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Massive Madrid protests erupt over Socialist regime's handling of Ceuta migrant invasion: "Save us from our traitor gov't" Spain's Ceuta border invasion has morphed into a major political headache for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid to protest the government's handling of the crisis, potentially accelerating the political shift identified by Nomura analysts, who expect right-wing populist movements to gain traction across Europe during the next 18-month election cycle. About 72,000 migrants, many reportedly military-age men, invaded the Spanish enclave from neighboring Morocco in late July. The scale and apparent coordination of the invasion raised concerns that Ceuta had been targeted through weaponized migration flows. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

NY prosecutor says he was told to 'find crimes' to target Trump allies A veteran prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James' office says he was ordered to find crimes to pin on people connected to President Donald Trump, and the fallout left him on paid leave within days. Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who moved into James' Investor Protection Bureau, sent an email to roughly 2,000 colleagues on Friday laying out what he says happened inside the office. The email disappeared from inboxes not long after it went out, but the Times-Union obtained a copy before it was deleted. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇺🇸Cyber group finds surveillance backdoors in routers sold in US Cybersecurity researchers have found surveillance backdoors in Chinese carrier routers made by Zbtlink and the same software in a different Zbtlink-made router sold through Amazon. Chinese law requires telecom and internet companies to provide technical assistance to police and state-security agencies. In an Aug. 27 report, cybersecurity firm VulnCheck said it found two hidden programs in an $88 router bought through Amazon from a U.S. seller. One, which the researchers named Speakingstone, sends information about the router to a remote server and can receive instructions to redirect internet traffic, obtain login credentials, or take control of the device. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

The long shadow of Judge Indira Talwani Below is my column in The Hill on the latest controversy from the chambers of Judge Indira Talwani. While the court could be upheld in halting the executive order on mail-in balloting in this case, Talwani is one of a number of jurists who have been habitual blockers of executive reforms and policies. Talwani has been criticized in the past as something of a one-stop option for forum-shoppers. Her record reaffirms the rationale for justices in using the emergency docket, or so-called "shadow docket," to deter gaming the system. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Lindsay Clancy and the political weaponization of mentally ill women After the publishing of George Orwell's 1984, communist governments and organizations around the world condemned the book as "anti-Soviet slander" and "capitalist propaganda." Orwell died only eight months after the book's release and his personal feelings on the details of the story are limited to a few personal letters to friends and publishers. Orwell was a Democratic Socialist, but even he was disturbed by the path that socialist movements had taken in light of genocidal far-left governments. His criticisms of Stalinist politics were treated by leftists as a betrayal. However, it was Orwell's depiction of women within authoritarian systems that angered the political left most of all. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Black Caucus Democrat Clyburn calls for packing the Supreme Court with "baker's dozen" to flip cases On NBC's Meet the Press, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) added his voice to expand the Supreme Court to a "baker's dozen," or thirteen members to allow Democrats to add justices who agree with him and Democratic members on how the law must be interpreted. In the meantime, as discussed earlier, court packing is being pushed as the new litmus test for any Democratic candidates. Clyburn's "baker's dozen" is a telling description of an effort to bake in partisan views on a Court expanded to create an instant liberal majority. In defending this hostile takeover of the Court, Clyburn bizarrely insisted that the failure to do so might lead to a return to antebellum conditions when blacks were being given fewer rights than whites. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Safetyism madness: Mom gets 6-month suspended jail sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to neighborhood pond The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years. A mom of five was convicted last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇳🇵BEST OF THE WEB: At least 1,280 killed, 5,620 missing after flash flood hits Nepal and Tibet (UPDATED) At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds are missing after a huge flash ⁠flood swept away villages in Nepal, damaging roads, bridges and power projects in areas near Tibet, authorities said. Nepali police said late on Wednesday that they had recovered 157 bodies and that officers were continuing to try to move people away from risk areas. Officials said at least 384 tourists were reported missing as a result of the flash flood, including 291 foreign nationals, among them tourists from the United Kingdom, the United States, India and Malaysia. Police spokesman Abi Narayan Kafle said that 28 police personnel were also missing. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Storm Edouard dumps over 20 inches of rain on Texas, and the flood threat isn't over Heavy rain from former Tropical Storm Edouard is still falling on eastern Texas nearly two days after the storm made landfall, but relief is coming. The flood threat should finally ease Thursday afternoon, but flash flood warnings were in effect Thursday morning for a batch of slow-moving downpours along and east of Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston. The current flood risk is 50 to 100 miles northwest of areas hardest hit Wednesday. A month's worth of rain fell in an hour and localized rainfall totals topped 20 inches in the area north of Beaumont, Texas, resulting in dangerous flash flooding and water rescues. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

6.3-magnitude earthquake hits near Alaskan island The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near Umnak Island, southwest of mainland Alaska. The depth was measured at 35 km. According to the USGS, the earthquake hit 84 km southwest of Nikolski, a US census-designated place with a 2020 population of only 39. No damage or casualties have been reported so far. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

192 House Democrats refuse to condemn Socialism as party scrambles to avert DSA civil war It is not surprising whatsoever that nearly every House Democrat voted against a Republican-led resolution condemning socialism, giving Republicans fresh campaign material for the upcoming midterm elections amid the rise of the cancerous Democratic Socialists of America within the increasingly unhinged left-wing party. The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Republican Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado, called on Congress to denounce "socialism in all its forms," reject socialist policies in the US and support implementation of President Trump's election-security legislation. The measure passed 220-192. All Republicans supported it, along with eight Democrats: Kathy Castor, Vicente Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar, Darren Soto, Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Don Davis and Gabe Vasquez. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes South Sandwich Islands in Atlantic Ocean An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.9 km, the US Geological Survey reported. The region experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its location at the intersection of the South American and Antarctic tectonic plates. In August 2021, the South Sandwich Islands experienced a powerful earthquake that exceeded 8 on the Richter scale. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Israeli takeover leaves Palestinian schoolchildren in limbo (VIDEO) NRWA facilities have been taken over as families scramble for schooling, RT reports from the ground in East Jerusalem. Israeli authorities have seized a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in the Shufat refugee camp, leaving Palestinian children in East Jerusalem facing uncertainty as their academic year begins. RT's Charlotte Dubenskij reports from the ground, where families say they fear losing access to affordable schooling or being forced to send their children into an Israeli-run system. Fourteen-year-old Noor and her 11-year-old sister Fatima are among those still without a school just days before the new academic year, Dubenskij reported from Shufat. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇱The exodus Israel cannot afford New Israeli data shows that citizens heading for the exits increasingly include the doctors, engineers, tech workers, and high-income taxpayers on whom the occupation state's war economy depends. In the early hours of 7 October 2023, an Israeli journalist identified only as Asaf booked flights for himself, his wife, and their two daughters. The next day, carrying only hand luggage, the family boarded a flight to Berlin. What began as an emergency exit became permanent. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇷🇺They backed Russia into the corner knowing what would happen Europe continues to present the war in Ukraine as a sudden Russian aggression, but it was the result of three decades of NATO's eastward expansion, which the West chose to ignore — until Ukraine became the battlefield. There is a peculiar dishonesty at the heart of Europe's discussion of the war in Ukraine. After more than four years of destruction, millions displaced, hundreds of thousands killed or wounded, and a European security order transformed beyond recognition, the dominant political narrative still treats Russia's military intervention as though it emerged from a historical vacuum. The narrative has been: Moscow invaded, Ukraine was attacked, and Europe responded. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇷Trump rules out nuclear weapons against Iran, weighs limited Strait of Hormuz strikes President Donald Trump said nuclear weapons are unnecessary because Iran has been "totally defeated militarily," while his administration considers limited conventional strikes aimed at protecting U.S. forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump said Monday that he has ruled out using nuclear weapons against Iran, even as the White House weighs additional conventional military action around the Strait of Hormuz following renewed clashes between U.S. and Iranian forces. Trump addressed the nuclear question while speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, where he was asked whether he would exclude such an escalation from the ongoing conflict. "Well, I would never say. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation amid tensions with Hegseth Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is out. Early Monday evening The Wall Street Journal is the first to break the news, describing that he submitted his resignation to President Trump, following months of tensions with Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. Some national security sources have already been quoted as saying the development is "unsurprising" - with the WSJ writing that "Driscoll had been expected to step down this year from his role as the civilian leader of the Army after clashing with Hegseth." White House spokesperson Anna Kelly has confirmed that Driscoll resigned. It comes just days after the Iran war hit the six month mark, with no apparent exit strategy articulated by the White House or military leadership. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

California let 400,000 voters register without providing any ID On Monday, the Trump administration's top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles revealed that California's voter ID rules are so lax that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, with what he says is at least half a million voters on the rolls who never provided documentary proof of identification. The prosecutor, Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, made the case in an interview with Bill Melugin on Fox News. He said the state runs voter registration on the honor system, with no one in government confirming citizenship and the state accepting an applicant's word instead. Essayli's interview came in the wake of the arrest of Darwin Rivera Flores, a Honduran national, on charges of illegally registering to vote in California. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

SOTT FOCUS: From Utukku to UFOs: Mesopotamian Demons Revisited From Babylonian Exorcists to Enoch's Angels to the Cassiopaeans — Two Traditions, One Choice: Diagnose or Pray Comment: First published on the author's Substack - 'Letters From The Edge of Reality' - 23 August 2026 The previous three articles were preparatory to what I want to write about today. Let me give a brief recap to jog everyone's memory and get us on the same page. Introduction and Review In the first piece, Giants, Omens, and Signs, I mentioned at the beginning that Henryk Drawnel's paper on the Mesopotamian background of the Enochic giants and evil spirits pinged several things in my mind as I read it. Drawnel argued that the violent giants of 1 Enoch were deliberately modeled on Mesopotamian demons, especially the utukku type found in the bilingual exorcistic series Utukkū Lemnūtu. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇪🇸Orca encounters damage 2 yachts off Spain on August 30 and 31 A series of orca encounters off Galicia has damaged the rudders of two sailing yachts within 24 hours, with both crews returning safely to port. The first incident took place on Saturday evening (30 August 2026) after the Ignacio Montenegro Trophy regatta, which involved about 30 boats. The 42ft sailing yacht Seika was heading towards Baiona when it encountered four orcas near Picamillo. Footage recorded by the crew shows the animals swimming beneath the yacht before repeatedly striking the vessel. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate