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Two top appointees of President Donald Trump, including the deputy secretary of State, have been embroiled in a monthslong fight that includes accusations of leaks to the media and “bizarre” threats of defamation — all over emails that at times included more than a dozen administration officials. The conflict centers on Paolo Zampolli, a personal friend of Trump’s and a special envoy at the State Department, and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, according to the messages obtained by POLITICO. The emails stretch over almost a year and show Zampolli and Landau disagreeing over chains of command as Landau admonishes...

Funny how accountability only works one way. It’s always Trump’s fault when Islamic Republic of Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, but never genocidal-Hamas Gaza leaders’ fault when their October 7 attacks trigger a war in Gaza. Funny how accountability only works one way.

A Ventura County man is facing federal charges after allegedly using his access as a civilian contractor to secretly photograph and film sensitive military equipment and operations at a Southern California naval base, then share the footage with others. Todd Jeremy Senff, 46, of Camarillo, was charged with 14 federal misdemeanors, including 11 counts of violating defense property security regulations and three counts of entering military property for an unlawful purpose, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Senff allegedly took photos and videos of military aircraft, equipment and training exercises at Naval Base Ventura County’s Point Mugu installation between...

JoeLange@JoeLange·18hThere’s a reason why Zelensky doesn’t want another election.And it’s the same reason that he doesn’t want to end the war in Ukraine.He’s a really unpopular dictator in Ukraine and would lose an honest election in a landslide and then face justice for his war crimes against his own people.But canceling elections, wasn’t the only thing Zelensky did.He then “suspended” all political parties and then banned them. Otherwise, you would have seen huge uprisings in Ukraine against Zelensky.After that, he consolidated the large TV networks into one that he controlled and also banned the independent networks. He’s been throwing independent...

War Correspondent@warDaniel47·21hTHEY DIDN’T JUST KILL A DRUG LORD.THEY KILLED A DEEP STATE GENERAL.“El Mencho” was untouchable for 30 years. He had drones. Armored vehicles. Land mines. He shot down a military helicopter. The CIA looked the other way.Why?Because he wasn’t just moving drugs. He was moving children.On Sunday morning, Trump’s intelligence led Mexican Special Forces straight to his door in Tapalpa, Jalisco.He died in the helicopter. Like a dog.$15 million bounty. Collected.His son — life in prison.His daughter — arrested.His empire — burning.Right now, his soldiers are setting fire to buses in Guadalajara. They are pulling people from cars. They...

BJ Ganem@BJGanem·Oct 13Charlie Plumb reveals how a Navy fighter pilot survived 2,103 days in the Hanoi Hilton by changing one single word in his own head:He was tortured, isolated, and lied to for six straight years, and the ten lines below are the actual tools he used to come out the other side stronger instead of broken:1. Overconfidence gets you shot down.Before his 75th mission, Plumb believed nothing in the sky could touch him. That belief ended in about ninety seconds.I flew the skies of Vietnam thinking they didn’t have a missile big enough to shoot down Charlie Plumb.Pride is...

JoeLange@JoeLange·1hThe “Liddle” Ukrainian dictator is now experiencing the FO part of the equation.He thought he could just keep playing games.The GAME is over.Zelensky and the Iranian regime are the same.Both dictators who are still playing by the old rules.But the rules have completely changed.Zelensky still thinks he has “leverage.”He doesn’t know what “leverage” really is.He thought he could keep bombing Russian refineries after Trump told him to stop and he could gain leverage in the “negotiations.”But he’s completely misunderstanding what’s actually happening.There are no more “negotiations.”Trump gave Zelensky that opportunity over a year ago and he refused.It’s no longer a...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' recent head injury was allegedly caused by a brawl with Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, sources claimed. The disgraced rap mogul, 56, was rushed out of federal prison in New Jersey last Saturday morning to be treated at a hospital after being hurt behind bars. Now insiders allege he sustained the injury in a fight with Dudus, who succeeded his late father Lester Coke as the leader of the Jamaican gang Shower Posse, an outfit that exported marijuana and crack cocaine to the United States. Dudus was said to be angry with Diddy over the recent...

Two ships have been hit in drone attacks off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, with one of them sinking, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said. The Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3, which was sailing under a Maltese flag, was hit by three drones and damaged about 18 nautical miles (33km) off Bulgaria at about 1:30am on Tuesday, Radev said. Bulgarian officials said five crew members had been rescued from the ship that sank but 11 remain missing at sea. The vessel went down off the coast of the village of Krapets, near the Romanian border and was identified as the Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship HS...

"React19 reviewed free-text entries submitted to the CDC’s V-safe vaccine safety monitoring program to document reports in which participants asked for help, described suicidal thoughts, reported that they were dying or nearly died, or reported a death, and to document what participants said about the response they received."

Abdul el Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, expresses irritation when he is asked about his association with Hasan Piker, the streamer/provocateur who said America deserved 9/11. “I’m not here to disavow people’s views,” el Sayed said during the Michigan Democratic primary campaign. “I’m here to have a conversation about how to get money out of politics, put money back in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.” Give el Sayed credit for staying on message; those are the three main themes of his campaign. On his website, el Sayed groups several positions under each one. Under “Money Out of...

A transgender person (biological male) fatally stabbed a man in South Side Chicago for disrespecting his gender. Kelly Day, 32, stabbed the victim, identified as 50-year-old Larry Young, more than 13 times last Wednesday near a gas station in the 1400 block of East 87th Street. The attack was so brutal and violent that the knife's blade broke off in Larry Young's skull. According to the Chicago Tribune, the stabbing occurred after Day had an encounter with a separate group of people earlier in the day at a McDonald's bathroom. They reportedly mocked Kelly Day for using the women's bathroom...

When President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, married a Turkish businessman last month, the lavish ceremony cemented their status as a power couple. Ms. Habba, 42, a longtime Trump loyalist, and Turhan Mildon, 29, an investor, hosted some of Washington’s most powerful people, including Attorney General Todd Blanche, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Will Scharf, the White House counsel. At that point, his patrons could no longer protect him. Mr. Maduro was not only out of power, but sitting in an American jail. Mr. Saab, Mr. Mildon’s most powerful ally in Venezuela, was arrested and extradited to the...

The disgraced musician returned to the low-security federal prison in New Jersey before sunrise, conscious and talking, according to TMZ. Sources at the prison told TMZ the injury was not life-threatening. It is not clear how he was injured. A Combs representative told Page Six, “We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs and are working to confirm the circumstances.” Combs has been in custody since September 2024. He was convicted last year of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of the more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. In October 2025, a judge sentenced him...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, the hyper-partisan Democrat who built her career targeting President Trump, is now facing a formal bar ethics complaint for publicly prejudging the “Cornell 7” sexual assault case just days before Governor Kathy Hochul appointed her special prosecutor. According to the New York Post, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization, filed a nine-page bar complaint against James with New York's Attorney Grievance Committee on Friday, October 9. The complaint accuses James of a clear, incurable conflict of interest and a “flagrant, obvious and therefore shocking” violation of the New...

Guest post by Banafsheh Zand at Iran So Far Away The growing influence of Islamists linked to the Khomeinist Regime in the United States was shown on September 23, 2026, when a University of Michigan student of Iranian heritage named Iman Dashti asked Michigan’s Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he opposed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Confronting El-Sayed with his words from earlier this year that he would not comment on the death of Regime leader Ali Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today,” Dashti asked him “if you renounce the...

A Biden-appointed judge has ruled that the Trump Administration must cease the production and airing of government-funded advertisements ahead of the midterms. In other words, Trump can no longer promote the United States of America or his administration in government-funded ads. The Department of Homeland Security told the court last night that there were “no plans” to air additional ads, while asking the judge to reject the request by progressive groups for an emergency order to block the ads. Still, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump Administration to stop using DHS funds to create or disseminate the ads...

Don’t livestream jihadi-fascist Hasan. We shouldn't turn justfiable punishmebt into something like a spectacle. We are not Iran, Palestinian Gaza regime, ISIS or narco thugs. We stand for freedom, and human dignity—not the ideologies that crush them. We must be principled enough to reject extremism without becoming extremists ourselves. **Don’t amplify what undermines the values we truly defend.** And we are peope of faith.

“There’s nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight.” — Lon ChaneyEvery year the displays get more extravagant, as if they are tracking the national zeitgeist exactly, fright upon fright. You also have to wonder how much cash money is going into these displays of morbid anxiety, in many cases a hefty percentage of the annual household income plus who-knows how many hours of labor. . . to put out the message “Be scared, be very scared.”Halloween traditionally brings a dissolution of the boundary between the real world and whatever you suppose lies beyond it: the abode of dead souls,...

A Biden-appointed federal judge has once again stepped in to shield dirty voter rolls from federal scrutiny, striking down the Justice Department’s nationwide effort to collect registration records and identify suspected non-U.S. citizens on the rolls. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, ruled that the Department of Justice overstepped its bounds by demanding unredacted voter registration lists and cross-referencing them using federal databases. According to the 78-page ruling, the DOJ began requesting complete, unredacted statewide voter registration lists (including names, dates of birth, addresses, and driver’s license or partial Social Security numbers) from 49...