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  • 12 teens shot after rowdy Georgia birthday party spills out of Airbnb into nearby park

    09/27/2026 5:28:29 PM PDT · by Libloather
    NY Post ^ | 9/27/26 | Alex Oliveira
    A dozen teens were shot after gunfire broke out at a chaotic birthday party gone awry inside a Georgia park Saturday night, according to local authorities and reports. The shots broke out around midnight at Carolyn Crayton Park in Macon, where a “large gathering” had congregated following a birthday party at a nearby Airbnb, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Two of the victims –- a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old boy — were left in critical condition, while the other 10 were listed in stable condition. The group, which included high schoolers, had been asked to leave that Airbnb...
  • Assisted suicides now make up more than 1 in 10 deaths in parts of Canada — and rates are rising

    09/27/2026 4:52:03 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    New York Post ^ | Sep. 24, 2026, 5:22 p.m. ET | Alex Oliveira
    These people are dying to leave Canada.Canada’s medically assisted suicide is responsible for nearly one in 10 deaths in some part of the country — with one area seeing rates over 13%.Lanaudière — a mountainous region of Quebec just north of Montreal — had 13.4% of its deaths come from Canada’s medical assistance in dying program (MAID) in 2025, official records showed.Across French-speaking Quebec, which is Canada’s second most populous province, 6,268 died by assisted suicide that year. Nearly 8% of all deaths across the province of 8.5 million people were by assisted suicide, according to the health department data....
  • A pensioner called 999. Not MI5. Not GCHQ. A villager spotted three suspicious vans heading toward a US bomber base and dialled 999. Five men arrested under the Explosives Act, then upgraded to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act...

    09/27/2026 4:12:05 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 13 replies
    X.com ^ | September 27, 2026 | Christian @InTheTrenchesUK
    Christian@InTheTrenchesUK·7hTHIS MORNING. RAF FAIRFORD. 00:45.A pensioner called 999. Not MI5. Not GCHQ. A villager spotted three suspicious vans heading toward a US bomber base and dialled 999.Five men arrested under the Explosives Act, then upgraded to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act: preparation of a terrorist act. Three vans. 85 homes evacuated at 1.30am. Army bomb disposal robot inside a 400-metre cordon. Counter Terrorism Policing now leading. Major incident declared.The operation was not intelligence-led. A resident made a phone call. That is what stopped it.The IRGC already told you this was coming.In July 2026, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued...
  • The Americans were badly outnumbered, most of the infantry was forced to withdraw. Fox could have gone with them. Instead he and members of his observer party voluntarily remained behind...and continued directing American artillery

    09/27/2026 3:01:57 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 6 replies
    X.com ^ | September 27, 2026 | Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts ·
    Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·5hThe artillery crew warned him that the coordinates he had just given them were his own position. German soldiers were surrounding them and the American troops were retreating.He and his observer team stayed behind.His final message over the radio was: "Fire it! There's more of them than there are of us. Give them hell!"This is the story of John R. Fox..1/5 Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·5hThe artillery crew warned him that the coordinates he had just given them were his own position. German soldiers were surrounding them and the American troops were retreating.He and his observer team stayed behind. His...
  • Some Republicans Issue a New Call on Trump’s War With Iran: End It Now

    09/27/2026 2:49:20 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 59 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Sept. 27, 2026Updated 11:16 a.m. ET | Tim Balk
    As their midterm picture darkens, and gas and diesel prices soar, some Republicans who backed the war for months are now changing their tune. As President Trump warned in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in recent days that he might “annihilate” Iran, a growing number of Republicans were scrambling to find distance from a costly war that has swelled into a midterm crisis for the party.The split screen showed how Mr. Trump and his party’s battleground candidates are increasingly at odds as the November elections approach. With no clear resolution in sight, the war has sent the...
  • Oct. 7 terrorist seen kidnapping Noa Argamani in viral video is killed in Israeli operation

    09/27/2026 2:28:57 PM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/27/26 | Ronny Reyes
    Israel’s military and intelligence forces killed the terrorist who kidnapped Noa Argamani and was seen on camera in a terrifying viral video during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, officials said Sunday. Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr cheered as he rode off with a desperately pleading Argamani, in what became one of the most harrowing images of Hamas’ rampage at the Nova Music Festival. The Israeli Defense Forces’ undercover Gideonim Unit 33 located Sakr in Nuseirat area of Gaza, accusing the man of being “an operative in global Jihad organizations… who provided, among other things, combat means for the Hamas terror organization...
  • Dr. Oz says a Soros-funded group is using the courts to block CMS from stopping fraud in Obamacare. “We believe Soros funded a lawfare group… It’s an aligned group with the Democratic Party who has sued us 150 times on these issues.”

    09/27/2026 2:18:45 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 16 replies
    X.com ^ | September 27, 2026 | MAHA Action @MAHA_Action
    QThestorm@17QStorm·4hOz just explained how Obamacare stays rigged.“You could be a billionaire and get Obamacare.”The statute says the subsidy stops at four times poverty. A Maryland court just blocked CMS from checking the tax returns that would prove it.Oz says the shop doing it a Democratic-aligned lawfare group he believes is Soros-funded has sued them 150 times on these rules. They just won the income check.Biden judge. The “file and reconcile” rule is frozen with it, so exchanges cannot even cut off people who never filed a return. Fourth Circuit is set for October.Last Tuesday they dumped more than 760,000 phantom...
  • MLB, White House discuss playing game at national park

    09/27/2026 2:09:57 PM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    ESPN ^ | 9/27/26
    Major League Baseball has approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials from the White House and the league confirmed to The Washington Post on Saturday. The White House said in a statement that MLB asked the administration about hosting a game at a national park, adding that the National Park Service has not granted a permit to do so. "This is not a Presidential directive, nor is it being directed by the White House. It's also not being driven by the Department of Interior," the statement said. "Therefore, this is not a White House...
  • Trump Offered to Sell American Weapons to China’s Xi Jinping, US Ambassador Says

    09/27/2026 1:54:58 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 30 replies
    Mediaite ^ | September 27, 2026 | Sean James
    President Donald Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he would like to buy American weapons during the communist politician’s three day trip to the States last week, according to U.S. Ambassador to China David Purdue. The ambassador shared the surprising news during an interview on Fox News Sunday with anchor Shannon Bream. “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi if he would like to buy some, at one point,” Purdue said. The comment came as he defended Trump’s relationship with Taiwan, with Purdue arguing Trump has...
  • When Trump said Syria should handle Hezbollah, if Israel can't do the job without killing everyone, Trump directly challenged the imperial architecture which kept the region in turmoil for decades. [NOTES and QUOTES from 4 minute video]

    09/27/2026 1:38:53 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 5 replies
    X.com ^ | September 27, 2026 | Susan Kokinda @SusanKokindaa
    Susan Kokinda@SusanKokindaaParody account2 Trump Just Cracked Iran After 47 Years-1 #trend #flyp: #top #foryou #viral #trendingNOTES AND QUOTES BEGIN~~~Susan Kokinda: ....that is not Lindsay Graham's regime change, and Donald Trump made that very clear in an aside at the G7 summit.At the G7, Trump was asked what he would say to Republicans like Lindsay Graham who are sceptical of the MOU.Trump joked that he would have to talk to Graham, and that Lindsay would be 'in big trouble.'Kokinda notes that if Lindsay is skeptical about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), you can only imagine what he thought of Trump's remarks...
  • Cleopatra's Final Secret (Full Episode) | Documentary Special | National Geographic [1:06:19]

    09/27/2026 12:58:09 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 17 replies
    YouTube ^ | September 24, 2026 | National Geographic
    Where was Cleopatra buried? In this National Geographic documentary special, lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez searches for Cleopatra’s lost tomb. After over 20 years of searching, her excavations now lead in an unexpected new direction, a submerged site miles offshore in the Mediterranean. She has enlisted Titanic discoverer Bob Ballard, the Egyptian Navy, and a team of archaeologists and divers to help her explore this mysterious location that may finally answer over a thousand year old secrets. Cleopatra's Final Secret (Full Episode) Documentary Special | National Geographic | 1:06:19 National Geographic | 26.5M subscribers | 717,495 views | September 24, 2026
  • 🚨 What Benghazi was all about: Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept (Hillary Clinton) had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

    09/27/2026 12:54:44 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 73 replies
    X.com ^ | September 27, 2026 | Mike Netter @nettermike
    Mike Netter@nettermike·16hFor those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:🚨mSo here's the REAL story:Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed...
  • AI could be used to kill 1 billion people, Bill Gates warns — as he calls for restrictions

    09/27/2026 12:48:24 PM PDT · by DFG · 38 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/27/2026 | Ronny Reyes
    Tech billionaire Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence had the potential to kill a billion people in the wrong hands — as he joined the call to put safety restrictions on the technology. The Microsoft co-founder called for greater government oversight on AI during a talk with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he suggested AI could be abused and lead to humanity’s near extinction. “AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,” he warned. “So even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100% [of humanity], there’s never been a weapon as powerful...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Andromeda before Photoshop

    09/27/2026 12:29:58 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 14 replies
    NASA ^ | 27 Sep. 2026 | Image Credit: Kees Scherer
    Explanation: What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces normal imperfections. The picture is a stack of 223 images, each a 300 second exposure, taken from a garden observatory in Portugal during 2019. Obvious image deficiencies include bright parallel airplane trails, long and continuous satellite trails, short cosmic ray streaks, and bad pixels. These imperfections were actually not removed with Photoshop specifically, but rather greatly reduced with a series of...
  • NASA wants to see your pictures of the sky.

    09/27/2026 12:20:55 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    The Hill ^ | 09/09/2026 | Alix Martichoux
    Starting on Sept. 15, the space agency’s PACE satellite (which stands for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite) will circle the Earth every 98 minutes. While it’s overhead, the satellite will be collecting important environmental data, measuring how clouds and particles in the atmosphere absorb and reflect sunlight. Here’s where you (and everyone else on land) comes in: Scientists want to compare what they’re seeing in the sky with what you’re seeing on the ground. The pictures will help researchers to better understand the far-away images they’re capturing from space, said Dr. Andrew Sayer, the PACE atmosphere lead. Because...
  • The Real AI Fear: Lawyers

    09/27/2026 12:10:31 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 11 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept. 27, 2026 11:15 am ET | Andy Kessler
    Liability is much more effective than regulation at pushing companies to be safe.OpenAI and Anthropic are the Mercedes and BMW of artificial intelligence. No, not because they’re expensive and vulnerable to cheap imports from the Far East. And not because they exude obnoxious “The Best or Nothing” and “The Ultimate Driving Machine” Teutonic attitudes. Instead, they share a growing fear of liability.Some background: There are various levels of autonomous driving. In Level 2, AI controls the steering and speed, but drivers must keep their hands on the wheel and watch the road. Tesla’s oxymoronically named Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is Level...
  • Dog defends Minneapolis family after man attacks mother with hammer in her home (Pit Bull)

    09/27/2026 11:09:11 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 47 replies
    cbsnews.com ^ | September 24, 2026 | Ubah Ali
    A Minneapolis mother is recovering from a terrifying attack inside her home. Maria Grant sustained severe injuries that left her with six staples in her head. She said she's recovering physically, but the emotional toll is only growing with her attacker on the loose. About three weeks ago, Grant says she heard a knock at the door just before 9 p.m. and opened it. She says she was met with a hammer. "He's just hitting me over the head with a hammer, and all I'm feeling is the hits and then the waves of blood coming down my face and...
  • Trump Goes on the Warpath Against GOP Congresswoman Who Attacked Him in Viral Ad — Shares Fiery Social Media Posts Calling for Her Ouster

    09/27/2026 10:46:19 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 47 replies
    Mediaite ^ | September 27, 2026 | Joe DePaolo
    President Donald Trump shared a fiery string of social media posts attacking Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) over a viral ad in which she accused the president of having “betrayed” Hispanic voters. In a series of posts on Truth Social late Saturday, the president amplified criticisms of Salazar and calls for her ouster from Congress. “We need a NEW Republican to replace Salazar,” one user wrote in a post shared by Trump. “I guess she misread the tea leaves,” another Trump-boosted post read. “I should have voted for the guy who primaried her,” a third Trump-shared post said. Salazar claimed...
  • Hollywood Actors Losing Health Insurance Make Desperate Public Pleas

    09/27/2026 10:30:51 AM PDT · by T.B. Yoits · 79 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9/26/2026 | Warner Todd Hudson
    Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits. Matarazzo, whose last role was in the 2025 short film Paper Tiger, told fans on her social media that if she does not get a paying acting role soon, the new union rules will cause her to lose her health insurance, according to Variety. She made her comment in reply to a similar post made by actor Jack Haven, who told fans that he is $4,000 short of reaching the annual...
  • The War on Data Centers (Vanity)

    09/27/2026 10:13:13 AM PDT · by piytar · 65 replies
    Here ^ | 27-Sept-2026 | Piytar
    I am sick and tired of the left’s war on data centers. Hey leftist idiot jerks, if you use a mobile device such as your phone, do any online searching, visit any website, have a bank account, or basically interact with the modern world in any way, a data center is not just involved but essential. So the two major Trojan horses are (a) water use and (b) electrical costs. Let’s address each in turn. (a) Water use: Data centers recycle their water. A massive data center fills up with about as much water as two hotel swimming pools. Then...