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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·10hA Japanese diplomat in a morning coat and top hat stepped onto the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bracing for the worst humiliation.His name was Toshikazu Kase. He had passed the Japanese Foreign Service examination in 1925 and studied at Amherst and Harvard. He had been on duty at the Foreign Ministry on the weekend of Pearl Harbor, and had helped prepare the document breaking off negotiations with the United States. Now, on an American battleship, he was there to end the war.It was Kase who had suggested the civilian delegation wear formal diplomatic attire of morning dress...

Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApesThis is INSANE 🚨Alaska has major voter irregularities for Midterms- Alaska has 606,007 registered voters- That’s 67,194 more than there are citizens of legal voting age- That's 112.5% of the citizen voting-age population- It's also 40,437 more than all adults living in the stateBut that’s not even the craziest part, Alaska implemented Ballot Measure 1, eligible people applying for the ‘Permanent Fund Dividend’ are automatically registered to voteThe Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend is an annual cash payment distributed to eligible Alaska residents from a portion of the state's oil and mineral wealthSo essentially, EVERYONE gets registered to vote,...

Letter to the Youth: American Freedom Is Not Inherited—It Must Be Learned, Defended, and Shared Young Americans: the freedoms you take for granted were not inevitable, and they are not self-sustaining. They were secured through blood, argument, and a deliberate rejection of concentrated power. The Constitution is not a suggestion or a living mood board. It is a set of hard limits on government and a charter of individual rights that has produced the freest, most prosperous large society in history. Losing knowledge of that charter—and of the costs paid to keep it—invites exactly the failures the Founders feared. The...

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit repostedFarai Mazhindu@FaraiMazhindu·5hIn Haiti, they told the Haitian people the Clintons came to save Haiti.After the earthquake in 2010, the world watched Port au Prince crumble, and then the saviors arrived. Bill Clinton became the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, controlling America's aid. And the Clinton Foundation was right there, raising money in Haiti's name.Husband approving the projects. Wife controlling the money. Foundation collecting the donations. That was a family business.The world pledged 13.5 billion dollars. America pledged 4 billion. It was supposed to rebuild a nation. Instead,...

The intellectuals date the rise of right-wing populism to Trump’s 2015 descent down the escalator. But it had the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Fox News for the better part of two decades. The network was run by Roger Ailes, the son of a factory foreman from Warren, Ohio, who had figured out how to make Richard Nixon acceptable on television. Republicanism as presented by Fox News was not about asserting ordered liberty against the administrative state; it was the experience of being informed on what pinhead was looking down on you and how you’d show them in the...

The son of former CIA Director John Brennan has been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography, Fox News has learned. Kyle Brennan, 40, is charged with transportation of child pornography, according to a federal complaint. The case originated when Adobe CyberTipline reports flagged accounts linked to Brennan for uploading illicit files involving minors. In April and June 2024, Adobe submitted two reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding an account allegedly used to upload suspected child sexual abuse material.

Hicks died following what his wife, ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm, called an “acute illness.” “Our family is heartbroken by the sudden and unexpected passing of Dan following an acute illness,”

Explanation: The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within the dusty arms of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy along with the galaxy's pinkish star-forming regions. Also known as M31, the spiral galaxy is a mere 2.5 million light-years away. NGC 206 is found at the center of this sharp and detailed close-up of the southwestern extent of Andromeda's disk. The bright, blue stars of NGC 206 indicate its youth. In fact, its youngest massive stars are less than 10 million years old. Much larger than the open or galactic clusters of young stars in the disk of our...

Federal authorities are warning Americans – especially those in the tech and cryptocurrency industries – of the “FaceStealer” scam and social engineering campaign. According to the FBI, “cyberactors” from North Korea are aggressively targeting companies and individuals in the cryptocurrency and Web3 industries with “highly tailored, hard-to-detect social engineering campaigns” that have led to billions of dollars in cryptocurrency being stolen in recent years. It should be noted that the main North Korean hacking group is referred to by a number of names, including Sapphire Sleet, UNC1069, Stardust Chollima, APT38 and BlueNoroff. One of the main ways the scammers go...

As hopes for a military victory fade, the Kremlin is now betting on Ukraine’s economic collapse and weakening European support Russian President Vladimir Putin has four bets on how to win the war in Ukraine. Two of them—that Ukraine’s army will break, or that the Trump administration will force Kyiv to submit to Moscow’s terms—are going badly.But Putin’s other two bets have a better chance of succeeding by next year: paralyzing Ukraine’s economy with relentless missile and drone strikes, and waiting for European support to falter as political parties that oppose aid for Kyiv gain popularity. This week’s U.S.-mediated talks...

Farai Mazhindu@FaraiMazhinduThe chaos in El Salvador before Bukele was never an accident, and the chaos in Haiti today is not an accident either.The media told you that the gangs were just poor boys who went bad on their own, but that story falls apart the moment you ask one simple question.Where does a poor sixteen year old boy living in a slum with no job and no money get an AK-47 and an AR-15 and a Glock and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and where does he get a brand new Toyota Hilux and motorcycles and speedboats and drones and...

I'm with the reverend. Why? Just how many Gabby Johnson's out there?

Live video of USS Enterprise arriving in Mobile. It will be a slow, slow process.

A group of surfers helped rescue a person who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, reaching him in the water before a U.S. Coast Guard boat arrived. Among them was 17-year-old Colby Ralls, of San Rafael, California, who was surfing with two others when voices from the bridge alerted them that something was wrong. "I yelled to my dad, call someone. Everyone was yelling to the beach, to call someone. And then he ended up just jumping off. There was guys up there, telling him not to. He just jumped off and just right as we saw...

Here it comes… After electing Muslims into power in New Jersey, the state is set to pass a bill that criminalizes the criticism of Islam. It is the furtherance of Sharia and Islamic Supremacy by weaponizing “Islamophobia” to do so. Look for the UK-style censorship of free speech to spread to other states now that the Red/Green Alliance is ascendant in the US.Fresh from electing Muslim Democratic Representative Adam Hamawy, who seems to have a problem with naming Iran our enemy, New Jersey is now furthering Sharia and attempting to censor free speech by passing Assembly Bill A1146, which defines...

Zephyr, also of Missoula and transgender, was simultaneously chosen as one of three minority whips. Howell, a biological woman born Sarah J. Howell, was elected in 2022 as Montana’s first "nonbinary" legislator. She previously worked as a lobbyist and activist on women’s and LGBTQ+ issues, and serves as executive director of Montana Women Vote, a nonprofit that works to get low-income women into the political process. Democrats in Montana just elected State Rep. SJ Howell as the first transgender Minority House Leader. https://t.co/E3y1fBvJvv — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2026 Howell was the only nominee for the minority leader...

Did you hear that the world is ending on Friday? That's according to three scientists in the 1960s. “Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve,” they said in an article in the journal Science published on 4 November 1960. “They will be squeezed to death.” “The work was based on a simple observation,” said Science in October – “the time it took for the human population to double in size kept getting shorter”. So, drawing on population estimates from about 400BC until 1958, the authors “came up with an equation that best described the trend”. By 2020, they predicted, the human population...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tossed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick right under the bus when asked why a firm at the center of the ongoing Nvidia drama had not been added to a list of companies posing a national security threat. Bessent appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday morning, when Joe Kernen brought up reports about tensions between Bessent and Lutnick. Those dust-ups between the two have primarily been over a Singaporean data center company called Megaspeed, which is at the heart on the ongoing drama with Nvidia and its now-ex-CEO Jensen Huang. Huang resigned as head of his own...

If you use Microsoft Outlook — or, God be with you, if you're one of the unlucky millions who have to use Teams — then you were probably aware that much of the Microsoft network apparently got zapped into oblivion yesterday. As CNBC reports: Microsoft suffered a widespread outage on Thursday and Friday, as engineers scrambled to fix server issues that caused disruption to millions of its customers. By "widespread," they mean "no one in 74 different countries could use Microsoft services." Connectivity issues began shortly before 1 p.m. ET on Thursday and continued into Friday, with Outlook and Teams,...

The ‘affordability’ problem has been solved. Gina Hinojosa, Jpardo210, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. Texas had a pretty shocking election, but at least the good news is that the ‘affordability’ problem has been solved… in that we’ll never heard about it again from the media except to assure Texans that everything is affordable now and if they don’t think so, they’re a bunch of bigots. Gov-Elect Hinojosa is tackling ‘affordability’ by promising to dismantle border security and free illegal aliens. The new Attorney General Nathan Johnson is pledging to ensure ‘affordability’ by blocking the construction of a border wall and...