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Just hours before his successor is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte on Tuesday announced what appear to be sweeping staff reductions at the embattled intelligence coordination hub. “Good News! In addition to the Historic DECLASSIFICATIONS (Transparency!) by the President, we are, this morning, Executing a 5th and Near Final Round of TERMINATIONS, an approximately 30% Staff Reduction from Weeks Ago,” Pulte posted on his social media account Tuesday morning. “The Intelligence Community must protect the American people, NOT the political whims of the bloated and corrupt elite class.” Pulte’s announcement of...

Florida is set to become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out a double execution in one day with the lethal injections of a child murderer and an octogenarian. Former police officer James Duckett, 68, died by a lethal injection at 1.19 p.m. Tuesday at Florida state prison near Starke for raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl in 1987. Duckett said “No sir” when asked if he wanted to make a final statement and about four minutes after the three-drug injection began, the prison warden shook Duckett and shouted his name, receiving no response.

John C. Dvorak, the longtime technology journalist, cultural commentator and co-host of the No Agenda podcast, died unexpectedly on July 20 in Albany, California, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. Dvorak also wrote the influential , long-running column Inside Track for PC Magazine, was a contributor to the 1995-99 CNET Central series, hosted radio shows including NPR’s Technically Speaking and authored more than a dozen books, ranging from tech history titles to “how to” guides. He and Adam Curry hosted the No Agenda podcast since its October 2007 debut. An episode last week — No. 1,888 — celebrated his...

Republican Florida State Rep. Paula Stark, a two-term lawmaker, will not be on the ballot. After a weeks-long legal battle, it was determined that she failed to file the proper paperwork for reelection, which is baffling. That’s a clear failure on the part of Ms. Stark and her staff. This is the ‘layup’ portion of the race, lady. What the hell happened? June 12—that’s what happened. That’s the deadline for Ms. Stark to submit her forms, including the critical financial disclosure documents, which her treasurer alleges he did. Rep. Paula Stark says her office did submit them, but claims the...

Ukrainian leader met with Trump on Tuesday at the White House WASHINGTON—For more than a year, President Trump insisted in private conversations with advisers that Ukraine was losing the war.But in recent weeks, the president has expressed fresh optimism about Ukraine and its leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, according to people who have spoken to him. Trump, the people said, has been impressed with Zelensky’s resilience as he takes the fight deep into Russian territory.The shift comes after several meetings on the sidelines of global summits where the Ukrainian president has tried to charm Trump, the people said, part of a concerted...

Iran is a theology. It is no longer a country. Not in the way diplomats mean the word. Not in the bureaucratic sense that produces signatures, ministries, chains of command, and solemn communiques printed on heavy paper before disappearing into filing cabinets. What remains of Iran is something stranger: a prayer house where the faithful still answer a call no one can command. MAGA still behaves as though there’s a political switchboard secreted in Tehran, even after six destructive months of war. They imagine some paneled room where a weary official picks up the telephone, listens gravely, and relays instructions...

Explanation: What's connecting these two volcanoes? In ancient folklore, the two volcanoes, Parinacota (left) and Pomerape (right), are connected by representing a mythical prince and princess who engaged in a forbidden romance. Beneath the ground, the two peaks are not known to be connected by a common pool of hot magma, and neither volcano has erupted in the past 1000 years. Above the ground, there is usually nothing in the sky that connects them -- except if you use careful timing and look from a specific location. The featured well-planned image was captured from Bolivia in mid-April with a series...

Around 40% of Iranians consider the US and Israeli military action against the Islamic Republic a “humanitarian intervention,” according to a survey of 31,450 Iranians aged 15 or older living in the country, conducted by the Netherlands-based non-profit research foundation The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN). The survey, titled “Iranians’ Attitudes Toward the 2026 Protests and War,” collected responses from Iranians across the country from June 20 to June 27, 2026, in collaboration with Psiphon, Lantern, and MahsaNet. The survey reports an approximate 95% credibility level with a conservative credibility interval of plus or minus three...

"...We will dance again ...But if you're confused I stand with the Jews I don't need to be brave I just have to act human..."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during his last in-person meeting at the White House, reportedly sold President Donald Trump on starting a war with Iran. Now, the GOP's America First wing fears he's about to pitch the president on ramping up attacks."I think all of President Trump's most ardent non-'Israel First' supporters are furious," said former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. "Netanyahu has had twice as many visits to the White House in 18 months as Churchill had in all of World War II — with every one of them a disaster for America First."The two men are set...

Follow the Money Toward WWIIIJuly 28, 2026 | SundanceIt has been said that all wars are “bankers wars,” however, against the modern era of inverted fascism where corporations tell the govt what policies take priority, the more accurate truism ‘is all wars being controlled by money’, not necessarily banks.The European Commission has constructed a very special kind of proactive financing for Ukraine that doesn’t require them to give their own €uros to the historically corrupt country. Partly because the EU doesn’t have their own money, and partly because everything the EU does in the sphere of finance is always a...

IRGC in Isfahan announced public execution of three anti-government demonstrators, more people joined in the Alikhani Square where it's scheduled, and demonstrators began shouting down the muazzin's call to prayer, which means they were about to start the execution. Claimed they were in league with DJT and da Joooos! Angry protestors advanced on the barricades and stormed it, then IRGC deployed snipers on rooftops and motorcyclists with guns and shooting protestors. Don't know yet if they managed to do the executions, but several demonstrators killed, mentioned by name.

The level of idiocy required for Germany to have released Abdel Ballout, the 21-year-old man who drove a van through the immense crowds of parade-goers at the Berlin Pride parade, killing one elderly lady and injuring 29 others, is astonishing. Ballout also rampaged through the crowd, brandishing a machete and striking several people. There were 2,200 police patrolling the venue, and it will be fascinating to hear how they all managed to ignore Ballout, even allowing him to escape. The terrorist was shot and killed 24 hours later. “How did he even get into the Tiergarten?” one attendee was quoted...

Presumptive Republican nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers (Mich.), comfortably leads progressive Abdul El-Sayed and is neck-in-neck with Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in new polling just one week out from the Michigan Senate primary. A Michigan Education survey, which was conducted by The Glengariff Group and commissioned for Michigan Education Association and Business Leaders for Michigan, shows Rogers beating El-Sayed by 10 points in a hypothetical matchup. Eleven precent of respondents were undecided. Stevens barely edges out Rogers in a head-to-head, with the congresswoman receiving close to 46 percent and the Michigan Republican notching 45 percent support. A separate 9 percent...

Nine-banded armadillos are a common sight across the southern US. You’ll find them digging in flower beds and underneath your porch. Sometimes, unfortunately, they unsuccessfully attempt to cross a busy road. They are, for the most part, harmless. But experts say the adorable armored creatures may be the culprit behind a rising number of cases of an ancient disease. Well, “ancient” is only partly true — leprosy, aka Hansen’s Disease, is a 4,000-year-old illness, but it infects as many as 200,000 around the world today. In the US, there are a few hundred cases a year and numbers are climbing....

President Trump on Tuesday announced he will bring the heroic teen lifeguard to the White House and award him a High Civilian Honor. On Monday, Eric Trump called for the teen lifeguard to be awarded the highest civilian honor. “Give this 16-year-old lifeguard the highest civilian honor. This is truly the best of America! Well done!” Eric Trump said on X. The President responded on Tuesday and announced he is inviting the teen lifeguard and his family to the White House. “We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy...

This is what democracy (socialism) looks like! Social justice warriors have established their autonomous zone on Madison’s Willy Street, 10 blocks from the State Capitol. Barricaded with commandeered trash bins, pestilential mattresses, wood pallets, and iron pipes. All to “honor” a career criminal named Corey Ruiz who stabbed police attempting to take him off the neighborhood’s troubled streets before police responded with gunfire, killing the 38-year-old man then and there. Elect Francesca Hong (D, Open Communist) as governor, Wisconsin, and expect more of it because this is the bleeding heart of her legislative district. Seasoned and hardened revolutionaries from the...

Woke warrior James Talarico sounds like your classic mama’s boy. The 37-year-old Texas Senate candidate reportedly shares an individual checking account with his mother, a frequent contributor to his campaigns. And records obtained by The Federalist show the Democratic Party’s great white hope for blueing up deep red Texas used his mother’s Austin address to register to vote in order to launch a previous campaign — an apparent violation of Texas election law. It’s an interesting twist in the key Senate race, given that Talarico has accused his opponent, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, of illegally voting in elections...

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The Anthony Fauci diary has proven to be a treasure trove of exposing, among many other things, the very close relations between Fauci and the media that was supposedly covering him. Apparently it turned out that they went beyond covering him to the realm of covering up for him to the extent that they were unable to tolerate any criticism of Fauci.One of the big examples of Fauci's comfy relationship with the media was the coverage/coverup of him by CNN's Jake Tapper to the extent that he got as nasty in 2020 over criticism of Fauci in the Trump White...