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Some laid off Spirit Airlines girl DMs him her GoFundMe cause she’s hurting after the bankruptcy cuts. He films himself reading it out loud, calls her a lazy piece of shit, says just get another job, hits her with the pretty and able-bodied so big deal line, sarcastic welcome to the real world. Deletes it …
Taxpayers now on the hook for another shiny giveaway in the bankrupt blue state. Nothing is free, Governor. This is taxpayer-funded. $20M+ from California's general fund (your high-tax residents). CA already struggles with budgets, homelessness, and costs, how about cutting waste first? pic.twitter.com/wlVBvZ2M8W — Reeds (@ScarletReeds) May 8, 2026 Here’s a small detail Gavin Newsom …
70 Iranian tankers sit trapped loaded with $13 billion of crude they can’t sell 🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump has just forced Iran into DUMPING millions of barrels of their OWN OIL This is insane. They're cooked. "The Iranians are dumping MILLIONS of barrels of crude into the Gulf. Satellite images show a massive oil …
Department of War drops first batch of 161 unresolved UAP documents including old FBI files and Apollo 11 sightings. Trump just cracked open the biggest black vault in US history. https://www.war.gov/UFO/
Investigators identified 11 robberies and 6 grand thefts in the span between October 2025 and May 2026 in the Intracoastal District, near NW 6th Avenue and 152nd Street, that the four subjects carried out.
Another view from Chalmette Refinery earlier today. pic.twitter.com/qEnwvoBRzk — Mark Tournier🇺🇸 (@marktournier2) May 8, 2026 Update from Chalmette Refinery: pic.twitter.com/C2tvGupX0A — Mark Tournier🇺🇸 (@marktournier2) May 9, 2026
The Taiwanese Legislative Yuan passed a special defense budget totaling 780 billion NTD ($25 billion USD) to counter rising PRC aggression. The funding is split into two rounds, with 300 billion NTD allocated for immediate purchases of HIMARS, M109A7 howitzers, and Javelin missiles. The second round of 480 billion NTD focuses on anti-ballistic missile systems …
U.S. forces fired on and disabled two Iranian oil tankers on Friday after they reportedly attempted to breach a naval blockade of Iranian ports. The escalation follows an overnight exchange of fire between U.S. destroyers and Iranian Revolutionary Guard units in the Strait of Hormuz. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported a fresh barrage of …
NASA’s 5,000°F “Plasma Spear” clears path for 2030s Mars missions — May 7, 2026 JPL successfully tests a 120-kilowatt lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster… The engine uses electromagnetic fields to accelerate plasma, reaching internal temperatures exceeding 5,000°F… This “Nuclear Electric Propulsion” (NEP) is designed to move massive payloads to Mars far more efficiently than chemical rockets… …
🇺🇸👽Tim Dillon on Trump releasing UFO files: "We're in a war, everything's going up, and the last thing they have is to say is there's alien bases under the water. Stop bothering us about this war. Their goal is for you to have a nervous breakdown."pic.twitter.com/eAG2tj0wiN https://t.co/AIR1t9hqsq — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 8, 2026
Only 13 days left until the primary everyone. This is going to be a tight race, even though Massie still has the 3:1 edge in the betting markets. Please everyone do what you can to support this man until May 19 so we don’t lose our most steadfast representative for liberty in Congress. Even just subscribing to …
via factsnsense I’m a former Republican (Reagan through Bush II) who broke from the party years ago. I’ve spent the last three months reading the primary documents on the 2026 election fight and scoring the claims against the evidence. My read is structural, not partisan, and here’s the unpopular conclusion: We’re already living in a …
More screens haven't made students smarter byu/normaldudeitsfine inworldinsights “For years, schools were told that more screens meant more modern education: laptops, tablets, digital assignments, one device for every student. The test-score data now makes that story look much less clean. In the U.S., 8th-grade math and reading scores peaked around 2013, started falling before the …
Post-debate poll shows massive shift with Angelenos done with the same old failures. Poll source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-mayor-debate-california-governor-race-live-updates/3883888/?cardId=1:9:3885308 Full debate:
8 weeks to stop the spread. NEW: President Trump says he's been briefed on Hantavirus. "It's very much, we hope, under control." "I think we're going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people — a lot of great people are studying it. It should be fine, we hope." …
eBay wants me to commit a crime in order to get a refund for a counterfeit item received byu/smittyguy11 inmildlyinfuriating The only way to get a refund according to their help pages (and this support chatbot) is to return the counterfeit item to the seller. But it is a crime in my country to ship …
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. forces disabled M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda, May 8, prior to both vessels entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman in violation of the ongoing U.S. blockade. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) enforced blockade measures against two Iranian-flagged unladen oil tankers attempting to pull into an Iranian port …
Virginia Supreme Court axes Democrats’ mid-decade redistricting scheme… Court rules Dems violated voter-approved map process with sneaky procedural tricks… Power grab that targeted four extra House seats in 2026 now dead on arrival… Virginia Supreme Court throws out new congressional map pushed by Democrats. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic …
Texas MAGA wants Paxton bad and calls Cornyn a backstabber. We love President Trump but we're voting 4 Ken Paxton no matter what pic.twitter.com/mUpvkudsfS — PJ (@TexasPatriot07) May 8, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the pontiff for 150 minutes to repair ties after a week of social media feuds… Discussions focused on humanitarian aid in the Middle East and easing tensions over the Iran military campaign… Rubio presented the Pope with a crystal football paperweight, joking about the pontiff’s White Sox fandom… The …
WHO director Tedros confirms eight cases of deadly hantavirus as the outbreak goes global… A traveler in Zurich and a flight attendant in Johannesburg among the latest to test positive for the rare strain… The MV Hondius continues its transit to Tenerife with three bodies in cold storage and one passenger in critical condition… Spanish …
Document made public for the first time as the “Files” continue to burn DC… Release adds fresh fuel to the Lutnick hearing and the cabinet’s island ghosts… A handwritten legacy of the century’s most toxic secret finally hitting the light… via PBS: “They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!! So 15 year old charges …
*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone IRANIAN MEDIA ACCUSES AXIOS REPORTER OF MARKET MANIPULATION Iranian media accused Barak Ravid of spreading false reports after he claimed Iran and the U.S. were nearing a deal. The report briefly pushed oil prices sharply lower, reversing gains tied to the conflict, before prices recovered following denials from Iranian officials. The article …
Memphis loses its guaranteed congressional carve-out as fair lines replace the skin-game. Democrats just watched their racial cheat code get deleted in real time and the meltdown is nuclear. Man the same crowd that cheered race-based maps for years is now burning down the statehouse over color-blind lines. 🚨#BREAKING: Watch as Tennessee House Republicans Pass …
Are there any GTA fans here? pic.twitter.com/fY3Pw3R0MQ — Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 1, 2026 Ukraine shared a video of drone pilots training with “Grand Theft Auto V.” The experience doesn’t replace real training, but is a good way to relax, officials said. Gamers have skills that make them ideal candidates for being drone pilots. …
Rep Kevin Kiley blows the lid off the Pacific Palisades aid cash vanishing into grift pockets. California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits “What we have learned is absolutely beyond belief — Tens of thousands of people donated raising a …
Taxpayers are literally buying groceries for people who aren’t even supposed to be here while their own kids wait in line at food banks. USDA reported 1.3 million non-citizens receiving SNAP benefits.@SecRollins pic.twitter.com/Ol4x38wX9R — Shiloh Marx (@Shilohmarx) May 6, 2026
Its like what other people have mentioned. Like a fake oracle, say soooo much random shit one of them will come true. But the fact there are only 5 posts makes me re think that idea. h/t Rich_Gas7886
A leaked CIA briefing to the White House concludes that Iran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities, undercutting Donald Trump’s claims that the regime’s stockpile has been wiped out. The regime retains roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile and 75 percent of its mobile launcher inventory, according to a confidential CIA analysis provided to …
