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Election fraud conspiracy theorist Jeffrey O’Donnell declined to appear in person at Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones’s Town Hall Thursday night. Instead, he chose to appear live via video feed from his home in Florida, transforming the event into a tightly scripted and somewhat mind-numbing Zoom session featuring The Lone Racoon of the Apocalypse and Patrick “Hand Count” Jones. Nevertheless, most of the 350 people who packed the Holiday Inn conference room applauded O’Donnell’s performance, in which he reiterated his debunked “Mesa County pattern of fraud” conspiracy theory that falsely asserts an unknown entity is using remote triggers or algorithms...

A group of cybersecurity researchers has uncovered what they believe is an intentional backdoor in encrypted radios used by police, military, and critical infrastructure entities around the world. The backdoor may have existed for decades, potentially exposing a wealth of sensitive information transmitted across them, according to the researchers. While the researchers frame their discovery as a backdoor, the organization responsible for maintaining the standard pushes back against that specific term, and says the standard was designed for export controls which determine the strength of encryption. The end result, however, are radios with traffic that can be decrypted using consumer...

In case you didn’t notice, Ron DeSantis is trailing Donald Trump in Florida by a whopping 20 points. For DeSantis to have won a landslide gubernatorial reelection last November, that spread is stunning DeSantis supporters. His big money backers are grumbling. His cheerleaders in conservative media circles are hedging. Yes, it’s a long way to the Sunshine State’s presidential preference primary in March, but the governor owns a stellar record in Florida. He’s popular, yet per polling, he’s getting the stuffing kicked out of him by Trump in every demographic save those making $200 grand or more. Men, women, Hispanics,...

Divers recovered the body of the 43-year-old male just before 10 am from Edgartown Great Pond, on which the Obama family's $12 million mansion lies. [ed: emphasis on 'lies'] The body of a paddleboarder who went missing on Sunday in the waters of Martha’s Vineyard has been found. According to Massachusetts State Police, divers recovered the body of the 43-year-old male just before 10 am from Edgartown Great Pond, on which the Obama family's $12 million mansion lies.

A suspect accused of mugging a Lyft driver jumped off New York City’s FDR Drive on July 11 and was seriously injured. Video footage shows Ismael English, 20, trying to flee the scene on the overpass as he sits teetering on the edge of the roadway, the New York Post reported Friday. English, wearing a dark colored shirt and what appeared to be grey pants, slips over the edge and hangs on for a moment before apparently losing his grip and falling to the pavement below.

Hollywood star Jim Caviezel has praised former President Donald Trump, calling him the “new Moses” who is “going to save children the likes of which you have never seen.”Jim Caviezel’s words of praise come after the actor spent an evening with Trump at a special screening of Sound of Freedom at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. As Breitbart News reported, Trump gave the anti child trafficking drama a big thumbs-up, calling it an “incredible inspiration.”“President Trump is going to save Children the likes of which you have never seen!” the actor tweeted. “You might even say he...

Michael Matt shares clips from a vintage documentary on the Second Vatican Council, and asks a few easy questions: Do you believe the Catholic Church is better off today than it was in 1965? Do you believe the Gospel is being proclaimed to the world more efficiently? Is the priesthood better off? How about your extended family? Are they all still practicing? No? So why are we still insisting that Vatican II was such a smashing success? What explains the almost cult-like adoration of a 60-year-old event that by all leading indicators left the Church in shambles? This video includes...

Divers have found the body of a paddleboarder who went missing in the water off Martha's Vineyard - that backs on to Barack Obama's sprawling $12million estate. The 43-year-old vanished on Sunday evening while he was out with another paddleboarder on Edgartown Great Pond, Massachusetts, and emergency crews were dispatched to Obama's residence. Witnesses told cops the man went underwater and then briefly reappeared as he struggled to stay afloat, before submerging again around 7.46pm. A massive joint-agency search resumed Monday morning for the African American male who was last seen wearing all black without a lifejacket, MV Times reported....

The body of a 43-year-old black man was found in an oceanside "pond" that borders the palatial oceanside estate belonging to former President Barack Obama in Martha's Vineyard on Monday. The man had reportedly been paddleboarding on the Edgartown Great Pond in the ultra-wealthy Massachusetts town and disappeared under the water shortly before 8 p.m. He was reportedly without a lifejacket and wearing all black.

The lengthy absence from public view of China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang has sparked furious online speculation, while once again highlighting China's secrecy. The 57-year-old has not been seen in public for 23 days - his last reported engagements were on 25 June. Appointed to his post last December, Mr Qin was seen as a trusted aide of Chinese President Xi Jinping. As one of the best known faces of the Chinese government, Mr Qin's prolonged absence has not only been scrutinised by diplomats and China watchers, but also ordinary Chinese people. When asked about his whereabouts on Monday, Foreign...

Every governor in the nation has a net positive approval rating, data from Morning Consult released Monday found. Across the board, every single governor in the country has a net positive approval rating, meaning their approval percentage is higher than those who disapprove, even if their approval is not over 50 percent. All but three — Govs. Tate Reeves (R-MS), Katie Hobbs (D-AZ), and Tina Kotek (D-OR) — saw approval ratings over 50 percent, but those three still had net positive approvals.

Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border WallThe New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal. In 2020, three-quarters of Scarsdale voters cast ballots for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. One can safely presume that few Scarsdale residents are ardent backers of Trump’s wall on the Mexican border. But many of them support a less visible kind of wall, erected by zoning regulations that ban multifamily housing and keep non-wealthy people, many of them people of color, out of their community....The huge inequalities between...

Israel's parliament on Monday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months. The amendment limiting the Supreme Court's powers to void some government decisions if it deemed them "unreasonable" passed by 64-to-0 vote after opposition lawmakers abandoned the session in protest, some of them shouting: "For shame!" Demonstrations against the amendment began early in the day with police dragging away protesters who had chained themselves to posts and blocked the road outside parliament.

Pierre Van Paassen, "A Marginal Note," The Sentinel, 15 June 1933: ...Naziism is spreading . Under its own name and under other names it is invading countries...bordering on Germany. Action Francaise, the extremist nationalist movement... And how about Jerusalem... where Hitlerism is openly admitted in the nationalist Arab press... I was in Brentanos bookstore the other day in Paris. While waiting for the Order Department I saw ten copies of the French translation of Hitlers Mein Kampf being wrapped up with five copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and when I casually glanced at the address...

Why is Con Ed hiking rates? True, execs at the company did enjoy a pay bump in 2022, with CEO Timothy Cawley getting a 4% hike in base compensation. But the central driver is idiotic green policies, both at the state and federal level — clamping down on fossil-fuel use, forcing infrastructure improvements to handle the shift, taxing utilities to the hilt, etc. That fuels costs that get passed on to consumers. This week, Team Biden struck yet another blow in its war against domestic energy production, jacking up costs for drillers on federal land: Royalty rates will rise from...

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) endorsed former President Trump for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 on Monday. “The leadership and success exhibited by President Trump could not be more different than what we see today under Joe Biden. I support President Trump and firmly believe he will be our nominee and be re-elected as our next President,” he tweeted. Justice is a two-term governor and a candidate for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). Early polling has shown him with a large lead over Manchin in a hypothetical match-up between the two. West...

President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said. Till's lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil rights movement. Mr Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday which is Till's birthday, 25 July. It comes a year after he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include three separate sites in two states - Illinois and Mississippi. One site is the...

A group of “disorderly” migrants hurled objects at passersby in Manhattan before beating up two men who tried to intervene — pushing one of them through a glass door of an apartment building entrance on Sunday morning, according to police and witnesses. The violence began just before 9:45 a.m. in Harlem, when cops received word that pedestrians were being attacked by several individuals who were throwing objects at them, the NYPD said. Law enforcement sources and witnesses said the suspects were migrants staying at a former jail that has been converted into a shelter for asylum seekers on Central Park...

An Uttar Pradesh village was witness to a heinous incident this week after a family dispute took a turn for the worse. The village of Mithwara in the Fatehpur area of Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki saw 22-year-old Riyaz was arrested by local police after he was spotted carrying the severed head of his 18-year-old sister, Aashifa. The grim saga began with an argument between Riyaz and Aashifa, the latter having recently eloped with her partner, Chand Babu, who resided in the same village. Aashifa's actions provoked intense opposition from her brother, leading to frequent quarrels over the matter. After Aashifa...

Woke history is "correct" history! That was the take of Politico's Eugene Daniels on today's Morning Joe. Feeling righteous on the controversy surrounding Florida's education policy that includes a line suggesting that slaves benefitted from learning useful skills, Daniels said: "This is what happens when you [DeSantis] base your entire kind of political career on this. When you say that everybody needs to be anti-woke, It was because he felt, and a lot of people around this country are starting to feel, that we can't teach the correct history of this country, because it makes white kids uncomfortable."Get the rest...