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Thursday, May 28, 2026

The Department of Justice filedlawsuitsagainst Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Massachusetts challenging their policies of denying confidential license plates to federal law-enforcement officers (e.g. DHS and ICE agents).

The sinister Trump junta wants to protect ICE thugs from lawsuits and an angry public today or after the junta finally falls


A 69-year-old man known in his San Diego County neighborhood as the owner of the "Trump house" died from injuries suffered when he was brutally assaulted outside of his home. Kerry George Sheron of Escondido was hospitalized in critical condition last week after he was attacked outside his MAGA-themed residence at East Mission Avenue and Buchanan Street around 2 p.m., according to the city Police Department. The alleged attacker, Thomas Caleb Butler, 32, fled on foot and was apprehended that day.


A bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges on Wednesday asked the judge who oversaw President Trump's remarkable lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to reopen the case and conduct an inquiry into whether the hasty deal to resolve it could be challenged as an act of fraud.


A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats' arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.


Faux TV tumor MAGA "economist" Larry Kudlow, a thrice-married former cocaine addict and recovering alcoholic who converted from Judaism to Catholicism, denigrated the popular and effective NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) as a "stupid kid" and a "Stalinist," after His Honor introduced a bold new plan to create hundreds of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments for struggling New Yorkers.

Why NYC Roundly Rejected Good-for-Nothings Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams
"It's just pure communist, pure Stalinism," 12-step program useless dinosaur Larry Kudlow bleated on TV.


On the first night of Eid celebrations and family visits in the Gaza Strip, Israeli fighter jets carried out intense air strikes targeting a residential building in central Gaza City, killing seven, including three women and a child, wounding 18 others. Meanwhile, Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz has advanced plans to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip through "voluntary emigration" which would take place "at the proper time and in the proper manner."

Israeli Settlers Merrily Celebrating Deaths of Muslims


DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is moving to have his wife, Christie, hired as a Special Government Employee (SGE) which would allow her to fly free with him on federal flights. Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem hired her rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski, in the same manner. With this sinecure, Mrs Christie Mullin could also earn $130,000 per year.

Mr and Mrs Mullet Wedding Portrait


Oil prices have jumped after the US carried out new attacks on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city. The US Central Command (Centcom) said its forces also shot down four Iranian drones "that posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz". Global oil benchmark Brent rose by 3.75% to $97.83 (73.15) a barrel, while US-traded crude was 4% higher at $92.22. Read more


Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Back-to-back-to-back within six months, Nevada US Army National Guardsman PFC Mace Veit (19) graduated from Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault, and Pathfinder schools all without injury or problem. When PFC Veit catches his breath, and if his unit has the funds to send him, he can attend the newly-reconstituted US Army Jungle Warfare School (18 days) in Panama. This Cavalry Scout (Honor Graduate) should easily pass the rigorous qualification for the sought-after Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB).

Rangers Lead the Way
I would deploy with PFC Mace Veit.


A former US government official has been arrested after FBI investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million in his Virginia home. David Rush made several requests to the US government to receive the bars for "work-related expenses" over the past year, according to court documents. He has been charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed last week. Read more


The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its namesake Ohio city. "Steel. Strength. Power," acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao posted on social media to mark the occasion. Critics of the littoral combat ship (LCS) program had some other descriptions. "Easy meat," said one. "An experiment that didn't work," said another. Read more


The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The investigation is allegedly centered around whether Carroll committed perjury during her civil lawsuits against President Trump, after which she was awarded a $5 million judgment, the sources said.


The way some musicians play, you think they'll never die. Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was such a man: A saxophonist revered for his huge tone and seemingly inexhaustible improvisations. Rollins died Monday afternoon at his Woodstock, N.Y. home at the age of 95. Rollins was a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, a recipient of a Kennedy Center honor and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts. And he was the very incarnation of a modern jazz musician. His art was his life. "All these prizes are nice, I appreciate them," he told NPR in 2007. "I don't go crazy about them -- you have to do your work whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can do it and that's it. That's its own reward."


WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran wrongly assumed he would retreat from his demands during negotiations to avoid a long standoff ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Speaking at a Cabinet meeting on May 27, Trump said the Iranian regime "thought they were going to outwait me" regarding a peace deal.

"'We'll outwait him. He's got the midterms,'" Trump said. "I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was the prelude to the midterms."


Thirty Seconds To Mars is going in for the kill against bots that buy and scalp tickets by giving fans a new way to fight back, but it comes with one unusual catch: they may need to scan their eyes first. Jared Leto's band is using World's new Concert Kit tool to set aside a portion of tickets for verified human fans on its 2027 European tour. The tech comes from Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity, the company behind World ID, an encrypted digital passport created through iris and face scans.


INTERLOCHEN, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan summer arts camp and boarding school where Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of meeting at least two his victims will tear down a lodge that once bore his name. The Interlochen Center for the Arts said this week that its board of trustees has approved a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, which had been known as Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge until the school cut ties and scrubbed references to the late millionaire sex offender after his first conviction in 2008. Epstein attended the Interlochen Arts Camp in 1967 as a teenager, and donated more than $400,000 to the school between 1990 to 2003, including $200,000 for the construction of the lodge.


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