Trooper Died A Hero In DMV Shooting:
A 44-year-old man with a gun entered the facility off of Route 13 and Hessler Boulevard in Minquidale at around 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 23, 2025, according to police.
He confronted a Delaware State Police Trooper who was working overtime at the reception desk at the front of the facility, and shot him.
According to police, the wounded trooper pushed a DMV employee away and out of danger, before the trooper was shot a second time.
A New Castle County Officer who responded to the scene shot the suspect, and the suspect was taken to Christiana Hospital, where he died.
The trooper later died at the hospital, as well.
State Police have not identified the Trooper, pending family notification.
The Board Members Who Voted To Slap Trump’s Name On The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts?:
The Kennedy Center board members who voted to rename the facility the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are a collection of MAGA sycophants, Trump cultists, and right wing nutjobs. The list includes: Sergio Gor (A Trump aide that even Elon Musk labelled a “snake”), Maria Bartiromo (Fox Business News), Laura Ingraham (Fox News Channel), Paolo Zampoli (Melania Trump’s modeling agent), Susie Wiles (Trump Chief of Staff), Lee Greenwood (MAGA favored musician/Trump bible co-seller) and others.
The Center was conceived as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy’s belief that the arts mattered, that a nation which could not sing, dance, or think beautifully was a nation already halfway embalmed. Trump’s philosophy of culture, by contrast, seems to be that anything that does not flatter him personally is either rigged, woke, or insufficiently large.
I Believe This Letter Was Fake. Don’t You? I mean, if you can’t trust the FBI or the DOJ, who can you trust?:
The Justice Department on Tuesday released thousands of additional files on Jeffrey Epstein, including a letter he allegedly wrote behind bars to fellow predator Larry Nassar that appeared to suggest President Donald Trump shared their “love” of young girls.
The DOJ issued a statement later in the day saying that the letter was “fake.”
The letter was postmarked Aug. 13, 2019, during Trump’s first term, and returned to sender.
“Dear L.N., As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home,” the letter reads. “Good luck! We shared one thing … our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls.”
The DOJ denied the letter’s authenticity on Tuesday afternoon.
“The FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is FAKE,” the department said on X.
BTW, dumping this stuff during a holiday week is no accident. Don’t think it’s gonna help the Diaper Dandy (h/t to Dick Vitale) in the White House.
The US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send national guard troops to the Chicago area, in an important reining-in of the US president’s efforts to expand the use of the military for domestic purposes in historic moves against a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions.
The nation’s highest court denied the US justice department’s request to lift a judge’s order in October that has blocked the deployment of hundreds of national guard personnel in a legal challenge brought by Illinois state officials and local leaders, who had opposed any federalization of those troops to offer backup to immigration enforcement.
The department had asked to allow the deployment while the litigation plays out. There have been sustained protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview, on the outskirts of Chicago, with aggressive tactics used against the resistance by the authorities.
Charter School Led By State Legislator Facing Review:
Delaware’s Secretary of Education Cindy Marten placed the Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence on formal review.
Marten took the step earlier this month as the state examines “enrollment, financial and organizational concerns.”
The State Board of Education will oversee a review to see if the school is violating the terms of its charter.
State Rep. Alonna Berry founded the Georgetown-based charter, which opened for its first school year in the fall of 2024.
The school leaders currently serves grades 6 through 9. It plans to eventually serve up to grade 12, adding a new grade class each year. Fall 2026 will see the school expanded to 10th graders.
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