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  • Relentless tinnitus drove Amber crazy. No treatments worked... until a routine appointment led to this simple fix that stopped the ringing instantly.

    05/11/2026 7:14:34 AM PDT · by Moltke · 12 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11 May 2026 | LUKE CHAFER
    (...) Then, during a routine trip to her dentist, everything changed. Amber’s dentist realised she was suffering from a poorly aligned jaw that was putting strain on the muscles and joints around her face. Using specialist mapping technology, her teeth and bite were precisely analysed before she went through a near three-hour procedure involving tiny adjustments to the surfaces of her teeth to reduce the pressure. The results, she says, were almost immediate. ‘Straight after the first treatment, the whooshing sound – like a washing machine – had gone,’ says Amber. ‘There’s still a faint sound now, but it’s more...
  • Leftists barking at each other

    05/11/2026 7:06:04 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 13 replies
    Dom B Post ^ | 11/5/26
    WTF. Can't make it up.
  • DOJ Vows To Crack Down On Racial Gerrymandering

    05/11/2026 6:55:35 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 14 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 11 May, 2026 | David Catron
    As AMAC Newsline recently reported, the Supreme Court has handed down a landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that effectively declares racial gerrymandering unconstitutional. The Democrats had abused Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), insisting that it allowed them to draw majority-minority congressional districts in which it was all but impossible for Republicans to win. The Court ruled that this was an impermissible application of Section 2, and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has pledged to aggressively enforce the ruling. Just The News reports, “United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet...
  • Astronomers Tracking Unexplained Spike in Meteor Events

    05/11/2026 6:32:23 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 5 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | May 09, 2026 | T.J. Muscaro
    Just as it faces an annual hurricane season and tornado season, North America is also experiencing an annual "fireball season," according to NASA."From February through April, the appearance rate of these very bright meteors can increase by as much as 10 percent to 30 percent, especially around the weeks of the March equinox," NASA explained in a statement in late March. "Exactly why is not known. Some astronomers think the Earth passes through more large debris at this time of year, causing an uptick in fireball sightings."...The American Meteor Society, which has gathered professional and amateur meteor reports since 1911,...
  • Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind

    05/11/2026 6:28:29 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 1 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 10 Apr, 2026 | Francis Menton
    Among all the crazy ways that humanity is supposed to “save the planet” by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, offshore wind electricity generation has to be about the craziest. Between the expense of building and integrating the facilities and the intermittency of the output, the build-out of offshore wind infrastructure has threatened large and accelerating increases in consumer electricity bills. Despite lack of any demonstration of feasibility or cost of running the grid on offshore wind, the Biden administration (with support from Congress) threw tens and hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds into the industry in the form of open-ended...
  • WATCH: Tennessee Democrat Compares Republicans to KKK Members “in Suits” Over Redistricting Fight

    05/11/2026 6:26:29 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 28 replies
    thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 10, 2026 | Gregory Lyakhov
    Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones appeared on MSNOW Sunday and delivered exactly the kind of racialized political rhetoric the modern left has made routine. The interview centered on Tennessee Republicans’ redistricting push, which would split Memphis into multiple congressional districts and likely weaken the state’s only Democrat congressional seat. Democrats immediately framed the move as an attack on black voters, while Republicans argued the map was about politics, not race. Redistricting is political by nature. Both parties use maps to gain power by controlling state legislatures. Democrats have done the same in states across the country. Massachusetts, for example, has...
  • After Years Of Cruising Casper At 2 MPH, Longtime Ice Cream Truck Is For Sale

    05/11/2026 6:09:21 AM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 8 replies
    The Cowboy State Daily ^ | 5/10/26 | Andrew Rossi
    After years of cruising Casper at 2 mph, Randy Morrison is giving up being the “Ice Cream Man,” selling his truck. And it’s not because hours on end of that jingle is hell on earth: “You really don’t notice the music until it stops,” he says. CASPER — Randy Morrison and his family have been slowly cruising through Casper, selling frozen treats out of his 1991 Chevy P30 for years. Those are years of cruising through neighborhoods at 2 mph with the truck’s jingle on repeat. If you think that gets in your head while the truck drives by, try...
  • The Battery That Just Beat Toyota. What It Means for Silver.

    05/11/2026 5:45:44 AM PDT · by delta7 · 26 replies
    FX Empire ^ | 7 May 26 | Radomsky
    On April 14, a Chinese battery startup backed by one of the world's largest automakers rolled the first A-sample all-solid-state battery cells off a production line in Guangzhou....The company is targeting GWh-scale output by the end of 2026, twelve to eighteen months ahead of where Toyota’s timeline stood at the start of this year. The silver market has not priced this in.... ...Greater Bay Technology’s A-Sample Changes the Timeline Greater Bay Technology (GBT) is a battery startup backed by GAC Group, China’s fourth-largest automaker by volume. On April 14, GBT confirmed that A-sample all-solid-state battery cells are now rolling off...
  • Miranda Devine: The left is weaponizing women’s misplaced empathy — and it threatens all of us

    05/11/2026 5:25:34 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10 May, 2026 | Miranda Devine
    A young liberal woman refused to cooperate with prosecutors after violent recidivist Rhamell Burke attacked her on the subway five weeks before he allegedly pushed a retired NYC teacher to his death on Thursday. Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post. Rhamell Burke, ctr., is led out of the 13th police precinct in Manhattan after his arrest Friday, May 8, 2026. Robert Mecea for New York PostMaybe if she had indulged in less self-congratulatory empathy for the maniac who...
  • In Virginia, desperate Democrats have a plan to overthrow the state Supreme Court

    05/11/2026 4:50:51 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 27 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10 May, 2026 | Andrea Widburg
    Currently, wiser heads are dubious about the plan, but who knows what the Democrats will do if they feel they’re out of options? ast week, the Virginia Supreme Court, which has been considered a left-leaning court, surprised everyone, including the Democrats, by issuing a correct ruling: The rushed ballot initiative to gerrymander Virginia’s Republicans into oblivion didn’t pass muster, invalidating the election. Democrats responded with their usual “burn it all down” rhetoric. CNN’s Abby Phillip, in full “emo kid” mode, announced that America is now “in the depths of hell,” and that all black voters have been disenfranchised. House Minority...
  • TOMORROW! Primaries in Nebraska and West Viginia

    05/11/2026 3:09:16 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 3 replies
    Prepare to vote!
  • Raffensperger tests the GOP’s future in Georgia

    05/11/2026 2:54:08 AM PDT · by RandFan · 23 replies
    politico ^ | May 11 | politico
    VININGS, Ga. — Brad Raffensperger is fighting to save his political future as MAGA takes hold of the Georgia GOP. The secretary of state rose to national prominence by defying President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but he is carefully trying to avoid the anti-Trump lane while he runs for governor. Instead, he’s running an old-school campaign aimed at an old-school Republican Party: He’s holding low-key events compared with his GOP opponents’ flashier rallies, and he’s focusing on bread-and-butter issues, rather than harping on election security. At one Atlanta-area rotary club gathering in April, Raffensperger was all...
  • DAVID MARCUS: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax (only 4.71 years left)

    05/11/2026 2:47:10 AM PDT · by Libloather · 12 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/10/26 | David Marcus
    For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down. "Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore," blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    05/11/2026 2:20:50 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 7 replies
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  • Today's Toons 5/11/26

    05/11/2026 1:14:22 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 7 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 5/11/26 | pookie18
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  • We Know How the Hantavirus Outbreak Occurred on That Cruise Ship

    05/10/2026 9:17:16 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    Townhall ^ | 05/10/2026 | Matt Vespa
    The hantavirus cruise continues to stay on everyone’s mind as many of us prepare for the possibility of experts enforcing mask mandates and quarantine protocols. I don’t think it will come to that, but those who disembarked from a cruise ship that left Argentina last April are being monitored for exposure to a rare strain of the pathogen, which can be transmitted from person to person. Hantavirus “Patient Zero” has been identified as Leo Schilperoord, a 70-year-old Dutch ornithologist who visited a landfill in Argentina, containing rodents potentially carrying the Andes virus strain. pic.twitter.com/6EHWy2RH5u— Interesting AF (@interesting_aIl) May 9, 2026Usually,...
  • Grad Students Rally Outside Garber’s Home as Strike Enters Third Week (Harvard)

    05/10/2026 7:20:12 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    The Crimson ^ | 5/10/26 | Noah A. Ferris
    A small group of striking graduate student workers rallied outside Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76’s private residence early Friday morning, marking a new escalation in the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers’ ongoing strike as contract negotiations with the University remain stalled. Roughly 10 demonstrators gathered outside Garber’s home from about 6 to 6:30 a.m., chanting and writing “CONTRACT NOW” in pink chalk on the sidewalk. The group represented a small fraction of HGSU-UAW, which represents roughly 5,000 graduate student workers. “Garber, Garber, stop stonewalling; this is HGSU calling!” demonstrators chanted. They also shouted, “Hey, Garber, how do you...
  • Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live)

    05/10/2026 6:31:04 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    youtube ^ | Dire Straits
    Dire Straits – Live 1978-1992' is out now (UK/ROW). Out January 19th, 2024. (US). Listen to more music from Dire Straits here: https://direstraits.lnk.to/bestofplay Lyrics: You get a shiver in the dark It’s raining in the park but meantime South of the river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowing Dixie double four time You feel all right when you hear that music ring ....... You step inside but you don’t see too many faces Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down Too much competition too many other places But not too many...
  • Do pregnancy tests have Plan B pills in them?!

    05/10/2026 6:09:21 PM PDT · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Do pregnancy tests have Plan B pills in them?! video 47 seconds... the answer for those who don't want to watch it.. " so that's a moisture absorbing tablet very much like the ones you get in a new coat or new shoes please do not eat it it's not plan B and if you eat it call your doctor "
  • Katy Perry to headline 2026 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony as fans debate whether she's the right pick

    05/10/2026 6:09:05 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 39 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 9, 2026
    Soccer fans are not happy after Katy Perry was announced as the headliner for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony. The 41-year-old singer was announced as the headliner on Friday, May 8, and many in the soccer community had strong opinions on the choice. Pop Crave shared the announcement on their X account and the comments section featured a mixed bag of reactions. Many were against the organization's decision to sign her as the headliner, with one commenter writing, "I honestly think they could've picked someone better." "On behalf of the football community we don’t know Katy Perry," another...