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Former President Donald Trump is getting blasted from both sides of the aisle for palling around with conservative provocateur Laura Loomer at his golf club over the weekend. Loomer posted a video and a handful of photos of herself and Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during the LIV golf tournament. "Today was the best day of my life," Loomer posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Sunday. "I got to spend the entire day with the greatest President our country has ever had: DONALD J TRUMP!" "President Trump invited me to sit...

Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States needed to “very much acknowledge” climate change was upon us. (snip) Hirono said, “I think that we need to very much acknowledge climate change is upon us. There are whole states, by the way, you can’t use the words climate change because they have a head-in-the-sand attitude. But the Inflation Reduction Act provided some $300 billion to combat climate change and to move us away from continuing to rely on FOSSIL FUELS. Yes, there is more that needs to be done.”

These videos are from two recent incidents. Both happened in California, which almost never prosecutes shoplifters. Each of these videos shows a large number of organized shoplifters stealing a large amount of merchandise.I don’t support this kind of behavior. But if that’s what the voters of California want, then I have to respect their choice, no matter how ridiculous I think it is.KTLA 5, August 12, 2023: “Video captures ‘flash mob’ of burglars swarming Nordstrom in Southern California mall”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-LIGTHZc8ABC7, August 9, 2023: “Thieves steal $300K worth of merch from YSL store at Americana in Glendale”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsGnt1jb8sk

Shortly before 11:30 a.m., deputies responded to C Avenue and Hercules Street, where they found “a span of fiber optic cables [had been] cut from poles,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. The primary service provider, Charter/Spectrum, told deputies about the damage, which was caused by an unknown person and was estimated to cost about $40,000, officials said. The outage lasted “several hours until the restoration was completed,” and it “appears the vandalism may have also affected customers of other network providers,” officials added. No suspected vandal has been identified, and the motive remains unknown.

Explanation: The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with a deep exposure in infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become evident around the Ring in this digitally enhanced featured image in assigned colors. These long filaments may be caused by shadowing of knots of dense gas in the ring from energetic light emitted within. The Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type...

Wrongfully convicted Dr. Richard Kimble triesto evade a tenacious U.S. Marshal while alsotracking down the conspirators behindhis wife's deathStarring Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano,Sela Ward, Andreas Katsulasth.

Four kidnapping suspects were arrested in Florida after a woman in her 40s was allegedly held captive in a dog cage before making a daring escape, knocking on several doors pleading with neighbors for help. Monica Latresis Reed, 37, Cortez Jackson, 39, Kevin Holmes, 21, and Damon Tromp, 19, have since been charged with armed kidnapping with intent to commit a felony and false imprisonment with a weapon, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Reed is facing an additional count of aggravated battery with a firearm after police say she allegedly pistol whipped the unnamed victim in the cheek...

UPDATE: Primed for immediate nullification. The indictment was briefly unsealed before the grand jury voted. This is clear and demonstrable evidence of a prejudicial and malicious prosecution. Divine providence.The Fulton County DA Fani Willis has been preparing a malicious prosecution against Donald Trump for over a year.The novel theories around the prosecutorial approach have been widely discussed and the grand jury foreperson previously gave rather odd public statements during gleeful interviews about the evidence the jury had received. It is and was ridiculous in the extreme; however, that’s how lawfare works.Today Reuters and other media noticed the court filings against...

The audacity! Staten Island elected officials are making it known to City Hall and the Biden administration to halt plans to use Fort Wadsworth as a possible migrant shelter site, charging that doing so would violate federal protections of national historic landmarks. “We write to you with great concern and deep disappointment regarding the recent proposal to repurpose Fort Wadsworth, a historic site on Staten Island, as a migrant shelter,” wrote a bipartisan group of borough electeds Monday led by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in a letter addressed to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Interior...

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has overtaken Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) nationally for second place in the GOP primary field, according to a Kaplan Strategies poll. The poll, published on Monday, shows that 48 percent of GOP primary voters back Trump as he continues to dominate the field. Ramaswamy sits alone in second place with eleven percent, while DeSantis follows with ten percent:2024 National Republican Primary:Trump 48% (+37)Ramaswamy 11%DeSantis 10%Pence 8%Christie 4%Haley 4%Scott 2%Burgum 1%Hutchinson 0%Kaplan Strategies, 800 LV, 8/9-10 pic.twitter.com/i4jGTl6tDk— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) August 14, 2023Trump’s support is unchanged since Kaplan Strategies’ poll published in July, whereas DeSantis is...

The blank checks are never-ending. I speak of the economic impact Biden has had on our country daily. This war in Ukraine has simply been the largest money grab in recent history rivaling COVID. Biden is asking for another $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. At this point, it is nearly comical because most of us realize that Ukraine is going to ask for aid indefinitely, and our politicians willfully comply because that’s in their best interests as well. They’re going to keep the war and money wheel going. Everyone but the people are enjoying the spoils of needless war....

Nearly a dozen Republican-appointed former judges and high-ranking federal senior legal officials on Monday endorsed the January 2, 2024, trial date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith in his 2020 election interference criminal case against Donald Trump. The amicus brief was submitted to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia as a project of the Democracy 21 Education Fund in the January 6, 2021, case against Trump. It comes as the former president and his team look to push the case until after the election, though the final decision on a trial date will come down to...

Many Americans love cappuccino, but few people know where the name comes from. Cappuccinos are named for a holy Capuchin priest who was chaplain to an army fighting Ottoman Turks to defend Christian Europe. Bl. Mark (or Marco) of Aviano is a saint celebrated by Catholics on August 13, and the name cappuccino comes from the name of the religious order Mark joined, the Capuchins. To understand the story of cappuccino, it helps to know a little about Bl. Mark himself. As a teenager, Mark set off to preach Christianity and possibly become a martyr in Crete (where Muslim Turks...

The director of of the box-office hit Sound of Freedom said there is interest in a potential sequel, which he said would focus on Haiti. In an interview with Variety, Sound of Freedom writer-director Alejandro Monteverde also blasted he mainstream news media for trying to smear the anti-child trafficking drama and its creative team. Monteverde spoke about a potential sequel to the movie, which has surpassed the latest Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible movies at the domestic box office. “There’s definitely a lot of interest to exploring [the subject] a little deeper, because this is just the tip of the...

The owner of a 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat electronic vehicle (EV), Dalbir Bala, is claiming that EVs are the "Biggest Scam of modern times" after he was forced to abandon his truck on a family road trip from his home in Winnipeg to Chicago because of faulty charging stations. In a letter posted on Facebook, Bala described how he paid $115,000 on the Truck in addition to thousands of dollars more installing chargers, explaining the cost is "not justified." He said, "EVs are only good for limited urban use, as a second car. but expensive second car..!" He went...

Pakistan’s national flag was raised at Cork City Hall today to mark the 76th anniversary of its independence. It was followed by a celebration in the council chambers organized by the Irish-Pakistani community in Cork, which will also see the civic bulding lit up later tonight with the colors of Pakistan. […] Organizer Fahmeda Naheed thanked Cork City Council for hosting the event saying that when she had discussed celebrating the 76th independence day at home with her children, they started asking her questions about their identity. […] She described today’s celebration as a historic event for the community, as...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has made such a huge mistake in her case against President Donald Trump that the Georgia court may throw it out before it even gets started. The court’s website briefly posted a document listing several criminal charges against Trump. The document was then quickly taken down without explanation. It appears as though Willis’s office may have accidentally posted the document online, putting her entire get-Trump case in jeopardy. The Grand Jury is meant to be in session until tomorrow. The document revealed there are over a dozen charges against Trump, including Violating the Georgia...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In a new map released by the County of Maui, estimates show the extent of the damage sustained from Maui’s fires. Those estimates were made based on visual inspection of satellite imagery and open source images. An estimated 2,170 acres burned in the Lahaina area, with 2,719 structures exposed to the fire. The map further estimates a need to shelter 4,500 which is estimated to need 3,560 gallons of water and 9,000 meals a day. Gov. Josh Green asked rental owners to house displaced residents, stating on Wake Up 2Day that he would change the rules, as...

I swear I was reading about a SE Washington DC food lion closing because of too much theft. I saw a news article and a video of the locals angry about losing their only grocery store. Its now all gone, disappeared from the web and news feeds!

Invasive highly flammable grasses in Hawaii have been key to fueling the deadliest wildfires in the US in more than 100 years, experts say. While factors such as extreme weather events from climate change and the state’s local power grid have been blamed for helping to cause the blaze, large plots of land in Hawaii have been overrun by volatile non-native fire-prone grasses that are fueling the deadly flames, according to experts. Land that was once occupied by irrigated pineapples and sugar cane was taken over by the grass species as those businesses began to decline, according to Elizabeth Pickett,...