Kristi Noem's new billionaire-class luxury jet that only seats 19, complete with two queen bedrooms, three bathrooms with high end showers and heated bidets, and a wet bar with a wine chiller, will be purchased on your dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. She claims it's for "High profile deportations."
New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women. A bipartisan committee will seek testimony from survivors of alleged sexual abuse at the ranch, located about 30 miles south of Santa Fe, the state capital. Legislators are also urging local residents to testify.
Comedian Stephen Colbert blasted CBS on Monday and said his own network's attorneys barred him from hosting Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.
Stephen Colbert is laying into his soon-to-be-former network over an axed interview with James Talarico, a Democrat and Trump critic.
The comedian criticized CBS, whose lawyers advised "The Late Show" that it could not air the Feb. 16 interview with the Texas state representative, who is running for Senate in a competitive primary against fellow Rep. Jasmine Crockett, "in no uncertain terms."
Boaz won't post it, so, I will.
What we know The crimes occurred in an underground storm shelter near a home in Brent, involving at least ten victims for at least two years. Those children's ages were between 3 to 15 years old. Officials believe there are more who may have been too drugged to remember. Officials are expecting more charges and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating potential gang connections and the immigration status of the suspects.
The crazed gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon has been identified as a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants. Robert Dorgan, 56 " who shot four family members and a family friend before he turned the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink " used the female alias Roberta Esposito, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said during a press conference Monday night. "We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name, the birth name was Robert Dorgan," Goncalves said. "We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito." Read more
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a "rainbow coalition" of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday. He was 84."
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When NYC taxi drivers went on strike in late 2021, NYS Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) supported them by going on a two-week hunger strike in front of City Hall. Meanwhile NYS Governor Mario Cuomo (D) was forced to resign because of NYS AG Letitia James' report about his horrendous sexual misconduct (published 3 Aug 2021), as well as his misrepresenting the number of COVID deaths in NYS nursing homes which resulted in him returning his cherished Emmy Award.
Principles, Morality, and Character
Hyatt Hotels Chairman Thomas Pritzker said that he would retire and renounced his relationship with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Thomas Pritzker
Retired US Army Colonel Kevin Charles Luke (62) was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison by the Honorable US District Judge James Moody Jr for unlawfully disclosing classified information relating to the national defense of the US.
Another US Army Officer Jammed Up By a Siren
Blount County officials have arrested and charged Franc Maloney, a foreign national from Canada, with multiple counts of felony voter fraud. District Attorney Pamela Casey announced that a grand jury indicted Maloney for unlawfully voting in nine state and federal elections, despite not being a U.S. citizen. The elections in question date back to 2017 and include the November 2024 general election and the March 2024 Republican primary election, among others. Read more
Robert Dell, a former pastor at The Rock Church in St. Petersburg, and his wife Jaclyn Dell, were convicted of running a multi-million-dollar organized retail theft scheme while simultaneously defrauding vulnerable Floridians.
American Christianity
Investigators say former police chief David Crawford committed 13 arsons in five Maryland counties over the course of nearly a decade before he was caught in 2021. Read more
This is hitting the local schools across the region and nationwide. Now not only are people fishing to find a name, any name, things are being made up(?). Read more
Not mine but: When you die, I'm going to hire a midget to dress in drag and weep inconsolably at your funeral.
Feb 8, 2026
Tom Holland is one of the world's most respected historians. He isn't a preacher. In fact, he grew up as a "precocious atheist" who wanted to debunk the BIBLE.
But after decades of studying the ancient world "f rom the Caesars of Rome to the rise of Islam " he came to a shocking conclusion.
