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QThestorm @17QStorm·6h They parked $2 billion in a fund called Medicare Improvement and never sent a dollar to a senior.Created in 2008. Every president since left it sitting there. The White House says no administration has ever used it.Trump just did.Direct deposit. Early October. More than 20 million people on Medicare Part B. Dual eligibles whose premiums Medicaid already covers, and high earners paying the income surcharge, do not get it.He called it what Congress treated it as. A slush fund. Named for Medicare. Used as an offset for everything except the people in the name.Eighteen years on the shelf....

Secretary Marco Rubio@SecRubioFor more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.The American people deserve to know.ransomnote: After reading the report Rubio linked, CUBA | THE CAPITAL OF 21st CENTURY COMMUNISM (PDF), I realized that the concluding paragraph (see last paragraph indented below), was likely written for people like me who did not realize just how weaponized CUBA has been. As a failed nation, I did not see its profound success in...

Liberal female blames capitalism for America's problems and then she's asked, "How does capitalism cause the problems in this country?" and "What is capitalism?" She has no idea and can't answer the questions.

Today, Michael Whatley was endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber endorsed Whatley because they know he is the Pro-Job-Creator candidate who will support policies that help create more and better jobs and more and better opportunities for all North Carolinians. Under Roy Cooper’s reign, he was consistently against North Carolina job creators. From vetoing tax relief; forcing an impractical Green New Deal energy agenda that raised costs; to closing businesses during COVID; Cooper stood against our job creators every step of the way. The Chamber endorsement demonstrates that job creators across North Carolina know Michael Whatley is...

Let's check in on our "devout Catholic" former president, and see how well he's Catholic-ing today. Last week at a gala in Delaware, Biden spoke (mumbled) for 20 minutes, telling the abortion fanatics that this is "no time to give up" in the fight to kill as many babies in the womb as possible. Biden delivered remarks at Planned Parenthood of Delaware's 22nd Annual Chocolate & Champagne Gala in Claymont, Delaware, on Thursday. Before the former president spoke, former first lady Jill Biden presented her husband with the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award.According to a Facebook post by Delaware Planned...

Authorities are searching for a jet after it lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning. It is being reported that the aircraft in question is a medical transport plane. According to the United States Coast Guard, the FAA notified them that they lost contact with the Gulfstream “early Saturday morning.” There were six passengers onboard, USCG confirmed at 3:15 a.m. Saturday. The Coast Guard’s Northeast District stated about 20 minutes later that the Gulfstream G100, with the tail number #C-GRJP, was flying from Bermuda International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when it disappeared off the coast of...

Special Ops Magazine@specialopsmagIn Afghanistan, 2012, US Marine Lance Corporal Winder Perez took an RPG that punched through his thigh and stayed there, live, instead of detonating.An Army MEDEVAC crew that had been told they were picking up an injured child landed, saw the round still stuck in him, and voted to fly him anyway, even though hauling unexploded ordnance is against the rules.They made the careful run to FOB Edinburgh, where the rest of the base was held back and Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Gennari kept Perez breathing while Army EOD Staff Sgt. Ben Summerfield pulled the rocket free. Perez...

TEL AVIV: The FlyDubai co-pilot who officials said nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns he had adopted extremist views, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday.The co-pilot was subsequently hired by the United Arab Emirates-based airline, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. It was not immediately clear to what extent he was vetted when he was hired in the Emirates. Oman’s move to bar the co-pilot from flying was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.The attack...

The FBI shared new information Friday pertaining to President Donald Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, releasing text messages he shared with an unidentified person related to a 3D printer he used to build a firearm. The information was released through a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request and contained text messages the bureau determined were "pertinent" to the investigation.The 20-year-old fired on Trump in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a presidential campaign speech, grazing his ear, and seen live on TV. An attendee at the rally was killed while attempting to shield his family. Crooks, who fired...

Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall this week sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter, urging the Democrat to take down and apologize for an ad featuring one of the Republican senator’s former patients. The attorneys wrote in the Monday letter to the Rev. Adam Hamilton that the ad, which began airing this month, was defamatory. The letter urged Hamilton’s campaign to preserve documents “in anticipation of litigation.” “The Advertisement is false, your campaign knew or had every reason to know it was false, and its continued publication is defamatory,” wrote Marshall’s attorneys, Charles Spies and Dahlyn Sugrue. Hamilton’s campaign, in...

I play senior softball and an individual who played on one of the teams in our league has joined our every day pick-up ball group.He is totally deaf but I believe he can read lips. It's hard for everyone to understand what he is communicating to us so he tries to make it simple and rudimentary.So, I've decided to try to learn ASL in an attempt to be able to converse with him on a level he can understand. I would appreciate any advice from anyone who has experience in ASL in dealing with anyone they know is deaf.

Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·6hAn American pilot spent almost 16 months inside a German POW camp.Then he escaped.He found a German Fw 190, climbed inside a fighter he had never flown before and stole it.Then he flew it to freedom.Somehow, that wasn't even the most remarkable part of his flying career.This is the story of Bob Hoover..🧵1/6 Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·6h🧵 2/6Bob Hoover was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1922. As a young man he worked at a grocery store to help pay for flying lessons at Berry Field. He taught himself aerobatics and eventually entered the Army through the Tennessee National Guard.During...

ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵉᶰᵗᵃʳʸ Susan Kokinda@SusankokindaQ_2·20hIT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out theUK and NATO #prometheanupdates#Trump #iran #UK #NATOOctober 1, 2026TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Susan Kokinda: So, why are Europe and Britain irrelevant at this table?Because their own policies have collapsed their economies, and have stripped them of any leverage. That was noted with not a little bit of irony by Kirill Dimitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and one of Putin's chief interlocutors with the United States. Here's how he put it:"Europe can finally enjoy the success of both its Green and Russophobic agendas-no oil, no gas." ~Kirill Dimitriev March 22, 2026This...

Today we seek out old humor and boldly go where cheap humor has gone before: Star Trek

The 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene confers an increased risk for shooting and stabbing behaviors Kevin M Beaver 1 , J C Barnes, Brian B Boutwell PMID: 24326626 DOI: 10.1007/s11126-013-9287-x Abstract There has been a great deal of research examining the link between a polymorphism in the promoter region of the MAOA gene and antisocial phenotypes. The results of these studies have consistently revealed that low activity MAOA alleles are related to antisocial behaviors for males who were maltreated as children. Recently, though, some evidence has emerged indicating that a rare allele of the MAOA gene-that is, the 2-repeat...

American Revolution 2.0Have you already seen how far the country has been pulled off course? Are You Counting the Days Until the Election? A nation in decline does not correct itself by accident. What you are reading is the product of years of quiet work by people who refused to stay inside the stable of group-think: researchers, memers, prayer warriors, and ordinary citizens who left the old media matrix, compared notes, and kept a watch. Five hundred threads ago many of us were still alone, ranging from half-asleep to already on duty. Small enclaves formed, drops were read for clues,...

President Donald Trump again insulted Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, calling him “a pain in the a**” before wondering aloud, “Is he here, by the way?” The president has used similar lines countless times before, including at his Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where he declared, “He may not dress right. He may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I’ve ever seen, but you know what he is? He’s the greatest attorney general in America, and he deserves to be your next senator.” His latest remarks came as he returned to Denton, Texas,...

The laws already on the books cover a lot of harmful conduct involving AI, but they do not cover everything cleanly. As of October 2026, the U.S. still does not have one comprehensive federal AI law. Instead, AI is governed through a mixture of existing laws, agency authority, executive policy, and state laws.

AI security/control will probably develop into something akin to "anti-virus" software. The closest analogy is the entire cybersecurity industry: Antivirus began as one layer, but eventually we needed firewalls, identity management, intrusion detection, security operations centers, audits, penetration testing, and incident-response teams. What follows is the most likely path for AI.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been placed in solitary confinement following an NBC News report on his VIP lifestyle inside prison, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The disgraced hip hop mogul arrived at the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey in October after he was sentenced to 50 months behind bars for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters. Since then, he has spent thousands of dollars a month to bring his high-end lifestyle to the low-security prison, NBC News reported Tuesday in a story based on interviews with four men who spent time in...