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Major American television networks barely gave this story thirty seconds of airtime, because what happened at a graduation party in Charleston, West Virginia, did not fit their script.
On the evening of May 25, 2022, around forty neighbors, parents, and young children gathered outside an apartment complex in Charleston to celebrate a high school graduation and birthday party.
When thirty-seven-year-old Dennis Butler, a violent criminal with four prior felony convictions, sped his car down the street right past the playing children, parents politely asked him to slow down.
Thirty minutes later, Butler came back for revenge. He parked his car, pulled out a stolen AR-15-style rifle, and opened fire directly into the crowd of forty mothers and kids.
He never got to reload. Standing among the families was a law-abiding American woman with zero police or military background, carrying a legally concealed nine-millimeter pistol in her waistband.
While everyone else dove for the grass, she stood her ground, drew her handgun, and fired across the yard, fatally striking the gunman in seconds.
Not a single child or guest at that party was scratched. The next morning, Charleston Chief of Detectives Tony Hazelett told reporters that instead of a mass casualty tragedy, one brave woman saved dozens of American lives.
🤖 Made with AI
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Developing: Surface to Air Missile Defense Systems Deployed at Mar-a-Lago and DJT International Airport at Request of Secret Service Amid 'Heightened Threat Environment' thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10…
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Just got a phishing email that Gmail authenticated as Google. DKIM/DMARC passed. I can see a lot of people falling for this one, since it plays to the idea that your account has already been compromised.
Scammer puts the scam in an app-password name, triggers a real Google alert, then forwards the alert email to your email address.
How this attack works, and why it’s convincing:
1. The trick: The attacker puts the threatening text and shortened URL into an app password’s customizable name on another account. Google incorporates that text into a real security notification and signs the email.
2. The delivery: That notification is forwarded through another mailbox to the victim. In this message, Gmail still recorded passing Google DKIM and DMARC authentication.
3. What makes it convincing: The Google sender, signature, branding, and “Check activity” button are legitimate. The suspected attacker-supplied text appears inside the same trusted-looking template, using a deadline to push you toward its separate link.
4. The giveaway: Both the notification and its genuine Google button refer to someone else’s account. The “permanent access after 24 hours” claim is false; app passwords can be revoked.
Be careful out there folks!
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Poland will fking bury these pro EU commies and their leader tusk. Big mistake by this commie traitor Tusk.
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Chicago is heading in Portland’s direction. Magnificent Mile retail has collapsed. Failed governance has consequences.
Two luxury apartments for sale, one in NYC and one in Chicago, are remarkably similar.
Both are full floor penthouses from early 2000s atop a luxury hotel, ≈8400 sq ft, 360 degree views, in prime locations. The one difference is price, with the NYC one 30x more expensive.
NYC: listed for $65 mil
Chicago: unsold at $5.9 mil is now going to auction with minimum bid of $2 mil
I'm not sure whether this spread is a bigger indictment of NYC's inability to build enough housing or Chicago's inability to attract enough demand. But having high-end real estate trading at a fraction of cost of replacement is not healthy for a city.
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Watch How a Dentist Replaces an Old Damaged Filling and Restores the Tooth Using Modern Dental Materials 🦷
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The video is not authentic footage of a real dentist performing a procedure. It shows incorrect techniques and matches common AI-generated dental content.
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Odds aren't votes.Polymarket is a betting market of traders, not a poll of Michiganders. A few big wallets can move the number, then the media treats it like gospel. Actual polls show a mid-single-digit race, not a lock. Early voting ends Sunday. Polls are open 7 AM–8 PM Tuesday.
Michigan voters decide this, not a price chart. Get out and vote for Mike Rogers. Don't let the narrative talk you out of showing up.
Semper Fi. America First.teapawt.net/Polymarket/status/2116…
BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed surges to all-time high in Michigan's Senate election odds, just 4 days out from the midterms.
74% chance.
🔗 polymarket.com/r/Michigan26
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$OCUL REGN reported EyeleaHD 3rd Q sales of $699m
up 69 % from $431 mil this eclipsed original Eyelea sales of $400 m The growth of reduced dosing HD is dramatic.
Bodes well for axpaxli
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This is so old, but it's so funny.
Hillary Clinton goes to a gifted-student primary school in New York to talk about the world. After her talk she offers to answer questions from the kids.
One little boy puts up his hand. Hillary asks him what his name is.
"Kenny," he says.
"And what is your question, Kenny?" she asks.
"I have three questions," he says. "First -- what happened in Benghazi? "Second -- why would you run for president if you are not capable of handling two e-mail accounts? "Third -- what happened to that six billion dollars that went missing while you were Secretary of State?”
Just then the bell rings for recess.
Hillary tells the students that they will continue after recess. When they resume Hillary says,
"Okay, where were we? Oh, that's right, question time. Who has a question?”
A different boy -- little Johnny -- puts his hand up.
Hillary points to him and asks him what his name is.
"Johnny," he says.
"What is your question, Johnny?" she asks.
"I have five questions," he says. "First -- what happened in Benghazi? "Second -- why would you run for president if you are not capable of handling two e-mail accounts? "Third -- whatever happened to that six billion dollars that went missing while you were Secretary of State? "Fourth -- why did the recess bell go off 21 minutes early? "And, fifth -- where's Kenny?”
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I’m in my 20s, with a family to feed. In my community, we marry young, so almost all my friends are in the same position: married, raising children, and working hard to provide for our families.
We constantly talk about how difficult things have become economically. Groceries are outrageously expensive, especially kosher food, which already costs more than regular groceries. Rent in NYC is through the roof, gas is expensive, and the cost of raising a family is rising every single month.
And yet, despite feeling all of this firsthand, there isn’t even the slightest desire among us to see Democrats win the midterms. Not even a fraction of a percent.
Because there’s a huge difference between struggling financially and living under a government you believe threatens the very freedoms that make this country worth living in.
I wish the president would make better economic decisions. I wish groceries were cheaper, rent was more affordable, and providing for a family didn’t feel like such an uphill battle.
But at the end of the day, I’m willing to endure economic hardship for a country I believe in. What I’m not willing to do is trade the future of that country for a few extra dollars in my bank account.
Some things are worth more than money, and having a country worth passing on to my children is one of them.
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Given all the hacking happening everywhere, one needs to start assuming that undisclosed material info is leaking - particularly for biotech trials and FDA decisions. So unexpected weakness or strength in a small cap stock ahead of an upcoming disclosure might be a signal.
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"In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees." — Thomas Sowell
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Central planning destroys the Earth and everything beautiful about it.
Between 1948 and 1973, the Soviet Union slaughtered 180,000 whales in the Southern Ocean alone, often falsifying the catch numbers they reported to the International Whaling Commission. Soviet ships hunted species already near commercial extinction: humpbacks, blues, fins, and even orcas. They killed them at a staggering loss, processed them inefficiently, and dumped enormous quantities of oil and meat that exceeded any plausible domestic demand. The operation was economically irrational by any measure.
Which is exactly what you should expect.
No Soviet whaling captain owned the vessel or the whales. No bureaucrat in Moscow bore the cost of depleting the stock. The entire operation ran on state quotas, state ships, and state salaries. Property rights price scarcity into human decisions. Strip them away, and you strip away the signal that tells fishermen, farmers, and whalers when to stop. The incentive structure pointed in exactly one direction: maximize tonnage to hit the plan numbers, regardless of long-run consequences.
Private whalers operating in a system of enforceable property rights face a brutal disciplining mechanism: overfish, and you destroy your own future revenue. The Soviet state answered to a five-year plan, not profit and loss.
Garrett Hardin called this the tragedy of the commons. The Soviets ran that tragedy at industrial scale, with military logistics, for three decades. Hundreds of thousands of whales paid the price.
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Imagine being this dumb
I was thinking What happens if @SpaceX takes just 10% of the US wireless market from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile?
Roughly $20 BILLION in annual revenue lost from 30M departing customers.
Another $15 BILLION lost if SpaceX forces just a $5 monthly price reduction across the remaining 250M connections.
That's nearly $35 BILLION in annual revenue and $23 BILLION in EBITDA at risk.
At an 8x multiple, that's potentially $180 BILLION in enterprise value under threat.
And here's what I think MNOs seem to now understand and why they will push back on helping SpaceX with an MVNO deal because SpaceX doesn't need to win the wireless market to destroy its economics.
The real threat isn't the 10% of customers they lose. It's what happens to the pricing power of the other 90%.😀
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Turnout so far by Blacks in the South is up some 50% vs 2022. The combination of Trump disapproval, inflation concerns, anger at gerrymandering, and poor candidate quality by GOP in some states might yet produce an earthquake. Also a clear reversal coming of the Hispanic swing to Trump in 2024.
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This is a brilliant interview.
Key idea on how to find a universal vaccine - mix very low doses of a bunch of different variants together so only the common conserved regions will provide a high enough dose to elicit a response.
New episode on universal flu vaccines (and antivenoms) with @CurlyJungleJake, CEO of @centivax. They're trying to create a vaccine that protects against all strains of influenza: past, present, and future.
This is obviously a difficult thing to do. Seasonal flu vaccines are designed to protect against a virus that constantly mutates and recombines in animals. The efficacy of seasonal vaccines is also quite low; ranging from about 15 to 60 percent.
Instead of making vaccines that protect against only a few circulating strains of the virus, Centivax is trying to teach the immune system to recognize parts of the virus that many strains share and that resist mutation. The hope is that antibodies targeting these regions could protect even against strains we haven’t encountered yet, without scientists having to reformulate the vaccine every year.
Things seem to be going well: the company has tested the vaccine in about 180 people so far and will soon begin a Phase 2 trial.
This is probably the most ambitious technical interview I’ve ever done. We cover some extremely deep immunology, but Jake explained the ideas really clearly, and I left feeling like I finally understood how vaccines work and how scientists make them. I also came away much more convinced that a universal flu vaccine could work.
00:49 — Why flu vaccines need constant updating
03:07 — How influenza infects a cell
06:39 — Why our bodies don’t always make broadly-neutralizing antibodies
16:07 — Mutations and animals
23:42 — What is vaccine efficacy?
28:55 — Designing a universal flu vaccine
37:40 — The idea behind Centivax
44:16 — Clinical trials
57:33 — The business case for eradication
1:03:26 — How to eradicate the flu
1:07:26 — Could we make broad vaccines for the common cold?
1:09:07 — Building a universal snake antivenom
1:23:09 — Antivenom cocktails
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James Comey Produces Letter Signed By 51 Former Intelligence Officials Saying He's Totally Innocent buff.ly/UqtwfGO
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Over the past four years, more than 200,000 Christians have been killed by Muslims in Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia, Somalia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Yemen, and other Muslim-majority nations. Yet they receive virtually no attention compared to Gaza.
The left-wing media flat-out refuses to talk about any of this.
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Written account of Jesus rising from the dead identified in 2,000-year-old manuscript, study suggests trib.al/caFpzVT
