Tyler Durden
ZeroHedgeFri, 03 Oct 2025 21:03 UTC
X user
DataRepublican, also known as Jennica Pounds, who leads DOGE-adjacent efforts in an open-source capacity, has delved deeper into the dark-money-funded NGO world. Her latest target: George Soros and one of the largest soft-power projects of the 1990s, called the Muskie Fellowship program.
But the focus here is not the Muskie Fellowship program, but rather her question:
"This is straight off the Federal Register. Now ask yourself why Wikipedia doesn't mention the Soros Foundation."
She added,
"And fun fact -- Soros had further grants for these graduates of the Muskie fellowship program. Hard to interpret this as something other than using our taxpayer funds to educate his minions."
Comment: Grokpedia will likely have its own issues, if the
current iteration of the Grok chatbox is any indication. If Musk can reestablish and enforce the original parameters envisioned by its creator, Larry Sanger, there might be something there.
Ashley Oliver
Fox NewsThu, 02 Oct 2025 18:21 UTC
© Apple InsiderThe ICEBlock app targeting immigration enforcement officers has been removed from Apple's store
dropped ICEBlock, a widely used tracking tool, from its App Store Thursday after the Department of Justice raised concerns with the big tech giant that the app put law enforcement officers at risk.
DOJ officials, at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked Apple to take down ICEBlock, a move that comes as Trump administration officials have claimed the tool, which allows users to anonymously report ICE agents' presence, puts agents in danger and helps shield illegal immigrants.
"We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple did so," Bondi said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
RTFri, 03 Oct 2025 12:16 UTC
© Paul Childs/WPA Pool/Getty ImagesThe Bishop of London Sarah Mullally • 2022
The previous head of the church resigned last November over a sex abuse scandal.
The Church of England has appointed its first female Archbishop of Canterbury, ending 1,400 years of male leadership. Former top British nurse,
Sarah Mullally, was installed as the confession's highest-ranking clergy by a church synod on Friday.
Though female priests were first ordained in 1994, women were not permitted to take senior posts until 2014, a reform that followed years of internal schisms and debates within the Church.
Before entering the clergy, Mullally built a distinguished career in nursing, rising to become England's Chief Nursing Officer. She was ordained as a priest in 2002, and went on to serve as as
Bishop of Crediton and then Bishop of London, the Church's third most senior post. Known for her inclusive stance, she has supported prayers and blessings for same-sex couples, framing her leadership around openness and pastoral care.
Drag Queen LaWhore Vagistan a.k.a. Kareem Khubchandani
"There are so many disgusting animals in public life that we have allowed to fraternize with the rest of society to our absolute peril." — Aimee Terese on "X"
Harvard, apparently, can never learn. It has made itself the poster-child for all the failures of contemporary education, including the racketeering around endowments, government grant grifts, race and gender hustles, and intellectual surrender to ideas that would make medieval astrologasters burst out laughing.
Case in point: the university lately announced the hiring of a Boston-area drag-queen to teach a course in the spring semester of 2026 about the TV show known as
Ru Paul's Drag Race. The show features contestants vying for prizes and crowns based on "Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent" (C.U.N.T.). Get the picture? Reach into your Jungian psychology tool-bag.
This backwater of the arts was identified some years ago by the literary pop-star Susan Sontag as "camp" derived from the French
se camper "to pose in an exaggerated fashion" depicting "unnatural artifice." Camp is the theatrical cousin of
kitsch, which is the celebration of bad taste, with histrionic overtones of exaggerated sentimentality.
© Pixabay
Journalist H.L. Mencken once denounced public education as an effort "simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." Mencken's fears may be coming true in a way that few of us thought possible just a few years ago.
While much of our public debate today has centered on the teaching of the concepts of systemic racism and white privilege, a far more worrisome trend is sweeping our public school system. Across the country, school districts are removing advanced programs and even standardized testing to achieve an artificial appearance of equity. Indeed, it promises a kind of equity through mediocrity that all families should reject.
This movement was on display this week after New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio announced the
elimination of the Gifted and Talented (G&T) program for the city's school system. G&T programs have been denounced by some as
racist because a disproportionate number of white and Asian students are in the advanced programs. The De Blasio panel
previously declared such programs to be "segregation" due to the lower number of minority students. The move is part of a campaign to eliminate racial disparities not by elevating the performance of minority students but by removing standardized testing and special programs that highlight such disparities. Now those separate programs will be eliminated and the students returned to the general student body. They can seek "accelerated" materials but will be taught in classes with other students in conventional schools.
Comment: This column by Professor Turley resurfaced on social media in response to NYC mayoral candidate Mamdini announcing he would phase out gifted programs for the city's young children.
Turley's warnings are as cogent now as they were then.
Earlier in January, Mindy Robinson, the actress and outspoken political activist and commentator, released a documentary she produced titled "Route 91: Uncovering the Cover Up" which takes a deep dive into the October 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas.
The fatalities and injuries caused as a result of the shooting, reportedly carried out by a lone gunman identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, labeled the incident as
the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history to be carried out by a single individual - with a total of 58 killed and 411 others wounded by gunfire.
Officials said that Paddock took his own life following the 11-minute massacre carried out through a window in one of the rooms of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, but years after the incident,
there's been little information on why Paddock allegedly carried out this mass shooting.
While there is certainly no shortage of bogus images and false claims surrounding the horrifically violent shooting in Las Vegas this weekend, there are some very serious inconsistencies that
need addressing. A major one of those inconsistencies has to do with the myriad of reports of multiple shooters. While some of the claims have been proven false, a video, confirmed to be taken by a Las Vegas cab driver appears to capture and confirm the presence of multiple shooters.
Cori Langdon, taxi driver, and resident of Las Vegas was in the taxi lane at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began. At first, Langdon didn't know what was going on, but when the shots began, she quickly realized and began filming. What she captured could be considered the most important evidence in regards to the reports of multiple shooters.
In the video, shots begin to ring out. At first, the shots are far away and then, all of the sudden, they are right on top of her. This happens several times during the first two minutes of the video.
At first glance, the two shooting distances sound like it could just be an echo. However, as the video progresses, we here the distant shots originate first and with different patterns. As Langdon continues filming, the shooting becomes clear that it is coming from two different spots and Langdon even confirms this by saying, "It is now coming from further away."
Comment: TFTP is right to be cautious, but they are also right about this: the video raises disturbing questions. At 0:04.2 there is a loud string of 8 shots, followed by 8 muffled shots after a 2.07-second delay. At 1:08.1 there is another loud string of 13 shots followed by a string of muffled shots (some not very audible). But the loudest spikes are 2.08 seconds apart, implying that we're hearing echoes. Unless a second shooter almost perfectly mimicked the original shots in number and duration, with a near-identical delay each time, that is the best explanation.
However, at 0:46.1 we hear a string of 13 muffled shots (and a few muffled bursts around 0:52), without any loud bursts. In other words, no echo. This would seem to suggest that these shots were indeed from another source. Without a more in-depth analysis, there are probably two possibilities: 1) a second shooter, 2) the same shooter, but from a slightly different shooting position, e.g. further back in the room, away from the window, or through a different window.
And in 1), the other shooter(s) could be firing from different buildings. Of the 4 hotels looking out onto the Village concert venue, the Luxor (pyramid) has the best vantage point. According to police scanner audio, that hotel was
evacuated due to a bomb alert called in at the time of the shooting. The Tropicana hotel was also on lock-down, in that case due to an 'active shooter', also reported on police scanner audio. In fact,
active shooters were reported at four hotels other than the Mandalay.
Then there is this video:
At one point in the analysis you can hear a steady stream of automatic fire. But during that fire, you can also hear 2 small bursts of suppressed gunfire
on top of the existing automatic gunfire. Short bursts from close-range rifles can be heard
while machine guns spray the target area from further afield.
For more updates, see:
More than 50 dead, 500 wounded in Las Vegas concert shooting - UPDATES
© Kyle Mazza/ShutterstockThe blast caused the incinerator shaft to collapse inside 205 Alexander Ave in the Bronx borough of the city, October 1, 2025
An entire corner of a
New York City apartment building collapsed after a reported gas explosion inside the apartment block.
According to the New York City Fire Department, the blast caused the incinerator shaft to collapse at 205 Alexander Ave in the Bronx borough of the city.
The explosion happened shortly after 8AM on Wednesday morning at the Mitchel Houses building, a high-rise that makes up an 11-building complex in the area.
Fire officials confirmed that nobody was injured, with images showing a corner of the 20-story building having completely fallen from the structure.
CNNWed, 01 Oct 2025 20:26 UTC
© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesFederal law enforcement agents watch demonstrators outside of an immigrant processing center in Broadview, Illinois, on Saturday.
President Donald Trump's
announcement that he will send troops
to Portland, agents clashing with protesters near an immigration enforcement
building in suburban Chicago, and the expected arrival of the National Guard in
Memphis are the most recent examples of current and possible federal law enforcement crackdowns in US cities.
Trump said on social media Saturday he was directing the Department of Defense to "provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland." Trump said the decision was necessary to protect US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. His announcement was met with pushback from Oregon's Democratic governor. Confirmation on Sunday of a National Guard deployment was met with a lawsuit from the state of Oregon and Portland alleging unlawful overreach by the administration.
In Chicago,
federal authorities have fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters at an ICE building in Broadview, west of Chicago. The confrontations come amid a surge of immigration enforcement that began early this month.
Comment: Critics have rightly pointed out the troubling problem-solution aspect of the deployment, claiming it is an op to accustom citizens to having armed military operating in civilian areas. However, if all these preening politicians are so concerned, why did they let their cities deteriorate so badly in the first place?
Stephen Sorace
Fox NewsMon, 29 Sep 2025 20:10 UTC
© Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty ImagesCoal on barges pictured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.
The Trump administration announced on Monday a $625 million investment to boost America's
coal industry, a plan that aims to keep coal plants open, lower energy costs and enable the U.S. to win the global race for dominance in artificial intelligence.
U.S. Energy Secretary Christopher Wright made the announcement of expanded programs to help the coal industry on FOX Business' "
Mornings with Maria," saying that the U.S. has "awesome coal reserves" that can be put to productive use.
Comment: A sensible move. Coal, along with natural gas has always been the backup to the dodgy power supplies from solar and wind. Europe has already experienced several painful lessons.
Comment: Grokpedia will likely have its own issues, if the current iteration of the Grok chatbox is any indication. If Musk can reestablish and enforce the original parameters envisioned by its creator, Larry Sanger, there might be something there.