A Catholic priest died after a large crucifix fell on top of him while he was leading a mass in Ecuador that was being livestreamed at the time. Footage shared widely on social media shows Father Patricio Alfredo Snchez Molinari addressing his congregation in Guayaquil on Saturday before the crucifix came tumbling down on top of him and striking him in the head. Read more
An Air Force service member died after falling from the roof of the Alamodome during a pregame demonstration at a college football game in San Antonio on Saturday. Critics quickly turned their anger on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The airman was taking part in a fast-rope demonstration before the University of Texas at San Antonio's game against Navy, the New York Post reported. It was reportedly part of the school's "Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans" game, and four military personnel were descending from the stadium's 170-foot rafters. Read more
After seeing Michael Dell's wife Susan in the White House recently, I started wondering how far robotic technology may have come. This story is about a $150,000 dollar robot from AION. But who knows about the robots we aren't seeing. Imagine the robot a billionaire tech oligarch may already own. ..Or do we have to imagine anymore?...
And if not, what happened to the real Susan?
A group of men, calling themselves the SB244 Compliance Crew, have organized to protest a new Kansas law that requires people to use public restrooms that align with the biological sex they were assigned at birth. The group reports encountering women who have quickly fled bathrooms upon seeing them, angry confrontations, complaints to facility staff and calls to law enforcement who are powerless to stop them because the men are following the law.
Is a miracle in the cards?
Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure and oil and gas sector 76 times in the week since US President Donald Trump announced an energy truce. Over the past week, the Russians launched nearly 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 guided aerial bombs and 66 missiles against Ukraine, most of them ballistic. Energy infrastructure was the main target of these attacks. The president said Russia is trying to plunge Ukraine into a blackout.
After the mentally ill flatulent orange baboon leaves the White House on 20 Jan 2028, the next non-AIPAC presidential administration will still have to deal with malevolent Israel, a mountain of corpses in Gaza, nefarious Russia, the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF), an army of well-armed ICE thugs, Proud Boys and Oafkeepers, pardoned Jan 6 runamoks, an ascending super-wealthy China, the thoroughly corrupt SCOTUS, GOP Senators, a dilapidated FBI, AI surveillance super centers, environmental disasters, tattered international relationships, and powerful malicious oligarchs. And who knows how much work will be required to restore America's destroyed public health care and aviation safety systems, as well as our demoralized military. Still, one can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good; thus, the people of the world eagerly anticipate 20 Jan 2028 just like they awaited the 20 July 1969 Apollo XIII lunar landing. Nothing can stop the countdown.
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 1408 CVEs across the October security release. The infographic above summarises severity and risk level by product family; the prose below unpacks the items that need attention this cycle. 3 CVEs carry a zero-day flag (publicly disclosed and/or being exploited in the wild).
"The message delivered by a president during a high-stakes midterm campaign can be critical," the New York Times reports. "As President Trump travels the country ahead of this year's elections, he might focus on selling Americans on how he will bring the Iran war to a close, or control rising prices." "But in a puzzling approach, at some recent rallies he has instead started his often-meandering remarks by effusing about the physical appearances of other men and, more rarely, finding fault with them."
A fire engulfed the historic town hall in Limoges, central France, after a group set the 143-year-old building alight amid unrest following nationwide cost-of-living protests. Local prefect Maurice Barate said the roof had collapsed onto the lower floors, except for the west wing, and that around two-thirds of the building's exterior had already disappeared. The blaze followed demonstrations that escalated into violence in several French cities on Saturday. The extent of the damage to the town hall was still being assessed Read more
Music at link is Anthony Braxton, "To Composer John Cage." Read more
Two Americans were "severely" beaten Thursday and Friday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and outrage poured in as U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee remained silent on the matter. Heidi Levine, a veteran journalist and photographer for The Washington Post, was "severely" beaten Friday, the Post reported, while "wearing a protective vest clearly marked PRESS on front and back." She was "kicked repeatedly" after being knocked to the ground, and "stripped of her cameras and phone" by Israeli settlers. "I just got back actually two days ago from three weeks in Ukraine," Levine said from a hospital bed, video shared by independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel showed. "I've been covering this conflict here for over three decades, and this is the second time that I've been brutally attacked " 15 years ago I was also attacked in front of the [Israeli] army." Read more
Former Vice President Kamala Harris Kamala Harris GOP shrinks ambition despite bashing polls Harris tells Keke Palmer she's undecided on 2028 run Harris to hit campaign trail for Democrats in Mississippi, New Hampshire, more More(Kamala Harris) on Wednesday said the Biden administration should have responded sooner to the Israeli government's "horrific conduct" in the Gaza war. Read more
The top 1% of Americans pay 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% pay 70%. The Bottom 50% pay 3%. Still think the rich arent paying their fair share?
Five years ago, parents across the country were angry and frustrated. Schools had remained closed or offered only limited in-person instruction long after evidence of the damage to children was impossible to ignore. Mask mandates dragged on. Parents were discovering that schools had embraced radical ideas about race and gender that would have been unthinkable just a few years earlier. So they did what Americans are supposed to do in a representative democracy. They showed up at public meetings, stood at the podium, asked questions, demanded answers and challenged policies they believed were harming children.
The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again. In New York, the City Council is moving to get rid of tests for specialized schools because whites and Asians outperform blacks and Latinos.
