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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Trump says the quiet part out loud. He is plain as day when it comes to policy preferences to line the pockets of his donor class. You can’t blame him alone for supporting the military-industrial complex, sometimes called the Blob, the enforcer of economic imperialism. There’s a bipartisan history of like minded presidential administrations and congress critters funding war spending on the taxpayers’ dime since the Cold War. It ended with the fall of the former Soviet Union. Still, the corporate gravy train for war contractors keeps on rolling. Meanwhile, the federal government cannot…

The U.S. war in Iran may be over, or at least in abeyance, but President Donald Trump isn’t done blaming Europeans for his failure there. A week after threatening to quit NATO over European states’ reluctance to help out, especially in clearing the Strait of Hormuz, and just two days after striking a shaky ceasefire deal, the president was at it again Thursday, berating the strategically obsequious Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, for the allies’ inaction. After the meeting Trump took to Truth Social, lamenting, in all caps, that “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE…

Some people spent Easter weekend looking for eggs with their families. And some speculated on social media that President Donald Trump’s health had taken a turn for the worse. There is no evidence Trump was sick or hospitalized over the weekend. But social media users resurrected old outdated video and an image generated by artificial intelligence to support the claim. “Trump” and “Walter Reed,” the military hospital in Maryland where presidents are treated, were mentioned together 112,390 times across X, Bluesky, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook and Threads posts from March 30 to April 6, according to data from the social media…

A federal judge sentenced former Milwaukee police officer Juwon Madlock to five years in federal prison followed by three years of probation after he pleaded guilty to misconduct in office. Prosecutors say Madlock used his position as an officer to help a local street gang, including helping them hide stolen cars, offering to sell them guns, and lying to the FBI. They say he also shared sensitive police information, including pictures of fellow officers, and even told members where to find rival gangs, knowing it could lead to violence. The post Brickbat: A Man on the Inside appeared first on…

 Date of discovery: April 5, 2026Location of discovery: Mars perseverance 1817There are some amazing and fantastic ancient artifacts on Mars in this gigapan photo. This is all manufactured technology of an alien race that may or may not exist anymore. This photo has many heads, often sitting upright, the eyes, nose, mouth and jaw are all there, one even has curly hair (bottom screenshot in this post). That particular face almost looks like the Roman Emperor Nero but its facial features are slightly different from humans in that it has a bumpy facial skin area. There are even many entrance ways…

Last year the inner solar system had an interstellar visitor – 3I/Atlas (which stands for the third interstellar object which was discovered by the Atlas telescope). The third ever of anything is by definition a rare event, and so this was scientifically exciting. The comet came into the inner solar system, passing close to Jupiter and Mars, but not to the Earth, went behind the sun, then emerged on its path away from the sun. It is now headed for the orbit of Jupiter and out of the solar system. At first 3I/Atlas displayed a number of minor anomalies. It…

There are many ancient sites around the world, many of which have legends that appear to speak of portals and gateways to other realms of existence. So many, in fact, that they surely can’t be dismissed as nothing but a coincidence. Source link

Any group differences in outcomes can be traced to systemic racism.If systemic racism exists at all, it works against so-called privileged groups.Abortion is murder, period.The sanctity of human life is a made-up concept.Jews have a biblical right to Israel.Hitler was right about a few things.Masculinity is inherently toxic.If women ran the world, we would still be living in grass huts.The colonialists need to give back the land they stole.Indigenous people need to get over the fact that they were conquered.Providing sex is an obligation within a marriage.Any sexual coercion constitutes rape. Do any of these statements resonate? Make you angry?…

Trump's Embarrassing Anti-NATO Temper Tantrum Source link

The incendiary Olivier Award–winning play Giant, which premiered in London last year, comes to Broadway this spring with a regrettably timely message. The titular giant is Roald Dahl, the cantankerous, 6′ 6”, much-loved children’s author. The drama takes place during a 1983 summer luncheon and afternoon hosted by Dahl (John Lithgow) and his soon-to-be second wife, Felicity Crosland (Rachael Stirling). The guests are his British publisher (Elliott Levey) and his American publisher’s sales representative (Aya Cash), both of whom are Jewish. Worried about sales of Dahl’s new book, The Witches, the publishers want the irascible author to craft an apology for…