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  • Hags: Two Supreme Court justices are reportedly bosses from hell on their clerks and staff, new book alleges

    04/22/2026 6:03:55 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 55 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 21 Apr, 2026 | Monica Showalter
    Why are Democrats so loaded with nasty, vicious women? A new book by respected Washington columnist and editor Mollie Hemingway came out with some doozies of information about the sheer unbearableness of Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, who are apparently nightmares to work for for all who come into their orbit. According to the Daily Mail: In her forthcoming book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution, conservative journalist and author Mollie Hemingway lifts the lid on the justices' treatment of clerks. ... Hemingway, who spoke with over 100 former clerks and...
  • Trump Administration Provides "Sovereign Backstop" Reinsurance Facility for Persian Gulf Maritime Shipping

    04/22/2026 5:56:11 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 10 replies
    Clark Hill ^ | March 10, 2026 | Robert Tomilson , Joseph Gattermeyer
    On Mar. 6th, President Donald J. Trump issued, “effective immediately”, a directive ordering the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”) to act as a federal “sovereign backstop” for qualified private insurance companies providing Hull & Machinery and Cargo coverage to shipping companies operating in the Persian Gulf. The backstop will take the form of a $20 billion reinsurance facility (“Reinsurance Facility”) available to qualified private insurance companies, as well as shipping lines. While the official list of qualified insurers has not yet been issued, Chubb, AIG, Liberty Mutual, and, significantly, Lloyd’s of London acknowledged active participation in negotiations with the...
  • Party That Promised To Save America Announces It's Not Really Interested In Saving America Anymore

    04/22/2026 5:47:32 AM PDT · by DFG · 25 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 04/21/2026 | Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following months of urging from President Trump and the American people to pass the SAVE Act and secure the integrity of U.S. elections, the party that promised to save America announced that it wasn't really interested in saving America anymore. Republican leaders in the Senate held a press conference on Tuesday to officially set aside any plan to move forward with the SAVE Act, citing a waning desire to fulfill countless campaign promises to save the country. "We know we campaigned on saving the country, but honestly, we don't really care," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune....
  • 2 troops dismissed, jailed for smashing statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon

    04/22/2026 5:46:21 AM PDT · by Tom Tetroxide · 64 replies
    The Times of Israel ^ | 21APR2026 | Emanuel Fabian
    An Israel Defense Forces soldier who smashed a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon, along with another soldier who photographed the act, have been dismissed from combat duty and sentenced to jail, the military announced on Tuesday. An investigation by the military into the incident in the Christian village of Debel found that in addition to the soldier who damaged the statue and the soldier who photographed him, six other troops were “present at the scene and did not act to stop the incident or report it.” “The inquiry determined that the soldiers’ conduct completely deviated from...
  • Iran says it has seized two cargo ships in Strait of Hormuz after three vessels attacked

    04/22/2026 5:45:36 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 41 replies
    BBC ^ | 04-22-2026 | Jake Lapham and Craig Hoyle
    Iran has attacked three cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian reports say, after Donald Trump said he was extending the US-Iran ceasefireThe Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has seized two of the three ships, and is escorting them to the Iranian coast - here's a round-up of the attacksTrump said last night he was extending the ceasefire, while also maintaining the US blockade of Iranian ports, which is designed to put pressure on Iran before talks with the US in PakistanBut the status of those talks is unclear - US Vice-President JD Vance did not depart...
  • Obama hops aboard Mamdani’s socialist bandwagon

    04/22/2026 5:33:49 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 22 Apr, 2026 | Chris Talgo
    With socialism no longer a dirty word in the American political lexicon and a central plank of the modern Democratic Party, it should come as little surprise that Barack Obama is finally reveling in his socialist bona fides. For many years, former President Barack Obama has been accused of being a closet socialist. When Obama was running for the White House in 2008 and 2012, he downplayed his relationships with socialists like Bill Ayers. The genius of Obama’s two victorious presidential campaigns was his ability to portray himself as a pragmatic politician pursuing a middle-of-the-road policy agenda when in fact...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 22-April-2026

    04/22/2026 5:29:42 AM PDT · by annalex · 11 replies
    22 April 2026 Wednesday of the 3rd week of EastertideChurch of St. Susanna had originally been the house of St. Gabinus, brother of the martyred Pope Caius who consecrated it and after whom it was called (Titulus Gaii).Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingActs 8:1-8They went from place to place, preaching the Good NewsThat day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the apostles fled to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria. There were some devout people, however, who buried Stephen and made great mourning for him. Saul then worked for the total...
  • 🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(4/22/26)[Prayer]

    04/22/2026 5:28:12 AM PDT · by left that other site · 19 replies
    The Holy Scriptures (KJV) | 4/22/26 | left that other site
    🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(4/22/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesExodus 33:11-23 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. 12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace...
  • Tucker Carlson's Deceptive Priest: A Jesus-Centered Response

    04/22/2026 5:20:36 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 4 replies
    YouTube ^ | 4/19/2026 | Joel Richardson
    Tucker Carlson's Deceptive Priest: A Jesus-Centered Response RT 26 m 14 s
  • UPDATE: The migrant who KlLLED a DHS employee and attacked multiple other people has been found DEAD in his jail cell — let in under Biden

    04/22/2026 5:14:24 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 14 replies
    X ^ | 04/22/2026 | Eric Daugherty
    🚨 UPDATE: The migrant who KlLLED a DHS employee and attacked multiple other people has been found DEAD in his jail cell — let in under Biden Good riddance. We need to STOP importing this trash!
  • Exposing Ilhan Omar's Restaurant Insanity

    04/22/2026 5:13:23 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 10 replies
    YouTube ^ | 4/22/2026 | Angela Rose
    RT 24 m
  • Iran fires on 2 ships in Strait of Hormuz after Trump extends ceasefire

    04/22/2026 5:10:44 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 46 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | April 22, 2026 | Anders Hagstrom
    Iranian state media reports that Iranian forces have taken custody of two trade vessels in the Strait of Hormuz after opening fire on the ships Wednesday. Reports say the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have taken custody over the Panama-flagged MSC Francesca and Liberia-flagged Epaminondas and are bringing them to Iran. International ship tracking from Marine Traffic shows both vessels stationary off the coast of Iran in the strait. News of Iran's assault on the vessels first came from the United Kingdom Maritime Operations, which reported an IRGC gunboat had caused significant damage to the bridge of one of the container...
  • The Return of the Echo Chamber - How the Obama-era communications infrastructure is working to rope Trump into the next JCPOA

    04/22/2026 4:41:31 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    Tablet ^ | 16 Apr, 2026 | Lee Smith
    Iran can’t have a nuclear bomb, says Donald Trump, so it can’t be allowed to enrich uranium—not now, not ever. Accordingly, former Barack Obama aides responded favorably to news that Vice President JD Vance told the Iranian delegation he met with in Pakistan last weekend that he was willing to erase his boss’s red line and offer Iran a deal that allows it to enrich after 20 years. “If they could get Iran to suspend for even a few years, that is superior to what we got,” said Robert Malley, the former Obama official who negotiated the 2015 Iran deal,...
  • 5.7 Million Suppressors Registered: ATF Data Shows Massive Growth in Ownership

    04/22/2026 4:14:22 AM PDT · by marktwain · 34 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | April 17, 2026 | Dean Weingarten
    According to the American Suppressor Association (ASA), the number of silencers/suppressors registered in the United States of America was 5,776,685 as of the time the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) responded at the SHOT Show in January of 2026. This correspondent obtained information from the ATF on January 22, 2026. At that time, it was stated that the information had already been released and that over 150K National Firearms Act (NFA) applications had been approved through January 2026.The graph of registered silence numbers was created using cumulative January counts from 2011 to 2026. When numbers were unavailable...
  • Today's Cryptogram

    04/22/2026 4:04:50 AM PDT · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 17 replies
    EGLGF XMAA TE ASLG DTYZ OYMFVMNGFO – MADMWO DTYZ MUUGAGFMYGH MXXGUYTSE. YZGTF ASLG HTOMJJGMFO TE YZG CATEP SX ME GWG ATPG M OZSSYTEV OYMF. -- F.O. UFRN Clue: Change D to W
  • Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online

    04/22/2026 4:04:22 AM PDT · by Callahan · 42 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/21/26 | Zoe Hussain
    A comely MAGA influencer who racked up millions of fans on Instagram who posted patriotic content and often posed in a bikini while ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting guns has been unmasked — as an Indian man who put himself through med school on the proceeds. Sam,” a 22-year-old orthopedic surgeon in training, told WIRED that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school — and trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation. … Sam told the magazine, “Every day...
  • Today's Toons 4/22/26

    04/22/2026 3:54:55 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 17 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 4/22/26 | pookie18
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  • Mills-Mace feud blows up into tit-for-tat Expulsion threats

    04/22/2026 3:34:14 AM PDT · by RandFan · 22 replies
    The Hill ^ | - 04/22/26 6:00 AM ET | by Sudiksha Kochi and Emily Brooks
    A simmering feud between Reps. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has roared back up to a boil, escalating to tit-for-tat threats of expulsion as each lawmaker publicly lobs attacks on the other’s character. Mace on Monday filed a resolution to expel Mills, citing allegations of dating violence and campaign finance laws — a move that comes amid renewed scrutiny of sexual misconduct by House members after Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) resigned last week. “Cory, your days are numbered. Start packing,” Mace said in a statement announcing the expulsion resolution.But Mills is pointing the finger...
  • What to know about Egypt’s new AI-powered cognitive city near Cairo

    04/22/2026 3:29:59 AM PDT · by aquila48 · 11 replies
    MSN ^ | Joe Edwards
    Egypt has launched what developers describe as the country’s first fully artificial‑intelligence‑powered “cognitive city,” a major new urban development east of Cairo pitched as a global investment hub and described by its developer as an unprecedented step in smart urban development. The project, known as “The Spine,” was unveiled over the weekend by Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG) at an event attended by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Cabinet headquarters in the New Administrative Capital, according to a company statement. Developers say the project will serve as a major international business hub and could contribute about one percent of Egypt’s...
  • Eight children were murdered in 2026 because Louisiana refused to lock up a guy named Shamar Elkins after he fired five shots “in the direction of [a] school while children were playing outside” in 2019

    04/22/2026 2:36:28 AM PDT · by grundle · 18 replies
    Wordpress ^ | April 22, 2026 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
    It’s being widely reported that a guy named Shamar Elkins just shot and killed eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana.KTBS just reported the following. The bolding is mine:https://www.ktbs.com/news/spd-lsp-investigating-after-fatal-mass-shootings-involving-8-children-in-cedar-grove-police-chase-into/article_825e67e7-c0e2-44d1-8cf6-8af72e186002.htmlSPD, LSP investigating fatal mass shootings involving 8 children in Cedar Grove; victims identifiedApril 19, 2026SHREVEPORT, La. — Eight children are dead and two women were critically injured in a mass shooting Sunday morning in the Cedar Grove neighborhood. The suspected shooter, Shamar Elkins, is also dead. He was shot at a scene in Bossier City after a police chase.Elkins, 31, has a prior criminal conviction in Caddo District Court. He was arrested in...