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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

BRISTOL, Va. (WCYB) -- Multiple violations were found involving a 3-year-old at a daycare in Bristol, Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS). According to the DSS, a complaint against Victory Children's Center on Island Road was substantiated, with an investigation finding multiple violations involving a 3-year-old child. The DSS report states staff used forbidden discipline methods, including rough handling, and forced feeding while the child was gagging. Read more


The FIFA 2026 World Cup tournament has opened our eyes to the complexities of implementing border intelligence and protection measures for a tri-nation event drawing six million visitors from around the world. With the Summer Olympics arriving in Los Angeles in 2028 ("LA28") and major international sporting events and concert tours unfolding, there's likewise opportunity to reassess how we handle security at major events themselves.


Late last year, I relaunched Giant Freakin Robot with a renewed determination to avoid these pitfalls by making this the most exclusionary geek site on the internet. What does that mean? It means we will not work with writers who have bad ideas or ideas that are in direct conflict with the values and interests of our readers. That doesn't serve them or us. Specifically, Giant Freakin Robot's readers are geeky men, and always have been, so that means finding commentators who have the same fundamental world view that most geeky men have. Engaging Alex Kurtzman fans to write for Giant Freakin Robot would make about as much sense as investing in Giant Freakin Robot makeup tutorials.


"On 14 April, at the direction of the commander of US Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Four male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No US military forces were harmed."

Expect More XJK and Growing Body Count in Latin America


The Israelis attacked another Palestinian police vehicle in Gaza City, killing at least four people, including Yahya Al Malahi (3) and a police officer, while wounding nine others, some critically.

This ICC-indicted war criminal and barbarian automatically receives billions of dollars of hardworking American taxpayer dollars every year


White supremacist David Daniel (38), who Donald Trump pardoned in Jan 2025 for attacking the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021, has now pled guilty to charges related to the sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.

6 Jan maniacs pardoned by Donald Trump are conducting nationwide crime spree


The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a deranged old pervert whose brain, long since sodden and pitted from a lifetime of indulgence and Diet Coke, is foaming out of his ears. Over the weekend he wigged out and posted some floridly unhinged shit on his busted little playpen social-media site about how Pope Leo XIV, the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, is "too liberal" and "weak on crime""for God's sake, there's graffiti all over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel!"apparently in tantrum response to Leo XIV having criticized both Trump's war of aggression on Iran and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's framing of that war as having been ordained by God. A little while later, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, healing by touch a guy who looks an awful lot like Jeffrey Epstein while a crowd of uniformly white people gaze on in wonder. Read more


Tuesday, April 14, 2026

You probably know a woman supporting an unemployed man. Maybe you've been that woman. What used to be an embarrassing secret has quietly become a macroeconomic data point, and now the Federal Reserve has the receipts. Read more


In the film Mad Max, an oil shortage leaves Australian society teetering on the brink of total collapse. In real-life, things aren't quite that dystopian yet Down Under. But with barely a month of stockpiled diesel left and hundreds of forecourts running dry, the anxiety is palpable.


On Monday, Trump said that he had instructed the U.S. Navy to "seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran," and the U.S. military later said that the "blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas." However, ship tracking data analyzed by BBC Verify revealed that at least four Iran-linked vessels "crossed the Strait of Hormuz" without incident; two on Monday, and two overnight.


Since Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz sounded the alarm in January about the rampant Medicare fraud inside California's hospice system, ABC and NBC have not spent a second on their flagship morning and evening newscasts informing viewers of the billions of dollars scammed from U.S. taxpayers.


After Congress approved the automatic registration of young Americans and legal residents into the Selective Service System (SSS) last year, Faux News TV tumor psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert bleated that anyone worried about potentially being drafted for military service is suffering from "Trumpf Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) and wondered how many youngsters in Gen Z might use it as an excuse to avoid conscription, something Dummkopf Trumpf got away with during the Vietnam War.

This is not a good human being


Monday, April 13, 2026

Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes.


A South Carolina pastor accused of sexually assaulting a foster child had his prison sentence commuted by President Donald Trump and was on federal probation when the alleged assaults occurred. The Richland County Sheriff's Department (RCSD) said Rodney Gibson and Kawiana Young were arrested Monday. RCSD noted the two are married. Both were charged with unlawful conduct with a minor, while Gibson was additionally charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Gibson was also identified as the pastor of Pathway 2 Hope Ministries in Columbia, while Young owns and operates DreamCatcher Child Development Center.


Sunday, April 12, 2026

ISLAMABAD " The U.S. military said on Sunday that it will soon block ships from Iranian ports. It comes after the U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement in highly anticipated face-to-face peace talks, according to Vice President Vance, who is serving as Washington's lead negotiator. Read more


With roughly 45% of the ballots tallied Sunday night, Tisza is projected to win 135 seats out of 199 seats in the Hungarian legislature.


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