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This time I will bring you a fun loop form! Different from the previous multi-part ensemble, it is possible to complete a piece of music in one go, and the process is quite interesting~ The use of guitar in Hotel California can be regarded as one of the classic arrangements in history, especially the 1994 live version. So I made some deletions in the vocal part, focusing on the two guitar solos of the prelude and the ending. Hope you like it! The costume this time is Wei Jin style wide-sleeved cross-collared Hanfu. For the convenience of plucking the instrument,...

And so, the indictments on the fraud front just keep rolling in, and yes, this is what we voted for. In the latest, 15 people have been indicted in a fraud scheme in (where else) Minnesota, that may have seen the alleged perps defraud the American taxpayers to the tune of $90 million. That is, as someone once said, a big freakin' deal.🚨🚨 Today - 15 individuals have been indicted for over $90 million in an alleged massive healthcare fraud scheme in Minnesota, after a sweeping FBI investigation with @TheJusticeDept and our Interagency Partners.These charges involve the two LARGEST Medicaid...

PHOENIX — A 31-year-old man is accused of breaking into the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office and gaining access to corpses, multiple law enforcement sources tell ABC15.

Kyle Busch, a generational talent who rose to become a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and one of the sport’s greatest drivers, died Thursday. He was 41. Busch’s death, which was announced by the Busch family, NASCAR and Richard Childress Racing, marked a sudden, staggering blow to the motorsports community. His team had indicated earlier Thursday that Busch had been hospitalized with a severe illness. Busch was in his 22nd full-time season in NASCAR’s top division, where he won two Cup Series titles (2015, 2019) and 63 races — a figure that ranks ninth on the circuit’s all-time win list....

Every now and then, a story I’d heard before comes roaring back into the headlines. Most of the time, there’s a reason I ignored it initially. I hear plenty of dumb rumors and dubious stories, and the overwhelming majority aren’t worth remembering. Well, this time I was told correctly, and I can’t actually believe it. Damn. Just last week, the Detroit Regional Chamber released a poll about the gubernatorial race here in Michigan, and this is what they found...In response to one potential three-way matchup, about 34% of voters surveyed said they supported Benson, the current secretary of state from...

A Tennessee man who was jailed for more than a month after refusing to take down a Facebook meme poking fun at the assassination of Charlie Kirk will be paid $850,000 as part of a settlement with officials. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer, spent 37 days behind bars under a $2 million bond before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October. While in jail, he lost his post-retirement job and missed both his wedding anniversary and the birth of his granddaughter, according to a federal lawsuit Bushart filed against Perry County, Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems...

Overton@overton_news·3hFormer Colombo crime family boss Michael Franzese admitted to Sean Hannity that in all his years in the mob, he had never seen anything like the lawfare weaponized against President Trump.He also said he knows the RICO statute inside and out — and Joe Biden should have been easily indicted.FRANZESE: “I want to tell you two things, and this is meaningful. I want people to know this.”“All this warfare that they put against...lawfare they put against Trump...I never seen anything like that!”“And I want to tell you this...Joe Biden, the information that the GOP, when they did the investigation on...

The United States will be sending an additional 5,000 troops ​to Poland, U.S. President Donald Trump said on ‌Thursday. Trump, in a Truth Social post, cited his relationship with Poland’s conservative nationalist president, Karol Nawrocki, as the reason behind his decision ​to send additional troops. The announcement comes two days ​after U.S. Vice President JD Vance told reporters a ⁠U.S. troop deployment to Poland had been delayed.

The City of Seattle's LGBT Commission has asked socialist Mayor Katie Wilson to declare a state of emergency in response to what they call a "trans relocation crisis." The advisory group is seeking an increase in taxpayer-funded resources for its "mutual aid" groups, which were established to financially assist trans-identifying people relocating to Seattle from Republican-run states, following the passing of legislation prohibiting taxpayer-funded sex change services. A coalition of trans activist groups, including the Antifa-affiliated "Moto Hooligans," stated that they need more financial resources to assist the "tens of thousands" of transgender "refugees" who have allegedly moved to Seattle...

Seattle’s official LGBT Commission is calling on socialist Mayor Katie Wilson to declare a formal “state of emergency” over what it calls a “trans relocation crisis,” and is demanding the city provide free housing and taxpayer-funded salaries for trans activist groups to support thousands of transgender-identifying individuals allegedly fleeing red states. The commission claims “tens of thousands” of “trans refugees” have fled to Seattle in order to escape “genocidal and vile legislation” passed in Republican states that restrict sex change procedures for minors. In an official statement, the advisory body demanded the city immediately step up with housing “run by...

ransomnote: Disturbing excerpt of the video below.Jack Danger@JackDangerLIVE🚨 SHOCKING FOOTAGE SHOWS CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER LILA MORRIS BEAT AN UNCONSCIOUS ROSANNE BOYLAND TO DEATH ON JANUARY 6TH, 2021 🚨Almost no one has heard her name. Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old Trump supporter from Georgia, went to the Capitol on Jan 6… and never came home.This raw video shows her LYING UNCONSCIOUS on the ground, BLEEDING from her mouth and nose, while Capitol Police officer Lila Morris BEAT HER REPEATEDLY with a baton as she lay dying.The medical examiner looked at that same footage (or claimed to), conducted an “autopsy” and still ruled...

Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar on Wednesday denied allegations she knew about a widespread fraud scheme, following the Vice President's claims that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating her. Omar's statement to Newsweek also followed an allegation from the purported mastermind of the $250 million meals scam that Omar was in on the conspiracy, adding fuel to ongoing accusations by some within the Trump administration that the Representative has committed various forms of fraud, including immigration. “Any claim that I had knowledge of this scheme is flat-out false," Omar said in her statement shared with Newsweek. "The moment this fraud...

Starbucks SBUX.O terminated a worker-facing AI program for automating inventory counts this week, nine months after deploying it across its North American stores, according to an internal newsletter reviewed by Reuters and two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The tool was part of CEO Brian Niccol’s efforts to fix the coffee chain’s persistent product shortages that he has blamed for hurting sales. “Starting today, Automated Counting will be retired,” read an internal company newsletter from Monday that Reuters reviewed and verified with two employees. “Beverage components and milk will now be counted the same way you count other...

After Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., lost the Republican U.S. House primary in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District to President Donald Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein on Tuesday, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared that the future of the GOP had been "destroyed." "I am proud and thankful to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives with my friend Thomas Massie, a giant among weak pathetic men. Releasing the Epstein files was our demise. But it was worth every single bit because now everyone knows the truth. You are ruled by the Epstein class that cares nothing about you and your elected...

Springsteen performed his ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis' during Colbert's penultimate episode yesterday (May 20)Bruce Springsteen has hailed Stephen Colbert as “the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke”. Read More: ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ review: a bruising boss of a biopic The Boss appeared as a musical guest on the Late Night legend’s penultimate episode yesterday (20 May). Colbert has hosted the show since 2015, and his final week has featured guests such as David Byrne, Jon Stewart and Steven Spielberg. Though CBS have stated the...

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·7h🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Jim Jordan announces the "human sources" who infiltrated January 6th might've been PAID BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTERThis is insane. Expose it all and make arrests!REP. JIM JORDAN: "Were any of the guys they were paying, was the Biden Justice Department paying these same guys? Confidential human sources. We know 26 confidential human sources were at the Capitol in January 6.""They weren't authorized to do so. I want to know if any of these guys were double dipping and taking money from the government and from the Southern Poverty Law Center. That's one of...

According to a report from the Daily Mail, fossilized trees standing vertically through thick layers of sedimentary rock at sites across the United States are fueling fresh discussion about whether they support the catastrophic flood described in the Bible. Known as polystrate fossils, these ancient tree trunks pierce multiple geological strata—layers long thought by mainstream science to have formed over millions of years. Prominent examples appear in Yellowstone National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and coal fields in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Researchers with Noah’s Ark Scans, a group investigating...

In a scene more befitting a thriller than routine law enforcement, a Minnesota fraud suspect named Mohammad Omar dramatically jumped from a fourth-floor balcony during an FBI operation Thursday morning, escaping custody and prompting an active manhunt. Federal officials announced the incident alongside charges against 15 individuals in what they describe as record-breaking Medicaid fraud schemes totaling around $90 million. This audacious flight comes amid a broader federal push to root out systemic fraud in Minnesota, a state long plagued by massive scams involving child nutrition programs, daycare assistance, and now expanded Medicaid initiatives. The episode raises pointed questions about...

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the woman prosecutors call the “mastermind” behind the nearly $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme to 41 years in prison. Aimee Bock, 45, of Apple Valley, was convicted in March 2025 for her role at the top of what the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office called the single largest known pandemic-era fraud scheme in the U.S. A jury found her guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery after a roughly one-month trial. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel ordered Bock to pay $243 million in restitution to the...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: space and time can form a kind of “crystal” that may turn into a black hole.Alongside the famous gigantic black holes, physics also allows for microscopic versions. They emerge from so-called critical states, when spacetime organizes itself into a regular, crystal-like structure during a process known as critical collapse. A team from Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Wien has now succeeded, for the first time, in describing this phenomenon with an exact mathematical formula using an unusual mathematical trick. Black holes usually form in spectacular events,...