People mourning the killing of Charlie Kirk carried candles and American flags in a solemn memorial last week at the Huntington Beach Pier, long a destination for conservative gatherings ranging from protests over pandemic-era lockdowns to rallies in support of President Trump. But on this night, things took a dark turn when dozens of men joined the crowd, chanting, "White men fight back." Then on Saturday, a white nationalist organization, identified by experts as Patriot Front, showed up at another beachside memorial for Kirk. The men, wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and white gaiters concealing their faces, marched down Main Street toward the beach holding a picture of Kirk. "Say his name!" they yelled. "Take back our world! Take back our land!" Read more
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Two flying cars crashed into each other at a rehearsal for an air show in China which was meant to be a showcase for the technology. The Xpeng AeroHT vehicles collided in mid-air, with one catching fire during landing, the company said in a statement to Reuters. The company said people at the scene were safe, but CNN reported one person was injured in the crash, citing an anonymous company employee.
Israel announced the start of its long-awaited ground operation into Gaza City, declaring "Gaza is burning." Palestinians said bombardment of the city had been ramped up dramatically over the past two days, destroying dozens of homes. Naval boats joined tanks and planes in the free-fire zone along the coast. At least 101 Palestinians were killed today. "We have launched a significant operation in Gaza," the revolting Benjamin Netanyahu boasted at the start of his testimony in court in his ongoing corruption trial. For years the "Crime Minister" has been using his role as a wartime PM to stall and delay his nettlesome legal problems in a Tel Aviv court. USSSECSTATE Marco Rubio, who visited Israel on Monday, bleated his support of the Likud junta's decision to abandon ceasefire talks and destroy Gaza. In March 2025, this empty suit expedited $4bn of hard-earned American taxpayer funds to the IDF. Read more
D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Patel testified to US Senators that there is "no credible information" in case files that the notorious Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young women to anyone other than himself. During a heated hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Patel about his knowledge of the Epstein files. "You've seen most of the files. Who if anyone did Epstein traffic these young women to, besides himself?" Patel responded, "Himself. There is no credible information, none. If there were I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals. And the information we have, again, is limited." Kennedy followed up, "So the answer is no one?" The worst FBI Director in the history of the US responded, "For the information that we have. In the case files." Read more
The percentage of US adults who report having or being treated for depression has exceeded 18% in both 2024 and 2025, up about 8% since the initial measurement in 2015. The current rate of 18.3% measured so far in 2025 projects to an estimated 47.8 million Americans suffering from depression. Most of the increase has occurred since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Depression rates have risen dramatically since 2017 among adults under the age of 30, doubling from 13.0% in 2017 to 26.7% in 2025. The current estimate is up from 24.6% measured in 2023, indicating that depression continues to be a worsening problem among young adults. Among those in households earning under $24,000 per year, reports of depression have risen from 22.1% in 2017 to 26.1% in 2023 to 35.1% now, a 13-point increase in eight years. The change for these lower-earning Americans is particularly notable given the nine-point increase since 2023. Read more
"SUBJECT: Grooming Standards for Facial Hair: The grooming standard set by the US military is to be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance. When authorizing individual exceptions, commanders must apply consistent criteria and appropriately consider the Department's interests in safety and uniformity. Effective immediately, I am directing all the Military Departments to implement the following minimum requirements concerning medical exceptions to the grooming standards requiring Service members to be clean shaven: Military medical officers will provide a written recommendation concerning a shaving waiver to the commander who is the final approval authority. Service members with an approved shaving waiver will participate in a medical treatment plan. Unit commanders will initiate separation of Service members who require a shaving waiver after more than one year of medical treatment." Read more
I'm an Anglican Priest in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (my pronouns are he/him/his) and I get to serve in the Parish of St Margaret of Scotland, in the beautiful city of Halifax, NS, that sits on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people.
Rev Ed Trevors
The Trump administration is redirecting nearly $500 million in federal funding toward historically Black colleges and tribal colleges, a one-time investment covered primarily by cuts to other colleges serving large numbers of minority students. The Education Department announced the funding boost days after cutting $350 million from other grants, mostly from programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of Hispanic students. Agency leaders said those grants were unconstitutional because they're available only to colleges with certain minority enrollment thresholds.
Robert Redford, the leading man with the golden-boy looks who won an Oscar for directing "Ordinary People" and later became a godfather for independent film as founder of the Sundance Film Institute, died Tuesday in Utah. He was 89.
Today's date is made of 3 perfect squares and they form a Pythagorean triple: 3 + 4 = 5 This only happens once a century.
A group of tourists were spotted trying to push back a boat full of migrants after it attempted to land on a Greek beach. Footage posted on social media showed beachgoers pushing the boat away on the Sarakiniko beach in the southern island of Gavdos. The tourists got into the water and tried to shove the boat away from the shore before it could touch down. Local media reports the migrants, reportedly from Libya were told not to disembark on the beach and were redirected back towards the port.
The body of a Black student was found hanging from a tree at Delta State University early Monday, prompting horror on the Cleveland, Mississippi, campus. According to the university's chief of police, the body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was discovered on Monday at approximately 7:05 a.m. local time.
The most underqualified individual to ever lead the US State Department, the vapid empty suit Marco Rubio, threatened to revoke the visas of foreigners visiting the US if they are celebrating the fortuitous demise of hatemongering good-for-nothing college dropout Charlie Kirk. Tragically, with all of the technologies available to the diabolical Dummkopf Trumpf junta, an army of ICE Sturmabteilung ready to carry out mass deportations, and an out-of-control police state budget, this idiotic time and money wasting threat is feasible, as unfortunate Palestinians studying in the US have discovered this year.
