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PBS News Weekend signed off permanently... did anyone even notice?

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:22 UTC
PBS News Weekend host John Wang
© PBSPBS News Weekend host John Wang
PBS News Weekend signed off permanently on Sunday after 12 years on air.Did anyone actually notice?

The answer, quite frankly, is no, and this comes after Congress cut $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting over the Trump administration's view that the public broadcasting outlet was spewing left-wing propaganda.

"Due to federal budget cuts, PBS News had to make the difficult decision to rework our staffing and programming. This Sunday, our PBS News Weekend team will sign off the air," PBS News Weekend wrote on X.

Starting this weekend, PBS will replace the live newscasts with two pre-taped shows produced during the week to save money and eliminate weekend staffing. Horizons will air on Saturdays, covering science and technology, while Compass Points will air on Sundays, focusing on foreign affairs.

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Compass

Overhauling Air Traffic Control Involves 5,000 Locations And 600 Radar Systems: Here's What To Know

Jacob Burg
The Epoch Times
Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:47 UTC
US airport
The federal government is embarking on what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has called "the most important infrastructure project that we've had in this country for decades." It is attempting to modernize and upgrade the nation's entire air traffic control system within a timeline of roughly three- and-a-half to four years.

Multiple aviation experts, ranging from former pilots and controllers to professors and an aviation lawyer, say the changes are needed and long overdue.

The entire project is projected to cost at least $32.5 billion, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with the initial $12.5 billion downpayment funded by President Donald Trump's spending bill in July 2025. Duffy has asked Congress for an additional $20 billion to complete the project by the end of the president's term.

This is what the FAA has said it plans to do in this multi-year modernization project, which portions of the project experts say are most critical, some of the obstacles the federal government might face, and background on the company chosen to lead the endeavor.
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Cross

Constantinople's 'Antichrist' and British spooks trying to split Orthodox Christianity - Russian intel


RT
Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:12 UTC
Bartholomew I
© Getty Images / Chris McGrathBartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George, Istanbul, Türkiye
The Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople is collaborating with British spy agencies to increase division and establish schismatic church structures in the Baltic, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday, describing Bartholomew I as the "Antichrist."

Bartholomew created a spiritual schism in Ukraine when he granted self-rule to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), created by then-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko in 2018, ending centuries of continuity through the now-persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which is historically associated with the Moscow Patriarchate.

Now Patriarch Bartholomew has "turned his evil eye" towards the Baltics, where he is obsessed with "displacing the Russian Orthodox Church" and substituting it with structures under Constantinople's control, the SVR said in a press release.
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Pistol

Oregon to investigate Border Patrol shooting of man and woman who authorities say have ties to notorious gang

Holly Yan andTaylor Romine
CNN
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:56 UTC
portland police
© Jenny Kane/APA Portland police officer stands outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland
Oregon authorities a re investigating a shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Portland that wounded two people authorities say are tied to a violent international gang - an incident that renewed questions about the Trump administration's handling of its immigration crackdown in the city and across the US.

The Department of Homeland Security said the two people involved were tied to Tren de Aragua. Portland Police Chief Bob Day said they do have "some nexus" to the gang during a news conference Friday.

The two people who were shot are in stable condition and are "on the road to recovery," Day said.

Both remain in federal custody, the chief added.
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Stock Down

Mercedes relocates production to Hungary, 20,000 Germans set to lose their jobs


REMIX News
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:19 UTC
Mercedes plant in Kecskemét, Central Hungary.
Mercedes plant in Kecskemét, Central Hungary.
In yet another major blow to the German automobile labor market, Mercedes has announced it will be relocating production of its A-Class from Rastatt, Germany, to Kecskemét, Hungary. While Hungary's foreign minister is taking a victory lap, Germany's largest opposition party is sharply criticizing the government as signs grow that Germany's automobile market is faltering.

Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó has officially confirmed Mercedes move, writes Budapester.

Szijjártó credited the success to "an economic policy based on sound common sense and a stable government that continually attracts new investment projects from global companies in America, Asia, and even Germany."

Comment: Germany is on course for self-destruction which somehow is the desired outcome.

Germany is doing to itself what even its defeat in WWII couldn't

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Bad Guys

NYC mayor Mamdani declares war on civil discourse

Charles Mitchell
RealClearPolitics
Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:33 UTC
Soros Mamdani
© UnknownBrothers in Arms: Alex Soros and Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani's inauguration speech on Jan. 1 became instantly famous for his promise to prove the "warmth of collectivism." Yet Americans should pay just as much attention to another deeply concerning comment from the socialist mayor of New York City's first act in office. He declared that those who are "fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," implying that his administration won't tolerate public debate about his agenda.

These words mark the moment when higher education's radical monoculture jumped into the real world of political power and cultural impact. Our experiment in self-government is now at unprecedented risk.

Mamdani's words are familiar to anyone who has followed the decline of the university in recent decades. It reflects the idea that respectful discourse - a central Enlightenment and American ideal - is really a tool of oppression used by elites to prop themselves up while keeping everyone else down. This belief is widespread on campus: A December poll from the free-speech group FIRE found that 90% of undergraduates think that "words can be violence." Even worse, a third of students are willing to use actual violence to prevent the saying of those words. This is a generation prepared to stifle debate it dislikes, casting even the most well-meaning ideological opponents as enemies of society.
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MAGA

A great American passes: Conservative pundit and 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dead at 68

jpollakcap and Eric Todisco
NY Post
Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:02 UTC
scott adams
© Lea Suzuki / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images file
Cartoonist, author, and political commentator Scott Adams died Tuesday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.

His ex-wife and caregiver, Shelly, made the announcement on Adams's live stream Tuesday morning.

"Unfortunately, this isn't good news," Shelly said. "Of course, he waited til just before the show started, but he's not with us anymore."

Shelly read aloud a "final message" that Adams "wanted to say" on the livestream.

"If you're reading this, things did not go well for me," the message began. "I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as i write this January 1, 2026."
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Truck

DOT strips California of $160M in funding over foreign truckers licensing

John Gallagher
Freight Waves
Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:39 UTC
truck crash driver no english
© America Truckers/XCrashes involving non-English speaking drivers have been on the rise for years
Feds retaliate against Gavin Newsom after state misses deadline to revoke 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses.

A showdown between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the State of California reached a breaking point on Wednesday after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will withhold approximately $160 million in safety program money from the state.

The move follows California's failure to meet a January 5 deadline to cancel more than 17,000 commercial truck driver's licenses that Duffy asserts were unlawfully issued by the state to foreign truckers.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles announced in late December that it would delay the cancellation until March 6, but FMCSA did not agree to the extension.

Comment: Florida shows the way:
florida truck weigh stations ice check points illegal migrant drivers
© X/Attorney General James UthmeierFlorida Attorney General James Uthmeier announces Monday, August 25, 2025, that all truck weighing stations in the state will become ICE checkpoints.


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Pirates

Pity NYC: Mamdani hails rat-infested Bronx slum as 'model' for his housing agenda

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:18 UTC
1520 Sedgwick Avenue subidized housing failure code violations
1520 Sedgwick Avenue, The Bronx, NYC
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on a slew of socialist promises marketed under the banner of affordability.

On his first day in office, he signed three executive orders to address the housing crisis. The first revives the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, led by tenant advocate Cea Weaver, to coordinate agencies and crack down on abusive landlords. Another creates the LIFT task force to fast-track city-owned sites for housing, while the SPEED task force will cut red tape that delays construction. Days later, he picked 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx's Morris Heights to introduce Dina Levy as the new Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) commissioner.

Back in 2011, Levy, who will now earn a $277,605 annual salary as Mamdani's HPD commissioner, helped flip the 102-unit building from private ownership to the nonprofit Workforce Housing Advisors. Her group, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, teamed with HPD on a $5.6 million city loan.

Comment: The NYC non-profits haven't been able to manage the building competently despite fifteen years worth of chances. Why would anyone think it will now?

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Bizarro Earth

Illegal immigrant with Tren de Aragua ties charged by DOJ after Portland Border Patrol shooting

Louis Casiano
Fox News
Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:42 UTC
Luis David Nico MoncadaYorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras Venezuelan crimina
© Department of Homeland SecurityDHS officials say Luis David Nico Moncada, left, and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, are Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens and suspected members of the foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua. The duo were wounded after being shot by a Border Patrol agent Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, when they allegedly attempted to run the officer and others over with their vehicle.
Luis Nino Moncada charged with aggravated assault after allegedly ramming Border Patrol vehicle in Portland

The alleged Venezuelan illegal immigrant, suspected of being an associate of the Tren de Aragua gang, who was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon while allegedly trying to ram them with a vehicle was charged Monday by the Justice Department.

Luis Nino Moncada is charged with aggravated assault of a federal officer with a deadly weapon, according to an unsealed federal complaint.

"Anyone who crosses the red line of assaulting law enforcement will be met with the full force of this Justice Department," Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X. "According to a newly unsealed complaint, Luis Nino-Moncada — an illegal alien in Portland, Oregon with ties to Tren de Aragua — is alleged to have repeatedly rammed a Border Patrol vehicle, threatening the lives of federal law enforcement officers."
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