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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard may have been "guided" throughout her more than 24 years in politics by Chris Butler, the leader of a group countless ex-members have described as a "cult," an extensive report from The Washington Post revealed Sunday. read more


Last week, the U.S. military killed eight people and stranded six others in three illegal boat strikes, bringing the total number of people killed by "Operation Southern Spear" to at least 215. The ongoing campaign"allegedly targeting drug smuggling"has long ceased to be major news, fading, like so much else, into the constant background hum of inconceivable violence wrought by the current administration. Tracking the carnage is made easy by the military division that conducts the strikes, which posts its snuff footage on Twitter, alongside kill counts. Being bombed at sea is a gruesome way to die. Those not immediately blown apart or burned alive likely die slowly, left to drown while clinging to flaming wreckage. No one responsible for the strikes has publicly presented any evidence of drug smuggling.


Trillionaire Elon Musk spent Monday night posting and re-sharing posts online in an apparent effort to defend his record spearheading massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid " which reporting increasingly suggests may end up causing millions of preventable deaths " and was subsequently hammered by critics. "Musk killed millions by abruptly stopping food and medical supply shipments," wrote Nick Mark, a podcast host and Washington-based physician. "At the time he gleefully celebrated feeding [the U.S. Agency for International Development] (USAID) to the woodchipper' by waving a chainsaw around high on ketamine. Now he's in damage control mode. This is his legacy. Don't let him off the hook."


Monday, June 22, 2026

President Donald Trump has spent the better part of a decade trying to outrun the ghost of Herbert Hoover ... read more


Former NBC journalist Chris Hansen of "To Catch a Predator" fame delivered a pointed quip in a video published Monday after a man swept up in a child exploitation sting arrived wearing a shirt prominently featuring President Donald Trump. The sting was carried out by the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana late last year in coordination with Hansen. A video published Monday revealed new details about some of the 15 men arrested in the operation, including 21-year-old Brennan Temple. Temple, according to Hansen, had sent sexually explicit images and messages to someone he believed to be a 15-year-old girl


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