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Jimmy Kimmel’s comment about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect was a mess, and a miss, which gets less clear the more you look at it.Never has a snarky, clumsily worded and insensitive-sounding aside caused so much trouble. Jimmy Kimmel’s comment about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson has sparked a cascading series of dramatic (and chilling) events that have resulted Disney suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely.” But many — if not most — are interpreting the comment in a way that its phrasing does not entirely support. Entirely being the operative word. Let’s look at his viral quote again:...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is urging citizens to “keep calm and carry cash.” The ominous message is a warning of trouble ahead. Bank runs, defaults, war, grid failures, pandemics—the current banking system cannot rely on what’s ahead. “Cash provides essential redundancy – a ‘spare tire’ – for the payment system,” the study’s authors write. “This redundancy is vital for any system, as no system is infallible.” Indeed, no system is infallible. I have been consistently warning for decades that tangible assets are a necessity. Cash is freedom, which is precisely the reason that governments want to transition to digital...

About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about “1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population.”That’s a fraction of the number of people who arrived in the years that the Biden administration essentially opened the border. But it’s a lot of people, and it engendered much eye-rolling among journalists who compared Noem’s claim to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s declaration that President Trump’s drug interdiction policies had saved 258 million lives, roughly 75% of the U.S. total population.However, in the weeks since Noem’s announcement, several data points have...

We sure have seen a lot of really crazy things happen so far this year. But in the minds of most Americans, there is one crisis that far outweighs everything else. As I have been documenting for years, our standard of living has been collapsing as the cost of living has risen must faster than our incomes have.As a result, 67 percent of U.S. workers are now living paycheck to paycheck. We are in the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in modern history, and Statista has found that Americans consider it to be the biggest challenge that...

Great plan. It will -- and did -- get all of the golf claps from the international arena. Don't expect it to go anywhere, though, because Hamas will never agree to go anywhere else. It's still worth a shot, though, even just for the value of clarifying which side is the actual problem:The Trump administration has reportedly put forward a peace plan which would eventually lead to a complete end to the war in Gaza, a Western source told the Lebanese media site Elnashra on Wednesday, only a day after US President Donald Trump met with the leaders of Muslim...

President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Nations was marred by several “technical malfunctions.” An escalator stopped suddenly as he and First Lady Melania stepped on it, almost causing them to be pitched forward onto their faces, then his teleprompter suddenly wasn’t working, and then the sound in the auditorium was turned off so nobody without an earpiece could hear what he was saying. Hmm. That’s an awful lot of coincidences, especially considering that there were reports that U.N. staffers had "joked" beforehand about stopping the escalators and elevators so Trump would have to walk.Trump isn’t buying that all this...

Arizona’s Court of Appeals declined to take up AG Kris Mayes’ bid to revive the “fake electors” prosecution, dealing a major legal setback and leaving the case on precarious footing.

FIRST ON FOX — Eight federal inmates — once on death row for murders, including the killings of fellow prisoners, gang-related stabbings, and the slayings of two campers — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. The news comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions. The eight former death row inmates were transferred Tuesday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as "ADX," Justice Department officials confirmed. They were among the 37 death row...

Despite $30 to 40 billion in enterprise GenAI investment, a stunning 95% of organizations are achieving zero measurable return, according to a new report from MIT. The report argues that never before has a technology category attracted such massive investment while delivering such disappointing returns. This stark separation between a few AI winners and everyone else isn’t driven by model quality or regulation — it’s determined by approach. While tools like ChatGPT achieve 80% organizational adoption, enterprise-grade custom solutions face a brutal reality: only 5% successfully reach production deployment. The core barrier isn’t infrastructure or talent; it’s learning capability. Most...

Significant overlaps of interest in Philip Zelikow’s roles The overlap is glaring, and once you look past the media fog it becomes obvious that the same type of figure was installed in both cases to manage the narrative and pre-empt genuine investigation. Philip Zelikow was not just some neutral academic parachuted in to provide intellectual clarity. He was the manager of perception on 9/11, and two decades later he resurfaced to perform the exact same function during Covid. 1. Narrative Control as the Central Function9/11 Commission: Zelikow wasn’t merely the “executive director.” He effectively wrote the outline of the final...

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors. Of those interviewed in the survey, roughly a quarter of respondents said they applied for a job in higher education in another state since the start of 2023. Heather Houser worked as a professor in the English department, teaching American literature and environmental humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years. Like the growing number of professors...

Justice Department officials are racing to obtain criminal charges this week against former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, according to people familiar with the matter The US Justice Department is pushing ahead with its investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James over mortgage fraud PMSNBC is not taking this well, thought you all would love to see this.

Senior Justice Department investigator Glenn Prager revealed Jeffrey Epstein was “CIA” and confirmed that rapes occurred while Bill Clinton was on the private plane. The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released audio of Glenn Prager discussing the DOJ’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Prager served as an Inspector overseeing sensitive investigations involving the FBI, DEA, Bureau of Prisons, US Marshals Service, ATF and the US Attorney’s Offices. Glenn Prager was overheard at a Phoenix airport dropping Epstein bombshells. “I’ve interviewed all the victims, There’s never been an instance where Trump was on a plane with these kids and the rapes occurred....

COPENHAGEN-Denmark's Prime Minister apologised in person on Wednesday (Sept24) to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power. Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1991, the year Greenland was given authority over its healthcare system... An investigation this month showed that 4,070 women had been fitted with intrauterine devices by the end of 1970-roughly every second Greenlandic-born woman of childbearing age. A large number of women...

Justice Department officials are racing to obtain criminal charges this week against former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, according to people familiar with the matterThe US Justice Department is also pushing ahead with its investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James over mortgage fraud.Clips of Joy Reid and Letitia James whining about James facing the music soon is such a delight to watch.Also clips of Comey lying under oath before congress under questioning by Ted Cruz.. Should be an interesting week and coming months.

And it’s never coming back…“I’m so awesome I’m singlehandedly holding back the wave of long-anticipated-but-never-seeming-to-arrive-tidal-wave-of-white-male-right-wing-domestic-terrorism! I’m so noble, no one will ever know it was ME holding them back, getting them caught, defusing their bombs...because I’m so awesome!” - The SavantThis TV show needs to be preserved and kept in the Smithsonian as a benchmark of our strange times, in which ONE PARTICULAR NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY was making EXTENSIVE USE of highly organized, violent, very dangerous and blatantly anti-American radical revolutionary groups loosely referred to as ANTIFA in order to try to DICTATE SOCIAL POLICY via threat against the public...

When President Joe Biden visited Santa Cruz County following the 2023 winter storms, residents responded with pure fanfare. People skipped work and lined the streets with thank-you signs, and parents took their children out of school just for a chance to see the presidential motorcade speed down Highway 1. Amid the wreckage of natural disasters that reshaped swaths of the county, enthusiasm followed Biden from his steps off Air Force One at the Watsonville airport, to the Capitola wharf and back again. In the nearly three years since, the Biden aura has shifted — dramatically. People have increasingly laid the...

Texas has become the latest state to ban trans-identified men from entering women's spaces amid concerns about safety and privacy for women and girls. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8 into law Monday. The measure, which was approved by the Republican-controlled Texas Senate in a 19-11 vote last month and passed the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives in an 86-45 vote, is also known as the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The votes in both chambers fell largely along party lines, with almost all support coming from Republicans and all opposition coming from Democrats. Two House Democrats joined Republicans...

President Donald Trump has introduced a “Presidential Walk of Fame” along a noticeable walkway outside the West Wing of the White House. “The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade,” special assistant to the president and communications adviser Margo Martin wrote in a post on X on Wednesday, with a video in which black-and-white portraits of presidents in gold frames can be seen along the colonnade. The image selected for one former president, however, stands out: President Joe Biden, who instead of a portrait is represented by a photo of an autopen.

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