CBS News, now owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's son, David, will be airing a '60 Minutes' episode this Sunday which interviews Trumpf junta insiders Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Super-oligarch Larry Ellison considers ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu a "close friend" and he donated $9 million in a lump sum to the IDF; in 2007, Ellison also pledged $500,000 towards reinforcing an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip. The new editor-in-chief at CBS News is 'anti-woke' MAGA favorite Bari Weiss who in 2024 criticized pro-Gaza/pro-peace academics and attempted to get them fired from colleges and universities. Americans can expect CBS News to become a mouthpiece for the sinister Trumpf junta and Israel, much like Faux News but with a little more polish. No doubt Dummkopf Trumpf will soon be given a softball interview by CBS News staff in the near future. How the Pentagon will treat CBS News staff remains unclear. Read more
ICE has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements. The blitz of surveillance purchases is motivated in large part by ICE's intensive, nationwide campaign to find and deport undocumented immigrants. But documents show that some of the technology may also be used to target what the junta regards as anti-ICE extremist groups. Late last month, Dummkopf Trumpf declared "Antifa" a domestic terrorist organization. Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include an iris-scanning app that agents plan to use in the field, Israeli spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely, and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone's movements without a court warrant. Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have come away empty-handed from a White House meeting after US President Donald Trump indicated he was not ready to supply sought-after Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Zelensky said after the cordial bilateral that he and Trump had talked about long-range missiles, but decided not to make statements on that issue "because the United States does not want an escalation". Read more
US President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of George Santos, a former Republican congressman serving seven years in prison for fraud and identify theft, ordering his immediate release. In a post on social media, Trump said Santos "has been horribly mistreated", adding: "Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!"
A Texas man was arrested and charged after allegedly using TikTok to solicit others to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this month, according to federal prosecutors. Eduardo Aguilar, 23, of Dallas, was federally charged with transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas said in a Thursday news release. The statement added that he was in the country illegally from Mexico. Aguilar was arrested after Dallas police reported to the FBI an Oct. 9 TikTok video he allegedly posted, according to the probable cause affidavit.
South Carolina's measles outbreak has grown to 15 cases, state health officials reported Friday, a small increase from a few days ago. The new cases are among those who'd been exposed to the virus at school, but developed symptoms in quarantine. It's not known if they're adults or children, but 139 students are still currently in quarantine in the state.
Let's talk about this Saturday's "No Kings" protests all across the country, and whether they just might end up giving Trump the perfect excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.
The Trumpf junta is planning to furlough the vast majority of the civilian staff at a key agency that helps manage the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which falls under the DOE, will exhaust its available funding on Saturday. As a result, approximately 1,400 employees will be furloughed, while about 375 will remain on the job for work that has been exempted from the shutdown. In all, about 80% of NNSA personnel won't report to work on Monday. The NNSA doesn't directly operate US nuclear weapons, but is a key component of America's nuclear capabilities by maintaining and modernizing warheads, overseeing USN nuclear propulsion and managing non-proliferation programs. Republican lawmakers warned there will be more consequences because of the government shutdown they themselves caused. FYI: Radioactive Wasps. Read more
A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks. More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions. But President Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they had voted in favour.
CHARLOTTE " Federal investigators accuse Charlotte community activist Cedric Dean of exploiting homeless people to defraud Medicaid out of millions of dollars. Dean used the money to buy homes, cars and fund his lifestyle, feds said, and now they're moving to seize those assets. Read more
Speaker Mike Johnson insists he cannot be swayed on the subject of the government shutdown.
Three weeks after the government officially shut down and almost a month since the House took its last vote, Johnson (R-Louisiana) remains resolute in his decision to halt all House business. He has been adamant that he will not bring his lawmakers back into session until the Senate passes the House's proposal to fund the government. Time has only emboldened " and angered " him.
The honorables in Raleigh, a group of Republicans who've already drawn themselves nearly insurmountable majorities in what's essentially a moderate state, are threatening to rush headlong into a new round of Congressional redistricting to tilt the scales further.
President Donald Trump on Thursday warned that if Hamas keeps killing people in Gaza, "we will have no choice but to go in and kill them," marking a sharp escalation of his rhetoric against the group as he tries to maintain a ceasefire in its conflict with Israel. The threat " just three days after the deal was signed in the Middle East " came amid reports that Hamas fighters have used the truce to quickly and violently reassert control over the Gaza Strip, targeting Palestinians who they deemed to have collaborated with Israeli forces during the war.
"The Democrat Party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals. That is who the Democrat Party is catering to. Not the Trumpf junta, and not the White House, and not the Republican Party, who is standing up for law-abiding Americans, not just across the country, but around the world. And that's why Dummkopf Trumpf worked so hard to end this conflict in the Middle East. It was Dotard Trumpf who brought home the last living hostage out of Gaza, Edan Alexander, who has since been reunited with his family in New Jersey. It's Dummkopf Trumpf who is actually pushing for peace. And I would like to add, where are all of the Free Palestine' protesters? It's President Trumpf who freed Palestine, literally, and they are now very much quiet." (Continues below.) Read more
Under attack from both Republican Curtis Sliwa and Democratic Party turncoat Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani appeared unfazed by his opponents' irrelevant criticisms. Mamdani kept the pressure on Cuomo, raising the sexual harassment scandal that ended his tenure as governor; the millions in taxpayer dollars that have gone to defending the harassment lawsuits; and ongoing investigations into Cuomo's handling of the COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes. "What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity," Mamdani fired at the disgraced ex-NYS Governor. "And what you don't have in integrity, you can never make up for it in experience." Curtis Sliwa (R) slammed the mercenary Andrew Cuomo as well. "You think you're the toughest guy alive. Let me tell you something, you lost your own primary, right? You were rejected by your Democrats," accurately barbed Sliwa at the stunned Cuomo. Read more
The Trump administration plans to shift terrorism prevention funding from Democratic-led states toward those led by Republicans, government records show, as it overhauls a $1 billion program created after the 9/11 attacks.
