[MPDC.DC.GOV] The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested two men for a fatal shooting that occurred in Northwest.
On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at approximately 3:59 a.m., Third District officers responded to the 1600 block of 14th Street, Northwest, for the report of the sounds of gunshots. Upon arrival, officers located an adult male, unconscious and not breathing, suffering from a gunshot wound. DC Fire and EMS responded to the scene and after finding no signs consistent with life, the victim was pronounced dead.
The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Henry Crutchfield, of Waldorf, MD.
On Friday, October 3, 2025, pursuant to DC Superior Court arrest warrants, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force located and arrested 23-year-old Damari Brown, of Northeast, DC, and 24-year-old Antoin Whitehead, of Southeast, DC. Brown and Whitehead have been charged with First Degree Murder While Armed — Felony Murder.
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23-year-old Damari "Dindu Nuffin #1" Brown, of Northeast, DC, and 24-year-old Antoin "Dindu Nuffin #2" Whitehead
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My most fond memory of his work was Jabberwocky and Firefox
July 3, 2025
[Deadline] Kenneth Colley, the British actor who played Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars series and Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, died June 30 at his home in Kent, England, after contracting Covid and developing pneumonia. He was 87.
His death was announced by his agent Julian Owen in a statement first reported on by the BBC.
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[Regnum] American band Nirvana has won another lawsuit against Spencer Elden, who was photographed naked as an infant for the cover of their famous album Nevermind. This was reported by the British broadcaster BBC.
In connection with this photograph, the plaintiff accused the group members of distributing child pornography.
"Nudity must be accompanied by other circumstances that make the visual image lascivious or sexually provocative," Judge Fernando Olgun commented on the decision.
According to the author of the article, the decision echoed the previous court ruling in this dispute. Olgun emphasized that no jury would consider the Nevermind album cover to be pornographic in content, and that the image used on it could be compared to "a family photo of a naked child taking a bath."
During the trial, it was revealed that Elden's photo was taken by family photographer Kirk Weddle, a friend of his parents. The parents themselves were present during the shoot and did not object to the photo's subsequent use. Meanwhile, the now-grown infant himself, for a time, received a "financial benefit" from his image on the cover.
Elden's legal battle with Nirvana lasted four years. Defendants in the suit included the band's drummer and bassist Dave Grohl and Kris Novoselic, frontman and songwriter Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love, several record labels, and the photographer.
The now-grown-up cover boy first filed a lawsuit against Nirvana in 2021, accusing the band of profiting from his nude image and knowingly producing, possessing, and promoting commercial images of sexualized child abuse. Elden also claimed that this allegedly made him a "victim of sexual exploitation" as a child. The lawsuit was subsequently dismissed twice, the second time due to the statute of limitations. In 2023, the Court of Appeals reinstated Elden's claim and overturned the ruling.
The cover of Nevermind, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records, depicts a naked baby swimming after a dollar bill impaled on a fishhook. The image is considered one of the most famous rock album covers. Weddle took the photograph in 1990 at the Pasadena Aquatic Center in California.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison, one of his top aides who had been helping him with his unprecedented reorganization of the Pentagon's bureaucracy.
The sudden sacking of a loyal higher-up at the Defense Department, now the Department of War, was initially confirmed by two defense officials and a former defense official who spoke to Politico.
The Pentagon later confirmed his departure, saying in a statement, 'He will no longer serve as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Navy.'
'We are grateful for his service to the Department,' it added.
Harrison's ouster comes as Hegseth has spent months cleaning house, with seemingly no one being off limits.
Some of the most significant firings have hit the Navy, including Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations; Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, Chief of the Navy Reserve; and Rear Admiral Milton Sands, Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command.
Arguably the most high-profile dismissal was General Charles Q. Brown Jr., who had been serving as the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from May 2023 to February 2025.
Harrison, the latest casualty in the Pentagon reshuffling, served about nine months in the behind-the-scenes role, where he reported to Navy Secretary John Phelan.
Alongside Phelan, a Trump mega-donor who had no prior military experience before his appointment, Harrison helped bring forth a consolidation of the Navy’s policy and budgeting offices.
His changes also sought to limit the influence of the Navy Undersecretary, the number 2 to Phelan.
That position is about to be filled by Hung Cao, a longtime Navy officer who was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday.
Politico reported that Phelan and Harrison also reassigned a number of aides who were going to be tasked with helping Cao settle into the role.
The pair also planned to interview all future assistants to Cao to ensure they were aligned with the secretary's office.
Cao, a Republican, previously ran for Senate in Virginia in 2024, losing to Democrat Tim Kaine. President Donald Trump nominated Cao for Navy Undersecretary in February.
It remains unclear why Harrison departed from the service, but his fate has been shared by many under-the-radar personnel who serve under Hegseth.
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In July, Phelan and Harrison reportedly reassigned the top two aides who were to assist Cao as he awaited confirmation, Politico reported The officials also planned to interview all future military assistants assigned to work with Cao, allegedly aiming to limit the influence of the role.. - Daily Caller
[Fox] City Hall in downtown Los Angeles was evacuated Friday afternoon after a man allegedly drove onto a sidewalk and crashed into steps in front of the building, and barricaded himself inside his vehicle.
"I’ve been briefed on the ongoing incident outside of City Hall, which is currently being evacuated out of an abundance of caution," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said on social media around 5 p.m.
The man appeared to have an oxygen tank and the signs "Don’t Want To Hurt No Body," and "I NEED UR HELP D TRUMP U.S. VET" inside the car and was refusing to get out, police said, according to KTLA-TV.
There were also no reports of weapons or bombs inside the car, FOX 11 reported, citing police.
The man eventually exited the car and was taken into custody by police.
[FoxNews] Travelers must log in before they fly to Taiwan via a 'digital arrival' card loaded with personal information.
This update reflects a broader global trend, as many countries are modernizing their travel systems with increased oversight and tighter security measures.
For instance, France, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom and 25 other countries will begin implementing a new Entry/Exit System (EES) with fingerprint scans on Oct. 12 over the course of about six months, Fox News Digital previously reported.
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Anyone entering China has to give fingerprints and a face scan.
Digital ID will be a reality worldwide soon and antisemites, once marked, will be unable to hide and visible forever.
Imagine a world in which we live apart from them and they aren't allowed into civilized spaces.
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TSA is now scanning faces, but not fingerprints....yet.
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I haven’t had a passport in years. There are things outside the US that I would consider traveling to see, but the more of this stuff I see the more I am convinced that it is not worth it. I am starting to be less curious about anyplace I have to fly. I suspect that I am not alone in my feelings. Probably not good news for tourist industry folks. I bet the WEF folks would celebrate my feelings as a victory. They have no interest in creating economic prosperity. They just want maximum control of a shrinking populous.
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Canada has something like this.
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[Regnum] A powerful solar flare occurred on the Sun, accompanied by a large plasma ejection toward Earth. This was reported on October 3 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to scientists, visual observations indicate a large-scale event. The laboratory specified that it had been assigned a magnitude rating of M1.5.
"Based on visual observations, the event is large and, if its departure from the Sun is confirmed, should reach the planet in 2.5 days, on the afternoon of Sunday, October 5," the laboratory clarified.
Earlier, on September 29, a solar flare of the penultimate M-class intensity occurred. As a result, scientists warned of high solar activity, which could pose a threat to Earth.
[Breitbart] The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has reportedly promised to assist Ethiopia with building a massive airport south of Addis Ababa.
The total cost of the project is estimated at $10 billion, and the airport will be capable of handling 60 million passengers per year when it comes online in 2029.
The Bishoftu International Airport, first conceived in 2018, is among the most ambitious aviation projects in African history. Its passenger capacity could be expanded to 110 million per year in the future, which would put it on par with the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.
The existing airport in Addis Ababa, Bole International Airport, can only handle about 19 million passengers per year. The largest airport currently operating in Africa – O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa – services over 21 million passengers a year.
The Bishoftu design includes an “airport city” with shopping malls, hotels, and railroad links, which are uncommon amenities in African airports.
The Bishoftu project is also rated to handle nearly four million tons of cargo per year, making it a major continental hub for both passengers and goods. The African Development Bank (AfDB), a co-financier of the project, envisions the airport in Ethiopia as a key element of its “Integrate Africa” initiative, which aims to make the movement of passengers and goods across Africa’s difficult terrain easier and less expensive.
Another major partner in the initiative is Ethiopian Airlines, the national flag carrier and one of the oldest airlines in Africa. Ethiopian Airlines held an event in Addis Ababa in September to showcase the project and attract more foreign investors.
U.S. Senior Adviser for Africa Massad Boulos announced U.S. support for the Bishoftu airport project at a press conference on Monday, after returning from an official visit to Ethiopia.
Boulos did not specify the exact scale of the U.S. commitment, but AfDB is putting together about $8 billion in financing, and the African Development Bank is seeking board approval for another $500 million, so about $1.5 billion remains to be covered.
Ethiopia has lately been slipping more into China’s orbit, so the Bishoftu airport project – the first major business investment in Africa of President Donald Trump’s second term – could be an effort to win back some influence. On Thursday, Ethiopia broke ground on a $2.5 billion Chinese-build oil refinery, which will be linked to the Hilala oil fields in the eastern border region of the country.
[Daily Mail, where Americagets its news] An American Airlines plane has been surrounded by emergency services vehicles at Heathrow Airport after it suffered a suspected malfunction.
The Philadelphia-bound service from west London had made it just beyond England's south coast when it had to turn back.
Benign excuses:
The blue flashing lights sparked concern online, with Flightradar24 posting on X that the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner 'didn't get very far before needing to return to London due to stuck flaps'.
The post continued: 'The aircraft returned safely to LHR and taxied to a remote stand.'
It is understood the plane landed safely, but the vehicles were ushered to the tarmac as a precautionary measure.
There have also been suggestions that concerns had been raised over the plane being overweight on landing. American Airlines have been approached for comment.
The London Fire Brigade confirmed to the Daily Mail it had attended the scene, but that 'no direct action' was required by its firefighters.
Prior escalation:
The dramatic scenes come just two days after the airport was hit by an outbreak of fire after a vehicle burst into flames and tore through the Terminal 3 car park.
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters arrived on Wednesday to tackle the blaze as it wrecked the multi-storey facility.
Plumes of smoke were seen billowing out of the car park while bright orange flames tore through the building.
The fire caused a number of disruptions to road routes as those getting to Heathrow by bus were forced to terminate.
A probe:
Less than a month ago the airport was at the centre of yet more drama after a man was arrested on suspicion of bringing what was thought to be tear gas into the airport - causing Terminal 4's check-in area to shut down.
Some 21 people reported being injured during a 'potential hazardous materials incident' at the airport on September 8, but only one required hospital treatment.
Emergency services later attributed the ensuing chaos - which saw the terminal shut for around three hours - to 'mass hysteria'.
At least the exercise of running around as if their hair were on fire is healthy, so it wasn't a total waste.
Attempted to use ChatGPT to resolve a scripting problem on a Rantburg.com page. It simply spewed out possible problems without addressing how this particular part of the page could be programmed to work.
[Regnum] A California court fined American attorney Amir Mostafavi $10,000 for using fabricated legal quotes from ChatGPT. CallMatters reported this on September 22.
"Amir Mostafavi, who was fined last week, told the court that he did not read the text generated by the artificial intelligence model before filing an appeal in July 2023," the publication said.
According to the publication's expert, Mostafavi's fine is the largest penalty imposed on a lawyer by a California court and one of the highest fines ever imposed for a lawyer's use of artificial intelligence.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Japanese restaurants, bars and stores running low on beer and other beverages from industry leader Asahi Group as the impact from a cyberattack entered a fifth day on Friday, with no resolution in sight.
Known for its Super Dry beer, Nikka Whisky as well as non-alcoholic beverages, Asahi suspended operations in Japan on Monday including order processing, shipping and call center functions after a cyberattack caused a system outage.
The company began processing orders for some products on Wednesday by visiting customers in person and handwriting orders, it said.
While it continues to take orders for food and soft drinks, it has not taken further orders for alcoholic beverages to prioritise outgoing shipments, which began on Friday for the first batch of manually filled orders, it said.
Asahi said it continues to work with investigative authorities on the cyberattack.
The breach is the latest in a string of cyber and ransomware attacks targeting global companies.
In Britain, luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover was forced to shut down its factories last month, while Marks & Spencer and the Co-op Group have also fallen victim to sophisticated breaches.
Asahi's shares have fallen about 4% to their lowest level since February after the company said it was attacked.
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Note: this is not one of the refineries slated to close.
The last time there was an outage there, it caused a shortage of WD-40, because it's a primary source of the naptha/kerosene base used in WD and JP mixes.
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Soon he will decide what "Democrat agencies" he would cut and whether those reductions would be temporary or permanent.
He said the government shutdown, which began on Tuesday, had afforded him an "unprecedented opportunity".
"I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame," he posted on his Truth Social website on Thursday morning.
Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, may not be a household name.
But Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for governing put together primarily by former Trump officials like Vought when the Republicans were out of power, featured prominently during last year's presidential campaign.
The 900-page policy document contained proposals for dramatic reductions in the size of federal government, expanded presidential authority, rigorous immigration enforcement, a nationwide abortion ban and other elements of an ultra-conservative social agenda.
It was frequently touted by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, as Trump's "dangerous plan" for the future if he was to win.
At the time, seeking to reassure undecided voters, Trump tried to distance himself from the policy document.
"I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump wrote in July 2024. "I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal."
Now, however, Trump is using the conservative blueprint as a threat to get Democrats to agree to his budgetary demands. And he is holding up Vought, who authored a chapter on the use of executive power, as a kind of budgetary angel of death, ready to take a scythe to government programmes near and dear to Democrats.
In case that particular metaphor wasn't clear, on Thursday night Trump shared an AI-generated parody music video on Truth Social with Vought portrayed as the grim reaper, set to altered lyrics of Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper.
On Capitol Hill, Republican leaders have echoed Trump's characterisation of Vought as the White House heavy.
"We don't control what he's going to do," Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune said. "This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought."
Why the US government has shut down and what happens now
Senator Mike Lee of Utah told Fox News that Vought had been "preparing for this moment since puberty".
That may be a bit of an overstatement, but Vought, who cut his teeth as a congressional staffer for Republican budget hawks and helped run the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has a wealth of experience digging through the intricacies of the federal budget.
THE BEAN-COUNTER BEHIND THE PRESIDENT
He spent a year as the deputy director of the White House budget office during Trump's first term, rising to be its director in 2019. Unlike many who served with Trump during those first four years, Vought had staying power - and was quickly reinstalled as head of the budget office when Trump returned this year.
"A lot of those who didn't come back represent an old way of thinking," said Richard Stern, a Heritage economic policy director who, like Vought, began his career in conservative congressional budget circles. "Russ was ahead of his time in the first term and right on time now."
Although Vought isn't one to shy away from controversial statements – he once said that he aspired to be "the person who crushes the deep state" – he doesn't exactly look the part of a Republican bogeyman.
Balding and bespectacled, with a greying beard, Vought's public statements typically have the measured cadence of a bean-counter or professor. He lacks the narrow-eyed glower and amped-up rhetoric of Stephen Miller, another longtime Trump adviser who oversees White House immigration policy.
Make no mistake, however, Vought has become an influential player in this White House, having turned the Office of Management and Budget – usually referred to by its acronym OMB - into the principal engine behind Trump's push to slash government spending and its workforce.
Earlier in the year he worked closely with Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or "Doge", as they cut a scorched-earth path through the federal government, shuttering multiple agencies and downsizing entire departments. And he carried on the efforts after Musk departed and Doge largely dropped out of public view.
"OMB is an intrinsically powerful position, but it has almost never been wielded as such," Stern said. "Its people have tended to caretake and allow the bureaucracy to slowly grow. It is as influential as the person who wields that chair wants to make it."
SEIZING OPPORTUNITY IN SHUTDOWN
Now Trump has threatened to unleash Vought at a time when, because of the legal limbo created by the government shutdown, their cuts might be deeper and more durable than those instituted earlier this year by Doge.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a veteran of the big shutdown fights of the 1990s, told NPR that Vought and his team have been preparing for exactly these kind of circumstances while they were in the political wilderness during the Biden years.
"They all knew a government shutdown was possible," he said. "I think they had decided early on that you're only going to get the scale of change they want if you're very tough and very determined and every chance you get, you take the opportunity."
The opportunity this shutdown presents for budget-cutters like Vought is that, without congressionally approved funding, the government is operating in a legal grey area with fewer budgetary restrictions.
Four ways the US government shutdown could end
The White House can, in theory, slash funding and staffing deeper than it could earlier in the year, when spending was governed by baseline appropriation amounts. And while permanent layoffs would still have to abide by a 60-day notice, Vought could start that clock ticking whenever he, and Trump, so choose.
Vought already has announced major infrastructure projects in New York City and Chicago are on hold, citing the need for a review of potentially illegal racial hiring practices - a review that he said can't take place during the shutdown. He's also cancelled nearly $8bn in clean energy projects across 16 states, all of which backed Harris, Trump's opponent, in last year's presidential race.
Democrats and federal worker unions have promised to fight these reductions in court and claimed that Trump is making largely empty threats to try to pressure them into abandoning the fight.
[Fox] Sen Joni Ernst targets COVID-19 funding, federal office spaces and blue state programs during federal government shutdown
A Senate Republican has a list of more than a "trillion dollars worth of ideas ripe for a trim" as the federal government shutdown continues.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has so far announced his plans to withhold nearly $30 billion in federal funding to blue states and cities, while Senate Democrats continue to block Republicans' efforts to reopen the government.
And Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has some ideas for even deeper cuts. In a letter to Vought, first obtained by Fox News Digital, Ernst laid out a plan that could result in over $2 trillion in cuts to federal spending.
Her letter comes as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and most Senate Democrats have remained steadfast in their opposition to the GOP’s short-term funding extension.
"Schumer’s Shutdown has provided a golden opportunity to slash waste, fraud and abuse in Washington," Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "There is no one more fitting to lead the charge than Russ Vought."
"I have compiled a comprehensive list of more than $2 trillion of nonessential government expenditures that should be put on the chopping block to put taxpayers first, make Washington squeal and deliver a more efficient government," she continued.
Ernst, who chairs the Senate DOGE Caucus, which borrowed its moniker from tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wants to target tens of billions in expired and unexpired COVID-19 pandemic funding, consolidate unused federal office space and prevent taxpayers from "subsidizing" the roughly $400 million per day in backpay owed to furloughed nonessential federal workers.
She also wants to go after nearly $1.6 trillion in unspent funding "stashed away in secret slush funds," clawback billions in the Biden-era electric vehicle charging station program, railroad projects in blue states, end research into "silly science projects" like shrimp on treadmills, and streamline "duplication and unnecessary overlap within" the Department of War, among many others.
[FoxNews] Democrat Gov. Josh Stein acted after repeat felon Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. charged in killing of Iryna Zarutska
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Friday signed "Iryna's Law," which increases checks on criminals getting out on bail and prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and most repeat offenders following the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light-rail train in August.
Stein, a Democrat, has said he doesn’t like every part of the bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which also looks to restart executions in North Carolina, but he signed it because it "alerts the judiciary to take a special look at people who may pose unusual risks of violence before determining their bail. That’s a good thing."
Iryna Zarutska, 23, was killed on Aug. 22, and Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who had been arrested more than a dozen times, including an armed robbery charge for which he served five years in prison before the fatal train stabbing, has been charged with first-degree murder.
He was most recently released in January on a misdemeanor charge.
"Finally, we are getting dangerous criminals off our streets so we can make sure no one else suffers the heartbreak that Iryna Zarutska’s family endured," Charlotte-area Republican state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who was involved with the legislation, said in a news release.
Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have blamed Zarutska’s death on Democrats, accusing them of being soft on crime.
"The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer’s knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and ‘Wannabe Senator’ Roy Cooper," Trump wrote on Truth Social after the attack.
"We can and must do more to keep people safe," Stein said in a video posted to social media on Friday. "When I review public safety legislation that comes to my desk, I use one simple test: Does it make people safer?"
He said that "Iryna's Law" alerts the judiciary to take a special look at who could warrant an "unusual" risk for violence before determining their bail.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] FBI Director Kash Patel abruptly tossed out an agent in training on Wednesday for previously showing off a gay pride flag on his desk, according to a report.
The trainee had displayed the emblem while serving in a field office in California last year during President Joe Biden's administration.
Patel sent the trainee a signed letter dated October 1, claiming he had presented an improper 'political' message in the workplace while assigned in Golden State.
The termination letter cited Donald Trump's constitutional power to fire bureaucrats serving in the executive branch.
'After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your probationary status,' Patel's letter obtained by MSNBC reads without directly mentioning the flag.
'I have determined that you exercised poor judgment
…a damning evaluation for a career in the FBI…
with an inappropriate display of political signage in your work area during your previous assignment in the Los Angeles Field Office.'
'You are being summarily dismissed from your position as a New Agent Trainee at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and removed from the federal service.
The letter was sent to the trainee during the first day of the government shutdown, which has since caused uncertainty throughout the federal workforce. It is unclear how Patel was tipped off about a flag that was displayed on an employee's desk a year ago.
I’d put my money on a search of his social media, but that’s only a guess. But would such a photo count as a security violation, separate from suggesting an inappropriate “activist” mindset?
The Daily Mail reached out to the FBI for comment. The agency has not released a public statement on the matter to other media outlets.
According to CNN, the FBI employee was undergoing training at the agency's academy in Quantico, Virginia, when Patel sent the dismissal letter.
Previously, the trainee had worked in a FBI field office as a diversity program coordinator
Are we sure he wasn’t actually dismissed for that? It’s no longer a career path option in the federal government, after all…
and has received multiple awards for service during his career.
Worse and worse.
Two longtime FBI employees told CNN that displaying a pride flag historically would not result in a dismissal from the agency. Under Patel's FBI, however, the norms are being rewritten.
Just ten days after Trump took back the White House, DOJ Pride, an LGBT employee resource group, shut down in late January. The group's closure came after the president signed an executive order looking to remove all DEI related programs from the federal bureaucracy.
Following the trainee's removal, agents across the FBI began searching through social media to purge any and all messaging that could be considered critical to Trump or his supporters.
I feel so clever, though I’m not sure it’s is the criticism of him so much as the general idea that Mr. Trump has long represented in the eyes of the Left.
Last week, Patel fired over a dozen FBI employees for kneeling in front of a DC crowd protesting the death of George Floyd. Those who bent the knee did so amid violent nationwide riots that shook the country.
Previous FBI director Christopher Wray, who tried to prosecute Trump during the 2024 election, concluded that the agents did not violate bureau policy.
[FoxNews] Smoking marijuana and playing some video games may seem like a chill night for some — but both hobbies have been linked with psychosis in a variety of studies.
Fox News' Alexis McAdams reported on this link during an "America Reports" segment on Thursday, citing NIH data that found young men who use marijuana are at the highest risk of developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia.
McAdams applied this information to the recent violence across America, including the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. The gunman, Robin Westman, reportedly worked at a pot shop and told his friends "he smoked it all the time."
Officials have also confirmed that Joshua Jahn, the Dallas ICE shooter, was a heavy pot smoker, as his friends have shared that he was "obsessed with sitting at home, smoking weed, playing video games."
McAdams said, "[Jahn] reportedly logged more than 10,000 hours of gaming, and there were a lot of shooting games, so he was sitting there all the time playing all those violent games at home."
Playing Reader Rabbit for that long is probably about as bad, especially if a lot of the modern, high-THC pot is involved.
Investigators have reported to Fox News that Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, logged nearly 5,000 hours of solo gameplay before he allegedly opened fire.
As the Trump administration considers reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, touting the medicinal benefits of CBD, the question looms of how pot and gaming could impact the mental health of Americans.
A June 2023 study, published in the journal Psychopathology, examined the link between gaming disorder (an addictive behavioral disorder) and psychotic disorders.
Excessive gaming may act as a trigger for psychotic episodes in some patients, according to multiple case reports. The sudden disruption of gaming habits could also trigger psychosis.
The researchers noted that there is a significant lack of research on how these two disorders interact.
Lets do the research before pontificating on an assumed result. That’s the scientific method. The same warning goes for a federal rescheduling of the thing. Today’s product is is much stronger than the pot of President Trump’s youth.
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Today's weed is NOTHING like the joints of CHeech & Chong's time.
People don't smoke it any more, it comes from legal weed "dispensaries" in a number of forms, like mints or gummies.
It is highly concentrated and kids eat a handful of them at a time.
Used to be, your lungs would give out before you could smoke that much.
Even worse is when little kids see them and think they're candy and eat a whole bag. Medical journals are full of case studies now.
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Fox has been really pushing this Satanic Video Games angle.
If this combination effect were true, there would be a lot of Minecraft players who think Jack Black is funny.
But if we want to start that discussion, Fox, about people being on something and video games, the uncomfortable truth is that discussion doesn't start with young men playing FPS, it is middle age women playing phone game button press simulators which use every s/ot machine trick in the book to hook the player into tapping the screen like Pavlov's Carp.
I would also look into not the game, but the chat lobby. 5000 hours of solo play sounds super scary, but that is like 100%ing the last couple Zelda games. FPS lobbies are gruff and full of interesting takes on peoples' heritage but is mostly tough talk. It is the crafting and building games, plus the niche games like dinosaur simulators, which the activists and groomers are attracted to because they have a frozen audience with generally more pliable minds, especially the games which attract youngsters, like Roblox and Minecraft. A large part of the success of the Minecraft movie was not the movie, but players going to the movie and then game chatting about who had the most outrageous showing al la Rocky Horror interaction. Winner apparently was someone who snuck live chickens into the showing and released them during one particular scene, which I admit is above par but does show the extent the influence of the chat lobby over the game itself.
EM9149 isn't wrong. Student last year was taken to hospital for IV and observation after severe vomiting. Officially, food poisoning. Little bird told me it was a Hey Watch This Stunt with two of the heavy gummies right before school. Greenout, instead of Blackout, what the kids used to call it. The uninitiated, or foolish, suddenly find out they are not one over the line, but twenty. Obviously this makes users pliable and open to suggestion especially by those trained or have gab.
So the recipe would be getting high, entering a chat where person is pavlovian trained responses, such as patch update or chat member opinion statements. Not this articles suggestion that cheeching out to video games will eventually make a person an Italian plumber who hates turtles.
As an aside, I would love to be a mouse in the room where pure analytics are discussed, and how much traffic there is with EA Sports being acquired by a Saudi Arabia based company and the memes memming a total clean out of women and rainbow flag references in the games? One could wonder if the Ryadh Comedy Festival, all leftists, was to pre-empt such a potential meme?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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