51 dead and 104 injured Muslims were taken to the few functioning hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours. This casualty count seems to be below average for the highly murderous IDF. The death toll in the Gaza Strip is now 55,959, the majority of whom are children and women. Since the start of Israel's Nakba against the Palestinian people on 7 Oct 2023, 131,242 Arabs have also been wounded or maimed. After AIPAC-funded US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) green-lighted the horrendous GOP budget in March 2025 which released billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel, the IDF resumed its killing spree, resulting in 5,647 Arabs dead and 19,201 maimed since 18 March 2025. read more
A crew from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources was able to remove a plastic lid from the neck of a young bear after around two years. Unknown is where or how the male bear got its head stuck in a five-inch hole in the lid. It's similar to a lid that fits 55-gallon drums used by hunters to bait bears. The DNR said that baiting is a legal method for hunting bears, but bait containers can only be used on private land and may only have holes either one inch or less in diameter or 22 inches or greater in diameter. DNR biologists became aware of the bear in 2023 after trail camera photos of the then-cub showed its head stuck in the lid. Officials say the bear would prove elusive over the next two years and occasionally appear on trail cameras but then disappear. The bruin weighed 110 pounds which is standard for a two-year-old bear, but had scarring and an abscess on its neck. Otherwise, the bear was healthy and released back into the wild. read more
One person is dead and at least ten victims were wounded following a shooting Saturday night at the Veteran's of Foreign Wars (VFW) post on Scarborough Road in Greenville, SC during a Juneteenth celebration. One patient was flown to Greenville Memorial, and eight others were taken to nearby hospitals in Anderson and Greenville. Authorities said this remains an active shooter scene; details are limited: Map
DHS informs: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seen a roughly 830% increase in seizures of Chinese-made signal jammers since 2021. Signal jammers can be used to disrupt a range of radio frequency channels, and pose a threat to emergency response, law enforcement, aviation, and critical infrastructure. Criminals allegedly jammed calls to local police during home invasions or bank robberies in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Federal law already prohibits the private import, operation, marketing, or sale of any signal jamming equipment that interferes with law enforcement communications, GPS, or radar. Signal jammers are banned in Beijing for public use. If you Google "signal jammer," you will be lost in a forest of these Chinese-made devices. read more
Naved Durrni (34) was charged with assault in the first degree as a hate crime and other charges for allegedly repeatedly and ferociously punching and kicking a 55-year-old Muslim woman aboard a subway. The defendant asked a woman, who was wearing a head covering, if she was a Muslim and proceeded to attack her. Durrni allegedly slapped and punched her on the face multiple times then kicked the woman in the face with his heavy work boots before fleeing the scene. The defendant was apprehended by police several blocks away from the attack. The woman suffered a fracture to her nasal bone, a fracture to her orbital bone as well as substantial pain, bruising, and swelling and was treated at a local hospital. If convicted, the defendant faces up to 25 years in prison. Criminal complaints and indictments are accusations. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. read more
#86: Senator Lindsey Graham couldn't wait to start bombing Iran. Dummkopf Trumpf wasn't even inaugurated yet and the Israelis paused the Gaza genocide for a few weeks when faux Christian Lindsey Graham began clamoring to destroy Iran. Without a war or social issues to distract the American public that the .0000001% oligarchy controls 99.999999% of US wealth, the Republican apparatchiks serving the superrich would be nowhere. Link: www.politico.com
#6: This is an excellent book about the US military-industrial complex that Ike warned us about in his 17 Jan 1961 farewell address: img.stevensbooks.com
Be wary of those rationalizing that destroying Iran will help the Ukrainians in their struggle against Russia. Of course that will be the case, since the Kremlin will lose one more supplier of weapons, like the Shaheed drone.
But for three years, Belarus, North Korea, China, India, Myanmar, Mali, and Eritrea have also supported Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. North Korean soldiers have been killed fighting for Russia. India indirectly finances the Kremlin's military by increased oil and gas imports, like China has been doing since Feb 2022.
But with the exception of Iran, there is no attempt by the rightwing at persuading the American audience to attack any of these other Russian allies. Why? Because none of these countries directly threaten Israel militarily like Iran, one of the few voices in the Middle East fighting against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
Nuclear-armed North Korea, like Israel, did not sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), unlike Iran which did. Tel Aviv and Pyongyang do not cooperate with the IAEA. Tehran cooperated under the JCPOA and IAEA until Dotard Trumpf tore up the agreement. The real nuclear proliferation threat come from North Korea and Israel, but who is discussing changing those regimes?
Something we already know but bears repeating: AIPAC funds both major US political parties and the hardworking American taxpayer is on to them:
Source: KyivPost
Palantir is making people in the UK nervous too with an invasive contract the police awarded them:
A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens' political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records, and other sensitive personal information. Palantir Technologies has partnered with police forces in the East of England to establish a "real-time data-sharing network" that includes the personal details of vulnerable victims, children and witnesses alongside suspects. Trade union membership, sexual orientation and race are among the other types of personal information being processed. The project has sparked alarm from campaigners who fear it will trample over Britons' human rights and "facilitate dystopian predictive policing" and indiscriminate mass surveillance.
Source: libertyinvestigates.org.uk
Suddenly, Dummkopf Trumpf cares about the US economy that he has been methodically destroying piece by piece? Since when?