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Explanation: The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in long telescopic exposures of the region. In contrast, a brighter reflection nebula, vdB 62, is more easily seen just above the dusty dark nebula. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard's Loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion. With swept-back outlines, the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought...

Billy Bob Thornton has a theory about why Taylor Sheridan isn’t being recognized at award shows. “I think a lot of it’s political. I really do,” the “Landman” star, 70, said in a new interview with Variety. “I think some people assume Taylor is some sort of right-wing guy or something, and he’s really not.” SNIP “Even with this show being about the oil business, he just shows you what it’s like. He’s not saying ‘Rah, rah, rah for oil,’ ” the actor explained. “It’s just the people who work in this business or who are affected by this business,...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Another long day of work was on the docket, as white liberal women clocked in for another long day of protesting the arrest of migrant sex offenders. Progressive women emerged from their homes and headed into work for a full day of yelling at ICE agents and obstructing law enforcement who would be out working to arrest sex offenders and other violent criminals here in the country illegally. "It's honest work," Amanda Hanks posted on Instagram. "I'm out here every day protecting innocent pedophiles, rapists, and sex offenders, but it's exhausting. I'd love a day off, but...

An anti-deportation protester who dared Attorney General Pam Bondi to arrest him for crashing a Sunday church in Minnesota is now in custody, Bondi said Thursday.William Kelly was seen on video with a crowd invading and loudly disrupting a service at Cities Church in St. Paul over allegations that the pastor worked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Bondi described the protest as an attack on congregants’ religious liberty and announced multiple related arrests, including Kelly’s, in Thursday X posts.

Several organizers of the protest were calling for the resignation of a church pastor who they said works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. --- Federal agents with Homeland Security and the FBI arrested three protesters — Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen and William Kelly — in connection with a demonstration that interrupted Sunday service at Cities Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media Thursday.

Former Labour minister Andrew Gwynne has announced he is standing down as an MP, paving the way for Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to potentially run in a by-election in his Gorton and Denton constituency. In a statement, Gwynne said he had suffered "significant ill health" and had been advised by his GP that it wasn't safe for him to return to work as an MP. Gwynne's resignation possibly opens up a path for Burnham to return to the House of Commons and make a leadership challenge against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Speaking earlier, Burnham did not rule out...

Kaitlin Bennett was handed a FEDERAL CHARGE by the National Park Service in St. Augustine for committing the grave offense of asking protesters questions! Watch how this bizarre violation of her First Amendment rights went down.

Meet Chanda Petrey-Czaruk, the Vice President of @HomeFirstChoice in Ohio. She posted a video wishing for Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to experience traumatic injuries during childbirth. This woman is in charge of a home health care company and is a registered nurse in Ohio. Terrifying that activists like this are in the medical field. She needs to have her license revoked. You can contact the Ohio Board of Nursing here: (614) 466-3947

Meet Lexie Lawler, a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital (@BaptistHealthSF ). She says she hopes Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suffers a severe 4th-degree tear during childbirth and has medical complications. "I hope you ******* rip from bow to stern and never **** normally again, you ****." This woman DELIVERS BABIES. Terrifying.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he doesn’t like banks and will scrap interest payments British lenders receive through the Bank of England’s quantitative easing program. The Reform Party included the proposal to end the practice of the U.K. central bank paying interest on the reserves placed with it by banks in its 2024 manifesto, which it claimed would bring in up to £40 billion for taxpayers. “We are going to do it. Some of the banks won’t like it. Well, I don’t like the banks very much because they debanked me, didn’t they?” Farage said in an interview with...

The Trump Justice Department charged Don Lemon and 7 others for storming Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. However, the magistrate judge rejected the charges against Don Lemon. Politico reporter Josh Gerstein corrected his previous post to clarify that the judge rejected charges against Don Lemon. According to CBS News, the Justice Department is currently looking at other avenues to charge Don Lemon. BREAKING: Trump Justice Department charges journalist Don Lemon along with 7 others over church protest aimed at ICE agent — Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) January 22, 2026 It was reported earlier Thursday federal a magistrate judge rejected charges...

It's pretty amazing how standards have fallen at Davos, the pricey Swiss ski resort turned home of the so-called big thinkers and global elites.In other words, our betters.Here's one of their favorites in action, according to Mediaite:The heckler who booed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and upended an event in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday has been unmasked, and he’s a familiar face in politics.Lutnick was speaking at an invite-only VIP dinner event hosted by billionaire BlackRock boss Larry Fink when a heckler, now identified as climate change advocate and former Vice President Al Gore, started booing the former Cantor Fitzgerald CEO.Gore’s...

The FAFO moment is coming for the demons who disrupted a church service in St. Paul earlier this week. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this morning that they had arrested one of the key organizers who orchestrated a wicked attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday.with assistance form Don Lemon. From Bondi: Minutes ago at my direction, @HSI_HQ and @FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota. So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. We will share more...

Donald Trump filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on Thursday. The president is accusing the financial institution and its CEO Jamie Dimon of de-banking him for political reasons. Trump's attorney Alejandro Brito filed in Florida state court in Miami on behalf of the president and his hospitality companies. The filing alleges that on February 19, 2021, the bank 'without warning or provocation' notified Trump and his entities that multiple bank accounts they owned and used 'would be closed just two months later, on April 19, 2021.' Brito said the president is 'confident that JPMC's unilateral decision came about...

| WATCH. Can Ms. Rachel get any more pathetic? We all know she hates Israel and Jews. She should just stop pretending. Popular children's entertainer Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, is once again at the center of controversy after admitting to accidentally "liking" an antisemitic comment on her Instagram page. The 43-year-old YouTube star, known for her educational "Songs for Littles" channel with over 11 million subscribers, broke down in an emotional video apology, claiming the mishap occurred while trying to delete the hateful remark. The comment in question, "Free America from the Jews," was posted...

There was the pregnant woman who missed her medical checkup, afraid to visit a clinic during the Trump administration’s sweeping Minnesota immigration crackdown. A nurse found her at home, already in labor and just about to give birth. There was the patient with kidney cancer who vanished without his medicine in immigration detention facilities. It took legal intervention for his medicine to be sent to him, though doctors are unsure if he's been able to take it. There was the diabetic afraid to pick up insulin, the patient with a treatable wound that festered and required a trip to the...

BREAKING - A Somalian in Minneapolis, Mubashir Hussen, claims he is suffering from “life altering” PTSD after being detained by ICE and has started a GoFundMe asking for $50,000 to help with the “trauma.” Their daycares have been turned off, so now they are scamming liberals.

The parent company of ChatGPT has hired attorney Ann O’Leary — a former top aide to both Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and failed 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — to be its vice president of global policy. Jenner & Block, a law firm where O’Leary served as a partner, announced in a Jan. 13 press release that she would be joining OpenAI to “lead global policy efforts.” Newsom appointed O’Leary as his chief of staff following his 2018 election victory, a role she held until her resignation in December 2020. Prior to working in the Newsom administration, O’Leary worked...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Pope Leo appoints pro-LGBT archbishop as secretary for Dicastery for ClergyArchbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli's pro-LGBT views were recounted in a description of his response to the same-sex 'marriage' of a Catholic scout leader.Pope Leo XIV has appointed a controversial and homosexualist archbishop to a prominent role in the Vatican.Archbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli of Gorizia was named today as the new Secretary for the Dicastery for Clergy.Raedelli and his pro-LGBT views were mentioned in a 2020 book by Luciano Moia, a senior journalist for the Italian Bishops’ Conference’s daily newspaper Avvenire. In his book, Moia argues...

Many young Trump voters think women 'should follow' men, poll finds