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Friday, May 15, 2026

I want to be able to provide some good when I post. Not successful,not ots still worth a try. In this post, it's to let you all know of employment sites with job openings. It's hard enough finding a job to have to deal with hackers posting false job openings ON MAJOR SITES! Read more


Colorado's governor on Friday announced that he is commuting the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. She's serving time for election interference for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines following the 2020 presidential election. She was sentenced to serve over eight years in state prison in October 2024. Read more


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.


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."


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


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


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


Eric Trumpf: "I am so excited to share the official rendering of Trump Tower Tbilisi. With a prime location, in the heart of Tbilisi, this tower will quickly become a landmark as the tallest building in Georgia. This marks our first project in the region and we are so excited to bring it to life!"

One of Eric Trumpf's partners is a vile, right-wing oligarch


FBI Director Kash Patel strutted into a Senate hearing Tuesday, brandishing a large black placard of statistics and daring his critics to dispute them. But current and former law enforcement officials say those numbers are a sham. "They are absolutely padding the stats and claiming arrests they would not have claimed [previously]," one current FBI official told MS NOW. "So comparing 2025 to 2024 is not apples to apples." Read more


en I went to bed last Thursday night," Alex Berenson told me, "I was sure we didn't have a deal. The government offered money, but they weren't willing to admit what they had done. And I wasn't going to agree to a settlement without that acknowledgment. But the next morning," he added, "my lawyer texted me with the news that they had agreed to the language. So we made the deal."

If you don't know what Berenson is talking about, well, you can hardly be blamed. The mainstream media has studiously ignored Berenson v. Biden, even though it has enormous implications for the First Amendment. That "language" that Berenson insisted upon"and that the government finally agreed to include in the settlement?


We Didn't Have to Kill a Whole Bunch of People'

Former President Barack Obama mounted a forceful defense of his 2015 Iran nuclear deal with a pointed jab at President Donald Trump's war with the regime, arguing his administration "pulled it off without firing a missile."


Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any time since the Federal Reserve began its financial wellbeing survey in 2013, according to some measures published Wednesday. More notable than the depressed financial situation of Black respondents is the gap between Black people and, in some cases, every other racial and ethnic group recorded. Black adults were the only racial group who reported a notable jump in concerns about price increases, the Fed wrote in its report, up 6% year over year. The percentage of Black people "doing okay" or "living comfortably" declined by 5% from 65% in 2024 to 60% in 2025, the largest drop recorded since the Fed began collecting this data, including in 2020 during the COVID-era recession. The percentage of Hispanic respondents "doing okay" or "living comfortably" declined 1% from 63% to 62%, while Asian people's situations stayed flat with 82% feeling comfortable.


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