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Social media can be valuable for gun owners on a variety of fronts, but sometimes we're reminded of why there is no substitute for expert instruction and advice.One such reminder is a video posted Thursday on X by the Gun Lovers Club account. At first glance, it seems like just another cool video showing the exercise of our Second Amendment rights, but a closer look reveals more about the apparent idiocy of the person involved than the coolness involved.The first six seconds of the 15-second video shows a relatively young man jumping on a trampoline in his backyard and firing...

Japan has resumed operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant to help the country meet huge electricity demands during a global oil crisis, but the reboot highlights a big problem: Japan is running out of space for spent nuclear fuel and has no viable plans for permanent disposal of the radioactive waste. The restart of No. 6 reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station earlier this year was meant to spur a movement to bring more nuclear reactors online. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is one of three plants whose cooling pools will be full in five years, according to the Federation of Electric...

Gavin Newsom is set to drop a bombshell tell-all interview with former President Biden’s son Hunter Friday morning. The California governor released a teaser clip from the sit down on X on Thursday afternoon, where he jokingly introduced his guest as: “Presidential candidate Hunter Biden.” Biden, in a clip of the podcast appearance obtained by TMZ, joked back. “Here’s the deal. I’ll run, but only as your VP,” he told Newsom. Biden said his reasoning was that the vice president’s residence “is a lot cooler” than the White House, he joked. The “promise” to run as Newsom’s VP came after...

A Manhattan public school is treating parents and teachers as “separate” but equal. The P.S. 003 Charrette School in the West Village is hosting a workshop for parents and staffers that separate them into “affinity” groups by race and ethnicity — a move slammed as discriminatory by legal experts. “What Does it Mean to be White in a Multi-Racial Community at PS3? — How does whiteness affect the collective child experience at PS3, as well as the entire community? White-identifying PS3 community members – SIGN UP HERE,” reads the invite posted on the school’s website. The June 16 “Listening Circles”...

It looks from afar more UFO than UFC. Maybe it’s the kind of contraption that has carried space aliens to the White House to force a meeting with America’s leader. But come closer and you’ll see the contours of the eight-sided cage, 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter and shaped, with careful precision, like the MMA league’s signature Octagon. That is, a STOP! sign flipped on its edge, with wire-mesh sides and padded corners fitted with different sponsors’ logos: Morgan & Morgan, Bud Light, Dodge Ram, Corona Extra and Polymarket, which identifies itself as the world’s largest prediction market. Overhead...

Fascinating video in which Jason Whitlock describes how Karmelo Anthony's parents and their community are delusional.Jason Whitlock's remedy is AIR. Assimilation, incarceration, or reservation.Ghetto people must either assimilate, or be incarcerated, or be given a reservation in which they can act out their primitive behavior on their tribe.Shocking. But this might be the solution to this problem.

A protester who was caught on video getting in another man's face outside the courthouse where Karmelo Anthony was sentenced for murder has been arrested. A spokesperson for the Collin County Sheriff's Office confirmed to the Daily Mail that Winston Jerome Parker, 27, was taken into custody outside the courthouse on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant on a charge of unlawful carry of a weapon. The alleged offense occurred in the parking lot of the courthouse last Saturday, the spokesperson noted. Prison records show Parker was granted a $1,000 surety bond. It is unclear whether he has retained an attorney...

Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was denied parole Thursday, nearly five years after a drunken driving crash that killed 23-year-old Tina Tintor and her dog in Las Vegas. Ruggs, 27, will be eligible for parole again on Aug. 24, 2027, and could appear before the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners next May. "Mr. Ruggs, and our office, continue to feel the grief and loss suffered by Ms. Tintor's family," Ruggs' attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, said in a Thursday statement, adding that they were disappointed by the parole board's decision to deny parole. During Ruggs'...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could be “in a lot of trouble” for allegedly steering taxpayer money toward “fraudulent schemes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.” The Kentucky Republican lauded the Trump administration’s latest efforts “to prosecute people in Minnesota” for alleged fraud and making an example out of “that Somali crime ring up there,” before suggesting Omar could eventually be a target of the crackdown. “I do think Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble,” Comer told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine. “You got a situation there where...

President Trump said the supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has agreed to the peace deal, including its provision that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon. “They will not have a nuclear weapon, they’ve agreed to that,” he said. “They will not only not have, they will not purchase, develop in any way, any shape, in any way, shape, or form a nuclear weapon. They will not have a nuclear weapon.” The president has been adamant that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, leaving it as a make or break condition in the talks. Tehran had pushed back, claiming...

Everything is working against him. For the next 35 years, Karmelo Anthony has to get used to his new life in a cell. The 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf. Anthony was held at the Collin County Detention Facility in Texas following his conviction for the April 2025 fatal stabbing. During his time at the Collin County Detention Facility post-conviction, authorities placed Anthony in isolation. This was to ensure facility safety and security. However, social media thinks something else is going on. On X, a post about Karmelo Anthony’s...

A survey from the Partnership for Public Service also found that a majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration’s changes to government.

Spencer Pratt made a pointed comment about the LA mayoral race results as he has yet to concede or contest the outcome. “Are they done counting yet?” Pratt wrote in a comment on X. The former reality TV star has not yet directly addressed his loss to left-wing Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who defeated Pratt and will now face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the November runoff. Pratt, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, overperformed on election night, leading the Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate by at least eight points. However, he soon began to lose his lead as more...

Admitted Senate sleazeball nominee Graham Platner kept his hideous Nazi tattoo to remind himself “the US was the evil bad guy overseas,” according to an ex-girlfriend with whom he cheated on his fiancée in 2021. The left-wing streamer, who spoke to The Post, is the second woman to say that Platner knew about the fascist origin of his Totenkopf skull and crossbones tattoo when he got it — despite his claims that he didn’t realize it was a Third Reich symbol until last fall. Her assertions were backed up by texts reviewed by The Post that she’d sent to her...

@SenLummis Big Banks debanked President Trump—and many others in America—because they didn't agree with their politics. We can never go back to Biden's Operation Chokepoint 2.0 policies. This should be investigated.

The West is at war with foreign invaders, and Western governments are at war with imaginary ‘climate change.’ The global managerial class of bureaucrats, bankers, politicians, corporate heads, and NGOs are committed to fomenting chaos and violence in Western nations. In the name of fighting the imaginary “climate change” hobgoblin, they outlaw inexpensive forms of energy and push us toward a carbon-tracking system that justifies ever more intrusive forms of mass surveillance. In the name of fighting exotic pandemics, they justify mass lockdowns, central bank digital currencies, and “vaccine” passports. By claiming that man-made “climate change” causes new pandemics and...

The Parker Solar Probe this past week successfully completed its 28th close fly-by of the Sun, zipping past its surface at a distance of only 3.8 million miles. During this solar encounter, which started June 3 and ends Saturday, June 13, Parker’s four scientific instrument packages gathered data from inside the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona. Parker will begin returning detailed spacecraft telemetry on June 14, with science data transmission set to run from Wednesday, June 17 to Tuesday, June 30. …Parker also equaled its record-setting speed of 430,000 mph — a mark that, like Parker’s distance to the Sun, was...

On Wednesday, we reported on some insane, racially inflammatory comments Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) made in the aftermath of the guilty verdict that was reached this week in the murder case of Karmelo Anthony, who admittedly stabbed fellow 17-year-old high school student Austin Metcalf to death in April 2025. Anthony's defenders have made this case about race right from the start. Anthony is black; Metcalf was white. Anthony has contended that he had a right to self-defense after Metcalf allegedly pushed him during a heated exchange under Metcalf's high school's tent during a track meet, where Anthony was asked...

LONGVIEW, Wash. — The Cowlitz County Coroner's Office has completed autopsies on 10 of the 11 people who died in the May 26 industrial accident at the Nippon Dynawave facility in Longview, one of the deadliest workplace disasters in the nation in recent decades...The disaster began when a tank containing more than 500,000 gallons of a highly destructive chemical mixture used in paper manufacturing collapsed at the facility...According to autopsy findings released by the coroners office, 10 of the victims died from alkaline chemical burns...

Phil Mickelson is reportedly no longer a member at The Farms Golf Club, a private golf course in the San Diego area, due to allegations of inappropriate contact with a female employee. According to Golf Digest, Mickelson approached the female employee at the clubhouse before a round and made nonconsensual physical contact with her. Mickelson’s advances were rejected by the employee, and she filed a complaint to club officials. Mickelson was approached by club officials about the incident soon after, and he left the golf course before he finished the round. Golf Digest confirmed that Mickelson is no longer a...