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Israel says IDF strikes kill 5 Hamas officials, as terror group issues threat to end truce
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
UAB says football player arrested after stabbing two teammates
For those few who like me had no idea, that’s the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
[ESPN] A UAB football player stabbed two of his teammates Saturday morning at the football facility ahead of the Blazers' home game against USF, a university spokesperson told ESPN.
"It's a Homecoming tradition"
The suspect has been arrested, and both injured players are in stable condition after being taken to UAB hospital. The school has not released the names of any of the players involved.

UAB's game against USF began as scheduled at 3 p.m. ET.

A UAB official said an investigation is ongoing.

"UAB's top priority remains the safety and well-being of all of our students," the school said in a statement.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1748 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The stabber that attacked to of his teammates--most sites won't name him.

But his name is Daniel Mincey.

Go ahead. Do it. Just take a wild guess at Daniel Mincey's background.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/23/2025 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Daniel Mincey (name is normal)

Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/23/2025 4:30 Comments || Top||

#3  They lost. Seems like the coach’s pep talk only motivated one player.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 7:02 Comments || Top||


Bondi transfers 2 more ex-death row inmates to supermax prison
The first eight were transferred in September.
[FOXNEWS] Two federal inmates previously on death row — one a crooked New Orleans cop, the other behind a multi-state killing spree — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital.

News of their transfers comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions, especially those against violent crime.

The former death row inmates were transferred Thursday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as "ADX," Justice Department officials confirmed.

They are among the 37 death row inmates whose sentences former President Joe Biden commuted shortly before leaving office last December. The news prompted criticism and complaints that the record clemency and commutation actions were done as a political "Hail Mary" and without proper vetting.

Eight death row inmates have already been transferred to ADX, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital, bringing to 10 the number of death row inmates that have been transferred to the prison since mid-September.

More are expected soon. All 37 death row inmates commuted by Biden are expected to be moved to the prison by "early next year," the Justice Department told Fox News Digital.

The effort comes as Bondi and the Trump administration have sought to reverse some of the Biden administration's efforts on criminal justice reform, with an emphasis on cracking down on violent crime.

Though sentence commutations cannot be fully reversed, Justice Department officials told Fox News Digital, Bondi has prioritized ways to penalize these individuals in coordination with directives from Trump and to ensure that the "conditions of confinement" are "consistent with the security risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes, criminal histories and all other relevant considerations," according to an earlier DOJ memo.

"Two more monsters who plotted and violently murdered innocent people will spend the rest of their lives in our country's most severe federal prison," Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Some of the Biden administration's efforts on criminal justice reform.”

So it was prison reform. I thought it was just a bunch of Biden staffers shooting chaff in the air to obscure the fact that Joe was pardoning his family and somebody was monetizing the auto pen.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  There are only so many cells at Florence. We need a second supermax facility.
Posted by: Difar Dave || 11/23/2025 16:00 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Dig underground cells. The Mooslims will feel at home
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2025 17:46 Comments || Top||

#4  We need a second supermax facility

WIKI
many states now have created supermax prisons, either as stand-alone facilities or as secure units within lower-security prisons
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2025 23:29 Comments || Top||


At least 5 people shot after 300 feral teens started ''rioting'' following Chicago's Christmas tree lighting ceremony
[X] Everyone else is getting law and order, while they choose lawlessness out of spite. Suicidal empathy for the loss...


Courtesy of Skidmark:
President says Chicagoans are 'chanting bring in Trump' after violent downtown riot leaves 8 shot, 1 dead
[FoxNews] Several teens shot, multiple officers attacked during 300-person riot in Chicago Loop.

Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1753 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  This is interesting. Could our *professional* press do some research and give us a statistical break-down of the demographics of those "juveniles" involved in the rioting?

I'll hang up and listen.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/23/2025 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll hang up and listen.

I LOL'd
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2025 2:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I blame Yukon Cornelius.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 6:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Decivilization brought to us by the 'Great Society'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2025 7:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ChiTown's Sunday Morning 6:00a Demonized Tally: 4 killed, 20 wounded
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/23/2025 7:43 Comments || Top||


#7  That's what happens when you start playing Mariah Carey tunes to a bunch of rappers.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/23/2025 8:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Ahhhh ... sweet home, Chicago.

The area near State and Lake streets has been a traditional gathering place for "festive yoots" wanting to show off their "community spirit." I believe the final number was eight celebrants whose party spirit was temporarily dampened. Oh ... and one permanently.
Posted by: ChicagoNorth || 11/23/2025 9:32 Comments || Top||

#9  The shooters will get a lump of that EV copper thief coal this Christmas
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2025 10:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Now that's just mean, Frank
Posted by: Matt || 11/23/2025 12:04 Comments || Top||


Two Texas men charged in plot to invade Haitian island and make women, children 'sex slaves': prosecutors
And they aren’t even Third World colonels
[FoxNews] Federal prosecutors allege pair planned coup on Gonave Island between August 2024 and July 2025

Two Texas men have been charged in an alleged plot to invade a Haitian island, kill its male residents and enslave the women and children as their "sex slaves," federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to murder, maim or kidnap in a foreign country and production of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas.

"Weisenburg and Thomas intended to murder all of the men on the island so that they could then turn all of the women and children into their sex slaves," federal prosecutors allege.
What, all?? One suspects they have no idea how big the population is, among other crucial bits of information.
Between August 2024 and July 2025, Weisenburg and Thomas allegedly planned to take over Gonave Island "to carry out their rape fantasies," court documents state.

They intended to buy a sailboat, guns and ammunition and recruit members from Washington, D.C.’s homeless community to "serve as a mercenary force as they invaded Gonave Island and staged a coup d'état," prosecutors said.
Oh dear. And one of them legally an adult, too.
Authorities allege the pair took steps to prepare for the invasion, including learning Haitian Creole, attempting to recruit others and enrolling in schools to gain skills that would help them carry out the invasion.

Thomas even joined the U.S. Air Force to receive relevant military training, according to prosecutors.
And did they teach him the necessary skills?
In addition to the alleged invasion plan, both men are accused of producing child pornography.

Gonave Island, located in the Gulf of Gonave, has a population of roughly 100,000, according to La Gonave Haiti Partners.
Still, only roughly half of them would be males slated for killin’. On the other hand, I’m trying to imagine how a bunch of homeless guys would take to the military discipline necessary to mow down thousands at a time.
If convicted, Weisenburg and Thomas each face up to life in federal prison for the conspiracy charge. The child pornography charge carries between 15 and 30 years in federal prison.
“It’ll be a piece of cake, Pinky. I done harder things in my shoot’em up video game just last week.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1784 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  And we all pretend the youth don't have any ambition.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/23/2025 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Freelancers trying to hone in Clinton Global Initiative territory.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Three years too late. They could have gotten USAID sponsorship under Biden.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2025 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  He joined the U.S. Air Force to receive military training???
Posted by: Difar Dave || 11/23/2025 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Every now and then a person reads something so outlandish that it's unbelievable. The story reads like the fantasies of a couple of guys barely out of their teens who maybe had too many beers one night in the local pub. Almost as preposterous as if you told me the Clinton's ran off with more than 10 billion dollars in charity money for the Haiti earthquake. Yeah, I know there are those high administrative costs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2025 22:48 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
North Carolina driver says bald eagle dropped cat through her windshield: 'You may not believe me'
[FoxNews] A driver in North Carolina told a dispatcher that a cat carcass had crashed into her windshield along a highway after the feline was dropped from the sky by a bald eagle.

The woman called 911 on Wednesday morning to report the incident, saying that a bald eagle had dropped the cat into the passenger side of her front windshield on U.S. Route 74 in Swain County, near Bryson City, which is located about 65 miles southwest of Asheville.

It is unclear if the cat slipped from the eagle's talons or was dropped intentionally.

"You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield," the driver said on the 911 call. "It absolutely shattered my windshield."
Thank goodness the poor creature fell through the passenger side, or the driver would have been as dead as the cat. That’s a lifetime of luck used up right there. Photo:



Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1821 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bald eagles, why do they hate us?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Did it pounce?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2025 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Terminal Velocity of a Falling Cat

The terminal velocity of a falling cat is approximately 60 mph (97 km/h) This relatively low speed is due to the cat's small size, light bone structure, and ability to increase its surface area by spreading its legs, which enhances air resistance Once a cat reaches this terminal velocity, typically after falling about five stories, it often relaxes and assumes a spread-eagle posture, effectively acting like a parachute to further reduce impact forces This adaptation significantly improves survival chances, especially from falls of seven stories or more, where injury rates are observed to decrease
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2025 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  How did she know it was a bald eagle?
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_best_desert || 11/23/2025 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 She had a TDS bumper sticker, so an eagle was deployed
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/23/2025 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  It was a British drone that had not yet been calibrated for the US theater of operation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2025 16:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Poor kitty.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/23/2025 18:07 Comments || Top||

#8  It is a federal crime for anyone who is not a certifiable certified Native American to posses eagle feathers, even if you just pick them up off the ground or they fall into your lap.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/23/2025 19:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
CNN flew all the way to Johannesburg, South Africa to shoot a propaganda video for Americans on how USAID cuts are affecting a transgender clinic
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should have made it a one way trip.
Posted by: Oregon Dave || 11/23/2025 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  However much money they're losing, they deserve to lost twice that much.

Which gives weight to a theory of mine. The money that CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, etc "lose" from their newscasts isn't really a "loss".

Stick with me. What if all of those entities were merely parts of the "marketing department" of a larger leftist/world rule entity?

Remember: Nobody expects a "marketing department" to make a profit. They are an *expense* They are a known cost. They exist because the LARGER entity is willing to spend the money to fund them for a LARGER goal.

That's how I view the mainstream market. They *know* they don't make any money. And they don't care. Their funding mechanism doesn't care either. They say and do what they do because they are merely an EXPENSE for the cause.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/23/2025 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Based on the likely logistics cost for the story and the fact that it will fail to impact American public opinion, CNN could have just sent the clinic a check, but CNN has to do whatever the CIA tells them to do.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Now that's a CNN spot I could watch...
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/23/2025 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey look! One more thing from the MSM that I don't give a shit about!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/23/2025 23:05 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
'A frightening step': scientists want to extinguish the sun
Can anyone hazard a guess where this "startup's" revenue will come from?

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[RIA] The company Stardust plans to dim the Sun to reduce Earth's temperature, according to the American magazine The New Yorker.

"Stardust is the name of a small startup with huge ambitions. Based in Israel and registered in Delaware, the company is proposing nothing less than to reduce the sun's brightness," the article states.

According to the publication, the startup's creators plan to exploit the principle of volcanic eruptions, when millions of tons of sulfur dioxide reflect sunlight back into space, thereby lowering the temperature on the surface of our planet.

"The company calls this scheme 'solar reflectivity technology,' though it's more commonly referred to as solar geoengineering. The idea has been floating around in one form or another for decades, but Stardust takes a major—some might say frightening—step forward," the magazine writes.

The plan is to spray the innovative particles above the clouds, where they will form a kind of mirror, reducing the solar radiation.

However, the companies refused to disclose the composition of their reflective particles, stating only that they are completely safe for humans and ecosystems. According to the company's co-founder, Janai Jedwab, they do not plan to independently implement the technologies being developed, as this would require enormous expenditures and resources.

"We see ourselves as a technology driver, developing a set of tools and providing information to decision makers in the various governments that will be involved," he told the publication.

Posted by: badanov || 11/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1769 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill Gates opined during the Covid bullshit that perhaps "we" should drop from the sky Covid vaccines so that none of us could escape Covid vaccination.

When Gates passes, I look forward to pissing on his grave.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/23/2025 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Hear! Hear!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/23/2025 3:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Die Juden wollen die Sonne auslöschen?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 11/23/2025 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Soundgarden fans are out of control.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/23/2025 6:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's see the experimental effect of firing a few "scientists" into the sun first?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2025 17:51 Comments || Top||

#6  These so-called scientists who advocate extinishing the sun are nihilistic idiots. Why anyone pays heed to them is beyond me.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/23/2025 22:20 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
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  Israel says IDF strikes kill 5 Hamas officials, as terror group issues threat to end truce
Sat 2025-11-22
  Trump terminates deportation protections for Somali nationals living in Minnesota 'effective immediately'
Fri 2025-11-21
  Fifteen people charged in Colorado after over 1,000 pounds of meth seized
Thu 2025-11-20
  Mossad Exposes Hamas ‘Octopus' Network Plotting ‘Command Day' Attacks on Jewish Targets in Europe
Wed 2025-11-19
  Muslim group CAIR cutting $1,000 checks for anti-Israel agitators who have been disciplined by colleges
Tue 2025-11-18
  Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for her role in killing of at least 1,400 protesters
Mon 2025-11-17
  DRC and M23 sign framework peace deal to end fighting in eastern Congo
Sun 2025-11-16
  Mexico City explodes into anti-narcostate riots
Sat 2025-11-15
  More women and children rescued from another horrific illegal alien sex-trafficking ring in Baton Rouge
Fri 2025-11-14
  A Doctors’ Plot, Day 4: Nuh link, Dr Umar's house razed, 5 more detained: 5 key updates in Red Fort blast
Thu 2025-11-13
  Nigeria, US and UK probe $235m cocaine seizure at Lagos port
Wed 2025-11-12
  Day 2, Part I: At least 12 people were killed in an explosion outside a court in Islamabad
Tue 2025-11-11
  Car bombing near New Delhi metro kills 13
Mon 2025-11-10
  Hamas says fighters holed up in Rafah will not surrender. Nope.
Sun 2025-11-09
  IDF says troops killed 2 terror operatives who entered Israeli-controlled sector of Gaza, Hamas claims 69,000 toes up


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