Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of 'geofence' search warrants
Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns
Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana’s Congressional Map in Major Voting Rights Ruling
‘Major scandal:’ Feds and Sen. Johnson allege government coverups of COVID origins, vaccine deaths

"The FDA knew" COVID vaccines were "showing safety signals for mass death," Johnson told the Just the News, No Noise television show Tuesday night, saying his hearing Wednesday will reveal FDA staff making similar statements about withholding "sensitive information" from emails that could encourage vaccine hesitancy. "We've gotten documents" showing the authors of the "analytical algorithm" in the government's passive Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System warned then-Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks in March 2021 that it would "mask" adverse events, and offered Marks an "updated version that will unmask" safety signals. The updated version found "49 cases of extreme masking, 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell's palsy, 25 of these types," Johnson said. "And the FDA ignored it, and they continue to say, well, we're not seeing any safety signals," he said. "This should be a major scandal."
Jerome Powell says he's staying on as a Fed governor

Left Angst

The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence

In the immediate aftermath of the fourth assassination attempt on President Trump this past weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, we heard the familiar chorus of voices in the corporate media and political establishment calling for calm, for unity, for lowering the temperature, toning down the rhetoric. We heard the same thing after Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September, and after Trump was shot in the face by a would-be assassin on the campaign trail in July 2024. As always, the people saying this pretend it’s a “both sides” problem, that the political left and right are both at risk of becoming dangerously violent, and that for the sake of our democracy we all need to calm down. What nonsense. There is only one side in America today that has a persistent and very real-world problem with political violence, and everyone knows it’s the left. It’s the left that has produced four would-be assassins of President Trump. It’s the left that produced Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the sneering online hordes who celebrated his murder. It’s the left that produced Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood, and overnight became a folk hero to his fellow travelers. The left riots and burns down cities in a way that makes Jan. 6 look tame, and the corporate press justifies it as a form of political speech. The left regularly threatens conservative speakers and events, forcing organizers to provide a level of security that liberal events never need. The left foments violence not just by spreading false propaganda about conservatives but by funding the supposed right-wing extremists they warn about, as the recent federal criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has shown.
The Secret Group Chats Fueling MAGA's Messaging Machine
Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
- FBI head James Comey charged with threatening Donald Trump's life
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects
White House Captions Photo of Trump and King Charles as 'Two Kings'
Trump: Australia's media bargaining laws 'foreign extortion'
US to issue new 'America250' passports featuring Donald Trump's image
State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports
The Lost Idealism of Heartland Rock
Why Wealthy Elites Come to Regret Their Bargains with Authoritarians
How much can Trump screw with the midterms?
FCC orders early license renewal for ABC stations following Kimmel's joke
- FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and First Lady
Push for raw milk intensifies across the US, despite illness outbreaks
Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

Five takeaways from the King's historic address to Congress

The current state of US-UK relations is strained – a reflection of British reluctance to fully back the joint US-Israeli war against Iran. So the King's goal has been to ease those tensions with a royal charm offensive, most notably with his joint address to Congress on Tuesday afternoon. There is some reason for hope. President Donald Trump has a notably mercurial personality. Warm relations can turn chilly in a flash. But the reverse is also true, and former antagonists can be rehabilitated, welcomed once again into the president's good graces. But there were also some lines in the King's speech, the first royal address to Congress since Queen Elizabeth II spoke at the Capitol in 1991, that may have buoyed Democrats – and raised eyebrows in the White House.
- Where's all them folks shouting about "No Kings" when we need them?
U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official
China Is America's Military Equal Now and in Future Fights, Marine General Warns
Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year

World

The EC is turning Google Search into a privacy and national-security risk
Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag
India's major airlines on 'verge of closing down' as high fuel costs sting
Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off platforms
- Meta isn't doing enough to keep kids off Facebook and Instagram, rules EU
The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain
Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity
Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms
Britain Has a Tiny-Window Epidemic, and Old Ladies Are to Blame
Australia: Social media ban for youth has little effect
Two Jewish men stabbed in north London

Police say they're working with the security services and "one of the lines of inquiry is whether this attack was deliberately targeting the Jewish community in London" The victims, in their 70s and 30s, are in a stable condition. The suspect, aged 45, also attempted to stab police officers. He was Tasered and has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M
France unveils plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2050

Iran / Houthi

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

The Most Potent Weapon in Russia's Disinformation War

China

Health / Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

Death Valley is blooming
The scientists turning recycled ocean plastic waste into roads
Higher temperatures spur Alaska's invasive pike to eat more, bad sign for salmon
World’s largest wildlife crossing finally has an opening date

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, north of Los Angeles, is expected to open on Dec. 2, four-and-a-half years after work began, project leaders announced Wednesday during an Earth Day news conference.
It's time to make a plan for nuclear waste
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why
Do octopus brains work like humans' – or is there another way to be smart?
Colombians are divided over the fate of Pablo Escobar's hippos
Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures
Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years