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  • Statement from the Chief Constable in relation to Henry Nowak murder

    05/28/2026 8:44:21 AM PDT · by RandFan · 9 replies
    X / Hants Police ^ | May 28 | Chief constable Robert France
    @HantsPolice Today, a man has been convicted of the murder of student Henry Nowak in Southampton. Throughout the trial, we have not discussed this case publicly to ensure that justice could be done but now we can share a message from DCC Robert France.
  • Thune Says GOP Must 'Go All-In' for Paxton

    05/28/2026 7:13:52 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 54 replies
    Thune spoke directly with Paxton following Tuesday's runoff victory, marking the first reported contact between the two men since the bitter primary contest ended. A person familiar with the conversation described the call as PRODUCTIVE. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told reporters she was "supremely disappointed" by Trump's endorsement of Paxton over Cornyn.
  • Disclosure Day | Final Trailer (video)

    05/28/2026 7:10:09 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 24 replies
    From YouTube: Universal Pictures is proud to release a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars SAG winner and Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and two-time Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin). Based on a story by Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds...
  • Newsom Vows 100 Percent Tax on Trump ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ Payouts

    05/28/2026 6:50:55 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 57 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 28 May, 2026 | AG News Staff
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his administration will seek to impose a 100 percent tax on any California residents who receive money from President Donald Trump’s newly created $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Speaking to reporters, Newsom denounced the fund as a “slush fund” and pledged to block Californians from financially benefiting from it. “Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100 percent of those proceeds,” Newsom said during a press conference. “He pardoned all of those folks that were beating up cops and absolved them, providing them 1.776 billion dollars,” Newsom said....
  • Castro's daughter responds to question about Justin Trudesu (spoiler alert: she doesn't deny it)

    05/28/2026 6:13:08 AM PDT · by Texas Eagle · 27 replies
    Youtube.com shorts ^ | May 28, 2026 | Katie Pavlich
    Interesting response when Katie Pavlich aksed Fidel Castro's daughter if Justin Trudeau is her half brother.
  • June Primaries

    05/28/2026 6:06:44 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 9 replies
    6/2/26 - California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota 6/9/26 - Maine, North Dakota, Nevada, South Carolina 6/16/26 - Oklahoma, Virginia 6/23/26 - Maryland, New York, Utah 6/30/26 - Colorado
  • Hong Kong overtakes Switzerland as hub for global offshore wealth

    05/28/2026 5:59:08 AM PDT · by delta7 · 35 replies
    FT ^ | 27 May 26 | Owen Walker
    Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the world’s biggest cross-border wealth hub for the first time, as an influx of investment from the Chinese mainland helped it eclipse the traditional haven. Wealth managers in the Chinese territory booked $2.9tn of international assets in 2025, according to estimates from the Boston Consulting Group. About 60 per cent of that came from mainland China, with BCG forecasting that the rapid increase in Asian fortunes would widen the gap between Hong Kong and Switzerland to almost $600bn by the end of the decade. China’s growth has been bolstered by a return of equity...
  • Dressed to Kill: Women of the Left and the Cult of Violence Worship

    05/28/2026 5:51:41 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 28 May, 2026 | Jeff Cunningham
    The left’s glamorization of political violence begins as performance, but history shows how quickly chic nihilism can become something far darker. Brian Thompson’s shooter suspect in hostel CCTV. (security camera, Wikimedia Commons)On the morning of May 18, 2026, on the granite steps of Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Building, three chic women arranged themselves like starlets at Cannes. The heels. The practiced hip-thrust. Weight cocked to one side, chin down, eyes up. With enough mascara between them to repaint Gracie Mansion. But the most revealing part, the part that showed the most skin, was the laminated press credential blessed by the office...
  • Lost Notebook Found in Medieval Toilet

    05/28/2026 5:37:24 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | May 15, 2026 | editors / unattributed
    La Brújula Verde reports that a German archaeological team under the supervision of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) recovered an exceptionally well-preserved notebook from a medieval toilet in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The discovery was made during construction of a new administrative headquarters in the city of Paderborn. The four- by three-inch book contains 10 wooden tablet pages coated in wax, onto which the object's owner etched writing using a metal or bone stylus. The volume was also carefully protected by a leather cover that was stamped with motifs of lilies. Although experts have not yet translated any of...
  • Ocean "Acidification" -- Another Fake Scare That Won't Go Away

    05/28/2026 5:19:38 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 26 May, 2026 | Francis Menton
    Ocean “acidification” is a somewhat unique branch of the overarching climate scare. It differs from other branches of the big scare in that it does not depend on atmospheric heating as the driver of the supposed scary consequences. Instead, with ocean “acidification,” the idea is that increased CO2 in the atmosphere (from the burning of fossil fuels) leads to increased CO2 dissolved in the oceans, which leads to lower pH of ocean water, which then becomes the driver of the alleged scary consequences. Thus, ocean “acidification” can theoretically work as a scare even if the atmosphere fails to heat with...
  • Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

    05/28/2026 4:47:25 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 36 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 27 May, 2026 | Eric Utter
    But China, being China, through its belt and road initiate, and outright purchasing of ports, farmland, and other sensitive areas, is poised to simply absorb Canada in the long run. What’s happening in Canada is no longer simply odd, sad, or irrelevant. It is deeply concerning. Canada has morphed into a crazed killing factory, one that performs Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) procedures on its own citizens, even those who aren’t facing a terminal illness. Seriously depressed? Canada will off you. And why wouldn't Canadians be depressed, as the radicals that have been running -- and ruining -- the country...
  • House Democrats launch new anti-corruption caucus targeting Trump-era ethics concerns

    05/28/2026 4:40:37 AM PDT · by Libloather · 14 replies
    MS.Now ^ | 5/27/26 | Kevin Frey, Jack Fitzpatrick
    As lawmakers grow increasingly frustrated with President Donald Trump’s planned $1.8 billion lawsuit settlement fund and his thousands of stock trades totaling hundreds of millions dollars, a trio of House Democrats is launching a new caucus aimed at fighting malfeasance in government. The new End Corruption Caucus — details of which were shared first with MS NOW — is launching at the direction of Reps. Jason Crow, D-Col., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Mike Levin, D-Calif., spanning the party’s centrist to progressive wings. “Corruption is poisoning our politics,” Crow said in a statement. “From the disastrous Citizens United decision, to the...
  • Goats spotted running through Muslim-majority Michigan city ahead of sacrificial holiday

    05/28/2026 4:36:08 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 35 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | May 27, 2026 | Joel Abbott
    The stereotype here is so on the nose that The Babylon Bee couldn't have written it better 😂 VIDEO AT LINK............... As they say in Dearborn, Alhamdulillah! People had thoughts on a local news account: This week is the Islamic slaughter day of Eid al-Adha, where a goat is killed to cover their sins. They connect this to the biblical story in Genesis 22 where Abraham is asked by God to offer his son as a sacrifice. Muslims, however, believe God offered up a ram to replace Ishmael, ignoring the fact that God's provision and promises were made through Isaac....
  • Matthew Perry’s assistant gets 41-month sentence for central role in ketamine death

    05/28/2026 4:08:21 AM PDT · by Libloather · 6 replies
    WSBTV ^ | 5/28/26 | Bob D'Angelo
    LOS ANGELES — The personal live-in assistant for “Friends” star Matthew Perry was sentenced on Wednesday to 41 months in prison for repeatedly injecting the actor with ketamine, including the fatal dose that killed him in October 2023. Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, of Toluca Lake, California, had pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death, the Los Angeles Times reported. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence in U.S. federal court in Los Angeles, CNN reported. She also sentenced him to two years of probation and tacked on a $10,000 fine. “You were privy to his...
  • Today's Toons 5/28/26

    05/28/2026 4:08:17 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 13 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 5/28/26 | pookie18
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  • Today's Cryptogram

    05/28/2026 2:27:00 AM PDT · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 14 replies
    ZFC XAU HV ZFC XGASMC MHHZX HV SYP ZNH XKICX HV SY KXHXQCWCX ZMKSYDWC KX CGASW ZH ZFC XGASMC MHHZ HV ZFC MCUSKYKYD XKIC -- ZFC XQSMCQMHN, ZFC NKRSMI HV HR Clue: Change X to S
  • Protein reveals the oldest episode of sex and procreation among human species

    05/28/2026 2:11:53 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 37 replies
    Science ^ | May 13, 2026 | Nuño Domínguez
    Since humans developed the ability to study DNA extracted from fossils, we have uncovered a mystery that until now had no answer. In the DNA of some human species, including our own, Homo sapiens, there were "super-archaic" markers, vestiges of older, unknown species with which we had interbred and produced offspring. Unable to determine who these genomic intruders were, some scientists called them ghost populations...Researchers in China have analysed proteins from the tooth enamel of six fossils dating back around 400,000 years -- five men and one woman -- found at sites across much of the country from north to...
  • Dems cut ties with scandal-plagued Graham Platner, warn of ‘civil war’ in party

    05/27/2026 11:54:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 43 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 5/27/26 | Alex Miller
    Top Democratic officials and lawmakers are breaking with Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as his past blunders and online history stack up. Platner’s ascendency to the top of the ticket in Vacationland broke with the Democratic establishment in Washington, D.C., and since Maine Gov. Janet Mills exited from the race, questions about whether he is the right choice to take on Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, have exploded. Much of that is fueled by scandals that have cropped up seemingly week after week, be it a tattoo on his chest of a Nazi symbol or inflammatory posts online. Some in...
  • The View’s Joy Behar RAGES at New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart for introducing President Trump

    05/27/2026 10:33:58 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 21 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 27, 2026 | Joe Kinsey
    Leave it to empathetic and compassionate (kidding!) LIB Joy Behar to seemingly hope New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart gets hurt because he supports President Trump. In what can only be described as one of the lowest moments in show history for these gasbags, of which there are many to choose from, disgusting Behar, 83, suggested Dart may want to add some "extra padding" for the upcoming season. Why? Joy didn't come out and say it, but she seemed to imply that Dart would get beat up by NFL players who don't like Trump-supporting quarterbacks. "For somebody to back a...
  • Africa could be home to nearly half the world's young people by 2100, new data shows

    05/27/2026 9:21:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 05/27/2026
    Africa's population has grown more than sixfold since 1950 and is projected to keep expanding through the end of the century — even as growth slows across most of the world — according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week.Drawing on United Nations population data, the report finds that the continent currently holds 19% of the global population but is home to 28% of all people under 25. That share is expected to rise sharply in the decades ahead.Africa's population stood at roughly 230 million in 1950. It has since grown by approximately 1.3 billion people. Under the...