We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests and that is exactly what this proposed scheme would do
The war against Iran may have resulted in some tactical victories for Israel and the United States on the battlefield, but Israel is not winning American public opinion and neither are those American leaders who ardently support it. Read more
SpaceX is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq in just over two weeks, but Morningstar analysts have warned that Elon Musk's tech behemoth is "significantly overvalued." The hotly-anticipated debut is expected to be the largest ever initial public offering, with SpaceX reportedly targeting a $75 billion fundraise and a valuation of $1.75 trillion. "We think the company has been significantly overvalued and investors will have opportunities to buy the stock at more attractive levels after the IPO," Morningstar analysts wrote in a note published Monday.
The Pentagon has appointed a rioter convicted for his role in 6 January, 2021 insurrection to a sensitive national security role dealing with counterterrorism, overriding insiders' concerns about his past record.
Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with the storming of the US Capitol, has been appointed to a position in the US Department of Defense's special operations and low intensity conflict office which manages highly classified military operations, causing alarm among Pentagon officials.
The story was first reported by the Washington Post, which published a picture of Irizzary " holding what appeared to be a metal pole and wearing a pro-Donald Trump Make America Great Again (Maga) hat " looking over a wall on the day of the riot.
The eclipse that will darken the sky and have a historic duration will not be seen again for more than 156 years. The total solar eclipse will last the longest (4-6 minutes) in the southern Spain and parts of Northern Africa.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue conducting war crimes funded with American taxpayer funds by attacking hospitals in Lebanon. The IDF claimed that they weren't directly attacking the hospitals as such, but rather were attacking "terror infrastructure" and the medical facilities "happened to be in the way during the attacks."
IDF looting, outrages, and blasphemies continue in Lebanon, all funded by American taxpayer dollars
White supremacist Adan Hernandez-Mayoral (24) threw his life away after being sentenced in federal court to 54 months confinement for brutally attacking a woman of color on a bus in Kent, Washington. On 7 March 2024, the miscreant boarded a metro bus and began antagonizing the victim, calling her "Rosa Parks," and ordered her to move to the back of the bus, yelling "I don't like Black people, f***in' hate 'em," before savagely attacking the helpless woman.
How this 24-year-old violent doofus even heard of American heroine Rosa Parks is anyone's guess
Nine African teenagers who gang raped a 14-year-old girl three times in Belgium have all been spared jail, with seven getting just 30 hours of community service. Read more
A bed bug infestation at an Agriculture Department building is riling agency staff, reigniting frustrations over remote work policy and making at least some employees sick. The bugs were found in the building that houses the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, the agency responsible for containing and mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the U.S. The irony, one USDA employee said, "was lost on no one." The George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, Maryland, first notified employees of the situation in mid-May, according to five employees familiar with the matter and a transcript of a town hall meeting obtained by NOTUS. The department opted to send employees home and allow them to telework for a few days to fumigate the building.
George Santos, the former lawmaker who lied about his background, got expelled from Congress, and then became a convicted fraudster, is reportedly being investigated for insider trading. The probe, NPR reported on Tuesday, centers on Santos' comments about February's State of the Union address and his alleged bets on Kalshi, a prediction market website. On February 23, a day before Donald Trump's address to Congress, Santos posted a video on X in which he said he would attend. The odds on Kalshi that Santos would show up subsequently rose and remained relatively high. Its peak was 76 cents"meaning a wager of that amount would win $1. A "no" bet of 24 cents would thus carry much more value.
President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency cuts are hitting the state of Texas hard, as a long-controlled pest is threatening to resurge and decimate the livestock industry. The New World screwworm, the larval stage of a parasitic fly known for laying eggs inside livestock animals and letting the maggots chew their way out, could cause massive damage to cattle herds. In the past, the U.S. managed to work together with Mexico to drive back screwworms, but they have been expanding their territory recently. Attorney Blake Allen weighed in on the matter: "Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest."
The unconstitutional US war against the people of Iran to benefit Israel will now cost the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer $100bn. Meanwhile, one estimate shows this idiotic war to kill Iranians is costing the Israeli taxpayer $12.7bn. And Americans are a galaxy and a half away from having universal healthcare, as enjoyed by the people of Israel, Germany, Greenland, Canada, Cuba, 95% of Iran, Taiwan, the UK, tiny Albania, and in 2027, Mexico.
No Billions to Prevent Medical Bankruptcies in the US, but Billions to Kill Muslims in the Middle East
The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner has been rescheduled after the original event on April 25 was suspended after a gunman attempted to access the venue, resulting in an exchange of fire with Secret Service agents. The new event will be held on July 24 with "significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures", Weijia Jiang, president of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), wrote in a letter to members. US President Donald Trump said he would attend the rescheduled dinner, which will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC.
The scale is ambitious to the point of stupidity. Once its 104 stations and 68 miles of tunnels are complete, the Vegas Loop site says it "will serve up to 90,000 passengers per hour." About 642,000 people live in Las Vegas, plus an additional 110,000 tourists on any given day. That means every single resident and tourist need to ride the Loop multiple times per day to average 90,000 passengers an hour. For reference, the Tokyo Metro moves 6.5 million people a day around an area with 33 million residents. You do the math. Read more
The psychosis of permanent war results, as it has in the U.S., in the curtailing of civil liberties and punishing economic austerity. Dissent is equated with treason. State power serves the dictates of empire rather than democracy, which devolves into farce, or in our case, a tawdry reality show.
The rollback of the New Deal, the closest we came to a social democracy, began in the mid-1940s. Cold War anti-communism and corporate opposition converged to make war on organized labor and the New Deal left.
This assault culminated in the Second Red Scare.
Trump's choice of Bill Pulte for acting director of national intelligence is both terrifying and predictable. Read more
Texas Republican Ken Paxton practically served his Democratic challenger opposition material on a silver platter while defending his colored reputation during a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News. Paxton, President Donald Trump's choice for the Lone Star State's 2026 Senate race, couldn't have picked a worse comparison when "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo asked what he was going to do about being called "scandal-plagued" in a recent opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Claiming any controversies were concocted up by anti-Trump Republicans, he told voters, "I get why they said that, but the reality is they could say the same thing about Donald Trump" " the White House's chaos agent-in-chief, a convicted felon and alleged associate of prolific *** criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
