Day archives: December 23rd, 2025

Happy Holidays – Enjoy Cooking, Baking and Eating with family, friends, companion animals

Via Wikipedia – Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento,[a] is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.[3] The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, …

Subjects: Education

Welcome To America’s New Surveillance High Schools

Forbes: “Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety — a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school’s high-profile …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICE List Wiki

Crust News and Dominic Skinner: “The ICE List Wiki is now public. It documents immigration enforcement activity across the United States, not just ICE, but Border Patrol, HSI, DHS more broadly, and the hundreds of local police departments operating under 287(g) agreements. Agent identities, incidents, raids, vehicles, supporting agencies, and companies propping up the regime, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

An electricity crunch is driving high bills in these states. It’s not getting better anytime soon

CNN – no paywall – “Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way. As CNN recently reported, utility customers in Maryland and Washington, DC, are some of the first in the country to …

Subjects: AI, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Epstein Files Trump’s DOJ Didn’t Mean to Show You

The Epstein Files Transparency Act required full release of all unclassified DOJ Epstein records by December 19, 2025. To date, DOJ has released two partial, heavily redacted sets, still withholding an untold number of documents in multiple formats, and no schedule of release has been made public. In addition, the DOJ removed and added additional …

Subjects: Congress, E-Records, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines