[Houston Chronicle] A poll worker said two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Paigelynne Gonyea said the confrontation happened Tuesday while she was working at a polling place in Syracuse. Two officers gave Gonyea a written notice stating that she might be in violation of federal laws that prevent publicly posting personal information about federal officers, she said.
Gonyea said the warning stemmed from a post she made on social media in January in which she posted a picture of Jonathan Ross, an ICE officer who shot and killed Good in Minneapolis during anti-ICE demonstrations that month. In the post, Gonyea wrote: "I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted."
Gonyea's post — which she made after Ross had already been identified by the news media — is still up. She said she has no intention of taking it down.
"I plan on using this experience to defend and support our First Amendment right," Gonyea said. "Our first amendment rights definitely need to be protected now more than ever."
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Was she just a random innocent expressing a stupid opinion using material in the public domain, or is she connected, posting an ID for target tagging?
[DM] Two juveniles have been arrested after investigators accused them of sparking a devastating six-alarm blaze that tore through an empty Pennsylvania factory before leaping across the street and destroying houses, leaving dozens of people homeless.
The two youths, whose names have not been released due to their young ages, are being held on charges including arson, conspiracy, recklessly endangering another person and causing a catastrophe.
The arrests came two days after the massive inferno erupted in Allentown, sending towering flames and thick black smoke into the night sky as more than 100 firefighters battled to stop the blaze from swallowing an entire neighborhood.
Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan and Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca announced the charges on Friday, saying the investigation remains active.
Officials have not disclosed what investigators believe led the juveniles to allegedly start the fire.
The blaze broke out shortly before 8:40pm on Wednesday at a long-vacant furniture factory on North Front Street.
Within minutes, flames engulfed the aging industrial building before spreading to several occupied homes directly across the street.
Residents were forced to flee through their back doors as the flames encroached, while police shut down surrounding streets and urged nearby neighbors to shelter in place.
[Epoch Times] Agribusiness Monsanto scored a significant victory at the Supreme Court on June 25 when the justices reversed a lower court ruling that opened the company up to liability for its weedkiller Roundup.
The justices handed down a 7—2 decision in one of the most consequential decisions this year. They said that a federal law preempted state law that served as the basis for a verdict against Monsanto.
Monsanto said that the federal government had already regulated Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, through the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
Under that law, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved glyphosate’s use and has not required additional labeling related to cancer risks.
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Reporters showed their innate stupidity by referring to Round Up as a pesticide. It's not and if used properly, has been determined a non-cancer-causing herbicide. Don't drink it. Spray weeds
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So Roundup is *not* a weed killer AND a dessert topping?
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;-)
I also oversaw Rodeo herbicide (similar to Round Up in that it also uses glyphosate) in aquatic areas as remediation for bridge construction to remove non-native species. Don't drink that either...or as a dessert topping
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FYI herbicides are pesticides . That said the adjuvants (the stuff that makes it rain fast etc) are MORE toxic than the active ingredient.
LITTLETON, Colorado, June 26 (Reuters) - Scores of cities across Europe are sweltering under record temperatures that are boosting demand for cooling systems while forcing utilities to scale back power production to avert outages.
The double whammy of higher electricity demand and lower supply is placing unprecedented strain on the region's power grids that are already struggling to accommodate rising electricity use from data centers, EVs and heat pumps.
Here is a breakdown on how to track the fallout from the ongoing heatwave across Europe's power systems, where power prices and generation mixes remain in constant flux as a result of the stress.
Many of Europe's largest power markets have day-ahead and intraday prices which provide useful clues on expected system conditions, and reveal several things at once.
High and rising prices indicate that demand is expected to remain strong while supply is set to remain tight.
Rising power prices can also reveal which power source is setting the marginal price for production in key markets, thanks to the so-called merit order pricing system.
In most European power markets, the most expensive power source needed to meet demand sets the price for the whole market, which is often gas-fired plants but can also be coal, nuclear and hydro power systems.
High day-ahead prices can therefore indicate which technology is setting the marginal price in which market, and what fuel and carbon costs will feed through each system as power firms adjust output mixes to balance market needs.
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Were I European I would be worried about price but more about reliability. We have an article today about potential blackouts in the American West-- Rooters omits any discussion of that here.
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[REGNUM.RU] The largest sunspot group in five months has emerged on its Earth-facing side. This was reported on June 26 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
They noted that active region 4478 appeared in Earth's field of view three days ago. It continues to grow rapidly and has already reached an area of 825 m.s.p. (a unit of measurement of sunspot area). This makes it the second-largest active region in 2026.
"According to calculations, the region will reach the center of the solar disk (that is, a position directly opposite the Earth) on July 1," the institute reported on its Telegram channel. Great! My AMEX bill is due July 2.
Scientists noted that the region exhibits moderate activity. Over the past three days, there have been only 11 category C flares. However, the active center is classified as hazardous due to its constant plasma emissions. These have not yet reached Earth due to the region's significant edgeward shift.
On June 5, a plasma cloud from solar flares reached Earth. According to the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a second and third cloud later reached Earth. They caused a moderate-intensity magnetic storm that ended on the night of June 6.
Earlier, Sergei Bogachev, head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory, noted that solar activity would continue to decline, with numerous magnetic storms expected for at least the next two years. By 2028–2031, they should cease altogether.
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[REGNUM.RU] A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Yamanashi Prefecture, near Tokyo, Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported this on June 26.
According to him, the tremors were recorded at 4:29 PM Moscow time and were felt across a significant portion of the country.
The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 20 kilometers. There is no tsunami threat, according to information on the agency's website.
On June 25, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake was recorded by seismologists in the Pacific Ocean off the northeastern coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. Its center was located at a depth of 39 kilometers. No tsunami threat was issued for the Kuril Islands.
On the evening of June 24, earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitudes struck Venezuela. The epicenters were in the state of Yaracuy, 16 km from the city of Morón and 24 km from San Felipe. The epicenters were located at a depth of approximately 10 km. A state of emergency was declared in the country. According to the latest data, the death toll from this earthquake has reached 589.
[BBC] A Texas education panel has approved plans to make Bible stories mandatory for all five million public school students in the state, sparking a row about separation of church and state.
The required readings, which don't come into effect until 2030, include Bible passages about Adam and Eve and from the book of Exodus, where God speaks to Moses through a burning bush.
Critics say the new reading requirements, which also include Dickens and Shakespeare, infringe on religious freedoms and lack diversity.
The Republican-controlled State Board of Education approved the measure in a 9-5 vote with one Republican joining Democrats to vote against it.
"We are bringing the Bible back into schools this week for the first time in 60 years," Brandon Hall, a Republican member of the board of education, said this week.
Supporters say schoolchildren ought to learn about Judeo-Christian traditions that they argue were essential to the nation's founding.
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Today's reading will be "The Adventures of Uncle Onan".
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Also The Diary of Anne Frank, which the BBC ignores in its grab for the most sensationalist take on the thing. It’s important to know the base literature of a culture to understand anything written or said more than a decade ago. America’s culture is steeped in the words of the Old and New Testaments — the first, and sometimes only books many households had was a bible and a collection of Shakespeare’s plays, so our students should be broadly exposed to them, too. Our laws root in the philosophy underlying the Ten Commandments. This has nothing to do with proselytizing, and everything to do with being properly educated.
[JustTheNews] The report found that agencies often used their personal mobile devices because agency-issued options were not equipped for their operations. Secret Service does not secure or manage the personal devices of agents.
The U.S. Secret Service did not properly secure its mobile devices, risking leaks of sensitive information and potentially compromising the safety of American leaders, a recent inspector general report concluded.
The report found that agencies often used their personal mobile devices because agency-issued options were not equipped for their operations. Secret Service does not secure or manage the personal devices of agents.
Agents, moreover, used personal devices during operations while in other countries, a practice that had effectively become the norm by the IG review.
The report did not conclude that any foreign actors had actually accessed the personal devices, merely that the use of those mobile devices risked information leaks.
It recommended that the Secret Service overhaul its practices for securing devices and ensure that agents have access to devices with the functionality necessary for their missions.
[BB] South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back initially said the drone warriors would be equipped with 110,000 new drones over the next three years, but the Defense Ministry later announced a more modest target of 11,000 drones next year, and 60,000 by 2029.
“Drones should no longer be equipment used by a limited number of units, but a universal combat tool. All troops should be able to use drones like a second personal firearm,” Ahn said at a press conference on Friday.
The declared goal of 500,000 drone troops is a remarkably high figure, given that the entire active-duty South Korean military is currently smaller than that. Presumably the total would include reservists, and possibly even civilian contractors providing drone support.
Ahn pointedly stated that South Korea would manufacture its own drones to avoid the risk of using tainted or insecure Chinese components. The key product under development is called the K-LUCAS, a domestically produced variant of the U.S. Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System.
LUCAS was conceived as a response to Iran’s Shahed series of drones, which revolutionized drone warfare over the past few years by providing a reliable one-way “flying bomb” that could be swiftly produced in massive quantities for very low per-unit cost.
The U.S. military developed and deployed these drones much more quickly than most defense projects, and by all accounts, LUCAS performed extremely well against Iranian targets during Operation Epic Fury.
[FOX] Video captured a large emergency response after a small plane crashed into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper on Friday, prompting an immediate information blackout from Chinese authorities, The Associated Press reported.
Video and photos shared on social media appear to show the aircraft plummeting to the ground after smashing a large hole in the 108-story CITIC Tower, located in the Chinese capital's business district.
Police, fire and EMS workers were spotted at the scene preventing witnesses from taking photos and attempting to clear the area.
A person working inside the high-rise said the plane crash triggered the building's fire alarms.
Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 indicated the aircraft was a Sunward SA 60L Aurora, which took off about 30 miles east of the city and crashed shortly before 6 p.m. local time.
ADS-B data for the flight only includes a partial flight path and stops prior to the crash, according to air traffic data.
The AP reported that photos and videos of the incident escaped the country’s "great firewall" and were circulated on social media platform X, though Chinese censors have removed content about the crash from the country's restricted internet.
No information has been released by government officials or state-run media, as of Friday afternoon.
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Why would Israel attack Communist China? Let go of your obsession and think logically.
I mean, if they did attack China, they’d go after the social media posters and the ruling elites, not some random building whose only virtue is symbolic. Israel doesn’t bother with symbolic — they go after targets that most directly harm the efforts against them.
[Root] WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Friday that the U.S. government has allowed it to release its powerful Claude Mythos 5 artifical intelligence model to some "trusted" U.S. organizations, partially reversing an order two weeks ago to suspend access over national security risks.
More than 100 companies and institutions will now have access to Mythos 5, incluing many Fortune 500 companies, a source familiar with the new directive said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Concern that powerful AI systems could be misused by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries of concern has prompted President Donald Trump's administration to take an aggressive approach to oversight of releases of Anthropic's and rival OpenAI's frontier models.
OpenAI said earlier in the day that it was delaying a full public launch of GPT-5.6 at the U.S. government's request, limiting its access to a small group of vetted partners whose details were shared with the authorities.
Anthropic had abruptly disabled its most advanced AI models — Mythos 5 and Fable 5 — for all users after the government's June 12 export control order.
"Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure," Anthropic said in a statement on Friday.
"We're restoring access for these organizations quickly, and we're continuing to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again," it added.
[Columbus Ledger-Inquirer] A firearms company fleeing Virginia’s new gun laws is bringing 120 jobs and a $22 million investment to South Georgia.
Gov. Brian Kemp announced June 10 that Rideout Arsenal, a firearms designer and manufacturer specializing in high-end competition pistols, will build a new manufacturing facility in Thomasville, creating 120 jobs over the next several years.
The company, founded by Travis and Kelsey Rideout, focuses on high-performance competition pistols and also sells accessories and branded apparel. The new facility will be located in Thomasville’s Plantation Oak Industrial Park, with additional buildings planned in the coming years.
It was previously based in Spotsylvania, Virginia until state lawmakers enacted new laws banning the manufacture of assault-style firearms and magazines holding over 15 rounds, while imposing strict industry accountability standards.
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Pains of moving aside, this is a beautiful move by this company. Get the hell out of f-tarded Virginia. And I hope residents of Nueva York do the same in light of the recent primary victories by those three Commie Pinkos.
[ROOT] Volkswagen is considering shutting four German factories and ramping up job cuts to as many as 100,000, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday, in what could be the biggest ever overhaul in the industry.
Members of VW's supervisory board have been informed of the plans, which are due to be discussed at a July 9 meeting, the people said.
The move comes as the carmaker faces mounting pressure from Chinese rivals, stiff tariffs on car imports into the United States, as well as dwindling demand in Europe, which the company has said makes its business model unsustainable.
Closing the plants at Hanover, Zwickau, Emden and Audi's Neckarsulm site would put more than 45,000 jobs at risk, according to the people. That would add to the 50,000 cuts that are currently planned.
In absolute terms, laying off 100,000 people and axing four assembly plants would be the largest restructuring in automotive industry history.
It would be comparable to major shake-ups by GM leading up to and during its 2009 bankruptcy and in the early 1990s when it cut as many as 74,000 jobs over four years and shut or idled 21 plants.
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume presented the plans to senior executives earlier this week to rally support for deep cuts likely to face fierce resistance from unions and the state of Lower Saxony, the carmaker's second-largest shareholder.
[BBC] The "breadbasket" of Turkey, Konya's valleys are filled with the farms needed to feed a growing nation. But the available groundwater is drying up and causing fields to collapse.
In a green field of freshly-watered ground, patrolled by four dogs with short legs and big barks, a stretch of thin razor wire twists in a circle. On the other side of the wire, the ground falls away. A chasm has opened in the middle of this field, deep enough that standing on the edge could make anyone treacherously dizzy.
Two years ago, the ground collapsed, adding one more to the large number of sinkholes in Konya, a province in central Turkey. Mehmet Akıf Işıklı gazes into this sinkhole on his neighbour's farm, a match for the one that opened up in the middle of his own field.
[The Federalist] Every Democrat who insists it’s a deeply inhumane offense to send Haitians temporarily in the U.S. back to their country should be required to admit what they previously denied: that Haiti and so many others like it really are, as President Trump so eloquently put it, "sh-thole countries."
The Supreme Court ruled this week that the word "temporary" actually doesn’t mean "permanent" and the executive does have the authority to either extend a migrant’s permission to remain in the United States under temporary protected status (TPS), or not, and therefore order his removal. That the issue even had to be settled by the Supreme Court reveals how little respect the left has for our immigration laws, but it’s not like they pretend to have any as it is.
Democrats, having fought snaggletooth and press-on nail to keep their precious, destitute foreigners here (new voting blocs, as they like to see them), are now openly calling for not only the permanent stay of these "temporary" migrants, but their full citizenship.
[ArsTechnica] Privacy advocates and domestic violence groups say ID mandate is a big mistake.
A Federal Communications Commission proposal to collect more identifying information from phone users has drawn protests from privacy-focused groups and advocates for domestic violence survivors. The plan is ostensibly designed to thwart robocallers but could make it difficult for individuals to use prepaid phones that can protect their privacy, devices that are often referred to as burner phones.
The FCC is seeking comment on the proposal to require phone companies to obtain and retain, at a minimum, “the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services.”
Critics say this would prevent people from using prepaid phones without revealing their identities. Technology Safety Specialist Belle Torek of the National Network to End Domestic Violence told the FCC in a filing yesterday that “many of the behaviors and privacy-protective measures the Commission appears to view as suspicious are, for survivors, well-established and often life-preserving safety practices.”
A similar group, the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence, told the FCC today that “implementation of these rules would harm victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking and actually create more harm for survivors trying to flee often deadly, crisis situations.” It said that “many victims and survivors do not have reliable access to identifying documents” and “cannot disclose their location when fleeing a perpetrator or when participating in address confidentiality programs.”
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It didn’t seem to work for the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel.
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^ Certainly Grom. Islam spreads poorly by the book, and almost always by the sword. Even Judaism spreads better by the book; and it doesn't even try to.
[Fox] A team of University of Texas engineers developed the jacket as part of their broader invention, AirGel, a technology that uses hydrogel material and solar energy.
"Water scarcity threatens two-thirds of the global population, underscoring the urgent need for sustainable and accessible clean water solutions," the researchers wrote in a Science Advances report on their development of a field‑portable, solar‑powered, water-harvesting device.
Another rendition of Frank Herbert's stillsuit.
Be prepared to taste your own sweat.
Imagine a loaded APC.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The justices handed down a 7—2 decision in one of the most consequential decisions this year. They said that a federal law preempted state law that served as the basis for a verdict against Monsanto.
