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A wealthy Russian businessman indicted in Boston late last year on hacking and insider trading charges could have access to documents and information about the 2016 election hacking in the U.S. Vladislav Klyushin was extradited to the U.S. from Switzerland late last month and charged with overseeing a multinational scam that pried privileged documents that companies were filing with U.S. regulators before they were public, then trading on the information. Among his employees, and also named in the indictment, is Ivan Yermakov – who was among a dozen Russian military intelligence officers former special counsel Robert Mueller indicted in 2018...

Swiss authorities in Zurich put Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian businessman widely noted for his Kremlin ties, on a flight bound for the U.S. on Saturday, ending a months-long extradition fight that cast a pall over this summer’s Putin-Biden talks in Geneva. Swiss reporters first confirmed Klyushin’s extradition Saturday night; the U.S. Justice Department on Monday said the 41-year-old, a top official at Moscow-based IT firm called M-13, would stand trial on charges of insider trading, citing information allegedly “stolen from U.S. computer networks,” netting “tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits.” The charges carry potentially decades’ worth of prison...

If you like all the Science NASA has done since 1961, then wave it all goodby. NASA budget cut to the lowest since 1961 - before there was a manned space program. No more Rovers, probes, [ even 99942 Apophis probes cut, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis ]. There are no private entities that can or will pick up the slack. Cuts to Hubble and to Webb will leave them orbiting junk. Coupled with the possible collapse of SpaceX from 47's vengeance feud with Musk, the US will no longer have a space program - civilian or military. These twin disasters in the making...

Could Trump put SpaceX out of business? Will ruining Elon Musk save us "big money?" Don't watch if you are a hard core 47 supporter, lest you be triggered. Excerpt from the video transcript: Elon Musk is on the verge of blowing upall of his companies that he's worked so hard to build with his latest feud with Donald Trump that continues to escalate with every new development with the big beautiful bill. Now that it's passed the Senate, it appears that Elon has temporarily quieted down a little bit on X. But nevertheless, the situation remains very, very tense...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted another senior adviser amid a staffing shakeup at the Pentagon.Justin Fulcher, who started at the Defense Department as a member of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and was promoted to senior adviser in April, left the department on Saturday, reported CBS News.His departure comes after Fulcher found himself at the center of two Pentagon controversies, according to the Washington Post.Fulcher claimed that his departure is 'perfectly amicable' and he only planned to work in the government for six months.'Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Department of Defense has been incredibly...

Elon Musk’s newly-launched independent political party, the “America Party,” poses a real risk of being a spoiler for Republicans ...

CNN's Harry Enten suggests Elon Musk's "America Party" is essentially "dead on arrival" ...

The most recent protests, from Friday, were led by Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA). Beyond the pickets, the group, along with a lawyer, have referred Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck, minister for space and for defence Judith Collins and others to the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Why? Because PSNA believes that Rocket Lab activities may have intentionally contributed to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by Israel.In a statement provided to The Spinoff, a Rocket Lab spokesperson said the company “strongly refutes PSNA’s false and irresponsible claims” and that it is considering its...

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The X account of Elmo, a Sesame Street hero, posted antisemitic content on Sunday night, calling to "kill the Jews." The content was quickly deleted. In its tweets, Elmo posted, "Kill all Jews." "Elmo says ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE. F-K JEWS. DONALD TRUMP IS NETANYAHU’S PUPPET BECAUSE HE IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD AND NEED TO BE EXTERMINATED. “RELEASE THE FILES @realDonaldTrump CHILD F-KER.” Reports said that ten minutes prior to the antisemitic incitement, the hacker posted a photo of Elmo on the moon, wishing readers, "Happy crypto all-time high day, everybody! From Elmo and @onchainstudios....

“I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk wrote in a post on his social platform X, alongside a video of the former president standing and raising his fist after being shot in the ear. The tech billionaire, who owns Tesla and SpaceX along with the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has feuded with President Biden in recent years and indicated he would be supporting GOP candidates. In March Musk said on X he voted “100% Dem until a few years ago,” but “now, I think we need a red wave or America is...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper says the Epstein case is NOT closed and there’s a trove of evidence being hidden from the public. He then demands it all be released: “There's a trove of information that the Trump administration is right now refusing to share, information that could well point to the powerful folks who availed themselves of the sex trafficking victims of Jeffrey Epstein.” “So, while there may not be an official client list to be released.. There's a lot of extra information that is not being made public.. This isn't going to go away. The public…...

Elon Musk has dropped another bombshell amid his ongoing feud with the White House by claiming that Donald Trump ally and ex-White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is named in the Epstein Files. Mr Musk claimed, without evidence, that Mr Bannon was in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a reply shared on social media. His post on X/Twitter, was in response to Trump ally Roger Stone who questioned why former White House advisor Steve Bannon would meet with the notorious paedophile, Mr Musk said: "Bannon is in the Epstein files." Since being shared today, the post has been seen by...

“. . . [W}e are closing in on more disclosures and fixing past wrongs to personnel. We’re making sure this is done correctly. But it’s absolutely getting done.” Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI. Elon, as he is currently imagining himselfWho knows what to believe these days? Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to The New York Times to Harvard U? Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane? We are told now by the FBI that there is no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein...

On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” While Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements to look for, he’d previously declared that xAI (which built Grok) would retrain the chatbot after it had been trained on “far too much garbage,” and he called on users at X (where Grok is heavily featured) to share “divisive facts” that are “politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true.” (Musk recently merged the two companies.) One user subsequently asked Grok whether electing more Democrats would be a bad thing, to which it...

A new study argues that the large majority of American Jews have a deep-seated notion that being Jewish is inextricably bound to being liberal. That idea took hold after the large waves of Jewish immigration to the US in the late 19th century, according to the study’s author, American history professor Gil Troy. American Jewish liberalism and association with the Democratic party is showing no signs of abatement, despite many predictions to the contrary since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, according to Troy’s research, which is being published by the Ruderman Family Foundation's Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of...

Democrats are rethinking ways to recapture voters they’ve lost to President Trump in recent election cycles, and they may have been offered an important lesson in the New York mayoral primary.In various post-mortems and focus groups done on the heels of their devastating 2024 election loss, Democrats have thoroughly examined exit polls and voter demographics in search of the gaps in their party’s appeal. But Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, who served as a senior adviser on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2020, said Democrats are “overthinking” the solution by analyzing the voters who flipped sides or skipped voting...

Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila issued a statement this week criticizing President Donald Trump’s recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill,” describing it as a “$5 trillion debt hike buried under a dump truck of partisan pork.” The legislation narrowly passed both chambers of Congress this week and is awaiting Trump’s signature. In his statement, shared by the Libertarian Party on Thursday, Nekhaila called the bill fiscally reckless and fundamentally dishonest, referring to it as “another lie wrapped in patriotism and passed with fake urgency.” He accused Republicans of “cosplaying” as fiscal conservatives while contributing to rising government spending and...

The New York Prohibition Party is calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to veto a bill that would require the state’s commissioner of economic development to actively promote New York–produced alcoholic beverages. The party warns that the legislation risks worsening public health issues and economic costs already associated with alcohol consumption. In a statement published on June 18, the party urged Hochul to reject Assembly Bill A03922, which amends the Economic Development Law to direct the commissioner to work with other state agencies in developing a strategic plan promoting policies that support the production and sale of New York–labeled beers, ciders,...

The U.S. Pirate Party and Transhumanist Party are preparing to formalize a coalition effort between the two organizations, with room for further expansion in the future. The two groups have been in communication since late last year. Initial outreach began last December when the Pirate Party hosted representatives from the Transhumanist Party on an early episode of Talk the Plank, the party’s then-pilot podcast. Transhumanist Party Chair Gennady Stolyarov II later joined the Pirate National Committee’s December meeting, followed by Pirate Party members participating in an episode of the Transhumanist Party’s Virtual Enlightenment Salon. According to a statement shared this...