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... Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state's western edge, a state senator said Saturday.

About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a hospital in nearby Greenville to a larger medical center in the state capital city of Jackson, Simmons told The Associated Press.

Simmons said he was being updated on developments by the Washington County Sheriff's Office as well as from other law enforcement authorities in the Delta.

"People were just congregating and having a good time in the downtown of Leland," Simmons said of the town with a population of fewer than 4,000 people. ...

What's yer likes?

... White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt boasting that he is in excellent health and his heart is functionally 14 years younger than his biological age. ...

So... aside from the health of his heart, how is he doin'?

What about the rest of him?

... President Donald ... Trump received a COVID booster vaccine " ...

Oh dear.

That may leave a mark.

@#36 ... If you want or need anything from the Government of the United States, licking Lewzer's taint is the best foot forward. ...

Well, yeah.

Just look at the Cabinet meeting being broadcast where the members of his Cabinet seem to be beholden to providing unfettered praise of their Dear Leader.

Have the White House Cabinet meetings now turned in to the adulation gatherings of North Korea?

@#33 ... And all it cost them a big jet no one else wanted. ...

Seems that way.

A fav for me ...

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... The committee said Machado received the prize for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and keeping "the flame of democracy burning."

Machado is a unifying figure in the opposition movement. She was set to run for president in 2024, but her candidacy was blocked by the regime. She has, with few exceptions, been in hiding ever since, and she continues to speak out for democracy.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her before announcing it to the world.

Machado described the award as the "biggest recognition" ever given to her movement. She said: "I have no words. Thank you so much, but I hope you understand that this is a movement, this is an achievement of a whole society. I am just one person. I certainly do not deserve this."

She posted on social media on Friday that the prize would give her people a boost to "conquer freedom." She praised Trump's "decisive support" and dedicated the award partly to him.

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Joergen Frydnes, told NHK that the choice of Machado highlights the importance of democracy.

Frydnes said: "Venezuela is in deep both financial and humanitarian crisis. It lives under a brutal dictatorship which represses its population and the opposition, but we're also living in a world where we see more and more authoritarian states." ...

So... apparently, testosterone uber alles?

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... According to the Associated Press, David Slater has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday.

He was arrested in March 2024 and pleaded guilty in July.

According to court documents, Slater, after retiring as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army, worked in a classified space at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and held a top-secret security clearance between August 2021 and April 2022.

He attended briefings about the Russia-Ukraine war and admitted in July that he conspired to transmit classified information that he learned from the briefings via a foreign dating website's messaging platform.

Slater admitted he planned to send the information to an unnamed coconspirator, who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine. The information, classified as secret, pertained to military targets and Russian military capabilities, according to the plea agreement. ...

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'This presidency is failing us' : Military families hitting up food pantries amid shutdown

@#33 ... From "They fund terrorism" to our closest ally getting part of a US airbase in the US...

And all it cost them a big jet no one else wanted. ...

Looks that way.

US Security apparently for sale by the occupant of the Oval Office?

@#5 ... America does not have a national religion. ...

Reminds me of MAGA saying that then candidate Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025 ....

@#3 ... Wow, maybe the comments of another alias here ...

Mr Miller seems to have a problem.

And, imo, the problem is not his creepy look.

@#4 ... Of course, he's talking reality, not satire. ...

Yup.

@#137 ... America does not have a national religion. ...

Good to see your alias say that.

Wow, maybe the comments of another alias here about the US may be a Christian Nation are less than ~off base.~

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... Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn't Christian. ...

Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGA world.

The Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former DOGE co-chief came face-to-face with the racism rampant among American conservative youth culture Tuesday when he headlined a Turning Point USA event in Montana.

Speaking at Montana State University, Ramaswamy fielded disturbing questions about how he believed he could adequately participate in electoral politics when his religion and ethnic identity don't align with stereotypical white American ideals.

"Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other God," said a male student. "How can you represent the constituents of Ohio who are 64 percent Christian if you are not a part of that faith?"

"If you are an Indian, a Hindu, coming from a different culture, different religion than those who founded this country, those who grew this country, built this country, made this country the beautiful thing that it is today," he continued. "What are you conserving? You are bringing change. I'll be 100 percent honest with you"Christianity is the one truth."

A female student asked Ramaswamy why he chose to "masquerade as a Christian." ...

@#14 ... Clownshack wants starving Americans to pay for the over bloated federal employees. Retarded ...

Yet your current alias shows no justification for that comment.

In reality, it does appear that Pres Trump is the person who wants starving Americans to pay, while he let's billionaires off the hook of paying.

So, what else yer current alias (bordering upon "trolling", imo) got?

Anything to substantiate its viewpoint that it posts?

@#26 ... Reminds me of the time LftHndThrds said the Epstein Files shouldn't be released at all. Because the impact on those powerful men could be bad for the economy. ... h

Yeah, and then there are the comments recently broadcast of what Sec Ludnick has said in an interview with a podcast.

Why not just release the files, and get this over with?

@#133 ... I never stated what you think I'm backtracking from.

Please reread what I said. You misunderstood it or assumed I meant something I didn't. ...

My comment did not state that your alias said it.

My comment said that you implied it.

For the record, my #130 comment ...

... In your #122 comment there seems to be an implication that the US has a national religion. ...

So, what do you think the national religion of the US is?

Stately differently, and imho ...

Pres Trump appointed a most unqualified RFK, Jr. to a Cabinet position because he wanted the votes in the election.

And now,apparently we seem to have this Trump-sanctioned arachnid determining the health of the Country?

@#3

The apparent result of promising a Cabinet appointment to a person so they drop out of the Presidential race.

@#3 ... State money will go to NGO's and subsidies that eventually run out. ...

I agree.

But after that state money has run out, perhaps the local businesses have become a thriving business.

My question is - why give that seed money to a major, already established, corporation? Why not try to encourage local businesses?