Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on Sunday morning, according to his spokesperson. The 84-year-old Kentucky Senator is “receiving excellent care” the spokesman said. It is unclear why McConnell was admitted to the hospital. News: Sen. Mitch McConnell “was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care,” per spox @davidpopp — Andrew Desiderio…
The government keeps telling people the economy is strong because the stock market keeps making new highs. That is the great deception behind every bubble throughout history. Wall Street is not Main Street. You can have record highs in financial assets while society underneath is quietly rotting in real time. The New York Federal Reserve now reports…
from the brilliant Scottish philosopher-cartoonist Tom Gauld in New Scientist I am haunted by this cartoon. Not only because Tom has captured so perfectly our propensity to anthropomorphize everything from pets to stuffies to cars to AI. But also because Tom’s delivery bot seems the perfect metaphor for all of us tragically caught in an…
This might be the worse case of negligence we’ve ever heard about. The rope was never attached. It stayed on the platform as staff carried Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas to the edge, swung her, and launched her over. She fell roughly 130 feet in free fall. Earlier jumps that morning had gone fine, with…
Water is essential to all life. The human body can go three weeks without food but only three days without water before completely shutting down. Yet most of us find it much easier to store a year’s worth of food than a month’s worth of water. I live in the suburbs and while I have…
Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and…
Karmelo Anthony was 19 when a Texas jury convicted him of first-degree murder and sentenced him to 35 years for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco high school track meet in April 2025. Cardi B broke down her objections in an 8-minute Twitter Spaces session. She argued self-defense, pointing out that Metcalf was…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. On CNN, Abby Phillip and her panel were having a recent discussion about the UFC Freedom 250 Fight when Scott Jennings landed a hilarious joke at the expense of Maine’s Graham Platner, the Democratic Socialist (communist) running for senate. One of the remarkable things about the video, other than Scott’s joke,…
James Talarico / Screenshot on CBS Texas Democrat senate candidate James Talarico is desperately trying to backtrack his position on children and transgenderism. During a recent appearance on a podcast, he claimed that he no longer supports this. Yet as recently as 2023, Talarico argued that doctors have a ‘moral obligation’ to treat gender dysphoria…
The $1.5 million Nick Reiner wants comes from a personal trust his parents created for him back in 1993, when he was a child. His petition, filed June 8 in Los Angeles Superior Court, argues he was entitled to half of it at 30 and the rest at 35, and that the trustee has no…
