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Mark "Choppa" Manley is a gun owner, a gun collector and a Second Amendment advocate who has more than 70 legally owned firearms stored in a gun safe at his Baltimore home.All of his firearms comply with both federal law and the laws of Maryland. He is always very careful about that.Manley works as an intervention specialist for his local school district. His day begins early and ends late, usually around 7 p.m., because he also coaches girls' flag football.Manley and his wife, who did not want her first name used in this story, get up early for their jobs....

The head of the Garda National Immigration Bureau has said that there is no such thing as “an unvetted migrant” to this country, and that everyone coming to Ireland seeking international protection is fingerprinted and identified. Detective Chief Superintendent Aidan Minnock also rejected claims, most notably by the far right, that asylum seekers are criminals who pose a threat to public safety. He said the vast majority are economic migrants seeking a better life and that the few who have criminal records are detained before being removed from the country. However, he also said that Albanian, Romanian and Chinese organized...

Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase. Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

On the day he was sworn in as governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, an ambitious white peanut farmer from rural Sumter County, announced that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” The declaration landed like the carefully calculated bomb it was intended to be in the South of 1971 — and landed Mr. Carter on the cover of Time magazine, along with the blurb, “Dixie whistles a different tune.” But in his ensuing half-century of public life, Mr. Carter, the one-term Democratic president who died Sunday at 100, would be forced to listen rather helplessly as Republicans mostly called the...

They don’t like the trash talk. Washington DC’s District Department of Transportation denounced a transit ad that was spotted near the Capitol that likened MAGA hat wearers to garbage. “Keep DC trash free,” reads the incendiary ad spotted by Capitol Hill Baptist Church pastor Caleb Morell. The ad featured a red circle with a line through it over an image of a MAGA hat wearer holding a book labeled “Project 2025.” The bottom of the ad includes the logo for the District of Columbia Department of Public Works and the Mayor’s Office of the Clean City program. DDOT DC quickly...

A cold-blooded killer who was spared the death penalty by President Biden is now demanding he be set completely free — because prison is just too awful. Brandon Council, 38 — who killed two moms working at a bank — filed a motion Friday claiming the Indiana federal prison where he is staying is one of the worst in the world and that his solitary confinement has been tantamount to illegal torture. The convicted double-murderer said he has endured “severe, unnecessary, and unjustifiable psychological harm” at FCI Terre Haute since his sentencing in 2019 and deserves “compassionate release.” The conditions...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to solidify the country's comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia in his letter to President Vladimir Putin on Monday, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. In the message, Kim sent New Year greetings to Putin and all Russians, including their troops and expressed his willingness to further step up bilateral ties, which he said the two leaders have elevated to a new height this year, through new projects, KCNA said. Kim "wished that the New Year 2025 would be recorded as the first year of victory in the 21st century when the Russian army...

Meghan McCain, the daughter of former Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., on Sunday backed President-elect Donald Trump’s call for the United States to retake full control of the Panama Canal. Trump wrote via Truth Social Saturday the Central American waterway is crucial for U.S. commerce, adding it is in America's interest to regain control of it. He urged Panamanian officials to cooperate upon his return to the Oval Office. “When President Jimmy Carter foolishly gave it away, for One Dollar, during his term in Office, it was solely for Panama to manage, not China, or anyone else,” Trump wrote of...

Donald Trump has ordered his Cabinet nominees not to post on social media without approval. In a stunning move, Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles told those who will become his top lieutenants to get anything they put on X, or other networks, cleared first. It came after a MAGA 'civil war' erupted this week over the issue of visas for skilled migrants. 'While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,' Wiles wrote in a memo reported by the New...

The producer was behind hits including ‘You’re So Vain’ and ‘I’m So Excited.’Richard Perry, the producer behind a collection of hits including Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” and the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m So Excited,” has died at age 82. As confirmed by his friend Daphna Kastner Keitel, Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. I'm So Excited Before he was a producer, the Brooklyn-native was classically trained on piano, guitar, oboe, and bass. Perry’s career in the music industry began when he was signed to Coral Records as a singer with his doo-wop group, The...

Maricopa County public health officials say they’ve detected “an influenza subtype associated with avian flu in local wastewater” in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe, Arizona. Officials say the risk to the general population remains low. The Gateway Pundit has reported on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fear-mongering about a new potential pandemic of avian flu as if the public hasn’t been subjected to enough panic and virus hoaxes in recent years. In a move reminiscent of his overreaching COVID-19 policies, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California this month in response to the...

Effective December 26, Elon Musk changed the Twitter algorithm to diminish those voices who would openly confront his network of supporters within Silicon Valley and beyond. If large follower Twitter accounts, like those of Musk himself, David Sacks, Vivek Ramaswamy and Musks’ promoted network of influencers begin blocking accounts on the platform, then the voices of those accounts get purposefully diminished by the algorithm.Much like having a VIP section that can remove people from the audience, Musk is pushing opposing viewpoints into the background of the public square.[SOURCE]The timing of this is not accidental. The allies of Musk have been...

In the wake of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, authorities are still trying to determine a motive for the shooter, a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. But the lack of publicly verifiable information about the gunman has not stopped rampant speculation about his political leanings. In a viral Facebook post, comedian and podcaster Terrence K. Williams asserted that “the Democrats” are responsible for a long line of assassinations and assassination attempts throughout American history, including the killings or attempted killings of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and former presidents Abraham Lincoln,...

Explanation: Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The first hint of our Sun's future was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier was compiling a list of diffuse objects not to be confused with comets. The 27th object on Messier's list, now known as M27 or the Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula, one of the brightest planetary nebulas on the sky and visible with binoculars toward the constellation of the Fox (Vulpecula). It takes light about 1000 years to reach us from M27, featured here in colors emitted by sulfur (red), hydrogen (green)...

Video In 2018, Rob Joyce, then Donald Trump's White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, gave a surprise talk at the legendary hacking conference Shmoocon about his hobby. As the former head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations squad – the people who crack systems and gather intelligence for the US government – Joyce was also the friendly public face of the agency. The agency didn't come out of the Edward Snowden affair with a great reputation when the ex-NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower made public the existence of the NSA data collection programs back in June 2013. Many in the security industry were peeved at...

One of the classic New Year’s songs for our part of the world is called ‘El Año Viejo’. If you have your radio tuned to any local stations during the holidays, there is a good possibility that you will hear it. The best-known version was done in the 1950s by the Mexican singer Tony Camargo. Backed by an insistent beat, a brass band, background singers, and the sound of fireworks, the song celebrates the new year in true campesino style. The lyrics, repeated throughout the song, go: Yo no olvido el año viejo Porque me ha dejado cosas muy buenas...

After part of the iconic Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed into the ocean amid powerful waves on Monday, feathered culprits have been found to factor into the pier’s damage: seagulls. Specifically, environmental requirements meant to protect the birds during their nesting season delayed necessary repairs to the 110-year-old structure, the Mercury News first reported. Santa Cruz Wharf to remain closed indefinitely after partial collapseSanta Cruz Wharf to remain closed indefinitely after partial collapse A 2021 repair and maintenance plan for the wharf published by the California Coastal Commission states that repairs and maintenance are needed on the structure due to its...

'Cecilia and I send our prayers and deepest condolences to First Lady Rosalynn Carter' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded to former President Jimmy Carter's death by sending condolences to the former first lady, although she has been dead for over a year. Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at 100, the Carter Center announced. He passed away peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, where his wife Rosalynn Carter died Nov. 19, 2023. That didn't stop Abbott from extending his sympathies to the late First Lady, according to a statement posted to EIN Presswire early Monday...

[Catholic Caucus] New 🌈 Cardinal: "Francis Implements Revolution By All Means"Pope Francis is carrying out a "revolution" in the Church "by all means", Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco, 62, of Algiers, Algeria, told Katholisch.de (December 30). He is a homosexual activist, former lawyer, marathon runner, and newly appointed cardinal.He joined the Dominicans under then-Superior General Timothy Radcliffe, also a homosexual activist and newly appointed cardinal.Cardinal Vesco expressed "admiration" for Cardinal Radcliffe, and called him a personal "friend": "When Timothy came to Algeria, we traveled all over the south together, talking a lot and experiencing very impressive moments."The two share "the same vision"...

Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the US Treasury Department earlier this month and stole documents from its workstations, according to a letter to lawmakers that was provided to Reuters on Monday. The hackers compromised a third-party cybersecurity service provider and were able to access unclassified documents, the letter said, calling it a "major incident." According to the letter, hackers "gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users. With access to the stolen key, the threat actor was able override the service’s...