Aviation enthusiasts have spotted the USN's P-8A Poseidon aircraft, used for anti-submarine warfare, surveillance and reconnaissance, circling over a drug-smuggling hotspot in the waters between the US and Mexico. Dummkopf Trumpf had ordered CIA to expand operations against the Mexican drug cartels and this summer DEA announced a joint US-Mexican counter-cartel program called Project Portero, but President Claudia Sheinbaum denied that any such initiative exists: "The DEA issues the statement, we don't know based on what," said Sheinbaum on 19 Aug. "We haven't reached any agreement; none of the security institutions have with the DEA." Earlier this year Trumpf authorized the US military to attack the drug cartels and the USN conducted several illegal XJK (Extra-Judicial Killings) of defenseless Venezuelans in the Caribbean Sea who were not given a chance to surrender. The sinister Trumpf junta alleged the Venezuelans were drug smugglers but provided no proof. Read more
Some Texas Army National Guard soldiers deployed to Chicago have been sent home for failing to meet fitness standards after a photo of obese troops went viral. "A small group" of the 200 National Guard soldiers sent to Illinois last week have been replaced for not being "in compliance" with its validation process. The embarassing switch comes after the inter-galactically unqualified SECDEF Pete "Hic!" Hegseth, a former weekend TV tumor on Faux News, whined that he was tired of seeing "fat troops" giving the military "a bad look" during a boring speech to hundreds of senior military commanders on 30 Sep. After the soporific screed, Hegseth mandated that active-duty troops take two physical fitness tests each year and work out every day. Hegseth praised the Texas National Guard replacements in a social media post: "Standards are back at The @DeptofWar," the racist misogynist boasted on social media, until the chubby BBQ-loving Texans were photographed. Read more
NYS AG Letitia James took center stage at the "Our Time Has Come" rally for NYC Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on Monday evening, her first public appearance since being indicted by the nefarious Trumpf junta. James, who has been a key supporter of Mamdani, was received with thunderous applause and a standing ovation at Manhattan's United Palace where Mamdani held a get-out-the-vote rally attended by thousands of supporters and volunteers. Supporters shouted, "We love Tish!" as James stood on stage taking in the cheers. She responded by putting a closed fist up in the air. The crowd responded by holding their fists in the air as well. Letitia James did not mention the odious Dummkopf Trumpf by name, at one point only saying, "I fear no man," making a reference to his heinous persecution of her. Read more
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Nato chief Mark Rutte joked about the condition of Russia's naval fleet on Monday as Moscow denied one of its submarines had to surface because of technical problems. Russia's Black Sea Fleet said the diesel-powered submarine Novorossiysk had surfaced off France to comply with navigation rules in the English Channel, through which it was shadowed by a UK warship and helicopter. Read more
In a time when consumers can split food delivery orders into four separate payments, turning to crowdfunding to cover essentials might not be as rare as you think. During a new conversation on the Opening Bid Unfiltered podcast (see the video above; listen below), GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan shared that groceries are becoming a hotter topic for fundraising. "In some cases, very sadly, that is happening," he told Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi. "We're seeing it more and more."
SpaceX is set to launch an hour-long test flight of its Starship megarocket " the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed " as soon as 7:15 p.m. ET Monday. The company has had a rocky year of test missions with this generation of Starship prototype, called Version 2. Read more
STOCKHOLM, Oct 13 (Reuters) -- Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their work on how innovation and the forces of "creative destruction" can drive economic growth and lift living standards across the globe. Their research explains how technology gives rise to new products and production methods which replace old ones, resulting in a better standard of living, health and quality of life. Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA.) bleated the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government. "We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers," Johnson whined on the 13th day of the government shutdown. Congress has been locked in a standoff over government funding as Democrats demand that Republicans make concessions on health care, notably Affordable Care Act tax credits that are expiring at the end of the year. GOP leaders have refused to negotiate on health care during a shutdown, arguing that that Democrats must accept the "clean" funding stopgap the House passed in September " and which has failed to advance in the Senate seven times. Read more
Late on Oct. 5, a Portland ambulance crew informed dispatchers over the radio that it was attempting to transport a patient from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center but that ICE officers were impeding its departure. Six minutes later, at 9:40 pm, according to publicly archived radio records, the medic driving the vehicle delivered an update: "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers." As the delay dragged on, according to the reports, the ambulance operator put the vehicle into park, causing it to lurch forward slightly. The reports indicate the federal agents did not like this"so much so that an agent threatened to shoot and arrest the driver. The driver, frightened, asked why. An agent, according to the reports, responded that the driver had attempted to hit him with the ambulance.
Joblessness for Black workers is rising again, two years after reaching a record low. It's a troubling indicator: Joblessness often spikes higher for historically marginalized groups during economic downturns, and takes longer to fall. This time, the Trump administration's assault on diversity programs and cuts to the federal workforce could make it even more difficult for Black workers to recover when conditions improve. The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6% to 7.5%, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7%. On top of a slowing economy, the White House's actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said.
"When coal miners came to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry," the New York Times reports. "But on Tuesday dozens of miners and their families will be in a more unusual position: protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building, arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease, an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust."
For many Americans, the gap between Christian teachings and MAGA politics is baffling. How can people profess faith in Jesus who preached love, mercy and care for the oppressed -- while supporting policies that punish immigrants, demonize LGBTQ people and glorify cruelty?
The latest movie by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Leonardo di Caprio and Sean Penn. What did you think of this movie? Read more
The way Louisiana's Republican leaders put it, the pervasive racial discrimination in elections that led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is all in the past. That is why they are now urging the Supreme Court, in a case being argued on Wednesday, to bar states from using any consideration of race when drawing legislative districts, gutting a key plank of the law that was designed to ensure Black voters would have a chance of electing their preferred candidates.
MKs Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif interrupted Dummkopf Trumpf's speech at Israel's Knesset and were expelled from the plenum after jeering the pedophile. Odeh held up a sign that said "Recognize Palestine." He later posted on X' that the recognition of a Palestinian state is "the simplest demand, a demand that the entire international community agrees on ... There are two peoples here, and neither is going anywhere." Cassif posted on X' that their protest was "to demand justice," accusing the Israeli government of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians: "Refuse to be occupiers! Resist the government of bloodshed!" ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu rejects recognizing a Palestinian state, even though he has signed onto Trumpf's 20-point peace plan that is supposed to lead to a sovereign Palestine. Read more
