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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

With their services pistols drawn, two USAF Security Forces airmen forcefully entered the wrong residence on Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, while a child was alone inside. Both have been assigned to desk duties and are under investigation.

FLETC No-No


A red state sparked backlash after announcing that it will offer an alternative version of advanced history classes meant to combat the "woke." Historian Kevin Kruse warned on Bluesky that Sunshine State students could have "to suffer through the Florida Man version" of Advanced Placement U.S. History, and called out a curriculum that frames Florida as always having been Christian, anti-slavery and on the right side of history. Commentators like Kruse pointed out that the curriculum will describe slavery as a "necessary evil," frame Plessy v Ferguson as a result of "the failure of Reconstruction" after the Civil War, and credit federal law that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for "decreased slave power representation."


President Donald Trump, who insists he feels like he did 50 years ago, has been caught in a public bout of daytime drowsiness. The 79-year-old president appeared to slip into a heavy-eyed daze during an Oval Office proclamation signing on Tuesday to restore the Presidential Fitness Test in schools. The president's latest public sleeping fit comes less than two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom accused him of being "asleep at the wheel" for appearing to nod off during a healthcare affordability event at the Oval Office. Newsom, 58, has taken to calling Trump "Dozy Don," a play on the nickname Trump gave his predecessor Joe Biden""Sleepy Joe""to mock the then-president's apparent decline.


Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence analyst imprisoned for 30 years for spying for Israel, is running for election to the Knesset on a platform of ethnic cleansing. "I personally prefer the forcible removal of all current residents of Gaza and the annexation of Gaza and its repopulation by us."

Jonathan Pollard Was One of the Most Damaging Spies in US History


Russia President Vladimir Putin has grown increasingly paranoid about his personal security. His cooks, bodyguards, and photographers have been placed under surveillance and are banned from using mobile phones or any devices with access to the internet in his vicinity. He also ordered that surveillance systems be installed in the homes of these people and any visitors to the Kremlin must now go through two rounds of screening.

Vladimir Putin Employs Body Doubles


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared annoyed Tuesday after a reporter asked him when President Trump decided to capitulate on his initial demands for Iran to surrender unconditionally.


Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Alberta separatists said Monday they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada. The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote.


"I want to show a snippet of an interview that Timothy Snyder had with Katie Couric the other day.

Snyder is a prominent American historian and Yale University professor and he specializes in central and Eastern European history, the Holocaust, and especially modern authoritarianism.

But a couple friends of the channel mentioned a specific statement of his during this interview in which he said that Donald Trump is "fighting with God."

Here's that short clip and I have a link to the entire interview down below pinned to the top of the comments. It's a very interesting interview and I highly recommend you take the time to watch it if you're able to.


This makes it harder for shows produced by actual humans to stand out on "new" or "trending" lists.


Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz will be paused at the request of Pakistan and other countries, President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday. Read more


For a political ideology, you sure like living where MAGA is.


The proposal to rename Palm Beach County County Airport to Trump International Airport could generate millions in revenue for Trump. It would be the first and only such airport naming deal and would allow Trump to indirectly profit from licensing fees. It also gives Trump control over the design of the merch and which vendors from which the merch could be sourced.


Police said that they went to the hotel in response to a call about a man who was naked on the sixth floor. When police arrived, they found Spillman "masturbating at the end of the hallway," the arrest report said.


The US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into the NYC Department of Education (NYCDOE) to determine whether NYCDOE violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) by discriminating against Jewish students.

NYC Teachers and CUNY Professors are World Class


Less than 24 hours after Denver Mayor Mike Johnston publicly pushed back on a U.S. Department of Justice demand to repeal the city's longstanding ban on assault weapons, the DOJ followed through with its threat to take the matter to court. On Tuesday, the DOJ filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Denver's longstanding ban on assault style weapons unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected semi-automatic rifles and infringes on the "Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes," according to a statement from the agency.


Conservative broadcaster Ben Ferguson drew criticism from his fellow CNN panelists when he said April 27 that more conservatives will be killed "if the Democratic Party doesn't wake up and realize that words had meaning and they light the fuse." "Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate," Ferguson said. Read more


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