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https://x.com/vpnet_official/status/2068082936100929607ransomnote: at the time of this posting, the featured DeFlock broadcast begins in about half an hour (4pm Eastern)vp.net@vpnet_officialOur Hero of the Week: Will Freeman, creator of DeFlock: @therealDeFlock. He noticed plate cameras going up on street corners, so he mapped them. All 100,000+ of them. Flock sent a cease and desist. He put his name on a lawsuit instead.Full conversation in the thread 👇June 19, 2026 vp.net @vpnet_official·21h This Saturday we go live with the DeFlock and anti-ALPR organizers carrying his fight forward. Live Saturday, 4pm ET, the full roundtable: vp.net @vpnet_official·21h DeFlock lets you see where the Flock...

A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses. Police data show a sharp drop in vehicle burglaries over the past year. According to the Oakland Police Department’s crime dashboard, car break-ins are down 37 percent year-to-date, comparing May 2025 to May 2026. At Low Price Auto Glass on San Leandro Street in East Oakland, owner Raj Singh said the decrease has directly impacted a once-reliable portion of his business. "There is the door glass repair if there is...

Team Algae and Filth has been busy at work, supported by CNN, ABC and various leftist media, in an attempt to grow algae back in the DC reflection pool, and cut out the newly installed lining. A few arrests have been made by DC park police. Yes, these folks are that unstable. Liberalism is a mental disorder. President Trump responds to the effort via Truth Social: “We’ve cleaned, renovated, and beautified over 45 Monuments and Memorials, 28 Statues, and 22 Fountains in Washington, D.C. Things are really looking good in our Nation’s Capital, and add to that the fact that...

I was just watching the Sweden versus Netherlands World Cup and I thought I was seeing two American soccer teams playing. I believe 50% of Swedish players are not the stereotypical Sweden and Netherlands (okay I guess the Caribbean Territory of Netherlands are still Dutch citizens) are not Dutch...It is Amazing when you need immigrants to populate your country and you can see what will happen...The Swede gets replaced... I'm trying to see if an African Soccer team has 50% Caucasians on it...I bet no...

Newly released photos show the fatal wound Austin Metcalf suffered when Karmelo Anthony stabbed him with a $13 Walmart knife during a confrontation at a Texas high school track meet. The grisly images, made public Friday by Collin County court, show a deep gash in the 17-year-old football player’s chest, with a forensic ruler placed beside the wound.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed the colorful secret of the Pink Planet, the coldest object of its type ever directly observed. A team of astronomers led by Northwestern University has revealed their findings in a recent paper published in The Astronomical Journal, finally describing the rose-colored haze covering the planetary-mass companion GJ504b, thanks to JWST data. For over a decade, researchers have speculated that atmospheric salt clouds may create the pink planet’s strange hue, but this is the first concrete evidence for the hypothesis. The Pink Planet Since its discovery in 2013,...

Explanation: Venus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies. For evening sky gazers on June 17, the celestial beacon rose after sunset close by a young, slender, crescent Moon. But from some locations the Moon could be seen to occult or pass in front of Venus. And from a backyard observatory in southern British Columbia, Canada, the lunar occultation was played out in daylight. This stunning telescopic snapshot captured a scene in dramatically cloudy skies, following Venus' hour long disappearance, as the...

“Here lies the man who wanted to destroy Israel.” The words are carved into the tombstone of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the man the Islamic Republic later called the father of its missile industry. Almost in parallel with its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic spent nearly four decades advancing its missile program toward the goal Tehrani Moghaddam had written into his will: the destruction of Israel. It has not achieved that goal. Iranian officials have long insisted that the program is solely defensive. But the tombstone of the man credited with building it tells a different story. Tehrani Moghaddam was also...

A ban on certain contracts between hospital systems and health insurers could save Americans around $45 billion, according to a report from White House analysts released on June 18. “The Council of Economic Advisers’ findings reinforce that the Trump administration is delivering meaningful cost reductions for American patients,” White House spokeswoman Allison Schuster told The Epoch Times by email June 19, noting the president’s surgical approach to policy development that prioritizes fiscal discipline. “By harnessing the use of free-market competition, President Trump has found a real solution to lowering costs instead of blindly throwing more taxpayer money at the problem.”...

Clandestine@WarClandestine HOLY [redacted for FR]The new Syrian regime has been working with the IAEA, and they found uranium samples at clandestine nuclear facilities in Syria?! WHAT?!The IAEA found natural uranium, with signs of chemical processing, indicating that processed uranium derived from yellowcake was handled at these facilities. Samples were taken in June 2025, and the origin of the material has not yet been disclosed.The facilities are supposedly linked to North Korean assistance, and Syria has been a proxy of Iran until the Assad regime fell in 2024. The new regime under Al-Sharaa has been cooperating with Trump and the IAEA.Trump...

🚨 BREAKING: This is the enhanced security camera footage that captured, from a distance, the final moments leading up to the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf by Karmelo Anthony. Presented during trial, prosecutors used the footage to highlight Anthony’s movements immediately after the stabbing and as he departed the area prior to being taken into custody. This marks the first time the video has been made available to the public. Due to the camera’s distance and angle, the footage does not clearly show the physical interaction itself. However, it does appear to capture a brief exchange of movement beneath the...

The Cyprus Mail reports that an ancient ceramic vessel has been reclaimed from an online auction and returned to Cyprus after a year-long investigation. Cypriot officials who monitor online activity determined that the vase was in the hands of a collector in Canada, who eventually agreed to repatriate it. Researchers from Cyprus' Department of Antiquities determined that the engraved, black-polished hemispherical bowl dates to about 1900 B.C. For more on the archaeology of Cyprus, go to "In the Time of the Copper Kings."

Via NBC, we're about to see a whole lot more of outer space than we've ever witnessed before: After nearly two decades of development, $4.3 billion and the labor of hundreds of scientists and engineers, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is less than three months from launch. From a point roughly 1 million miles from Earth, the telescope is expected to survey the cosmos, capturing panoramas of hundreds of millions of stars and billions of galaxies. With this observatory, NASA hopes to unravel the secrets of dark matter and dark energy and discover thousands of planets beyond our solar...

Haaretz reports that two 1,700-year-old marble busts have been discovered in a wine-collection pit at a winepress dated to the Roman and Byzantine periods in northern Israel. One of the busts is inscribed in Greek with the name "Lycurgus," perhaps referring to the legendary founder of Sparta, or a statesman and orator who lived in Athens in the fourth century B.C. Archaeologists Eliran Oren and Michael Solotskin of the Israel Antiquities Authority said that sculptures may have been buried in the pit to hide them during an invasion. "In the Roman period, statues of this kind were displayed both in...

Students For Liberty@sflibertyIn July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵Students For Liberty@sfliberty·18hWhat the world saw: on October 23, 1984, the BBC aired a report by correspondent Michael Buerk with footage filmed in the Korem refugee camp by Kenyan photographer Mohamed Amin.Within weeks, 425 television stations had rebroadcast those images of starving children to roughly 470 million viewers worldwide.Students For Liberty@sfliberty·18hThe crisis was framed almost entirely as a...

Tony Seruga @TonySeruga 1/6 The Pulte-Gabbard Offensive: A Structural BreakdownI've identified the precise fulcrum point here, and it's worth unpacking why this combination of players and information creates genuine leverage.Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·22h2/6🎯 Why Pulte Scares the MachineBill Pulte isn't just another wealthy Trump ally. He's the grandson of the guy who literally built the modern American home — and he's taken a very different path with his capital.- Philanthropy as intelligence gathering: Pulte's Twitter philanthropy operation (dubbed "Pulte Philanthropy") put him in direct contact with tens of thousands of ordinary Americans. That's not charity — that's a distributed intelligence network. He...

Lander, who is running as a progressive with support of Mayor Mamdani, is running away with the contest with just over a month to go before the June 23 primary. If Lander wins by anything close to the more than 2-1 margin in the survey it would represent a huge political victory for Mamdani. Goldman refused to back Mamdani even after he won the Democratic primary.

Senior research scientist John Jumper said on Friday he would leave Google DeepMind to join AI startup Anthropic, the latest ‌high-profile departure at the Big Tech giant's AI research and development division. Jumper, ‌who won a Nobel prize alongside Google's Demis Hassabis in 2024, is best known as the co-creator ​of AlphaFold, a breakthrough AI that has predicted over 200 million protein structures, cutting years off biological and medical research. How intense is the AI talent war among tech giants? "After nearly nine years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic," Jumper said in a post on...

Throughout the early Cold War, conservatives in Congress—including Republicans—opposed American entanglements in the Middle East, drawing on an earlier noninterventionist consensus that valued restraint overseas and fiscal prudence at home. Conservative Republicans presented a vocal bloc of opposition to the Eisenhower Doctrine, which expanded American influence in the Middle East, ostensibly to counter Soviet influence and fill the vacuum left by the departure of the European colonial powers. One such dissenter was Iowan Representative H.R. Gross, one of the most fiscally conservative congressional members in history. Dissenting Republicans voiced similar critiques during the American response to the 1973 Yom Kippur...