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Scientists have issued an alarming warning to the public that the “toxic synergy” of mRNA “vaccines” and COVID-19 is serving as “dual bioweapons” to wipe out humanity with surging chronic disease and global sudden deaths.The public was promised that Covid mRNA shots would protect against the virus. However, mounting evidence now suggests the opposite. ...The warning was revealed in a bombshell 380-reference scientific manuscript from the McCullough Foundation. The paper, titled “Compound Adverse Effects of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and Coronavirus Infection: A Convergence of Extensive Spike Protein Harms to the Human Body,” details what researchers are calling the “Hybrid Harms...

Louisiana sued the online gaming platform Roblox on Thursday, alleging the wildly popular site has perpetuated an environment where sexual predators "thrive, unite, hunt and victimize kids." The lawsuit, filed in state court by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, alleges that Roblox has failed to implement effective safety measures to protect child users from adult predators. “Due to Roblox’s lack of safety protocols, it endangers the safety of the children of Louisiana,” Murrill said in a news release. “Roblox is overrun with harmful content and child predators because it prioritizes user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety." The company...

I then asked him if he also read the Hardy Boys as a kid, and he certainly did. He then asked me how many of these books were published, and when I researched this, I discovered that the first Hardy Boys books came out in 1927, and ended their run after 190 titles in 2005.

https://babylonbee.com/news/10-telltale-signs-of-dangerous-authoritarianismIn case you haven't already heard, you're living in an oppressive, authoritarian dictatorship now. Don't believe it? It's easy to see once you know what to look for.The Babylon Bee has come up with the following list of telltale signs of dangerous authoritarianism:Someone you don't like won an election because more people voted for him: This should never be allowed to happen in a democracy.People walking around smiling and enjoying their lives: Those poor, uninformed victims of oppression.A TV show that lost $40 million a year got canceled: What are late-night talk shows supposed to do now? Be funny?Literal concentration...

SACRAMENTO, CA — In his ongoing public sparring with the administration over its agenda, Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to double California's violent crime rate if President Donald Trump refused to stop cleaning up Washington, D.C. Acting as a constant and vocal opponent to Trump's policies, Newsom took things up a notch this week by promising to offset any progress Trump might make in his attempt to crack down on crime in the nation's capital by promoting even more violent crime in the Golden State. "If Trump insists on lowering crime in D.C., then we're going to commit crimes even harder...

Netflix's Smash Hit With 97% RT Score Becomes The Second Most-Watched Movie Ever In History Adam Bentz Netflix's new smash hit with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score has become the streaming service's second most-watched movie in history. Since 2021, Netflix's most-watched movie of all time has been Red Notice,​​​​​ sitting at 230.9 million views. However, the star-studded action-comedy featuring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot could be unseated by Netflix's new smash hit very soon. . . . [three paragraphs about everything, but the movie the article is about] KPop Demon Hunters Becomes Netflix's 2nd Most-Watched Movie Of All...

I seem to recall reading somewhere that FDR bragged about how long his Social Security program would last. I've been (so far) unable to find any of his quotes on this.

Intel shares rose 7% on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the struggling company. Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung also have U.S. factories. President Donald Trump has called for more chips and high technology to be manufactured in the U.S. The government’s stake would help fund factories that Intel is currently building in Ohio, according to the report. Earlier this week, Intel...

Pet psychics in China who claim to help people communicate with their dead pets and find out if they have been reincarnated have sparked an online controversy. The psychics charge prices of 128 yuan (US$18) to allow owners to ask their pet five questions and 2,999 yuan (US$420) for an unlimited number of questions within six months, according to a news report by Jimu News. Finding out if their pet has been reincarnated costs between 899 yuan and 1,899 yuan (US$125 and US$260) depending on the circumstances. ... Anran joined the chat group, which had more than 400 members. She...

Summary Tech industry trade group sued to block Mississippi law NetChoice claims the law violates free speech protections WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent in a challenge by a trade group whose members include Meta's (META.O), Facebook, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), YouTube and Snapchat (SNAP.N). The justices denied a request by NetChoice to block the law while the Washington-based tech industry trade association's legal challenge to the law, which it argues violates the...

Face-to-face talks between President Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday will give the Russian president a chance to pitch his conditions for peace, chief among them for Ukraine to hand over swaths of its territory. Putin has long coveted the south and east of Ukraine, which his army has failed to fully occupy. Trump has said he would seek to negotiate a swap that would return some of the territory Russia occupies back to Ukraine, without offering further detail. The Kremlin has declared five occupied regions to be part of Russia—Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea. Of those, Russia fully...

Longtime Northglenn detective’s death illustrates law enforcement mental health struggles by: Nicole Fierro Posted: Aug 13, 2025 / 03:17 PM MDT NORTHGLENN, Colo. (KDVR) — The Northglenn Police Department shared some very difficult news about a longtime detective who passed away last week. According to a social media post from the department, Detective Paul Gesi died last week after a long and courageous battle with severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The department said his death, a suicide, reflects the silent struggles many first responders face and is a stark reminder of the mental health challenges within law enforcement. ‘His work left...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement is taking off in red — and blue — states, even as health experts condemn some of his actions.Republicans were also solely behind 80 percent of the bills this year to restrict geoengineering, a conspiracy theory that the U.S. government is controlling the weather by spraying chemicals into the sky. Legislation introduced related to ivermectin has grown fivefold since last year, while bills prohibiting geoengineering have more than doubled.Democrats, meanwhile, were behind the vast majority of bills to curb plastics and pesticide use. Roughly 70 percent of the measures to phase...

Crime on the streets of Washington, D.C., has become practically apocalyptic, to the point that President Donald Trump has been forced to take control of the city’s law enforcement operations and deploy National Guard troops to return order. “This is liberation day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back,” Trump declared. And, of course, the left-wing response was to either deny that crime in our nation’s capital even exists—which is only true in the wealthy elitist bubbles in which they reside—or accuse Trump of racism. “As D.C. the National Guard arrived at their headquarters Tuesday, for many...

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona. His fatal attraction puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up and engage in ‘sensual’ banter with children. When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as his friends called him, hadn’t lived in the city in decades. And at 76, his family says, he was...

Expect Joe Scarborough & Co. to soon return to their regularly scheduled programming of trashing President Trump. But at least in this moment, the show has struck a very different tone on the issue of Trump's moves to use federal agents to bolster crime-fighting in DC. On today's show, Susan Page of USA Today was the first to suggest that Trump has set a "trap" for Democrats. Oppose Trump's crime-fighting efforts at their peril. As Page mordantly put it: "There are very few politicians who want to stand up for crime." Joe Scarborough ran with that, repeatedly referring to Trump's...

In A Nutshell A new bladder cancer device called TAR-200 delivers chemotherapy directly into the bladder over time, avoiding long treatment sessions. In a clinical trial, over 8 in 10 patients with a specific type of bladder cancer (carcinoma in situ) saw their cancer disappear after treatment. Many patients stayed cancer-free for more than a year, and most were able to avoid bladder removal surgery during the study period. Side effects were mostly mild urinary symptoms that cleared up within weeks, with serious problems being uncommon. ================================================================= LOS ANGELES — For bladder cancer patients whose tumors stop responding to standard...

Explanation: In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster's hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core, upwards of 100 stars could be contained...

Their new US hit of August 1979 was a song that had been very good to some of the group 11 years earlier.Some songs are locked in their era, while others update themselves and reach another generation. On August 11, 1979, the Atlanta Rhythm Section were hitting the American chart with a number that had been very good to some of the group 11 years earlier, and even that was an adaptation of an instrumental original. The word for all of that is “Spooky.” The song was co-written by Mike Shapiro, who as pop-jazz alto saxophonist Mike Sharpe, recorded the...

Fox News host Will Cain sets the record straight on Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talerico's 'lies' about their conversation on 'The Will Cain Show.'