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The display of seismic activity has drawn numerous visitors, including Marco Bassot, a snowboarder. Several days ago, Bassot began sharing footage of climbing and riding the erupting volcano. The snowboarder in the videos cruised down patches of snow while, in the background, a river of lava bubbled. "This fracture started some days ago and created a huge, intense and impressive lava flow for more than 1.000 m, you can really feel the heat," Bassot wrote in a social media post. "I've seen many things in my 40 years of life but riding side by side of a flowing river of...

Lady led away in handcuffs. Here you are, @JDVance The law in action. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. People need to understand the nation we are living in.

A scheduled purge of potentially thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees scheduled to begin Thursday could “disrupt tax-filing season,” Politico reported on Wednesday evening. According to the outlet and others, employees who are relatively new to the agency are expected to be hit hard by staffing cuts days after Elon Musk’s DOGE sought access to IRS computers. Politico reported... Ellis told IRS employees on a video call, “We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination.” In a separate call, she told workers she could not promise staffing cuts would not affect...

Brenden Dilley✓@WarlordDilley This is peak Democrat party 2025. Five [expletives deleted] huddled around a microphone with zero constituent support, trying to block a patriotic American (@Kash_Patel) from doing his job.

The US Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as the FBI director, with lawmakers voting 51-49 in favour Trump's controversial choice to run the nation's top law enforcement agency has previously been a fierce critic of the FBI

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later. Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three universal principles describing how the motion of objects is governed in our Universe, which have been translated, transcribed, discussed and debated at length. But according to a philosopher of language and mathematics, we might have been interpreting Newton's precise wording of his first law of motion slightly wrong all along. Virginia Tech philosopher Daniel Hoek wanted to "set the record straight" after discovering what he describes as a "clumsy...

Isaiah 53:11 "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." 2 Corinthians 5:21 "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." Isaiah 43:21 "This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." Ephesians 3:10-11 "To...

Trump broke Mitch McConnell. He woke up today, announced he won’t be running for re-election, and then he voted YES to confirm Kash Patel! Good turtle

Things are looking good for landing on March 2, for a pretty badass mission. Aprivate spacecraft on a pretty badass mission has sent back footage of the far side of the Moon, on its way to land in the Mare Crisium region of our satellite on March 2. Blue Ghost, a spacecraft funded by NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and operated by Firefly Aerospace, is currently conducting a number of maneuvers to bring it into a lower orbit around the Moon. During these maneuvers, ahead of a hopefully soft landing to deliver 10 scientific and technological instruments to...

President Trump campaigned on a platform of hiring Elon Musk, establishing DOGE, and shrinking the federal government by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. The American people liked what they heard, and they gave Trump a broad electoral mandate. Trump is now doing the unthinkable in Washington: He’s doing exactly what he promised voters he’d do. And the DC uniparty, fat and happy for too long while real Americans in real America have suffered, is stunned and angry. The executive power, according to Article II of the Constitution, is vested in the president, who is also commanded to "take care" that...

… First, Europe should announce its willingness to quit NATO. A Europe that is forced to spend 5 percent on defense is a Europe that doesn’t need the United States. Five percent of the combined EU/U.K. GDP in 2024 amounts to $1.1 trillion, comparable to U.S. defense spending of $824 billion in 2024 (In 2024, the EU and U.K. combined spent around $410 billion on defense.). Eventually, Europe need not quit. But only a credible threat to leave would wake up Trump (and VP J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth) and force him to treat Europe with respect. By...

On Thursday President Trump appealed the reinstatement of Cathy Harris, a Biden holdover in the executive branch who was fired by Trump – then rehired by a corrupt Obama judge. “PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from this Court’s Memorandum Opinion and Order granting Plaintiff’s Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order,” The Trump DOJ’s wrote in a notice of appeal.

As President Donald Trump’s administration makes cuts to government programs, his head of the Department of Transportation announced that federal assistance intended for a major California transit project could be next on the chopping block. In a news conference at Union Station in downtown L.A. on Thursday morning, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said that the once “exciting” California’s High-Speed Rail has been “mismanaged.” In 2023, then-President Joe Biden awarded a $3 billion grant to help officials complete the first phase of the project. That grant came after he reinstated a $1 billion grant to the High-Speed Rail Authority that...

The Trump administration has given Ukraine an "improved" draft for a minerals agreement between the countries, after President Volodmyr Zelensky infuriated President Trump by rejecting his initial offer, a Ukrainian official, a U.S. official and three sources with knowledge tell Axios. -snip- Sources on both sides now say a deal is now looking more likely. A source with knowledge said several of Zelensky's aides have encouraged him to sign the updated proposal to avoid a further clash with Trump and allow the U.S. president to justify further U.S. support for Ukraine. "There was significant improvement in the recent draft and...

Kash Patel was confirmed as FBI Director 51-49. All Republicans voted in favor except for Murkowski and Collins and all Democrats were against.

The media didn’t even wait for the first quarter of President Donald Trump’s second term to blame him for GDP events that transpired before he was even elected to office. Media outlets like The New York Times, Reuters, The Washington Post tried to blame fears of Trump tariffs for Q4 2024 GDP numbers. From October-December, the economy saw slower-than-expected growth and upticks in consumer spending. The Post held Trump’s tariff threat liable for declining business investment while outlets like Reuters and The Times suggested it was to blame for spikes in household spending, which the outlets characterized as a surge...

An Israeli government spokesman slammed Hamas as a “death cult” after it paraded the coffins containing the remains of four civilian hostages, including those of a baby and a child, during a propaganda stage show in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday morning. “Hamas is not a resistance movement. Hamas is a death cult that murders, that tortures and parades dead bodies,” government spokesman David Mencer told journalists during a press briefing. The Palestinian terrorist organization “has no place amongst civilized nations. It has no place in Gaza,” he said. One of the bodies has been identified as...

Brazil’s prosecutor-general has charged former president Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in power after his 2022 election defeat, alleging that he knew and approved of a plot to poison his successor, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Brazil's prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that also included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain...

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Right now, there’s a lot of tension in the DC Swamp. Sure, President Trump’s return has shaken its foundation, but this goes deeper than just him sitting in the Oval Office again.Much deeper.A lot of the usual suspects in DC are sweating bullets right now—not just over their dirty deeds being exposed, like the Russia Hoax, COVID shenanigans, or the Epstein client list—but because nobody saw this coming. A group of rogue Gen Z geniuses pulling back the curtain on a level of government abuse and fraud that even the most suspicious among us couldn’t have imagined. And now, the...