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46+ min ago (389+ words) Australia's national prohibition on social-media accounts for children under 16 formally began on Dec. 10, with the Royal Australian College of GPs publicly supporting the new laws, warning of escalating mental health issues among adolescents online. Starting today, major platforms including Meta (Facebook and Instagram), TikTok, X, Reddit, Snapchat, Twitch, Kick, Threads, and YouTube must take "reasonable steps" to prevent under-16s from creating or maintaining accounts. RACGP President Dr. Michael Wright welcomed the move and said many young people faced severe impacts to their wellbeing due to their time online. "Much of that happens on social media," he said. "We know that children and young people are spending extensive time on social media, and this is restricting their sleep and impacting their overall wellbeing." The RACGP also pointed to research connecting adolescent usage to anxiety, bullying and harmful content. It highlighted 2021 Household,…...

49+ min ago (837+ words) And really, that reputation didn't come out of nowhere. Legal analysts across the spectrum have noticed it. Instead of basing her arguments on the Constitution, Jackson tends to frame the law around feelings, intentions, and what she believes would be safest or most helpful. That might play well in some left-wing faculty lounge, but it's a dangerous mindset on the highest court in the land. That's exactly why her latest comments have raised eyebrows. In a recent Supreme Court exchange, Justice Jackson argued that presidents should not be able to fire so-called "experts" who run large parts of the federal government. She's referring to economists, scientists, transportation officials, and other bureaucrats with PhDs. In her mind, these people should operate independently of the elected president, even when voters chose that president to set policy and direction. So, in a nutshell,…...

56+ min ago (1036+ words) By Jett Cross December 10, 2025 [ CYPHER CODE #548 ] Libertarianism didn't turn left by accident. It chose legal purity over national survival. [ CYPHER CODE #549 ] When due process matters more than defending the nation, the ideology is broken. [ CYPHER CODE #550 ] There was a time when libertarians understood borders, sovereignty, and consequences. That version is gone. MORE NEWS: "Bankruptcy Doesn't Stop the Debt. It Delays It. [ CYPHER CODE #551 ] Calling enemy operations "murder" is how national defense gets rebranded as a crime. [ CYPHER CODE #552 ] This is what Stage 5 TDS looks like. Principles abandoned. Enemies recast as victims. America treated as the problem. Jett here. Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from fentanyl and other opioids smuggled into this country, yet Ron Paul has decided that the real emergency is America stopping the supply at sea. Let's get into it. Do you think the United…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago (527+ words) (Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A viral video featuring a racist Cinnabon employee may have been a false-flag operation, according to one well known investigative journalist. A video from the Dec. 5 incident in Ashwaubenon, Wisc., appeared to show a "racist Karen" spouting racial epithets after initially mocking the hijab of a Somali customer. According to a caption that accompanied the initial post, the incident began after the Cinnabon employee'later identified as 43-year-old Crystal Terese Wilsey'refused to put enough caramel on a pecan cinnamon roll. After the customer, identified as Farhia Ahmed, asked for more caramel, Wilsey allegedly responded, "You could see me squeezing it through that witchcraft bandana you're wearing on the top of your head." The filming began at some point after the altercation had already escalated. "I am racist, and I'll say that to the whole entire world," Wilsey…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago (14+ words) Seattle's World Cup "Pride Match' to Feature Two Countries Where Homosexuality is Illegal...

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2+ hour, 37+ min ago (56+ words) NEXT: Trump's Word Games Can't Conceal the Murderous Reality of His Anti-Drug Strategy Charles Oliver | 12.10.2025 4:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2025 12:01 AM Jacob Sullum | 12.9.2025 3:55 PM Christian Britschgi | 12.9.2025 1:55 PM Ed Tarnowski | 12.9.2025 12:15 PM...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago (65+ words) What's on your mind? Eugene Volokh | 12.10.2025 3:00 AM NEXT: "Our Job is to Teach the Children, Not be the Children" Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2025 12:01 AM Jacob Sullum | 12.9.2025 3:55 PM Christian Britschgi | 12.9.2025 1:55 PM Ed Tarnowski | 12.9.2025 12:15 PM David Inserra | 12.9.2025 11:25 AM...

4+ hour, 17+ min ago (918+ words) By Jett Cross December 10, 2025 [ CYPHER CODE #541 ] One percent of the U.S. stock market rests on a legal structure most people don't know exists. [ CYPHER CODE #542 ] Millions of Americans are invested in this system without understanding how it's held together. [ CYPHER CODE #543 ] This system still exists because nobody bothered to stop and fix it. MORE NEWS: "Bankruptcy Doesn't Stop the Debt. It Delays It. [ CYPHER CODE #544 ] shadowy systems rely on silence to survive scrutiny. Jett here. Buried inside one of the safest, most boring investments in America is a bizarre legal ticking time bomb that almost no one knows about. About one percent of the entire US stock market is quietly tied to the lives of eleven people most Americans have never heard of. When the last of them dies, the clock will really start ticking. Let's get into it. Most people…...

6+ hour, 35+ min ago (587+ words) I have a riddle for you. If we call a drug smuggler a combatant, how many combatants died when SEAL Team 6 killed 11 men on a cocaine boat near Venezuela on September 2? Zero, because calling a drug smuggler a combatant does not make him a combatant. That reality goes to the heart of the morally and legally bankrupt justification for President Donald Trump's bloodthirsty anti-drug campaign in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, which began on September 2 and so far has killed 87 people in 22 attacks. The September 2 operation is newly controversial because it included a follow-up missile strike that blew apart'two defenseless survivors of the initial attack as they clung to the smoldering wreckage. But all these attacks entail the use of deadly force in circumstances that do not justify it. Trump'conflates'drug smuggling with violent aggression,'saying'it amounts to "an armed…...