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Seven fake journalists. Nearly 100 articles. At least 20 publications. How an Iranian influence operation turned fabricated writers into published, searchable voices in the American press... ...Seven Journalists Who Weren’t Journalists OpenAI identified seven fabricated identities: Ervin B. Hoskins, Noah Lamington, Sophia Gonzalez, Michael Harrison, Ericka Feusier, Jenny Williams, and Alice Johnson. Their biographies described Western freelance writers and analysts interested in foreign policy, international affairs, human rights, and the Middle East. Most supposedly lived in the United States, while Lamington was presented as a writer based in New Zealand.

Voices From Vietnam@VoicesfromNam·1hFebruary 24, 1969. Night. An AC-47 gunship, call sign Spooky 71, is circling over Long Binh, firing on Viet Cong attacking the Army post below.In the back, 23-year-old Airman First Class John Levitow is filling in for the regular loadmaster. His job is to arm magnesium flares, 27-pound canisters that burn at 4,000 degrees, and hand them to the gunner to throw out the open cargo door.The gunner is holding one with his finger through the pull ring when an 82mm mortar shell hits the right wing and explodes.Shrapnel rips through the cabin. Everyone in the back is...

Being raped by an asylum seeker, German women?Well, try this: Just yak! That'll get the Third World rapist off you!This story is out of the northern German city of Bremen.From ZeroHedge:Franka Haedke, a spokeswoman for the Bremen police, said the guidance is part of broader self-defense instruction offered by the department's Central Police Prevention unit.'In an emergency, such as attempted rape, defend yourself with all available means,' Haedke told the Kreiszeitung newspaper. 'Vomiting can also be an effective way to ward off a sexual offense.'Seminar instructors tell participants they can trigger a gag reflex by placing a finger down the...

https://x.com/sarahadams/status/2108576711851831748 Sarah Adams@sarahadams·2hOkay, we are going to nip an argument in the bud today. Yes, terrorists will celebrate the execution of Nidal Hasan, just as they celebrated the murder of his victims. They glorify dying for their cause, and of course, will use it in propaganda. But the argument that his execution will somehow unleash a massive wave of terrorist recruitment or inspire waves of suicide bombers needs to stop.That motivation already exists, look at the waves of new recruits after the fall of Kabul, after October 7th, and after the fall of Assad. There are over a dozen terrorist...

They should have guessed what they were walking into … A sticky-fingered escort is accused of stealing more than $135,000 from men she met at a Miami strip club fittingly named the Booby Trap. Deziree Hood, 21, was already out on bond for a previous robbery earlier this year when she was recently arrested again in what Miami cops labeled “robbery by seduction,” WPLG reported. In the most recent “seductions,” Hood — who is listed as being an “escort” in at least one of her many recent arrest reports — is accused of stealing two gold chains worth about $110,000...

I was reading the post and comments concerning Zach Bryan - about him wearing the Free Palestine t-shirt. My thoughts once again strayed to what were these people like back in high school. Were they the ones that joined the Drama clubs, Glee clubs? Were they the ones that were in their own little 2-3 person clique? Were they the ones that looked down on the other students as beneath them, not "educated" like them?

4 minute video at link🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸@Real_RobN·22hThis 👇👇 here 👇👇 is:Capitol CCTV shows Sen. Kamala Harris exiting the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. on January 6. The unelected, illegitimate government filed indictments in January 6 cases against Americans for seditious conspiracy for almost a year, falsely claiming that the bitch was still in the Capitol building.Kamala Harris:“I was at the Capitol on January 6th. I was the Vice President-Elect. I was also an acting senator. I was there.And on that day, the president of the United States incited a violent mob to attack our nation’s Capitol, to desecrate our nation’s Capitol. On that...

Voices From Vietnam@VoicesfromNamApril 1972. Air Force navigator Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton is shot down behind North Vietnamese lines during the Easter Offensive. The air rescue attempts are a catastrophe. Five more aircraft are lost and at least 11 more airmen are killed trying to reach him.So the Navy sends one SEAL, Lt. Tom Norris, with five South Vietnamese commandos, to go get him on foot.One of them was Petty Officer Nguyen Van Kiet, a 27-year-old frogman from the South Vietnamese Navy.They rescued one downed pilot from the river first. But as they pushed deeper to reach Hambleton, two of the...

Brazil’s Supreme Court tyrant Alexandre de Moraes, the justice critics have long called Alexandre de Voldemort, has ordered the arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro and the brother of Flávio Bolsonaro, the frontrunner to send socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva packing on October 25. Eduardo's brother, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, has emerged as the frontrunner to become Brazil's next president after defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of voting. Moraes did not wait for the runoff. Moraes ordered Eduardo to begin serving a four-year, two-month sentence immediately,...

A left-wing politician who shares his name with fascist dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini has become the mayor of a Peruvian town – just one year after he resigned from a right-wing populist party. Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores, 45, prevailed with 34% of the vote in Sunday’s election in Queropalca, running on a center-left ticket for Peru’s Ahora Nacion (Now Nation) party. It’s unclear when the politician joined the Ahora Nacion party, but he was previously a member of the right-wing Popular Force party before resigning in 2025, according to his candidate declaration form. Popular Force is a populist...

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Theresa M Long, MD, MPH, FS@LTCTheresaLong·5hAmazing man- SSG Alonzo Lundsford shot 7 times- one of which was to the head (that is now public knowledge) Read that again shot point blank 7 times by that man. I was a new doctor rotating on the surgery service on that day. At the purple heart ceremony he talked about struggling with not being about to stop it...I was like, " you are like a wall of power...you stopped 7 bullets, who else could have done that?" I often wondered how many were saved because it took so many bullets to take down...

Video shows Douglas County K-9s performing rappel training by: Adam RosenPosted: Oct 8, 2026DENVER (KDVR) — Whether or not you’re a dog lover, this may be one of the most absurd images you’ll ever see. Yes — that is a dog rappelling down a building. Fear not, though, as it’s a training exercise recently performed by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and their K-9 deputies. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office shared a video of training, as deputies worked to teach their K-9s how to rappel in a situation such as a robbery or even a shooter, catching a suspect by...

Echoes of War@EchoesofWarYT108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real.Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no.His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went...

In a stunning move, a federal judge on Tuesday referred Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for federal criminal investigation to determine whether he should be charged with conspiracy or obstruction of justice in his efforts to overturn a murder conviction. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond, a George W. Bush appointee, said testimony from the DA's staffers described conduct by Larry Krasner and his top deputy, Matthew Stiegler, as "troubling." Larry Krasner and his attorneys are now being accused of committing crimes, such as suborning perjury, after they received a court petition to overturn a 2009 second-degree murder conviction. Dennis...

Patience and Jarod Blocker are rare for their age. The Gillette couple has a passion for classic pre-64 Winchester Model 70 rifles. Planning for next year's Winchester Arms Collectors Association show in Cody, Patience says, "It's going to be bad-ass."

Looking for recomendations for sites to follow news & political topics in addition to FR. I read Conservative Tree House & scroll on X but I am dropping Gateway Pundit after more than a decade. I just can't face another picture of colons, colon tumors, feces, constipation remedies. There is more to life than the back passage. I should also note GP's dreadful fascination with worms & parasites but that focus has toned down recently.

A newly released police bodycam video shows the tense moments after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at a Virginia school, with the foul-mouthed child gunman challenging the responding officers to a fight, and admitting he stole the gun from his mom. The video, obtained by The Virginian-Pilot and the Daily Press earlier this week, shows officers responding to a classroom at Richneck Elementary School where the shocking 2023 shooting had occurred, and encountering the boy, who has only been identified in court docs as “JT.” The teacher who was shot, Abigail Zwerner, and other students had fled the room...

A man armed with a gun and a knife was shot dead at a federal courthouse in Nashville on Thursday. According to News 3, the attacker tried to discharge his gun but it wouldn't fire so he used a knife to attack the security guard. The security guard fatally shot the gunman. The gunman was identified as an out-of-state US Marshal. The motive for the attack is unknown. Local 3 News reported: The shooter was identified as an out-of-state U.S. Marshal, who police say entered the front door armed with a pistol. The gunman is dead and there is no...

Pittsburgh is allowing a violent serial criminal named named Delvin Dobbins to shoot and stab as many people as he wants. https://triblive.com/local/man-charged-in-pittsburgh-busway-stabbing-was-on-bond-for-previous-stabbing-break-in/