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  • Nor’easter uncovers 19th-century Nantucket shipwreck as storm batters East Coast

    09/27/2026 12:07:09 AM PDT · by Libloather · 3 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/27/26 | Nicholas McEntyre
    Strong crashing waves from the violent nor’easter uncovered a 19th-century shipwreck buried under Nantucket sand as the storm battered the East Coast with heavy rain, gale-force winds and coastal flooding. A pallet of waterlogged timber held together by rusted nails and strands of seaweed was discovered on a beach on the south shore of the famed Massachusetts Island Saturday, according to video shared by the Nantucket Current on Saturday. The wooden segment is believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a New Orleans-bound schooner that crashed on nearby Miacomet Beach in 1884. The ship, carrying cargo consisting of cotton and...
  • Just two hours from London: the hidden European gem {Lincoln, Linolnshire}

    09/26/2026 9:48:41 PM PDT · by Cronos · 6 replies
    Canberra times ^ | 14th July 2026 | Steve McKenna
    Street names in the Middle Ages tended to be functional and descriptive. Across England, it's still common to find yourself on the likes of Tanners Lane, Brewer Street and Butcher Row, and not having to think too hard about which trades used to flourish on those. Likewise, it won't come as a shock that a Steep Hill promises your lungs and leg muscles a good workout. Ranked as the fourth steepest street in England, this cobbled beauty rises through the heart of Lincoln, which was one of Europe's wealthiest medieval cities, but is now a relatively unsung gem, two hours...
  • Colleges are about to start running out of students

    09/26/2026 8:25:52 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 13 replies
    Morning Brew ^ | September 1, 2026 | Sam Klebanov
    There’s about to be fewer feet sticking to frat floors and hands slapping the bag. US colleges are facing an enrollment cliff after the population of Americans aged 18 peaked last year. Undergraduate enrollment is projected to decline by 13% in the next 15 years, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Meanwhile, many schools are already in a pickle: Families are increasingly bargain hunting for the most generous financial aid as they doubt the value of a higher education. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has restricted international student visas, denting enrollment in the process.
  • Massachusetts restaurant owner assaults teen dine-and-dashers, pulls gun during scuffle, police say

    09/26/2026 6:42:02 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 28 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/23/2026 | Louis Casiano
    A Massachusetts restaurant owner allegedly beat two teenage dine-and-dashers and pointed a gun at a larger group that gathered after he chased the pair down when they skipped out on their bill last week, authorities said. Nadim Kashouh, 62, chased the teens – a 17-year-old girl and Javonnie Lee, 18 – after the pair darted out of Nadim’s Downtown Mediterranean Grill on Friday evening without paying their $92.40 bill, the Boston Globe reported. Kashouh reportedly chased the teens and caught them at a convenience store. The teens reportedly told the police that they tried to pay their tab twice but...
  • Ukraine airdrops killer robots behind enemy lines to take out 3K Russian troops in ‘historic moment’

    09/26/2026 5:10:01 PM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/26/26 | Gabrielle Fahmy
    A squad of Ukrainian “kamikaze ground robots” airdropped behind enemy lines have taken out 3,000 Russian soldiers and reclaimed 48 square miles of occupied territory in Donetsk, officials announced. The secretive mission, dubbed “Operation Vivaldi,” began in May and wrapped up last week, when the Third Army Corps of the Ukraine’s Armed Forces made details of the feat public. “An historic moment,” it boasted on Telegram Thursday. “The Third Army Corps has begun a new stage of the war with the landing of ground robots.” The operation recaptured five villages and three settlements in the contested region of Donetsk in...
  • Mojtaba Khamenei had to be ‘pulled from the rubble’ of hospital after US strikes nearly killed him a second time: report

    09/26/2026 4:34:23 PM PDT · by Libloather · 37 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/26/26 | Gabrielle Fahmy
    He just won’t die. Mojtaba Khamenei was rushed to a Tehran hospital after the February strikes targeting his father nearly killed him, only to be “pulled from the rubble” again after the United States and Israel bombed the medical center, an Iranian cleric revealed in an interview with Qatari television this week. After obliterating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Tehran compound to launch the war on Feb. 28 — killing the 86-year-old supreme leader and dozens of his top leaders — the allies also reportedly bombed three different hospitals in Tehran at some time in the days that followed. The younger Khamenei,...
  • Why Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thugs

    09/26/2026 4:08:29 PM PDT · by Libloather · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/25/26 | David Harsanyi
    Iman Dashti, a Michigan University student, confronted Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed this week about his habitual whitewashing and rationalization of Islamic terrorism. Dashti, who said his family is a victim of the Iranian regime’s theocratic persecution, pressed the candidate at a college town hall, asking him numerous times to denounce one of the world’s most odious tyrannies. Did El-Sayed regret not speaking out against the tyrannical clerics of Iran? Would he now renounce those who held vigils supporting the mass murderer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Would he “unequivocally” condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a group that’s not only...
  • The 36 Roles of Marco Rubio! Play the Game! (VANITY)

    09/26/2026 3:35:01 PM PDT · by rlmorel · 16 replies
    rlmorel | 9/26/2026 | rlmorel
    Since the first time I saw the first meme of "Marco Rubio Has a New Job", it has tickled me to no end! The one that really got me interested in it was the one where he needed to take on the role of Karoline Leavitt when she left her post! I began collecting them, and when I had enough, I intended to make a collage of them. And then today, I stumbled across this website:LINK: The Museum of Marco Rubio Jobs; A Living CollectionSo I made a game: Match up the image with the person or job! The answers...
  • Skip navigationCreate9+Avatar imageMuslims Just TRIGGERED Something Rupert Lowe Hasn’t EVER DONE... They Are RUNNING!!

    09/26/2026 3:08:49 PM PDT · by BFW · 6 replies
    Youtube ^ | Sept 26, 2026 | The Angry Bootneck
    Chapter 1: Government accountability Ladies and gents, how's it going? Have the snack bar Have the snack bar boys bitten off more than they can chew? Seems like they might have. I hope that they have because it seems like the locals have got the bit between the teeth. We've had a new plan unveiled by Mr. Law, which sounds fantastic. And even the mainstream media, the likes of the Daily Express, are pointing out the obvious that they might have started a ball rolling that they don't want to see where it ends up. Uh the migrant boat was...
  • Politico Appears To Be Addicted to 'Crack'

    09/26/2026 2:22:43 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 6 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | September 26, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick
    Here a Crack. There a Crack. Everywhere a Crack Crack!Yes, if Politico is seeing cracks (of the GOP variety) then you know it must be election season. And right on cue with a little over a month left until the midterm elections Politico is seeing huge cracks in the Republican party. In fact they are so insistent on GOP cracks that you almost get the sense they want Republican-inclined voters to get demoralized and neglect to vote this year.For an example of how much Politico is desperately hyping the GOP Crack theme you need only to look at their Friday...
  • Men who allegedly targeted Trump’s UFC fight converged online. Most never met.

    09/26/2026 1:45:39 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | September 26, 2026 5:00 a.m. EDT | Olivia George
    Prosecutors say the plan was coordinated between men in at least six states, taking shape in mere weeks ahead of the June 14 event at the White House. By the time the police cruisers rolled up to the teenager’s home in Ohio one night in June, he and his alleged co-conspirators already had amassed guns, bullets and body armor. He told officers he had never met the others in person. He did not appear to know their real names. They had converged online a few months earlier and, according to court affidavits, soon were developing plans for bloodshed. They arranged...
  • A Political Graph of US Politics to describe reality (VANITY)

    09/26/2026 12:05:39 PM PDT · by rlmorel · 32 replies
    Myself | 9/26/2026 | rlmorel
    I am a graphically minded person, and have struggled with a way to effectively portray the reality of our political system in America, and none of the graphic descriptions I see describe it the way I see it. I have given this much thought over the years, and I have always found this particular question puzzling: why would they have ever given us this model shown below?The only way this graph above (which is the traditional one accepted by the vast majority of Americans) makes any sense is if it were created and pushed by people who were either Communists...
  • Indiana attorney general sues high school sports association over race-based board quota

    09/26/2026 11:58:54 AM PDT · by DFG · 2 replies
    Fox News ^ | 09/25/2026 | Jackson Thompson
    Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has sued the state’s governing body for high school athletics over a policy that reserves two seats on its board of directors for racial minorities. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Marion County Superior Court, seeks to force the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) to eliminate a provision reserving two of its 19 board seats for "qualified minorities." The association’s bylaws define a minority director as "an individual other than a white male or female." "Hoosier students should not be governed by a sports association that picks its leaders based on race," Rokita said in...
  • ‘Word salad’ Kamala Harris hits midterm campaign trail — but some Dems are begging ex-VP to just stay home

    09/26/2026 11:37:30 AM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/26/26 | Geoff Earle
    She’s back on the campaign trail – and some Democrats wish she’d go back to Brentwood. Former Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t yet ditched her reputation for clumsy answers while stumping for controversial US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan this week to try to help shore up vulnerabilities with black voters. More Harris rallies are planned for Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in Georgia and Nevada gubernatorial Aaron Ford, who is the state AG — but some Democrats are already saying no thanks. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor who is the Democrats’ Senate candidate in Kansas, flat-out rejected the idea...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way

    09/26/2026 11:02:25 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    NASA ^ | 26 Sep. 2026 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)
    Explanation: On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor trail was captured next to the central Milky Way, whose dark interstellar dust clouds and luminous starlight reach above the horizon. In the foreground of this tantalizing celestial scene is the 23 meter diameter mirror of the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1). LST-1 is the first telescope constructed at the northern hemisphere site of the innovative Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. With 198 hexagonal mirror segments and a large, high-efficiency, pixelized camera,...
  • Newsmax: Greenland Deal Is 'the New Louisiana Purchase'

    09/26/2026 9:53:35 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 33 replies
    Greenland could eventually capitalize on its natural resources. “Greenland could become the world’s richest people and the world’s richest island if they choose.” Asked to rate the national-security significance of the agreement on a scale of one to 10, Gray answered, “12.” Sands went considerably higher. “1,000,” she said. “It’s the new Louisiana Purchase. Because we get a continent, an island that’s one-third the size of the continental U.S. This is giant for our defense.”
  • Moment man grabs escaped emu and wrestles it to the ground - before the animal breaks free, headbutts him and runs off

    09/26/2026 9:01:46 AM PDT · by dennisw · 16 replies
    UK Mail ^ | 24 September 2026 | KATHERINE LAWTON,
    You picked on the wrong bird! Moment man grabs escaped emu and wrestles it to the ground - before the animal breaks free, headbutts him and runs off This is the moment an emu headbutted its captor during a dramatic takedown after escaping from its home. The exotic bird was tackled to the ground on a country road on September 9 after bolting from its holding in Salcombe, Devon. Footage captured by James Barker, 46, who was driving along the road when the tussle took place, shows a man wrestling with the defiant emu while struggling to keep it under...
  • Boston Is Paying Illegal Aliens to Become Community Organizers - Michelle Wu is building an activist pipeline

    09/26/2026 8:38:02 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    Natalie Winters Substack ^ | 26 Sep, 2026 | Natalie Winters
    Boston is offering immigrants—including people in the country illegally—$575 to complete a city-sponsored course in community organizing and advocacy. “Interested applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of their immigration status.” Run through Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, Immigrants Lead Boston teaches participants how to organize their communities, engage government officials and advocate for change. Its fall 2026 course runs from September 21 through December 5. Boston calls the $575 completion payment a scholarship to make participation more accessible. Participants must attend the sessions and complete outside civic activities. The city also promises introductions to key officials. The published...
  • ‘A Bustle in Your Hedgerow’: Two Parties Confront Ideological Insurgencies, Part One

    09/26/2026 6:54:48 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 26 Sep. 2026 | Thaddeus G. McCotter
    Established parties in America and Germany face ideological insurgencies from opposite flanks. Their strategies of co-option and confrontation may determine whether they survive. If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now It’s just a spring clean for the May queen Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run There’s still time to change the road you’re on. – Led ZeppelinWell, so hope two political parties, both of which, notwithstanding the sage advice of Page and Plant, are indeed alarmed by extremist insurgencies bustling their hedgerows from different ends of the ideological...
  • George Russell fends off Max Verstappen to win action-packed Qatar Airways Azərbaycan Qran Prisi

    09/26/2026 6:42:35 AM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 5 replies
    Speedcafe ^ | September 26, 2026 | Ben Waterworth
    George Russell has broken through for his third win of the season, leading every lap of the Qatar Airways Azərbaycan Qran Prisi to hold off Max Verstappen by just 0.196s in a race filled with crashes and Safety Cars.The Mercedes driver controlled the early stages before the first Safety Car erased his advantage, while a second brought Verstappen right onto his rear wing, although Russell held off the four-time world champion by the narrowest of margins to claim his first victory since Austria.It was a strong drive from Verstappen, who started down in eighth and made the most of an...