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The following x.com post is written by Eric Schwalm. He commends the outstanding work of DataRepublican in exposing the Inter-Movement Impact Project's [IMIP] work steering a color revolution in America.Below, Schwalm builds on her work with his operator-level doctrinal lens drawn from 30 years of COIN and Unconventional Warfare experience (Retired Green Beret).Those wishing to read the 'receipts' he cites may prefer DataRepublican's research.Open Insurgency: A Green Beret’s Analysis of IMIPI spent 30-plus years as a Special Forces operator and intelligence professional hunting insurgent networks in Babil, Karbala, Anbar, and Diyala provinces in Iraq, in Syria, in the Horn of...

Detectives finally discovered the fate of the family who vanished in their car almost 70 years ago on their way to find Christmas decorations in Oregon. The group of five went missing in December 1958 in a case that gripped America. Two of the children were found dead months after the disappearance, but the other members had not turned up. But now, parents Kenneth and Barbara, and daughter, Barbie Martin, have been identified from human remains found in the Columbia River, officials said.

There is growing evidence that left leaning Vanity Fair is rebranding itself as a comedy magazine. Dan Adler seems to have no idea how inadvertently hilarious his interview with billionaire Stephen Cloobeck came across in "Eric Swalwell’s Beverly Hills Benefactor Wonders If He Missed 'a Big Known Secret in DC.'""A big known secret in DC" in which we are expected to believe that Swalwell's fellow Democrats, especially his biggest political benefactor, Nancy Pelosi, had absolutely no idea about the the man's depravity. In any event, Adler goes along with that pretense although it is obvious from what Cloobeck told him...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and first lady Rama Duwaji have been invited to the Met Gala — but won’t be attending, sources tell Page Six. New York City’s mayor is traditionally invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the lavish event every year, but we’re told that Mamdani, 34, won’t be joining Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour and her coterie of celeb guests on Monday, May 4. “He’s not coming,” said a source. “And it would be foolish if he did … can you imagine? It goes against everything he believes in.” Indeed, the event is being financially subsidized by Amazon...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced Friday that its National Fraud Enforcement Division (NFED) thwarted fraud schemes targeting $340 million in taxpayer funds in its first week on the job — with more than $10 million paid back in restitution. The NFED’s first big win was the sentencing of Abdullahe Nur Jesow April 9 to three years and seven months in prison for his role in bilking taxpayers out of $250 million meant for a child nutrition program that operated out of a bogus headquarters in Minneapolis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds weren’t spent by the co-conspirators —...

RealRobert@Real_RobNHere it is:The United States Senate under John Thune is officially the world’s number one sponsor of terror.CIA and counterterrorism expert, Sarah Adamsvconfirm the U.S. taxpayer is paying Taliban martyrs’ families.Every Taliban martyr who died during the war, U.S. taxpayers are paying them a stipend.Ten months ago, the House passed Rep. Tim Burchett’s No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act—to stop sending $40 million every week to the Taliban.The bill to stop it has been sitting on @LeaderJohnThune’s desk for nearly a year.In other words, some non-governmental, government funded organization is sending the kickback right back into the back pockets of...

Christopher Nolan made his way to Las Vegas to talk up “The Odyssey,” his historical drama based on Homer’s Greek epic... “Why ‘The Odyssey?’ ‘The Odyssey’ is a story that has fascinated generation after generation for 3,000 years,” Nolan mused. “It’s not a story. It’s the story.” Nolan treated exhibitors to an extended look at “The Odyssey,” which opened with Damon’s Odysseus, shirtless on the beach with a burly beard. He’s been gone a long time and admits to Calypso (Charlize Theron) that he “can’t remember anything before Troy.” Most of the footage revolved around “the story of the horse”...

Long before modern geopolitics turned the strait into a global flashpoint, there was a thriving port city called Hormuz. It sat on the southern coast of present-day Iran and later moved to an island nearby for security reasons. Medieval travellers wrote about it with awe. Merchants from India, Persia and the Arab world docked there. It became one of the richest trading hubs in the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. The waterway gradually took the name of the port. In other words, the strait was named after the city, and not the other way around... Most historians trace...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his plan to open a $30 million city-run grocery store in the heart of New York City. While that may seem like a lot of money, this isn't your average Kroger. Take a look at the following list of amazing features the new taxpayer-funded grocery store will have: 1. Choice of two different brands of products: Have your pick between carrots or potatoes. 2. A mandatory 3-hour wait time at the register to ensure fairness across all lines: Finally, justice for all. 3. All the cashiers will be ex-cons out on work release: Checkout has never...

WHAT HAPPENED: A 19-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested in France for allegedly raping sheep and goats at an educational farm near Marseille. The animals were found tied up and injured, prompting the farm owners to install cameras that captured the acts. Police from an anti-crime unit arrested the suspect on April 10 after catching him in the act. Authorities said DNA evidence linked him to multiple abused animals. The suspect, who arrived in France in November 2025 and was awaiting residency, denied the allegations through an interpreter.

Meet Japanese pensioners desperate to be put in prison. It’s a retirement plan with a difference, as seniors commit petty crimes to get into jail seeking shelter, safety and regular meals. But what does it say about Japan’s justice and welfare systems?

It's Friday! That means it is time to post silly things!

Explanation: Messier 82 is a starburst galaxy with a superwind. In fact, through supernova explosions and powerful winds from massive stars, the burst of star formation in M82 is driving a prodigious outflow. Evidence for the superwind from the galaxy's central regions is clear in the sharp telescopic portrait. The composite image includes 33 hours of narrowband data, highlighting emission from long outflow filaments of atomic hydrogen gas in reddish hues. Some of the gas in the superwind, enriched in heavy elements forged in the massive stars, will eventually escape into intergalactic space. Triggered by a close encounter with nearby...

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat, is facing a wave of backlash after declaring that the way to fight government waste is to remove President Donald Trump and his team from power. In video of her remarks that circulated online this week, Watson Coleman said: “If we wanted to eliminate abuse and fraud, we’d eliminate the president of the United States from the office right now, and the rest of the sycophants in his administration.” The comment spread quickly across social media and conservative outlets, with critics accusing the congresswoman of stoking dangerous political rhetoric under the guise...

Mike Steger@stegerMGWe’re watching the world reset in real time.This isn’t chaos.It’s strategy.Iran. China. India. The Middle East.All moving at once.Most people can’t see it yet. ransomnote: Below are a few of my notes and some images from the video.At the start of the video, Steger said that Trump's vision exceeds that of others and his strategies work because people can't even imagine what he intends so they can't fight its implementation. Trump thinks bigger than anyone else dares, he outflanks any effort to sabotage the deal. They can't sabotage a deal they can't even imagine exists.I found the entire video...

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday gave preliminary approval to President Donald Trump's plan for a massive new triumphal arch monument in the nation's capital, according to the New York Times. The outlet reported that the body holds an advisory role regarding the project's design, but does not wield enforcement authority. The Associated Press reported that the commission approved the concept for several projects, including the arch. The federal agency next will review updated designs for all three projects at a future meeting before taking any final votes. The proposed monument features a giant arch topped with a...

I met with two guys from Paris last week. They suggested in the Loop across the street from the James R. Thompson Center. I hadn’t been in the Loop for a couple of years but followed @CWBChicago on X for the latest on shootings, street takeovers, and general mayhem. I emailed back that no one meets in the Loop anymore by choice. Let’s meet at the Firehouse Grill in Evanston. Due to previous commitments they couldn’t switch. Not wanting to screw around with parking I took an Uber. Twenty minutes early, with time to kill, oops, an unfortunate choice of...

Screens run new cars now. Whether we like it or not, every dashboard has a giant tablet in the middle and another screen where the gauges used to be. Some of them blend into the dash like they belong. Others stick out like someone glued an iPad to the top. Either way, they run almost everything in the cabin. It wasn’t always like this. But like most tech trends, the shift happened eventually, and for reasons no one really asked for. Suddenly your radio, your AC, and even simple stuff like the headlight switch lives somewhere inside a maze of...

The annual festival of Songkran usually signifies a dazzling week-long celebration — but this year’s death toll paints a picture that’s anything but. While the Thai holiday is globally famous for being the “world’s largest water fight,” the reality on the ground is a horrific cycle of road accidents, drunk driving and reckless behavior. In the first three days of Songkran this year, more than 191 deaths have been recorded with 951 accidents and 911 injuries. According to the Road Accident Victims Protection Company, an average of 38 road deaths per day occur throughout the calendar year, indicating a large...

A UK bride was covered in black paint just moments before she walked down the aisle in a shocking “revenge” attack by her spiteful new sister-in-law. Gemma Monk, a 35-year-old mom of two, was walking with her father to her big day in Maidstone, England, when she heard someone call her name — then saw them throw black paint at her, she told Kent Online. She grabbed her attacker’s hair, realizing it was her groom’s sister, Antonia Eastwood, 49, who’d been banned from the nuptials over a simmering feud stemming from the sister-in-law’s own wedding a year earlier. Remarkably, Monk...