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Steven Spielberg praised Taylor Swift while inducting her into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday: “I am honored to be here tonight to introduce the youngest female ever to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...A woman who has no peer when it comes to shattering records as a writer, singer, and storyteller. A singular artist and a genuine phenomenon whose place in our culture rivals that of the composers of the American Songbook, Lennon and McCartney of the ’60s, and the singer-songwriters of the 1970s like Carole King and Stevie ‘Let’s Go’ Nicks.” He continued by lauding...

This is a video believed to be taken in or near Baton Rougue, LA. It's absolutely disgusting that a human can do this to others. It's people like this that foment, and encourage hate against whites that led to the death of Metcalf and ruining two families. White hate is a nation wide epidemic and it must stop or we will soon have vigilantes looking for people like this. Our "hate crime" laws must be enforced against this scholar and all other scholars. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1358317226168755

SpaceX’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) is underway, and money won’t just “trickle down” but cascade. Bernie and Pocahontas must be having hysterical fits. SpaceX’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) is underway, with first trades anticipated to broach approximately $175 (give or take) per share (at time of writing). The capitalist success will irk the defeatist socialists no end. In their perverted orthodoxy a solitary billionaire is a “policy mistake,” so imagine their maudlin mood when the SpaceX IPO spawns several billionaires and a multitude of millionaires. Worst still, Elon Musk is poised to become a trillionaire. The travesty of it all...

This is a video believed to be taken in or near Baton Rougue, LA. It's absolutely disgusting that a human can do this to others. It's people like this that foment, and encourage hate against whites that led to the death of Metcalf and ruining two families. White hate is a nation wide epidemic and it must stop or we will soon have vigilantes looking for people like this. Our "hate crime" laws must be enforced against this scholar and all other scholars.

U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit on Thursday, saying the government is unwilling to spend enough on the military at a time of “rising threats.” The resignation dealt another blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is already facing demands from Labour colleagues to step down. Healey told Starmer in a letter that the government’s Defense Investment Plan falls “well short of what is required at this dangerous time.” Publication of the plan has been delayed amid reports of disagreement between the Defense Ministry and the Treasury. Starmer said in a letter to Healey that he was sorry...

BREAKING: Another Makerfield by-election poll has been released 🔴 LAB - 45% ➡️ REF - 40% 🟣 RES - 8% 🟢 GRN - 3% 🔵 CON - 2% 🟠 LD - 1% Via More in Common, 515 sample, 28 May - 12 June

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor...

There has been a ton of Trump-deranged nonsense on the legal front—this one might take the cake, though it never got off the ground for many reasons, not least because it’s soaked in lunacy. President Donald Trump is holding a UFC fight on the White House grounds for America 250, and this lefty boomer couldn’t stand it, citing aesthetic issues or whatever. The judge dismissed it, noting that a) it was late, and b) there’s no evidence showing how this event would harm the plaintiffs (via NYT):[snip]A federal judge on Friday declined to block the White House from holding cage...

Ghoulish internet trolls are editing photos of themselves so they appear to be urinating on Austin Metcalf’s grave — in a twisted act of solidarity with the Texas teen’s killer, Karmelo Anthony. Numerous photos showing the despicable act surfaced on social media this week after 19-year-old Anthony was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing, with some of the photos tagged with the likes of “#FreeKarmeloAnthony,” “#AustinMetcalf” and even “#F–kEm.” “F–K AUSTINNNNN METCALF,” read a third, followed by a series of middle finger and laughing emojiis. The vile urination photos gained widespread attention on social media from the...

Kaine didn’t seem to get it when a Fox News reporter asked him about the outrage over the verdict on his side. “I have a hard time understanding why they would say that,” Kaine said about claims that the verdict was racially charged. All right, then: What about specific claims by Crockett and others? “I know what they’re saying, but I have a hard time understanding,” Kaine said.

🇮🇪⚔️ An armed Irish group has issued a direct warning to politicians: “You have flooded our communities with military-age migrant men. We will not sit back and watch our culture and religion destroyed.” The pushback has begun. Ireland is waking up.

Explanation: To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won't need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you'll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In fact, on June 9 the two brightest planets were in close conjunction, separated on the sky by less than 2 degrees from our perspective. Since (brighter) inner planet Venus orbits the Sun faster than outer planet Jupiter, it catches up with and passes the outer planet along the ecliptic roughly every 13 months. But every three years or so their resulting conjunction can...

There’s a type of crime story that has unfortunately begun to crop up with increasing frequency. I don’t even need to read past the headline to know with shocking accuracy who the perpetrator is. The stories have certain qualities in common. They involve a bloody crime, committed without the aid of a firearm, or even the all-American pastime staple, the baseball bat. Rather, the weapon is usually a knife, but an unusual one — a kirpan or a machete, for example. The recent high-profile barbarism in the UK comes to mind. Sometimes it’s not even a knife at all. These...

Former college football head coach Urban Meyer has never been shy about where Tim Tebow ranks in the history of the sport. On a recent episode of The Triple Option, the three-time national championship coach made the case for his former quarterback again. This time, the focus shifted to managing the circus that surrounded Tebow's storied Florida career. Meyer called Tebow "a very polarizing figure," which was meant as a compliment. Because in the same breath the former Florida coach said Tebow "was the best player in college football history."

Welcome football fans and welcome to the third world! Maybe not the U.S. as much, but el mundo is watching the World Cup, and those fans from el tercer mundo are probably thinking, as they take in the sights of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, "Damn, what a s**thole country this is." And they'd be right. about the Golden Gate Bridge, when they finish painting it, they have to start over again. The U.S. plays Paraguay tonight at SoFi Stadium, where no flights or drones are allowed in the airspace over the stadium, and blocks around the area are...

Vice President JD Vance hit back at critics on Friday over what the Trump administration claims is an emerging deal with Iran to end the war. Vance blasted critics who “say you can’t trust a word said” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, just over an hour after Trump declared “there is no such thing as dealing in good faith” with Iran. Iranian state media published what it claimed were details from the potential agreement, which showed heavy concessions from the U.S. in the form of a $300 billion payment for reconstruction, the removal of U.S. troops from the region,...

In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium and in a voice that sounded as if he was reading from the phone book, recited a set of numbers that brought a roomful of cancer doctors to their feet for 42 seconds. Adam Feuerstein, a biotech correspondent for the health news site Stat who has covered cancer conferences like this for two decades, said he had never witnessed anything like it. The applause lasted so long that Wolpin, caught off-guard, ad-libbed: “That time was not built into my talk.”...

HOUSTON (CW39) — The internet’s favorite international tourist is officially making his way to Houston, and Texans legend J.J. Watt is already stepping up to roll out the welcome mat. A German soccer fan known online as “Freddy the German” has gone wildly viral for documenting his 2026 World Cup road trip across the American South, and his latest stop is bringing him right to the Bayou City. What to know Freddy (@FreddyLA7) has gained a massive following documenting his six-week World Cup road trip on X (formerly Twitter). He recently went viral for his hilariously positive reactions to Southern...

The gunman in Friday's deadly mass shooting in Texas shot at a police officer days earlier, authorities confirmed to Newsweek on Friday. The suspect, Victor Mata Villarreal, 45, of Odessa, had been sought by police for attempted capital murder of a peace officer after firing multiple shots at a Midland police officer during a traffic stop late Wednesday.

The European Union announced it would resume membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova on Monday. “All member states agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova,” EU President Antonio Costa said in a social media post on Friday. The announcement came after the new government in Hungary agreed to drop its longstanding veto against Kyiv. The European Union formally opened entry negotiations with Ukraine back in June 2024, kickstarting a complicated undertaking that usually takes years and involves negotiations on anything from agriculture to the rule of law. Launched as a powerful statement days after Russia’s...