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NASA on Tuesday revealed the four-man crew of the Artemis III lunar program, tentatively set for sometime in 2027, and there's so much more riding on this mission than you might suspect.
Commanding the crew is retired Marine Corps flyer (and combat veteran) Col. Randy “Komrade” Bresnik, who, according to NASA, "has logged more than 7,000 hours in 95 types of aircraft/rotorcraft/gliders and an additional 3,600 hours in spacecraft." Bresnik's nickname comes from taking Russian in high school, not because he's a Commie or anything. But his language skills certainly came in handy aboard the ISS.
Iran had shot down a U.S. military helicopter while it was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz, President Dondald Trump said on Tuesday, adding that the U.S. would “respond to this attack.” “The Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” he said in a Truth Social post, adding that he had been briefed by the military on the situation.
“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,” he said. “Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”
Earlier Central Command said two crew members were rescued by an unmanned boat — a first for American forces —
Washington, DC’s newly refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool isn’t just reflecting the monuments at either end.
It’s mirroring President Trump’s surprisingly sophisticated campaign to restore nothing less than America’s soul.
For years, the reflecting pool was an unsightly green algae-plagued mess, due to an Obama-era effort to make it more environmentally friendly. As the Washington Post reported in 2012, algae were already blooming in it a week after its reopening.
“This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” a National Parks Service spokesperson said at the time. “The conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.”
Almost a full week after Election Day in California, Democrats have finally managed to scrape together enough highly suspicious and possibly fake votes to squeeze Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt out of the runoff race. But Republican Steve Hilton will be advancing to the general election later this year in the gubernatorial race, per DDHQ Monday evening.
Hilton had 25.1% of the vote and Democrat Xavier Becerra had 27.67% of the vote with 84% counted at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time June 8. Hilton was almost three points ahead of Tom Steyer in third.
On Monday afternoon, the defense team officially rested its case without calling Karmelo Anthony to the stand. According to multiple media observers the defense was very weak. The defense witnesses ended up being solid witnesses for the prosecution upon cross examinationThe evidence against Karmelo Anthony is overwhelming. The defense was reliant upon previous fabrications sold to the media that did not prove out in the courtroom.(snip)Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process. The decision to push the case to trial was as much for financial gain as it was
It's been a busy seventy-two hours on the lithium-ion battery front, with some of that action, sadly, being boomtastic in Beantown.
Sunday started off pretty quietly in the Greater Boston area suburb of Winthrop, MA. By late afternoon, people in one quiet neighborhood were getting dinner ready and probably planning what to wear to work the next day.
Right up to where the electric vehicle (EV) parked in the driveway between the two houses, just like. exploded.
Thank GOD no one was outside.
An electric vehicle exploded in a driveway in Winthrop, Massachusetts, sparking a massive fire that burned two homes Sunday.
Liberal boomers have too much free time, and they happen to be one of the most deranged groups in America. They’re the ones who spend time at these worthless ‘No Kings’ rallies while the rest of us have to work. With our 250th birthday nearing, President Trump is hosting a series of events, including a UFC fight on the White House grounds. Some loser in Northern Virginia is trying to stop it, filing a lawsuit over aesthetic grounds (via NYT):
Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly
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trying to behead victim in middle of Northern
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A Sudanese migrant has been arrested after a barbaric video shows someone seemingly trying to behead another man in the middle of a UK street in scenes likened to “something out of a horror movie.”
The horrific footage shows the blood-soaked knifeman pinning down his victim in Northern Ireland late Monday in an attack a local politician also branded “barbaric” and “medieval.”[snip]Northern Ireland police initially said “a man in his 30s, believed to be Somalian, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder” before clarifying he was Sudanese, blaming the mix-up on the “fast time investigation[snip}.”Police are still unsure of of a motive for the barbaric attack,
U.S. Steel plans to invest up to $2.5 billion into upgrades to its Mon Valley Works, which it forecasts will generate $1.7 billion for the state’s economy, according to a Monday report from the steelmaking giant. The economic impact is expected to include the combined dollars spent on things such as wages and construction costs associated with the upgrades, according to the report. The investment will preserve the roughly 3,000 jobs at Mon Valley Works and create 3,200 jobs. It is part of the company’s commitment to invest $11 billion into its domestic footprint by 2028, on the heels of a $15 billion acquisition by Japan-based Nippon Steel last year.
What’s top of mind for our dear lawmakers in Washington, D.C.? An issue that concerns about 0.00343% of the American population: private jets.
As the proles worry and fret and budget for, among other things, high gas and grocery prices, Congress is quibbling over private jet taxes. A hotly debated provision — hidden, of course, in an “air-safety” bill — would reportedly make it easier for the ultra-wealthy to dodge paying taxes on their private jets. The legislation would block tax officials from accessing crucial flight data. This data would allow state and local tax collectors to better pinpoint jet owners avoiding taxes by registering their planes in states like
It won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen in Washington. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t have anything to do with it. And neither will the DNC, at least directly. But it will happen.
America’s most rural states have the smallest and easiest-to-change voter bases. In the end, it’s just a numbers game. All these states need is more leftists to move in, and the states will flip from red to blue. Up until now, though, the problem has been giving leftists a reason to want to live in a state like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or Idaho.
Enter data centers. The Wall Street Journal has reported on one such example where Wyoming
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, are adding a new baby boy to their family this summer, but it sounds like they're also adding some other new family members, only these will have feathers. According to the Daily Wire, the Vance family is joining millions of people across the United States who are raising their own backyard flocks of chickens. More specifically, as of 2025, 11 million households in the US have their own chickens, and now, it sounds like we can add the VP's residence at the Naval Observatory to the list.
The coop, which is stunning, was built by North Carolina-based, family-owned Carolina Coops,
Solar panels, it turns out, contain a lot of valuable materials: Not only glass, aluminum, plastics, and silicon, but also recyclable amounts of silver, copper, and rare earth minerals. These materials aren't cheap - and, like copper wire and catalytic converters, which contain platinum, they are now becoming targets for thieves.
A recent Bloomberg piece highlights just such a problem in Chile.
Just before midnight, two men in white coveralls and black gloves scale an electric fence at a solar farm in Chile’s Atacama Desert, then slip soundlessly into rows of sleek panels.”
Others use a poultry shear and electric angle grinder to breach the main gate. Three pickups without license plates
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) tried to score points off Donald Trump's appearance at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. And, oh boy, did it backfire spectacularly.
Monday's press conference gave the House Minority Leader a stage, and he used it to attack Trump’s planned appearance at the game and to question whether Trump was even a true Knicks fan.
"I think Knicks fans just want to enjoy Game 3, the first home [NBA Finals] game that we've had in 27 years," Jeffries said. "But it also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan. I mean, does this guy even know the difference
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has infuriated organizers of one of the city’s most beloved Independence Day traditions by suggesting they move it off July 4 to save money.
The remark from the mayor’s office comes as organizers of the Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade battle a growing list of city fees that threaten the future of the annual celebration after more than 50 years.
The California Post first reported in late May that the parade faced cancellation after the city declined to cover $20,000 in traffic-control and street-closure costs for the first time in its more than 50-year history.
Vice President JD Vance referred Minnesota state officials, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, to the Justice Department for investigation and potential prosecution following the release of a blistering House Oversight Committee report examining benefit fraud in the state.
On Sunday, the Oversight panel had sent a letter to Vance, who helms the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, urging him to further probe Minnesota.
“I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation,” Vance posted on X Monday evening. “Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and [intimidated]
Earlier this year, there was a frenzy about the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
President Donald Trump wanted to clean up what was mostly a fetid swamp, and decided to paint the bottom of the pool a royal blue, in part to help seal cracks but also because, why not?
“Critics” went beserk, saying, as CNN reported, that “the Reflecting Pool will look more like a swimming pool, with the shine of a country club, like the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida … — and that the pool will actually be less reflective.”
“It’s not supposed to look like you’re going to dive in
It won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen in Washington. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t have anything to do with it. And neither will the DNC, at least directly. But it will happen. America’s most rural states have the smallest and easiest-to-change voter bases. In the end, it’s just a numbers game. All these states need is more leftists to move in, and the states will flip from red to blue. Up until now, though, the problem has been giving leftists a reason to want to live in a state like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or Idaho.
Enter data centers. The Wall Street Journal has reported on one such example where Wyoming
Construction signs and no-parking notices are at the ready around George Floyd Square. The $15 million reconstruction of the square starts Monday, shortly after the sixth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. The project will reopen streets, while keeping the memorial area closed to traffic. But some neighbors are feeling sticker shock. “ This tax assessment of $636,000 is going to harm our neighborhood and harm the local businesses,” resident Julia Johnson told a Minneapolis City Council committee this week. “It’s probably going to make my rent go up. It’s going to cause people to be displaced; to be disconnected from
It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.
It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat. Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if there ever were one.
We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time. Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote.
A US Army Apache helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz crashed — before President Trump raised fresh hope of a US-Iran peace deal, claiming Washington will be able to declare “total victory” in two weeks.
The helicopter gunship pilots were rescued Monday – and President Trump told reporters on the ground at JFK Airport they were “fine.”
“Nobody injured. We are going to issue a report tomorrow,” Trump said. It’s not clear if the Apache was shot down or experienced a mechanical issue, the New York Times reported.
Trump told reporters on the tarmac that the US and Iran are close to agreeing a peace deal –
Trans ‘Medicine’ In Retreat: 315 Health
Care Facilities Drop LGBTQ Activist Group’s
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Care Facilities Drop LGBTQ Activist Group’s
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Transgender “medicine” has suffered tremendous setbacks in the last two years, but it remains entrenched in much of America’s medical establishment.
Although hundreds of health care facilities have distanced themselves from the transgender orthodoxy demanded by the LGBTQ+ activist group the Human Rights Campaign, hundreds of others remain committed to it.
HRC ranks health care facilities on a “Healthcare Equality Index” according to several criteria, including their promotion of transgender orthodoxy and their coverage of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care.”
“Declining participation in the HRC health care equality index proves our fight against identity politics in medicine is working and we must keep our foot on the gas,”
President Trump on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to “immediately fire” Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to clear the way for Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot.
“Senate Majority Leader John Thune should immediately fire the parliamentarian, who treats Republicans and everything they stand for horribly!” Trump posted on Truth Social, arguing that she’s an obstacle to enacting the SAVE America Act.
An Obama-appointed judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration policy requiring a $100,000 fee from employers that seek H‑1B visas, or visas for skilled foreign workers.
U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a 42-page opinion, stating that the fee is an unlawful tax as only Congress has the power to tax. He has previously ruled against other executive actions by President Donald Trump on the issue of immigration.
In December, 20 states led by California sued the Trump administration to block the $100,000 fee, challenging the executive order Trump signed in —