Daily Archives: December 7, 2025

Weekend link dump for December 7

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Charles Kuffner

“Protecting children from the sometimes fatal advice of chatbots has felt like going after “Big Tobacco” in the 1990s; accusing Republicans of giving “Big Tech” whatever it wanted is the sort of anti-billionaire populism that’s second nature to most Democrats.” … Continue reading →

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A brief thought about the Jeffrey Epstein situation

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Charles Kuffner

This is from Brian Beutler’s Off Message Substack, and it’s actually about Ghislaine Maxwell, but I think you’ll take my point. Look at this week’s warning about Trump and the files from the New York Times editorial board. They rightly caution that Trump has … Continue reading →

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Of course that DPRIT lawsuit filed by crackpots was done incorrectly

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Charles Kuffner

It’s more fun this way. If an Austin court hearing this week is an early indication of how a lawsuit blocking Texas’ $3 billion dementia research fund will fare, state leaders who championed it and the voters who overwhelmingly approved it by more … Continue reading →

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Why Kerr County turned down state flood grant money

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Charles Kuffner

Very interesting. Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly … Continue reading →

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