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Ever felt like the more you understand about how things work, the more insane it all seems? Scott Adams recently touched on this, highlighting how the system protects itself by being so outrageously flawed that those who start to see through it are often labeled as crazy. It’s like stepping into a “crazy zone” where you realize that what you once thought was reality might just be a facade.

A 52-year-old woman was found murdered and concealed in a duffel bag in her late mother’s Manhattan apartment, following a violent confrontation with squatters, NYPD officials reported on Thursday. Nadia Vitel, the victim, had recently traveled from Spain and was preparing her mother’s vacant 19th-floor apartment on East 31st Street for a family friend to move into. Upon her arrival, she encountered two unauthorized occupants, a man, and a woman in their 20s, according to New York Post. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny informed the press, “We believe that some squatters took the apartment over and this woman came...

"So my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods."-Ketanji Brown Jackson

A record number of Americans have been using “buy now, pay later” apps amid the surging inflation seen in Biden’s economy. A new report from PYMNTS Intelligence showed 6.5 percent of Americans, roughly 15 million, have been using BPNL apps to pay for groceries since last year. Per the New York Post: Of those using the apps — offered by fintech services such as Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay and PayPal — around 5.4% were low-income Americans, according to the study. The rest were those whose yearly incomes were at least $100,000. Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published...

The Los Angeles Dodgers interpreter for Shohei Ohtani was fired Wednesday afternoon after questions surrounding at least $4.5 million in wire transfers sent from Ohtani's bank account to a bookmaking operation set off a series of events. Ippei Mizuhara, the longtime friend and interpreter for Ohtani, incurred the gambling debts to a Southern California bookmaking operation that is under federal investigation, multiple sources told ESPN. How he came to lose his job started with reporters asking questions about the wire transfers. Initially, a spokesman for Ohtani told ESPN the slugger had transferred the funds to cover Mizuhara's gambling debt. The...

Former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is preparing to go public at a current valuation of $6 billion. Trump himself would own about 60% of Truth Social were it to go public, which would ultimately net him a possible $3.5 billion.

According to a recent report, there is quite the rivalry between current president Joe Biden, and former president Barack Obama. Two Biden aides who spoke with Axios discussed how President Biden compares himself often to Obama in private; part of a years-long ‘rivalry’ between the two. “Obama would be jealous,” Biden has reportedly said, “when speaking about a perceived accomplishment,” one aide said. Other aides have complained that “Obama and his team did not fully appreciate Biden’s experience with foreign policy, Congress and grip-and-grin politicking — and were disrespectful,” the outlet published. “The Obama people thought Biden would suck as...

Two squatters in a Kips Bay apartment building who allegedly murdered a woman last week and stuffed her in a duffel bag before fleeing inside her car remain on the loose, police officials said Thursday. According to Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, 52-year-old Nadia Vitel had arrived at the vacant 19th floor apartment inside of 206 East 31st St. last week, which had belonged to her mother before she died. However, when she arrived, cops believe she was met with a horrific surprise. “We believe that some squatters took the apartment over and this woman came home to get this...

You may have noticed that Easter eggs are more expensive this year. But did you know that climate change is one of the reasons? Most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa, but a humid heatwave has blasted the crops and massively cut yields. Experts say that human-induced climate change has made the extreme heat 10 times more likely. Which? found some popular eggs have risen in price by 50% or more. The shortage of cocoa resulting from the heatwave has seen prices soar to almost $8,500 (£6,700) a tonne this week. Cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to...

Supposedly, there is a big energy transition going on. Throughout the West, countries have made ambitious pledges to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by specific percentages and by specific dates. Many such pledges were notably made in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2016. Some countries — for example, the U.S. and UK — have even gone beyond the Paris Agreement and made still more ambitious pledges in the years since then. But is any of it real? No, none of it is real. The failure to make the progress that would be necessary to achieve the alleged pledges and mandates is...

“Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:6-7). Jesus is the role model of the suffering servant. Jesus not only gave up His divine privileges when He emptied Himself, but He also became a servant. For us, this is the next phase in His supreme example of humility. Paul’s phrase “the form of a bond-servant” can also be translated “the essence of a slave.” Christ’s servanthood was not just...

"Climate cafés" have been popping up worldwide over the past few years to help people deal with their global warming anxiety, according to a recent New York Times report. The article "Can Climate Cafes Help Ease the Anxiety of Planetary Crisis?" documented a new phenomenon of groups meeting, whether publicly or privately, to "discuss their grief, fears, anxiety and other emotions about the climate crisis." One organization, Climate Psychology Alliance North America, claimed to the NYT that it has trained 350 people to run climate cafés in the U.S. and Canada with 300 people on the "climate-aware therapist directory." "The...

In May of 2011, I wrote the following words in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Online learning has become the third rail in American higher-education politics: Step on it and you’re toast.” In so doing, I planted my foot squarely on that electrified third rail. Besides being roundly criticized in the comments section, I learned that my administration at the time—which was, unbeknownst to me, planning a major online expansion—did not appreciate what they saw as an attack on their sacred (cash) cow. I was removed from my administrative position, had my pay cut, and was threatened with dismissal. Being...

An American Airlines flight that rolled off the runway last month when its braking system malfunctioned had undergone a brake-replacement job just four days prior, investigators said. The February 10 American Airlines flight from Washington, DC, to Dallas experienced a "brake system anomaly" during landing, according to a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report. The Boeing 737-823 model's automatic brakes switched from off to on and then off again immediately after landing, flight crew told the investigators. The pilot had to manually brake the pedals and reverse the plane's thrusters to slow the engine, the NTSB report said. The pilot...

There's not enough power to flood the roads with electric vehicles, but DemocRATs don't and probably are counting on it. In perfect Democratic Party form, the Biden administration has dropped another government burden on the private sector. Two days ago, the White House rolled out “the toughest-ever” automobile emissions standards. The objective, of course, is to force Americans to buy the cars that the ruling class wants them to drive. There’s a big problem here, though – the grid won’t be up to the task of keeping tens of millions of electric vehicles charged. The headline from a Bloomberg story...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (3/22/24)[Prayer]The Names and Titles of God (Holy Spirit Ruach Ha Kodesh)Isaiah 63:1010 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.The King James Version__________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about WPATH, and it's damning report on 'gender-affirming care' that was very, very alarming. Now a WPATH 'certified clinician', Laura Jacobs, is calling for a change to 'penis and vagina norms' with 'custom genitals'. Watch: “Do we have to stick to penis & vagina norms? Can we have genitalia that looks like flowers or abstract sculpture? Can we have multiple? Can they be interchangeable?” -WPATH certified clinician Laura Jacobs, LCSW- WPATH SOC revision committee. pic.twitter.com/f4qzSgCeTT — Genspect (@genspect) March 21, 2024 Wow. Genitalia that looks like flowers and is interchangeable?! Are we...

Violent left-wing extremists on Wednesday hijacked a Turning Points USA event at the University of Memphis featuring Kyle Rittenhouse — and they did so with the full backing of the Democrat Party.Video footage from outside the university showed the extremists chasing down attendees as they tried to leave the event.The drama started days ahead of the event, with “students and community members” expressing fury after Rittenhouse was invited to speak at the school by Turning Points USA, according to The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis paper.The school released a statement shortly thereafter saying it wasn’t sponsoring the event but lacked the...

A nonprofit organization dedicated to “assisting migrants with their paperwork and legal needs” in New York City has been caught on video illegally filling out residency documents for a man without procuring any form of identification from him. Video shot by Muckraker.com and obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project appears to show the nonprofit organization, La Jornada, saying that distributing such documents is against the law but then proceeding to do so with another person the next day. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.) The video also shows the organization distributing paperwork to get a government-issued...

A migrant TikToker with a 500,000-strong online following is offering his comrades tips on how to “invade” unoccupied homes and invoke squatter’s rights in the United States. Venezuelan national Leonel Moreno, who appears to live in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, said in a recent video that under US law, “if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.” Skip to main content Inside Trump's 370-acre Seven Springs estate and golf course Letitia James aims to seize first Inside Trump's 370-acre Seven Springs estate and golf course... American Airlines passenger put in headlock, forced off plane after hurling antisemitic...