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  • Today's Cryptogram

    05/21/2026 2:32:19 AM PDT · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 1 replies
    BHNHSFWHSF UN EUTH FZTUSX IDUNDS ZSJ GZUFUSX YDB FRH DFRHB IHBNDS FD JUH. -- WZEZORM WOODVBF Clue: Change I to P
  • WOAH! JEFF BEZOS JUST TORCHED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY šŸ˜³šŸ”„

    05/21/2026 12:24:38 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 4 replies
    X ^ | 05/20/2026 | Jesse Waters
    🚨 WOAH! JEFF BEZOS JUST TORCHED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY šŸ˜³šŸ”„ ā€œIf Amazon ran like NYC… your package would take 6 WEEKS and STILL be wrongā€ 🤣 WANT PROOF? Karen Bass PROMISED ZERO HOMELESSNESS… she’s on track for ZERO RESULTS! Spencer Pratt says people are PROFITTING from the $400K-PER-BED HOMELESS GRIFT šŸ’£
  • (Rapper) Tekashi 6ix9ine Faces Furious Backlash After Admitting He'd Demand Abortion if Unborn Baby Was a Girl

    05/21/2026 12:07:52 AM PDT · by Morgana · 10 replies
    International Business Times ^ | May 17, 2026 | Clarizza Potoy
    (Rapper) Tekashi 6ix9ine is facing intense criticism online after telling guests at a gender-reveal party, reportedly in front of livestream cameras, that he would have urged his girlfriend, Aliday Alter, to have an abortion if their unborn baby had been a girl. The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, made the remarks during the event, which was filmed and shared by TMZ, where the couple ultimately discovered they were expecting a boy. The backlash centres not only on what Tekashi 6ix9ine said in that moment, but on who he is and what his public record already contains. Alter announced...
  • CNN stories on Henry Nowak: 0

    05/21/2026 12:05:17 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 4 replies
    X ^ | 05/20/2026 | Libs of Tik Tok
    CNN stories on Henry Nowak: 0 CNN stories on George Floyd: 107 Media is the enemy of the people
  • Owner of daycare in viral Nick Shirley video charged as part of $4.6M daycare fraud scheme: prosecutors

    05/20/2026 11:16:38 PM PDT · by Libloather · 5 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 5/20/26 | Louis Casiano
    A woman allegedly tied to Minnesota’s massive ā€œFeeding Our Futureā€ scandal has been charged in a daycare fraud scheme after being featured in a viral video by influencer Nick Shirley, authorities said. She is accused of pocketing millions of dollars meant for children’s meals. Fahima Egeh Mahamud was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents. Earlier this year, Mahamud was indicted for her alleged role in the initial $250 million ā€œFeeding Our Futureā€ scheme. Prosecutors allege she enrolled Future Leaders Early Learning — a Minneapolis daycare where she served as CEO...
  • Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson walks back stinging comments about Starbucks, as fears mount that the coffee giant may pull out of the liberal city

    05/20/2026 11:03:43 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/20/26 | David Propper
    Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain birthed in the Pacific City. Wilson, 43, issued a terse mea culpa to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses, including Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee. The democratic socialist made waves last fall when she joined a barista union rally as mayor-elect and expressed her disgust with one of Seattle’s most recognizable businesses. ā€œI am not buying Starbucks, and you should...
  • American Muslims: A History Revealed (PBS TV series)

    05/20/2026 9:25:46 PM PDT · by UnwashedPeasant · 12 replies
    The six-part documentary explicitly claims that Muslims played a notable, often-overlooked role in U.S. history. The framing is not just that Muslims were present, but that they were ā€œintegralā€ to the American story. It presents this as "untold histories" and "reexamines well-known chapters of U.S. history through stories often overlooked," emphasizing that Muslims have been part of American life since before or during the nation's founding —— not as central political founders, but as a presence in the population and in intellectual/religious freedom debates.
  • Black actress to star as Betty Boop to tell the "deeper story" of the character's creation

    05/20/2026 8:52:02 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | May 20, 2026 | Joel Abbott
    Alright, who had Betty Boop for Hollywood's next skin-color swap? This is reportedly a live-action film, by the way, and Brunson will play Betty Boop as herself. From Variety: The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer, examining the relationship between the artist and his creation as he navigates the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the world's first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to take on a life of its own. You just know this is gonna be super woke šŸ˜‚ (I can't wait...
  • Police seek additional homicide charge after newborn of Buckeye mother shot dies

    05/20/2026 8:46:39 PM PDT · by Morgana · 1 replies
    AZfamily.com ^ | May 20, 2026 | Haley Williams
    PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A baby born during emergency surgery after his mother was shot in Buckeye has died, according to city police. The mother, identified by family as Abby, 17, is still recovering from her injuries. The triple shooting happened outside a home in the Buckeye Westpark neighborhood, near Broadway Road and Miller Road, around 8:15 p.m. May 14. Family members say Abby was shot in the back and forced to deliver her baby early. She named him Timmothy Rylee in honor of her friend, 16-year-old Rylee Montgomery, who was also killed in the shooting. Montgomery was pregnant at the...
  • Will the Swiss Cap Their Population?

    05/20/2026 8:32:32 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 10 replies
    YouTube ^ | 14 May 2026 | Peter Zeihan
    On June 14, Switzerland will vote on a referendum to cap its population at 10 million. Current projections don't put the Swiss population crossing that number until 2035 or 2040. The Swiss very, very, very jealously guard the right to have citizenship, and are notoriously strict about it. So if you are from elsewhere and you want to become Swiss, it's a very long, long, long process.
  • DHS Confirms Illegal Immigrant Trucker in Another Deadly California Crash Entered U.S. Under Biden

    05/20/2026 8:32:22 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 15 replies
    Red State ^ | May 20, 2026 | Ben Smith
    The Biden administration caught him at the border, released him into the country, and walked away. Now two people are dead on a California highway, and the man behind the wheel of that semi-truck is an illegal immigrant from India who never should have been there. Authorities arrested 24-year-old Manvir Singh following a deadly multi-vehicle crash on Tuesday on northbound Highway 99 near Lodi, California. The California Highway Patrol responded around 12:20 p.m. after Singh's big rig jackknifed, skidded off the road, and slammed into a guardrail, triggering a collision involving three other vehicles. Two people were killed. Singh allegedly...
  • HOW CURIOUS: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger Signing Executive Order to Keep ICE Away From Polling Places (VIDEO)

    05/20/2026 8:26:44 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | May 20, 2026 | Mike LaChance
    Virginia's new Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger has just announced that she is signing an executive order to keep ICE agents away from polling places. Why do you suppose such a thing would be necessary? Democrats assure us that illegal aliens are not voting because they are forbidden from doing so by law. So why would they be worried about ICE showing up at polling places? It just doesn't make any sense. NBC News reported: Virginia Gov. Spanberger to sign order on dealing with federal agents at polling places Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Tuesday that she plans to issue an...
  • JUST IN: Vanessa Trump Announces Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    05/20/2026 8:07:43 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | May 20, 2026 | Cristina Laila
    Vanessa Trump, 48, announced she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. 'I want to share a personal health update. I've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. While this isn't news anyone expects, I'm working closely with my medical team on a treatment plan,' Vanessa Trump said in a post on her Instagram page. Without offering any details, Vanessa Trump said she had a procedure this week. "I would like to thank my doctors for performing a procedure earlier this week on me," she wrote. "I am staying focused and hopeful while surrounded by the love and support of my family,...
  • Grand jury indicts Montgomery County man accused of secretly giving pregnant woman abortion medication

    05/20/2026 7:47:47 PM PDT · by Morgana · 4 replies
    Click2Houston ^ | May 20, 2026 | Corley Peel
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – A Montgomery County man accused of secretly giving a pregnant woman an abortion pill that killed their unborn baby, has been officially indicted by a grand jury. The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Jon Rueben Demeter was indicted Thursday on an abortion charge and injury to a child. The abortion charge is a first-degree felony carrying a punishment of five years to life in prison. KPRC 2 News reporter Corley Peel obtained a search warrant revealing new details about how Demeter allegedly administered the drug without the woman’s knowledge or consent. According to the warrant,...
  • UN Researchers Conclude Climate Change Worst-Case is 'Implausible'

    05/20/2026 7:22:57 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/20/2026 | John Sexton
    A UN body of researchers that puts together possible climate scenarios announced last week that one extreme scenario it put forward back in 2011 is no longer plausible. As Roger Pielke Jr. from AEI puts it, the climate apocalypse is no longer around the corner.The climate apocalypse isn’t around the corner after all. That’s the upshot of a recent report from the international panel that supplies official ā€œscenariosā€ to researchers, governments and banks. It turns out that the most extreme assumptions about the future — the doomsaying predictions embodied in the worst-case scenario known as RCP8.5 — are ā€œimplausible.ā€...The substance...
  • Schlitz Is Gone, But First It’s Getting One Last Hurrah

    05/20/2026 6:28:36 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    Milwaukee Magazine ^ | May 20, 2026 | Chris Drosner
    An icon of Milwaukee’s beer baron era has been discontinued by Pabst Brewing Co., but Wisconsin Brewing is planning one last toast to Schlitz this summer. The ā€œbeer that made Milwaukee famousā€ is dead. Schlitz, a brand that began in Milwaukee in 1858, has been discontinued by its corporate parent, Pabst Brewing Co. The move is part of a wave of culling of its nostalgia-driven brands. The news comes, oddly enough, from Wisconsin Brewing Co., which announced on Thursday afternoon that it would be brewing ā€œthe last Schlitzā€ at its brewery in Verona next weekend. Pabst confirmed the move on...
  • America is about to celebrate 250 years of Independence. But most Americans were never taught what actually happened in 1776. (11 min video -great for sharing- the younger generation(s) have never been taught this in school)

    05/20/2026 6:04:17 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 8 replies
    X.com ^ | May 19, 2026 | KrisAnne Hall, LibertyAddict @RealKahall
    KrisAnne Hall, LibertyAddict@RealKahallAmerica is about to celebrate 250 years of Independence.But most Americans were never taught what actually happened in 1776.They taught you to celebrate the fireworks.They never taught you the meaning of liberty.America’s REAL Independence Day was July 2nd, 1776, when Congress legally severed ties with the British Crown.The Declaration of Independence was the announcement.Not the act itself.As America approaches its 250th birthday, this isn’t just about correcting history.It’s about remembering:• Why America became a Constitutional Republic• Why rights come from God, not government• How we lost our understanding of liberty• And how we reclaim what generations sacrificed to...
  • Mark Cuban forced to play nice with President Trump after agreeing to be business partners

    05/20/2026 5:52:38 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 6 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/18/2026 | Alejandro Avila
    Billionaire Mark Cuban stood on the White House stage Monday alongside the man he spent the last year trying to keep out of the Oval Office. The former "Shark Tank" star and outspoken Kamala Harris surrogate appeared beside President Donald Trump during the rollout of TrumpRx.gov, which is a new initiative aimed at lowering the cost of 600 generic prescription drugs. The program partners the Trump administration with major private-sector companies, including Amazon, GoodRx and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs — officially making Trump and Cuban business partners after a history of heated political attacks. For much of the campaign...
  • Joe Biden’s memoir will humiliate him

    05/20/2026 5:44:43 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 17 replies
    The Spectator ^ | 5/12/2026 | Alexander Larman
    Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. For those unfamiliar, the play revolves around an old man listening to a series of tapes recorded by himself when he was younger, musing pompously on his hopes and dreams for the future. In his present, desiccated state, he can only scoff at his middle-aged self, before being overcome by the pathetic realization that it is all up for him and that he is doomed to a miserable, unhappy future. It is hard to think of ten people who will want...
  • "...the illegitimate, unelected government used the FBI to cover up the overthrow on November 3, 2020, by hiring outside insurrectionists and then giving those people immunity from prosecution for the same activities they prosecuted Americans for..."

    05/20/2026 5:30:08 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 8 replies
    x.com ^ | May 20, 2026 | RealRobert @Real_RobN
    šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø RealRobertšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø@Real_RobNĀ·7hIt’s now CONFIRMED:Christopher Wray paid 26 confidential informants in Washington, DC, on January 6 to overthrow the United States government.In other words, the illegitimate, unelected government used the FBI to cover up the overthrow on November 3, 2020, by hiring outside insurrectionists and then giving those people immunity from prosecution for the same activities they prosecuted Americans for, including charges of seditious conspiracy.And this irate man šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡, who is testifying under oath, covered up the details before the 2024 presidential election and announced his resignation with timing tied to the very report that was released. May 20, 2026Grok's report...