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  • Full nationalisation of British Steel expected in king’s speech

    05/12/2026 6:39:08 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 10 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sun 10 May 2026 | Lauren Almeida
    The full nationalisation of British Steel is expected to be announced in the king’s speech this week, a year after the government took over the daily running of the loss-making business from its Chinese owner. The steelmaker, which employs 3,500 people at its plant in Scunthorpe, came under government control last April amid fears that its owner, Jingye, was planning to shut down the site. British Steel operates the last two remaining blast furnaces in the UK, but its economic control remains with the Chinese company, which bought it out of insolvency in early 2020. An announcement confirming the plans...
  • First-grade teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with student — after confessing to her hubby

    05/12/2026 6:36:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 12, 2026 | Chris Bradford
    A first-grade teacher in Washington state allegedly admitted to her husband that she cheated on him with a 16-year-old student — with whom she had sex in his truck, according to court documents. Mackenzie Naught, 25, allegedly fessed up to her hubby Saturday night, just hours before being arrested on child sex crimes on Sunday, the Spokesman-Review reported. The educator from Whitman County said she became physical with the teen the week before in his truck during a meet-up in the dead of night, according to court docs.
  • 🚨 OH NO! L.A. Mayor Karen Bass just unveiled “FREE TEETH FOR METH HEADS” 🚨

    05/12/2026 6:29:40 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    Twitter / X / ^ | May 12, 2026 | Jesse Watters
    🚨 OH NO! L.A. Mayor Karen Bass just unveiled “FREE TEETH FOR METH HEADS” 🚨 “They don't have teeth, why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth” … WHAT?!? 🤣 7:51 PM · May 12, 2026 · 24.5K Views VIDEO AT LINK...............
  • Viral dog rescuer calls Upstate NY college town the ‘most depressing in America’ in new memoir

    05/12/2026 6:22:24 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 12 replies
    © 2026 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved ^ | Published: May. 11, 2026, 12:57 p.m. | By Sunny Hernandez | ahernandez@nyup.com
    Has Ithaca gone to the dogs? A new memoir calls the Upstate New York city the “most depressing college town in America.” Isabel Klee, a New Jersey native, has risen to social media fame through documenting her work rehabilitating medically complex and severely neglected rescue dogs — and showing their transformation from timid, shut-down animals into happy, thriving pets. Klee’s new memoir, “Dogs, Boys and Other Things I’ve Cried About,” chronicles her coming-of-age years after high school and her early experiences living in New York City, but it also includes a blunt look back at her short-lived college experience in...
  • Report: Dem Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Lacks Medical License in Michigan, New York

    05/12/2026 6:20:48 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    Breitbart ^ | May 12, 2026 | Elizabeth Weibel
    Abdul El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim and a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, reportedly lacks a medical license in Michigan and New York, though he has claimed he is a physician, according to a recent report. While El-Sayed, who is running to fill Sen. Gary Peters’ (D-MI) seat, has claimed in interviews that he’s “been a doctor” for his “whole career” and also lists being a “physician” on his LinkedIn account, Politico reviewed medical records from the two states and found El-Sayed has “never been granted a medical license in those states.” Though the outlet’s review found that he...
  • EU admits it ‘didn’t have control’ on migration as bloc rushes crackdown ahead of new rules

    05/12/2026 6:18:06 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 6, 2026 | Morgan Phillips
    The European Union is moving to tighten migration controls after years of struggling to deport most migrants ordered to leave, with a top official saying the bloc is now working to "get control back" ahead of sweeping new asylum rules set to take effect in June. European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner said deportations have increased and new border screening systems are identifying potential security threats, part of a broader effort to address gaps in enforcement that have drawn criticism from the United States and fueled political pressure across Europe. "Ten years ago, we didn't have a...
  • 🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training

    05/12/2026 6:18:05 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 11 replies
    X ^ | 05/12/2026 | Eric Daugherty
    🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America — run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country! Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane. Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records,...
  • Progressive Media Organization Launches Competitor to Turning Point USA

    05/12/2026 6:12:03 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 7 replies
    The Hill ^ | 04/21/2026 | Lexi Lonas Cochran
    More Perfect University (MPUniversity), founded by the liberal media group “More Perfect Union,” made its big launch...saying students in all 50 states joined MPUniversity in the six days leading up to it. The launch featured a livestream and interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose advisors founded More Perfect Union. “Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power,” MPUniversity said in a post on X. The group will do on-campus events and debates while creating an online community through discord and email. It will...
  • Jason Collins, NBA’s First Openly Gay Player, Dead at 47

    05/12/2026 6:03:51 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 12, 2026 | Christian Arnold
    Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in the NBA, died following a “valiant” battle with Stage 4 glioblastoma, his family announced Tuesday. Collins was 47. The ex-Nets player and 13-year NBA veteran had revealed his diagnosis in December in a piece published by ESPN. Stage 4 glioblastoma is one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.
  • THE FREEPER CANTEEN - The Sandwich Quiz - Wednesday, May 13, 2026

    05/12/2026 6:00:10 PM PDT · by luvie · 42 replies
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  • Incumbents in West Virginia Getting Mowed Down

    05/12/2026 5:57:43 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 9 replies
    Assistant Majority Whip Scot Heckert defeated in landslide
  • Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel backs $140M wave-powered AI data center startup — Panthalassa aims to run offshore compute nodes using ocean energy

    05/12/2026 5:11:34 PM PDT · by Twotone · 19 replies
    Tom's Hardware ^ | May 5, 2026 | Etiido Uko
    An official press release yesterday confirmed a $140 million investment to power AI data centers at sea. The funding goes to Pathanlassa — a renewable energy and ocean technology company — and was raised in a Series B financing led by avid investor and former PayPal CEO and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, alongside several other investors. The Portland-based start-up said it would use the funding to complete its pilot manufacturing facility in Oregon for its Ocean-3 series nodes — an autonomous platform that will house and power data centers for AI inference computing at sea, using electricity generated from ocean...
  • PRESIDENT TRUMP: “It was an [bleep] until I fixed it…now it’s Tippy-Top!”

    05/12/2026 5:01:55 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    100 Percent Fed Up ^ | May 12, 2026 | Staff
    Oh my goodness this is hilarious! Also, we just got yet ANOTHER “Tippy-Top” Q confirmation. More on that in a moment. First, watch this hilarious clip of President Trump explaining how all the past Presidents let the White House fall into disrepair, saying it was so bad it had become the SHIT HOUSE instead of the WHITE HOUSE, except that Melania tells him not to use that language so he won’t say SHIT HOUSE. HILARIOUS! Watch here: Post See new posts Conversation Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 NOW: President Trump RIPS past presidents for letting the White House become a dilapidated...
  • Minnesota Grocer Now Faces Charges in $1.1M SNAP Rip-Off

    05/12/2026 4:57:27 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    Red State ^ | May 12, 2026 | Ward Clark
    What is it with Minnesota? Something in the air? Something in the water of those 10,000 lakes? Or is it the (let's say this softly) Third World people from low-trust cultures that they have been so freely importing? Whatever it is, Minnesota seems to be Fraud Central Station, and now we see another Minneapolis resident has been busted and is facing charges. This one is alleged to have engaged in a million-dollar Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) fraud rip-off. Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of...
  • Trump eyes MAGA-friendly fentanyl win in China

    05/12/2026 4:57:00 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 7 replies
    Politico ^ | 05/12/2026 | Alex Gangitano and Phelim Kine
    Fentanyl — along with trade and the Iran war — is one of the key items on Trump’s agenda during his long-anticipated two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping... Since his first term, Trump has prioritized pushing China to take serious action to curb the flow of precursor chemicals from China to Mexican cartels that process them into fentanyl... U.S. drug overdose deaths have declined sharply since their peak three years ago. Still, nearly 40,000 people died from synthetic opioids, which include fentanyl, in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... “President Trump has made it clear...
  • Low-Calorie, High-Protein Ketogenic Diet Versus Low-Calorie, Low-Sodium, and High-Potassium Mediterranean Diet in Overweight Patients and Patients with Obesity with High-Normal Blood Pressure or Grade I Hypertension: The Keto–Salt Pilot Study

    05/12/2026 4:54:14 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 20 replies
    MDPI ^ | May 20, 2025 | Matteo Landolfo, Lucia Stella, et al
    AbstractDietary interventions are the first-line treatment for overweight individuals (OW) and individuals with obesity (OB) who have high-normal blood pressure (BP) or grade I hypertension, particularly when they are at low-to-moderate cardiovascular risk (CVR). However, current guidelines do not specify the most effective dietary approach for optimising cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes in this population.This study aimed to compare the effects of a low-calorie, high-protein ketogenic diet (KD) versus a low-calorie, low-sodium, and high-potassium Mediterranean diet (MD) on BP profiles assessed via ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM). It also evaluated changes in anthropometric measures, metabolic biomarkers, and body composition measured by bioelectrical...
  • FBI interviewing CIA officers in Brennan investigation

    05/12/2026 4:53:05 PM PDT · by Apparatchik · 13 replies
    NBC Los Angeles ^ | 12 May 2026 | Dan De Luce and Ryan J. Reilly
    The FBI is conducting interviews with current and former CIA officers as part of an investigation into ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s role in an intelligence assessment that found Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. FBI agents began questioning employees last week at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the person said. The interviews appeared to focus solely on Brennan and his statements to Congress, and the decision to include an unverified dossier about President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia in a 2017 intelligence assessment about Moscow’s election meddling,...
  • Most TN House Democrats stripped of their committee assignments

    05/12/2026 4:51:09 PM PDT · by CFW · 26 replies
    WSMV ^ | 5/12/26 | Li Cohen
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - All members of the House Democratic Caucus have been removed from their committees and subcommittees, according to a letter obtained by WSMV. The letter, signed by House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) and addressed to Leader Camper, states that “members of the Democratic Caucus will receive individual letters removing them from all standing committees and subcommittees of the House, except where membership is required.” Sexton’s letter states that the committee removals are “due to actions taken” by the members during last week’s special session over redistricting across Tennessee. Those actions, Sexton said, “aimed at disrupting the democratic...
  • Starmer Refuses to Quit, Defies Rebels to Put up or Shut up: Who Could Be the Next Prime Minister?

    05/12/2026 4:50:34 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    Breitbart ^ | May 12, 2026 | Oliver JJ Lane
    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to go quietly, as some within the UK’s Labour government had clearly hoped, and has defied the rebels to openly challenge him. After months of talk about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer being set up to take the fall for the May local elections, now that the moment has arrived, it appears possible his greatest strength is a simple-minded disinclination to pay attention to his critics whatsoever. At Monday’s ‘reset’ speech — only the latest of his leadership so far, the cloyingly earnest tones now a familiar part of the rhythm of British...
  • ‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

    05/12/2026 4:41:06 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 56 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Mon 4 May 2026 | Oliver Milman
    The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”. Low-lying southern Louisiana faces multiple threats, with rising sea levels driven by global heating,...