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  • Report: Saudi Arabia Pulls Funding From LIV Golf

    04/29/2026 2:55:00 PM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 4 replies
    Reuters ^ | 29 April 2026 | Reuters
    LIV Golf plans to tell players and staff ​by Thursday that ⁠Saudi Arabia's ​Public Investment Fund ⁠will stop funding the circuit ​after this season, the Wall Street Journal reported on ⁠Wednesday, citing ⁠people familiar ⁠with ⁠the matter.
  • Boyfriend brought chicken to girlfriend's apartment to make in the air fryer instead of taking her to dinner, so she stabbed him to death: Police

    04/29/2026 2:05:01 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 54 replies
    Law and Crime ^ | Apr 28th, 2026, | Jamie Frevele
    A Wisconsin woman is behind bars after police say she stabbed her boyfriend to death during an argument over dinner. Mikayla Kloth, 27, appeared in a Waukesha County court on Monday, days after prosecutors said she fatally stabbed 25-year-old Lukas Rosch at her apartment in Lac La Belle, Wisconsin. She was charged with first-degree intentional homicide. According to a criminal complaint obtained by local ABC affiliate WISN, Kloth told Rosch that she wanted to go out to dinner on Friday night. Instead, he showed up at the apartment with chicken drumsticks and seasoning that he intended to cook at her...
  • Bongino: “We have made enough dramatic changes. We put a TON of new FISA rules in place. We have made enough dramatic changes.,, "We're not done. That Comey indictment, if you think that was the end, you're out of your mind."

    04/29/2026 1:53:31 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 16 replies
    x.com ^ | April 28, 2026 | Overton @overton_news
    https://x.com/overton_news/status/2049226546171568400 Overton@overton_news·Apr 28He just put the Deep State on notice.Dan Bongino says he and Kash Patel made so many important changes at the FBI that whoever comes in next and tries to reverse them will leave a massive paper trail.He then dropped a major hint for what's coming:“That Comey indictment, if you think that was the end, you're out of your mind.”BONGINO: “We have made enough dramatic changes. We put a TON of new FISA rules in place.”“I mean, Kash and I were on FISA probably three, four times a week in special meetings just for that.”“I brought in a...
  • Subsatack has gone wacky

    04/29/2026 1:49:25 PM PDT · by FlatulusMaximus · 2 replies
    Has anyone else had problems with Substack? None of my subs load properly--the display is barren and the links are dead.
  • "Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps. A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them" SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally redrawable

    04/29/2026 1:27:22 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 22 replies
    x.com ^ | Apr 29, 2026 | Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter
    Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter·1hNOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULINGYes, the Court ruled 6-3.Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.Yes, Louisiana's map got thrown out.But here's the part everyone is missing:Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them→ Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district→ Their House margin is FOUR seats→ SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally...
  • $65B lithium mother lode hidden beneath Appalachian Mountains could supply US with power for centuries

    04/29/2026 1:25:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 33 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Ben Cost
    They’ve hit the mother lode. We may no longer need to rely on foreign batteries to power our electronics. Geologists have announced that the Appalachian Mountains could be hiding a sprawling multi-billion-dollar cache of lithium that could last the US hundreds of years. “This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs,” declared US Geological Survey Director Ned Mamula in a statement. According to a map by the institution, this East Coast mountain range houses around 2.5 metric tons of this battery precursor, most of which is concentrated in the Carolinas, Maine and...
  • Infamous ‘Quality Learing Center’ is now totally abandoned after FBI conducts massive fraud raid in Minneapolis

    04/29/2026 1:17:18 PM PDT · by Libloather · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Steven Vago, Chris Nesi
    MINNEAPOLIS — The infamous Somali immigrant-run “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis was abandoned on Wednesday — a day after the FBI raided the daycare and about 20 other local operations as part of an investigation into allegations of massive social services fraud in Minnesota. The business’s misspelled sign has been removed, and replaced with a sign warning visitors that security cameras are in use. The building itself — which was painted a spearmint-like color when The Post was there in December — has been repainted a more neutral slate-blue hue, and a pair of “no trespassing” signs were newly hung...
  • President Trump Participates in a Greeting with Artemis II Astronauts

    04/29/2026 12:42:29 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 5 replies
    YouTube ^ | 04/29/2026 | The White House
    Interesting back and forth with the press. Media quickly turned it to Ukraine. Seesh.
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades

    04/29/2026 12:17:10 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    NASA ^ | 29 Apr, 2026 | Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    Explanation: No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! Today’s APOD is a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades across a southern Sicilian sky as twilight turned to evening on April 19. From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades' and the Moon “visit" each other once per month due to the Pleiades' location in the ecliptic plane. April 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with Venus. About six stars in the Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) are typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster’s visibility across the world, there are many myths...
  • Rise of the AI-rport robots! Japan Airlines is using humanoid baggage handlers to load luggage on and off flights

    04/29/2026 12:00:37 PM PDT · by DFG · 18 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 04/29/2026 | William Hunter
    Lost luggage and battered bags could soon be a thing of the past, as Japan Airlines starts testing robotic baggage handlers. Starting in May, human workers at Tokyo's busy Haneda airport will have a helping hand from an army of humanoid robots as part of a two–year trial. The Chinese–made bots will be trained to tackle ground handling tasks like loading cargo containers of luggage on and off flights. Japan Airlines (JAL) hopes that the new robotic workers will help ease staffing issues as Japan juggles a surge in tourism and a slumping workforce. The airport will trial two robots:...
  • Dramatic moment knife-wielding terrorist kicked in the head by hero cops

    04/29/2026 11:47:12 AM PDT · by protest1 · 26 replies
    New York Post ^ | Published April 29, 2026 | Anthony Blair
    Dramatic video shows heroic police officers tasing a knife-wielding terrorist and kicking him in the head after he allegedly stabbed two Jewish men in London on Wednesday. ‘Drop the f—king knife!” the cops yell in the shocking cellphone footage shared on X in the wake of the attack in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in north London.
  • Mali military leader Goita emerges as Russia declares it halted coup

    04/29/2026 10:03:50 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    aljazeera.com ^ | 28 Apr 2026
    The news release came after Russia said earlier in the day that it was seeking stability in the country, in which it has won significant influence since Goita’s military government took power in a coup in 2021. West Africa’s al-Qaeda affiliate and the Tuareg separatist group on Saturday hit Mali’s main army base and the area near Bamako’s airport, while driving Russian soldiers – deployed in support of government forces – out of Kidal in the north. ... The same day, the Russian Ministry of Defence issued a statement declaring that its paramilitary forces had ‌‌helped prevent a coup during...
  • The Emergence of the High-IQ Political Attacker

    04/29/2026 10:00:38 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 40 replies
    WSJ ^ | Apr 29, 2026 | Zusha Elinson
    In a shift from the past, more accused violent assailants have striking academic records. ‘We’re seeing a new breed of individual.’ An Ivy League grad. An aspiring engineer who scored 1530 out of 1600 on his SAT. A 4.0 high-school student with a prestigious college scholarship. And now, a Caltech grad.
  • NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he's fighting for Pluto: 'I am very much in the camp of 'make Pluto a planet again'

    04/29/2026 9:13:56 AM PDT · by DFG · 37 replies
    Space.com ^ | 04/28/2026 | Mike Wall
    NASA chief Jared Isaacman wants to restore Pluto to its former glory. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) stripped Pluto of its planethood, reclassifying the icy world as a "dwarf planet." The decision was controversial, and not just because it forced schoolchildren around the world to learn a new mnemonic for our solar system's major denizens. Little Pluto was beloved and remains so, especially in the United States. After all, it's the only planet discovered by an American, Clyde Tombaugh, who made the historic find in 1930 using imagery captured by Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Twenty years on, many...
  • Oil prices rebound to highest in weeks with Trump reportedly preparing to extend Iran blockad

    04/29/2026 8:59:08 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 64 replies
    CNBC ^ | April 29, 2026 | Sam Meredith and Spencer Kimball
    Oil prices jumped more than 5% Wednesday, on a report that President Donald Trump is prepared to keep the U.S. Navy blockade of Iran in place for an extended period. International benchmark Brent crude futures rose more than 5% to $117.58 per barrel at 11:21 a.m. ET, U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures with June delivery rose more than 5% to $105.33 per barrel. Trump has decided in recent meetings to continue the blockade of Iran rather than resume bombing or walk away from the conflict, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal. The president has told his aides recently to...
  • Florida police say Taco Bell employee shot at customers for putting soda into water cups

    04/29/2026 8:53:41 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 67 replies
    notthebee.com ^ | Apr 29, 2026 | Jesse James
    I really don't know how to feel about this one. I'm 100% totally anti-theft and I think stealing needs to be dealt with harshly. But maybe not THIS harshly. D'Mari Jy'Quan Patterson, 20, was arrested Monday and accused of snapping at the trio (of young female thieves) while on-the-clock at a Taco Bell in West Palm Beach ... One video obtained by police showed Patterson berating the woman who lingered near the soda fountain, CBS 12 reported. Police said they could hear a firearm being racked in the video mere seconds before the first round went off. One woman was...
  • America’s most volatile fault line overdue for earthquake that could devastate millions: ‘Tectonic time bomb’ (only 4.74 years left)

    04/29/2026 8:42:06 AM PDT · by Libloather · 54 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/26 | Ben Cost
    This has scientists quaking in their boots. Researchers have found that one of the US’s most dangerous fault lines is overdue for an earthquake, potentially threatening millions of people across California, per an alarming study in the journal Seismological Research Letters. This terrifying tremor could “cause extensive damage to such a dense population zone,” wrote the team from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), in a statement. Part of the massive San Andreas Fault Line, the Hayward Fault Line extends 74 miles through major Bay Area hubs, including Berkeley, Oakland and Fremont, an area...
  • Kate Middleton and Prince William Mark 15th Wedding Anniversary with Sweet New Family Photo

    04/29/2026 8:36:32 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 27 replies
    People ^ | April 29, 2026 | Helen Murphy
    The day prior to the anniversary, Prince William visited Wales, which is a meaningful location for the royal couple. William, 43, and Kate, 44, lived in a rented home in Anglesey, Wales, for three years, including before and after their 2011 wedding. Last year, the pair also spent their anniversary in a special place: in Scotland, the same country where they met. The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, as they are called in Scotland, had a royal outing in the town of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull on April 29, 2025, where they shared some PDA and laughs as...
  • White Woman REFUSES TO Apologize To Angry Black Mob After Dropping Truth Bomb On Hood Prom!

    04/29/2026 8:08:36 AM PDT · by Morgana · 56 replies
    Black Conservative Perspective youtube ^ | April 29, 2026 | Black Conservative Perspective
    A white conservative content creator who goes by the name Sasha sparked widespread outrage online after she posted a TikTok claiming that “hood prom” — a term used to describe elaborate, over-the-top prom looks celebrated by Black teens — exists solely because Black girls have little chance of ever getting married. More show notes from the transcripts: "...Lies is hood prom and baby mama culture are like this. The reason why the dresses are so extravagant in the cars, in the show, in the presentation, is because this is the closest these girls will ever get to being a bride...
  • Archaeologists use AI to generate image of Pompeii victim [0:59]

    04/29/2026 7:55:51 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    YouTube ^ | April 27, 2026 | Reuters
    Archeologists in Italy's Pompeii have for the first time used artificial intelligence to reconstruct the appearance of one of the victims of the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city nearly 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists use AI to generate image of Pompeii victim | 0:59 Reuters | 4.18M subscribers | 12,415 views | April 27, 2026