Convicted Russian cryptocurrency fraudster Roman Novak and his wife Anna watched each other being tortured to death in the UAE desert after their kidnappers failed to extract 380 million UK pounds from their accounts.
Dummkopf Trumpf viciously insulting a reporter: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. You are an obnoxious, terrible reporter. It is always the same thing with you!" And here is the Dotard-in-Chief suddenly jolting himself awake during a boring Cabinet meeting prior to haranguing the journalist: "Zzzzz"
MAGA extraordinaire Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is preparing to enter the race for NYS governor...
This is like something you might see in a Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon where Wile E. Coyote gets an Acme Su-34 and the ejector seat slams him into the roof of the hangar.
Russia keeps coming up with new and inventive ways to fuck up.
The passage of the law will end a legal challenge pending in Springfield federal court challenging the Minority Teachers program for unconstitutionally favoring people based on race in the name of "diversifying" the ranks of public school teachers in Illinois. Those who brought the challenge declared victory in the days after Pritzker signed the new law. "Illinois cannot disqualify students from competing for a taxpayer-funded college scholarship because of their race," said attorney Samantha Romero-Drew, of the nonprofit constitutional legal advocacy organization, the Pacific Legal Foundation. "Race-based discrimination is a blatant violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief " some of which former military leaders said would be illegal " Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.
Two former DHS officials who served under both Dummkopf Trumpf and former POTUS Joe Biden report the Dotard-in-Chief is considering firing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem "really soon" in a staff shakeup that could come in time for the New Year.
After two separate federal courts ruled that Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan were unequivocally disqualified from their positions at the Justice Department, the self-serving Trumpf junta continues describing the two attractive ambulance chasers as AUSAs on official government websites.
The state's worst grades went to energy, inland waterways, roads and stormwater, all receiving a D. California roads are often picked on for being some of the worst in the country, and according to the report, about a third of the state's roads are in poor condition. Bridges also fared poorly in the report with a grade of C-. More than 65% of the structures are older than 50 years, the typical lifespan, and need significant reinvestment to ensure their longevity. Even the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the state's biggest tourist attractions, still needs to secure more funding to finish an ongoing retrofitting project. Earlier this year, a report from the National Transportation Safety Board found that seven California bridges had an "unknown level of risk" for collapse. Read more
To protect their money, the United States and European nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups of outside experts, known as supervisory boards, to monitor spending, appoint executives and prevent corruption. Over the past four years, a New York Times investigation found, the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged that oversight, allowing graft to flourish. Read more
The New Year's Eve concert on the Champs lyses has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host its usual spectacle. A free open-air concert at the Arc de Triomphe, video projections on the monument and the midnight festivities that once drew close to a million people. Instead, the concert has been scrapped. It will be replaced on national television with a prerecorded concert filmed weeks ago with a handpicked crowd to mimic a celebration Paris no longer believes it can safely host. A capital once famed for its public life now performs it under studio conditions. Read more
Anger over illegal migration helped return Mr. Trump to the presidency, and he has enacted even more aggressive policies than those Mr. Biden first campaigned against. Mr. Trump has drawn outrage from Democrats by sending masked agents to target immigrants, often aided by National Guard soldiers. But a New York Times examination of Mr. Biden's record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue for Mr. Trump as he sought to return to the White House and justify the aggressive tactics roiling American cities today. Read more
President Trump on Saturday offered more insight into his decision to pardon former Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife Imelda, who were both indicted last year on bribery charges, but criticized the former congressman for opting to run as a Democrat in 2026.
Self-serving hillbilly millionaire VPOTUS JD Vance publicly related this anecdote with his wife Usha shamelessly chuckling beside him. In the Oval Office, Dummkopf Trumpf had asked Marco [Rubio], what's your shoe size?' And Marco's apparently an 11 and a half. He says, JD, what's your shoe size?' My shoe size is 13. I asked this politician, who I won't embarrass, what his shoe size is, and he says, Seven.' "The president leans back in his chair and says, You know, you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.' JD Vance bleats: "We won't ask the Second Lady for comment on that particular topic."
Yeah, I've posted a couple three tunes this evening/night. So I decided to start up a thread ... No theme or topic in the tunes. Just whatever floats yer boat ...
Breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy have opened the door to life-changing treatment for people with sickle cell disease. Yet few patients know these treatments exist, and even fewer can access them due to the seven-figure price tag.
