President Donald Trump on Sunday said he's invited the family of a National Guard member fatally shot last week to the White House, saying he spoke to her parents and they were "devastated." U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died after the Wednesday shooting in Washington, D.C., while her seriously injured colleague, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remained in critical condition.
The letter congressional cowards will never send.
For a brief period, it looked like JaQuon Stembridge had a promising future within the Republican Party. He turned 19 this past July and was already the youngest member ever of the Georgia State GOP Executive Committee where he served as assistant secretary for the state convention. He was also the leader of the Georgia Teen Republicans. His rapid rise in state politics appears to have come to a quick end. He resigned just hours after a video was released online purporting to show him attempting to meet with a 14 year old boy from a dating app.
25,000 antifa volunteers converged on the western city of Giessen to protest the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany (AfD) which set up its new youth organization there, leading to clashes with police who deployed 5,000 officers to contain violence.
Using the Zohran Mamdani NYC mayoral win as a pretext to expand the police state in his jurisdiction, Nassau County Executive MAGA Bruce Blakeman is directing authorities to needlessly install hi-tech cameras and surveillance systems along the border with NYC.
David W. Chen talked to voters and Republican and Democratic activists in Hogansville, LaGrange and Valdosta, Ga., to unpack the recent elections for the Georgia Public Service Commission. Read more
The picture of weed shared by many older Americans, drawn from their own college years, helped ease the path of legalization. Weed, the mellow drug. The Cheech-and-Chong drug. The Grateful-Dead-road-trip drug. The munchies drug. The drug that, if anything, makes you overly cautious behind the wheel. Dowd thought of marijuana along similar lines " that is, until she tried the legalized stuff for herself and nearly lost her ever-loving mind. Since then, weed potency has only intensified, with some concentrates reaching near-pure levels of THC, the plant's primary psychoactive compound. Only now are policy makers and opinion elites reckoning with what Big Weed has wrought: "turning a drug that used to be 5% THC, and made people pass out for a few hours and eat Cheetos, into one that triggers psycho killers," as Kevin Sabet, a former drug adviser in successive Democratic and GOP administrations, tells me. Read more
Using maritime drones, Ukrainian special services attacked two oil tankers in Russia's shadow fleet in the Black Sea, rendering them both inoperable.
Five local rabbis are among the more than 400 New Yorkers tapped for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition committees, the teams tasked with preparing his much-anticipated administration which begins on 1 Jan 2026.
At least, in today's terms, we know who's the more racist.
There's an enormous disconnect between what parents think public schools do and what the system actually supports. People believe schools exist to educate kids. They don't. They do this by employing people who will vote as a bloc to ensure their continued employment and, thus, the system's growth. Read more
Washington " President Trump said Friday he is canceling all orders signed by former President Joe Biden using an autopen, a mechanical device that reproduces signatures. "Any document signed" by Biden via the use of an autopen "is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally," Mr. Trump said. "Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury."
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
Little River Band - Light of Day
How To Dress Well - Contingency/Necessity
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) released imagery of what they discovered from the recent MRI brain scan they conducted on the 47th President of the United States.
