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Explanation: Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails. Sometimes, though, something really interesting is caught by chance. That was just the case a few weeks ago in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia when a bright meteor streaked across during an hour-long exposure of...

Uprisings in major Iranian cities, protests, lots of footage via phone cameras, some not even covering faces, supporters of regime not helping much, because they don't have food and haven't been paid. Hizbollah is FUBAR, so can't come in and do the Thug (new dance; must become GIF like Happy Dance), people daring to wave original Iranian flag, sing original anthem, both of which are capital offenses, previously bringing summary execution. Parallels with UK are remarkable. Transcript linked below video.

Cracker Barrel has issued a new statement in response to the outrage over the sterile new branding, as its stock continues to free fall. The statement, titled, “A Promise to Our Guests,” was posted to Facebook on Monday morning. The restaurant chain, long beloved for its traditional American charm, faced a storm of criticism after unveiling a modernized logo that ditched iconic elements like the barrel and the “Old Country Store” tagline. Fans, including former President Donald Trump, slammed the change as a “woke” erasure of heritage, leading to a $94 million drop in stock value in just one day....

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🚨🚨🚨#BREAKING and EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service’s chief counsel Richard Giuditta, who also served as a senior adviser to Director Sean Curran, resigned abruptly late last week after @RCPolitics inquired about an alleged “road rage” incident he was involved in with a USSS-issued government vehicle in New Jersey in late July, according to multiple sources familiar with the incident and his departure. Giuditta, who sources say had no formal training on the use of a government vehicle, inappropriately used lights and sirens on the vehicle, which are supposed to be reserved for law enforcement purposes, the sources allege. The incident involved...

The shine may be coming off AI, a tech charlatan that has brought no major benefits for organizations including telcos and has had some worrying effects. Offloading cognitive effort to ChatGPT or a similar application is extremely bad for the brain. Who knew? It should have been obvious to anyone who's realized that lounging around all day is bad for the body, or that no one became good at anything by not doing it. But it took two separate research projects, one by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University and the other by MIT, to establish that overreliance on generative artificial...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite new world screwworm has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday. The case, related to a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, was confirmed to be screwworm by the CDC on Aug. 4, HHS spokesman Andrew G. Nixon confirmed to Reuters, who first reported the story. "The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low," he said. Reuters reported last week, citing U.S. beef industry sources, that a person in Maryland contracted the parasite after...

3 days ago I would never leave my door open while pumping gas in this part of DC. Video:

President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are allegedly planning to ban the COVID vaccine “within months,” years after Trump labeled the vaccine’s development during the pandemic as a “monumental achievement,” according to an associate of Kennedy’s.Newsweek reached out to HHS via email for comment. Why It MattersTrump said in December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, that the development of a vaccine as part of Operation Warp Speed was a “historic” success.He commended doctors, scientists, industry executives, and state and local leaders for expediting the process and mass distributing an initiative...

President Donald Trump proposed on Aug. 25 that his administration rename the Department of Defense to its previous name, the Department of War. “Pete, you started off by saying ’the Department of Defense.' And somehow it didn’t sound good to me,” Trump said in the Oval Office, speaking to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after signing executive orders on fighting crime, including in Washington. “Defense. What are we, defense? Why are we defense? It used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound. And, as you know, we won World War I, we won World War...

Whelp maybe those DEI rollbacks weren’t a great idea. Target has officially announced a major leadership shake-up, confirming that CEO Brian Cornell will step down from his position and transition into the role of executive chair of the Board of Directors. His successor will be the company’s current chief operating officer, Michael Fiddelke, who will take over as chief executive by February 2026. The decision was revealed in a company statement on Wednesday, August 20, with the Board of Directors unanimously backing Fiddelke. Before becoming COO, he served as chief financial officer and is seen by the Board as the...

European leaders presented a united front at their White House summit last week with President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, agreeing on the need for security guarantees for Ukraine to eventually end its war with Russia. But within days, the "coalition of the willing" began to fray over the issue of sending troops into the war region. The discord came into full view Friday when Matteo Salvini, a chief lieutenant in the government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, mocked French President Emmanuel Macron for suggesting European soldiers could be deployed on the ground in Ukraine as part...

Reform UK says it would scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with legislation that applies only to UK citizens and legal migrants, the party says

Cracker Barrel decided to put the old man out to pasture this week with a rebrand of its logo that almost everyone in the universe seems to hate. 👇 Is Cracker Barrel's brand redesign a "war crime"? 😭 What do you think? NOTTHEBEE.COM https://notthebee.com/article/people-ask-if-cracker-barrels-brand-redesign-is-war-crime Not the Bee's super scientific poll, with almost 8,000 submissions, determined that the redesign overseen by the company's white liberal female CEO (with glasses of course) is a turn-off to most customers. The story went so viral that even Denny's and Steak 'n Shake took the opportunity to lash out: when you copy the homework but...

Rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus criticised sexual deviancy representation in children's films during a podcast last week, specifically citing the 2022 movie "Lightyear" as an example. Mr. Broadus explained during an appearance on Sarah Fontenot's "It's Giving" podcast that he took his grandson to see "Lightyear," which features a same-sex couple. Mr. Broadus recalled his grandson quizzing him during the movie about how the couple had a child together. "Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman.' Oh sierra, I didn’t come in for this...

In a future conflict with China, technological superiority alone will not be enough; “mass matters.” The vast distances of the Indo-Pacific and the limitations of sea-launched airpower create a critical need for a large, land-based fleet of long-range, 6th-generation F-47 fighters. A substantial number of F-47s would be essential to overwhelm enemy defenses, deliver the necessary volume of ordnance, and create a resilient, networked force capable of shortening the sensor-to-shooter timeline. Without a large F-47 fleet, the U.S. risks being unable to effectively project power and prevail in a great-power conflict.

[Catholic Caucus] Faithful Catholics prayerfully protest Latin Mass suppression in DetroitDETROIT (LifeSiteNews) — As the bells of Detroit’s Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament rang out calling the faithful to the 11:00 a.m. Mass on Sunday, August 17, Catholics gathered in prayerful petition to support the recently suppressed Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).“We want our archbishop to know that there are many faithful Catholics that still want the ‘Mass of the Ages,’” organizer Joseph VanAssche told LifeSite.Families from several parishes in the diocese, particularly St. Stephen’s, where the Latin Mass was recently suppressed, gathered just beneath the steps of the cathedral...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin cannot not sign a peace deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky because Moscow views him as “illegitimate,” Moscow’s top diplomat said Sunday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the declaration in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” suggesting that Putin will not be able to make an agreement with him. Lavrov also threw up yet another roadblock to direct talks between Putin and Zelensky, saying that Russia has an “agenda” in mind that must to be agreed before the two sides can sit down together. “There is no meeting planned,” Lavrov told NBC’s “Meet the...

Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Christian couple of HGTV fame who recently got into hot water for promoting homosexuality on their new reality TV show Back to the Frontier, have yet another new reality show that seems to be super-duper gay. Watch 👇 This is what Chip and JoJo call their "family-friendly" reality show Roller Jam. Protestia has the details: Chip and Joanna are the executive producers of the reality TV show Roller Jam, which debuted last year on their Magnolia Network. Along with overseeing the production, Joanna also served as a judge in the series finale. The show features...

Ukrainians are hunting down Russian drones armed with nothing more than shotguns and rifles while dangling out of prop lanes as part of a low-tech solution to Moscow’s high-tech aerial assassins. Although Kyiv has some of the West’s most advanced air-defense systems, including US-made Patriot missiles and F-16 jets, the nation has been forced to deploy such unconventional tactics to counter Russia’s ever-escalating drone bombardments because of the sheer number of devices being deployed. Pilots and gunners in Ukraine’s 11th Army Aviation Brigade have been tapped to take the Soviet-era Yak-52 prop planes to the skies, with the two-person aircraft...