[FOX] A former Chicago detective says the Windy City should look to a southern city where murders have plunged since the National Guard members moved in to find a way out of its crime crisis.
Homicides in Memphis, Tennessee, fell 43.7% during the first half of 2026 compared to the same period the prior year, according to data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association. President Donald Trump had signed an executive order in September 2025 authorizing the deployment of the National Guard, allowing troops to arrive in Memphis that fall.
On Monday night alone, nine people were shot across Chicago, including three who were killed. In one incident, two men were critically injured after gunfire rang out in the city's Near North Side neighborhood.
[FOX] A registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal history allegedly slaughtered the mother of his children and their four young kids inside their Kansas home, weeks after police had encounters with him over what the chief described as "erratic behavior."
Ronald H. Williams Sr., 53, allegedly killed Kelly L. George, 44, and their four children, Carol A. Williams, 9; Ronald H. Williams Jr., 7; Sarah K. Williams, 5; and Kelly M. Magee-Williams, 3, before making a chilling 911 call Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
Williams allegedly told the dispatcher that he had killed his entire family and was preparing to kill himself.
Officers happened to be working a traffic crash roughly two blocks away and raced to the Winfield home almost immediately, Police Chief Robbie DeLong said during a news conference.
As the first officer approached the house, a single gunshot rang out from inside.
With officers initially unable to determine what had happened inside, police backed away, established a perimeter and treated the home as a barricaded situation.
Nearly two hours later, officers breached the front door.
Inside, they discovered a devastating scene, with Williams, George and all four children dead from gunshot wounds.
Investigators also believe the final gunshot heard by the arriving officer was Williams taking his own life.
Tonya Asbury, who lives about a block away, told KWCH the killings left her wondering whether something could have been done before five lives were lost.
"I hate to say it, but somebody failed," Asbury said. "Somebody in this community failed that family. Failed him and that family."
Investigators have not publicly identified a motive for the killings.
The scene had a profound impact on the officers and investigators who responded, with peer-support teams and mental health professionals called in to help them process what they encountered. Too late for Williams
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"I hate to say it, but somebody failed,"
A registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal history.
There's your answer. Male individual should have spend his life in prison or 6 feet under long ago.
"Mercy for the guilty is punishment for the innocient"
[FOX] Nearly a dozen people tied to a decade-long marriage fraud network allegedly involving more than 1,000 sham unions face federal charges related to a scheme that charged Chinese nationals up to $100,000 to participate in fake marriages to U.S. citizens in an effort to secure green cards, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
A federal indictment unsealed in New York City names 11 defendants — all naturalized U.S. citizens from China and one green card holder — for their roles in the marriage and immigration fraud scheme.
They were charged with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, immigration document fraud and conspiracy to encourage the unlawful residence of aliens in the United States, the Justice Department said.
[ZERO] Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) executive Heidi Beirich was arrested in California on Wednesday under a superseding indictment in the Justice Department's ongoing case against the organization, according to a CNN report confirmed by federal officials.
Beirich, who directed the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project until 2019, faces three counts: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. She was expected to make an initial appearance in Riverside later Wednesday.
"I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies' names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described," Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters Wednesday. "This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this."
At the center of the allegations is an SPLC program that paid informants embedded in extremist organizations the nonprofit publicly monitored and campaigned against. Prosecutors allege Beirich helped oversee those payments and shared a bank account with one of the informants receiving them.
That informant, identified in charging documents as F-9, allegedly infiltrated the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Prosecutors further allege that Beirich was living with him and romantically involved with him while the payments were being made. Ewwwww. Have you seen her?
Reporting on the June superseding indictment said roughly $140,000 in donor funds moved from the SPLC's operating account into joint accounts held by Beirich and F-9 between 2015 and 2021. The organization is also alleged to have paid the informant more than $1 million since 2007.
Other payments under the same program allegedly went to separate recipients
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Well, of course she paid them $1.2 Million. Why else would they sleep with her? Ugh.
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Still not enough to have that in my head the rest of my life.
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A Christian Nationalist honey pot? Good luck Jabba the Slut.
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Coffee & Covid: The news was that the DOJ filed a superseding indictment expanding charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Director of Investigations Heidi Beirich, a crack, highly motivated woman who wasn’t afraid to get her, uh, hands dirty. Formally, Heidi’s title was Director of the Intelligence Project, which is totally normal for a 501c3 charity, and also fabulously ironic, given how things are turning out.
This newest indictment evoked disquieting comparisons with the Fani Willis catastrophe from Fulton County, where the lovelorn District Attorney showered taxpayer money and cheap luxuries on her ‘romantic partner’ Nathan Wade, a stomach-turning arrangement that duty required us to mock and lampoon for over a year during the Trump prosecutions (even though we didn’t want to, especially when we were forced against our will to compare Fani to a juvenile hippopotamus). No. It was just duty.
Director of Investigations Beirich invested donated funds into a particularly close investigation of a particular neo-nazi infiltrator, who was both ‘infiltrating’ an aryan group and, simultaneously, Director Beirich. His ‘penetrations’ was, by all accounts, thorough, consisting mostly of helping make the Klan bigger and more active, and once, of “borrowing” some of its records so Heidi could prove to donors what an imminent threat the group the SPLC had helped build was.
In 2010 the SPLC’s slanderous Hate Map counted about 221 Klan groups. By 2024 it counted only 14. Over the same stretch, the SPLC’s net assets swelled to $886.6 million, $30.7 million of it tucked away for safekeeping in the Caymans, which, again, is totally normal for a 501c3 charity.
Heidi investigated Mr. F-9, up close and personal. Above his “regular” compensation, she showered at least $140,000 more of donor money on him in a joint account in a series of unaccounted deposits that, charitably, we’ll call embezzlement. The DOJ identified her white supremacist boyfriend —the real victim here, let’s be honest— only as “F-9,” a code name that sounds like either a robot dog on an Adult Swim police procedural or possibly a rogue Cylon.
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This went on, apparently, from 2007 all the way to 2019. F-9 got more than $1.2 million during that time. More materially, and possibly more salacious, Heidi streamed clandestine financial support from SPLC to various hate groups, which was laundered through bank accounts in the names of made-up companies like the “Rare Books Warehouse.” I did not make that up.
The cut-out companies were used to funnel money to the Klan groups, such as by approving reimbursements for hate group members’ on-the-job expenses. The DOJ’s indictment described costs “incurred for cross-burning events, to include the wood and fuel used.”
Let’s be honest. Nothing says “working our informants” like paying for them to burn crosses.
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[Jpost] Antisemitism on US university campuses has increasingly moved beyond public protests and encampments to take root directly inside classrooms, curricula, and faculty networks, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report released Wednesday.
The ADL also announced the launch of a Campus Classroom Reporting mechanism, a confidential channel designed for students, staff, and faculty to report and seek support regarding classroom-based bias.
The report, titled "Antisemitism Among Faculty and in the Classroom: Trends, Patterns and Institutional Dynamics," said to have identified recurring patterns such as pro-terrorism narratives introduced into coursework, extra credit offered for attending anti-Israel rallies, and faculty singling out Jewish and Israeli students in class. History doesn't repeats, but it sure rhymes!
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Regardless ... in the end, whether you live or die ... normal people do not hand large sums of $$$$$ over to those who hate/ostracize/dehumanize them.
By about 2005 or so, then CEO Abe Foxman was getting slow and frequently disfunctional.
Jonathan Greenblatt, took over as CEO in 2015. He was a former Clinton worker bee and then an Obama appointee before that and in his first few years basically had ADL carry out Obama favored programs. He basically continued the leftist stuff (pro immigration, anti gun rights, pro welfare, pro trans, anti voting integrity) all the way through Trump's first adman and of course all the way through Biden's admin. He was heavily involved in Biden's "all Govt push to combat antisemitism" in early 2023 (one of the most unsuccessful efforts of all time).
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^If an 18-yr-old is bright enough to be admitted to, eg, Cornell ... then that 18-yr-old is unquestionably bright enough to succeed quite nicely without ever going near the antisemites tolerated on and off campus in Ithaca, NY.
Sjheesh! Do otherwise-intelligent people really fail to understand this?
Are we living through another chapter of EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS?
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#8 - Sometimes a Furriner should realize they don't know wtf they are talking about, Grom "the Reflective"
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No worries, Paco Paco. The Jewish kids and their parents are increasingly taking their unwanted selves to where they are appreciated. From last September:
But in every group there are some who move elsewhere and some who stand and fight for their right not to be locked out because of prejudice, the same right Jews and other groups fought so hard for a century ago, one of the rights that civil rights laws were passed at the federal and state level to ensure.
Don Vito Speaking for Boskone1523, according to half a century of psychological studies, the difference between expressing anti-Zionism and flaming antisemitism is precisely six months. Just so you understand that you aren’t fooling anyone about what kind of a hateful little idiot you are.
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[Regnum] A minimal magnetic storm is expected on Earth on August 12. Anton Reva, a senior researcher in the Space Plasma Physics Department at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute, spokewith Regnum News Agency.
Scientist Reva: A magnetic storm will hit Earth on August 12
"A magnetic storm is predicted on Earth for August 12th. Its intensity will be G1—the threshold for what we consider a magnetic storm. If the forecasts are correct, it will be a very, very weak storm," Reva explained.
The scientist added that the exact cause of the magnetic storm is still difficult to determine. A plasma plume from a coronal mass ejection is heading toward Earth, along with a solar wind stream—both factors could affect the planet's magnetosphere.
"It won't last long. Estimates suggest about four hours. It's most likely due to a coronal mass ejection, and the impact will be very weak," Reva concluded.
The last magnetic storm occurred on Earth on the evening of August 2. The disturbances, which were of moderate intensity, were caused by the approach of a plasma cloud ejected by a solar flare on July 30 toward the planet.
Earlier, Sergei Bogachev, head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, stated that magnetic storms will continue to occur regularly on Earth for at least the next two years. He added that the current solar activity cycle has already peaked, but during its decline, geomagnetic disturbances will continue to occur due to coronal holes on the Sun.
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[Regnum] Cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov shared footage of the solar eclipse from the International Space Station on August 12. The photographs were published by the Roscosmos press service.
The footage shows the Moon "biting off" a significant part of the Sun.
Earlier, Sergei Yazev, a leading researcher at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, named the best regions in Russia for observing the solar eclipse. According to him, residents of St. Petersburg, Murmansk, and other northern regions of Russia will see a near-total solar eclipse. He added that in Moscow, the phenomenon will only be partially visible, with the moon covering less than 1% of the solar disk.
The eclipse began at 8:03 PM Moscow time. Scientists reported that the shadow would fall on Earth near the Taimyr Peninsula, then move across the Arctic Ocean, through Greenland, and then out into the Atlantic Ocean and through Spain.
A partial lunar eclipse is expected on August 28. In the European part of Russia, it will occur at dawn, with a maximum phase of 0.94.
[GeorgiaRecord] An Atlanta-based surveillance contractor quietly pitched Georgia officials on a plan to convert 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles into a roaming license plate reader network feeding data directly to law enforcement — and Georgians would have had no idea it was happening.
Flock Safety, the license plate reader company headquartered in Atlanta, prepared a presentation for the Georgia Office of the Attorney General last August describing a partnership with Nexar, a dashcam company popular with rideshare drivers. According to the document — obtained through a Georgia public records request and first reported by 404 Media — the arrangement would have folded "350k Uber/Lyft and other delivery service devices" into Flock's existing statewide surveillance network. Flock says the partnership was never executed.
The AG was not interested? Good to know.
Flock's existing infrastructure consists of fixed cameras mounted on poles that photograph the license plate, make, model, and color of every passing vehicle and log the time and location in a searchable police database. The Nexar plan would have made that collection mobile — riding along in rideshare and delivery vehicles across neighborhoods, subdivisions, and rural routes that fixed cameras never reach. Passengers would not have been told their vehicle was collecting data for law enforcement. Drivers may not have known either.
The presentation was obtained by Jason Hunyar, a Dunwoody, Georgia resident, who provided it to reporters. That a Georgia company was pitching Georgia's Attorney General on a mass surveillance expansion — using Georgia roads and Georgia drivers — without any public debate or legislative oversight is a story that deserves scrutiny here.
The proposal also carries a national security dimension. In September 2025, a hacker breached Nexar and accessed terabytes of customer video, including footage recorded near Department of Defense installations. A distributed fleet of 350,000 always-recording cameras concentrated near military bases, ports, and defense facilities represents exactly the kind of collection surface a foreign intelligence service would find valuable — whether through a direct breach or a legal data purchase.
The Flock pitch fits a broader surveillance expansion that has drawn little public attention. SignalTrace, a sensor marketed to police by defense contractor Leonardo, detects Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID signals broadcast by phones, smartwatches, and other personal devices inside passing cars — then pairs those signatures with license plate camera data to build convoy and movement patterns. In plain terms: the system can identify who is in a vehicle based on the devices they carry, not just what vehicle they are driving.
The legal landscape is shifting. The Supreme Court's June 2026 ruling in Chatrie v. United States held that police obtaining bulk device location data via geofence warrants constitutes a Fourth Amendment search, and specifically noted that even short-term monitoring can expose political associations, family relationships, and personal activity. The court did not resolve whether passively collecting wireless signals — as SignalTrace does — would also require a warrant.
Flock has walked back other data efforts when scrutiny arrived. In 2025 it abandoned a tool that linked plates to individuals using leaked databases. In July 2026 it shut down a limited trial of audio "distress detection" microphones. Its gunshot-detection microphones remain on its poles. Each rollback came only after public exposure — not before.
Georgians should be asking their elected officials a direct question: what surveillance technology are companies pitching to state agencies right now, and who is reviewing it before it goes live?
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And for some reason the flock cameras that are around my neighborhood have not stopped the local crack house from being shut down in the 3 1/2 years that I have lived here!
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Flock cameras do little to stop crime. It is a private company that has instituted the largest mass surveillance ever run. Flock owns the data, it sells it to the agencies, it has the ability to track and gather data on US citizens against their will. It read plates, does facial recognition, hack into your phones and cars, from there it can track your every move. Now they are saying it will save hundreds of thousands of lives, just not true. Our FBI and CIA have proven they can not be trusted, this WILL get weaponized, one only has to look to Obama and Joe the plumber, Obama weaponized the IRS and destroyed a man for asking What will this do for me! The FBI and CIA were weaponized to try and take down a sitting president.
So here is how the FBI will control congress with these. The FBI goes after a congress critter, they track his every move, if he has a vice or is stepping out it will be easy to find. If he is clean they will go after his family, wife kids etc... Every family has something to hide. When they catch the wife stepping out of a gay kid, family member cheating or doing drugs, the blackmail is locked in. We know the FBI has blackmailed before, and will use tools like this to further their agenda. This is bad at every level and mark this note, it will be used against we the people and anyone who speaks out against the agenda. In my little town a cop was just busted for using it to track an ex. In Oklahoma they put them facing the front doors of gun stores with facial recognition. This is going to be a real problem.
The anti FLOCK crowd put cameras up outside the CEO's house and at the 3 factories. The FLOCK people called the cops and claimed it was violating their right to privacy... How rich.
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The anti FLOCK crowd put cameras up outside the CEO's house and at the 3 factories. The FLOCK people called the cops and claimed it was violating their right to privacy... How rich.
I like that. Thanks, Pan
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[Regnum] A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed in Texas, killing two pilots. The U.S. Army press service reported this on August 12.
"An AH-64 Apache attack helicopter stationed at Fort Hood crashed today in Salado, Texas," the release said.
Emergency services, military rescuers and law enforcement officials are working at the scene.
According to CNN, the incident occurred around 1:35 PM local time (9:35 PM Moscow time). The helicopter crashed into a field, causing a fire. Both pilots were killed.
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[Regnum] The exhumation of the remains of 81 Soviet soldiers has been completed in the Lithuanian city of Vievis. This was reported on August 12 by LRT, citing Mayor Gediminas Ratkevičius.
"I would like to inform you that this week, archaeological research was successfully completed at the Vievis Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery, during which archaeologists discovered the remains of 81 victims of World War II," journalists quoted the mayor as saying.
Ratkevičius added that the recovered remains will be prepared for transfer to specialists from the Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Anthropology of the Faculty of Medicine at Vilnius University for more detailed anthropological examination. Following the examination, the remains will be reburied at the Vievis Orthodox Cemetery.
Initially, Soviet soldiers were buried in the very center of the city, near the Church of St. Anne. Previously, a monument to Soviet soldiers stood there, along with an eternal flame.
In April, archaeologists in the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai excavated the remains of 26 Soviet soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War. Their bodies were buried near the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The bodies were then planned to be transferred to the cemetery in Ginukai, where a Soviet soldier's burial site is located. Jolanta Tubaitė, Lithuania's Chargé d'Affaires in Russia, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry due to the Lithuanian authorities' liquidation of the graves of Red Army soldiers and officers who liberated Šiauliai from the Nazis. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the Lithuanian authorities' decision cynical and barbaric.
On June 1, Tubaitė was also summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was presented with a strong protest regarding the Lithuanian authorities' barbaric plans to destroy the burial site of Soviet soldiers and officers who died fighting to liberate the republic from the Nazis in the town of Vievis. Tubaitė was once again informed that the destruction, damage, or desecration of military graves, including those located abroad, is a criminal offense under Russian law, and that Russia is fully aware of all those who made the relevant decisions and bears personal responsibility for them.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Chinese rocket exploded shortly after take-off as Beijing raced to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Dramatic footage shows the Long March 7A rocket bursting into flames just 85 seconds after blasting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan on Monday.
Videos shared on social media showed a fiery ball erupting in the sky before a cloud of grey smoke formed and debris appeared to fall towards the ground.
Singapore-based broadcaster Channel NewsAsia also shared footage of awestruck crowds watching the explosion.
'The rocket experienced an anomaly during the flight and the launch mission failed,' Xinhua said.
The launcher was completely destroyed, with authorities saying the cause of the failure is now under investigation.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacted to footage of the explosion on X, writing: 'Rockets are insanely hard.'
'I hope they have a speedy recovery,' he later added.
The failure comes as China pours billions of dollars into its rapidly expanding space programme in a bid to achieve what President Xi Jinping has called the country's 'space dream'.
[FOX] Ford is preparing to expand U.S. production of Lincoln vehicles as the automaker moves toward ending imports from China for American customers, a move Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick highlighted while discussing the Trump administration's push to expand domestic manufacturing.
Lutnick joined FOX Business' Larry Kudlow on "Kudlow" to discuss the Trump administration's auto tariffs and efforts to expand domestic manufacturing.
"They're bringing their manufacturing home," Lutnick said. "Ford is going to rock us with bringing manufacturing back to America."
Ford plans to expand U.S. production of Lincoln vehicles beginning in 2030 and eventually stop importing vehicles from China for the luxury brand’s American customers. The company expects the expansion to generate thousands of direct and indirect U.S. jobs, but has not disclosed how much it plans to invest or which plants will receive the additional production.
Lincoln’s U.S. lineup currently includes the China-built Nautilus. Ford has not said whether Nautilus production will move to the U.S. under the plan or identified which China-imported vehicles will be affected. Fewer giant SUV gas hogs few can afford, more missiles.
[DM] 'We are outraged,' New York Attorney General Letitia James said at a news conference Wednesday, where she warned ICE officers who misuse the gloves in her state could face criminal and civil consequences. Good enough for me
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Grom they will cry about the guns... or anything for that matter... either way. I'm just glad to see the gloves on the asstwats that want to try to go hands on with the officers.
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[Regnum] American companies have completed the first tests of interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense system. Bloomberg reported this on August 11.
According to the agency, the tests were conducted by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and other project participants. The developers verified the transmission of data from the detection systems to the interceptors and the operation of the spacecraft's engines.
The program's director, U.S. Space Force General Michael Getlein, told reporters that the companies are now moving on to the next stage, which will involve demonstrating the functionality of their technologies in space.
The Golden Dome is a proposed multi-layered missile defense system to protect the continental United States. It is designed to protect against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, as well as drones. According to various estimates, the cost of creating the system could range from $175 billion to $1.1 trillion.
US President Donald Trump said on January 20 that Greenland is critical to the deployment of the US National Missile Defense System.
Based on Israeli inventions, and no doubt full of American innovations because the continental U.S. is really big. Here’s hoping it passes every test with flying colours and then is never needed.
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Based on Israeli inventions, and no doubt full of American innovations because the continental U.S. is really big. Here’s hoping it passes every test with flying colours and then is never needed.
From your lips to God's ears, Ma'am. Trouble is that the most dangerous time for this sort of thing is just before it goes into service - if the Others conclude that it's as good as its PR, there's going to be a strong temptation to swing first, before it's operational.
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The program's director, U.S. Space Force General Michael Getlein, told reporters that the companies are now moving on to the next stage, which will involve demonstrating the functionality of their technologies in space.
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.
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