.com KENNEDY Center chief

threatens lawsuit in a letter [$1 million)

article for TIMES by Tim Balk, 12:47 a.m.

12/27/2025

Uncertainty about whether the ticket buyers would 

receive refunds. / / / also reply from the D.C.

musician 

Israel opts to recognize SOMALILAND, a break-away province of SOMALIA

 NYTimes.com/2025/12/26/world/middleeast/

israel-recognize-somaliland.html

On Friday the 26th, Israel became the first nation

to diplomatically recognize the small "SOMALILAND"

autonomous region that broke away from Somalia 

34 years ago.

The moves drew condemnation from Egypt

along with Turkey, Djibouti, and Somalia itself.

Most Muslim nations in the Middle East and beyond

but EGYPT and TURKEY are notable exceptions.

STORY By reporters

Abdi Latif Dahir & Richard Perez-Pena of the TIMES

South Haven, MI -- watch the New Year's "ball" drop at the stroke of midnight

 Will host its annual "BEACH BALL DROP"

Dec. 31, 2025 11:59 and Jan. 1, 2026 12:01 Midnight

southhaven.org/events/new-years-eve-celebration

3 weeks from now : at GOSHEN COLLEGE church-chapel

 Eighth annual Michiana Regional 

Seed Swap from

9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Saturday Jan. 17, 2026

If you save seeds, bring them

along; there will be lots of

free seeds available!

Food for purchase available

at this welcoming event in

mid-January.

goshen.edu/about/news-events/

events/eighth-annual-michiana-regional-seeds-swap

Nigerian consent to US Military jet attacks in Sokoto State, north of Lagos follows Trump earlier threat to end Aid sent to this W. African nation (220 million)

16+ Tomahawk missiles fired from a Navy

ship in the Gulf of Guinea striking camps of ISIS or

Islamic State insurgents/allies

in Tangaza in Sokoto State

ground assessment will be needed in the future

among the Lakurawa

in an area widely populated by Muslim residents . . .

NIGERIAN officials had

denied the truth to the claim that they were

"allowing the slaughter of Christians" 

NYTimes.com/2025/

world/Africa/trump-nigeria-military-christians.html

world/Africa/trump-isis-strikes-nigeria-christians-facts.html

Christmas Night

8 p.m. Eastern Time

next day (Nigerian time in

other hemisphere)

washingtonpost.com/

"US Strikes ISIS in Nigeria after

Trump 'warning'/rhetoric about Christian

killings" POTUS claimed a "genocide" was going on

12/25/2025 online article

Newsmaker of the Year: a North Star of moral clarity

Pope Leo XIV

National Catholic Reporter

online names the newly

elected POPE as "NEWSMAKER

of the YEAR"

ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/

pope-leo-xiv-ncrs-newsmaker-year-2025

posted

15 December 2025

One week until the next Year's first FULL MOON (a Super Moon)

 The FULL

Wolf Moon

Jan. 3, 2026 will

be a NEW YEAR calendar /

almanac event with full 

illumination at 

5:03 a.m. that Saturday.

[ the ninth day of Christmas ]

EPIPHANY is the 12th day of Christmas!

Martyrdom of Deacon Stephen (early church advocate for poor) -- St. Stephen's Day (annually is Dec. 26)

 Lack of Specificity about whether or not

it took place on a date near Winter solstice /

Hanukkah between harvest - colder, rainier time

of year -- 

it is confirmable that on AD 415 the remains of the

martyr were taken to the Church of Hagia Sion on

December 26.

original telling of his martyrdom

Acts of the Apostles

chapters 6 - 8.

Very famous cathedrals

named after this saint-martyr

are in Vienna and Toulouse.

Delroy Lindo, Movie & TV actor of "Sinners" and "Believe" (2014)

 Denver Film Festival winner of 

Career Achievement Award

from work in 

Sinners (2025)

"Farmer Bridge Assistance" program -- only for Row Farmers who "check all the boxes"

 details about how this

Socialism for the Ag Sector program

may not help any of the hardest hit

but the side-effects / aftermath

of TRUMP

Tariff program placed onto China :

OREGON Public Broadcasting (OPB)

opb.org/article/2025/12/23/oregon-farmers-agriculture-commodity-bail-out.html

126th Annual Christmas Day Bird Count - Audubon Clubs nationwide - Elkhart County (IN) is scheduled after 1/1/26

12/25/2025 

Michigan AUDUBON dot-org

The-Christmas-Bird-Count-All-Are-Welcome

posted online

Dec. 5, 2025

read the FAQ

it is free!

Surveys take place within established circles,

15 miles in diameter.

Christmas Day

Michiana Audubon Club, White Pigeon, MI

Facebook.com/

MichianaAudubonClub

Mark Zaid, Washington attorney for whistleblowers

Trump's authoritarian sweep

to take away constitutional and

national security clearance from

prominent D.C. Attorney

MARK ZAID and 14 other

individuals was denied by

a judge Tues. 12/23 (according

to reporting of PBS and CBS News)

PBS.org/newshour/politics/judge-blocks-trump-effort-to-

strip-security-clearance-from-attorney-who-represented-whistleblowers

Thanks -- Readers and visitors to this Google BLOG -- on this Social Media Page 9 years ago today (2016)

Today - December 1 -- 201 Page Views -- 

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December 3 :     291 page views

December 4 -- 250 Page Views -- December 5 -- 162 Page Views  -- Dec. 6 -- 279 page views - - Dec. 7 -- 261 page views; Dec. 8 -- 209 page views; Dec. 9 - 267 page views; Dec. 10 - 162 page views; Dec. 11 -- 285 page views; Dec. 12 -- 367 page views; Dec. 13 -- 242 page views -- Dec. 14: 296 page views. Dec. 15: 300 page views Dec. 16: 368 page views; Dec. 17: 302 page views; 12/18: 340 page views; December 19 : 271 page views; Dec. 20 : 240 page views; Dec. 21 : 253 page views.Dec. 22 = 434; Dec. 23 = 280.   

Christmas Eve (12/24/2016) = 208 page views.
Thank You for your interest in visiting this compendium of news and notable events and anniversaries.  FROM -- Editor and author TIM SHAW

faithfor2008.blogspot.com/

Memorial Service (at a later T.B.Announced date)

Rob Reiner

Michele Reiner

were found dead on Sunday

Dec. 14, 2025 -- death certificate

information and expectation on

MEMORIAL SERVICE

variety.com/2025/film/

new/rob-reiner-died-minutes-

after-knife-inuries-memorial-

service-1236616737/

The "death" of Iranian nuclear enrichment sites : Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan

 June 22, 2025

"Bunker Busting missiles"

"Mother of all ordinance bombs"  [ M.O. A. B. ]

GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator

Trump claims success after bombing

key nuclear sites in Central & N. Iran

nytimes.com/live/2025/06/21/world/

israel-iran-trump

Supreme Court blocks Trump's use of National Guard (Dec. 2025)

 Major Defeat:

Trump 2.0 cannot claim

authority to deploy

National Guard for

law enforcement as if

it is a routine matter . . .

National Capital Planning Commission

 Jan. 2025

The Governmental supervisory / oversight group

will meet next month to review the

demolition of the East Wing

(1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.);

the 90,000 sq. foot ballroom will

be the primary topic . . .

Las Posadas

 Las Posadas (Advent tradition with group traveling

from place to place as "Holy Family" of Joseph, Mary, infant

Jesus :

this year at

U.S. Mexico border wall

+200 people (Sat. Dec. 20)

ncronline.org/news/posada-us-mexico-border-highlights-plight-migrants

CHURCH of the NATIVITY: Bethlehem Christmas Tree in Manger Square (West Bank)

Advent Season 

pre-Christmas "countdown" to

Dec. 25, 2025

BBC dot-com .UK

reports that the City authorities

and merchants have lit the Christmas

displays for the first time since

Oct. 7, 2023 attacks from HAMAS and

other terrorist kidnapping and killing of

those near Gaza urban and rural locations.

Dec. 6, 2025 -- St. Nicholas (an ancient

church Bishop of Myra [ modern-day Iznik,

Turkey ] who took part in the 

Nicaea Council in 325 Common Era --

1,700 years ago this fall.

NBC aired from St. Peter's Square -- the Christmas Midnight Mass -- finished at 1:26 a.m. Eastern Time Zone USA

POPE's message

at Christmas 2025

In a world wounded by discord,

violence, and conflict

where we also witness a growth

in aggression and anger,

often exploited by both the 

digital sphere and politics

Christmas invites everyone

to work for peace and universal fraternity!

__________________________________

before the Midnight Mass -- Pope LEO XIV

apologized in English & Italian to those

left outside of the basilica:

Welcome! Basilica of St. Peter's

is very large, but unfortunately

it is not large enough to receive

all of you.  I admire and respect

and thank you for your courage

and your wanting to be here this

evening. . .

Despite the weather, we want to

celebrate the Christmas feast

together Please follows the 

celebration on the screen.

Dec. 2025 blog Statistics

 Month of December

2025

December 1 (Monday)            1,959

Dec. 2                                       1,522

Dec. 3                                       1,712

Dec. 4                                        1,166

Dec. 5                                           772

Dec. 6 (St. Nicholas' Day)         1,098

2nd Sunday of Advent               1,228

Dec. 8                                         1,831

Dec. 9                                         2,736 [most views / visits during 31 days of Dec. ]

Dec. 10                                       1,446

Dec. 11                                        2,402

Dec. 12                                        1,312

Dec. 13                                        1,511

3rd Sunday of Advent                  1,333

Dec. 15                                         1,372

Beethoven's Birthday                    1,307

Dec. 17                                          1,250

Dec. 18                                             874

Dec. 19                                           1,146

Dec. 20                                            1,178

Winter Solstice                                 1,197

Dec. 22                                                676

Dec. 23                                                738

Xmas Eve                                          1,144

Xmas Day                                             681

Merry Christmas to all!

Boxing Day                                          1,302

Dec. 27                                                 1,348

Dec. 28

Dec. 29

Dec. 30

New Year's Eve

Total (entire month, 31 days) =     36,463

Another translation of "Stille Nacht" (words by Franz Gruber) -- first posted 2015 -- Dec. 21st ten years ago

1. Silent night, peaceful night!
All things sleep, shepherds keep
Watch on Bethlehem's silent hill;
And unseen, while all is still,
Angels watch above,
Angels watch above.

2. Bright the star shines afar,
Guiding trav'lers on their way;
Who their gold and incense bring,
Offerings to the promised King,¹
Child of David's line,²
Child of David's line.

3. Light around! joyous sound!
Angel voices wake the air;
"Glory be to God in heav'n;
Peace on earth to you is giv'n,
Jesus the Saviour is come,³
Jesus the Saviour is come."

Note:

1. Or: "Peace on earth to you is giv'n,"

2. Or: "Christ the Saviour's come."

3. Or: "Christ the Saviour's come."

http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/silent_night_peaceful_night.htm

Signage change of "Kennedy Center" to the new name ("TRUMP_KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS") -- D.C. residents take note : the Kennedy Center Honors took place before Sign Changing

New Signage installed early on Friday, Dec. 19 

CNN Reports that workmen have posted :

"TRUMP KENNEDY"

Dec. 18, 2025 -- following a meeting of the Board of

the National Center for

PERFORMING ARTS -- a voted proposal

from the Trump-Vance officials who now

run the Concert Hall - facilities for music,

dance, theater, symphony performances

to change the name to include POTUS 47

may need a formal

"ACT OF CONGRESS"

to achieve the name

uniting . . .

Most Complex and Secretive Military operation in history: Crossing the Delaware River

In honor of the U.S. Army's 250th Birthday

how about recognizing and honoring the

Revolution War Forefathers / spies / counter-intelligence

agents and grunts who got General Washington

across the Delaware

to surprise-attack on Christmas 

12/25 - 26 / 1776

the British troops occupying

New Jersey colony

?

Producer - director - aviator Howard Hughes born on this date in history

Dec. 24, 1905 in

Humble, TX just north of

Houston.  He studied at

Rice University and at the

California Institute of Technology

in Pasadena, CA.  Notably

produced blockbuster films in

the 1930s : Hell's Angels

Scarface

The Outlaw.

His business ventures,

Hughes Aircraft and Hughes

Helicopters were worth $5.5

billion when they were sold in

the early 1980s.  He died April 5,

1976 of kidney failure.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy

AP NEWS coverage

U.S. District Judge McElroy in Providence, R.I.

blocked the transfer of FEMA / Homeland Security

funding away from certain "blue" states . . .

7:01 p.m. 12/23/2025 online coverage by

Kimberlee Kruesli . . .

In total, Kristi Noem and

her implementers reduced

$233 million out of a $1 billion

program intended to be based on

assessed risks and not on the

whims of those currently permitting

or prohibiting state exceptional

status . . .

66th day in trial of Netanyahu who faces bribery charges

 Court testimony reveals how the

Israeli P.M.

advanced regulatory decisions

worth hundreds of millions of

shekels in favor of Bezeq, in return

for positive and interventionist

coverage for himself and his family.

J POST dot-com

Jerusalem Post online article

israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/

article-881203

Five Characters in Search of an Exit -- on MeTV -- 12/24/25 at 12:35 a.m. Eastern

 Twilight Zone rerun

episode to

air on MeTV:

Five strangers awaken

in a small room with

no memory of who

they are and no idea

of how to escape

[ check local listings

as far as your MeTV station ]

Fruitcake (in 1700s became associated with Christmas) - Martha Washington

 Linda Raedisch The Secret history of Christmas baking 

Llewellyn Books, 2023

chapter 10

"Stirring Things Up"

Homemade fruitcake, which was originally

a wedding and special occasion cake,

beat gingerbread to the American

Christmas table by at least a hundred years. . .

The giant fruitcake or "great cake" with

which Martha Washington welcomed her

husband home for Christmas 1797 was

more like a raisin cake than what we

think of as a fruitcake today.  The only

fruits in it were dried currants, which

may have been all Martha could get

at the time.  The idea of a heavier cake

in which roughly chopped fruits and

nuts took the lead was reintroduced to

America by later immigrants from Ireland,

where fruitcake baking is begun a month 

or more before 12/25.  Some Irish cottages

even have a special niche in an outside wall

where the brandy-anointed cake can be

kept while it matures.  The last step

before 12/25 is to cover the cake,

like Queen Victoria's wedding cake, 

in marzipan and royal icing.

Who is the likely Next Leader in Palestine?

 who is the successor to the 90ish

Mahmoud Abbas / "Abu Mazen" who

has held control without re-election over

West Bank and P.L.O. prior authorities?

Jerusalem Post asks about

Hussein al-Sheikh

who has been named

interim president

in the event of Abbas'

sudden disappearance;

Marwan Barghouti - 

charismatic leader of

Fatah movement;

Jibril Rajoub;

Muhammad Dahlan;

Salam Fayyam.

jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-879613

Dec. 19, 2025 14:13

Four months after Harvard University compromises announcement (8/23/25) $500 million by means of educational measures - Christmas 2025 Harsh PRIVATE Letters being exchanged

Christmas 2025

further developments : NYTimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html

MORE COMPROMISES on Harvard's part :

NYTimes / us/harvard-changes-academic-freedom-trump-deal.html

August 23, 2025 5 a.m. Saturday Eastern TIME Zone

_____________________________________________

Further details (Week of August 11 - 15, 2025)

ahead of Fall Semester 2025

_________________________________________

Monday August 11, 2025 Reporters

Alan Blinder, Michael Bender, Michael S. Schmidt

NY TIMES collaborative NEWS / Politics story

"Harvard nears a deal with the $500 million settlement

that it will pay by means of educational measures -- no 

cash- payoff to Trump - Vance . . ."

/us/trump-harvard-settlement-negotiations.html

Wed. April 23, 2025

Harvard University will NOT bend to

the Trump - Vance (graduate of Yale) 

administration's demands to change 

several of its academic and administrative

policies (particular ones on student protest

and admission of international students and

any student misbehavior).

See details at THE HILL.com/homenews/education/

5265069-harvard-trump-fighting-lester-holt

Million more pages of EPSTEIN FILES yet to be released / "redacted" by Todd Blanche & Pamela Jo Bondi at D. of Justice

 Xmas EVE Startling revelation of ineptitude :

early in 2025, then-Attorney General just sworn-in

PAMELA JO BONDI

declared that she had the EPSTEIN files on "her desk"

and would share those "binders" with those cleared for

security and at level of required clearances / taking away

names of those victimized

___________________________________________

details on the 1,000,000

pages to go =

nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-news-#epstein-files-

documents-doj

Devlin Barrett and Michael Gold -- contributors

investigators for the NY TIMES

Festive and Christmas-y

Cherry Dump Cake

(requires Yellow Cake Mix, can of Cherry Pie Filling, stick + 1/2 butter, crushed pineapple,

coconut - shredded, chopped pecans for topping )

amazing how you don't need

egg

nor

oil 

How many Rob Reiner-directed major films have you seen?

 The Bucket List

Rumor Has It

Alex & Emma

Ghosts of Mississippi

The American President

North

A Few Good Men

Misery

When Harry Met Sally. . .

The Princess Bride

Stand By Me

The Sure Thing

This is Spinal Tap

[ my favorites from this list of 13 are:

When Harry Met Sally / Stand By Me /

The Princess Bride ]

Who is Pamela Jo Bondi aiming her "sights" at? John Brennan (update 12/23/2025)

FURTHER UPDATE -- CNN dot-com

"John Brennan accuses Justice Dept. of possible

judge shopping, and grand jury leaks" --

12/23/2025 posting at CNN -- [subscription required]

UPDATE: (11/8/2025)

Pamela Jo Bondi picks as her key prosecutor

to go after Jan. 2017 (8 years ago) officials

who inquired about ties between Trump-Pence

campaign and Russian operatives.  Focus for

now is DNI Clapper's document which

MAGA seeks to get revenge and retribution

for such investigation / inquiry.

Jason Quinones is a Southern District

Prosecutor in the Palm Beach, FL area

[where Mar-A-Lago is located]

_________________________________

Subpoenas expected to be issued

mid-November 2025

 James Clapper

John Brennan

_____________

current DNI Gabbard

prepared order of subpoena

for Pamela Jo Bondi . . .

Nov. 8, 2025 (Saturday before

Veterans Day 11/11)

no word lately about how

soon John Bolton will

be in court receiving

excruciating treatment for

the world to see . . . (he was

National Security Adviser who wrote

damning tell-some-not-all

book of Trump 1.0 inattention

to foreign policy consistency)

The Room Where It Happened

_______________________

Thirteen health characteristics / habits that make one more likely to suffer stroke, depression, dementia

High blood pressure

High BMI (body mass index)

High blood sugar

High total cholesterol

Depressive symptoms

Diet high in red meats, sweets, sodium, sugar-sweetened beverages

Hearing loss

Kidney disease

Pain that interferes with participatory activity

Sleep disturbances

Smoking history

Loneliness or isolation

General stress or stressful life events

Factors that cut your risk of dementia - stroke - depression

 Low to moderate alcohol intake;

Cognitive activity (daily word puzzles/reading)

Diet high in vegetables, fruit, dairy, fish, nuts

Moderate or high levels of physical activity

A sense of purpose in life

A large social network

Kennedy Center Honors individuals (from age 83 to age 67) - - 98% picked by POTUS 47 (who also has re-named the institution Trump-Kennedy Center)

 Michael Crawford is 83

Gloria Gaynor is 82

Sylvester Stallone is 79

George Strait is 73

members of KISS range from

76, 73, and 67

the honor is to be given posthumously

to drummer Ace Freehly who died at age

74 this fall.

_________________________________

Event done live at the J.F. Kennedy Center

main theater / stage in D.C.

Dec. 7, 2025

________________

Prime Time -- 

Tuesday, Dec.

23, 2025 8 - 10:30 p.m.

Eastern -- Entertainment

history-making event

featuring POTUS 47

carried only (taped)

on CBS network

(check your local listings)

Trump's love of "PHANTOM of OPERA" on Broadway, starring Michael Crawford, U.K. "star"

 6 memorable moments

from "TRUMP/Kennedy

Center Honors (episode

Dec. 7, 2025, featuring

KISS, Gloria Gaynor,

George Strait, Sylvester

Stallone)

"We miss Johnny Carson,

don't we? "

"I don't want to tell you

how many times I've seen

you (Michael Crawford) as

Phantom -- there will never

be anything like it" . . .

POTUS 47 plans to "nominate

himself" for his cultural contributions

in time for Dec. 2026 KENNEDY

HONORS at the Kennedy Center . . .

Trump personally handed out medals to Crawford, Strait, Gaynor, KISS original band members, Stallone - - at Oval Office Friday gathering Dec. 5, 2025 ahead of Dec. 7 GALA

SUNDAY Dec. 7, 2025 -- evening highlights include 

GARTH BROOKS wearing six-inch platform shoes,

Kelsey Grammer extolling the virtues of

Michael Crawford

and Kurt Russell extolling

Sylvester Stallone . . .

those singing a tribute song were

Miranda Lambert / Brooks & Dunn

-- sang "Amarillo by Morning"

for songwriter-singer George Strait

_ _ _ _ _ _

Deniece Williams honored Gloria

Gaynor, DISCO's 'First Lady"

- - - - - - - - - - -

Cheap Trick honored the KISS

band members present (Paul Stanley

& Gene Simmons)

________________________________

Johnny Carson was a late

20th Century Media "Star" / entertainer

Another NBC star of a longstanding

series -- The TONIGHT Show

_____________________________

Instead of giving his honorees the

benefit / insider privilege of sitting

with him and FLOTUS in the President's

box, Trump 2.0 acted as a "Johnny Carson-like"

 Emcee - Host

of the

Kennedy Center Honors

2025

__________________

33 years ago, Johnny

Carson retired after a

generational

term of being the late night talk

show weekday

host for NBC at Burbank,

CA from 1962 - 1992. In 2005

Carson died at age 79, 3 mos.

in Los Angeles of emphysema.

Ukraine -- funding of $105 billion for the European besieged nation (Ukraine) from EU

 Thursday Dec. 19, 2025

THE European Union has announced

$105 billion funding plan

and had intended to use

Russia's frozen assets (since

2021 invasion) -- "This will address

the urgent financial needs of Ukraine"

said ANTONIO COSTA, the president

of the European Council in an early morning

news conference in Brussels (capital /

adm. center) of the EU.

Timing was important as Ukraine was

expected to begin running out of money

early in 2026.

No ifs, ands_, or buts

 Wall Street Journal

(owner-publisher Rupert

Murdoch)

reports Dec. 17, 2025 that

DONALD JOHN TRUMP

has been told by his friend-

adviser ALAN DERSHOWITZ

that

the CONSTITUTIONALITY

of a 3rd Term is "unclear"

EXCLUSIVE reporting for

the WSJ.com

Angola to Zimbabwe : new / partial VISA RESTRICTIONS imposed by Trump-Rubio State Department (pull in the "welcome mat")

 List of Countries stretches from "A" to "Z"

Afghanistan

Angola

Antigua & Barbida

Benin

Dominica

[Cote de Ivoire] / Ivory Coast

Gabon

Gambia

Malawi

Mauritania

Nigeria

Senegal

Tonga

Tanzania

Zanzibar

Zimbabwe

the latest manifestation of

the President's disdain for

immigrants from what he calls

admittedly the sh*t house

developing countries of

Africa and Asia/Middle East

stories of those "fired" in 2025 by Trump : 317,000

 WVPE dot-org (NPR affiliate

Michiana / N. Indiana Radio station)

wvpe.org/npr-news/2025-12-18/under-trump-317-000-workers-

are-out-of-work-here-are-3-of-their-stories

Liz Goggin, Vet. Administration

Mahri Stanniak, Maine, Office of Personnel Management

Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service

On this date in 1968, 82 crew members of the U.S.S. PUEBLO released by N. Korea

 On this date

Dec. 23, 1980

11 months after they were

captured,

North Korean military at last released

the U.S. Naval Crew of the Pueblo 

[ it was a covert intelligence-gathering

ship, hiding nearby the N. Korean boundary ]

Rob Reiner's family film _The Princess Bride_

St. Joseph County Public Library's Main Branch

downtown South Bend, IN

sjpcl.com/ 

part of a LIBRARY sponsored film series

at main library's viewing theater

Leighton Auditorium

Feb. 6, 2026 [ FACEBOOK

online post has entire Series 2025-2026 ]

6 - 8 p.m.

FREE 

details at

visitsouthbend.com/event/the-page-to-screen-

film-series/8747

Departure of the House and the Senate for 14-day vacation : no action on Health Care Insurance assistance/subsidies

NBC News dot-com/ politics/ Congress/

Congress-leaves-town-2026- no-health-care-deal-

forcing-premium-hikes-rcna249817

5 a.m. Sat. Dec. 20, 2025 

Gone on a Hanukkah and

early winter (Solstice, Dec. 24 - 26, Kwanzaa,

New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Epiphany)

BREAK;

allowing the ACA subsidies to

lapse or leave the minds of

anyone who cared . . .

Nick Fuentes - white nationalist / white supremacist / defamer of VP Vance's wife Usha

further Nick Fuentes story --

dateline Dec. 22, 2025 7:45 p.m.

USA TODAY

JD Vance lashes out after Nick

Fuentes insults his wife Usha

BREAKING NEWS (11/17/2025)

"Trump Defends Tucker Carlson

after Nick Fuentes Interview"

NY TIMES summary - details by

Reporter Chris Cameron 

read the details at

www.wired.com/

" For years, influencer

Nick Fuentes was too extreme

for MAGA.  Now he's working 

his way into the mainstream

and he has a plan for his secret followers

to seize the levers of power"

David Gilbert online article

[subscription] - Sept. 2025

Fuentes has contempt for his

committed followers -- calling them

Groypers.

White Supremacist Ideologues

Christian Nationalist self-described

as "America Firsters".

after a decade of livestreaming

hate-filled diatribes, the death

of Charlie Kirk has accelerated

the venomous attacks of Fuentes

Ballroom -- estimates rise in Fall, 2025 from $250 million to $300 million to be fundraised from Billionaire / Corporate donors

UPDATE: CBS News follows up with Sen. Blumenthal (CT)

about those at Private Fundraiser seeking to get those who

want influence or to support Trump demolition and "no- Turning Back"

approach to BALLROOM -- to be done in "Trump STYLE"

CBS News.com/news/white-house-ballroom-blumenthal-details-

architect-donor-dinner-details

Dec. 22, 2025 8:47 p.m. ONLINE Article posted

__________________________________________________

Wed. Oct. 22 -- NBC News quotes 

officials that

entire East Wing is to be

DEMOLISHED in days;

Trump estimate on funds raised/

costs of new "Ballroom" -- ~$300 million

October 21 -- 9 p.m. 
REUTERS platform

"White House says it will submit

ballroom plans for review

now that demolition is

underway" Reuters.com

Jonathan Edwards & Dan Diamond reporters

"Part of White House demolished for ballroom,

contradicting Trump's claim"

see Washington POST dot-com

coverage of the immediately proceeding of the

clearing of White House planted trees (some historically

significant on the grounds of the landmark U.S. residence

of POTUS & FLOTUS) -- 15 Sept. 2025

_____________________________________________ 

NBC NEWS has the details

PETER NICHOLAS Story

posted Saturday 9/13/2025

5:38 p.m. Eastern

"Trump says the

new WHITE HOUSE

ballroom will be a

little bigger than initially

planned "

ESTIMATES at

$200 million -- to be

personally paid by "donors".

40% increase so as to accomodate

900 dancers / socialites / guests.

Hallelujah! A soulful celebration (conducted by Quincy Jones) - Grammy Winner

 Handel's Messiah

(1992) Grammy win for

MervynWarren.com/discography

The final song on the

CD is

"Hallelujah Chorus"

all- star choir!

At the brink of winter

 from The Collected Poems of

William Carlos Williams

"At the brink of winter

planting the bulbs

Sh!

she said to the garden,

They are going to sleep!"

pages 348 - 349

Emine_ Erdogan urged FLOTUS Melania to support children of Gaza : Unite our voices -- late August 2025 -- no such letter from her desk publicized

DETAILS AT

BBC.com/news/article/cn47ppy382wo

The First Lady of Turkey (spouse of Pres. Erdogaan)

wrote publicly an open letter to

Melania Trump (3rd wife of

Donald J. Trump) as FLOTUS

to write Benjamin Netanyahu

on behalf of the "CHILDREN" of

Gaza before he authorizes an

all-war on the Gaza City / Territory

location where children and families

reside.

reuters dot-com / August 23, 2025

DATELINE : Ankara or Istanbul, TURKEY

FLOTUS Michelle Obama : just-published book "The Look" (CROWN Publishing)

 More than a coffee-table tome

a tome revealing much about

POLITICS

less about FASHION

_________________________

Already an Amazon Best-Seller

Third installment in her

TRILOGY that focus on

Self-Realization

First Ladies who did unpaid TV appearances / non-profit media gigs

 FLOTUS Nancy (Davis) Reagan

appeared on an episode of

Diff'rent Strokes  (1983 season)

as well as

Sesame Street (in 1985).

In both cases she was not

promoting herself but instead

Reading

& 

the "Just Say No" campaign.

_________________________

Mrs. George H.W. Bush (Barbara)

appeared on an episode of

Sesame Street in 1989 (#2660);

Hillary Clinton in 1993 for the

Season 25 premiere episode;

among a list of appearances,

FLOTUS Michelle Obama

appeared in 2009 for the show's

40th Anniversary, talking about

her non-profit "Let's Move" 

initiative on healthy exercise

and eating for kids & youth.

Healthy, natural flavored protein-rich snack pie

 From Redefine Foods:

Skippy Oatmeal Protein Pie

(natural flavoring with other

natural flavors) Non-GMO 

with 15g Protein and 10g

Dietary Fiber (from Oats &

Peanut & Corn Fiber)

glad I used my CVS "dollars"

for its $2.75 price at Granger, IN

12/22/2025

Queen of Slovenian Desserts : Made every year for Christmas celebrations

This is SLOVENIA

advent online calendar

POTICA -- queen of

Slovenian desserts

slovenia.si/this-is-slovenia/

potica-queen-of-slovenian-desserts

What is Potica? - mentioned in Mrs. Trump's autobiography

a Slovenian pastry

_________________________

World Figure POPE FRANCIS

asks Melania if she has cooked/

baked it for her husband Donald

(see book review of her 184-page

autobiography published pre-2024 

election)

nytimes.com/2024/10/31/opinion/

melania-trump-donald.html

Amazon Documentary - FLOTUS salary to be $28 million

Oct. 14, 2025 DATELINE

Palm Beach, FL

Mar-a-Lago Golf Course and resort/restaurant

AMAZON will release the feature-length document, directed

by Brett Rattner and starring Melania (Knauss) Trump, POTUS

47's 3rd wife and mother of the 19-year-old Barron Trump, NYU

student in Business undergraduate-level, Washington, DC Branch

campus. . .

The FLOTUS reportedly gained a salary of $28 million as "Star"

and executive producer.  It will open in theaters Jan. 30, 2026 next year

and after its theatrical run it will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime

video service.

_______________________________________________

NEW YORK magazine

nymag.com/intelligencer/article/melania-trump-

documentary-amazon.html

Among executive producers are MELANIA herself,

and Fernando Sulichin (Argentinian producer);

Pay-out = $40 million // FLOTUS salary $28 million.

___________________________________________

Busy 24-day out-of-public-eye period due to 

travel between New York City, Florida, and D.C.

residences/official address.  

She defended her 24-day absence, saying that she will

never be a "traditional First Lady" . . .

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

People Magazine quote / source

She hasn't spent meaningful time at 1600

Pennsylvania in an official capacity . . .

AMAZON billionaire and new Trump BFF

Jeff Bezos -- hired Brett Ratner to follow around

the third Mrs. Trump while she steps away from

official duties to take a break from official duties ? ? !

Unclear whether any other Trump family members

will appear in the non-fiction film or docu-series.

It will have a theatrical release, even if limited.

Muse_ Films Production company will release FLOTUS documentary Jan. 30 next year

More details The HILL platform

thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5652663-melania-trump-

film-trailer-unveiled/?tbref=hp

Tara Suter - correspondent/BLOGGER - Wed. Dec. 17 online

article

"Melania" documentary

is on schedule for Jan. 30

2026 theatrical release

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/

melania-trump-production-company-muse-films-

1236432711/

This sets a historical precedent for a FLOTUS while

in Office to seek to make films under the aegis of

a for-profit Production company (Hollywood, CA).

Past First Ladies like Nancy (Davis) Reagan who

had a film and TV career were not releasing

film documentaries for profit about their impact

on Washington, the nation, and the world.

Such media appearances (guest shots on

Sesame Street (PBS) for example) were

charitable in nature, NOT for-profit, benefitting herself.

Chronicle of Melania Knauss (3rd Mrs. Trump) -- documentary by Brett Rattner

 titled

Melania

Cast to include

Melania Trump as

herself

she will also 

Executive Produce

this "Chronicle"

and receive salary

from AMAZON corporation

[ owned by billionarie

Jeff Bezos ]

her 20-day preparation to

be FLOTUS (First Lady)

ahead of Jan. 20, 2025.

It will open in theaters

Friday Jan. 30, 2026

details at

DEADLINE.com/ Dec. 17

online article

Trove of Critical Minerals / Rare earth elements found in Utah Desert (early December 2025)

 Exclusive:

Thursday Dec. 11, 2025

Wall Street Journal online article

Mineral production company IONIC

tells how it discovered 16 rare earth

and critical minerals that will help

the U.S. compete with China . . .

Dec. 11, 2025 5:30 a.m. Eastern

lithium

alumina

germanium

rubidinum

cesium

vanadium

niobium

in Utah's Silicon Ridge. 

At Hanukkah reception (1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) -- $400 million price tag offhandedly given by Redecorator-in-Chief

 The Hill platform / web media

reports from a HANUKKAH

reception in WHITE HOUSE

Dec. 17, 2:25 p.m. 

1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.

that the new expected spending total

for an enormous BALLROOM (The

Trump Ballroom) will be

$400 million,

twice what he originally

announced and then

commenced demolition

of the East Wing.

thehill.com/  trump-cost-new-ballroom-400m

Super Moon 1st Full Moon of 2026

Saturday

January 3, 2026. 

a SUPER MOON.

The first FULL MOON

for calendar year 2026 will be

the FULL WOLF MOON

full illumination at 5:03 a.m.

Eastern Time.  see further

ALMANAC dot-com

"Old Farmer's Almanac"

astronomy facts and interesting

trivia

Departure of co-deputy, Dan Bongino -- will soon leave FBI HQ and return to podcasting New Year 2026

DEC. 17 2025 early evening

CNN has "scoop" that 

Dan Bongino will soon

leave the D of J and his spot as an

outsider, running the FBI for Kash

Patel with another co-deputy

DETAILS FORTHCOMING . . .

AXIOS reports that he had "cleared

his desk at the FBI" and intends to

"return to his show"/podcast

NY TIMES is reporting on Patel law

grad since 2005 (degree from Pace Univ.

School of Law), worked in DOJ as a prosecutor,

also a national security advisor, 

and his deputy

who had NYPD and Secret Service in his resume'

"Unease at FBI intensifies as Patel ousts top officials"

(June 1, 2025) us/politics/fbi-patel.html

__________________________________________

USA TODAY is reporting on Friday 16 May 2 p.m.

Eastern that the newly confirmed FBI Head and

his Deputy decided to close

the J.Edgar Hoover office due to its danger.

He told FOX NEWS that his agents & office

workers need to go fight crime outside of

Washington / Maryland / Virginia environs.

usatoday.com/

May 16, 2025

Chloe Zhao's 2025 feature film _HAMNET_

UPDATE: Today it was at the VICKERS THEATRE nearby

in Berrien County (art house sm. town movie house in

Three Oaks, MI) for a 1 p.m.

SUNDAY Dec. 21 (once- only showing) -- should be back in winter/

early spring!

 The next big

William Shakespeare film,

Hamnet

had a limited U.S. release 26 Nov. 2025.

With a broader general release on Dec. 5

it is already in Release to Theaters across

the United States.  Unlike other major

"contenders" for the award season of 2026,

it will be the major movie of Universal Pictures

upcoming.  as a pay-per-view or Cable focussed

feature, details are yet t.b.a. to be announced fully.

It will be interesting to see whether it will be 

called "Paul Mescal's" HAMNET or Zhao's Hamnet

during the media blitz upcoming. . .

St. Thomas Day -- how to observe it

 Line of poetry / rhyme

Line of advice on Dec. 21 (Winter Solstice)

St. Thomas Day, St. Thomas gray,

The Longest night and the Shortest day.

____________________

In England it was observed as

Thomasmas

people went door to door

"Thomasing_" or "Gooding"

in their communities -- asking

for donations of money or food :

this practice ensured that no one

went without for Christmas.

_____________________

In parts of Central Europe

the custom on St. Thomas Day

was to scare away demons or

evil spirits with screeching,

banging, howling with fearful

costumes

_____________________

Suggestion: make

Kletzenbrot

a dried fruit bread from Austria

traditionally made on Dec. 21

Stonehenge celebration draws 8,500 to Salisbury Plain

AP (Associate Press) coverage of

Dec. 20 -- alignment of the sunrise

at the WINTER SOLSTICE for

the prehistoric stone circle

AP News.com/article/winter-solstice-stonehenge 

Hymn about the doubting Thomas (disciple and later Apostle to India) : lyric by J.R. Darbyshire

 Who dreads, yet undismayed

Dares face his terror;

Who errs, yet having strayed

Avows his error --

Him let St. Thomas guide,

Who stirred his fellows' pride

To move to death beside

Their Lord and Master!

Who longs for guidance clear

When doubts assail him,

Nor dares to move for fear

Lest faith should fail him --

For such let Christ's reply

To his discples' cry

'I AM THE WAY,' supply

The light in darkness.

Who grieves that love lies dead

On fate's wheel broken;

And stands uncomforted

By any token --

His faith shall be restored

By Christ's compelling word

When Thomas saw the Lord,

And seeing worshipped!

Thomas Didymus

 From GREEK (Koine or Classical)

"Thomas the Twin"

besides THOMAS the APOSTLE

other famous Saint Thomases are

St. Thomas Aquinas (whose feast day is Jan. 28 annually)

and

St. Thomas More (whose feast day is July 6 annually)

Archbishop of Westminster (U.K.) historic bishopric

 80-year-old retires

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

(16 years tenure in that

church leadership role (R.Catholic))

as of Dec. 19, 2025;

NEWLY appointed by Pope LEO XIV

is

Bishop Richard Moth to be next

Archbishop of Westminster,

marking a generational change

of leadership in the church in

England and Wales.

Happy Birthday, Samuel L. Jackson!

 born Sept. 21, 1948

77 years young!

has appeared in 100+ films

Academy Award nominated at onset of

career for Pulp Fiction  (1994);

commercial endorser for CAPITAL One,

financial services/credit card corporation,

D.C. native

served as usher in 1968 for MLK Funeral

Morehouse College

in 1980s-1990s associated with Spike Lee

for trio of films

CBS NEWS : Tony Dokoupil

Breaking News -- after departure of

CBS co-hosts John Dickerson and

Maurice Dubois -- last broadcast DEC. 19, 6:30 - 7 p.m.

Eastern CBS Evening News

______________________________

New December 2025 anchor will be

Tony Dokoupil

interim until Jan. 26 is

Kim Harvey

11/26/2025 UPDATE :

Anti-woke crusader BARI WEISS

was hired to overhaul the CBS NETWORK

News division (Nightly News, 60 Minutes,

other programming of the past -- weekend

anchors, 48 Hours, FACE_THE_NATION,

[ she was hired to do that overhaul / mass firing

by David Weiss, new owner of PARAMOUNT + /

CBS ]

November 2025

April 28, 2025 (7 months ago)

CBS Producer BILL OWENS of

_60 Minutes_

resigned instead of being fired

by Paramount Corporation that

owns CBS News and CBS Entertainment

See CBS News.com for

"The Last Minute" Scott Pelley impersonates

Andy Rooney and tells why everyone on the

Staff is upset about his resignation after 4 decades 

QUOTATION OF Pelley former Nightly News anchor:

Paramount began to 

supervise our content

in new ways. . ./ / /

No one here is happy

about it. . .

Crypto Queen (Wyoming's Jr. Senator in U.S. Senate) -- to retire and not seek re-election

 Cynthia Lummis

served only one term as a U.S. Senator

OTHERS to retire in 2026 are

Joni Ernst (Jr. Senator, IOWA) 

Thom Tillis (NC)

Tommy Tuberville (AL)

Marsha Blackburn (TN)

__________________________

Catie Edmonson mini-profile

of the MAGA Western "power-player"

NYTimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/cynthia-lummia-reelection.html