On Friday the 13th, the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with the American Cruise Lines' American Heritage while the cruise ship was docked on the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The cruise ship had docked approximately two hours earlier to begin passenger disembarkation. Approximately 129 passengers, in addition to crew members, were aboard the American Heritage. Port NOLA Harbor Police, the New Orleans Fire and Police Departments, the USCG, and emergency medical personnel conducted rescue and response operations. Most of the passengers are elderly and 32 were hospitalized.
Dummkopf Trumpf strikes again
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US Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) and Vice Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) wrote this "Public Letter of Admonition" to billionaire oligarch US Senator Jim Justice II (R-WV): "The public must feel confident that Members never place personal financial interests ahead of the best interests of the United States. Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate and a violation of federal law...."
Why is a good-for-nothing billionaire who inherited his massive $1.6bn fortune working for $174,000 per annum as a Republican US Senator?
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is expected to unveil a plan for disbanding the NYPD's Strategic Response Group (SRG). In dissolving the counterterrorism and protest-response unit, His Honor would be fulfilling a key 2025 campaign pledge. Mamdani's plan is expected to involve nixing the SRG and potentially replacing it with a new civilian unit that would take the lead on responding to protests. Under the plan, which had not been finalized yet, the new civilian unit would be supported by NYPD officers, who would assemble nearby and be able to step in to conduct arrests if needed. The civilian entity's main goal would be de-escalating violence, not encouraging it.
The NYPD was quite rough with the LGBTQ community during the 1969 Stonewall protests, caused by the homophobic NYPD themselves
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Voters in Providence, Rhode Island elected 28-year-old Democratic Socialist David Morales as Mayor and approved a ballot measure that will result in the city divesting from Israel. Providence will be the first US city to pass a binding divestment measure through a popular vote. The historic measure instructs the city to divest from countries and companies implicated in "ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation, or genocide." The language does not mention Israel by name, but everyone on the planet knows who the target of this humanitarian ballot measure is.
The BDS movement helped defeat the apartheid regime in Suid-Afrika
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El Nio could bring a milder winter, but an early polar vortex breakdown may send Arctic air south. Forecasters say it's too soon to know which will prevail.
Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered "eliminated" as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 " but not anymore. An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The decision was widely expected after years of falling vaccination levels and surging case counts, but it's still a black mark on the nation's public health policy.
When I was a kid, we wanted to grow up to be baseball players, or firemen, or astronauts. What do kids want to grow up to be today? Don't make me say it.
SpaceX's attempt to recover its entire Starship back at the launch pad was thwarted when the booster fell into the Gulf of Mexico in flames Friday, but the spacecraft still soared into orbit in its boldest test yet.
Born 81 Years Ago Today in Canada, the Folk-Rock Legend Dubbed the "Godfather of Grunge" and Twice Inducted Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Investigating The President
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Donald Trump Jr. has lost his lucrative gig at the prediction market Kalshi.
The 48-year-old's exit from the company comes as newly empowered Democrats have vowed to investigate President Donald Trump and his family's business dealings with the prediction industry and crypto markets.
However, a Kalshi spokesperson said Don Jr.'s departure was a response to his venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, increasing its stake in rival prediction market Polymarket. Read more
Former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D) will become the first Democrat elected to lead Alaska in two decades and Cindy Holscher (D) defeated Ty Masterson (R) in the Kansas governor's race. As soon as this year's winners are sworn in, roughly 75% of all Americans will have Democratic governors. In 2022, NYS Governor Kathy Hochul (D) eked out her win against Lee Zeldin (R) by seven points. Following popular and effective NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) lead, Gov Hochul easily clobbered good-for-no-one Islamophobe Bruce Blakeman (R) by twenty points last week.
Dummkopf Trumpf disinvited this man from the annual Governor's Association dinner at the White House
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D/Mossad Roman Gofman is in Washington DC today on behalf of ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to press Dummkopf Trumpf to resume military operations against Iran. Gofman, a close Netanyahu ally, is meeting D/CIA John Ratcliffe and good-for-nothing oligarch Steve Witkoff. Trumpf has so far rejected pressure from Netanyahu to resume military strikes, even though the White House Windbag boasted that "he could destroy Iran in three days." The Tuesday 3 Nov elections is testament that the American people are against the idiotic war being fought against Iran on behalf of Israel, a quagmire that is bankrupting the US economy. The DIA counterintelligence threat level for Israeli espionage against the US remains at the highest level.
Israeli spying
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High energy prices continue to ripple through US supply chains, raising the costs for businesses and setting the stage for further increases in the coming months for American consumers. Wholesale inflation accelerated last month to its highest rate in nearly four years, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed Friday. The Producer Price Index, a measurement of average price changes received by producers and manufacturers, rose 0.3% from the month before and 6.5% for the 12 months ended in October, the highest annual rate since November 2022.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to be trying to cover its tracks after the agency was sued on Tuesday by a woman it violently arrested and detained. Read more
