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Friday, May 15, 2026

My cleanest dirty shirt.


President Donald Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors early this year and many of these trades coincided with favorable regulatory decisions from his own administration.

DJT Financial Disclosures: Who cares about egregious conflicts of interest?


Top Republicans on Friday condemned the Pentagon for canceling a U.S. troop deployment to Poland, an abrupt move that also appeared to catch Army leaders by surprise.


Being a Complete and Unflinching Account of the Most Loathsome Specimen Ever to Consume Resources, Occupy Space, and Insult the Patience of a Universe That Deserved So Much Better.


A confession, a reckoning, and a question I should have asked myself years ago.


President Donald Trump said the US objective of recovering highly enriched uranium from Iran was "more for public relations than it is for anything else," while reiterating his commitment to removing the nuclear material. "I just feel better if I got it, actually," Trump said. "But it's, I think it's more for public relations than it is for anything else."


The ABC15 Investigators have confirmed that a Phoenix police sergeant has been fired after videos captured him at a high school ICE protest armed and wearing a mask in January. Last month, body camera video showed tense moments as off-duty Sergeant Dusten Mullen told a Chandler police officer he was at the protest with a goal to get kids in jail if they wanted to break the law.


Residents in many US states have reacted angrily as AI data centers spring up across the country, citing environmental impacts and rising utility bills. In one particularly egregious case, around 49,000 people now have one year to find a new power source while their current supplier pivots to data centers.


Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently asked Congress for a staggering amount of money: $1.5 trillion. That's a more than 40 percent increase from last year's also incomprehensible Pentagon budget and the equivalent of the annual revenues of Amazon, Google's parent company and Apple combined.


Whether it's Bigfoot, the Big Muddy Monster, creatures from the watery deep among urban legends, Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Sharp Museum wants all artists to put their best work on display in celebrating hidden or unknown animals and creatures. "Spooks or Spoofs," a national juried cryptid-themed exhibition will run Aug. 11 through Dec. 21 in the museum. All media are eligible, but artificial intelligence-generated images will not be allowed. Read more


In April, Ranger Class 06-26 became the first class to undergo the school's new bayonet course, a quarter-mile event in which soldiers crawl through tunnels, sprint over open fields, and negotiate barbed wire fence lines. Along the way, soldiers must drive their bayonets into silicone foes toting rubber Kalashnikovs and manning sand-bag machine gun nests. The bayonet course is the last chance for soldiers to demonstrate to their instructors that they are ready "to close the last 100 yards and destroy the enemy."

The other favored US Army hand-to-hand combat weapon is the entrenching tool


"Hardworking American Taxpayers Paid a Premium for Empty Buildings"

  • The DHS IG has launched a formal audit into roughly $1 bn worth of warehouse purchases made under former S/DHS Kristi Noem, targeting properties that don't have working plumbing, aren't zoned for detention, and have yet to hold a single detainee.
    Well-experienced DHS IG Dr Joseph V. Cuffari is a Dummkopf Trumpf appointment, so good luck to us all seeking justice and holding people accountable


    Tens of thousands of lunatic Jewish settlers descended on occupied Jerusalem on 14 May to celebrate the so-called Flag March,' beating defenseless Palestinian Muslim and Christian residents, damaging storefronts while shouting anti-Arab slogans.

    "Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu: "Social media is why Israel is hated by everybody in the world."


    Thursday, May 14, 2026

    It seemed unlikely the IRS was working on a supercool, supersecret AI project, because the IRS runs on ancient tech and has never once flirted with being cool. As for secrecy, I had entered its headquarters to meet then-Commissioner Danny Werfel within two weeks of requesting an interview. But after a few minutes in Werfel's waiting room, I began to wonder. Dull-blue carpet. Walls the color of cafeteria pudding. The room's center of antigravity"its un"focal point"was a faux-mahogany cabinet displaying unloved plaques and seasonal gourds. I had never been in a place so perfectly optimized to kill all curiosity. If a diabolical genius were hiding an incredible AI project, this is the anteroom he'd build. Read more


    President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Read more


    A vessel reportedly operating as a "floating armoury" in the Gulf of Oman has been seized by Iranian military personnel, according to the maritime risk management company Vanguard. The ship is now "bound for Iranian territorial waters", the UK's Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation said. BBC Verify has checked ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic which shows the vessel - identified by Vanguard as the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan. Read more


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