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  • Horrific video shows factory worker being pulled to his death into giant industrial shredder (Vietnam)

    05/11/2026 1:04:45 PM PDT · by Libloather · 3 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/11/26 | Chris Bradford
    A Vietnamese factory worker was killed after falling into a giant industrial shredder, with a horrific video showing the moment he was sucked into the machine. Ro Mah J, 34, was standing inside a large container feeding material into the machine just after 6 a.m. Thursday when his tool suddenly got stuck, local outlet Dan Tri reported. He frantically tried to yank his tool out of the shredder before being dragged into the machine at the Chanh Tay Gia Lai Joint Stock Company plant, disappearing out of shot. Seconds later, a spurt of water shot out of the container.
  • Chaos Erupts After Woman Gets Fired

    05/11/2026 1:04:37 PM PDT · by Morgana · 2 replies
    Police Insider youtube ^ | Police Insider
    23-year-old Tysha didn’t expect to be fired after a heated argument with her co-workers turned physical. Refusing to leave before she confronted those who snitched on her, Tysha was fully determined to go to any lengths to teach them a lesson. More show notes: FReepers this story has exploded on youtube has every content creator has covered it, don't know if it's been posted here so here it is. This video is 15 minutes long and nsfw. From what I know she worked for and was fired from Amazon.
  • Family of FSU shooting victim sues OpenAI over suspect’s ChatGPT use

    05/11/2026 12:54:56 PM PDT · by OrangeHoof · 4 replies
    The Hill ^ | 05-11-26 | Miranda Nazarro
    In a lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court Monday, the family of Tiru Chabba, one of two people killed in April 2025, argued the suspected gunman Phoenix Ikner carried out the mass shooting with “input and information” provided by ChatGPT in the months and days leading up to the attack. ..... Amid Ikner’s alleged months of talking with ChatGPT about imminent harm, Chabba’s lawyers said the chatbot either “defectively failed to connect the dots” or was not designed to recognize the threat. ChatGPT allegedly explained how to use the guns Ikner obtained, including how to load and operate them...
  • Ireland, Slovenia, and Spain will not show Eurovision this week [because Israel]

    05/11/2026 12:50:15 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 5 replies
    AFP via RTÉ News ^ | Monday, 11 May 2026 17:25
    RTÉ and other public service broadcasters in Slovenia and Spain will not show the Eurovision Song Contest this week as they boycott the event over Israel’s participation. The world’s biggest live televised music event holds its first semi-final in the Austrian capital Vienna on Tuesday, bringing together participants from 35 countries — the fewest since entry was expanded in 2004. Five countries — Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain — are boycotting the contest over Israel’s war in Gaza. […] During Saturday’s grand final, RTÉ One will show the animated family comedy Mummies and the acclaimed John McGahern adaptation...
  • Preacher Joe Scarborough Mocks Trump Statue as 'Blasphemous' Golden Calf

    05/11/2026 12:47:05 PM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 9 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Over the years, Joe Scarborough has often mounted his Morning Joe pulpit to proclaim on a variety of religious subjects from his Baptist upbringing. He was on "blasphemy" watch on Monday mocking a new statue of Donald Trump as a "blasphemous" Golden Calf on his Doral golf course in Miami. "This is Old Testament stuff, I tell you. That kinda looks like, Moses comes down from the mountain with the tablets, and that's what's there." Scarborough sarcastically surmised that the statue was "so blasphemous" that it had to be something out of South Park. SCARBOROUGH: Was this a South Park...
  • Trans Woman REFUSES to Leave Store… Manager FIRES BACK HARD!

    05/11/2026 12:40:28 PM PDT · by Morgana · 15 replies
    Daily Dose Of SANITY youtube ^ | May 8, 2026 | Daily Dose Of SANITY
    LGBTQ Activist MELTS DOWN After BASED Manager DEMANDS Straight Answers [AWKWARD] In today’s video we look at LGBTQ Activist MELTS DOWN After BASED Manager DEMANDS Straight Answers [AWKWARD]
  • Seven people barred from coming to UK for far-right rally

    05/11/2026 12:36:19 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 6 replies
    The Guardian ^ | May 11, 2026 | Rajeev Syal
    Seven people hoping to attend a far-right rally in central London on Saturday have been blocked from entering the country by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood. Keir Starmer, the prime minister, promised on Monday to block “far-right agitators” hoping to attend the Unite the Kingdom event on 16 May organised by Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Joey Mannarino, a US-based commentator, and Valentina Gomez, a Maga influencer, had their authorisation to enter the UK withdrawn on the grounds that their presence “would not be conducive to the public good”. The identities of the other five banned people...
  • Trump still wants to crack open Fort Knox to personally confirm $700B gold cache has not been stolen

    05/11/2026 12:28:46 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 22 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 10, 2026, 12:58 p.m. ET | Ryan King
    President Trump believes this is his golden opportunity. The president revealed that he’s still eager to crack open Fort Knox and personally ensure that the nation’s gold reserve — valued at nearly $700 billion — is still in the highly secure bullion depository following an uproar about it last year. “We wanted to go and knock on the door of Fort Knox — a very thick door — and to see whether or not we have any gold in there,” Trump told “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” in an interview that dropped Sunday. Last year, former Department of Government Efficiency...
  • The SF Tech Worker Whose Unhinged Order Broke In-N-Out Forever

    05/11/2026 12:25:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    SFGate ^ | May 11, 2026 | Farley Elliott
    Now, he's back to rethink fast food entirelyWill Young wasn’t even sure his order was possible. He’d heard rumors, of course, but as a kid who’d grown up on the internet of the 1990s, he knew that website whispers didn’t always translate to the real world. He and his buddies, out for a meandering night in Las Vegas, would just have to ask. So, around dinner time on Halloween night in 2004, Young’s laid-back group, including the late Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, stepped up to the counter of a Nevada In-N-Out to test their fate. Would it be possible,...
  • Trump: Iran’s proposal is “stupid"

    05/11/2026 12:24:32 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 16 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 11/5/26
    US President Donald Trump is intensifying his rhetoric towards Iran and is furious about the proposal it submitted to the US as part of attempts to reach an agreement and end the American war against the Islamic Republic. “Iran’s proposal is stupid. I didn’t even finish reading it. I had an amazing plan after Iran was defeated. They must understand that they will not have nuclear weapons. They are dangerous," Trump declared during an event at the White House today (Monday). He emphasized that “the ceasefire is very weak after the piece of garbage they sent us." Earlier, in an...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano

    05/11/2026 12:23:00 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    NASA ^ | 11 May, 2026 | Video Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias); Music: Piano della Moon (Dan Silva)
    Explanation: These people are not in danger. What is coming down from the left is just the Moon, far in the distance. Luna appears so large here because she is being photographed through a telescopic lens. What is moving is mostly the Earth, whose spin causes the Moon to slowly disappear behind Mount Teide, a volcano in the Canary Islands of Spain off the northwest coast of Africa. The people pictured are 16 kilometers away and many are facing the camera because they are watching the Sun rise behind the photographer. It is not a coincidence that a full moon...
  • National Park Service Scientists Have Lost Track of the World's Rarest Fish

    05/11/2026 12:13:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    SFGate ^ | May 11, 2026 | Amanda Heidt
    Fearing mass firings, scientists made a desperate choice that could have lasting repercussionsIt takes a village to preserve the world’s most endangered species, and last year, the team tasked with protecting the Devils Hole pupfish — a critically endangered fish found only in a single pool called Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park — faced an agonizing decision. That March, the number of pupfish had cratered to just 20 individuals, such that the species was facing imminent extinction. At the same time, staff at federal agencies were being laid off en masse by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency...
  • The families going hungry because of Trump’s food stamp cuts

    05/11/2026 12:06:05 PM PDT · by libstripper · 53 replies
    NBC News via MSN ^ | May 11, | Shannon Pettypiece May 11 • 12 min read • Upda
    This article is part of “Unaffordable America,” a series examining rising economic inequality in the U.S. and the policies that drive it. PHOENIX — The line outside a suburban office building was already 15 people long when Tiffany Hudson showed up with her 7-year-old son cradling his blanket. It was 7 a.m. At the front of the line was a woman hooked up to an oxygen tank who had arrived 90 minutes before the building opened. Like others there, Husdon had come to the Arizona Department of Economic Security office in Surprise, a Phoenix suburb, to find out why the...
  • Trump: Iran ceasefire 'on life support'

    05/11/2026 12:06:01 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    Just the News ^ | May 11, 2026 | Ben Whedon
    President Donald Trump on Monday stated that the ceasefire with Iran was "on life support" amid a growing diplomatic deadline between Tehran and Washington and the exchange of live rounds across the Persian Gulf. It's unbelievably weak. After reading that garbage they sent over? I didn't even waste my time reading all of it. It's on life support," he told reporters. "I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, 'sir, your loved one has approximately 1% chance of living.'" Trump's remarks came from the Oval Office during an unrelated event. He...
  • Heartbreak for Dems As VA Senate Majority Leader Delivers Crushing Blow to Latest Gerrymander Scheme

    05/11/2026 11:49:08 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    Red State ^ | May 11, 2026 | Sister Toldjah
    RedState reported Sunday on the sheer desperation that has set in among Democrats at the state and congressional levels after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the process state Democrats used to put their gerrymander referendum on the ballot was a violation of Virginia's Constitution. Advertisement This effectively nuked the Democrats' plan to implement a new map that potentially would net them another four seats in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, which would have made the congressional delegation 10-1 Democrat-Republican. Perhaps the most extreme of the measures that, per The New York Times, were being considered during a...
  • World Cup ticket prices gone wild: $33K seats, $2K minimum just to bring a family

    05/11/2026 11:47:53 AM PDT · by Libloather · 40 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/11/26 | Ethan Sears
    The biggest sporting event in world history might have a less-flattering title soon: the most expensive sporting event in world history. The World Cup, which kicks off June 11 in Mexico City, has become a carnival for the rich so expensive it resembles a monthlong Met Gala. Just last Thursday, FIFA rolled out a $32,970 seat for the July 19 final at MetLife Stadium, triple the cost of its most expensive ticket before then. Even in the group stage, tickets are priced in the hundreds of dollars. So is parking and, in some cities — including New York and Boston...
  • "Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights" [semi-satire]

    05/11/2026 11:22:51 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 17 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 10 May 2026 | John Semmens
    Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) has introduced an "Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights" legislation that would dramatically expand government spending for homeless people. "Homelessness is at record levels," she said. "We are morally obligated to do something about it." "Having access to a safe place to live is a human right," Tlaib claimed. "This means that it's the government's responsibility to provide it to the people who need it. Ideally, everyone would be given a real home equivalent to that enjoyed by the average American. However, that would require redirecting the entire annual $1.5 trillion military budget to build and maintain...
  • Trump invites Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink and other CEOs to join China trip for Xi summit

    05/11/2026 11:18:20 AM PDT · by DFG · 33 replies
    CNBC ^ | 05/11/2026 | Luke Fountain and Megan Casella
    President Donald Trump has invited executives from some of the biggest U.S. companies — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg — to join his trip to China this week, according to a White House official. Also expected to join Trump’s delegation for meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping are Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Cargill’s Brian Sikes, Citigroup’s Jane Fraser, Coherent’s Jim Anderson, GE Aerospace’ sH. Lawrence Culp Jr., Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon, Illumina’s Jacob Thaysen, Mastercard’s Michael Miebach, Meta Platforms executive Dina Powell McCormick, Micron Technology’s Sanjay Mehrotra, Qualcomm’s...
  • Sun unleashes colossal solar flare and coronal mass ejection, raising the chances of northern lights this week

    05/11/2026 11:17:03 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 6 replies
    space.com ^ | 05/11/2026 | y Daisy Dobrijevic published 5 hours ago
    A powerful M5.7 solar flare erupted from the sun on May 10, unleashing an impressive coronal mass ejection (CME) that could deliver Earth a glancing blow later this week and potentially spark northern lights displays at high latitudes. The eruption peaked at 9:39 a.m. EDT (1339 GMT) from sunspot region AR4436, now rotating into Earth's "strike zone" on the sun's northeastern limb. As the active region swings further into view over the next few days, any major flares or CMEs it produces will have a greater chance of being directed toward Earth. While most of the recently launched CME appears...
  • Trump calls for suspension of federal gas tax as Americans seek relief at the pump: ‘I think it’s a great idea’

    05/11/2026 11:07:12 AM PDT · by Libloather · 27 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/11/26 | Ryan King
    WASHINGTON — President Trump called Monday for the temporary suspension of the federal gas tax to give Americans relief at the pump amid surging oil prices caused by the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. “I think it’s a great idea,” Trump told CBS News during a brief phone interview. “Yup, we’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back in.” Gasoline has been taxed at 18.4 cents per gallon since the 1990s to generate up to $40 billion in annual revenue for the Highway Trust...