"MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. — Three people are dead and 19 are hospitalized after reportedly being exposed to a substance at home Wednesday in Mountainair.
Paramedics and sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Hanlon Avenue and Pinon Street, regarding a call made around 8 a.m. about a possible overdose on an unknown substance.
First responders found one person dead outside of the home, one dead inside and two other people who needed resuscitation. One of those two people later died.
The other person is being “quarantined, evaluated and monitored” at University of New Mexico Hospital [UNMH], along with 18 first responders. The first responders reported reactive symptoms, including nausea, vomiting and headache, including two who are now in serious condition at UNMH.
A UNMH spokesperson confirmed they admitted “several patients” just after 10 a.m. for “decontamination and treatment” after being exposed to “an unknown substance in Torrance County.”
Albuquerque Fire Rescue HazMat teams are assisting at the scene with identifying the substance. Investigators believe it may have been transmitted through contact and wasn’t airborne.
State Police took over the investigation from the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office. They stated investigators secured the affected area to where there is no danger to the community.
“We ask the public to avoid the area and keep all affected individuals and first responders in their thoughts,” State Police stated.
"Four men are in jail, charged with the murder of a man police say was allegedly lured outside the Frontier Restaurant by a 20-year-old woman whose whereabouts were not known -- until now, an Albuquerque Police Department news release said.
Houston police executed APD's homicide warrant on Tuesday, arresting Zakiya Umstead, where she lives.
Police say Umstead struck up a conversation in the restaurant with Eden Rock around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13, and walked outside with him down an alley about 40 minutes later, the release said.
Police say Tenard Weekly, Evan Rogers, Junior Lewis, and Jaylen Hopewell were seen on surveillance video getting out of a gray Jeep Cherokee and hiding behind a dumpster. When Umstead led Rock by, the men allegedly attacked Rock and knocked him down. While Weekly fired two fatal gunshots at Rock, Umstead is seen on the video simply walking away.
APD officers came to the scene and arrested the four men. Rock was taken to the hospital, where he died from being shot.
APD detectives said the attack was planned, and that Rock was allegedly lured to the alleyway by Umstead where the suspects were waiting. According to witnesses, Weekly and Rock had been feuding all day long, the release said.
Umstead is charged with an open count of murder, conspiracy, and tampering with evidence and will be returned to Albuquerque."
Is anybody else noticing the change in the public persona of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani? During the campaign, he was all smiles. Mr Happy Political Candidate, thrilled and enthusiastic and - always - smiling that nice smile, with delighted scrunched-up eyes. But now, as he walks up to the camera to tap the lens for attention before announcing his Eat The Rich program. Now his smile is a little different. Eyes open, teeth looking a little.... predatory. And today, seated in front of a forest of microphones, he looks decidedly serious. Brooding even. He's got that look the Imams get, when it's time for a jihad reminder. NYC is getting their lesson.
SpaceX Fires Starting Gun on Its Blockbuster IPO ~ WSJ
This is a manipulation of passive index funds. They don't care about fundamentals.
The huge market capitalization will mean that Space X will be over 2.5% of the total S&P 500. So index funds will be obligated to buy.
Passive Index funds hold roughly 25% of all equity in the S&P 500. So logically they will be attempting to buy 25% of the shares.
However, only 4% of shares are "available" and out of that we know a significant chunk are being bought by hedge funds.
Overall this means demand from passive index funds alone will buoy it up.
This will allow the price to settle before the current shareholders begin to offload to the indexes.
4% float is designed ensure scarcity, an iceberg with uncertain mass below the surface. It also ensures that insiders retain dominant control of the business and can easily force public investors out again if they wish. Potentially at a lower price point, should that materialize.
It would be great to see an article analyzing this in detail.
Speaking of the Jewish vote, it's generally accepted, and the number you'll find on an internet search, that 70% of the USA Jewish population are registered Democrats. Aside from teh satiric Babylon Bee article- there are hundreds of posts on X blaming Jews for the most conservative Republicans winning primaries- when 70% of Jews cannot vote in closed primaries. And 30% of Jews are not enough to tip an election almost anywhere. The most Republican Jewish sect are the Hasidim, and you're not going to find many of those outside NY.
The real question is: Why do Jews continually vote for the anti-Semitic Democrat party of today? Complete mystery to me.
And a quote from the Democrat Jewish COuncil of America: "There are many exit polls that demonstrate high percentages of Jewish voters supporting Kamala Harris – this CNN/Edison exit poll indicates that 78 percent of Jewish voters supported Kamala Harris, while 22 percent supported Donald Trump. According to this poll, 88 percent of Jewish women and 71 percent of Jewish men supported Kamala Harris over Trump."
What about grief? By which I mean, the debilitating and distressing sense of irreparable loss that one feels when one has, in fact, suffered an irreparable loss. But what about the "debilitating" part? Specifically, in the context of the theory of evolution. One can see, for example, that the ability to experience physical pain is adaptive. Having that ability often prevents you from damaging your body. You pick up something hot, you drop it. 'Cuz it hurts! Which keeps you from getting burned worse than you already have been. But does grief work that way? Your beloved spouse dies, and you feel miserable. How is that adaptive?
And meanwhile, Marco is making his pre-campaign Presidential moves. Speaking in Spanish to the Cuban people, the SOS lays out how their plight is not a consequence of any US embargo of petroleum, rather it's the natural outcome of the end of an era of a plundering communist regime, even giving the amounts, in the billions, plundered. Looking awfully competent there, another in his globe-trotting portfolio of shouldered responsibilities. Hmmmm. Who will he endorse in the midterms?
@MadTownGuy: Mountain Air, NM: "...fire audio, call started as 60 male not breathing, then discovered 3 down patients. End thought they smelled gas and requested breathing apparatus, but they started CPR without the apparatus then everyone started to go down. They requested Narcan and life flight helicopters.. on the way to the hospital. They were running out of oxygen and was trying to get resupply from a neighbor county...Sounds like that super fentanyl that’s supposedly floating around....."
"Why do Jews continually vote for the anti-Semitic Democrat party of today?"
They are JINOs. Orthodox Jews (not just the Hasidim) are 75% Republican, but they are only around 10% of Jews. The non-orthodox but actively involved, maybe another 20%, also lean more Republican than the completely non-practicing. But the latter are the majority. Their Jewishness plays zero role in how they vote. They tend to live in big urban areas near the coasts and vote like their neighbors.
Thank you Lem Vibe Bandit Christopher Heiens is excellent. He has an X account under his name and a history podcast that ran 14 episodes: King of Kings - Persia after Alexander the Great. It covers 1,000 years of Persian history, from the death of Alexander the Great through the Islamic Conquest of Persia in the 7th century AD He has 2 videos on Youtube, including the one you linked to. Heiens is a data analyst for Republican candidates in Virginia and Pennsylvania, probably in his mid 30s. Both videos on Youtube are terrific. Highly recommended.
“But does grief work that way? Your beloved spouse dies, and you feel miserable. How is that adaptive?” Maybe it’s the effort to avoid grief by caring for the wellbeing of the partner that increases the stability of the family unit helping long term survival. Unfortunately this makes the grief of the surviving spouse unavoidable.
It's an interesting video, and thanks for sharing LemVibeBandit.
I think there's a different reason that Progressives insist on being thought of as 'The Resistance'. People naturally side with underdogs, and by pretending to this category, Progressives are naturally attempting to put some distance between themselves and the people that are the actual authoritarian tyrants: Themselves. In other words, it's protective camouflage, useful in confusing the situation.
Progressives have figured out that a great way to deflect well-founded attacks is to confuse the situation, by pretending it's somebody else doing it. They do this all the time by projecting their actual bad-faith tactics onto the people they are using them against, as a way of confusing matters, to delay the comprehension of what they are actually up to. It's worked pretty well, up to now. But I think the jig might actually be up now, especially since they've lost most of their NGO gravy train, the megaphone that used to blast these projected accusations at loud volumes, and repeat them until they were accepted.
what our hack soviet chi com radical leftmedia wont tell you. facts:
Rubio delivered remarks in Spanish directly to the Cuban people tonight, hours before the DOJ announces at Miami's Freedom Tower tomorrow. The argument he made: GAESA - the military conglomerate Raúl Castro founded 30 years ago - has $18 billion in assets and controls 70% of Cuba's economy. Hotels, banks, construction, stores, even a percentage of remittances sent by Cuban families in the U.S.
The regime depended on free Venezuelan oil under Chávez and Maduro. When that ended after January 3, they bought fuel for their generators and vehicles. Not for the people.
"The reason you are forced to survive without electricity is not an oil blockade by America. It is because the people who control your country have plundered billions."
The WSJ published tonight from inside Havana: children with cystic fibrosis without nebulizers. Teenagers drafted onto military rooftops. 20+ hour blackouts. A country surviving on foreign charity.
Tomorrow: Raúl Castro, 94, expected to be indicted at the Freedom Tower in Miami, for the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes that killed four Americans.
"If owning a business and the right to vote exist all around Cuba, why not inside Cuba?"
@DGisSERIOUS "Republicans lost Massie but the Dems gained a guy who said the Bondi Beach Massacre was a Zionist false flag, so it’s really sort of a wash"
🚨 RACE CALL: AOC-endorsed Chris Rabb(Jew hater) has won PA-03 Democratic Primary
Joey is a REAL American Man, not a progressive slug
"Fox News host Johnny "Joey" Jones reenlisted in the United States Marine Corps on Wednesday during a swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon.
"The last job I had in uniform — my job was to get better. It was to heal. It's a very selfish thing. My job was to heal. The Marine Corps paid me to get better, and then I retired. And there's nothing wrong with that, but it was unfinished business," Jones said at the ceremony.
Jones, a formerly-retired staff sergeant, served eight years in the Marine Corps and was deployed twice, suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. The 2010 IED-related incident resulted in the loss of both of his legs and severe damage to his right forearm and both wrists."
NYC wants to tax billionaires more, but want to pay for billionairess, Taylor Swift wedding security??? And they wonder why rich people who are not Progressive are planning to move out??? I think Taylor and Travis can well afford to pay for their own security.....
"The ghastly combination of injuries is consistent with a fall into the superheated steam often found within New York City manholes, said Barbara Butcher, former chief of staff at the city’s medical examiner’s office.
“Perhaps the most damaging injury was the inhalation of steam, which would have damaged the alveoli, the tissue in the lungs, which transports oxygen to the bloodstream,” Butcher said. “When they swell, they can no longer bring in oxygen.
“The steam would have caused her to have scald burns on her skin, but the real cause of injury would be the inhalation.”
Lee Ann Grossberg, a forensic pathologist in North Carolina, said such injuries are particularly dreadful.
“That would have been a really painful death,” she said,"
“ A former federal prosecutor in Florida sent to her personal email account a special counsel report from the investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents despite a judge's order that it was to remain sealed, according to an indictment made public on Wednesday.
“ The indictment alleges that Lineberger sought to conceal her actions by altering the original file name of the report to "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf" before saving the re-titled file on her government computer and emailing it to her personal email account with the subject line of "Bundt_Cake_Recipe,pdf."”
The schadenfreude is beautiful: lock up the people who accused Trump if illegally possessing documents…for illegally possessing documents.
And it’s another Trump win-win: if this case goes away, then it bolsters his argument that he did nothing wrong. And it still tells risk-averse Feds to watch what they do, since the process is the punishment. CC, JSM
Jews vote with their demographics. Urban people vote left. Urban people in academia, finance, art, and other highly coordinated urban occupations vote left. The European Jews spent hundreds of years in banking and finance -- they culturally evolved to stay in the good graces of the locals. This matters for a wealthy and exclusionary religion that held a bunch of mortgages.
J Mosby @ 4:44, cleaver gotcha but it crumbles in the non-alternate fact world.
If Lineberger did what the indictment says, prosecute her. I don’t have a problem with that.
But the schadenfreude only works if we pretend “government document” is the whole story. Trump wasn’t charged merely because a document existed somewhere it shouldn’t. The allegations involved national defense documents, refusal to return them, concealment, and obstruction- all from a then private civilian. And that private citizen blatantly snubbing a federal subpoena doesn’t exactly help your case.
So yes, hold Lineberger accountable if the facts prove it. But that doesn’t magically erase Trump’s facts. It just means rules should apply to everyone — which is sort of the point Trump’s defenders usually try to avoid.
"Arrest the entire castro family. all of them. they should all be shot for their cruelty and greed,"
What? Did they order that reviews of targets to ensure they were not war crimes stopped, like Hegseth did? Did that same order, to fight "woke" and create "lethal warfighters" lead to the bombing of a girls school, known to the Pentagon as to be a girls school, just not to the AI targeting system running on old data? Did that order directly lead to the death of 150 schoolgirls? Did the death of those 150 schoolgirls at one blow unite the Iranian people against the countries bombing them, and make the hoped for "regime change uprising" impossible, because nobody in Iran wanted to be on the side of the monsters that would have done that? Is that what the Castro's did? Or is it more like they are in control of a piece of real estate that we want to control ourselves?
We never cared about the brutality of the Shah, and his secret police, because he let us have the oil.
I don't have a lot of heartburn over any Cuba operation, because it is close to us, and a potential security risk, just like Ukraine is close to Moscow, and Taiwan is an existential threat to China, should it become militarized by the US. Great powers need security. But don't buy the propaganda as to why, when the answer is a lot simpler.
Putin said he invaded Ukraine because of the rights of the Russian speaking people being trampled on there, which was true, and that sells to the Russia people, but what he didn't want was F-35 stationed there, with Moscow within their combat radius without refueling..
The president is the ultimate classifying authority. Which makes her the ultimate declassifying authority. And there are no magic incantations required: “hoc est enim documentum nonclassificatum.” People are willing to accept that SCOTUS has special powers no one else has; why can’t they accept that POTUS has some of her own such powers? CC, JSM
The profit motive and business interests led to anti-Jew hate in Europe and also among American blacks (e.g., Louis Farrakhan). The Jews opened businesses in black small towns and profited from local blacks, but went away with the profits. Same business model as in Europe, same resentment. (Plus, the same outcome as with blacks vs. non-Jews today.)
People tend to hate / be jealous of those with power over them. If you owe money to someone in a different religion and they are wealthy, smart, exclusionary, and spend your monthly payments soft, comfortable hobbies...well...widespread hate. The Rothschilds (as a Jewish banking clan in Europe) are known for their grand estates, winemaking, art collections, music patronage, etc.
Ted Cruz brings the heat and explains the extent to which Democrats engage in racial discrimination: https://x.com/nathanielsami/status/2057193155246862616?s=46
Remember what Hillary Clinton claimed when she deleted 30,000 emails that were under subpoena? She said that they were mostly recipes....as if that fat cow ever cooked a thing herself.
Even the fact that the President is the ultimate authority on whether a document is classified or not? Because that’s a yuuuge fact your “analysis” elides as usual.
That petty annoyance known as Thomas Massie was just smoked in his reelection efforts. Now he is free to speak mind. Look for appearances on MS COW and the Chicken Noodle Network.
At this point it’s amazing how many crimes “prosecutors” committed in their blind rage in trying to convict Trump if something, anything somehow. What has the Left gained for all the energy they have wasted making up ways to get Trump? The Archivist gambit was one of the dumbest attempts and shows why Smith is the only federal prosecutor to rack up two 9-0 losses at the Supreme Court. He should be banished back to The Hague.
"People tend to hate / be jealous of those with power over them."
That's probably part of the story, but hatred of Jews goes back centuries before Jews had any power over anyone.
As to this: "It doesn’t appear that Jews are in the “good graces of the locals” in NYC. When does a survival instinct kick in?"
As I said, for the minority of Jews who actually practice Judaism, it has: They are mostly Republican. The others mistakenly believe they can be safe by joining with the left. Like all those Jews who joined the civil rights movement in the 60s.
NYT Op-Ed columnist Thomas Friedman remains seriously TDS delusional in his latest column: "I would not at all rule out their [Trump supporters] pushing for a third Trump term. We are going to a very bad place." https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times/20260521/282183657698040/textview
Putin dreamed of the glory that was Soviet Russia. Unfortunately his friends dreamed of the riches they could skim. Putin believed he could go toe to toe with the eastern Europeans and intimidate them like he did to Belarus. Russia is no longer a military threat. To anybody. Tim.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley · 2h Lineberger is accused of secretly transferring the Smith Report and hiding the material under files labeled as cake recipes. There has not been a greater recipe for disaster since aides tried to fit all of Biden’s candles on a cake...
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley ...The case is particularly interesting because there was another person who was accused of a secret removal of Justice Department material who was not prosecuted: former FBI Director James Comey. 8:10 AM · May 21, 2026 https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/2057433772266836417?s=20
Democrat Maureen Galingo wants to put Jews in concentration camps....
I was years old when the democrats and the left kept screaming that anyone who wasn't one to the left of Stalin is faCiSt puNchAble NAZI!
Meanwhile, the democrats are tryingc to :checks notes :: elect Nazis like Galingo and Inga fangirl Nazi <3 Graham Platner.
Hey KKKak/Richsockpuppet/ paidActbluetrollaccount(TM) is there any one of your bosses who is NOT a Nazi/rapist/pedophile/theif/islamist terrorist?
When are you going to release the Swalwell files? What happened to "no one is above the law?" What happened to "punch a nazi!" ? What happeend to "let the chips fall where they may?"
Sorry for the 'test' messages. My computer has the slows, and I can't access or comment easily.
Not all of Europe's Jews were rich, not by a long shot. The great rural masses of Poland and The Pale were as poor as temple-mice.
OTOH, in civilized areas like Germany and Austria, the newly emancipated urban Jews went into the arts and professions like they were born to it, and soon started beating the Gentiles at their own games. It was a cultural shift with few equals in the historical record.
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3 dead, 19 hospitalized after ‘exposure to a substance’ at Mountainair (NM) home
"MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. — Three people are dead and 19 are hospitalized after reportedly being exposed to a substance at home Wednesday in Mountainair.
Paramedics and sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Hanlon Avenue and Pinon Street, regarding a call made around 8 a.m. about a possible overdose on an unknown substance.
First responders found one person dead outside of the home, one dead inside and two other people who needed resuscitation. One of those two people later died.
The other person is being “quarantined, evaluated and monitored” at University of New Mexico Hospital [UNMH], along with 18 first responders. The first responders reported reactive symptoms, including nausea, vomiting and headache, including two who are now in serious condition at UNMH.
A UNMH spokesperson confirmed they admitted “several patients” just after 10 a.m. for “decontamination and treatment” after being exposed to “an unknown substance in Torrance County.”
Albuquerque Fire Rescue HazMat teams are assisting at the scene with identifying the substance. Investigators believe it may have been transmitted through contact and wasn’t airborne.
State Police took over the investigation from the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office. They stated investigators secured the affected area to where there is no danger to the community.
“We ask the public to avoid the area and keep all affected individuals and first responders in their thoughts,” State Police stated.
Also in New Mexico...
Alleged accomplice in murder outside famed eatery arrested
"Four men are in jail, charged with the murder of a man police say was allegedly lured outside the Frontier Restaurant by a 20-year-old woman whose whereabouts were not known -- until now, an Albuquerque Police Department news release said.
Houston police executed APD's homicide warrant on Tuesday, arresting Zakiya Umstead, where she lives.
Police say Umstead struck up a conversation in the restaurant with Eden Rock around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13, and walked outside with him down an alley about 40 minutes later, the release said.
Police say Tenard Weekly, Evan Rogers, Junior Lewis, and Jaylen Hopewell were seen on surveillance video getting out of a gray Jeep Cherokee and hiding behind a dumpster. When Umstead led Rock by, the men allegedly attacked Rock and knocked him down. While Weekly fired two fatal gunshots at Rock, Umstead is seen on the video simply walking away.
APD officers came to the scene and arrested the four men. Rock was taken to the hospital, where he died from being shot.
APD detectives said the attack was planned, and that Rock was allegedly lured to the alleyway by Umstead where the suspects were waiting. According to witnesses, Weekly and Rock had been feuding all day long, the release said.
Umstead is charged with an open count of murder, conspiracy, and tampering with evidence and will be returned to Albuquerque."
Talk about taking a wrong turn in Albuquerque...
The last pic is evocative
Is anybody else noticing the change in the public persona of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani? During the campaign, he was all smiles. Mr Happy Political Candidate, thrilled and enthusiastic and - always - smiling that nice smile, with delighted scrunched-up eyes. But now, as he walks up to the camera to tap the lens for attention before announcing his Eat The Rich program. Now his smile is a little different. Eyes open, teeth looking a little.... predatory. And today, seated in front of a forest of microphones, he looks decidedly serious. Brooding even. He's got that look the Imams get, when it's time for a jihad reminder. NYC is getting their lesson.
So la guardia descends back into the swamp and xi puts putin in his place (something he didnt do with trump)
I dubbed him the Cobra!!
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Pooh Sheisty and his dad have been charged with conspiracy to kidnap Gucci Mane.
What is going on in the rap world?
I thought frankenstein 2 was an original screenplay
Speaking of which why didnt coogler take u the oddysey with a whole different vibe like he did with sinners
SpaceX Fires Starting Gun on Its Blockbuster IPO ~ WSJ
This is a manipulation of passive index funds. They don't care about fundamentals.
The huge market capitalization will mean that Space X will be over 2.5% of the total S&P 500. So index funds will be obligated to buy.
Passive Index funds hold roughly 25% of all equity in the S&P 500. So logically they will be attempting to buy 25% of the shares.
However, only 4% of shares are "available" and out of that we know a significant chunk are being bought by hedge funds.
Overall this means demand from passive index funds alone will buoy it up.
This will allow the price to settle before the current shareholders begin to offload to the indexes.
4% float is designed ensure scarcity, an iceberg with uncertain mass below the surface. It also ensures that insiders retain dominant control of the business and can easily force public investors out again if they wish. Potentially at a lower price point, should that materialize.
It would be great to see an article analyzing this in detail.
Massie Blames Defeat On Jews Of Rural Kentucky | Babylon Bee https://share.google/fJZkYPLSflkYRGJPr
There is no zohran only zuul
Urine means you're in.
Next he'll turn jnto a devil dog
Trump’s theft of nearly $2 billion from the Treasury raises eyebrows in some liberal circles.
The ingenuity of the corruption seems to have no end.
We can only be grateful that Congress isn’t alive to see it.
I've passing on this YouTube algorithm pick, but it kept coming back, so I figured, let's give it a shot. This guy may have stumbled on to something.
YouTube: "The entire leftist project
is to call good things ugly and ugly things good."
Here is an example 👉🏽
"NYT music critics defending their terrible list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters."
Speaking of the Jewish vote, it's generally accepted, and the number you'll find on an internet search, that 70% of the USA Jewish population are registered Democrats. Aside from teh satiric Babylon Bee article- there are hundreds of posts on X blaming Jews for the most conservative Republicans winning primaries- when 70% of Jews cannot vote in closed primaries. And 30% of Jews are not enough to tip an election almost anywhere. The most Republican Jewish sect are the Hasidim, and you're not going to find many of those outside NY.
The real question is: Why do Jews continually vote for the anti-Semitic Democrat party of today? Complete mystery to me.
And a quote from the Democrat Jewish COuncil of America: "There are many exit polls that demonstrate high percentages of Jewish voters supporting Kamala Harris – this CNN/Edison exit poll indicates that 78 percent of Jewish voters supported Kamala Harris, while 22 percent supported Donald Trump. According to this poll, 88 percent of Jewish women and 71 percent of Jewish men supported Kamala Harris over Trump."
Why?
What about grief?
By which I mean, the debilitating and distressing sense of irreparable loss that one feels when one has, in fact, suffered an irreparable loss. But what about the "debilitating" part?
Specifically, in the context of the theory of evolution. One can see, for example, that the ability to experience physical pain is adaptive. Having that ability often prevents you from damaging your body. You pick up something hot, you drop it. 'Cuz it hurts! Which keeps you from getting burned worse than you already have been.
But does grief work that way? Your beloved spouse dies, and you feel miserable. How is that adaptive?
And meanwhile, Marco is making his pre-campaign Presidential moves. Speaking in Spanish to the Cuban people, the SOS lays out how their plight is not a consequence of any US embargo of petroleum, rather it's the natural outcome of the end of an era of a plundering communist regime, even giving the amounts, in the billions, plundered. Looking awfully competent there, another in his globe-trotting portfolio of shouldered responsibilities. Hmmmm. Who will he endorse in the midterms?
@MadTownGuy: Mountain Air, NM: "...fire audio, call started as 60 male not breathing, then discovered 3 down patients. End thought they smelled gas and requested breathing apparatus, but they started CPR without the apparatus then everyone started to go down. They requested Narcan and life flight helicopters.. on the way to the hospital. They were running out of oxygen and was trying to get resupply from a neighbor county...Sounds like that super fentanyl that’s supposedly floating around....."
"Why?"
So they can tell themselves they're good people.
"Why do Jews continually vote for the anti-Semitic Democrat party of today?"
They are JINOs. Orthodox Jews (not just the Hasidim) are 75% Republican, but they are only around 10% of Jews. The non-orthodox but actively involved, maybe another 20%, also lean more Republican than the completely non-practicing. But the latter are the majority. Their Jewishness plays zero role in how they vote. They tend to live in big urban areas near the coasts and vote like their neighbors.
Thank you Lem Vibe Bandit
Christopher Heiens is excellent. He has an X account under his name and a history podcast that ran 14 episodes: King of Kings - Persia after Alexander the Great. It covers 1,000 years of Persian history, from the death of Alexander the Great through the Islamic Conquest of Persia in the 7th century AD He has 2 videos on Youtube, including the one you linked to.
Heiens is a data analyst for Republican candidates in Virginia and Pennsylvania, probably in his mid 30s. Both videos on Youtube are terrific. Highly recommended.
Crap Thats CHRISTIAN Heiens, sorry
“But does grief work that way? Your beloved spouse dies, and you feel miserable. How is that adaptive?”
Maybe it’s the effort to avoid grief by caring for the wellbeing of the partner that increases the stability of the family unit helping long term survival. Unfortunately this makes the grief of the surviving spouse unavoidable.
It's an interesting video, and thanks for sharing LemVibeBandit.
I think there's a different reason that Progressives insist on being thought of as 'The Resistance'. People naturally side with underdogs, and by pretending to this category, Progressives are naturally attempting to put some distance between themselves and the people that are the actual authoritarian tyrants: Themselves. In other words, it's protective camouflage, useful in confusing the situation.
Progressives have figured out that a great way to deflect well-founded attacks is to confuse the situation, by pretending it's somebody else doing it. They do this all the time by projecting their actual bad-faith tactics onto the people they are using them against, as a way of confusing matters, to delay the comprehension of what they are actually up to. It's worked pretty well, up to now. But I think the jig might actually be up now, especially since they've lost most of their NGO gravy train, the megaphone that used to blast these projected accusations at loud volumes, and repeat them until they were accepted.
what our hack soviet chi com radical leftmedia wont tell you. facts:
Rubio delivered remarks in Spanish directly to the Cuban people tonight, hours before the DOJ announces at Miami's Freedom Tower tomorrow. The argument he made: GAESA - the military conglomerate Raúl Castro founded 30 years ago - has $18 billion in assets and controls 70% of Cuba's economy. Hotels, banks, construction, stores, even a percentage of remittances sent by Cuban families in the U.S.
The regime depended on free Venezuelan oil under Chávez and Maduro. When that ended after January 3, they bought fuel for their generators and vehicles. Not for the people.
"The reason you are forced to survive without electricity is not an oil blockade by America. It is because the people who control your country have plundered billions."
The WSJ published tonight from inside Havana: children with cystic fibrosis without nebulizers. Teenagers drafted onto military rooftops. 20+ hour blackouts. A country surviving on foreign charity.
Tomorrow: Raúl Castro, 94, expected to be indicted at the Freedom Tower in Miami, for the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes that killed four Americans.
"If owning a business and the right to vote exist all around Cuba, why not inside Cuba?"
Arrest the entire castro family. all of them. they should all be shot for their cruelty and greed,
@DGisSERIOUS
"Republicans lost Massie but the Dems gained a guy who said the Bondi Beach Massacre was a Zionist false flag, so it’s really sort of a wash"
🚨 RACE CALL: AOC-endorsed Chris Rabb(Jew hater) has won PA-03 Democratic Primary
Joey is a REAL American Man, not a progressive slug
"Fox News host Johnny "Joey" Jones reenlisted in the United States Marine Corps on Wednesday during a swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon.
"The last job I had in uniform — my job was to get better. It was to heal. It's a very selfish thing. My job was to heal. The Marine Corps paid me to get better, and then I retired. And there's nothing wrong with that, but it was unfinished business," Jones said at the ceremony.
Jones, a formerly-retired staff sergeant, served eight years in the Marine Corps and was deployed twice, suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. The 2010 IED-related incident resulted in the loss of both of his legs and severe damage to his right forearm and both wrists."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-johnny-joey-jones-reenlists-united-states-marine-corps
NYC wants to tax billionaires more, but want to pay for billionairess, Taylor Swift wedding security??? And they wonder why rich people who are not Progressive are planning to move out??? I think Taylor and Travis can well afford to pay for their own security.....
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/ny-lawmakers-eye-250k-security-fund-for-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding/
"The ghastly combination of injuries is consistent with a fall into the superheated steam often found within New York City manholes, said Barbara Butcher, former chief of staff at the city’s medical examiner’s office.
“Perhaps the most damaging injury was the inhalation of steam, which would have damaged the alveoli, the tissue in the lungs, which transports oxygen to the bloodstream,” Butcher said. “When they swell, they can no longer bring in oxygen.
“The steam would have caused her to have scald burns on her skin, but the real cause of injury would be the inhalation.”
Lee Ann Grossberg, a forensic pathologist in North Carolina, said such injuries are particularly dreadful.
“That would have been a really painful death,” she said,"
https://nypost.com/2026/05/20/us-news/westchester-grandma-donike-gocajs-horrific-cause-of-death-revealed-after-plunging-down-open-nyc-manhole/
This one is interesting:
Ex-prosecutor charged with sending to herself report on Trump classified probe
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/g-s1-123290/ex-prosecutor-charged-on-trump-classified-probe
“ A former federal prosecutor in Florida sent to her personal email account a special counsel report from the investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents despite a judge's order that it was to remain sealed, according to an indictment made public on Wednesday.
“ The indictment alleges that Lineberger sought to conceal her actions by altering the original file name of the report to "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf" before saving the re-titled file on her government computer and emailing it to her personal email account with the subject line of "Bundt_Cake_Recipe,pdf."”
The schadenfreude is beautiful: lock up the people who accused Trump if illegally possessing documents…for illegally possessing documents.
And it’s another Trump win-win: if this case goes away, then it bolsters his argument that he did nothing wrong. And it still tells risk-averse Feds to watch what they do, since the process is the punishment. CC, JSM
@Gospace --
Jews vote with their demographics. Urban people vote left. Urban people in academia, finance, art, and other highly coordinated urban occupations vote left. The European Jews spent hundreds of years in banking and finance -- they culturally evolved to stay in the good graces of the locals. This matters for a wealthy and exclusionary religion that held a bunch of mortgages.
It doesn’t appear that Jews are in the “good graces of the locals” in NYC. When does a survival instinct kick in?
J Mosby @ 4:44, cleaver gotcha but it crumbles in the non-alternate fact world.
If Lineberger did what the indictment says, prosecute her. I don’t have a problem with that.
But the schadenfreude only works if we pretend “government document” is the whole story. Trump wasn’t charged merely because a document existed somewhere it shouldn’t. The allegations involved national defense documents, refusal to return them, concealment, and obstruction- all from a then private civilian. And that private citizen blatantly snubbing a federal subpoena doesn’t exactly help your case.
So yes, hold Lineberger accountable if the facts prove it. But that doesn’t magically erase Trump’s facts. It just means rules should apply to everyone — which is sort of the point Trump’s defenders usually try to avoid.
"Arrest the entire castro family. all of them. they should all be shot for their cruelty and greed,"
What? Did they order that reviews of targets to ensure they were not war crimes stopped, like Hegseth did? Did that same order, to fight "woke" and create "lethal warfighters" lead to the bombing of a girls school, known to the Pentagon as to be a girls school, just not to the AI targeting system running on old data? Did that order directly lead to the death of 150 schoolgirls? Did the death of those 150 schoolgirls at one blow unite the Iranian people against the countries bombing them, and make the hoped for "regime change uprising" impossible, because nobody in Iran wanted to be on the side of the monsters that would have done that? Is that what the Castro's did? Or is it more like they are in control of a piece of real estate that we want to control ourselves?
We never cared about the brutality of the Shah, and his secret police, because he let us have the oil.
I don't have a lot of heartburn over any Cuba operation, because it is close to us, and a potential security risk, just like Ukraine is close to Moscow, and Taiwan is an existential threat to China, should it become militarized by the US. Great powers need security. But don't buy the propaganda as to why, when the answer is a lot simpler.
Putin said he invaded Ukraine because of the rights of the Russian speaking people being trampled on there, which was true, and that sells to the Russia people, but what he didn't want was F-35 stationed there, with Moscow within their combat radius without refueling..
The president is the ultimate classifying authority. Which makes her the ultimate declassifying authority. And there are no magic incantations required: “hoc est enim documentum nonclassificatum.” People are willing to accept that SCOTUS has special powers no one else has; why can’t they accept that POTUS has some of her own such powers? CC, JSM
J Mosby @ 4:44, cleaver gotcha but it crumbles in the non-alternate fact world.
RJW/Ronald J Ward/Chuck just wrote that.
And that's as far as I read.
Behold. Chuck!
Master of the Fact World.
@Breezy --
The profit motive and business interests led to anti-Jew hate in Europe and also among American blacks (e.g., Louis Farrakhan). The Jews opened businesses in black small towns and profited from local blacks, but went away with the profits. Same business model as in Europe, same resentment. (Plus, the same outcome as with blacks vs. non-Jews today.)
People tend to hate / be jealous of those with power over them. If you owe money to someone in a different religion and they are wealthy, smart, exclusionary, and spend your monthly payments soft, comfortable hobbies...well...widespread hate. The Rothschilds (as a Jewish banking clan in Europe) are known for their grand estates, winemaking, art collections, music patronage, etc.
Ted Cruz brings the heat and explains the extent to which Democrats engage in racial discrimination:
https://x.com/nathanielsami/status/2057193155246862616?s=46
Jim @ 5:34, yeah, I’m somewhat of a diehard on facts. I still believe they matter. Old school I guess.
Wow competing for stupid
The europeans threw a lifeline to the caatro regime
The clintons sent all the refugees to guantanamo
They tried to broker a deal and the btr were caught in the crossfire
Elian faced an mp 5 so dont tell me about separating families
This is why w won florida
Remember what Hillary Clinton claimed when she deleted 30,000 emails that were under subpoena? She said that they were mostly recipes....as if that fat cow ever cooked a thing herself.
Yes jack smith openly committed fraud upon the court
In collusion with the national archives
Only judge cannon saw through it
How do you live by lies 24/7
Now the company allowed castro to take power
Because they are terrible at vetting
They asked rauls future wife whether the brothers were communists
If course she said know even though he had met with leonov the kgb resident in mexico city
Cuban ex-President Raul Castro indicted on charges including murder, conspiracy to kill US nationals ~ Fox News
Following success in Iran, Canada, Greenland, China and Russia, Trump is really going for it.
You have to love Rubio... "its leaders had “plundered billions of dollars”.
How many billion dollars have the Trumps plundered so far... and they are just getting going!
Just like sakharovsky selected and groomed arafat
Just like sakharovsky selected and groomed arafat
Even the fact that the President is the ultimate authority on whether a document is classified or not? Because that’s a yuuuge fact your “analysis” elides as usual.
He was the father of the skyjacking through his othet protege wadi haddad
Responsible for dawsons field entebbe mogadishu et al
That petty annoyance known as Thomas Massie was just smoked in his reelection efforts. Now he is free to speak mind. Look for appearances on MS COW and the Chicken Noodle Network.
At this point it’s amazing how many crimes “prosecutors” committed in their blind rage in trying to convict Trump if something, anything somehow. What has the Left gained for all the energy they have wasted making up ways to get Trump? The Archivist gambit was one of the dumbest attempts and shows why Smith is the only federal prosecutor to rack up two 9-0 losses at the Supreme Court. He should be banished back to The Hague.
We know of the former because of the brave romanian defector pacepa the latter through the mitrokhin files
"People tend to hate / be jealous of those with power over them."
That's probably part of the story, but hatred of Jews goes back centuries before Jews had any power over anyone.
As to this: "It doesn’t appear that Jews are in the “good graces of the locals” in NYC. When does a survival instinct kick in?"
As I said, for the minority of Jews who actually practice Judaism, it has: They are mostly Republican. The others mistakenly believe they can be safe by joining with the left. Like all those Jews who joined the civil rights movement in the 60s.
NYT Op-Ed columnist Thomas Friedman remains seriously TDS delusional in his latest column: "I would not at all rule out their [Trump supporters] pushing for a third Trump term. We are going to a very bad place." https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times/20260521/282183657698040/textview
Friedman hasnt gotten anything right in more than 40 years
Putin dreamed of the glory that was Soviet Russia. Unfortunately his friends dreamed of the riches they could skim.
Putin believed he could go toe to toe with the eastern Europeans and intimidate them like he did to Belarus.
Russia is no longer a military threat. To anybody. Tim.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
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Lineberger is accused of secretly transferring the Smith Report and hiding the material under files labeled as cake recipes. There has not been a greater recipe for disaster since aides tried to fit all of Biden’s candles on a cake...
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...The case is particularly interesting because there was another person who was accused of a secret removal of Justice Department material who was not prosecuted: former FBI Director James Comey.
8:10 AM · May 21, 2026
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/2057433772266836417?s=20
Democrat Maureen Galingo wants to put Jews in concentration camps....
I was years old when the democrats and the left kept screaming that anyone who wasn't one to the left of Stalin is faCiSt puNchAble NAZI!
Meanwhile, the democrats are tryingc to :checks notes :: elect Nazis like Galingo and Inga fangirl Nazi <3 Graham Platner.
Hey KKKak/Richsockpuppet/ paidActbluetrollaccount(TM) is there any one of your bosses who is NOT a Nazi/rapist/pedophile/theif/islamist terrorist?
When are you going to release the Swalwell files?
What happened to "no one is above the law?"
What happened to "punch a nazi!" ?
What happeend to "let the chips fall where they may?"
Hello KKKak? Hello? Anyone home? Why so quiet?
Sorry for the 'test' messages. My computer has the slows, and I can't access or comment easily.
Not all of Europe's Jews were rich, not by a long shot. The great rural masses of Poland and The Pale were as poor as temple-mice.
OTOH, in civilized areas like Germany and Austria, the newly emancipated urban Jews went into the arts and professions like they were born to it, and soon started beating the Gentiles at their own games. It was a cultural shift with few equals in the historical record.
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