A New Jersey state trooper faces multiple charges after allegedly shooting and killing his dog, fleeing his home, vandalizing a stop sign, and assaulting a local police officer. Authorities arrested Alexander Lark in Wayne Township. He is charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He also faces a municipal violation for discharging a firearm. Animal cruelty charges are pending. An affidavit of probable cause states that Lark appeared to be under the influence of an unidentified substance. An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. read more
Musk visited CIA HQ for talks on government efficiency. This is the first time Musk has visited the CIA since the establishment of DOGE. Unlike other government departments, DOGE isn't going to get unlimited access to CIA databases or internal systems because most of it is top secret. CIA has an internal DOGE team that was formed after Trump's executive order which includes CIA career officials. CIA officials didn't give Musk an intelligence briefing, but discussed with him "how the CIA is unique" in comparison to other government agencies. Musk visited NSA HQ a few weeks ago, where I'm sure they held their noses too. read more
Xiaofeng Wang, a prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity, has gone incommunicado. His professor profile, email account, and phone number were removed by his employer, Indiana University, after his home was raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Attempts to locate Wang and Ma have so far been unsuccessful and her profile was also removed. Official statement: "The FBI conducted court authorized law enforcement activity at homes in Bloomington and Carmel Friday. We have no further comment at this time." read more
USSECDEF Pete Hellsbreath issued a secret memo outlining US military priorities which comes straight from the conservative Heritage Foundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank in 2024. The memo outlines Trumpf's vision to prepare for and win a potential war against Beijing and defend the US from threats in the "near abroad," which may include Greenland and the Panama Canal. Iran is mentioned several times as a powerful adversary. The author of the Heritage Foundation blueprint now works at the Pentagon. Archived: archive.ph read more
China's military kicked off joint exercises involving its army, navy, air force and rocket force around Taiwan as a "stern warning," days after USSECDEF Pete Hegseth vowed to counter "China's aggression" on his first visit to Asia. read more
#2: Isn't bombing Iran what Israel is for, though? Nope, not when the US servicemember and American taxpayer can do it for them. Trumpf rained millions of dollars of munitions on the starving Houthis to kill a handful of their leaders and a lot of their civilians to help Bibi. But will Trumpf cross the line and bomb Iran, pissing off Putin? Nope, I don't think so. www.ft.com
Migrants-- legal and illegal-- also toil in bloody American slaughterhouses, earning low wages that ensure the profitability of the meat-processing industries: www.nbcnews.com
According to Lancet, these toxic maritime algae blooms can also sicken people on shore: www.thelancet.com
Hi Redial: Thanks for posting-- 65 is quite young. My girlfriend at the time had a "supercrush" on Val Kilmer who sang all the songs in the 1991 movie "The Doors": youtu.be
BTW: I read a story that Roger Daltrey, still singing at 81, announced on stage in-between songs that he is slowly going deaf and blind.
Americans can sleep well knowing that a drunk, misogynist plagiarist is leading the world's most powerful military (but not for long the way the Trumpf national security team is operating). The original Heritage Foundation paper linked here: www.heritage.org
Some historians will argue the first US (and UK) betrayal was the post-WWII repatriation of anti-Stalinist Cossacks to the USSR. Stalin wanted revenge on them and FDR and Churchill agreed to this at the Yalta Conference. The US called it Operation Keelhaul. One of the Cossacks was the elderly General Pyotr Krasnov. These Cossacks in an Austrian lager fought back furiously knowing that Stalin would have them killed once they were in the USSR: media1.faz.net
#14 Hi Donnerboy: Concur. My first commander in the US Army was a 7th SFG(A) Major and a black belt in judo. He taught me this: "If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary between the words shht and syphilis." I have ZERO sympathy for the Politburo that we in the US call Congress: cdn.theatlantic.com
Coming from USDJ Beryl Howell, this must have been a bitter pill to swallow. Gee, I wonder what will become of that property one day? cms.qz.com
US national security is completely at rock bottom. Again, thank you Republican voters for turning America into a vassal state of the Russian oligarchs headed by Vladimir Putin. Gut arbet! cdn.images.express.co.uk
#17: I don't recall if the USG charged white supremacist Patrick Crusius under terrorism laws for killing 23 people and intending on killing more, which would have created parallel prosecution against him. But in the case of Luigi Mangione who killed only one man, the USG is prosecuting him as well when the Empire State's law are sufficient for the task (Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office): png.pngtree.com
American policing needs a complete overhaul top to bottom (which unfortunately will never happen and will worsen under the Trumpf junta).
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