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College-educated Republicans have now joined their non-college-educated cohorts in supporting former President Donald J. Trump over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to three new Republican primary polls and previously unpublished data from McClatchyDC.DeSantis dropped a whopping 18 points amongst college-educated Rs over the first half of 2023 according to Morning Consult, while Ipsos concurred the governor had more than halved his support amongst the same group since mid-March. Quinnipiac showed DeSantis with 51 percent of support amongst the college-educated in February, down to just 29 percent today.“College-educated Republicans were looking for an alternative to Donald Trump, and they initially thought...

On the eve of the assassination’s centennial, find out how a teenage Serbian nationalist provided the spark for World War I The start of World War I, the so-called "Great War" of 1914 to 1918, was triggered when a teenage Serbian revolutionary shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the presumptive heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on their visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Deeply in love, Ferdinand chose to marry Sophie Chotek in 1900 despite the opposition of his uncle, the sitting Emperor Franz Josef, who refused to attend their wedding. Though not exactly a commoner, Sophie...

I've been a big fan of this young, 14 year old violin virtuoso for a few years now; she covers a lot of rock & roll songs and classical music on her violin, she's incredible!Give a listen.Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen | Karolina Protsenko - Violin Cover

A young man who formerly identified as a transwoman after being castrated by doctors has warned others not to follow in his footsteps. The young man, known only as Kobe, has revealed how he bitterly regrets his decision to transition and was told to 'play the suicide card' by older trans people in order to receive treatment. He began puberty blockers at 13, had his testicles removed at 19 - and now suffers from severe spinal pain he fears could be osteoporosis, with puberty blockers linked to bone injuries. Speaking to Fox News, he has detailed how despite his thoughts...

Explanation: The combined light of stars along the Milky Way are reflected by these cosmic dust clouds that soar 300 light-years or so above the plane of our galaxy. Known to some as integrated flux nebulae and commonly found at high galactic latitudes, the dusty galactic cirrus clouds are faint. But they can be traced over large regions of the sky toward the North and South Galactic poles. Along with the reflection of starlight, studies indicate the dust clouds produce a faint reddish luminescence as interstellar dust grains convert invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Also capturing nearby Milky...

As we've documented over the years, Joe Scarborough has a bad habit of riding a favorite word or phrase [one that invariably insults a Republican] into the ground. Scarborough's all-time favorite is, of course, "fascist," which he employs at every opportunity to denounce Donald Trump. Here's just one example, where the f-word was used 19 times in one segment! Scarborough mounted his hobby horse yet again on today's Morning Joe. This time, it was to trumpet an unusually nasty turn of phrase that a Democrat leader deployed against congressional Republicans. Today's Morning Joe opened with a clip of Democrat House...

Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor Ukraine is in ruins. Its latest counteroffensive achieved nothing. In the last three weeks, an estimated 26,000 Ukrainian soldiers died in pointless attacks against world-class Russian defenses. 2:30 PM · Jul 21, 2023 ·MBR 55.7K Views

A Russian researcher with a cult following claims to have implanted a chip into his brain in the bold hopes of being able to control his dreams. Michael Raduga put his life on the line last month as he lost more than a 'litre of blood' while performing brain surgery on himself in his home in Kazakhstan. The 40-year-old, who has no neurosurgery qualifications, compared his extremely dangerous experiment to the film of Inception - claiming his 'electrode' one day has the potential to change the course of lucid dreams. Gruesome footage of the procedure shows him holding his skin...

Surging interest rates and the rise of remote work have combined to create a nightmare scenario for commercial real estate investors. Just ask Barry Sternlicht, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, a real estate investment firm with $115 billion in assets under management. “There’s a hurricane over real estate right now,” the billionaire investor told ​​David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, in an interview for Bloomberg Wealth taped June 28. “We’re in a category 5 hurricane, and it’s sort of a black cloud hovering over the entire industry until we get some relief...

Biden in the basement m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNd0gzGpLU0 3m 50 s

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in an interview Friday that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol “was not an insurrection.” During an interview with actor Russell Brand, DeSantis was asked if he would consider those who participated in the Jan. 6 riot “insurrectionists” or “protesters.” The Florida Republican downplayed the events of the Capitol attack, saying in part of his response, “it was not an insurrection.” “These are people that were there to attend a rally and then they were there to protest. Now, it devolved, and it devolved into a riot. But the idea that this...

The IRS was stopped from questioning Joe Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens — said to be the president’s “final gut-check” in decision-making — about cash she received from Hunter Biden, a whistleblower has claimed. Biden Owens received a payment via Venmo from the first son, according to an interview with IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler, a 13-year IRS veteran who gave testimony to the House Committee on Ways and Means last month. “So I continually ask, ‘Can I go and interview them?’ And those were always met with ‘no,'” said Ziegler, who was known as “whistleblower #2” in the Ways and...

"DishBrain" computer chips fusing human brain cells with electronic circuits and AI intelligence could underpin the next generation of learning robotsAI-generated by Midjourney =========================================================== Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes. The micro-electrode array at the heart of the DishBrain was capable both of reading activity in the brain cells, and stimulating them with electrical signals, so the research team set up a version of Pong where the brain cells...

Atlanta’s top prosecutor is preparing to charge former President Donald Trump with racketeering for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will formally accuse Trump, 77, of influencing witnesses and computer trespassing, The Guardian reported Friday, in what could be the former president’s fourth indictment this year. Trump made several phone calls to Georgia election officials after his electoral loss to now-President Biden, asking Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in one infamous conversation to “find” 11,780 votes to overturn his defeat in the Peach State. Willis also probed the involvement of...

Rumors of altered images in some of the research papers published by Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne had circulated since 2015. But the allegations involving the neuroscientist got little attention beyond the niche scientific forum where they first appeared — until Stanford freshman Theo Baker decided to take a closer look. Baker, a journalist for the Stanford Daily, published his first story on problems surrounding Tessier-Lavigne’s research in November. His dogged reporting kicked off a chain of events that culminated this week with the president’s announcement that he would step down from his post at the end of August. Tessier-Lavigne...

While “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have hogged the headlines, an unlikelier blockbuster swept the box office this month: “Sound of Freedom,” a thriller lauded by QAnon conspiracy theorists and high-profile Republicans. It also draws from a conspiratorial well that includes a number of anti-Jewish canards, including the “blood libel” accusation, while its star, actor Jim Cavaziel, has floated antisemitic theories in interviews promoting the film. Despite the film’s low budget and independent distributor, “Sound of Freedom” has made over $100 million in its first few weeks, going toe-to-toe with “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” since it opened on July...

The FBI knew about Joe Biden’s Ukraine business dealings before the “Laptop from Hell” reporting, according to an FBI informant document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). The FD-1023 form is dated June 20, 2020, but the source reporting was from June 26, 2020. The form alleges that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden both received $5 million from the founder of Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochev after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma. As Brietbart reported: The FBI’s informant document said that Hunter and Joe Biden allegedly “coerced” the Burisma...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Biden administration is planning to sue Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) in the coming days over the state's placement of a 1,000-foot-long barrier of floating buoys in the river at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to multiple reports Friday morning. The Justice Department sent the three-term Republican governor a letter on Thursday alerting the state of its forthcoming lawsuit over its floating wall in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to CNN, which obtained a copy of the letter. Courtesy image: Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to...

Even though the S&P 500 Index has jumped double digits, Disney’s stock is almost at its 5-Year Low. Market opening on Friday, July 21st, saw Disney’s stock at 86.54, nearing its 5-year low of 84.07.This stock price decline is believed to have erased around $16 billion from the company’s market value. Now, there’s speculation that Iger is thinking about selling the company to Apple or at least selling the noncore pieces of the business.

A majority of Americans believe neither President Biden nor former President Donald Trump are “fit to serve another term” in the Oval Office — and almost half might back a third-party candidate next year if the two are their party’s nominees, according to two recent polls. A Yahoo News/YouGov survey found 55% of US adults believe Biden is unfit for the presidency, and 53% say the same of Trump. When asked their reasoning, 20% of Americans say Biden, 80, is “incompetent,” 12% say he is “too old,” 10% say he is “corrupt,” 9% say he is “doing a bad job,”...