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Big Vote today (48-1!) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent! This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks. Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive! The House will be attaching The Sunshine Protection Act to ''The Highway Bill." Great work by Troy Nehls, and all of the Members...

A woman is wanted after using sleight of hand to steal an expensive watch off of a man's wrist at Parx Casino, according to the Pennsylvania State Police. Troopers say that the woman was sitting next to the man at the slot machines when she took his Rolex watch off of him on April 25, 2025, around 6:54 p.m. at the Parx Casino on Street Road in Bensalem. The woman was able to take the watch by using distractions and sleight of hand techniques, officials said. After stealing the watch, the woman ran out of the casino and jumped into...

NASCAR icon Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races across the sport's three national series than any other driver in history, has died at the age of 41, the racing series announced Thursday. The Busch Family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR issued a joint statement Thursday saying that Busch died after being hospitalized earlier in the day as the result of a severe illness, three days before he was to compete at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. No cause of death was given. "On behalf of the Busch family, everyone at Richard Childress Racing...

Her death triggered fears for New Yorkers and visitors alike, and now it's been revealed just how the woman who fell into an open manhole in midtown Manhattan died. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Donike Gocaj parked her SUV on the side of 52nd Street near Fifth Avenue, out front of the Cartier store. The 56-year-old got out of her vehicle, closed the door -- and fell into an uncovered 10-foot-deep manhole. Gocaj died from her injuries in what Con Edison said was a freak accident. The utility company said surveillance footage suggests a large truck dislodged a manhole cover...

this is just weird...way too young https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2026/05/21/kyle-busch-two-time-nascar-cup-series-champion-dies-at-age-41/

Nick Sortor @nicksortor JUST IN: The House has OVERWHELMINGLY passed a Trump-backed bill to RESTRICT companies like Blackrock from buying up single family homes LONG overdue! It’ll now head to the Senate, then to POTUS’ desk May 20, 2026

How Meta announced its latest round of 1000s of layoffs.

Libs of TikTok repostedLibs of TikTok@libsoftiktok BREAKING: Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar, one of the Medicaid fraudsters in Minnesota who was recently indicted for stealing $3.3M, was caught and arrested after he attempted to FLEE from the FBI.Footage captures Omar limping away during his attempted escape after he jumped from a 4th-story balconyMay 21, 2026

This time I will bring you a fun loop form! Different from the previous multi-part ensemble, it is possible to complete a piece of music in one go, and the process is quite interesting~ The use of guitar in Hotel California can be regarded as one of the classic arrangements in history, especially the 1994 live version. So I made some deletions in the vocal part, focusing on the two guitar solos of the prelude and the ending. Hope you like it! The costume this time is Wei Jin style wide-sleeved cross-collared Hanfu. For the convenience of plucking the instrument,...

Kyle Busch, a generational talent who rose to become a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and one of the sport’s greatest drivers, died Thursday. He was 41. Busch’s death, which was announced by the Busch family, NASCAR and Richard Childress Racing, marked a sudden, staggering blow to the motorsports community. His team had indicated earlier Thursday that Busch had been hospitalized with a severe illness. Busch was in his 22nd full-time season in NASCAR’s top division, where he won two Cup Series titles (2015, 2019) and 63 races — a figure that ranks ninth on the circuit’s all-time win list....

Overton@overton_news·3hFormer Colombo crime family boss Michael Franzese admitted to Sean Hannity that in all his years in the mob, he had never seen anything like the lawfare weaponized against President Trump.He also said he knows the RICO statute inside and out — and Joe Biden should have been easily indicted.FRANZESE: “I want to tell you two things, and this is meaningful. I want people to know this.”“All this warfare that they put against...lawfare they put against Trump...I never seen anything like that!”“And I want to tell you this...Joe Biden, the information that the GOP, when they did the investigation on...

ransomnote: Disturbing excerpt of the video below.Jack Danger@JackDangerLIVE🚨 SHOCKING FOOTAGE SHOWS CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER LILA MORRIS BEAT AN UNCONSCIOUS ROSANNE BOYLAND TO DEATH ON JANUARY 6TH, 2021 🚨Almost no one has heard her name. Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old Trump supporter from Georgia, went to the Capitol on Jan 6… and never came home.This raw video shows her LYING UNCONSCIOUS on the ground, BLEEDING from her mouth and nose, while Capitol Police officer Lila Morris BEAT HER REPEATEDLY with a baton as she lay dying.The medical examiner looked at that same footage (or claimed to), conducted an “autopsy” and still ruled...

Springsteen performed his ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis' during Colbert's penultimate episode yesterday (May 20)Bruce Springsteen has hailed Stephen Colbert as “the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke”. Read More: ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ review: a bruising boss of a biopic The Boss appeared as a musical guest on the Late Night legend’s penultimate episode yesterday (20 May). Colbert has hosted the show since 2015, and his final week has featured guests such as David Byrne, Jon Stewart and Steven Spielberg. Though CBS have stated the...

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·7h🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Jim Jordan announces the "human sources" who infiltrated January 6th might've been PAID BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTERThis is insane. Expose it all and make arrests!REP. JIM JORDAN: "Were any of the guys they were paying, was the Biden Justice Department paying these same guys? Confidential human sources. We know 26 confidential human sources were at the Capitol in January 6.""They weren't authorized to do so. I want to know if any of these guys were double dipping and taking money from the government and from the Southern Poverty Law Center. That's one of...

Key Points Eli Lilly said its next-generation drug cleared a crucial late-stage trial in patients with obesity, delivering significant weight loss across doses. The results bring Lilly one step closer to filing for approval of the weekly injection, called retatrutide, which works differently from existing injections and pills. The highest dose of retatrutide helped patients lose 28.3% of their weight — or 70.3 pounds — on average over 80 weeks. ==================================================================== VIDEO AT LINK........ Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation drug cleared a crucial late-stage trial in patients with obesity, delivering significant weight loss across doses. The results bring...

Curtis Yarvin joins Christopher Rufo and Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman to dissect Trump’s two administrations, the hollowing out of GOP power, and performative vs. real politics and to debate America’s founding history.

Explanation: This big beautiful spiral shines in X-ray light. It is about 20 times larger than our Galaxy. It belongs to Abell 2029, a galaxy cluster one billion light-years away. (To see only the galaxies, hover your cursor over the image, or follow this link.) Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe that are supported by gravity. Abell 2029 is formed by thousands of galaxies, surrounded by a huge cloud of hot gas and the equivalent of hundreds of trillions times the mass of the Sun in dark matter. The spiral is made of gas, mostly hydrogen and...

BREAKING: The FBI just announced one of the Minnesota fraudsters targeted with arrest this morning jumped out of a FOUR STORY BALCONY, and is now on the run Video of the suspect can be seen below. FIND HIM AND DENY HIM BOND! He CANNOT be allowed to flee the country!

FIRST ON FOX: A California man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly critically injuring a man outside an Escondido home known for displays of American flags, pro-Trump messages and other banners, according to local police. The 32-year-old suspect, Thomas Caleb Butler, is being held in the Vista Detention Facility in San Diego County. Around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Escondido police officers responded to reports of an assault at the intersection of East Mission Avenue and Buchanan Street. They found an elderly male "suffering from significant injuries" and said that a good Samaritan who intervened had also been hurt, according...

C-SPAN coverage features cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding the impact of screen time and classroom technology on youth. In his testimony, Dr. Horvath warned lawmakers that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform previous generations across cognitive measures like attention, memory, and general IQ. He argued that introducing digital devices into learning environments has actively contributed to this cognitive decline, as human brains are not biologically wired to learn from screens. This is the first generation in human history that is getting DUMBER...