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Why did he just kill those 2 specifically and not spray the whole place with bullets?
We got the Special Forces Central Casting Gigamind A-team. Shit is running smooth.
Chinese national arrested for posing as a U.S. Marshal to scam an upstate New York woman out of $98,000
https://x.com/Dapper_Det/status/1925720691598315709
Stunning testimony at the JFK assassination hearings
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
@RepLuna
🚨 According to eyewitness testimony from Dr. Don Curtis, who was present in the operating room with President Kennedy’s body on the day of his assassination in 1963, at least three distinct entry wounds were visible—located in separate areas—indicating that multiple bullets were fired from different directions.
"How many bullets did you say?"
"That were fired? Four."
https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1925323199224398030
Full detailed thread by Anna.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1925321450359071006.html
UK plan to transfer Chagos Islands goes ahead despite last-minute legal injunction
The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the controversial, multi-billion pound move survived an eleventh-hour legal challenge and months of criticism on both sides of the Atlantic.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed on Thursday that the islands will return to the African country, closing Britain’s last colonial outpost on the continent while maintaining control of the US-UK Diego Garcia military base.
Britain will pay £101 million ($135 million) a year as part of the package, for a total cost of £3.4 billion ($4.5 bn), Starmer said.
It comes after a High Court judge briefly blocked the transfer on Thursday, following a challenge by two Chagossian women living in Britain who had opposed the deal on human rights grounds.
And it follows month of criticism, including from allies of Starmer and US President Donald Trump, over the development, which gives control of the land surrounding a key US military location to a close trading partner of China.
Starmer told reporters on Thursday that Diego Garcia is “one of the most significant contributions that we make to our security relationship with the United States.”
“President Trump has welcomed the deal, along with other allies, because they see the strategic importance of this base and that we cannot cede the ground to others who would seek to do us harm,” he said.
Starmer framed the move as a long-awaited solution to a colonial-era arrangement that had posed an ethical and legal dilemma. But the UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands have been convoluted and controversial, right up until the hours before they were agreed.
London is paying billions to lose control of a territory, and Mauritius is heavily reliant on imports from China, which has raised national security concerns on both sides of the Atlantic.
“If Mauritius took us to court again, which they certainly would have, the UK’s longstanding legal view is that we would not have a realistic prospect of success and would likely face provisional measures orders within a matter of weeks,” Starmer said.
He added that he has “no alternative but to act in Britain’s national interest.”
“If we did not agree this deal the legal situation would mean that we would not be able to prevent China or any other nation setting up their own bases on the outer islands or carrying out joint exercises near our base,” Starmer said. “We would have to explain to you, the British people and to our allies, that we’d lost control of this vital asset.”
But Grant Shapps, a former Conservative defense minister, told CNN earlier this year that the plan was “insane.”
“(China) will use territory to expand their influence. They will spy,” Shapps told CNN. “A lot of sensitive stuff goes on at British military bases. So you don’t want to be surrounded by potential adversaries.”
Critics of the deal were given unlikely hope just hours before it was set to be completed, with the temporary injunction leaving plans in the balance.
Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, who brought the legal challenge, have criticized the government for negotiating on the future of the islands without consulting the exiled Chagossian community, which itself has a fraught history with Mauritius.
“We have rights. We are British citizens, yet our right doesn’t count?” Pompe said outside the High Court Thursday after her case was concluded, according to PA Media.
“We don’t want to give our rights, hand over our rights to Mauritius. We’re not Mauritians, and I don’t think we will get any… the rights we’re asking for now we’ve been fighting for for 60 years,” she said.
Britain has controlled the region since 1814, and in 1965 it split the Chagos Islands from Mauritius before that former colony became independent. London kept control of the archipelago and renamed it as the British Indian Ocean Territory.
It then evicted almost 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to create space for an airbase on the largest island, Diego Garcia, which it leased to the United States. The secretive base is important to Washington’s interests, giving it a significant military presence in the Indian Ocean.
But its future was thrown into uncertainty in 2019, when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Britain should return the islands “as rapidly as possible,” so that they could be decolonized in “a manner consistent with the right of peoples to self-determination.” That ruling was advisory, but it was endorsed overwhelmingly by the United Nations General Assembly.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/uk/britain-chagos-islands-transfer-block-intl
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 JUST IN: Ilhan Omar REFUSES to condemn the assassination of Israeli diplomats in DC last night
Omar is an ISLAMIC TERRORlST who needs to be deported back to Somalia.
NOT IN CONGRESS.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1925527078104863054
Secretary Kristi Noem
@Sec_Noem
This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments.
Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused.
They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.
Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.
https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1925612991703052733
Diddy trial live updates: ‘Freak-off’ hotel details revealed after Kid Cudi’s explosive testimony
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/diddy-trial-live-updates-05-22-2025/
Father of NC college student 'furious' after career criminal allegedly kills daughter in USC house burglary
A tragic incident unfolded in Columbia, South Carolina, where Logan Federico, a 22-year-old college student from North Carolina, was fatally shot during a random burglary while visiting friends at the University of South Carolina. The suspect, Alexander Dickey, a 30-year-old career criminal, allegedly entered the house, stole credit and debit cards, and then shot Logan in the early morning hours of May 3.
Logan’s father, Stephen Federico, expressed outrage upon learning that Dickey had a long criminal history, with nearly 40 prior arrests across multiple North Carolina counties. He described the moment he learned of his daughter’s death as gut-wrenching, recalling the shock and devastation his family experienced.
Authorities are investigating the case, and Logan’s family is seeking justice for her untimely death
https://www.aol.com/father-nc-college-student-furious-080054645.html
Woman shot at CIA headquarters after crashing into gate
-A woman was shot and wounded at CIA headquarters after crashing into a gate there early Thursday morning.
-The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC News.
-The shooting on CIA property in Langley, Virginia, occurred hours after two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot and killed outside D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum.
A woman was shot and wounded at CIA headquarters after crashing into a gate there early Thursday morning, NBC News reported.
The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC.
The officials are investigating whether Spadaro was intoxicated during the incident on CIA property in Langley, Virginia. She is being treated for the gunshot wounds, the officials said, NBC reported.
Spadaro was found guilty in 2021 on a charge of driving while intoxicated, filings in Arlington General District Court show. Her sentence of 180 days in jail was suspended, according to the court filings.
The CIA earlier said, “There was a security incident that law enforcement responded to outside CIA Headquarters.”
“The main gate is currently closed, employees should seek alternative routes. Additional details will be made available as appropriate,” a spokesperson for the agency told CNBC.
The spokesperson declined CNBC’s requests for additional information.
The shooting incident took place hours after officials said two Israeli Embassy staff members, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were shot and killed outside D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum.
There is no evidence that the two incidents are linked.
Fairfax County Police told NBC that they responded around 4 a.m. ET to the 900 block of Dolley Madison Boulevard to help the CIA with traffic control following the latest shooting.
There are currently no road closures, the police department said.
The CIA headquarters building, known since 1999 as the George Bush Center for Intelligence, has seen violence before.
In January 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi killed two CIA employees and wounded three others in front of the building. And in March, a man engaged in an hourslong standoff with law enforcement outside the headquarters before surrendering.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/cia-shooting-headquarters.html
Harvard Researcher: the University Is “Totally Corrupted”
Omar Sultan Haque has spent 23 years at Harvard University. He is furious about what has happened within the school.
While the media have framed the recent fight between Harvard and President Donald Trump in partisan terms, Haque believes that the problem goes much deeper than political score-settling. As he rose through the ranks—from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to medical researcher to faculty member at Harvard Medical School—Haque watched the university gradually abandon the pursuit of truth and replace it with left-wing racialism.
Rather than stay silent, Haque has spoken out. Last year, he wrote an essay about his experience and has continued to criticize the university throughout the recent campus turmoil. As Haque sees it, Harvard cannot be reformed from within. It’s an unconscious patient and requires CPR to survive.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
City Journal: Give us a sense of the ideological landscape and your experience at Harvard.
Omar Sultan Haque: Unlike many others at Harvard, I have no dramatic cancellation, or intellectual persecution, or struggle session to report. I stopped teaching at Harvard last year primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism, which made continued participation a poor use of time. There are exceptions, but on the whole Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking and has become ideologically driven, too often resembling a secular church or a partisan think tank. The university’s culture and practices prioritize ideological conformity over open inquiry and debate, suppressing dissenting viewpoints and compromising academic freedom. This shift undermines the core values of a secular university and poses a threat to the integrity of academia and broader society.
CJ: How have DEI initiatives affected day-to-day life at Harvard?
Haque: The university may have changed the official name of its DEI office to use more nebulous euphemisms, but DEI and “Diet DEI” (a diluted form) have the same effects in practices, norms, and the larger culture of orthodoxy and taboo. Diet DEI is just more dishonest. The university has made some progress by eliminating racially segregated graduations and required DEI loyalty oaths in one of its many schools—mandatory diversity statements when applying for a job—but the larger culture of DEI is the problem. Some tropes remain popular on campus that are legacies of left-wing racism, such as the idea that a person’s racial identity is central to one’s academic study; that people should be sorted into “oppressor” and “oppressed” groups by their immutable characteristics; that racism is specific to one race rather than a universal, sinful propensity in human nature; and that lowering academic or behavioral standards for certain racial groups is not happening (when advocates are confronted with evidence that it is happening, they argue that the practice is justified). These beliefs infect teaching, research, grading standards, hiring, promotions, campus debate, what is considered an acceptable topic for invited lectures, what projects get funded, and so on.
CJ: In your observation, has Harvard continued to engage in discriminatory admissions and hiring?
Haque: Yes, of course! There is endless evidence at Harvard, in student admissions and faculty and staff hiring, that people are, in effect, sorted via a left-wing segregation filter: competing primarily against others of the same race and sometimes gender. One colleague at Harvard Law School who served for years on the admissions committee flat-out admitted this to me recently. That is why Harvard tries to cover its tracks and hide admissions data and post-admissions performance metrics that predictably result from separate and unequal admissions standards. The eye-popping data on biases against Asians and whites in admissions have already been exposed [in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard]. A corporation with identical racist practices would have been sued out of existence decades ago; why the exception for a wealthy university? The data on faculty and staff hiring and promotions reveal even more obvious evidence of discrimination. Just examine whether people in the same positions are similarly accomplished. No need to call Sherlock Holmes.
With SFFA, I thought the discrimination would end. But after the ruling, I saw Harvard’s first essay prompt for applicants to the university: “Harvard has long recognized the importance of enrolling a diverse student body. How will the life experiences that shape who you are today enable you to contribute to Harvard?”
So, Harvard has this sneaky, but technically legal, escape hatch from the Supreme Court ruling. Admissions officers can ask about “life experience” (wink, wink), and use that to sort applicants by race and assess them accordingly. They don’t ask about patriotism or spirituality, only diversity. The university’s recalcitrance and denial, its commitment to DEI, and its rationalization of racial discrimination has been truly shocking.
CJ: What is your sense of the political makeup of Harvard’s students, faculty, and administrators?
Haque: Per surveys, Harvard has become much more ideologically homogeneous than conservative and religious schools like Hillsdale. As a result, Harvard is too narrow-minded in scholarship, myopic, intolerant, and anti-intellectual. It favors progressive viewpoints to the detriment of open inquiry, especially on social, moral, and political topics in teaching and research. Courses, exams, research, trainings, grants, and campus life too often become predictable exercises in mouthing univariate explanations and dogmatic platitudes. Harvard’s institutional culture increasingly functions as a combined finishing school and seminary, not for a traditional religion, but for the progressive Left and the Democratic Party. It’s a totally corrupted institution.
CJ: What is your sense of how Harvard’s administration is responding to its ongoing fight with the Trump administration? Do you believe that Harvard deserves federal funding?
Haque: I think the Trump administration overstepped by making illegal requests in addition to legitimate ones, and may have undermined the prospects of long-term change. Yet, Harvard should follow the Civil Rights Act; defying it will not end well. President Alan Garber is incorrect that the government can’t enforce laws regarding whom the universities can admit and hire. (Editor’s note: in a public statement, Garber said that “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”) Yes, the government can: racial discrimination is illegal, and no one should be admitted, hired, or promoted based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. Harvard appears to me to be willing to sink the ship to keep its racist policies and practices going, because those ideals are so central to the self-concept of the median wealthy liberal.
CJ: Do you still consider Harvard a university in the proper sense of the word?
Haque: Outside of fields where people use equations, Harvard is a non-sectarian university only in name. It has been captured and subverted: from syllabi to exams, from admissions to graduation, from hiring to promotion. Harvard remains in denial of its own radicalism. It sneers and looks down on most of America and on American values like color-blind equality, meritocracy, free speech, hard work, and individual responsibility. Today, Harvard resembles an aging billionaire secluded in his mansion, consumed by narrow moral obsessions, clutching his treasures, disconnected from a world he scorns. He fades into sanctimonious irrelevance, even as the world moves on to create alternative, courageous, and truly American educational institutions—better ones—unapologetically committed to the pursuit of truth, wherever it leads.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-university-left-bias-trump-omar-sultan-haque
Suppressor Delisting in Big, Beautiful Budget Bill
A major Second Amendment victory is unfolding as the Hearing Protection Act is included in the latest budget bill, fully removing suppressors from the National Firearms Act of 1934. This means firearm suppressors would no longer require registration or a $200 tax, making them more accessible to gun owners.
The bill passed the House by a narrow 215-214 vote, but it still faces hurdles in the Senate. While gun-rights advocates are celebrating, opponents argue that deregulating suppressors could make it harder for victims of shootings to identify gunfire sources.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/05/22/suppressor-delisting-in-big-beautiful-budget-bill-n1228679
Canadian supreme court to decide gun rights
As much as I joke around with our northern neighbors, Canadians are some of the best firearms owners I’ve known – at least when their government isn’t trying to keep them away from guns.
However, the fight in Canada for gun rights is not over, and in a recent bold stand for procedural fairness, Canadian lawyer Ian Runkle is taking the fight for firearms owners’ rights to the Supreme Court of Canada, and grassroots support is surging. Runkle’s crowdfunding campaign on GiveSendGo, titled “Procedural Fairness for Firearm Owners,” has raised over CAD $33,662 toward a $40,000 goal to cover mounting legal costs. The case challenges the Canadian government’s controversial “nullification” of thousands of firearms licenses, a move critics argue is a thinly veiled attempt to sidestep legal obligations and advance a broader gun confiscation agenda that has gradually eroded Canadian firearms rights.
Runkle, a vocal advocate for Canadian gun owners, is contesting the government’s use of “nullification,” a term absent from existing firearms law. He argues it’s a deliberate misclassification designed to bypass the requirement to provide affected owners with reasons for the decision or an opportunity to appeal—rights enshrined in Canadian law. The government’s stance is inconsistent: while it claims these decisions are unchallengeable in the Supreme Court case, it previously argued in Federal Court (and the court agreed) that such challenges were available and appropriate. This contradiction lies at the heart of Runkle’s legal battle.
“This is a critical juncture,” Ian Runkle emphasizes in his campaign. “If the government loses here, it will be a major impediment to their gun confiscation scheme. It will also confirm that gun owners are owed the same procedural fairness rights as every other Canadian.” The stakes are high, as a favorable ruling could set a precedent ensuring due process for firearms owners and potentially derail sweeping anti-gun policies.
The campaign has struck a chord with supporters, as evidenced by recent donations and heartfelt messages. Donors like Russ Taggart, who contributed $100, urged the government to focus on “preventing illegal firearms from entering” rather than targeting licensed owners. Another anonymous supporter, donating $138, wrote, “God speed Runkle,” while others called for a simplified classification system to end “arbitrary bans based on appearance.” The outpouring reflects widespread frustration with policies perceived as punishing law-abiding citizens while failing to address illegal firearms trafficking.
Legal battles, however, come with a steep price tag. Ian Runkle estimates costs have already exceeded $10,000, even with him handling much of the legal writing himself. As the Supreme Court process unfolds, expenses are expected to climb, making public support vital. “Your donations go directly to legal fees to help me file the documents necessary,” Runkle notes, underscoring the campaign’s transparency and urgency.
For Canadian firearms owners, this case is more than a legal dispute—it’s a fight for fairness and accountability. With the crowdfunding campaign nearing its goal (at the time of writing it is just shy of $6,000 CAD away from being fully funded), Runkle’s challenge could reshape the landscape of firearms rights in Canada. Supporters can contribute or follow updates at GiveSendGo.com/sccfirearms. As one donor, Henry, put it, “Thanks for taking this on for the rest of us.” The outcome of this case may well determine whether Canadian gun owners are treated as citizens with rights—or as targets of unchecked government power and this is one of few ways that other firearms owners from across the globe can help out gun owners in other countries.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/ian-runkle-canada-firearms-rights/
Two House Republicans missed the big vote
Reps. Andrew Garbarino and David Schweikert were no-shows Thursday morning.
It was the biggest vote of the 119th Congress so far — and they missed it.
GOP Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York and David Schweikert of Arizona were both recorded as not voting on the Republican domestic policy megabill that passed the House early Thursday morning.
Both were surprising: They had each played key roles in the legislation — Garbarino as a moderate advocate for clean-energy tax credits and raising the cap on the state-and-local-tax deduction, and Schweikert as a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee.
A spokesperson for Garbarino initially said “briefly stepped out and inadvertently missed the vote.” In a subsequent statement, Garbarino himself said “the vote was closed before I was able to cast my vote.”
Speaker Mike Johnson gave reporters a more succinct account: “He fell asleep in the back, no kidding.”
“I’m going to just strangle him,” Johnson joked, “but he’s my dear friend.”
Johnson said Schweikert, the Arizona lawmaker, arrived also late to the chamber and the vote gaveled closed before his vote could be counted. A Schweikert spokesperson said he’d just gotten to the floor as the vote closed.
Garbarino said he was “proud of the work we accomplished to deliver huge results for Long Island” and that he “look[s] forward to voting ‘yes’ when it comes back to the House floor from the Senate.”
Johnson said Schweikert, who was one of only a handful of Republicans to submit floor amendments to the bill, also intended to vote in favor.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/22/congress/garbarino-schweikert-missed-vote-00364709
Elon Musk XAi to use one million new Nvidia chips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebFVn2Alax0
Derrick Evans
@DerrickEvans4WV
🚨BREAKING: Newly elected Canadian PM Mark Carney just announced that all companies who refuse to participate in his new “climate agenda” will be “punished.”
https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1924944974484820035
Breitbart News
@BreitbartNews
James Comey shares a transparently fake behind-the-scenes story of his "86 47" message, blaming his wife:
•First, she thought it was someone's "address"
•"She had long been a server in restaurants. She said, 'I think it's a reference to restaurants. When you'd 86 something in a restaurant, it's off the menu.'"
•"I remember when I was a kid, you'd say 86 to get out of a place. 'This place stinks, let's 86 it.'"
Colbert chimes in: “I was a bartender, you would 86 a customer if they were getting drunk. Like, ‘Let’s 86 them,' give them a low-proof alcohol or something like that.”
https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1925171306074419373
Elon Musk: We'll have hundreds of thousands of full self-driving Teslas by the end of next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIDeiiy1PWI
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: There's no need for Tesla to buy Uber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GAqT7Rjmcg
Elon Musk: We are very much open to licensing self-driving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGhjZ1LAuo