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  • Good thing Mamdani got denied at fallen Army hero’s funeral — the divisive mayor is only driven by hatred

    08/02/2026 8:04:55 PM PDT · by Libloather · 3 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/02/26 | Miranda Devine
    It took a lot of courage for the family of Angel Sarah Rampersad to refuse to allow Mayor Mamdani to speak at her funeral on Friday. The 28-year-old US Army staff sergeant from Queens was killed on July 17, 2026, in an Iranian missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan where she was stationed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Rampersad lost her life in a battle against the world’s largest terrorist regime, whose proxy Hamas Mamdani tacitly supports. She gave her life for the country she loves and Mamdani...
  • Finding New Homes For Casper Oil Field Worker's 220-Car Collection Of Hot Rods

    08/02/2026 4:53:22 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | July 26, 2026 | Kolby Fedore
    By the time Rick Knigge died last September, he had spent decades turning 20 acres outside Casper into a gearhead's paradise. The oilfield worker spent a lifetime hauling home muscle cars, hot rods and vintage trucks. Now they are all finding new homes. ================================================================== Rick and Stephanie Knigge shared 36 years of marriage, countless road trips in search of classic cars and a lifetime together before Rick's death in September 2025. (Stephanie Knigge) ================================================================== CASPER — By the time Rick Knigge died last September, he had spent decades turning 20 acres outside the city into a gearhead's paradise. He had...
  • Was Josephus a reliable historian? AI offers a surprising answer

    08/02/2026 1:41:18 PM PDT · by Twotone · 26 replies
    YNET News ^ | July 25, 2026 | Shilo Freid
    Joseph ben Matityahu, better known as Josephus Flavius—the Roman name Titus Flavius Josephus given to him after his surrender—is a deeply controversial historical figure. The man who left his fellow Jews and joined the Romans ultimately became the principal chronicler of Jerusalem at the time of its destruction. Today, his writings remain the most important source on the fall of the Second Temple. Born into a priestly family in Jerusalem, Josephus commanded Jewish forces in the Galilee during the Great Revolt against Roman rule. After his forces were defeated, he hid in a cave with a group of commanders. The...
  • Does Not Compute: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Desk Set

    08/02/2026 9:21:35 AM PDT · by Twotone · 9 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | August 1, 2026 | Rick McGinnis
    A couple of weeks ago MIT's Sloan School of Management published an article with the prosaic but to-the-point title "These are the most urgent AI risks, according to 272 experts". Artificial intelligence is a contentious topic everywhere, but the article is concerned with how it "presents business leaders with a difficult management problem: The risks are numerous and fast-moving and fall unevenly across organizations, sectors, and stakeholders." There are the well-discussed "challenges", like "the potential for discrimination and the spread of misinformation". (Note that it's apparently concerning that entities defined by their lack of emotion and pitiless logic might discriminate...
  • Boy George splits from label manager over pro-Israel song

    08/02/2026 9:03:11 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | August 02, 2026 | Mark Ludlow
    Boy George has split from the manager of his record label after he refused to release his controversial pro-Israel song. On Saturday, the singer confirmed on social media that he had parted ways with Tony Pontius, calling the executive, who had run his record label, BGP, for several years, "gutless". "I wanted to release We Will Dance Again, but he [Pontius] was unequivocal and said, 'I want nothing to do with this song', and I responded, 'ok, we are done'," the former Culture Club front man wrote on X. "When someone is gutless, it really does not hurt to say...
  • This Viking Longship Crossed the Atlantic Before Starring in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ as Odysseus’ Greek Galley

    08/02/2026 7:57:24 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | July 16, 2026 | Sonja Anderson
    The Draken Harald Hårfagre is not modeled after a single historic ship, but an amalgamation of many Viking vessels described in stories. Viking Nilsson / Draken Harald Hårgfagre In Christopher Nolan’s new film adaptation of the Odyssey, Calypso is played by Charlize Theron, Odysseus by Matt Damon, and his ancient Greek sea vessel by Draken Harald Hårfagre—a completely functional Viking longship. The wooden ship, commissioned by Norwegian entrepreneur Sigurd Aase, is about 115 feet long and 25 feet wide and equipped with square sails and 50 long oars. Most importantly, it can actually traverse the sea—a necessity for Nolan’s loyalty...
  • The Real History Behind Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

    08/02/2026 6:57:59 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 08/02/26 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Homer’s epic poem, “Odyssey,” is in the news lately, primarily because Christopher Nolan has produced a three-hour, and I can use the word impressionistic, retelling of the “Odyssey.” And a lot of people have criticized it; a lot of people like it. I’m gonna talk about the film later in one of our episodes, because I have now seen the new film, and Jack Fowler and Sami Wink and I have talked variously about it. But I wanted to today just talk about the “Odyssey” as a work of literature and history. A lot of people, I think, have the...
  • What Was Arabia Like Before Islam? | DOCUMENTARY [38:22]

    08/02/2026 6:22:43 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 29, 2026 | Para Bellum
    In this video, we explore the history of Arabia before Islam, starting with the prehistoric period when the region was far greener than today, filled with lakes, rivers, and wildlife. We follow the transformation of this landscape into desert and how early communities adapted to it. What Was Arabia Like Before Islam? | DOCUMENTARY | 38:22 Para Bellum | 140K subscribers | 1,362,096 views | March 29, 2026
  • CA man arrested in Scottsdale after postal inspectors catch him stealing mail, election ballots

    08/02/2026 2:49:55 AM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    ABC 15 ^ | 8/02/26 | Ford Hatchett
    A California man faces felony charges after U.S. Postal Inspectors caught him pulling stolen mail — including unvoted election ballots — from a collection box outside a Scottsdale post office. Richard Anthony Ramos Jr., 26, of Stockton, California, was arrested July 21 at the Scottsdale Hopi Post Office. He is accused of two counts of third-degree burglary and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to court records filed in Maricopa County. Investigators say the scheme began as early as May 2026, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service started receiving reports of stolen checks taken from the blue collection box...
  • Eric Swalwell’s campaign spends $150K more on lawyers as he remains in hiding

    08/01/2026 5:41:34 PM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Titus Wu
    Disgraced ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell’s zombie campaign is continuing to still cover legal fees with donors’ money as he prepares for potential court battles over sexual misconduct allegations that ruined his political career. The former California gubernatorial candidate reported paying around $150,000 in campaign funds to the law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP between May 17 and June 30, according to financial disclosures filed Friday. He had already shelled out $50,000 to the firm before May 16, the Post previously reported. The law firm declined comment to media outlets, but Swalwell has used the firm for legal guidance since...
  • Far-left group funded by George Soros trying to silence 9/11 families’ anti-Mamdani petition

    08/01/2026 5:21:50 PM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Rich Calder
    A nonprofit funded by far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros is trying to silence a surging movement to keep NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani from attending the 25th-anniversary memorial for victims of the 9/11 attacks at Ground Zero. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows put out a statement on Tuesday that sharply contrasted with the views expressed by many other 9/11 victims’ families. It all but accused the Change.org petition of targeting Mamdani because he’s the city’s first Muslim mayor. “We strongly condemn the anti-American accusations and Islamophobic sentiment underlying the effort seeking to prevent him from being at Ground Zero,” said...
  • Socialist NY Assembly candidate shoo-in publicly begging for money on GoFundMe to pay rent

    08/01/2026 5:06:50 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Geoff Earle, Rich Calder
    A socialist pol who is a shoo-in to represent part of Queens in the state Assembly whipped out his tin cup to beg the public to help pay his personal bills while he waits out the November elections, The Post has learned. Brian Romero — a former legislative aide hoping to succeed his ex-boss Jessica González-Rojas, who is headed to the State Senate — is already confronting his first self-inflicted budget crisis. The problem isn’t that the rent is too damn high — it’s that he doesn’t have a job to pay it. He set up a GoFundMe campaign to...
  • Jew-hating Cornell student begging for cash online after parents kick him out of their house

    08/01/2026 12:45:29 PM PDT · by Libloather · 60 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Sonya Gugliara
    The Cornell University student who declared he’s “not interested in working for a Jew” got tossed from his parents’ $1.75 million home in Virginia — and is now sniveling online for cash. Austin Franco, who went viral for declining a job interview at NYC startup VryfID for antisemitic reasons, took to X on Wednesday, declaring, “My parents are kicking me out.” But the hater did get some good news the next day, as Cornell revealed to The Post that, unlike his disappointed parents, Alexander and Diana, the liberal upstate college won’t kick him to the curb. The rising junior created...
  • Spain installing containment fence between Morocco and Ceuta after massive frontier rush killed 67

    08/01/2026 10:48:01 AM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Associated Press
    CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier earlier this week. The death toll has climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday. A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border. Spain’s interior ministry says the majority...
  • Iranian hackers likely behind Minnesota water system attacks, but it’s ‘surprising’ country hasn’t taken credit, expert says

    08/01/2026 10:42:18 AM PDT · by Libloather · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Jewish News Syndicate
    Iranian hackers are likely behind a widening cyberattack campaign against US water systems that has reached at least seven states, including more than 30 systems in Minnesota alone, and likely extends further, a cybersecurity expert told JNS on Friday. “The working assumption is that it is Iranian threat actors,” Annie Fixler, director of the cyber and technology innovation center at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS. “The kind of behavior matches what we’ve seen out of Iran. The kind of targets and the systems that we’re talking about match.” Fixler cautioned that no actor has publicly claimed responsibility....
  • 60 years later, the UT Tower shooting stands as one of Texas' darkest days - Eighteen people lost their lives on August 1, 1966

    08/01/2026 7:52:32 AM PDT · by DFG · 56 replies
    My San Antonio ^ | 08/01/2026 | Peter L. Scamardo II
    Edna Elizabeth Townsley, Mark Jerome Gabour, Marguerite M. Lamport, Thomas Frederick Eckman, Dr. Robert Hamilton Boyer, Karen John Griffith, Thomas Ray Karr, David Hubert Gunby, Thomas Aquinas Ashgton, Paul Bolton Sonntag, Claudia Marilyn Rutt, Harry Walchuk, Officer Billy Paul Speed, Roy Dell Schmidt and the unborn son of Claire Wilson. These are the names of the people who lost their lives when a shooter turned a simple day at the University of Texas into one of the darkest days in Texas history. This Saturday, August 1, marks the 60th anniversary of the UT Tower shooting, a day when 18 people...
  • How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days

    08/01/2026 6:49:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    CNBC ^ | July 31, 2026 | Hugh Son
    Key Points * Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to around $10 billion in assets on falling semiconductor stocks and mounting margin calls. * Driven by reported leverage of up to 400%, the 20-something manager was forced to sell off all his leveraged public stock bets — including hard-hit names like SK Hynix and CoreWeave — to Ken Griffin’s Citadel at a discount. * The crash marks a dramatic turn for Aschenbrenner, who launched the fund after gaining Silicon Valley fame with his 2024 AI manifesto, drawing scrutiny from critics over his...
  • California college basketball coach learns fate for pimping prostitute in 3 states

    08/01/2026 1:17:20 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/31/26 | Katie Jerkovich
    A former Bakersfield college basketball coach is headed to prison after admitting to possessing child sex abuse material while running a prostitution operation that spanned three states. Kevin Mays, a former assistant coach at Cal State University Bakersfield and one-time player for the program, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office said. Earlier this month, Mays pleaded no contest to felony charges of possession of child or youth pornography, pimping and possession of a controlled substance while armed with a firearm. The plea...
  • US’ first sixth-gen fighter jet to fly in 2028, prototype development underway [F-47]

    07/31/2026 9:30:44 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | July 31, 2026 | Prabhat Ranjan Mishra
    The F-47 program has entered its engineering and manufacturing development phase with unprecedented maturity. The F-47 program has entered its engineering and manufacturing development phase with unprecedented maturity. Kalawin/USAF =========================================================================== The United States’ next-generation fighter aircraft program has reached a significant milestone. Boeing has begun manufacturing prototype aircraft for the F-47, the U.S. Air Force’s future sixth-generation stealth fighter. According to Air Force officials, the program remains on schedule, with the aircraft’s maiden flight expected in 2028. The progress marks the transition from years of design, research, and technology demonstrations to the construction of physical aircraft that will undergo rigorous...
  • Turkey’s answer to the US F-35 hits key milestone as KAAN P1 begins powered taxi tests

    07/31/2026 9:21:14 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | July 31, 2026 | Aamir Khollam
    KAAN fighter jet prototype in powered taxi tests. Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. ========================================================================================= Turkey’s next-generation KAAN fighter has entered another key phase of development after Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) began powered taxi tests with the P1 prototype, bringing the stealth aircraft closer to its next flight milestone. Footage released by the company shows the twin-engine jet rolling down the runway under its own power as engineers assess braking, steering, engine response and ground handling. Those evaluations are a standard part of aircraft development and must be completed before a prototype is cleared for flight. The milestone carries added significance because...