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  • Nick Shirley Tracks Down a ‘126-Year-Old California Voter’ With Record of 51 Elections — What He Found Raises Serious Questions About State Voter Rolls

    06/08/2026 10:06:36 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 38 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 8, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft
    This is the Democrat Party’s idea of “secure” elections in their one-party utopia. Investigative reporter Nick Shirley — the same journalist whose explosive February 2026 video we reported on here at The Gateway Pundit — knocking on doors and exposing the rotting corpse of the state’s Democrat-controlled election system, and the latest clip is pure fire. Meet Doris. She lives in California. According to the California Secretary of State’s own voter rolls, she is 126 years old and has cast ballots in 51 elections. There’s just one small problem. Doris is not 126 years old. She was born in 1940....
  • The Most IMPOSSIBLE Sculpture EVER Created [8:56]

    06/08/2026 9:34:12 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    YouTube ^ | May 6, 2026 | Marmoreo
    Michelangelo's Pietà showcases a level of artful mastery that beggars belief, especially considering he was only 24. This piece pushes the boundaries of amazing skills, making us question the very nature of human creativity. Join us as we explore this incredible work and what it reveals about the artist's genius, offering a unique perspective on art history. Giuseppe San Martino crafted this marble masterpiece in 18th-century Naples, challenging viewers to distinguish stone from fabric. While legends suggest alchemical secrets behind its creation, historical records offer a different perspective. Marmoreo explores the artistic techniques and theological questions surrounding this profound work...
  • Rep. Veronica Escobar tells CNN audience that Trump “was found guilty [of rape] by a jury of his peers." The last person to tell this lie was sued for $15 million.

    06/08/2026 8:54:11 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | June 08, 2026 | Harris Rigby
    Lawsuit incoming! Lawsuit incoming! Watch the "journalists" at CNN freak out when one of their guests, Veronica Escobar of El Paso, says a verifiably false thing that CNN knows will get them sued into oblivion. VIDEO AT LINK.................. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers ... it is incredible how much comfort and cover they give to a convicted felon and to someone who has ... an adjudicated case of rape. The pro-Trump guest is specifically telling Representative Escobar to watch her mouth and not call Trump "guilty" of rape. And then Escobar charges in, insisting he...
  • Why Do Most Americans Still Choose a Lifetime of God and Patriotism—Rather Than a Month of Pride, Perversion, and Damaged Children?

    06/08/2026 7:50:53 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 13 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | June 6, 2026 | Michael Bresciani
    No one believes Satan has prophets, but he does, this is what they are telling us to believe, but worst of all, this is exactly what we are doing. When the prophet Micah began preaching to Israel about their political, social, and economic decline, they accused him of blasphemy, and there are those who would be more than glad to have put him to death. The Golden Age of Israel was at its peak during Micah’s time, and to say that it was going to end suddenly, completely, to the people it sounded like deep blasphemy. They wouldn’t hear of...
  • 80 Medieval Swords Discovered Beneath a River | Medieval Dead Season 3 Episode 3 [44:29]

    06/07/2026 10:27:05 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    YouTube ^ | June 3, 2026 | Ancient History
    The final catastrophe of the Hundred Years War ended in 1453 with the total annihilation of Sir John Talbot’s English army at Castillon, but an extraordinary discovery made over five centuries later has rewritten the final moments of this medieval tragedy. Based on the authentic records from the file captions, this episode investigates the stunning 1974 retrieval of approximately 80 elite medieval swords from the mud of the Dordogne River -- a find originally kept under rigid Cold War secrecy by the French Navy. By dismantling the long -- accepted myth of defeated soldiers frantically dropping their weapons in flight,...
  • The history of Moscow helps explain Russia’s pathologies: Invasion marked the city’s rise from medieval backwater to imperial metropolis

    06/07/2026 8:55:19 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    The Economist ^ | 06/07/2026
    A Kingdom and a Village. By Simon Morrison. Knopf; 528 pages; “Do you love Moscow?” Not long after this reviewer moved there in 2004, he was asked that question by his grizzled landlord. A bit early to know, was his cautious response. “Good,” replied the landlord. “Foreigners who say they love it here soon run back to the airport—with no luggage.” Simon Morrison of Princeton University, a devotee of the carnivorous city since the last days of the Soviet Union, is less equivocal. “Moscow is hard to love,” he acknowledges, “but I love it.” His is a love without illusions,...
  • What really happened during the Black Death? A new book offers a different account of the pestilence

    06/07/2026 8:47:14 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    The Economist ^ | 06/06/2026
    The Black Death: A Global History. By Thomas Asbridge. Random House; 544 pages; $38. Allen Lane; 560 pagesThe disease seems to have emerged in Asia. It soon reached Europe, ravaging Italy first. It killed millions, often quickly. Many people perished at home, or died within a few hours or days of receiving medical treatment. So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities. All this was true of covid-19. It was also true of the Black Death. As Thomas Asbridge describes in detail, the medieval plague was...
  • Hero NYC cop who nabbed killer behind Post’s famed ‘Headless body in topless bar’ headline dies

    06/07/2026 4:39:13 PM PDT · by Libloather · 4 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/07/26 | Larry Celona, Matt Troutman
    He always had them laughing their heads off. The hero cop who nabbed the killer behind the legendary 1983 New York Post headline “Headless body in topless bar” died Friday after a long, fittingly colorful life. Retired New York City Transit Police Detective Frederick “Freddy” Mack, 79, passed away while in hospice care, his daughter Debbie Comstock told The Post on Sunday. “He was a man full of character,” Comstock, 58, said. “He always had stories and jokes to tell. He was loved by many.” Perhaps Mack’s biggest story of all unfolded in April 1983, after 25-year-old lowlife Charles Dingle...
  • Hakeem Jeffries dodges key questions about Graham Platner: ‘He’s going to have to speak for himself’ (no nazi protests planned)

    06/07/2026 2:56:12 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/07/26 | Ryan King
    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday dodged key questions about scandal-scarred Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner, saying the fellow Dem and horny oyster farmer has to answer for himself. Platner, who is married and faces a primary-election race Tuesday, was hit early on with revelations of a Nazi-linked tattoo and cheating-by-sext. Then last week came allegations of deeply disturbing behavior toward female partners and him harboring fantasies about raping home intruders. “I haven’t followed these allegations closely, but what I have said is that violence against women in any way, shape or form is unacceptable,” Jeffries (D-NY) told Fox...
  • Dwight Eisenhower's Son Talks About D-Day [53:50]

    06/07/2026 1:32:55 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | June 6, 2026 | C-SPAN's American History TV
    John Eisenhower, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked about his father's role as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He also spoke about President Eisenhower's relationships with American and British generals and how Eisenhower compromised with Allied nations to bring World War II in Europe to an end. Dwight Eisenhower's Son Talks About D-Day | 53:50 C-SPAN's American History TV | 56.1K subscribers | 3,691 views | June 6, 2026
  • NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

    06/07/2026 9:04:40 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    NASA ^ | June 05, 2026 | Kristen Hatfield
    NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, reaching a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (713 mph) and altitude of 43,400 feet. The X-59’s flight began at 11:08 a.m. PDT and lasted 81 minutes, with the team focusing on flying qualities at both subsonic and then supersonic speeds. ”X-59 is getting ready for its...
  • Boss Lady: Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    06/07/2026 7:03:08 AM PDT · by Twotone · 13 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | June 6, 2026 | Rick McGinnis
    The filming of The Strange Love of Martha Ivers happened when the Paramount lot was ringed by a picket line, part of the 1945 strike by motion picture set decorators that led to the infamous Black Friday riot outside the main gate at Warner Bros. The strike is a movie history footnote today, and though it gets aired out whenever the industry endures another labour dispute, it's hard to imagine pickets full of writers or actors today in a melee with studio security and police with "tear gas bombs, fire hoses, brass knuckles, clubs, brickbats, and beer bottles" as Variety...
  • Delayed burial, absent successor: Questions over post-Khamenei Iran

    06/07/2026 6:39:55 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Iran International ^ | June 07, 2026 | Masoud Kazemi
    One hundred days after former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an attack on his office in Tehran, the Islamic Republic has yet to bury the man who led the country for more than three decades. The delay has become one of the most unusual and politically sensitive aspects of Iran's post-war transition. While senior military commanders and officials killed in the same conflict have already been buried, repeated promises of a massive funeral for Khamenei have so far gone unfulfilled. Tehran municipal officials spoke of plans for a multi-day funeral procession later this month. Ceremonies, they said, are...
  • NYC Councilwoman and congressional candidate Julie Won ‘squatted’ in luxury Queens condo: landlord (owes $25k)

    06/07/2026 4:30:02 AM PDT · by Libloather · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/07/26 | Rich Calder
    An NYC councilwoman running for Congress owes $25,000 in back rent after squatting for five months in a luxury high-rise, according to her ex-landlord and court documents. Councilwoman Julie Won (D-Queens) and her family vacated a one-bedroom condo at swanky Skyline Towers on Long Island City’s waterfront on Monday — three days after being slapped with eviction papers by the condo’s owner, Justin Chae, a top NYC political consultant and former family friend. The gleaming-glass, 67-story skyscraper includes a fitness center with a swimming pool, a sauna and spa, a yoga room, and other A-list amenities. However, Won insisted to...
  • African figurines found in Israel reveal unexpected cultural connections

    06/07/2026 4:26:34 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | May 14, 2025 | Mark Milligan
    Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Cologne University have made an unexpected discovery in Israel's Negev Desert: carved figurines with apparent African origins.The figurines were uncovered during excavations at Tel Malhata, an elliptical-shaped mound located in the eastern sector of the Arad -- Beer-sheba Valley.The site is often identified as Moladah, the biblical town of Simeon, and one of the cities of Judah (although other identifications have been suggested). Previous excavations at the Tel have found occupational layers dating from the Middle Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.According to a study published in 'Atiqot -- Publications of the Israel...
  • Fetterman vows to ditch hoodie for suit if Graham Platner proves he didn’t send ‘d--- pics’ to minors

    06/07/2026 3:49:09 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/06/26 | Geoff Earle
    Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) pledged to wear a suit “every day” if embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner can prove he didn’t send “d–k pics” to minors. The extraordinary hoodie challenge came during Fetterman’s appearance on Fox News Saturday in America, where he referred to Platner, who admitted he had an active Kik account while newly married, as “P-Hustle” – Platner’s user name. The term drew a head-shake from interviewer Kayleigh McEnany. “P-Hustle, here’s a great chance. You can just prove that all these people that you’re dropping those d–k pics and saying these things to were over 18. “I...
  • Trump\'s Restoration of Reflecting Pool, Mirrors Ongoing Work to Make America Great Again

    06/06/2026 8:04:28 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 6, 2026 | Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal
    President Donald Trump's restoration of the Great Reflecting Pool on the Washington Mall and the many fountains throughout the District of Columbia is really a metaphor for what is happening all over the country. Trump is succeeding at Making America Great Again. The president posted via Truth Social on Friday, "The Great Reflecting Pool, that stretches between The Lincoln Memorial and The Washington Monument, just opened to 'rave reviews' but, maliciously or not, some say, like The Washington Post, it was a 'paint job.' This was not a paint job. This was highly sophisticated material, industrial strength, that could last...
  • D-Day Remembrance: Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

    06/06/2026 6:07:45 PM PDT · by Retain Mike · 24 replies
    June 6, 1944 | Dwight Eisenhower
    You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.But this is...
  • Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen...Can we fix it back?

    06/06/2026 5:16:00 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 96 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | June 04, 2026 | Tim Newcomb
    Water has mass, and mass has leverage. Move enough groundwater from aquifers onto farms, into cities, and eventually into the ocean, and Earth’s spin changes by a measurable amount. The shift is tiny on a planetary scale, but the number still grabs you: between 1993 and 2010, researchers estimated that groundwater depletion nudged Earth’s rotational pole by about 31.5 inches. The figure comes from a 2023 study in Geophysical Research Letters, which estimated that humans depleted about 2,150 gigatons of groundwater between 1993 and 2010. When researchers added that water movement to their polar-motion model, the model lined up much...
  • Bandit escapes in Waymo in first-of-its-kind heist, San Francisco cops say

    06/06/2026 5:04:40 PM PDT · by Libloather · 14 replies
    California Post ^ | 6/05/26 | Katie Jerkovich
    A yoga pants stealing thief is still on the loose in San Francisco after they were able to escape the scene of a crime using a self-driving Waymo vehicle, police said. The suspect was able to make off with loads of stolen merchandise from the Hot 8 Yoga Studio in the Marina back in January. They were then able to flee the scene in a driverless white Jaguar that was parked out front, per the San Francisco Chronicle. Police are calling it the first-of-its-kind heist for the city after the suspect turned the high-tech vehicle in to a getaway car....