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  • Today’s Cryptogram

    03/31/2025 11:40:30 PM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 11 replies
    VMW SUL PMMR URR FOJ IJMIRJ EMGJ MP FOJ FZGJ, ULN EMGJ MP FOJ IJMIRJ URR FOJ FZGJ, TWF VMW SULLMF PMMR URR FOJ IJMIRJ URR FOJ FZGJ. — UTYUOUG RZLSMRL
  • ELON MUSK: "Someone is going to be arrested tomorrow.

    03/31/2025 11:39:20 PM PDT · by Enterprise · 42 replies
    ELON MUSK: "Someone is going to be arrested tomorrow. He actually stole 400,000 social security numbers & personal information from the Social Security database and was selling social security numbers in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security."
  • Camping World CEO defiant amid lawsuit over huge American flag: 'The flag will not come down'

    03/31/2025 11:26:19 PM PDT · by Libloather · 69 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/31/25 | Louis Casiano
    The CEO of Camping World, a national RV dealer with stores in 200-plus locations, is facing a lawsuit by another city over its massive American flag that waves outside a dealership. City leaders in Greenville, N.C., voted 4-2 last week to initiate legal action to take down the American flag at a Camping World dealership. The vote came amid another lawsuit filed by the city of Sevierville, Tennessee. "Not when they sue, not when I lose, not if they take me to jail, the flag is not coming down," Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis said last week after the city...
  • Single parents hit hardest by 'awful April' bill rises

    03/31/2025 10:57:54 PM PDT · by RandFan · 31 replies
    BBC NEWS ^ | April 1 | BBC
    A series of essential household bills are rising at the start of April, with warnings that single parents are among the hardest hit. Water bills, energy prices and council tax are all going up in what has been dubbed "awful April", although the minimum wage is also increasing. The charity Citizens Advice said the finances of millions of people on the lowest incomes were "already stretched to breaking point". Many single parents in particular would struggle because a greater proportion of their money was taken up by essential spending, it said. Laura Roan, a single mother of two daughters from...
  • Trump Plans to Visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar in First Foreign Trip

    03/31/2025 10:49:00 PM PDT · by KingofZion · 2 replies
    The Wall Steet Journal ^ | March 31, 2025 | Natalie Andrews
    President Trump is planning to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and potentially the United Arab Emirates in the coming weeks, though he said that plans are still being finalized. “I have a very good relationship with the Middle East,” Trump said on Monday in the Oval Office. On timing, he said, “It could be next month, maybe a little bit later.” Trump said that he was good friends with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Riyadh was one of the places Trump visited during his first term in 2017, when the kingdom announced a series of weapons sales and commercial deals...
  • Unknown microorganisms used marble and limestone as a habitat

    03/31/2025 10:46:42 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 12 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | News Release 19-Mar-2025 | Cees Passchier / Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
    In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small burrows, i.e., tiny tubes that run through the rock in a parallel arrangement from top to bottom, were discovered in marble and limestone of these desert regions. "We were surprised because these tubes are clearly not the result of a geological process," said Professor Cees Passchier from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), who first came across the phenomenon during geological field work in Namibia. During subsequent sample investigations, evidence...
  • Musical Interlude topic for April 2025

    03/31/2025 10:32:02 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 103 replies
    YouTube etcetera ^ | November 14, 2018 etcetera | Peter Green etcetera
    The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) (2013 Remaster) | 4:37 Fleetwood Mac | 1.87M subscribers | 804,047 views | November 14, 2018
  • Columbia University faces new trouble as top admissions consultant says students won’t accept offers — ‘brand has been tarnished’

    03/31/2025 10:15:52 PM PDT · by Libloather · 46 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/31/25 | Rikki Schlott
    College acceptance letters are rolling in — and, suddenly, some applicants don’t even want to hear from Columbia. An admissions consultant who helped 10 clients get accepted to the Ivy League school’s Class of ’29 told The Post that not a single one plans to attend. “This would not have been the case three years ago,” Christopher Rim said. “The actual brand has been tarnished.” As for September’s incoming freshman class, Rim said: “I think it’s going to be the students who didn’t get in anywhere else.” This comes as the school has mishandled pro-Palestinian protests and the Trump administration...
  • This Week in Volcano News; Azores Volcanic Earthquake Swarm, Kirishima Might Erupt

    03/31/2025 10:05:20 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 31, 2025 | GeologyHub
    This week, an unusually strong earthquake swarm occurred at an Azores volcano which last erupted a little over 300 years ago. Meanwhile, in Japan, the alert level was raised at the Kirishima volcano, suggesting an increased risk that it may soon erupt. And, in Indonesia, it appears that a new batch of magma has intruded underneath the highly potentially dangerous Mount Awu volcano. This video will discuss these stories and list the 47 actively erupting volcanoes around the planet via the analysis of a geologist. This video's thumbnail image displays the erupting Santiaguito lava dome (Santa Maria volcano) in Guatemala....
  • Elon Musk, DOGE to review 'strangely wealthy' federal lawmakers

    03/31/2025 9:48:30 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 28 replies
    the Post Millennial ^ | Mar 31, 2025 | Hannah Nightingale
    During his town hall event in Wisconsin on Sunday, Elon Musk said that he and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were going to review those in Congress who are "strangely wealthy.""There’s a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress," Musk told the crowd at the event held ahead of the state’s Supreme Court election. Musk said he was "trying to connect the dots of how did they become rich while earning— how did they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?""Nobody can explain that," Musk continued. "We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop...
  • Hooters files for bankruptcy, says the chain’s down but not out

    03/31/2025 9:39:39 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 38 replies
    ktla ^ | 03/31/2025
    Made famous by its serving staff’s uniforms – low-cut tank tops and orange shorts – and, later, its chicken wings, Hooters has filed for bankruptcy, it announced. The restaurant chain, Reuters reported, made the filing Monday in a Texas court, with the plan being to deal with its $376 million in debt by selling all its company-owned locations to a franchise group stacked with original founders of the company and a group of current franchisees, who own and operate more than 30% of the company’s domestically owned locations, including 14 of the 30 most trafficked restaurants. ... While Hooters said...
  • We've Been Played – Badly

    03/31/2025 9:23:03 PM PDT · by lightman · 29 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 1 April A.D. 2025 | Alan Joseph Bauer
    What happens when we find out that much of what we believed or assumed is completely wrong? One of the greatest accomplishments in entertainment history remains Orson Welles War of the Worlds. His 1938 production was so skillful, so brilliantly produced that hundreds if not thousands of people believed that Earth had been invaded by Martians and ran from their homes in terror. Welles had to reassure listeners that the radio broadcast was only a program and that there was no fighting between the aliens and US army forces. How did those who drove out of New Jersey in panic...
  • Amber Ruffin Responds to Being Dropped from White House Correspondents’ Dinner: “I Would Have Been So Terrifically Mean”

    03/31/2025 9:16:12 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 31, 2025 | Alex Weprin
    Ruffin participated in a comedy bit on NBC's 'Late Night': "We have a free press so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners. That's what it says in the First Amendment."Comedian Amber Ruffin is speaking out, just a couple of days after the White House Correspondents’ Association decided to cancel her planned performance at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which is set to be held next month. Ruffin had been booked for the gig in February, with WHCA president Eugene Daniels saying at the time that “when I began to think about what entertainer would be...
  • Anti-Elon Democrats Act Like Toddlers

    03/31/2025 9:14:51 PM PDT · by Morgana · 24 replies
    Liberty Hangout youtube ^ | March 31, 2025 | Liberty Hangout
    Democrats at a Tesla Takedown in Tampa acted like absolute toddlers!
  • Paralyzed Army vet ‘took own life after learning of wife’s affair’ with controversial SC pastor: sister

    03/31/2025 9:13:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 28 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 31, 2025 | Anthony Blair
    A paralyzed Army veteran who drowned in a swimming pool may have taken his own life because he discovered his wife was having an affair with a pastor, his sister has claimed. Chris Skinner, 41, was found dead in a neighborhood pool in Myrtle Beach, SC, on Sept. 6, 2021. Both the cops and coroner’s office eventually declared the case a suicide and ended their probes, but the coroner’s office recently reopened its investigation again, although there is no suggestion it involves foul play. She pointed to conflicting descriptions of how Skinner got into the pool from police and coroner...
  • Yes, It’s Completely Constitutional For The U.S. Government To Promote Christianity

    03/31/2025 9:01:44 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 03/31/2025 | Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
    The states pushing legislation to display the Ten Commandments in public schools are all but guaranteed to end up at the Supreme Court.Lawmakers across the country are following Louisiana’s lead with legislation calling for the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Elected officials from Texas to Pennsylvania seem undeterred by the fact that Louisiana’s law, passed last year, never went into effect. I’m guessing they know it is only a matter of time before Louisiana is victorious in defense of the law’s constitutionality in court. In my work with legal historian Professor Mark David Hall, we’ve shown that...
  • Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 04/01/2025 Vol.506, Q Day 2713

    03/31/2025 9:00:02 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 6,155 replies
    Qalerts.app ^ | 4/01/2025 | FReeQs, FReepers, LurQers and Vanity
    Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us.Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDTQ !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).>Decide for...
  • Heartache as award-winning Irish writer Ken Bruen dies after novels adapted for TV show as tributes pour for ‘kind soul’

    03/31/2025 8:58:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    The Sun ^ | 31 Mar 2025 | Ellen Fitzpatrick
    He passed away on SaturdayAWARD-winning Irish writer Ken Bruen has died at the age of 74. The Galway crime writer published more than 50 pieces of work and is best known for his Jack Taylor novels. Most notably, he wont the prestigious Shamus Award for Best Crime Novel of the year. Nine of Bruen's novels were adapted into a long-running TV series in 2010, starring Iain Glen and Killian Scott. Bruen passed away on Saturday at University Hospital Galway. He was born in 1951 in Galway before studying in Gormanstown College in Co Meath. He went on to study at...
  • Why do protesters in Gaza want Hamas out? Expert breaks down group's 'dictatorial' rule

    03/31/2025 8:55:38 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 03/31/2025 | Samantha Kamman
    After thousands of Gazans took to the streets last week in a rare display of defiance against the Hamas terror group, a strategic advisor for a Christian advocacy group believes it is "unconscionable" for anti-Israel activists in the West to continue supporting Hamas. Phillip Dolitsky, an Orthodox Jew who works on issues related to foreign policy for The Philos Project, a United States-based nonprofit that equips Christians to support Israel and the Jewish people, says the ongoing Israel-Hamas war is not the sole focus of the protests in Gaza. "They want Hamas out," Dolitsky told The Christian Post. "And I...
  • US Must Be Ready For A 2027 Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan; Rep. Scott Perry

    03/31/2025 8:48:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/31/2025 | Lily Zhou
    The United States must act as if the Chinese regime’s ambition to annex Taiwan by 2027 is a “realistic potential,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said late last week.It follows a recent remark by the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, at an annual defense conference that Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s goal to invade Taiwan in 2027 has driven the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) investment “in land, sea, and air based nuclear delivery platforms, and infrastructure necessary to support a major buildup of their nuclear forces.”Meanwhile, rumors of escalated purges within the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the...