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  • Skydiving plane crashes in France, killing 11 people, local officials say

    06/28/2026 6:43:25 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 1 replies
    CNN ^ | June 28, 2026 | Reuters
    ParisReuters — Eleven people were killed ‌when a small plane crashed in the northeastern French town of Tomblaine ​on Sunday, the local prefecture ​said. The plane belonged to a parachutist ⁠school. The pilot and all ​10 passengers – five students and five ​instructors – died in the accident, the prefecture said. The French interior minister was on his ​way to the scene, the ​interior ministry said. Yves Seguy, the regional prefect, told ‌broadcaster ⁠BFM the aircraft appeared to suffer damage before plunging vertically to the ground. The crash occurred ​in a ​built-up ⁠area near a shopping centre.
  • WATCH: NYC Landlord DRAGS Zohran Mamdani and His Voters After Communist NYC Mayor Announces Rent Freeze for More Than Two Million Residents

    06/28/2026 6:38:13 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 3 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 28, 2026 | Cullen Linebarger
    A New York City landlord has gone viral for dragging Marxist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he announced a massive rent freeze last week. As The New York Times reported, a New York City panel voted on Thursday to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments. This fulfilled one of Mamdani's prominent campaign promises. The Rent Guidelines Board approved the freeze on both one- and two-year leases in a 7-to-1 vote. Increases were thus paused on more than 40% of all apartments across the five boroughs. The Times revealed that this includes high-rise luxury apartments, deeply affordable subsidized units,...
  • Saudi Aramco helicopter crash kills 14 nationals, state news agency says

    06/28/2026 6:33:39 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 2 replies
    Reuters ^ | June 28, 2026 | Staff
    June 28 (Reuters) - A helicopter belonging to Saudi ​oil giant Aramco crashed on Sunday ‌in Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast on the Gulf, west of the Strait of ​Hormuz, killing 14 nationals, the state ​news agency reported, adding that the ⁠cause was unknown. Aramco had resumed crude oil loadings ​on Friday at its Ras Tanura terminal ​in the Gulf after they were halted for nearly four months. "The relevant authorities have launched a ​full investigation to determine the cause ​of the crash," the state news agency added. Aramco did ‌not ⁠respond immediately to an emailed request for...
  • Illegal dumping complaint leads to discovery of ‘Breaking Bad’-style drug lab in SoCal

    06/28/2026 6:13:50 AM PDT · by Libloather · 3 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/26/26 | Ben Chapman
    Authorities called to investigate illegal dumping in Palmdale this week instead stumbled on a clandestine drug lab and 800 pounds of methamphetamine stashed in storage containers, officials said Friday. Code enforcement officers in the High Desert suburb located 36 miles north of LA made the shocking find on Thursday when they visited a vacant lot after receiving reports of illegal dumping there, according to a Palmdale news release. The stunned code enforcement officers immediately alerted police, who descended on grimy white storage containers packed with massive crystal-like chunks of pure gak spread across a blue tarp. Other massive chunks of...
  • UK orders homeowners to remove AC units during heatwave due to concerns about climate change

    06/28/2026 6:09:07 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 25 replies
    notthebee.com ^ | Jun 28, 2026
    Nice to see the UK has its priorities right. Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown. Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions. They say AC, despite the heat, should serve only as a 'last resort'. But not enough of a "last resort" to, you know, keep you from roasting to death, apparently. Instead, authorities ordered citizens to exhaust all other forms of avoiding heat...
  • Older buildings and substandard construction left Venezuela vulnerable to earthquakes

    06/28/2026 5:48:58 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    msn ^ | GARANCE BURKE, MICHAEL BIESECKER and BYRON TAU
    Older buildings, substandard construction and geography left many neighborhoods in Venezuela vulnerable to strong earthquakes like the ones that struck the country this week. Engineers and other experts said the back-to-back earthquakes on Wednesday were among the most intense to hit the country in more than a century, leveling buildings and leaving more than 900 dead with the number expected to rise. Videos and satellite imagery from the disaster zone reviewed by The Associated Press reveal scores of multistory buildings had collapsed. Among the factors that left so many structures at risk: Some housing complexes in northern Venezuela were constructed...
  • Citizen Vigilante Should Terrify Western Governments

    06/28/2026 5:45:55 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 25 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 28 Jun, 2026 | J.B. Shurk
    Film critics hate it, but it is resonating with the general public. Director Uwe Boll just released a movie that is ticking off all the right people. Called Citizen Vigilante, it is an unapologetic rejection of globalism, mass migration, Islamic conquest, and “woke” leftism. The movie bashes politicians, judges, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies that have bent over backwards to excuse inexcusable crimes committed by non-Western immigrants. It unequivocally demands a return to law and order. It urges viewers to seek justice. It threatens the continuing survival of any Western government that continues to allow outsiders to prey on its...
  • The Decline and Fall of Sparta [11:02]

    06/28/2026 5:44:31 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    YouTube ^ | Febuary 25, 2026 | Garrett Ryan, Ph.D (as toldinstone)
    How Sparta, the most powerful Greek city-state, collapsed in only 20 years. The Decline and Fall of Sparta | 11:02 toldinstone | 627K subscribers | 82,207 views | Febuary 25, 2026Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Classical Sparta 1:29 Spartan politics 2:22 Helots 3:24 Population decline 4:37 Hubris 5:25 The Battle of Leuctra 6:42 Messenia liberated 7:35 Enter Macedon 8:08 Attempts at reform 9:08 Irrelevance 9:37 Roman Sparta
  • LA reporter faces backlash over ‘insensitive’ Bosnia comments during viral World Cup report

    06/28/2026 5:38:04 AM PDT · by DFG · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 06/28/2026 | Nicholas McEntyre
    An award-winning California news reporter faced backlash for her “insensitive” comments towards Bosnia-Herzegovina during her World Cup coverage, forcing her to apologize for taking the joke “too far.” ABC7 Los Angeles’ Abigail Velez was covering the US national team’s match at a viewing party on the streets of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, when she updated viewers on America’s next opponent after the 3-2 loss to Turkey. “The next round, Team USA will play Bosnia next Wednesday and one thing about Bosnia, I could not point out where it is on a map,” Velez quipped. “I don’t know the first thing...
  • The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen — not the rainforest, which uses up most of what it makes...

    06/28/2026 5:18:06 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 13 replies
    Space Daily ^ | 22/6/26
    ...through photosynthesis by phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms so abundant that a single teaspoon of seawater can contain as many as a million of them. (continuation of overlong headline) The invisible forest Phytoplankton are tiny, individually invisible, and almost unimaginably numerous. A single teaspoon of seawater can hold more than a million microscopic organisms, of which phytoplankton are a large part, although the count rises and falls enormously with season, sunlight and the nutrients in the water. One group stands out. Prochlorococcus, the smallest known photosynthetic organism, is so abundant that, by NOAA’s account, it alone produces up to a fifth...
  • Europe's Boiling Frogs

    06/28/2026 5:06:05 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 28 Jun, 2026 | Clarice Feldman
    We all know the myth – to boil frogs, slowly increase the temperature so they won’t realize it until it’s too late to jump out of the pot and save themselves. This summer, it appears the frogs are starting to feel the heat. Along with the anger at open borders, this may finally presage the end of the green nonsense and the politicians who are destroying their countries by promoting this hogswallop. Like clockwork, it gets hot in summer in western Europe. And like clockwork, the morons in the European ministries and media blame climate change for their own failure...
  • Lefty California teacher declares she married Gaza man to give him US citizenship: ‘Equalize the playing field’

    06/28/2026 3:25:23 AM PDT · by DFG · 50 replies
    NY Post ^ | 06/27/2026 | David Spector
    A radical, Israel-hating California teacher claimed she married a Gaza resident online to help him gain American citizenship — and push her pro-Palestinian agenda. Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California, announced her nuptials in a wild June 16 CODEPINK Zoom webinar called “Challenging Zionism In Our Schools.” When CODEPINK activist Marcy Winograd congratulated her on her marriage and asked her to share details about her life, Pinho, 51, launched into a pedantic monologue about how she only married Salem S.E. Abu Amra to advance “Palestinian rights and freedoms.” “I have power as an...
  • How big of a nuclear load could an iranian suicide drone carry?

    06/28/2026 2:12:17 AM PDT · by Jonty30 · 60 replies
    Today | Jonty30
    Iranian suicide/loitering drones (kamikaze UAVs) typically have modest payload capacities, in the range of 30–50 kg for the most common types, with some variants or larger models reaching higher. Key Examples Shahed-136 (most prominent, widely exported/used): ~200 kg total weight, payload ~30–50 kg (commonly cited as ~40 kg warhead). Russian variants (Geran-2) have reached ~90 kg in some modified configurations by reducing fuel/range. Shahed-131 (smaller variant): ~10–20 kg payload. Other types like Ababil series or Hadid-110: Often 30–40 kg. Larger systems (e.g., Arash series): Up to ~225–260 kg in some reports, but these are less common for pure "suicide drone"...
  • Thune and Senate still using pro-forma sessions

    06/28/2026 1:08:49 AM PDT · by RandFan · 9 replies
    X ^ | June 28 | @OcrazioCornPop
    @OcrazioCornPop Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL) just gaveled in her SECOND pro forma session in two days for @LeaderJohnThune, BLOCKING work on the SAVE America Act AND Trump's recess appointments! The Senate is OFF FOR 19 DAYS! SHOULDN'T @realDonaldTrump use Article II Section 3 and CALL THEM BACK NOW TO Pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT!?
  • Islamo-Socialism profile: racist Muslim convert Darializa Avila Chevalier oro abolishing police and "eradication of Western civilization"

    06/27/2026 11:05:32 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 21 replies
    Compiled | June 27, 2026
    Chevalier posted calls for abolishing police, borders, and prisons, in addition to seizing private property, nationalizing major industries, and claiming Israel doesn't exist. "Colonizer" remarks on white women In a February 2019 tweet on X (formerly Twitter), she criticized Black and Arab men, writing that they were "Arab men fetishizing ugly colonizer women," explicitly using the phrase to refer to white women. Responding to a white woman who offered a voting hotline number during long polling lines in 2020, Avila Chevalier tweeted, "Listen Karen, instead of worrying about my vote, go collect the 53% of your peers that got us...
  • 12-year-old injured by bison in Yellowstone National Park

    06/27/2026 9:18:44 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 34 replies
    ktla ^ | 06/27/2026 | John Ross Ferrara
    The child was injured near Mud Volcano, just north of Fishing Bridge around 9:15 a.m. The child was rushed to a nearby hospital. Their condition has not been released to the public at this time. Visitors inside Yellowstone are responsible for staying at least 25 yards away from all large animals, including bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose and coyotes. Visitors must also keep a distance of at least 100 yards from bears, wolves and cougars. “If wildlife approach you, move away to maintain the required distance,” Yellowstone National Park said. “Never approach, touch, feed or crowd wildlife, even if...
  • Parents of 7-year-old who died weighing 255 pounds charged with murder in suspected neglect case

    06/27/2026 8:11:02 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    FOX News ^ | June 27, 2026 | Alexandra Koch
    The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died weighing 255 pounds have been charged with murder following a case of suspected neglect near Flint, Michigan. Damien and Jessica O'Brien are charged with second-degree murder, torture and child abuse, according to authorities. First responders were called to the O’Brien’s' home in November after their son, Casper, stopped breathing, according to a report from affiliate FOX 2 Detroit. The young boy was bedridden, unable to speak and living in filth, according to the report. He ultimately died at the hospital from a heart muscle disease compounded by morbid obesity. Genesee County Prosecutor...
  • John Stockwell, Who Wrote a Tell-All Book About the C.I.A., Dies at 88

    06/27/2026 7:43:28 PM PDT · by Round Earther · 6 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 6/25/26 | Trip Gabriel
    John Stockwell, who publicly resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1977, accusing it of deceit and illegality, after a career as a covert operative in Vietnam and Africa, died this month in Austin, Texas. He was 88. .... Mr. Stockwell’s break with the C.I.A. — during a period when several former officers published damning exposés of what was informally known as “the Company” — was public and showy. His resignation letter ran in The Washington Post. He wrote a tell-all book, “In Search of Enemies” (1978), which the C.I.A. sought to suppress. He was interviewed on the CBS news...
  • Seoul says Chinese, Russian military aircraft enter South Korea’s air defence zone

    06/27/2026 6:27:26 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    Malay Times ^ | Saturday, 27 Jun 2026
    South Korea said it had sent up fighter jets as a precaution after more than 10 Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered its air defence zone today. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said the Chinese and Russian aircraft had entered and then left the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) over the East Sea and the South Sea. “South Korea’s military detected the Chinese and Russian aircraft before they entered the zone and deployed Air Force fighter jets to prepare for any contingency,” it said in a statement, without giving more details. ... An air defence identification zone...
  • Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Oz have just announced OVER *ONE MILLION* PEOPLE are on Obamacare with NO Social Security number

    06/27/2026 5:39:19 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 19 replies
    X ^ | 06/27/2026 | Eric Daugherty
    🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Oz have just announced OVER *ONE MILLION* PEOPLE are on Obamacare with NO Social Security number… 🤯🤯 It’s one big racket! Shut it down! “They submit applications for fake people and enroll stolen identities all to collect millions of dollars in fees from insurance companies for selling plans they never legitimately sold!” “The Obamacare marketplace is plagued by fraud, in large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity guardrails.” “More than a million people enrolled in Obamacare without social security numbers on file. That is a glaring warning...