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  • Southern California Hells Angels chapter denies knowing man convicted of producing child pornography

    10/27/2026 6:34:37 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 3 replies
    ktla ^ | 10/26/2026 | John Ross Ferrara
    The Hells Angels motorcycle club, which the FBI classifies as a “transnational violent outlaw motorcycle gang,” is publicly denying any affiliation with a Southern California man who was convicted on child pornography charges and sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last month. The group responded to a press release issued by the Fontana Police Department on Oct. 23, which states that 42-year-old Ryan Van De Car, “a member of the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang,” was found guilty of producing and distributing child pornography in California. A statement sent to KTLA by attorney Gary Wenkle Smith, who represents...
  • Last Ditch, a (Lesbian) Bar Whose Mask Policy Tore It Apart, Will Close

    10/26/2026 2:47:36 PM PDT · by PghBaldy · 33 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 26 October 2026 | Mark ARSEnault
    The Massachusetts bar, which catered to lesbians, lifted its Covid mask requirement once a week to attract more patrons. The decision brought criticism and national attention, but did not save the business. Some people were upset that the bar had lifted its mask policy one day a week, saying it risked the lives of immunocompromised customers. Others mocked them.
  • Female pastor announces her 'prophet' husband has married a second woman... then calls her onto stage to introduce herself

    10/26/2026 12:49:29 PM PDT · by DFG · 89 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/26/2026 | Will Potter
    An Ohio pastor stunned her church congregation as she announced that her self-proclaimed 'prophet' husband had married a second wife. Lydia Ford, 45, the pastor of LifeWorks Church in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed to her flock that she and her husband Israel Ford, 47, had begun a polygynous marriage with another minister at their church, Shakayla Talley, 28. 'And I want to share that, know, Prophet and I, you know, we are living even right now in what we would call a polygynous marriage,' Lydia told her church. 'My husband, our prophet, he has a second wife. Y’all know her. Y’all...
  • It's about to really cut loose here (vanity)

    10/26/2026 7:20:13 AM PDT · by eastexsteve · 59 replies
    self | 10/26/2026 | self
    In my part of Texas, oil, gas, and timber drives the economy. I made an observation in a family meeting yesterday that it's really starting to break loose here. The local RV parks that are usually empty during the week, are filling up with oilfield workers. The oil and gas personnel that I know who are involved in site prep are working overtime. My son-in-law is one, and he is now working 36 hour shifts. I've been holding off doing a thinning cutting on one of my timber tracts because the price has been so low. But, last week my...
  • Cupertino: Official Trailer | CBS

    10/26/2026 4:21:50 AM PDT · by MayflowerMadam · 29 replies
    CBS ^ | September 9, 2026 | CBS
    CUPERTINO is a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley. A lawyer (Mike Colter) is cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney (Rachel Keller) to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley.
  • Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher.

    10/25/2026 8:01:53 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 43 replies
    Truth Social ^ | October | President Donald J. Trump
    Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not “HOT” anymore! Maher’s friend and business associate, Chuck LaBella, was also a friend of mine, worked on The Top Hit Show, The Apprentice, as a “gofer” and, because of the success of that show, Number One and Top Rated on many weeks, with the Finale’ being among the Top Shows of the Year, he was automatically and quickly brought up through...
  • Still sending checks in the mail? It's time to stop. It can be risky

    10/25/2026 9:22:38 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 78 replies
    Palm Beach Post ^ | September 5, 2026 | Daniel de Visé
    Every time you send a paper check in the mail, consumer advocates say, you're putting your bank account at risk. Check fraud is rising, even as the number of checks in circulation is declining. In 2025, federal data shows, Americans lost more money to check fraud than to debit card or gift card scams. Consumers are writing fewer checks these days, but the amounts are larger, and thieves know it. "Criminals know that when they see a check in the mail, it's less likely to be a $10 check and more likely to be a $10,000 check," said Scott Anchin,...
  • Democrat Scandal Unravels in Wisconsin – Involves Rotating Candidates and the Infamous Magic Flash Drives …Update: More Coming!

    10/25/2026 7:48:43 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 9 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 24, 2026 | Jim Hoft
    Wisconsin media is reporting on a MAJOR Democrat Party scandal just days before the November 3rd midterm elections. This involves the Wisconsin race for governor. Democrat primary candidate and Milwaukee County Executive, David Crowley announced on Wednesday, July 8th, that he was suspending his campaign. That leaves current Wisconsin Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez in the primary race against unhinged communist But Sara Rodriguez dropped out of the race two weeks later on July 17th. Her campaign discovered “serious mismanagement and inaccuracies” in its campaign finance reports, leading to the firing of campaign manager Kara Spencer. So that was the first...
  • study: licensed clinicians providing end-of-life counseling to individuals seeking medical aid in dying (MAID) in States

    10/24/2026 12:35:17 PM PDT · by Chickensoup · 14 replies
    email | 102426 | Chickensoup
    Did not expect to see this in my email. Greetings! I hope this message finds you well. There is a new study about the experiences of licensed clinicians providing end-of-life counseling to individuals seeking medical aid in dying (MAID) to help counselor educators and supervisors better understand their lived experience. This information can be used to inform the integration of end-of-life counseling and MAID-related competencies into existing counselor education programs. For this study, you are invited to describe your experiences providing end-of-life counseling and to assess how well your counselor education program aided in preparation. About the study: • One...
  • Evolution of Rome | Fixed-Camera Timelapse: The Colosseum Valley

    10/24/2026 7:53:47 AM PDT · by mowowie · 17 replies
    YouTube ^ | Timelapse Studio
    In this episode, your window reveals a timelapse of one of the most dramatic urban evolutions in human history. For over two millennia, Rome was shaped by political revolutions, wars, plagues, the rise and fall of empires, and a continuous cycle of destruction and renewal. Among its most dramatic chapters is the era of the Domus Aurea. After the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, Emperor Nero seized vast areas across the Palatine, Esquiline, and Caelian hills to build his sprawling Golden House, complete with an enormous artificial lake at its heart. Just a few years later, that same...
  • Romney invokes Churchill and George Washington in rare second rebuke of Trump’s Russia deal

    10/23/2026 6:40:19 PM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 36 replies
    Former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney pushed back against a deal brokered by President Donald Trump freeing a U.S. hostage from Russian custody, warning of the long-term implications.In a statement posted to social media, Romney invoked former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and George Washington to criticize Trump's decision to waive Russian sanctions as part of the agreement to release a hostage who has been held by Russia for four years. The agreement, Romney suggested, risks compromising more imperatives when it benefits an aggressor such as Russia."Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just 'done a deal' with (Adolf)...
  • Here’s One October Surprise, Anyway

    10/23/2026 7:02:49 AM PDT · by little jeremiah · 22 replies
    https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | October 23, 2006 | James Howard Kunstler
    Here’s One October Surprise, Anyway “The Left has always preferred the ashes of its own making to the inheritance of better men.” —Celina101 on X By now, everybody and his uncle interested in public matters has probably read that a claque of current-and-former agency officials, ex-USAID busybodies, military officers, activist academics, Democratic Party paladins, and freelance communist jihadis has been exposed plotting the overthrow of the US government. The plot was reported by the diligent “X” blogger Jennica Pounds under her nom-de-plume “Data Republican,” who lately received an enormous document-and-recording dump courtesy of careless color revolutionaries who recorded themselves and...
  • Solving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture

    10/23/2026 6:59:03 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    microsoft.com ^ | October 21, 2026 | Xinzhi Zhang , Senior Researcher
    For decades, a fundamental question about the difficulty of computing in high-dimensional spaces has resisted proof. New research resolves this question, removing a major theoretical obstacle to understanding the efficiency of randomized algorithms used across science and computing. The Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits (KLS) conjecture was proposed in 1995. It asks whether, for a broad class of high-dimensional probability distributions, the best flat or hyperplane cut is always nearly as effective as the best cut of any shape. More precisely, KLS predicts that the two differ by no more than a universal constant, regardless of the number of dimensions. This would establish a...
  • Friday Silliness Thread

    10/23/2026 1:59:30 AM PDT · by Nateman · 35 replies
    FreeRepublic.com ^ | October 23 , 2026 | Nateman
    This week's theme: Vampires
  • No criminal charges for Dr. Aryan Toosi, who ignored a patient's pulse and breathing, falsely declared him dead, and placed him in a freezing morgue, where he suffered severe, permanent brain damage.

    10/22/2026 7:58:16 PM PDT · by grundle · 26 replies
    Twitter ^ | October 22, 2026 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
    No criminal charges for Dr. Aryan Toosi, who ignored a patient's pulse and breathing, falsely declared him dead, and placed him in a freezing morgue, where he suffered severe, permanent brain damage. https://www.kbtx.com/2026/07/09/family-plans-legal-fight-after-toddler-declared-dead-later-found-alive-hospital-morgue/
  • Prominent Texas lawyer who donated over 600K to pro-Paxton PAC endorses Talarico

    10/22/2026 3:16:06 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 28 replies
    The Hill ^ | October 22, 2026 | Ford McCracken
    One of Texas’s most prominent personal injury lawyers has endorsed state Rep. James Talarico (D) in the Lone Star State’s widely watched Senate race. Thomas J. Henry, a fixture of Texas TV ads and billboards, posted a video to the social platform X on Thursday announcing he would support Talarico’s candidacy. “The reason I’m supporting James is I had the opportunity to meet with him in person for quite a long period of time and go over the issues that affect Texas and affect our country. And I found that James’s approach to these problems that affect Texas and our...
  • Utah Anti-ICE Group Leaders Caught Discussing Killing GOP Politicians and Their Children, Re-Education for MAGA in Vile Leaked Recording

    10/22/2026 10:38:08 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 37 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 22, 2026 | Cassandra MacDonald
    The recording, obtained by The Cougar Chronicle, features Venna Anne and Ashton Hirschi, both identified as POPAI leaders, speaking during a meeting earlier this month. During a conversation about capitalism, someone told Anne that “You just can’t get away from capitalism.” Anne replied, “No, unless we kill everybody.” Hirschi responded that they only needed to kill “some” people and initially settled on “500.” Anne then said, “You also have to kill their children and their [line of succession].” Hirschi agreed, stating, “We need to get the politicians.” When asked whether ICE agents could integrate back into society, Hirschi said, “If...
  • Social Media Influencer and Stick Run Creator Dead at 30 After Setting Himself on Fire During Twitch Livestream

    10/22/2026 5:43:13 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 21, 2026 | Cassandra MacDonald
    It appeared that he was wearing women's clothing during the stream. Otto was found dead in an attic in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee after the house also caught on fire. A neighbor noticed the blaze and tried to put it out before emergency services arrived, but Otto had already died. Stick Run’s official account initially stated it was aware of a Twitch livestream involving its creator and owner, Manuel Otto, “in which he appeared to have taken his own life.” The account said Twitch had removed the stream and video, asked the community not to spread unverified information, and invited anyone...
  • Bush family members back Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate race

    10/22/2026 5:39:55 AM PDT · by Skwor · 57 replies
    BBC ^ | October 22, 2026 | Max Matza
    Two members of the Bush family, the Republican political dynasty that counts Texas as its political launchpad, have backed Democrat James Talarico in the hotly fought race for a Senate seat in the Lone Star State.
  • Tiffany Justice: GOP Return Ballots Is Up to 25% in Pennsylvania versus 20% in 2022 – Democrat Returns Have Dropped 100,000 (VIDEO)

    10/21/2026 4:42:51 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 21, 2026 | Jim Hoft
    In a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room on Tuesday, Tiffany Justice discussed Pennsylvania mail-in/return ballot numbers. Tiffany is a Senior Advisor for Citizens Alliance and also co-founded Moms for Liberty. She is a very smart and eloquent speaker, someone you listen to whenever you see her on a show you like. Tiffany had good news for Republicans from Pennsylvania: Tiffany Justice: "The GOP returns are already higher than at this point in 2022. So, the GOP share of returned ballots has reached 25%. As of August 19th, 2022, it was just 20%. So things are looking really good...