Sun's solar maximum: coronal mass ejections

(Beyond the Obvious) The Sun is about to do something it hasn't done in 12,000 years

(Flash Discovery) Apollo astronaut finally admits the truth: why we stopped going to the Moon

Happy Festivus 2025 (Seinfeld)

Jerry Stiller was funnier than Ben

Festivus (/ˈfɛstɪvəs/) is a secular holiday celebrated annually in America on December 23 as an alternative to the perceived familial pressures and rampant commercialism and phoniness of the Christmas (Xmas) season.

Originally created by author Daniel O'Keefe, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 Seinfeld episode called "The Strike" [1, 2].

Festivus pole (complete)

In it, George's disgruntled Jewish dad, Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller), makes the whole country laugh with recognition by actually doing something to oppose Christian-Pagan Xmas mass consumerism. O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote the immortal episode.

The anti-commercial holiday's celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23rd and includes a

• Festivus dinner,
• an unadorned aluminum "Festivus pole,"
• practices such as the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength," and
• the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles" [3].

Don't call me Jewish! I'm a Festivite now.

The episode even has a tagline for all anti-Xmas folks who want to join the cultural revolution against humbug, Christmas fakery (and Chanukkah/Hanukkah mimicry of what the Goyim/Gentiles are up to), and commercial profiteering: "Festivus for the rest of us!"

It has been described both as a parody holiday festival and as a form of playful consumer resistance.[4] Journalist Allen Salkin describes it as "the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering" [1]. More

Jews call on U.N. to sanction Israel (BDS)

Wallace Shawn, Ilana Glazer, and Jonathan Glazer (Composite: Getty Images)

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Sexy Zionism: Hollywood pro-IDF's Gal Gadot

(England's The Guardian via inkl.com) Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations (U.N.) and world leaders to impose sanctions [Boycott, Divestment, Sanction] on [the racist, pariah rogue state of] Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.

(CBN) Pro-Israeli propaganda: UN vote for Palestinian statehood | (9/12/25)

(The Katie Halper Show) The People's Tribunal on Israel, Istanbul 2025

(Katie Halper) Huge blow against Pariah PM Bibi Netanyahu: Israel on trial

Israel: We own the Trump administration

Over 450 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors, and Jewish intellectuals have signed an open letter demanding accountability over Israel’s [genocidal] conduct in Gaza, the [illegally Israeli-] occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

Israel returns Palestinian bodies

(Kim Iversen) Israel returns Palestinian bodies, showing sign of torture, mutilation

I work for Israel, not US - Larry 'TikTok' Ellison

The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations. More: Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world…

Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show

CBS boss caught colluding with Israel to spy on Americans

King Trump serves Jewish Dictator Netanyahu.

(Kim Iversen) Oct. 22, 2025: Wyatt Reed is an investigative journalist and editor at The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com). His recent reporting revealed that Iran struck a secretive IDF military base in the heart of Tel Aviv during Israel's 12-Day War. He also exposes how David Ellison — the son of TikTok/Paramount/Oracle Zionist-Jewish billionaire Larry Ellison — collaborated with Israeli intelligence operatives to spy on American citizens. Reed joins Kim Iversen to break down his findings and their wider implications.

Larry Ellison's Zionist Jewish son David runs CBS News and colludes with Israel to spy on US

• Not in our name! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
• IDF confessions: breakingthesilence.org.il
• Israeli Jews against Israel: nkusa.org
• American Veterans for Peace
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Max Blumenthal's The Grayzone
• Rabbis for Ceasefire – At this moment of moral reckoning, we are speaking out to fulfill the most sacred obligation in Jewish tradition: pikuach nefesh, saving a life
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• CBS boss caught colluding with Israel to spy on Americans
• National Cyber Security Minister Tom Alexandrovich
• Top pro-Israel TPUSA donor terminated support for Charlie Kirk in days before death, sources say (The Grayzone)
• Pekka-philia: disgraced porn profiteer turned pro-Ukraine ‘disinfo expert’ could face legal action - The Grayzone
• Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows
• Arrest of Israel's Executive Director of Cyber Security Tom Artiom Alexandrovich for child sex crimes in Las Vegas

First: US politician returns AIPAC money

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Due Dissidence reports on a historic first: Jewish group (AIPAC) complains about getting its money back. Daring Rep. Seth Moulton decided to return money, bribes, inducements to do the bidding of Zionist Israel, rejecting its funding so that he could be independent and concern himself with American interests rather than supporting Zionist Jewish ones.

When I was sex trafficked, I learned this...

What I learned about all kinds of men, love, loneliness, and myself while being sex trafficked

Harvard is fighting Trump U founder

Harvard Divinity School’s Buddhist Ministry Initiative Celebrates 10th Anniversary

(Desi Lydic) Trump’s tariffs ruined reputation. does anyone still respect us?

• Buddhist Studies – Committee on the Study of Religion
• Buddhism Courses | Harvard University

Trump threatens Harvard with outlandish demands and Republican ass kissing reaches new heights

We're the next power duo team in swampy DC

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) April 15, 2025: Today is Tax Day (except in smoldering Los Angeles, which has been given until October), resurrected Joe Biden made his first appearance since leaving office at a bipartisan event about Social Security, Sen. Bernie Sanders held a rally in Nampa, Idaho, last night with AOC (the Latin beauty of The Squad), Trump University's founder is taking on Harvard University, his cabinet clearly proves that he is for merit-based hiring and admissions ONLY, the ass-kissing for Dear Leader is at levels that no one has ever seen before, Fox & Friends walked around a diner this morning asking people to praise their lord and master, and the show heads out to Hollywood Blvd. to play one of its favorite game shows, “On the Money!” #Kimmel: Subscribe

Harvard rejects Trump, SCOTUS left on read, Md. Sen. takes rescue vacay

The Squad's poster girl AOC

(The Daily Show) April 15, 2025: Ronny Chieng tackles the Trump administration shirking responsibility for a Maryland father's mistaken forced deportation removal to El Salvador, their aggressive media tirade invoking Osama Bin Laden, and Harvard's defiance of Pres. Trump. Plus, Josh Johnson explains how Trump's power changes from Harvard to El Salvador. #DailyShow #RonnyChieng #Trump #ElSalvador #Harvard

• 0:00 - Ronny Chieng's TDS open
• 0:23 - Trump ignores SCOTUS order to bring back mistakenly deported man
• 1:36 - Trump administration goes on the offense about Maryland man
• 3:39 - Maryland senator to go to El Salvador
• 4:33 - Harvard fights back against Trump
• 7:28 - Josh Johnson weighs in on Harvard resistance
• Jimmy Kimmel Live; Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, The Daily Show; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

ICE detention for all: Last Week Tonight

ICE detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) March 10, 2025: John Oliver discusses ICE detention facilities, who’s in them, who runs them and – of course – why it is totally understandable if our studio audience would rather watch Drew Barrymore’s show instead.

Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens, on Facebook like your mom would, on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news, or visit the official website for all that other stuff at once: hbo.com/lastweektonight

Crop Top Duo say Spirit Airlines is sexist

When Trump 'n Vance win and Project 2025 is implemented, will women have more or fewer rights?

Tara and Teri, the Crop Top Duo, threatened that they better get off for dressing like hot sl*ts.

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See? We said being hot is hard! It never ends. Stop staring at our crops if you don't like it and leave us be on this hot no A/C preflight seating circus!

This how we handle in Russia: topless (Femen)

Two female American passengers claim they were kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight for wearing crop tops, accusing a[n effeminate] male flight attendant of sexism.

The passengers [neither of whom are named Karen] argue that there was no dress code violation and other passengers supported them, but the situation escalated leading to their removal from the plane without a refund. [Another woman who stood up for them and her child were also booted.]

You will get off my plane and respect my...

Two female passengers have accused a Spirit Airlines [male] flight attendant of sexism after he allegedly kicked them off a plane for their choice of dress, as seen in a viral video.

“It’s just humiliating having to be escorted and treated like a criminal just because we were wearing crop tops,” one of the flyers, whose name is Tara, said.

A video of the spat shows the flight attendants telling the pair to turn the camera off as they protest their purported ejection. “There’s nothing that says you can’t [wear] a crop top,” sputters one of the duo in the clip.

“Dude, just chill.” Teri [who goes by Teresa] wrote in the caption that “everyone else agreed though that there was nothing wrong with what we were wearing and that crop tops are not against their dress code.

• Ticketed for leaving nothing to the imagination: Cops cites bikini clad American woman in 1957: 33 truly fascinating photos from the '50s era

“He then continued to treat us poorly and give us no reasoning as to why he wanted to kick us off,” Teri wrote. Tara agreed.

“Other passengers joined in and tried defending us, but ultimately a supervisor lied to us and told us either we would leave the flight or she would bring the police,” Teri explained.

Crazy security on El Al, the warlike airline of Israel with onboard missiles

and armed air marshals ready to shoot to kill, Dubai to Tel Aviv (Josh Cahill,

11/12/22). For whites, their companions, or those who can pass investigation.

“She [lied when she] told us she would rebook our flight and then once out of the plane she said there are no flights and also refused [to grant us] a refund. More (headtopics.com)

• Original article: 'Sexist' flight attendant boots female passengers over crop tops (nypost.com)
• Pro-Palestinian student protest at USC divides students | Israel's War on Gaza News (headtopics.com)
• ABC 7 Los Angeles; KCAL; New York Post via heatopics.com, 10/7/24; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradshaw, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Demented Parkinsons Joe Biden has Covid

• Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Atheist "denominations" explained (video)

Matt Baker (Useful Charts, 2/23/24); Religion for Breakfast; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Atheist "denominations" explained

Is there freedom from religion in America?

(UsefulCharts) Feb. 23, 2024: There are no "denominations" of any religion or nonreligion other than Christians, who have over 200 in the U.S. alone, with many more sects and offshoots ("splitters"). But for the purposes here, the term is being used to signify schools and groups in general. So there are the Humanist Atheists and the megachurch of the Scientist Atheists, Nontheists (aka some Buddhists) and Anti-Theists (Secularists but not Satanists, who all believe in God or else what's the point of opposing and following the prophesized Antichrist?), Materialist Atheists and Nihilist Atheists (who believe we exist by chance and will all cease to exist and enter oblivion at death), those darn Snarky Standup Comedian Atheists and the lowly Spiritual Atheists who don't believe in God because they heard the XTC song "Dear God" and really liked it. 

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• Go Jewish: Kill for Zionist-Israel: Israeli militants heading into Gaza's Rafah City to steal more land and continue war crime of ethnic cleansing in their genocide, Warlord Netanyahu tells CBS Joe Biden is behind us, so who can be against us?

LA rains, floods; Trump loses in court (JKL)

News with Jimmy Kimmel, 2/6-7/24; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Surf's up. California drying out, expecting next storm in 9 days (LA Times via Yahoo News)

A little rain never hurt anyone, but large amounts like this falling for days is killer.

At my next insurrection, I'm canceling all these judges and installing loyal ones.

• California sea-level rise: King tides reach LA beaches
• How soaked is So. California? Astonishing rainfall totals
• Some rain, snow still on tap for SoCal, but worst of deadly winter storm has passed
• Record rainfall, triple-digit winds, hundreds of mudslides. Here's California's storm by the numbers
• Send the water to Utah's Great Salt Lake, which is getting a large influx of water

Trump’s claim to be immune from prosecution for his crimes REJECTED, Taylor Swift Super Bowl bets, Apple's new virtual reality helmet, LeVar Burton's banned Book Rainbow

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 6, 2024: It’s been raining cats and dogs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, you can bet all things Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl, Donald Trump wasn’t even on the ballot at the Republican primary in Nevada, the DC Federal Appeals Court issued their much-anticipated decision telling Trump he doesn't have “presidential immunity,” apparently Don John wants to debate Joe Biden immediately, the new Apple “Vision Pro” goggles are taking over, and LeVar Burton weighs in on the banning of books in America.

Nikki Haley’s embarrassing loss to "No One," Tucker has the guts to interview Pres. Putin, the Super Bowl heads to Vegas as Taylor Swift races back from Japan

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 7, 2024: Nikki Haley ran basically unopposed in the Nevada primary and still managed to lose to “None of These Candidates,” Facebook and Instagram are planning to crack down on misleading AI generated images ahead of the election, Mike "MyPillow" Lindell’s commercials are back on Fox News, Tucker Carlson is in Moscow to interview Pres. Vlad Putin, there's a double dose of airport nudity and a truck trying to surf in “This Week in Florida,” the Super Bowl is headed to Vegas and thanks to Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift the commercials are being geared more towards women than men this year, and the show goes out to Hollywood Blvd. for a special Super Bowl commercial themed "Lie Witness News."

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• SURFING IN THE RAIN: Evan Ricciardi, 18, a student at Biola University, takes his turn using a rope from a footbridge to stay in position and surf stormwater rushing through a La Mirada flood control channel that runs through La Mirada Creek Park on Tuesday, 2/6/24 (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times).

Losing My Religion: The Great De-Churching

Jason DeRose, NPR, 1/24/24; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

You sons of vitches, God wants you to obey me and send in those donations and tithe checks!

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When Americans are asked to check box on their religious affiliation, 28% now check 'none'

Forget this bull cr@p. Religion sucks walls!

A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated (a group comprised of atheists, agnostics, and those who say their religion is "nothing in particular") is now the largest cohort in the U.S.

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  Let me in -- or else. I am thy ruler and Boss!

  Freedom from religion is freedom of religion. Buddhism is not a religion, so does that include Buddhists? Very likely it does because people customarily treat Buddhism as a religion, make a religion of it, and this is probably for the best in keeping the Dharma (the historical Buddha's Teaching) in the world. But for the individual, it might be better not to treat it religiously and hypocritically but as a practice (sadhana) with immediate results and benefits open to all. It is not a "faith" to profess but a Teaching to put into practice. For one who does not practice the Teaching, what benefit could there be...winning arguments against others? There's a famous saying, "Don't be like a drunk who uses a streetlamp for support rather than illumination." There's no need to be right. There is a need to know and see things as they really are. Then we help ourselves and everyone around us, living with integrity (non-hypocritically) approaching enlightenment and making merit (profitable karma) that is of great fruit, of great benefit in any future circumstance.

Is this someone's idea of a joke?  forbid atheism...or else!

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Atheist (Stephen Batchelor)

Nones are more prevalent among American adults than Catholics (23%) or evangelical Protestants (24%).

Back in 2007, Nones made up just 16% of Americans, but Pew's new survey of more than 3,300 U.S. adults shows that number has now risen dramatically. Researchers refer to this group as the "Nones." More

I'm spiritual, not religious

Jason DeRose, All Things Considered, npr.org, 12/7/23

Choose a practice that makes sense. Test it. Do it sincerely. Do it daily. Does Dharma work?

More than 20% of those surveyed describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." The study finds a wide variety of religious experiences and expressions among those who consider themselves "spiritual" (Ted Shaffrey/AP).

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Free of religion, I get to misbehave (Family Guy)

The terms "spiritual" and "spirituality" have been difficult for researchers and scholars of religion to define. Does being spiritual involve a sense of wonder ["awe" rather than "fear"]?

Does spirituality include a feeling of well-being or peace? Does either require the belief in a God or a Higher Power?

The terms seem so elastic as to include any number of disparate ideas or experiences.

Can nontheistic Buddhists be atheists?

A new study from Pew Research explores what the term "spiritual" means to the people [Americans] who describe themselves that way.

It also looks into the beliefs and practices of those who say they're "spiritual but not religious."

• 7 in 10 U.S. adults consider themselves spiritual (NPR)

No, Dummy, where are you going?! - I like church. It gives me a sense of community.

Graveworm performs their funny (non-rionic) death metal version of "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M

• A longer Advent helps some Christians prepare for more than Christmas (NPR)