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❗️🇺🇸 Portland Antifa militant Ginovanni Joseph Brumbelow has been convicted of felony assault for attacking a federal ICE/BORTAC officer. Brumbelow struck the officer in the head with a sharpened wooden stake during the June 14, 2025 incident outside a Portland ICE facility and now faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Follow us -> LiveLeak

🤡 JD Vance cranks up hypocrisy to eleven at Lindsey Graham funeral

💬 “I remember Lindsey Graham as a man who loved people – and because he loved people, he was willing to reason with them, to respect them and, ultimately, to persuade them,” Trump’s VP chimed.

Reality check: Graham was a coined a war pig incarnate who praised the US attack on Iran and welcomed Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon. He advocated sending Ukraine as much money and weapons as possible, US taxpayers be damned, pushed for a bigger US military budget and had no qualms about throwing American youth into the meat grinder of US military interventions. Then again, if by “people” Vance meant Zionists, American elites and the US military-industrial complex, he was pretty much spot on. 👍 Boost us | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

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🇺🇸⚡️ — The White House has announced that Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina will be renamed in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the White House on Tuesday for talks focused on strengthening Ukraine’s air defences and advancing diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia. The two leaders discussed expanding the production of Patriot interceptor missiles to bolster Ukraine’s ability to counter Russian missile and drone attacks. Zelenskyy thanked the United States for its continued support and said both sides would coordinate closely on further defence cooperation. The meeting came as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its fourth year, with renewed efforts underway to revive peace negotiations despite persistent disagreements over territorial control, security guarantees and the conditions for a ceasefire. 🎱 @Magic8BallRedux

BuzzFeed is slashing its workforce on the heels of the digital media company’s deal to sell a controlling ownership stake to entrepreneur and comedian Byron Allen. The company disclosed that it is laying off about 35% of its current employees and contractors. “The reduction in workforce plan is intended to advance the Company’s path towards profitability and positive cash flow generation by streamlining its organizational structure, optimizing operating expenses, and preserving cash,” BuzzFeed said in an SEC filing Monday. The move will eliminate about 180 jobs across BuzzFeed, including in its HuffPost and Tasty divisions. As of Dec. 31, 2025, BuzzFeed had 507 employees located across five countries, per its annual report filed with the SEC. BuzzFeed estimates it will incur between $6.5 million to $8.5 million in charges related to the job cuts, expected to recognized primarily in the third quarter of 2026. With the layoffs, the company said, it expects to realize annualized savings of $29 million-$32 million. Read More [HERE] 🎱 @Magic8BallRedux

Great photo – looks like they're both behind bars: US President Donald Trump is hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for separate meetings on Tuesday Both leaders are in Washington to attend a memorial service for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who was a prominent supporter of Israel ​and Ukraine Both the Ukraine war and widening Middle East conflict are at critical junctures Zelenskiy said that anti-ballistic defense and strategic cooperation with the US were the 'number-one priority' for his meeting with Trump Trump and Netanyahu will discuss the conflict in Iran, as well as tensions between Israel and Lebanon, a White House official said Read More [HERE] ✡️ @JewTruthArchive

RFK Jr.: "[Fauci] got vaccinated at a very, very public press conference … and then five months later, he had a pulmonary infarction — which is one of the adverse events NIH, CDC and FDA said are expected from the vaccine. He never told anybody." (1 min, 17 sec) Join @davidavocadowolfe 🥑

End of the DEM PARTY The Democratic National Committee just got caught putting up its own HEADQUARTERS as collateral for a $15M loan, because they are currently -$18M in DEBT "They're begging vendors to sit on invoices until AFTER the election." "99 days till the midterms the DNC's $18 million in debt with only $16M in the bank Republicans $128 million in the bank zero debt!" Ht @ericldaugh Join the fight @MelissaRedpill FreedomForce dot live

China has completed construction of a 582-ton superconducting magnet for its nuclear fusion program, advancing its "artificial sun" project with the goal of generating virtually limitless, carbon-free electricity by 2030. @PressTV

Just hours before his successor is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte on Tuesday announced what appear to be sweeping staff reductions at the embattled intelligence coordination hub. “Good News! In addition to the Historic DECLASSIFICATIONS (Transparency!) by the President, we are, this morning, Executing a 5th and Near Final Round of TERMINATIONS, an approximately 30% Staff Reduction from Weeks Ago,” Pulte posted on his social media account Tuesday morning. “The Intelligence Community must protect the American people, NOT the political whims of the bloated and corrupt elite class.” Pulte’s announcement of a 30 percent cut, depending on the baseline for when the dismissals started, could amount to the elimination of more than 300 staff at the ODNI, which is charged with coordinating intelligence collected by the other 17 members of the U.S. spy community and overseeing their budgets. It comes the same day the Senate is expected to vote on his full-time replacement, current top Manhattan federal prosecutor Jay Clayton, as the next head of the ODNI. .... The cuts appear to mark the latest effort by the Trump administration to slash the beleaguered intel hub, which lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized in recent years as unnecessarily large. It would also defy warnings from Democrats last month, who said Pulte — the head of the government’s mortgage regulator — lacked the experience to make large-scale cuts without endangering U.S. national security. Read More [HERE] 🎱 @Magic8BallRedux

💡💡💡 The Trump administration has filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to reinstate a controversial executive order aimed at tightening mail-in voting procedures ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, setting up another major legal battle over federal authority in election administration. The administration is asking the nation’s highest court to lift a lower court injunction that has prevented key provisions of President Donald Trump’s March executive order, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” from taking effect in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Among its provisions, the executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Social Security Administration, to create state-specific citizenship lists intended to verify voter eligibility. It also instructs the U.S. Postal Service to develop procedures governing the delivery of mail-in ballots, including limiting ballot distribution to voters appearing on state mail-in voting lists derived from those federal records. The legal challenge stems from a lawsuit brought by 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, which argue that the Constitution grants authority over election administration primarily to the states and Congress—not the executive branch. In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked enforcement of significant portions of the order, concluding that the states were likely to succeed on the merits of their constitutional claims. Last week, the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined the administration’s request to lift that injunction. Read more [HERE] 🎱 @Magic8BallRedux

Before becoming a Congressman, Ron Paul was an obstetrician who delivered over 4,000 babies. Imagine being brought into the world by Dr. @RonPaul. https://x.com/LPNational/status/2082136283409776677 🎱 @Magic8BallRedux

I knew the name, "Yatsenyuk" sounded familiar:

⁉️ Who paid @LauraLoomer? Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov. In 2024 he bought the most expensive real estate in human history - apartments in Monaco for $550,000,000. In 2024, his company DTEK, promoted by Laura, received from U.S. and EU taxpayers a wartime AID $112,000,000 . Thanks to US and EU taxpayers for helping buy the most expensive real estate in history. He also keeps a $650,000,000 million yacht in Monaco. In 2019, he bought the world’s most expensive house (per Bloomberg) for $350,000,000 - Freanch riviera villa les Cedres. In 2011, he bought the world’s most expensive penthouse for $250,000,000 in London. Akhmetov comes from a small village near Donetsk. ⁉️ How did he get his billions? All ukrainian media shared it as in the 1990s he led a gang that murdered businessmen and politicians, seizing the best Soviet assets worth tens of billions. He controlled 30% of Ukraine’s GDP through corruption and racketeering, then moved the money abroad. DTEK is his energy company that received aid from European and American taxpayers - while Akhmetov himself makes billions and lives like a king. Laura won’t tell you this. Akhmetov pays well. .... Another proof. Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov bought @LauraLoomer. They’re promoting Yatsenyuk - his long-time sponsored asset. Several criminal corruption cases against him while he was prime minister. Yatsenyuk and Akhmetov constantly held parties at Akhmetov’s house with lots of girls and alcohol. When he stole first billion in dollars, he threw a private party in Kyiv - the entire Ukrainian political elite knows this. Yatsenyuk pushed ukrainians into an armed coup with the words: “A bullet to head, so a bullet to head.” Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians died. But Yatsenyuk doesn't fight. Our country is destroyed. Money in Ukraine has run out. That’s why Akhmetov and Laura want to sell Yatsenyuk to the Americans. https://x.com/Panchenko_X/status/2081953649173897265 🎱 @Magic8BallRedux

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The meeting between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun.

🤖 AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, and as Anthropic was forced to pay a $1.5 billion settlement to authors for also doing. But many companies, including Anthropic, have turned to ingesting physical books instead, which they can buy countless used copies of on the cheap. According to the settled lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors’ books to train its AI. This process took advantage of a legal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder’s say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physical texts into digital ones — rather than redistributing them as new copies — a judge found this to be “transformative,” and therefore protected by fair use. Now, as 404 Media reports, this practice has become prevalent enough that even well-established book sellers are looking to cash in on the AI boom. One called ISBNdb, which boasts the “world’s largest book database,” extolls that the “world’s best AI training data is setting on a shelf,” upholding these physical texts as uncorrupted by shoddy AI writing that’s already polluted so much of the internet (and indeed, newer books). 📝 Brad Carson: So AI labs are buying old books by the pallet, slicing them apart, scanning the pages, and pulping what's left. The orders are keyed to ISBNs and blind to scarcity. Nobody in the pipeline checks whether the book being shredded is one of the last copies on earth. Some of them probably are. Here's the perverse part. A federal court blessed this precisely because the original is destroyed, as pointed out to me. One legal copy replaces another, so it's fair use. Whatever you think of that ruling or fair use, notice what it does. The law now rewards destruction and penalizes preservation. So a lab that wants to scan a book and keep it, or donate it, or deposit the scan in a public archive, has weaker legal footing than a lab that shreds everything. We have built a legal machine that pays people to pulp books and punishes them for saving them. The endangered books mostly aren't classics, but they're the only records. Long-tail items like local histories, indigenous language texts, defunct-field science, self-published memoirs of wars and migrations. When the last copy hits the pulper, that knowledge is just, well, disappeared. The fix doesn't require reopening the copyright fight. Just screen bulk orders against census counts and pull any rare title. Deposit one scan of every destroyed book in a public archive. Maybe rebind truly unusual books. Congress should bless preservation without touching fair use. LLMs promise the democratization of knowledge. But their manufacture would seem to threaten in some ways, too, under our perverse legal regime. 🔗 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books

Trump decided not to meet Zelensky when he arrived in the United States. According to American media reports, there was no honor guard at all at the meeting and Zelensky was met by the Ukrainian ambassador. @ukr_leaks_eng

NOW: President Trump says he would've FIRED Dr. Fauci if he knew how much of a crook Fauci was "I would have fired him! I didn't listen to him, when he was with Biden he was like a god. When he was with me he wasn't even close, and I wasn't very close to him. I dealt with him very little. I didn't agree with many of the things he said." 🇺🇸Join👉 @SGTnewsNetwork 📎 X  (Twitter)▪️Truth Social

Neutral Mediator No More. Zelensky In DC, New Ceasefire Trap