[DM] A man in North Carolina has been charged with assault after he was seen in shocking viral footage allegedly chasing and assaulting women through the streets of Charlotte.
Di-Quan Hunt, 32, was arrested on Thursday after footage showed him allegedly chasing down women and harassing them in the street, as well as punching and slapping a woman in one attack.
Hunt's arrest followed at least nine previous arrests in recent years, including assault with a deadly weapon, communicating threats, assault and violating domestic violence orders, WBTV reported.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Hunt was charged with assault on Thursday at around 7.30pm after multiple videos of assault and harassment, including an alleged assault reported on July 30.
The video saw a woman lying on the sidewalk as she was repeatedly punched nearly unconscious off East Boulevard in Charlotte.
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Time to change the laws and make executions easier. This essay makes the case that executing ~1% of the population made old Europe into a modern society:
[FoxNews] Jesse Mack Butler completed a youthful offender plan, and double jeopardy now bars further state prosecution
An Oklahoma teenager accused of sexually assaulting and strangling two high school girls saw his criminal case dismissed after completing a youthful offender rehabilitation plan, all without serving a prison sentence, court records show.
Jesse Mack Butler was 17 when he was charged as an adult in Payne County in March 2025 with 10 felony counts tied to alleged attacks on two girls he had dated.
The charges included two counts of attempted first-degree rape, three counts of rape by instrumentation, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, two counts of domestic assault and battery by strangulation and one count of domestic assault and battery.
Prosecutors later added an 11th count alleging that Butler violated a protective order.
Master Butler faced nearly 80 years behind bars had he been sentenced as an adult. His father is a former football director at Oklahoma State University, which may have something to do with it.
Butler’s attorneys asked that he be certified as a youthful offender or, alternatively, treated as a juvenile. The court denied the juvenile request but approved youthful offender status after prosecutors and the defense reached an agreement.
On Aug. 25, 2025, Butler pleaded no contest to all 11 counts. The judge found that he entered the pleas knowingly and voluntarily and that there was a factual basis for them, according to the court docket reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The court pronounced sentences of up to 10 years on several counts but placed Butler under the supervision of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs instead of sending him to prison.
The sentence hung over him while he completed a court-approved rehabilitation plan. Review hearing records from December 2025 and April 2026 said Butler remained in compliance with his rehabilitation plan.
At his final review hearing on Aug. 3, prosecutors announced they would not seek to transfer him into the custody or supervision of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
The court’s jurisdiction expired when Butler turned 19 at midnight on Aug. 4, causing the case to be dismissed by operation of law.
The final hearing turned contentious when defense attorney Derek Chance suggested Butler was innocent and was victimized by the case, according to newly elected Payne and Logan County District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory.
"Today’s hearing included disingenuous assertions from the defense regarding the defendant’s innocence, that he was the victim in this matter and that the victim’s assertions were false and had no bearing. The defense portrayed that somehow the perpetrator suffered more than these victims. What was said was insincere, untruthful and an affront to these victims and what they have endured," Gregory said in a statement.
"Nothing has made my blood boil more."
Gregory said Oklahoma cannot prosecute Butler again because of constitutional protections against double jeopardy.
He announced that his office would instead refer the matter to the appropriate federal agency for prosecutorial review.
"I cannot undo what has already been done," Gregory said, "but I can — and will — continue to stand as a strong voice for all victims of violent crime."
I see you attended Univ Mich.
Please send this legal wavier or apply your thumbprint acknowledging we will be asking some stressful questions during this job interview process, for the Facility Sanitation & Maintenance (janitor) role?
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This part took me by surprise. MIT does this too since 1968. From the article:
"The program was also adopted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968 and has since been implemented at the California Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College and Wellesley College.
MIT claimed that the grading system 'is designed to ease your transition to MIT by giving you time to adjust to factors like increased workloads and variations in academic preparation and teaching methods,' the university's registrar's office said."
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Parents really failed these generations, pussies, all of them!
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Student enrollment is dropping. The beast needs more indentured fools to keep the student loan money flowing. Academia exploiting the 'lower' class. Tell me again about the oppressor and the oppressed.
Given that these same institutions are the ones turning out the teachers and education administrators, you think they would reexamine their own product that delivers less qualified applicants to their doors.
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We started home schooling back in 1991 when the public schools around Ft. Bragg started spending more on Metal detectors than books and having "Cultural Theme Weeks and Days" .
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@#3 those are private schools, big difference. This is a state school. The problem here is they dont care. They bitch and go shopping. If the public, the adult students from MI attending and all the parents paying, would get together and figure out a way to pressure the school, and other things, this would stop. But, as in so many ways, fat, lazy content Americans don’t care and/or the enemy is better aligned to smother it. The Adversary knows it and uses our own political, economic and social system against us. Instead of a broken windows response en masse by a group that cares everytime people sit at home and rollplay a civil war they don’t truly want to see. Like that would fix anything. The Kids of boomers are the last line. If they don’t get active. Bye bye. All you need is 3 generations and you have a reset.
[City Journal] Rats have been with us since the beginning. For thousands of years, wherever humans settled land, built cities, or crossed oceans, rats were never far behind, constructing a civilization of their own beneath our feet.
In Los Angeles County (L.A.), rats abound. You may see only an occasional rat dart across an alley or root through a restaurant dumpster, but make no mistake: they are everywhere, from Skid Row to Koreatown, from Boyle Heights to Santa Monica. They are always nearby, even if sometimes out of sight: scurrying in storm drains, walls, crawl spaces, and alleyways.
Rats, and the fleas that live on them, can be carriers of deadly diseases—including, most notably, the plague, which, in bubonic form, killed tens of millions of people and laid waste to cities in the Middle Ages. In L.A., however, the main concern is a different medieval disease: typhus.
Since 2009, the number of flea-borne typhus cases in L.A. has increased by a staggering 2,300 percent. Last year, the county recorded more cases than at any point in its history. Some patients have died. Behind the scenes, the authorities responsible for protecting the public admit that they lack the resources they need to get the situation under control.
The rats, meantime, spread disease in predictable ways. They feed on trash, fleas feed on those rats, and the infected fleas bite people, who in turn suffer anything from a mild illness treatable with antibiotics to a sickness that ends in death.
This City Journal investigation—based on interviews with leading rodent experts, on-the-ground reporting, and a review of hundreds of pages of documents obtained via public-records requests—reveals that Los Angeles County has allowed a disease once associated with the Middle Ages to terrorize a major metropolis.
In L.A., crumbling infrastructure, a homelessness crisis, garbage-ridden streets, ineffective rodent control, and state restrictions on popular rodenticides have combined to enable the spread of a medieval disease. Whether you see them or merely pass by as they furrow in the dark, one thing is clear: in Los Angeles, the rats are everywhere.
In 2018, it was clear that L.A. had a serious problem. For much of the early 2000s, the county recorded just a handful of flea-borne typhus cases each year; in 2009, for example, it saw just nine. But in 2018, L.A. battled multiple localized typhus outbreaks, marking a watershed moment for public health officials in the county.
The outbreaks started in the summer. Between July and September, the county identified nine typhus cases linked to downtown. All of them required hospitalization, and six of the nine sufferers had either been homeless or lived in transitional housing. In October, public health officials noted an additional outbreak in the Willowbrook neighborhood, near Compton. By year’s end, L.A. had seen 109 cases of typhus countywide—a record high.
The concern wasn’t just that cases were on the rise, but also where they were being discovered. In the past, the county might have seen occasional, geographically dispersed infections. Now, it was dealing with multiple clusters in dense, urban environments. A document we obtained via public-records requests shows that officials believed "rats and rat fleas" were "contributing to infection" in the county’s cities.
The situation that year was so bad that the city government couldn’t even keep its own employees safe. At the time, Elizabeth Greenwood was a deputy city attorney. One day at work, Greenwood said her shin began to hurt. When she inspected her leg, she noticed some small insect bites but thought nothing of it. Within weeks, Greenwood was reportedly "gravely ill" and suffering from a severe headache, dizziness so bad she couldn’t walk to the restroom unattended, and a 102-degree fever. "It felt like somebody was driving railroad stakes through my eyes and out the back of my neck," Greenwood said.
Eventually, Greenwood would be diagnosed with typhus. She blamed the city for her contracting the disease, claiming that its failure to clean up garbage and human feces outside City Hall East had "recklessly endanger[ed] the public." After Greenwood went public with her story, Los Angeles officials admitted that City Hall was infested with vermin. "The rotting trash and the raw sewage is the soup that grows typhus," Greenwood said.
Documents we obtained via a public-records request show that Greenwood wasn’t the only municipal employee complaining about rats around that time. In 2020, Raul Cabrera, the LAFD captain for Station 6, wrote an email to a city employee complaining that his fire station was being overrun by rats from a homeless encampment.
"This encampment, which I believe you are aware of, is located on both the city and county side," Cabrera wrote. "The Fire Station is being overrun by rats coming from the encampment directly across the street. We were hoping not only for regularly scheduled clean up but also a more permanent solution... I would like to be proactive in this situation before the rats make a permanent home in the Fire Station or one of our City family members gets sick."
The records we obtained make clear that by 2019, local officials had a good idea of what steps needed to be taken to get the rat population under control: more garbage cans, cleaner streets, and flea control. But in the years that followed, the situation apparently went from bad to worse. L.A.’s battle with typhus—a disease often associated with cramped and unsanitary living conditions—continued to spiral out of control.
In 2022, L.A. suffered more typhus outbreaks, marking another turning point in the county’s fight against the disease. That year, L.A. saw 171 cases of flea-borne typhus and noted that its five-year average for typhus cases had doubled. The county also battled multiple simultaneous outbreaks in neighborhoods including Boyle Heights, Eagle Rock, and Glassell Park, and suffered three typhus deaths—the first documented fatalities in decades.
By 2024, L.A. would see another record high for flea-borne typhus cases: 187. In 2025, that record was broken again, with 220 cases; the county also investigated three localized outbreaks. Local public-health officials noted that some 90 percent of typhus patients required hospitalization last year.
The city’s rat problem has worsened. In 2025, the pest control company Orkin released its annual list of the most rat-infested major cities in America. That year marked the first time since the list’s inception, more than a decade earlier, that any city other than Chicago had taken the top spot. This time, Orkin named a new location as America’s rattiest city: Los Angeles.
Shannon Sked, national technical director at Orkin, believes not only that Los Angeles’s rat population has increased in the aftermath of the pandemic but also that its rats have become more aggressive.
"The most aggressive were surviving through that time," Sked said. "Restaurants were closed, the food availability was changing. So those that were most willing to go out and search, they were the ones that survived. And that actually created a trend where we’re now seeing more presence, not just in total numbers, but observations where [the rats are] actually more willing to come out and interact in ways that 10 years ago we didn’t see that much."
Today, Los Angeles has all the necessary conditions that allow a rat population to thrive. On a recent reporting trip to the city, we saw those conditions up close. In Skid Row, for example, we spoke with several homeless people who told us that seeing large and aggressive rats in the area is a common occurrence.
"Some of them are gangster, too," one man said.
Another told us that he’d seen a rat eating through the bandage of an injured man while he was asleep. "The rat chewed off the bandage he had, and literally the flesh off him, eating the dead flesh off his arm," he said.
In Koreatown, we found a large rat burrow under a sidewalk near a homeless encampment. At dusk, a horde of rats could be seen scurrying among the trash littered on the sidewalk, feasting on leftover food.
A few blocks away, during an interview with Niamh Quinn, the human-wildlife interactions advisor for the University of California’s agriculture and natural resources division, we came across an entire city block where the sidewalk was covered in open, unbagged trash. "What this is, is a lot of harborage," Quinn said. "This is a lot of places for rats to hide, so this is not good."
Shortly after, a municipal bus driver stopped in the road and opened the door to her vehicle. The driver told us that she has submitted several complaints to the city to have that sidewalk cleaned up—to no avail. Quinn said that in situations like Los Angeles’s, where the city fails to provide basic services effectively, it becomes almost impossible for citizens to keep themselves and their homes protected via private pest control.
"If you look where we are right now, [all these buildings] might have private pest control," Quinn said. "But then there is literally no management here. There is no management of the landscaping, there is no management of the rodents, and there is no management of the trash. Municipal management would help fill in these holes. You wouldn’t have all of these gaps that are potential reservoirs of rodents that are invading into all of these other spaces that are managed."
In other words, in Los Angeles, in 2026, thinking that private pest control can keep you safe from rats is a bit like thinking you can bail water out of a sinking ship faster than it pours in through multiple holes.
This year, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health provided an update—obtained via public-records request—on its typhus-surveillance efforts. In the presentation, public health officials admit that the "increasing volume of cases is quickly exceeding capacity to investigate and respond," and note that the department receives "no funding specifically for flea-borne typhus related activities."
To make matters worse, more and more tools are being removed from the pest-control toolbox. In 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed A.B. 1788 into law, sharply restricting the use of potent anticoagulant rat poisons in hopes of protecting "mountain lions and other wildlife." Four years later, Newsom signed A.B. 2552, further expanding those restrictions.
Sked argues that those changes have made urban rat control significantly more difficult—including in L.A., where the problem may be worse than ever.
"The problem isn’t that there’s regulation," Sked said. "The problem is that, in my opinion, the regulation is a bit knee-jerk, and instead of regulating it in a way that we can actually mitigate risks, we’re actually regulating out of existence and losing the tool altogether."
The rats, meantime, appear to be proliferating.
In March, Walker King, deputy district director for Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman, wrote to city officials to complain about "a large amount of rats at an abandoned building in the hills," according to internal correspondence obtained through a public-records request. King’s email says Raman’s office had already spoken to a public inspector about the issue, but that the inspector was "noncommittal."
Then, in June, a fire tore through a massive warehouse in Boyle Heights, destroying refrigeration for roughly 85 million pounds of frozen food. In the days that followed, Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency. Residents complained of the overwhelming stench of rotting meat and an army of "giant rats" descending on the warehouse.
Last week, L.A. announced yet another flea-borne typhus outbreak, this time in the Pico-Union neighborhood, where five people have been hospitalized so far this year.
We reached out to Governor Newsom’s office, Mayor Bass’s office, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health for comment. Newsom’s office did not offer a responsive comment. The mayor’s office asked if we had reached out to the county, and the county public-health department pointed us to their July press release.
Individually, each of these incidents might be dismissed as an isolated failure. But taken together, they paint a different picture. A county struggles to keep its streets clean, to keep garbage from piling up, to bring homelessness under control, to contain its growing rat problem, and to prevent medieval diseases from infecting its citizens—all in a state more interested in "mountain lions and other wildlife" than the health of its own people. At a certain point, like the rats that torment Angelenos, the pattern becomes too overwhelming to ignore.
Bubonic plague is an infection spread mostly to humans by infected fleas that travel on rodents. Called the Black Death, it killed millions of Europeans during the Middle Ages. Prevention involves reducing your exposure to mice, rats, squirrels and other animals that may be infected.
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#3 no real cure. They treat the symptoms which allows the victim time to slowly recover, IF it is caught soon enough. The four corner states usually have medical personal that can id it as soon as someone comes in. Still, there are 6 to 12 deaths a year.
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According to the link at #4, antibiotics are used to treat and cure the disease but, for the best outcome, treatment should begin within 24 hours of the development of symptoms.
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[FOX] Retired Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara found himself back in crisis mode Thursday, not on the streets of Mill City, but 35,000 feet in the air, when what should have been a routine United Airlines flight suddenly turned chaotic.
O'Hara told Fox News Digital he watched flight attendants spend nearly 45 minutes trying to de-escalate an increasingly belligerent passenger, prompting him and two off-duty Bergen County, New Jersey, sheriff's deputies to intervene.
The retired police chief, who was traveling with his wife aboard United Flight 1364 from Newark to Fort Lauderdale, said the passenger repeatedly berated flight attendants, tried to get out of his seat and behaved erratically as crew members worked to keep the situation under control.
"About like for the last 45 minutes of the flight... all the flight attendants came over, and they were incredible," O'Hara told Fox News Digital. "Incredibly professional, just trying to talk to this guy to de-escalate things."
According to O'Hara, the passenger became increasingly agitated after flight attendants refused to serve him more alcohol, a detail O'Hara said he later learned from the Broward Sheriff's Office after the arrest. The man reportedly continued shouting profanities and making threatening remarks before the encounter turned physical.
"It was infuriating to hear a man speak to these women who were just incredibly professional and trying to keep everybody safe that way for so long," O'Hara said. "And, finally, he just kind of got up and lunged towards them."
That's when two passengers seated near the back of the aircraft grabbed the man from behind as O'Hara rushed forward from his seat.
Unnamed passenger
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[Regnum] The water level in the Rhine River has dropped to a historic low of 19 cm. This was reported on August 7 by Baird, citing the German Inland Waterway Agency.
According to him, the Rhine's water level dropped to a record low on August 5. In narrow places, the river's water level dropped to 19 cm. ~7.5"
"Currently, operational vessels can only carry approximately 20 percent of the tonnage normally possible. Actual capacity varies depending on local water levels along the Rhine," German inland waterway company HGK Shipping reportedly stated.
The organization emphasized that the situation is extremely dire. Some tugboat convoys, known as chained convoys, are no longer able to navigate the southern part of the river.
London Centric previously noted that July 2026 was the first rainless calendar month in London since records began in 1871. The Met Office reported that it sees no signs of heavy or prolonged rainfall in areas of the British capital in the coming weeks.
Previously, a climatologist identified the cause of this summer's abnormally hot weather in Europe. Previously, an oceanic anticyclone dominated Western Europe, but now subtropical desert anticyclones are more often dominant. Currently, the desert regions of the Middle East are heating up even more than the northern Sahara
That’s because both the Sahara and the Sahel are greening, thanks to slightly higher carbon dioxide levels. Greener is cooler, as the plants shade their roots and the ground around them. Europe, on the other hand, has reduced air particulates through their antipollution drive, and in certain regions has been losing tree cover due to disease. And now a new factor weighing on the scales — perhaps they should consult Israel’s agronomists, some of whom specialize in making the desert bloom, so they should have helpful ideas for hot-climate gardening…
For this reason, the current heat waves are proving particularly intense.
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That's serious for Europeans, meaning the costs of some goods will go up significantly. Having lived within rock-throwing distance from the Rhine, I've seen it flood and also low-water levels. There's a TREMENDOUS amount of commerce on the river and its subsidiaries. Losing that commerce, which both low water levels and flooding cause, HURTS. With so much stupidity going on in Germany, it's going to hurt even more. Just one more stress factor on the political fabric.
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Anything to do with all the fires the Africans are setting?
[ShabelleMedia] Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... ’s security forces on Thursday took full control of the headquarters and facilities previously occupied by an gang formerly known as the Puntland Security Force (PSF), authorities said.
The Puntland Defense Forces said the base is now under the full control of the regional government, with security and administrative authority restored.
The takeover followed a planned security operation in the central town of Galkayo a day earlier, targeting gangs accused by Puntland authorities of threatening security, stability and public order in the region.
During the Galkayo operation, Puntland forces arrested 101 suspects and detained 60 injured individuals, while also seizing weapons, ammunition, vehicles and military equipment, including police uniforms, handcuffs, police boots and other supplies. Authorities said some of the seized items were part of equipment donated by the Chinese government to the Somali Police Force.
Puntland’s Defense Forces said the operations were being carried out in accordance with the constitution and national laws, with the aim of protecting civilians, strengthening state institutions and upholding the rule of law.
The forces called on gangs and individuals still operating in different areas to surrender to Puntland authorities and return to the legal system, while warning that anyone providing shelter, support or assistance to runaways would face legal action.
Puntland authorities have urged residents to cooperate with security agencies and report information related to security threats through the emergency number 999, promising confidentiality and protection for informants.
[GaroweOnline] Security operations carried out in recent days in Gaalkacyo and Bosaso appear to have brought to an end a period in which armed units operating inside Puntland were not directly under the command of the Puntland security forces.
The issue did not begin this week. In July, the Puntland Government accused Somalia’s Federal Government of organizing and supporting armed groups inside Puntland, saying the objective was to weaken the region’s security and administrative authority.
Somalia’s term-expired Federal Government, as has often been the case, has not commented on the latest developments in Gaalkacyo and Bosaso.
Sources say the alleged plan was not limited to the incidents in Gaalkacyo and Bosaso. They said Villa Somalia intended to trigger armed confrontations and security instability across different regions of Puntland, particularly in the capital, Garowe, where forces that had previously been part of the Puntland Defence Forces had, in recent months, joined a Villa Somalia-backed military recruitment program.
However, the situation in Garowe did not escalate into fighting. The Puntland Government and members of the local community played a major role in negotiations that contained the tensions, allowing the matter to be managed through dialogue and preventing an armed confrontation in the capital.
Taken together, the developments in Gaalkacyo, Bosaso and Garowe indicate that Puntland succeeded in closing the door on what it described as a Villa Somalia plan to establish or support armed forces inside Puntland that were not under the command of Puntland’s security institutions and that could have caused instability and armed conflict.
The tensions became public during the July 1 commemorations, when senior Federal Government leaders openly discussed plans to recruit federal troops in Puntland.
Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said the Federal Government planned to recruit 30,000 soldiers from Puntland, directing his remarks at Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni.
“We will recruit 30,000 soldiers from Puntland. I represent them,” Hamza said, according to media reports. “Whether you like it or become angry enough to explode, that is the reality.”
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud later defended the recruitment of federal forces in Puntland, saying the soldiers were part of the Somali National Army and did not pose a threat to Puntland.
The remarks came as President Deni said Puntland would not accept interference in its security affairs, arguing that the region has its own security forces and institutions responsible for protecting its territory.
GAALKACYO: PUNTLAND ENDS MILITARY CAMPS THROUGH FORCE
On August 5, Puntland forces attacked and seized a military camp in northern Gaalkacyo that had been occupied by personnel formerly known as the PSF, but who had in recent months developed close relations with the Federal Government of Somalia.
Heavy weapons were used during the fighting, which caused casualties and injuries.
According to a Puntland government statement, 101 people were detained during the operation, while 60 wounded individuals were also taken into custody. The forces seized weapons, ammunition, vehicles and other military equipment.
Puntland also said the captured material included police equipment and some items donated by the Chinese government to the Somali Police Force.
BOSASO: FORMER PSF COMPOUND FALLS UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL
Less than 24 hours after the Gaalkacyo operation, the focus shifted to Bosaso.
On August 6, the Puntland Defence Forces took control of a compound occupied by personnel formerly known as the PSF, but who had more recently been associated with the Federal Government of Somalia.
The development carried political and security significance beyond the seizure of a single building.
Bosaso is Puntland’s largest commercial centre, and its port is of major economic and strategic importance. The presence of an armed compound operating under a disputed chain of command had long affected government authority and the wider security structure in the city.
By taking control of the contested compounds in both Gaalkacyo and Bosaso, Puntland significantly reduced the ability of armed groups outside its command structure to operate from some of the region’s most strategically important cities.
Both nonfarm payroll employment (-23,000) and the unemployment rate (4.1 percent) changed little in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment declined in local government education and retail trade. Employment continued to trend up in health care.
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little change in work week,
little change in hourly cost
total employment in June revised downward 60k or so
Wall Street liked the report because it puts off a rate increase
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If you entered the USA illegally NO !
Criminals shall not prosper from their crimes
If you are here on a short term temporary situation. NO!
eg. Birth vacations
If your FAMILY has not established long term roots (Full time job, Housing and NOT using Gov assistance) and do not have a valid US Resident Immigrant Green card. NO!
Simply Stated - Birth Right has out lived its viability.
We no long have literally millions of acres of vacant lands, and jobs that need attending, like we had 140+ years ago.
[Rooters] U.S. Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly confirmed Todd Blanche to be President Donald Trump's attorney general, capping one of the most contentious cabinet fights of Trump's second term after bipartisan concerns over Blanche's independence nearly derailed the nomination.
Blanche won confirmation in a 50-49 vote, with Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski opposing him.
The usual suspects…
Senator Bill Cassidy was the deciding vote after announcing Friday he thought Blanche was the best option Trump would put forward.
The vote was the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Senate Republicans and the Trump administration over Blanche, who has served as acting attorney general since April and previously ran day-to-day Justice Department operations as its second-ranking official.
Republican senators had raised concerns about Blanche's handling of the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, as well as his role in establishing Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund and a related tax-immunity agreement for Trump and his sons.
But Blanche overcame those challenges in frantic meetings around Capitol Hill over the last several weeks, ultimately agreeing in writing to narrow the tax-immunity agreement and end the "weaponization" payments, which critics have called a slush fund for Trump's allies, including those who rioted at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Both the tax-immunity agreement, which barred the IRS from auditing previous tax returns of Trump, his sons and their family business, and the fund emerged from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.
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NY Post - Vote was 50-49 with two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), voting with all Democrats against his confirmation.
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Kinda makes me wonder why it's so important to re-elect Susan Collins in Maine. As bad as the Democrat candidate might be, how could he/she be any worse than Collins?
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Collins' vote against the SAVE Act was the tripping point for me. She not RINO, she's Democrat AFAIC.
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We'll probably find out soon enough, Collins is trailing her opponent, by more than 10 points if the polls are to be believed. However, I haven't seen (not that I looked hard) any polls since the news earlier in the week that the Democrat fathered two children with a second cousin.
And Collins vote some of the time, is better than none of the time that we'll see from the Democrat
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She’s an old fashioned, country club Republican, not much different than the old fashioned Democrats. At least she is another body toward Republican control of the Senate, while the Democrat is another far left pervert.
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If she's so old-fashioned, she should have voted for old-fashioned paper ballots and in-person only voting at designated polling stations.
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Because if Democrats are allowed to rig elections with mail-in ballots and computerized voting machines, we'll never be able to elect any more Republicans.
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@6 she's trying to get re-elected and voting against what Maine voters don't seem to want, certainly won't help us keep that seat.
[FoxNews] Sounds like fun!
The U.S. Army is opening up military test ranges to private defense companies and promising "concierge" access aimed at dramatically cutting the time it takes companies to test new weapons and technologies.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters in a call on Friday that companies will be able to secure testing opportunities within 30 days of submitting a request, compared with a typical wait of roughly 18 months.
"We just had to get out of our own way," Driscoll said. "And so the 30-day clock starts today. So if somebody goes to testrange.army.mil, submits it in the next hour, we will have you on a range within 30 days."
The move is part of a broader Army effort to speed up the development and delivery of technologies including drones, counter-drone systems, long-range fires and low-cost interceptors.
"If you look at what is occurring all over the world today, if you look what Ukraine has done so incredibly well, it's this innovation through necessity and it's innovation at the speed that is near or close to matching the commercial sector," Driscoll said. "And so what we, the Army, are trying to do is break down every single barrier that we have put up over the last 20 and 30 years."
The Army is opening four stateside locations to industry: Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, West Cibola Range at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in Mississippi and Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center in Michigan.
[FOX] SpaceX announced this week that its planned semiconductor plant that is expected to become the largest building in the world at more than 100 million square feet will be built in Grimes, Texas, outside of Houston.
"Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far," owner Elon Musk wrote X Thursday. "And it will be stunningly beautiful."
The factory is a joint effort with Musk’s electric car company, Tesla.
"This facility will house the manufacturing, packaging and testing of advanced logic and memory devices," SpaceX said in a press release Thursday. "Terafab will produce chips optimized for edge computing and inference for use in hardware like Tesla’s Optimus robots and self-driving Cybercabs, along with high-power chips designed for operating SpaceX’s space-based data centers."
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Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas “Terafab will be epic in both its mission and in its sheer size, designed to build new compute at an unprecedented scale and speed. A vertically integrated factory with more than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space is planned. This facility will house the manufacturing, packaging, and testing of advanced logic and memory devices,” SpaceX writes on its website.
“Bringing these aspects together in one location will enable fast, recursive improvements and accelerate new compute deployed. Terafab will produce chips optimized for edge computing and inference for use in hardware like Tesla’s Optimus robots and self-driving Cybercabs, along with high-power chips designed for operating SpaceX’s space-based data centers,” the company wrote.
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Grimes, Texas? Hmmmm? Grimes is the stage name of Claire Elise Boucher, a Canadian musician born March 17, 1988. She dated Elon Musk as a partner from 2018 to 2022, and they have three children together.
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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.
