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SVPete:
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-vacates-ruling-that-upheld-new-york-school-vaccine-mandate-5955708?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport&src_src=partner&src_cmp=BonginoReport


--- Quote ---The Supreme Court on Dec. 8 vacated a ruling upholding New York’s ban on religious exemptions to its school vaccine mandate and ordered a lower court to review its stance on the ban. The case is known as Miller v. McDonald.

Justices vacated the March decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which had found the legislation banning religious exemptions to vaccination requirements was “neutral on its face” and did not “target or affirmatively prohibit religious practices.”
The justices directed the appeals court to reconsider its ruling in light of Mahmoud v. Taylor, a Supreme Court ruling in June that sided with parents who wanted the ability to opt their children out of interacting with books in school that promote lesbian, gay, and similar lifestyles. Justices did not say how the appeals court should ultimately rule after reviewing Mahmoud v. Taylor.
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SVPete:
Hamas hid tons of baby formula to damage Israel with starvation claims, Palestinian activist says

https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/world-news/hamas-hid-tons-of-baby-formula-to-damage-israel-with-starvation-claims-palestinian-activist-says/


--- Quote ---Hamas hid tons of baby formula and nutritional shakes meant for kids inside a warehouse to allow Gazans to starve and further its claims of widespread famine to undermine Israel, a US-based Palestinian activist claimed.

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, an anti-Hamas activist, accused the terror group of hoarding food meant for infants and young children to purposefully increase starvation in Gaza and damage the public perception of Israel.
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“The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF),” he added.
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Has the UN and UNRWA denied this and blamed Israel yet?

enslaved1:
Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against RFK Jr.


--- Quote ---A House Democrat said she had introduced articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a move unlikely to succeed under the current Republican majority.

"RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people," said Representative Haley Stevens, the Michigan Democrat moving to impeach Kennedy Jr, in a statement posted to X.

The impeachment effort isn't likely to succeed given the Republicans have a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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High end virtue signalling there.  No chance of accomplishing anything, but "hey, lookie what we did!!!111!!!!!" 

SVPete:
While this shampeachment would fail utterly in the Senate, what are the Las Vegas odds the resolution will get laughed out of the House?

SVPete:
Oldest evidence of human fire-making discovered at site in England

https://srnnews.com/oldest-evidence-of-human-fire-making-discovered-at-site-in-england/


--- Quote ---Dec 10 (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk – a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago – revealing that this milestone for our evolutionary lineage occurred far earlier than previously known.

At an old clay pit for making bricks near the village of Barnham, the researchers found a patch of heated clay, some heat-shattered flint handaxes and two pieces of iron pyrite – a mineral that creates sparks when struck against flint to ignite tinder – that they identified as a repeatedly used campfire.

It was situated near a watering hole where these humans encamped.

“We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications pushing back the earliest fire-making,” said archaeologist Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the British Museum in London and leader of the research published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Until now, the earliest-known evidence of fire-making was from about 50,000 years ago at a site in northern France, also attributed to Neanderthals.

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing protection from predators but for providing warmth that enabled hunter-gatherers to thrive in areas with colder environs.
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It's amazing and wryly amusing how the settled science of a century ago - e.g. Piltdown Man had not yet been exposed as a planned fraud - has been overturned. In this case, the once believed to be apelike Neanderthals are shown to have used fire and tools for starting fires 400K years earlier than previously thought. Somewhat less recently, It has also been discovered that Neanderthals were inter-fertile with supposedly more modern humans. Maybe (Gasp!) Neanderthals were just a sub-population of humans.

Regardless of how accurate that opinion might be, it would be very healthy for people in sciences to qualify their studies and conclusions with statements along the line of, "This is what we know currently." IOW, remind readers that future discoveries might utterly overturn what is currently "known".

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