News Archive
Posts
3D Printing
wtf
Donate

2026-04-06

Horseshit

celebrity gossip

Musk

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

  • Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon

  • Alien Disclosure Coming? Rep. Burchett Calls on Trump to Release Everything in U.S. Extraterrestrial Files

    “I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is. And, I’ll just say this, if they were to release the things that I’ve seen, you’d be up at night, worrying about, thinking about this stuff,” Burchett told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty. Burchett — a member of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — recalled that he was briefed two weeks ago “on an issue” about extraterrestrial life that “would have set the Earth” on fire and people would go “unglued” if released. They would demand answers,” Burchett said without going into further detail.

    “When I’m in a meeting, in a closed-door meeting, and I ask about the president’s points on these. And then I’m told by some arrogant, unelected bureaucrat that the president is on a need-to-know basis. I think that says everything it needs to be said about what’s going on,” he told Finnerty. “When I sit in a meeting, and some little punk with a man bun is sort of running the show, and you have decorated officer military officers in the meeting there that are basically unallowed to say anything, and you can read their faces,” he pointed out. Burchett also expressed concern about the alarming string of disappearances and deaths among the country’s top researchers in the field — including the mysterious disappearance of retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland in February and his former colleague, rocket scientist Monica Reza, eight months earlier.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

  • Can anything stop Kalshi?

    Adams admits he’s lost more money on Kalshi than he’s won, though he tries not to bet more than $10 or $20 at a time. He broke his own rule to put $120 on Lindo winning the Oscar; the prize went to Sean Penn and Adams lost every cent. “That kind of soured my night,” he says. “I'll hit a couple of good parlays, but sometimes you go a little too far and you go on a really bad streak.” It’s telling that Adams speaks in terms of streaks and parlays, not positions and gains. It’s the language of casino gambling, not commodities trading.

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Democrats

  • Meet Bill de Bogotá: Ex-NYC Mayor de Blasio visits Colombia with alleged China-linked far-left group

    Aging hipster former Mayor Bill de Blasio recently gallivanted down to Colombia with his terminally online new girlfriend and an alleged Chinese Community Party-linked lefty group to denounce American imperialism, The Post has learned. The under-the-radar trip in January saw de Blasio join an “emergency” conference — Nuestra América — to defend democracy and peace in the Americas after the controversial US capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that month. The ex-Hizzoner’s far-left trek drew disbelief and derision from many New York City political insiders, particularly because de Blasio jetted off along with Code Pink — an anti-war group bedeviled by accusations of ties to Beijing, sources said.

Left Angst

  • Budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

  • Why the US can't have nice things, part 2

    Having garbage-strewn subways that effectively serve as mobile homeless shelters and mental intuitions, is no way to run a subway system, or a city. It isn’t fair to anyone, especially the riders, who don't have the money to not take the subway. It also isn’t fair to the homeless, who are being encouraged (or at least not discouraged) to sleep and hang on crowded trains, maximizing the chances that really bad stuff happens, both from them and to them. The Daniel Penny Jordan Neely case is a perfect example of this. It is like we are creating the perfect conditions for a nasty backlash against addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. I’ve written many times over about how jarring it is to come home from trips overseas, often from much poorer places, like in this case Bulgaria, where the subways and buses, and other public spaces and resources, are cleaner, safer, and nicer. Where workers simply wanting to get to their jobs don’t have to deal with navigating the mentally ill, addicted, and desperate.

  • We are facing the most significant days and weeks in world history since 1945

    Trump and his cohort are depraved. That term describes someone who is morally corrupt, wicked, or perverted, reveals a severe lack of moral principles, and promotes ideas that represent a profound deviation from what is considered right. What we have to face is the likelihood that depraved actions will have been committed by US troops by Tuesday morning, contrary to international law, and exposing many, if not most, people within the Trump administration and the senior personnel within US armed forces to potential prosecution for war crimes. Amongst those things that they may do is use nuclear weapons against a civilian population. We now need to embrace the possibility that the unimaginable may happen.

  • EPA official in charge of methane regulations was an oil and gas lobbyist

  • Journalist detained for booing Trump at Kennedy Center Chicago performance

    A gay journalist says he was briefly detained by security after he booed President Donald Trump during the opening night of the musical Chicago at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, according to the Washington Blade.

  • Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon

  • Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • FBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident'

  • Colorado passes first law in the US to ban arrests based solely on these drug tests

    Colorado just enacted the nation’s first law banning arrests based solely on the results of colorimetric drug tests – a field test widely used by law enforcement across the country. The tests are popular because they’re cheap, portable and can screen for drugs in mere minutes. It’s just not feasible to send all suspected drug samples to state laboratories, which would be far more expensive and could take days or weeks to return results. But these inexpensive tests also lead to false positives at alarming rates, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found. While the actual error rate nationwide is unknown, previous studies by manufacturers have put it around 4%. But the UPenn researchers believe the actual rate is much higher, from 15% to 38%. And a study by the New York City Department of Investigation showed test error rates from 79% to 91% in some correctional settings.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

  • Mission to Recover Downed F-15E Aircrew

    Two transport planes and one helicopter became stuck in the mud and unable to take off, leaving more military personnel stranded behind enemy lines as Basij fighters closed in on their botched rescue site. The failed extraction could have cost dozens of lives, but three more transport planes arrived just in time, as the colonel and other forces were evacuated under gunfire from the advancing Iranians.

    The most interesting aspect of the weapons officer rescue in Iran was CENTCOM's ability to use so many disparate personnel and capabilities in such a rapid and integrated way. They were making it up as they went along with complex tools and time critical sequences.

    There is a saying that bureaucracies, including militaries, are like jukeboxes. They have routines and can only play from the list. In situations like this there is no relevant record in the jukebox. You have to improvise the new tune from fragments of songs.There were so many ways to get this wrong and only a few ways to walk away with no KIA.

    A lot of the news focus is naturally on the machines, because that is what you can see. But someone told me years ago that air forces are not made out of planes. They are made up of people, and that is what we glimpsed here.

  • Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling

  • ICE arrests niece, grandniece of slain notorious Iranian Gen. Soleimani in Los Angeles

    The niece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani – who showcased her luxe LA lifestyle on Instagram while bashing the US as the “Great Satan” – and her daughter have been arrested by ICE agents, the State Department announced Saturday. Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, who allegedly celebrated attacks on US soldiers and military bases, and her daughter Sarinasadat Hosseiny, have had their green cards revoked over their ties to the Iranian regime. “While living in the United States, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the ‘Great Satan,’ and voiced her unflinching support for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization,” according to a State Department letter confirming the Friday arrests.

    Afshar, 47, entered the US in 2015 on a tourist visa, was granted asylum in 2019 and secured a green card in 2021 from the Biden administration. She made at least four trips back to Iran since receiving her green card, the Department of Homeland Security said. Hosseniy, 25, also entered the US in 2015 on a student visa. She became a green card holder in 2023.

    “It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America. If we have reason to believe a green card holder poses a threat to the US, the green card will be revoked,” Lauren Bis, a DHS spokesperson, told The Post. The State Department also referenced Afshar’s extravagant life in Los Angeles, which she allegedly frequently documented on her Instagram account, which has also apparently been deleted.

    Why on Earth was Soleimani’s niece granted asylum? Isn’t the idea supposed to be that the asylum seeker would be in danger if he or she were in his or her own country? Obviously not, in this case. As reflected in the fact that she returned to Iran four times.

  • The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn't in a Hurry to Reopen Hormuz?

    When the seven P&I clubs belonging to the International Group issued 72-hour cancellation notices for war risk coverage in the Persian Gulf on March 5, they did not just raise costs. They made transit impossible. P&I clubs insure roughly 90 percent of the world’s ocean-going tonnage. Without their coverage, ships cannot sail. Port authorities will not let them dock. Banks will not finance the cargo. Charterers will not book the vessel. The entire system, from loading berth to discharge terminal, is underwritten by a chain of contracts that begins with a club in London, Oslo, or Tokyo. When the clubs pulled war risk extensions, that chain broke. Not for a few ships. For the global fleet.

    Then Trump did something that almost nobody in the press understood. He ordered the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to create a $20 billion maritime reinsurance facility, with Chubb as lead underwriter, making the United States government the insurer of last resort for Gulf shipping. A sovereign nation positioned itself as the backstop for war risk insurance on the world’s most critical maritime chokepoint. The DFC facility, coordinated with US Central Command and Treasury, offers hull, machinery, and cargo coverage on a rolling basis to eligible vessels. The United States now controls the on/off switch for the Strait of Hormuz. Not through naval firepower. Through insurance.

    Eventually Europe will have to capitulate to get the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. insurance backstop, to fully reopen the Strait. What does “capitulate” look like? The IMO carbon tax. Greenland. Tariff concessions. The SHIPS Act. Every maritime policy priority that Europe and China have been blocking for the past year. I had a long discussion with a senior Department of Energy official yesterday on background. I cannot share details but it is clear that the conventional Strait of Hormuz calculus, the one every cable news analyst is running, is wrong. The administration is not thinking about this the way CNN thinks they are.

    I am not arguing that Trump planned this from the beginning – The P&I club withdrawal was a cascading system failure that no central planner could have predicted or orchestrated – but it is possible. What I am arguing is that the administration has, whether by design or adaptation, assembled the tools to exploit this moment. The DFC facility is the option. The incomplete P&I coverage is the strike price. The Jones Act waiver and Venezuela sanctions easing are hedge positions. The Navy’s deliberate pace is time decay working in America’s favor. The strongest version of this thesis is not “Trump is playing 4D chess.” It is that the administration holds more options than anyone realizes, and the insurance mechanism, not the Navy, is the real lever of power.

World

Iran / Houthi

China

Health / Medicine

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

<< 2026-04-05 (-1 day)
<< 2026-03-30 (-1 week)
<< 2026-03-09 (-1 month)
<< 2025-04-06 (-1 year) 		Archive