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Plenty of people are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence, or AI. Two of our four kids are freelance graphic artists, and they are (legitimately) worried about their incomes being yanked as more people use AI for simple graphics chores like designing logos, and increasingly for more complicated work, like graphics for television programming and websites. It's a fair thing to be worried about, but as I have advised them both, that genie ain't going back in the bottle, so they'd best figure out how to work with it - or find another line of work. These kinds of...

For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while, at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals... We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own...

Diego Pavia was not drafted over the weekend, but there’s still some potential demand for his services. The undersized Vanderbilt QB accepted an invite to Ravens minicamp on a tryout basis after not being selected during the three-day, seven-round 2026 NFL Draft. “I’m sure that he’s disappointed that he didn’t get drafted, of course,” ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter said on the “Pat McAfee Show” on Monday. “The Ravens minicamp is this weekend, but there are other teams that have their minicamps the next weekend. …” McAfee also posited the Heisman Trophy finalist could spend a few weeks in the...

Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby, one of college football's top returning players, is checking into a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction, the school announced Monday. Sorsby's decision to seek treatment, according to sources, came in the wake of the discovery of Sorsby making thousands of online bets on a variety of sports via a gambling app, which jeopardizes his eligibility with Texas Tech. The NCAA is investigating Sorsby's gambling, according to sources, as the organization forbids athletes from betting on both college and pro sports. Texas Tech said in a statement that the university "is committed to...

UNN @UnityNewsNetSubscribeClick to Subscribe to UnityNewsNet TOTAL Media Blackout on Starmer Ukraine Rent boy trial starting today. ZERO mentions on BBC News, GB News, Daily Mail. Clearly some kind of D-notice in place. What are they covering up? April 27, 2026

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While the world hunts for the elusive Planet Nine, a new gravitational anomaly suggests something much closer is hiding in the dark. This gravitational warp doesn't align with a far-off gas giant, instead, the math points to an Earth-sized rocky planet lurking in the twilight. Something astronomers are calling Planet Y. Did the Sun Pull a Rogue Planet into the Solar System? | 9:53 Territory | 92.6K subscribers | 95,808 views | April 27, 2026

“Multiple young men” were allegedly drugged and raped at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, according to an explosive new report which detailed harrowing accusations from murder to babies snatched from mothers at the pedophile’s New Mexico house of horrors.

RT 14 m 57 s .... ...Susan Kokinda links a third assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the Washington Hilton—where a 31-year-old Californian, Cole Tomas Allen, charged a Secret Service checkpoint with firearms and knives—to a broader political struggle she frames as the British imperial system versus Trump’s “American System.” She argues Trump’s own remarks about assassinations point to a pattern of targeting “impactful” leaders, comparing today’s climate to anarchist-era killings around 1900 and the 1901 assassination of William McKinley. Kokinda ties the attack’s timing to King Charles’ Washington visit, a new book, The Queen and Her Presidents, and a...

Hollywood actress Mariclare Costello has died at the age of 90. She passed away on the morning of April 17, in Brooklyn, New York, according to the Peoria Journal Star. The star was best known for starring on the family TV show The Waltons. She played Rosemary Hunter Fordwick from 1972 to 1977. And she went on to make several other shows like The Fitzpatricks in 1977 with Helen Hunt and Jimmy McNichol where she played matriarch Maggie Fitzpatrick. The actress then starred in movies such as After The Fall in 1974 with Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer as well...

Bruce Springsteen offered a "prayer of thanks" for Donald Trump at the beginning of his show in Austin on Sunday night. The legendary rocker – who has been embroiled in a war of words with the President for years – offered a moment of civility by acknowledging the shooting at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, which took place the night before. In his message, the Boss gave a “prayer of thanks that our President, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending, was injured” (via Consequence). “We can disagree,” Springsteen continued. “We can be critical of those in power, and...

Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente tells "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" that Nancy Guthrie likely coughed up blood on her front entrance as she was being abducted late Jan. 31 or early Feb. 1. "This is probably where she made her last stand," he said. Nancy Guthrie blood spatter: Ex-FBI profiler lays out chilling theory Elizabeth Vargas Reports | 6:15 NewsNation | 2.66M subscribers | Subscribe | 256,958 views | April 25, 2026

A hot air balloon slammed into a Sacramento-area casino building Monday afternoon and stayed in the air after the chaotic tumble. Sister station KCRA's LiveCopter 3 captured the moment the balloon slammed into a building as Sky River Casino was celebrating a groundbreaking for a new hotel. The video showed the basket of the balloon hit the side of the building, at one point reaching a 90-degree angle, while there was someone still inside the basket. The balloon kept going, attempting to descend for a landing, then aborting the effort and climbing back into the sky. LiveCopter 3 observed the...

From a "Day On The Green" concert promoted by Bill Graham, 2 July 1977. A brilliant live performance, they also played "Sweet Home Alabama". I was able to replace the audio as this performance was used in "Freebird - The Movie" of which a soundtrack album was issued. Unfortunately there is no track for "Sweet Home Alabama". MtnClimber: I saw the band on October 18, 1977 at the Lakeland (FL) civic center on the next to the last performance before the plane crash. It was the 5th time I had seen them. The devastating Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash near Gillsburg,...

Peter Thompson is co-founder and CEO of LucidLink, the cloud-native file streaming platform that enables instant, secure access to large files by streaming data on demand, allowing teams to access and edit complex filesets without downloading or syncing. I was 48 years old when I left my job and enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Studies program at Stanford. Most people at that stage of their careers are trying to reduce risk, not introduce it. They have steady income. They have dependents. In tech, the unspoken assumption is that if you were going to take a big swing, you should have done...

Rep. Ted Lieu drew attention during a recent congressional hearing after comments made related to Donald Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein files. The California lawmaker referenced material he said appears in the documents and urged further scrutiny of the claims.Ted Lieu says Epstein files have allegations of Donald Trump ‘raping children’At an event on February 4, 2026, Rep. Ted Lieu said, “Why are Republicans so interested in Bill and Hillary Clinton? It’s because they’re trying to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times.” He added, “In those files, there’s highly...

Pakistani attacks on the east Afghan province of Kunar have killed at least seven people and injured 75, among whom are students and a professor at Kunar University, multiple sources have told the BBC. According to the Taliban government, 30 of the injured are university students. Pakistan's information ministry denied attacking the university and residential areas, saying the reports were fake. Reports of the Kunar attacks come several weeks after a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital Kabul which, according to the UN, is now known to have killed 269 people. The Taliban say...

This winter, the Upper Colorado Basin saw some of the lowest snow totals in recorded history. As a result, federal officials made a decision to limit water releases from Lake Powell downstream in the coming months. Officials say that will result in substantial drops in Lake Mead's elevation. "All we’re seeing are depletions,” Kyle Roerink, advocate with the Great Basin Water Network, said. “We are dealing with changing snowpacks, changing runoff patterns, increasing evaporation rates, drier soils, and other natural phenomena that are depleting our bank accounts and our savings accounts," he said. Water managers face an encroaching deadline for...

I've long thought Eric Carmen's "Go All the Way" by his group, Raspberries (1972) was a practically perfect rock n roll song.

https://x.com/BredsguardDalen/status/2048626143537107207 Riccardo Bosi reposted DADA @BredsguardDalenSeems like chess pieces are being moved while everyone is distracted. ransomnote: excerpt of 2 min video belowTRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~On Monday, April 13, while the entire world was watching Hormuz, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth quietly hosted Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin in the Pentagon.And what they announced was a major defense cooperation partnership between the United States and Indonesia. The partnership has three pillars.ONE: Military modernization capacity buildingTWO: Training and professional military educationTHREE: Regional exercises and operational cooperationAnd woven into this agreement is Indonesia granting US military aircraft "blanket oversight access across the whole of...