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Macron does something historic, at last: becomes the most unpopular French president in recorded history. His downward trajectory seems to have no end. As failed French president Emmanuel Macron drags himself along to finish his second and final presidential term, we see him striving to make a mark, to leave some sort of legacy other than chaos and social upheaval. So, he tries to ban social media for teens, in the name of ‘Child protection online’; he defends ‘Space sovereignty’ with his flopped Space Summit in Paris; He doubles down on defense, rearmament, and power projection, just as France got...

Automatic Collision Evasion Tesla Automatic Collision Evasion feature in update 2026.27.5 Available in the US HW4 Models: S? 3 X? Y CT Automatic Collision Evasion activates Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to try to keep your vehicle safe and then continue driving. It can engage in the following situations while you are driving manually: - Scenario 1: A frontal collision is imminent and braking alone may not avoid it. - Scenario 2: Your vehicle detects that you are not sufficiently attentive to the road (for example, reaching toward the back seat), or that Full Self-Driving (Supervised) may have been unintentionally disengaged. See...

Yasir Ai@AiwithYasir·10hAmazon Ring has a serious problem, and it doesn't cost a dollar.It's called Frigate: a free, open source app that watches your driveway, your porch, your garage, entirely on hardware you already own. No cloud. No subscription. No footage anyone else can request.It's built by Blake Blackshear, and it's been quietly becoming the go-to alternative for people who got tired of renting access to their own front door.Here's the math Ring doesn't want you doing:You: "How much is Ring Protect Pro?"Ring: "$20 a month. $200 a year. Per house."You: "What do I actually get for that?"Ring: "Cloud storage. Also,...

CONSTITUTION X@ConstitustionX·9hTHIS IS WHAT A REAL AMERICAN WARRIOR LOOKS LIKE Shot down over IRAN.Parachute shredded in the missile strike.Looks up…NO CHUTE.Free-falling 70-100 mph toward enemy mountains with a broken back coming.He doesn’t panic.He PAUSES.And prays:“Lord, Your will be done. But if I’m getting through this… I NEED HELP.”Then he fights the chute with his bare hands the whole way down.Hits the ground like a freight train.Broken back. Broken arm. Broken shoulder.Still crawls away. Still hides. Still evades Iranian forces for TWO DAYS with no food or water.Calls it a “modern-day miracle.”THIS is the kind of man who wears the uniform.THIS...

Democrats in Kentucky might be some of the dumbest in the country. We all see the political landscape due to national issues. This is the best chance Democrats in Kentucky have had in nearly ten years to win back some of the seats they’ve lost, and then they go and support this. The very reason Kentucky Democrats stopped dominating the state is due in large part to coal and a huge disconnect on social issues with the God-fearing, rural nature of the state. So instead of trying to respect that and win back some of those voters, they decide to...

Paula Devlin, one of the outspoken Lindsay Clancy jurors, said the quiet part out loud this weekend during an interview with CBS. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children to death in January 2023. Clancy admitted that she killed all three of her own children, but the defense argued she was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury considered five verdicts: – Guilty of First-Degree Murder – Guilty of Second-Degree Murder – Guilty of Manslaughter – Not Guilty – Not Guilty due to Lack of Criminal Responsibility Eleven jurors were ready to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of...

Saturday Night Live UK returned for its second season — and wasted no time getting stuck into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Sky series cold opened with a sketch (watch above) in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (as depicted by Jack Shep and Ayoade Bamgboye) visited the King and Queen in Scotland's Balmoral Castle. Larry Dean's King Charles III was aghast at his child's reappearance. "Don't tell me you've spent all your Netflix money already," he asked incredulously. "It was $60 million. How long was it meant to last?" Prince Harry replied. Queen Camilla, as played by...

FBI agent Pellegrino; "But there were missed opportunities before. And you always have to wonder what else could have been done to possibly have picked him up. And if we had picked him up, I just, I can't imagine that an event like 9-11 would have happened." CBS. Sep 11, 2026. How '9/11 mastermind' slipped through FBI's fingers. BBC. Sep 5, 2021. Mohammed seems to have been tipped off about the US interest in him and fled Qatar, ending up in Afghanistan.''

Take America Back (TAB)@JoinTAB_USA·15hTrump drained the oil reserves to the lowest level in history.Wait till you hear what he actually did with it.https://joinTAB.us 13 September 2026#tab #leadwhereyoulive #midterms #trump VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~~Can you believe Trump allowed America’s oil reserves to be at the lowest point that they’ve ever been ? I mean, that’s what we’re hearing, right? Well, let’s talk about the ‘Why’ and what mainstream media is not telling us. Well last night, two buddies of mine, Ace and Rich, were on a podcast and we discussed this whole thing and worked it out. And when it finally hit...

“Flock cameras, you haven’t talked a lot about these Flock cameras. A lot of law enforcement say they really help them, would you be willing to back that?” “I sort of like ’em because of that, because of law enforcement. But some people don’t. They think it’s an infringement. But I like them.”

ransomnote: Just one more way the MSM, in this case CBS, protected Obama and his State Department from accountability.Benghazi Notes@BenghaziNotesOn the same day as Obama's Rose Garden speech (day after the #Benghazi attacks), @CBSNews reporter Steve Kroft had a previously scheduled interview with @BarackObama for the @60Minutes news program. Given the timing, this became an opportunity to ask the president about #Benghazi.Steve Kroft: "Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word TERRORISM in connection with the Libya attack."Obama: "Right." Kroft was right to press Obama on this as ALL Sr. administration...

Democratic Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego appeared on CNN this morning and said the next Democratic President should destroy all remnants of Trump, including the beautification of Washington, DC, once he leaves the White House. Trump has undertaken various projects to beautify DC, including cleaning the vandalism and restoring statues and monuments across the city, fixing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and building a White House Ballroom and a "Triumphal Arch." The Department of the Interior is preparing to break ground on the Arch on Columbia Island, where it will overlook the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial across the...

ransomnote: related x.com post in FR post #1ColonelTowner-Watkins@ColonelTownerLet me say this a different way...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was not the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. He was sold to the public as the principal architect. Khalid was in Bosnia bc he was trained by the CIA in AFG and part of a much bigger effort to generate the USSR follow on boogeyman: radical Islamic terror.The mujahideen provided the initial phase, al Qaeda would follow and ISIS, etc. All from the same network and all funded, trained, tasked by the same intelligence agencies...just like the Cuban exiles, Philippine terrorists and Moonies/Taiwanese...

Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive1. Trump landed in Dublin this morning and the Irish establishment had spent a week bracing for a disaster that never came. 150 lawyers signed a letter. Protest groups organized. A message got carved into a beach. Here’s what actually happened. 🧵Sep 13, 2026·Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·17h2. His first stop was President Catherine Connolly, a progressive who has called his Iran campaign “a deliberate assault on international law” and once described him as volatile and a bully. She greeted him with a military honor guard. He called her “terrific.” That’s how it went all day.Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·17h3. She gave...

A Russian strike has hit a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other top European officials had passed through. No casualties were reported after the Russian strike, which hit the train's engine. Johnson and some of Europe's most senior security advisers, including the UK's Jonathan Powell, had passed along the same line on their way back from a conference in the capital, Kyiv. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said a Russian drone had struck 800m from Polish border. Russia has in recent months carried out a number of deadly attacks targeting Ukraine's...

ransomnote: I put still images from the video at the link below. The prior posts in the series are here:John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 6, 7 and 8 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen...

The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.The unprecedented shift has placed an ever...

Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council Dr. Sebastian Gorka shared that under Trump’s leadership “the global jihadi movement is on the back foot.”While speaking with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Gorka highlighted that, while the global jihadi movement had goals to “shake down all of the Arab monarchies in the Middle East” and to “undermine the west” starting with the United States, America “is now stronger than it has ever been.”

ransomnote: The prior posts in the series are here:John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 6, 7 and 8 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 9 Parts 1 - 4...

Video: CBS News' Gayle King reacts live on air to learning Clancy "holdout juror" was the only "person of color" on the jury