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  • Doc accused of fatally removing wrong organ from patient arrested while driving for Lyft: ‘From now on, we’re using Uber’

    04/26/2026 2:14:57 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 26, 2026 | Caitlin McCormack
    A Florida doctor accused of fatally removing the wrong organ from a patient was recently arrested while working a shift for Lyft — much to the horror of his vacationing passengers. Thomas Shaknovksy, 44, was cuffed April 13 in Miramar Beach, Fla., on charges of second-degree manslaughter while carting around two customers in his silver Mitsubishi. An officer with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office hauled Shaknovksy out of his car and handcuffed him while pressing the suspect against the back driver’s side window, where one of his stunned passengers was sitting, according to police body-camera footage obtained by NBC News....
  • THIRD TIME IS NOT A CHARM ☙ Sunday, April 26, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS

    04/26/2026 1:54:18 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 8 replies
    Coffee and Covid ^ | April 26th 2026 | Jeff Childers
    Well— it happened again. Thank heavens, they failed again. Some curious patterns are emerging from the three shooters. All three episodes share a common shape: a lone, heavily armed man, apparently motivated at least in part by politics, probing the edges of Trump’s protective bubble and exploiting a specific vulnerability in the environment. When does a ‘lone wolf’ become a pack? In Butler, Pennsylvania, shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto an unsecured rooftop just outside the rally perimeter; in Florida, Ryan Wesley Routh built a sniper’s hide along the fence line of Trump’s golf course; and at the Correspondents’ Dinner,...
  • Are We Subjects or Citizens? Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution

    04/26/2026 1:50:01 PM PDT · by Retain Mike · 18 replies
    Imprimis ^ | MARCH/APRIL 2026 | Edward J. Erler
    It is broadly agreed by constitutional scholars that the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Many in Congress initially argued that the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 granted citizenship and the rights and liberties attached to that status. Others argued that there should be explicit legislation, which resulted in the Civil Rights Act the following year. Still others thought the Civil Rights Act was insufficient because future majorities could repeal it. This concern became the impetus for the Fourteenth Amendment, which constitutionalized the Civil Rights Act.The citizenship clause was a...
  • Frustrated [ Rush Limbaugh ] Callers Want the Swamp Drained Now! [ Why They Keep Trying To Kill President Trump ]

    04/26/2026 1:23:27 PM PDT · by Ronaldus Magnus III · 3 replies
    Washington establishment’s totally opposed to Trump. They don’t want anything that Trump campaigned on to happen. They don’t want an outsider coming in and succeeding and thereby demonstrating how it can be done. Nobody on the outside is supposed to be able to come in and reform Washington and improve it. The establishment has set it up so they have an exclusive, exclusionary club that very few people are capable or qualified to be part of, and that’s that. So the last thing they can afford is for somebody like Trump, who’s not a politician by trade, to come in...
  • HISTORIC PHOTO - President Donald Trump, Flanked by Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and more

    04/26/2026 1:15:16 PM PDT · by bitt · 22 replies
    HISTORIC PHOTO 10:15PM, President Donald Trump rushes into the Oval Office after an assassination attempt — analyzing intel on what happened Flanked by Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and more
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed

    04/26/2026 12:47:45 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    NASA ^ | 26 Apr, 2026 | Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
    Explanation: Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The huge monster, actually an inanimate series of pillars of gas and dust, measures light years in length. The in-head star is not itself visible through the opaque interstellar dust but is bursting out partly by ejecting opposing beams of energetic particles called Herbig-Haro jets. Located about 7,500 light years away in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic Mountain, the appearance of these pillars is dominated by dark dust even though they are composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. The featured image...
  • Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth

    04/26/2026 12:08:23 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 17 replies
    space,com ^ | 04/24/2026 | Daisy Dobrijevic
    Both eruptions came from a sunspot region on the sun's western limb, AR4419. The first solar flare peaked at 9:07 p.m. EDT on April 23 (0107 GMT April 24), followed by the second at 4:14 a.m. EDT (0814 GMT) on April 24. These are the strongest solar flares we've seen in 78 days, according to solar physicist Ryan French. The bursts of radiation from the flares triggered strong radio blackouts on the sunlit side of Earth — the first affecting parts of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and the second impacting East Asia. The active sunspot region is putting on...
  • Fetterman to Democrats: ‘Drop the TDS and Build the White House Ballroom’

    04/26/2026 9:42:58 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 27 replies
    Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) called for Democrats to “drop” their Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) after a shooting at the Washington Hilton Hotel on Saturday, and called for Democrats to support building the White House ballroom.Fetterman shared a screenshot of a Mediaite article from reporter Joe DePaolo about how security at the hotel, where the Washington Correspondents’ Dinner took place, was “awful.” In a post on X. Fetterman expressed that the venue at the Washington Hilton Hotel “wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession” of the United States government in attendance.
  • SICK DEMOCRAT WI BREWERY OWNER Makes Chilling Social Media Post Telling Customers He Won’t Be Able To Give Them “Free Beer” Because Trump Assassination Was Unsuccessful

    04/26/2026 9:17:43 AM PDT · by Morgana · 76 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 26, 2026 | Patty McMurry
    Just hours after President Donald J. Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and key members of his Cabinet were rushed to safety during a shocking shooting scare at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, one Democrat Wisconsin brewery owner couldn’t hide his disappointment. Minocqua Brewing Company – a far-left operation in Minocqua, Wisconsin – allegedly took to Facebook (his Facebook post has now been deleted) to share his outrage that the latest attempt on President Trump’s life didn’t succeed. They even dusted off their disgusting “free beer all day the day he dies” promotion, with posts...
  • White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter's chilling manifesto revealed: Gunman called himself 'The Friendly Federal Assassin' and named high-ranking targets just minutes before opening fire

    04/26/2026 9:12:16 AM PDT · by Morgana · 107 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 26, 2026 | victoria churchill
    The gunman who opened fire outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner called himself the 'Friendly Federal Assassin' in a chilling manifesto he wrote before the attack. Cole Allen, 31, sent the eerie anti-Trump writing to his family members just 10 minutes before he fired shots at the hotel in Washington, where the ritzy press gala was taking place on Saturday night. The harrowing writing was given to police by a relative, a US official said. According to the New York Post, Allen's manifesto read: 'Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped...
  • Democrats Seeking to Hold ‘Shadow Hearings’ to Plan for Impeaching Trump on Day 1 If They Take the House

    04/26/2026 8:35:09 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 53 replies
    Red State ^ | 24 Apr, 2026 | Rusty Weiss
    Democrats, anticipating winning back control of the House of Representatives following the midterm elections, are already plotting how best to serve the American people. Just kidding. They're already hashing out a plan to engage in their favorite pastime — impeaching President Trump. House Democrats are reportedly pushing to build a case for impeachment. And building that case includes launching “shadow hearings” in preparation for the big day. Man, the resistance party has certainly turned into a single-issue party. Imagine how intellectually challenged and totally void of morals you have to be to make that single issue 'get Trump.' They have...
  • Wisconsin Brewery Offers Free Beer to Celebrate Trump Assassination, Ignites Nationwide Backlash

    04/26/2026 8:26:29 AM PDT · by MarlonRando · 74 replies
    Twitchy ^ | 4-26-26 | Mindy
    A brewery in Wisconsin is offering free beer on the day President Trump is successfully killed. Aren't they literally offering gifts or compensation for the murder of a sitting US President? Shouldn't the FBI go speak with them?
  • And sure enough, the lunatic left weighs in on the third attempted assassination of President Trump

    04/26/2026 8:15:42 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 43 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 26 Apr, 2026 | Monica Showalter
    Most cheered, but some called it a hoax or claimed it was a Trump supporter who did it. We've seen it before -- the giggling, the gloating. The left always dances a jig whenever evil takes a shot at President Trump, which happened again last night. President Trump charitably called the would-be assassin 'a sick person.' But the left embraced that 'sick.' They hate Trump so much they hailed that sicko and all the evil around him. The most hideous ones were found on X: [numerous X posts in article] SNIP Obviously, they are constrained by staff rules and can't...
  • Leftists move on from ‘nobody’s coming for your guns’

    04/26/2026 7:58:29 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 31 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Apr, 2026 | D. Parker
    It’s bad enough when leftists lie. It’s worse when they openly tell the truth. Leftists are no longer hiding their plans to take your guns if they ever gain power. That means it’s time to get activated in defending freedom. The gun-grabber ghouls of the left have always played a little game incrementally demanding more control over a commonsense and constitutional civil right. Though they used to occasionally say the quiet part out loud, things have changed. They’ve never been as blatant about it as they are now. In the past, the ghouls had the advantage that history had yet...
  • Obtaining a change of venue for the Cole Allen trial(s)

    04/26/2026 7:48:02 AM PDT · by bill andersen · 30 replies
    Cole Allen will be indicted on multiple charges. His alleged crimes occurred in Washington D.C. and he will be tried there. He will be found not guilty there, by reason of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Washington D.C. is the most Trump-hating place on earth. It, along with the surrounding communities in Virginia and Maryland currently have an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, largely due to doge cuts under the Trump administration. Prosecutors must realize the entire jury pool is tainted with anti Trump folks and they will not find impartial jurors. Even worse, the judge will be anti Trump. It is...
  • White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen seen on local news segment from 2017 touting his invention

    04/26/2026 7:43:18 AM PDT · by DFG · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/26/2026 | Ariel Zilber
    A 2017 local TV news segment featuring a man identified as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect has resurfaced online in the wake of the incident. The clip, from ABC7 Los Angeles (KABC), shows a young Cole Allen — described as a Caltech student at the time — demonstrating a prototype wheelchair emergency brake at a tech conference focused on helping seniors. “The wheelchair brakes tend to lock the wheels, but don’t lock the chair to the ground. But with this device, that will prevent the chair from skidding at all,” Allen said in the segment. The report aired...
  • Make America Healthy Again plans anti-glyphosate protest in front of Supreme Court

    04/26/2026 7:26:21 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 34 replies
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  • James Carville says the quiet part out loud

    04/26/2026 6:45:10 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 65 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 26 Apr, 2026 | Mike McDaniel
    As I’ve often written, Democrats are infernal masters at manipulating language, at making policies and ideas utterly destructive to our constitutional, representative republic, seem benign, even beneficial. To that end, they avoid identifying the true nature of our republic like vampires shun sunlight. Instead, they call America “our democracy,” which our system of government is manifestly not. SNIP That will not stop Democrats, and we know because they keep explicitly telling us exactly what they plan to do to us. Should Carville’s plans come to fruition, Americans will have the choice of submission or civil war, which will ultimately not...
  • NGOs Cosplaying as Overlords and Power Brokers

    04/26/2026 5:53:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 26 Apr, 2026 | Clarice Feldman
    A bad week for Iran, the SPLC, and the Left in general. hat description comes from Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist, and relates to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was just indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama. The SPLC was formed years ago to seek damages for KKK victims. Over the years, it amassed a fortune and used it and its connections with the media and the Democrats unfairly to tar and ruin the livelihoods and reputations of individuals and organizations with which it disagreed -- including groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education....
  • You Don’t Understand Iran… And That’s Dangerous | Dr Mordechai Kedar - you tube 35 minutes

    04/26/2026 5:28:04 AM PDT · by dennisw · 23 replies
    y tube ^ | 4 24 | Dr Mordechai Kedar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhfp0NhNROk This is the best explanation of Shiite vs Sunni. He explains how Sunnis see Shiite as a heresy due to elevating a few Shiite "heroes" to the same status as Muhammad, the final prophet. See at least the first 10 minutes where he explains the ideology of the apocalyptic Shiites that govern Iran IRGC included.