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Managers across industries are terminating Generation Z employees at a pace that is starting to reshape early career norms. Instead of the traditional multi‑year ramp, many Gen Z hires are being cut within months, as supervisors point to recurring behavior patterns and a widening gap between expectations on both sides. The trend is forcing companies, and young workers, to confront what is really driving these rapid exits and how much of the problem lies with individual conduct versus outdated systems. At the center of the tension is a perception that Gen Z brings fresh energy but also a different relationship...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Former tenants left a massive lizard, called an ornate Niles monitor, behind in their home, Alameda police announced on Monday. Police dispatchers were called about it, and they, in turn, called animal control, police said. The lizard was large and aggressive, but police said they were able to devise a plan to get the reptile safely to the East Bay Vivarium. The lizards, which can often be confused with Komodo dragons, have powerful bites, strong claws, and forceful tails that can cause injuries. Police said that Ornate monitors, native to West and Middle Africa, are not suitable...

Secretary Turner joins Tony Perkins where he announces the latest in the Minnesota fraud scandal. 509 dead tenants in Minnesota uncovered. Secretary Turner is going to hold them accountable.

Hundreds of Somalis stormed an ICE operation in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Monday after a Somali news station live streamed the raid. ICE agents were surrounded by hundreds of Somalis blowing whistles and protesting as the officers conducted a raid on a Somali-owned business in a strip mall. “ICE out! ICE out!” the mob of Somali protestors shouted. Ice agents deployed tear gas to disperse the protestors after they blocked their vehicles from exiting the parking lot. Democrat State Senator Aric Putnam was spotted amid the chaos trying to act like a barrier between the protestors and federal agents. “Don’t...

A far-left agitator threw a water bottle at ICE agents gathered outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday. Concrete barriers and fences were installed outside the federal building on Monday ahead of the ICE operation. DHS Chief Kristi Noem said the agency will be surging federal agents to Minneapolis as protestors took to the streets following an ICE-involved shooting. Video captured by NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley showed a bald female agitator sprint away after she threw a water bottle at ICE agents. ICE agents sprinted after the bald protestor and tackled her. “Back up!...

Does this look legit? Alzheimer's Reversal??? +++++++++ WHAT'S WRONG: Your family member has Alzheimer's disease. This is a brain sickness that makes people forget things and get confused. It happens because parts of the brain stop working right. THE GOOD NEWS: +++++++++ Scientists just found new ways to help fix the brain. We now have a plan that uses three different medicines that work together to help the brain get better. HOW THE TREATMENT WORKS: +++++++++ Think of the brain like a house with three problems: PROBLEM 1: The lights are dim The brain cells don't have enough energy Medicine...

Are you looking into some good educational opportunities for your kids? As in, high-school education that isn't a cornucopia of woke nutbaggery? Well, turns out you do a lot worse than to look at Texas. The Lone Star State, according to the U.S. News 2025-2026 Best High Schools Rankings, has ten of the nation's top 100 high schools. Maybe a few other states should come take some notes.Ten percent of the top 100 high schools in the country are in Texas, according to a U.S. News 2025-2026 Best High Schools Rankings.The rankings assessed nearly 18,000 public high schools in all...

I searched five major progressive publications for coverage of Iran's uprising. Combined results: zero. The sympathies of every single person who believes in freedom and equality and the basic rights of women should be with those courageous millions in Iran. And yet, across the West, there has in the face of these historic protests been a deafening silence. This silence has been evident in mainstream media outlets, from the British Broadcasting Corporation to National Public Radio, that have been oddly slow to grasp the importance of this moment. Worse, when those outlets did deign to cover the events, they often...

California lost a mind-boggling nearly $1 trillion in wealth in the past month alone thanks to fears over its proposed “Billionaire Tax,’’ according to one of the state’s wealthiest residents. The under-fire measure, which even lefty Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes, would slap a onetime 5% tax on residents worth more than $1 billion as of Jan. 1, 2026. “Collectively, the amount of Billionaire wealth that has left California in the last month (!) is now in excess of $700B,” fumed venture capitalist and former Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya on X on Friday. “That means the $2T of California wealth they...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited SpaceX's location in Texas, also known as Starbase. The visit was part of Hegseth's ‘Arsenal of Freedom’ industry tour to advance President Trump's "Peace Through Strength" agenda. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk introduced Hegseth. Earlier in the day, Hegseth visited Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth F-35 production plant this afternoon. He addressed Lockheed Martin employees and the local press on the administration's defense plans. "For too long, Pentagon bureaucracy has hindered the speed and might of our manufacturing base, obstructing innovation and warfare solutions from companies like SpaceX and Lockheed Martin," the Department of Defense said...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials are warning that there may have been a possible measles exposure at Philadelphia International Airport, 30th Street Station and aboard an Amtrak train. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health says an individual with measles was traveling through the city and that the exposure may have happened at Terminal A East at PHL on Wednesday, January 7, between 7:50 p.m. and 11 p.m. The exposure at William H Gray 30th Street Station may have happened between 8:15 p.m. and 11:25 p.m. Passengers who were on Amtrak Northeast Regional Train Southbound #175 are also at risk of...

A steaming cup of tea is a comforting treat on a chilly winter day. On Jan. 12, National Hot Tea Day celebrates the history, variety and benefits of tea. Whether you are a tea connoisseur or simply enjoy the occasional cup, infuse some warmth into your routine with your favorite teas. A yellow mug filled with dark liquid on a wooden surface, surrounded by cinnamon sticks and small scattered pieces. Love tea or looking to learn more about this popular drink? Celebrate National Hot Tea Day with new varieties and pairing ideas. Photo credit: Kristen Wood. Made by steeping aromatics...

Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly on his alleged transgressions. The singular lens through which the investigation is being reported in many openly and not-so-openly left leaning outlets is that it is Donald Trump’s revenge after Powell refused to do as instructed and lower interest rates. But the aperture needs to be widened to see the full picture: the case is about more than the Chair of the Federal Reserve not bending the knee. It is about Powell’s competency as the nation’s chief money man after...

In Christ we have "the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of [God's] grace, which He lavished upon us" (Eph. 1:7-8). In Christ we have infinite forgiveness for every sin—past, present, and future. On Israel's Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) the high priest selected two goats. One was sacrificed; the other set free. Before releasing the second goat, the high priest symbolically placed the sins of the people on it by laying his hands on its head. This "scapegoat" was then taken a great distance from camp and released—never to return again (Lev. 16:7-10). The Greek word translated...

The TikTok user, who posts under the username monkeydbeans0 and uses they/them/theirs pronouns, said ICE agents are just mall cops and Proud Boys and cited Good’s death as justification for his call to murder federal agents. “I’m just going to come out and say it. I don’t really care about the consequences anymore. I don’t care. We need to kill these people,” the green-haired TikTok user said. “There’s — there’s

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act, landmark legislation focused on securing America’s strategic national security interests in the Arctic and countering the growing threats posed by China and Russia. As global competition intensifies in the Arctic, the United States cannot afford to allow adversarial powers to gain influence over one of the world’s most strategically important regions. “Greenland is not a distant outpost we can afford to ignore—it is a vital national security asset,” said Congressman Fine. “Whoever controls Greenland controls key Arctic shipping lanes and the security architecture protecting the United...

Permission Granted: Go Kill Yourself "A macrosocial cluster B crisis is ripping this nation apart because Leftism has hijacked the minds of progressive females who then LARP out dangerous Gnostic heroic delusions." — JD Haltigan Civ — in the raging 2020s. It will be clear by then that it was largely a female hysteria, like other departures from social sanity in the annals of the Homo sapiens, such as the outbreak of witchery in the Massachusetts Colony, 1692, the Dancing Plague of Strasbourg, 1518, and the lunacy of Meowing and Biting Nuns that spread through the convents of Europe in...

Summary Challenge was made by a group of 75 abuse survivors Settlement was reached in bankruptcy court in 2022Jan 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the Boy Scouts of America's landmark $2.46 billion settlement of sex abuse claims in a case ​involving a group of abuse survivors who wanted to pursue lawsuits against churches and other organizations that ran scouting programs where ‌abuse occurred.The Boy Scouts organization, now called Scouting America, said after the court's action on Monday that it can now continue compensating abuse survivors and improving its scouting programs...

Iranian-Americans in New York called the Islamic republic’s savage massacre of anti-regime protesters “heartbreaking” – as they anxiously wait to see what action President Trump takes to back demonstrators. The death toll from the protests that were sparked over Iran’s crumbling economy has reached more than 500 protesters as the government is accused of detaining more than 10,000 people – leading Trump to threaten US military force against the authoritarian regime. “Iranian government, you can’t trust them,” said a 61-year-old Great Neck man whose wife remains in Iran.

I will be filing for full custody today, given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy