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  • Do Muslim hordes get permits to take over thoroughfares and close down traffic?

    07/11/2026 12:03:37 AM PDT · by John Leland 1789
    Self | July 11, 2026 | John Leland 1789
    QUESTION: WHEN MUSLIM HORDES TAKE OVER ENTIRE THOROUGHFARES, IN CITIES LIKE CHICAGO, NYC, AND ELSEWHERE, CLOSING VEHICLE LANES, ETC., DO THEY FIRST OBTAIN PERMITS FROM POLICE AGENCIES, DOT, OR OTHERWISE ACCORDING TO LAW? OR DO THEY JUST TAKE OVER AND THE POLICE FIND A WAY TO COPE?
  • The shocking true story that inspired The Blob

    07/10/2026 9:52:59 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 13 replies
    https://www.thedigitalfix.com ^ | Jul 8, 2022 | Emma-Jane Betts
    In 1958, the world was introduced to an intergalactic horror movie about an alien gelatinous goo that consumes everything in its wake: The Blob. The '50s B-movie has gone down in history as a classic monster flick, that would later even spawn a gory remake in 1988. But, this terrifying UFO film isn't entirely fiction, and you may want to keep an eye on the sky after hearing the shocking true story that inspired The Blob.
  • After NorCal rattlesnake bite, man needs 54 doses of antivenom to survive...One bite sent venom directly into his bloodstream.

    07/10/2026 9:33:32 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 6 replies
    SF Gate ^ | July 10, 2026 | Gillian Mohney, News Editor
    An Idaho man visiting his parents in Oroville thought he had stepped on a sharp sticker plant or thistle when he looked down to see a rattlesnake at his feet instead. “I got bit twice, and one of the bites, where it was was kind of a shallow, but the other one got my vein,” Chris Howarth told SFGATE. “... I went inside. My wife thought I was joking.” But when Chris showed his wife his leg, she and their young children started “freaking out.” Chris had just stepped into his parents’ backyard to check the waterline when he was...
  • Volkswagen Will Eliminate Almost Half of Production Brands After Losing Market Share to China

    07/10/2026 8:48:20 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 10, 2026 | Sundance
    The European auto industry is a case study on how short-sighted trade policy goals, results in consequences. Previously, German auto companies like Volkswagen entered into trade agreements with China and began manufacturing their vehicles with immediate financial success in the market. However, it did not take long for Chinese auto companies to reverse the engineering and begin to deliver the same quality vehicles at much lower prices. The Chinese then stop purchasing the Volkswagen vehicles and purchase the cheaper version, while simultaneously begin exporting those same vehicles into the home market from where the technology originated. Today, with a double-digit...
  • Last U.S. Polio Survivor in an Iron Lung Dies After the Machine Started to Break Down and They Couldn’t Find Anyone to Repair It

    07/10/2026 8:39:55 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    People ^ | July 10, 2026 | Cara Lynn Shultz
    Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78. The Shawnee, Okla., resident first experienced symptoms of the disease on her fifth birthday in 1953, she told KFOR 8 days before her death. “I woke up and it was sunny outside, and I started to sit up, and my neck was killing me,” she said. “I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow.” “After four days, I went unconscious. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t move my arms or legs,” she explains. Lillard had contracted polio — just two years...
  • From dance floor to jail cell: Woman arrested after alleged biting spree at Portland bar

    07/10/2026 7:51:43 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 23 replies
    KATU ^ | 7/10/2026 | Jeffrey Kirsch
    PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A 30-year-old woman is accused of biting two people and punching a security guard during a violent altercation at a Northwest Portland bar. For the third time in recent months, Portland police have made an arrest at the River Pig Saloon. The latest incident happened on July 2, when police were contacted about a woman who had been detained by security at the bar. According to court documents, a woman told officers she was dancing with friends when the suspect bumped into one of them and pulled her by the hair. When the suspect, later...
  • The Balancing Act: Will you tell Americans which lie is the real lie, 'Dr.' Biden?

    07/10/2026 7:44:52 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 9 replies
    The Mountain Democrat ^ | 7/8/2026 | Larry Weitzman
    Recently in the news, Dr. Jill Biden shared she was afraid that her husband Joe Biden had a stroke during the June 27, 2024 presidential debate between then President Biden and Republican nominee and now President Donald Trump. Immediately after the debate, Jill said, looking at her husband in the eye while on national TV, “Joe, you did such a great job, you answered every question; you knew all the facts.” Then she turned to the partisan crowd and said, “What did Trump do? He lied.” Here we are two years later and who is the liar? It’s Jill Biden,...
  • California man doing donuts crushes own girlfriend as she flies from car in wild video

    07/10/2026 6:32:07 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 21 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 10, 2026 | By Sheetal Banchariya
    A Fourth of July celebration in Solano County turned into a gruesome scene when a 20-year-old woman was mowed down and allegedly abandoned by her boyfriend.
  • Meet Gary, an exotic cat that B.C. just outlawed as a pet

    07/10/2026 6:10:46 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 32 replies
    The Narwhal ^ | July 10, 2026 | Michelle Cyca
    On an hour-long drive from Vancouver to the heart of B.C.’s Fraser Valley, I contemplate the most professional way to ask if I can pet this cat I’m about to meet. There’s journalistic value to being able to describe its fur, I imagine arguing, as I drive past bucolic fields and cheerless industrial parks. In the end, I don’t need to ask at all. “Do you want to feed him?” Mike Hopcraft says, holding out a dish of raw chunks of beef and a pair of long metal tweezers, as the cat glowers beside me. My commitment to gonzo cat...
  • Accused rapist Graham Platner formally withdraws from US Senate bid with scathing message to party establishment: ‘Free Palestine’

    07/10/2026 6:09:43 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/26 | Josh Christenson
    Maine Democrat Graham Platner on Friday formally withdrew from his US Senate bid in a letter to state elections officials that signed off with an F-bomb. Platner posted on X a picture of the letter, which did not share any immediate details about who he hoped would succeed him to face Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in November. The missive touted the 156,084 votes he had received in Maine’s Senate Democratic primary last month, suggesting that his more than 70-percentage-point win showed: “People are desperate for change.” “Mainers voted for a new kind of politics,” the letter read. “One that...
  • Ex-Obama press secretary fired after allegedly swiping credit cards from colleagues to fund kratom habit (Fetcher)

    07/10/2026 5:57:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/26 | Anthony Blair
    A former Barack Obama press secretary was fired from his chief communications role in Minneapolis after allegedly stealing cash and credit cards from city employees to fuel his habit for kratom — a natural drug used to treat opioid withdrawal. Adam Fetcher, 42, was canned from his role as Chief Communications Officer (CCO) for the City of Minneapolis after just a year on the job amid a police investigation into internal workplace theft and fraud, as well as claims of substance abuse, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. Fetcher, who made nearly $200,000 a year, is accused of stealing cash and...
  • Alex Jones IS BACK BABY.

    07/10/2026 5:28:17 PM PDT · by Merrick · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | 10 July 2026 | Liberal Hivemind / YouTube
    Alex Jones clip commented on by Liberal Hivemind
  • FIFA will not take action against Argentina after stars chanted Falklands song during celebrations

    07/10/2026 5:04:46 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 8 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 09 Jul 2026 | MIKE KEEGAN and BOBBY MANZI
    FIFA will take no action against Argentina after its players sang a song referencing the Falkland Islands in their dressing room following their comeback victory over Egypt. Footage shared online by the country's football association showed the group celebrating in their dressing room post-match and belting out the song Muchachos, which includes the line 'for the Malvinas', Argentina's name for the South Atlantic islands it invaded in 1982 to trigger a war which claimed the lives of 907 people. FIFA, who have banned England player Jarell Quansah for two games following a red card, states that it strictly prohibits political...
  • Idaho law criminalizes trans people’s bathroom use. Advocates are mapping safe places to pee

    07/10/2026 4:21:09 PM PDT · by fwdude · 30 replies
    The Advocate via Yahoo! News ^ | July 9, 2026 | Jacob Ogles
    A new Idaho law may outlaw transgender people's use of public restrooms, but advocates are mapping the private facilities where anyone can pee in peace. Trans Affirm just released an online "Idaho Inclusive Bathroom Map," which shows both the safe and non-inclusive places where residents can use the restroom facilities aligned with their gender identity. The organization has been building the map in the wake of Idaho Gov. Brad Little signing one of the most sweeping statutes in the country criminalizing restroom use.
  • Randolph Mantooth, Firefighter-Paramedic Johnny Gage on ‘Emergency!,’ Dies at 80

    07/10/2026 4:12:51 PM PDT · by Round Earther · 47 replies
    Hollywood Reporter ^ | 7/10/26 | Mike Barnes
    Randolph Mantooth, who starred as the goofy but gallant firefighter-paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency!, the 1970s NBC action show that changed life-saving services as we know it, has died. He was 80. Mantooth died Thursday at a hospice facility in Ventura, California, his brother, Donald Mantooth, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been “ill for a number of years and kept getting thinner and thinner,” he said. Mantooth also had two stints (1987-90 and 1993-95) as Clay Alden/Alex Masters on the ABC soap opera Loving, and he appeared on other daytime serials including ABC’s General Hospital, CBS’ As the World...
  • The U.S. will pay for the chain reaction Trump set off in NATO

    07/10/2026 3:07:57 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 52 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 10, 2026 at 6:15 a.m. EDT | Fareed Zakaria
    Even people who dislike Donald Trump tend to give him credit for one thing: getting NATO to pay its fair share. American presidents have long grumbled about burden sharing. Trump has been crude, theatrical and transactional, but the sentiment he expressed was broadly shared. And Europeans got the message. Non-American NATO countries collectively spent 1.4 percent of their combined gross domestic product on defense in 2014; in 2025, it was close to 2.3 percent.But be careful what you wish for.The usual assumption is that if Europe spends more, the United States will spend less. This is demonstrably wrong. European defense...
  • Legionnaires' outbreak hits New York as officials rush to test water towers

    07/10/2026 2:25:07 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    BBC ^ | July 10, 2026 | Madeline Halpert
    For the past few days, Justine Kirby has been sporting an N95 mask every time she leaves her house to walk in her quiet Upper East Side neighbourhood. She is keeping her apartment windows closed, too, as an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease grows to 46 cases, which the city has linked to contaminated water cooling towers. The cluster of Legionnaires' infections - a serious type of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria - has raised alarms among residents in the community, who packed a town hall in an Upper East side church this week to pose a series of questions to...
  • Inside the secret operation to move the world’s most famous tapestry

    07/10/2026 1:48:25 PM PDT · by sopo · 24 replies
    National Georaphic ^ | 7/10/2026 | Chris Heath
    A convoy of police cars, lights flashing, tail the large yellow truck up to the back gates of London’s British Museum. It’s just before 3 a.m. on July 10, a date that has been kept under wraps for months. After the truck pulls into the museum’s loading bay, four men open its back doors to reveal a cage-like rectangular crate. Inside it is another crate, inside that crate is a metal shell, and inside that shell, folded back and forth on itself 28 times, is a precious and fragile artifact, nearly a thousand years old. The journey this truck has...
  • The COVID Reckoning That Never Came

    07/10/2026 1:31:45 PM PDT · by delta7 · 24 replies
    Beyond the Narrative ^ | 10 Jul 27 | Ed Dowd
    Over the last several years I have been posting nonstop on X about the same nightmares we’ve been living through…the COVID psyop, the experimental mRNA shots, the mandates that destroyed lives, the injuries, the excess deaths, and the relentless propaganda machine that tried to silence anyone who noticed the bodies piling up. I have watched it all in real time: the fear porn, the goalpost moving, the “safe and effective” lies repeated like gospel while real-world data told a different story. Now we have fresh, documented revelations that should have blown the lid off of everything. Instead? Crickets from the...
  • Ryanair Mocks USA After World Cup Elimination With Savage Post

    07/10/2026 1:15:05 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    Bored Panda ^ | July 08, 2026 | Binitha Jacob
    The internet is making sure the U.S. won’t exit the World Cup quietly, and Ryanair was the latest player to join the banter. The American dream of winning the 2026 FIFA World Cup was crushed in a 1-4 loss to Belgium, marking the team’s heaviest defeat since 1990. As the pomp and fanfare quickly fizzled out, memes mocking the U.S. team came pouring in, with Ryanair unabashedly joining the fun. The internet is making sure the U.S. won’t exit the World Cup quietly, and Ryanair was the latest player to join the banter The Irish airline has seemingly made a...