X Is Back After Morning Outage

Update (1014ET):

X is back online after an hour of outages across parts of the U.S.

The big question: Was this early Saturday morning outage just another glitch—or a sign of a broader system overhaul? Time will tell, but it’s clear the platform has been unusually glitchy this past week.

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For all the early risers rolling over in bed on Saturday morning, reaching for their smartphones on the nightstand to fire up the X app and check if anything insane happened overnight — bad news: outage tracker Downdetector is reporting a surge in X outages across the U.S.

Downdetector reports a massive spike in X outages occurred around 0830 ET and persisted at 0930 ET.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/x-down-were-having-trouble-connecting-right-now

Kremlin Says Vatican Is Not A 'Neutral' Place For Peace Talks

After last week's Istanbul talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, which was a first since early 2022, Western leaders have been floating the Vatican as a likely venue for future rounds of peace talks.

This is after Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, offered for talks to be hosted at the Vatican, which could act as a mediator. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said days ago that Pope Leo XIV expressed his willingness to host the next round of talks.

The Vatican is being presented as a neutral place, after as we've highlighted before the new Pontiff is attempting to initiate a peace blitz regarding global hotspots, from Gaza to Ukraine.

"Finding in the Holy Father confirmation of the readiness to host the next talks between the parties in the Vatican, the prime minister expressed deep gratitude to Pope Leo XIV for his unceasing commitment to peace," an Italian government's statement reads.

But the Kremlin objects to the assumption that the Vatican is some kind of purely neutral place, ready to respect both warring sides' interests.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow on Friday, poured cold water on hopes of Vatican-hosted talks.

"Many people are fantasizing about when and where [the meeting] will take place. We don't have any ideas right now," the foreign minister said. "But imagine the Vatican as a venue for negotiations. It would be a bit inelegant for Orthodox countries to use a Catholic platform to discuss issues on how to remove the root causes [of the war in Ukraine]," Lavrov added.

"I do not think it would suit the Vatican itself to host delegations from two Orthodox countries in these circumstances," he said.

It could be that Moscow has carefully looked at what Leo said while he was still a Cardinal:

After being elected, Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, has pledged to personally "make every effort so that this peace may prevail."

In his first Sunday address on May 11, the pope called for an "authentic and lasting peace" in Ukraine, adding that he carries in his heart the "suffering of the beloved people of Ukraine."

Previously, while serving as the bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, Leo XIV spoke out against Russia's continued war against Ukraine.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-says-vatican-not-neutral-place-peace-talks

Med School Caught Rejecting White And Asian Applicants With Better Scores Than Minorities It Accepts

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, an Illinois medical school admits black and Hispanic students with lower average MCAT scores and GPAs than the average scores of white and Asian students it rejects, according to data shared with The Daily Wire.

An analysis of the academic scores of students admitted into Southern Illinois School of Medicine from 2019-2024 reveals that blacks and Hispanics are admitted to the school with much lower scores than whites and Asians, figures obtained by Do No Harm show. These apparently different academic standards continue despite the Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision to strike down affirmative action, leading to concern that the university is watering down the importance of academics in admissions.

This revelation comes as school leadership promises to “resist” and “fight back” against executive actions from the Trump administration cracking down on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. A spokeswoman for the school told The Daily Wire that it was “committed to following the law and complying with the decisions of the Supreme Court.”

Comparing average GPAs and MCAT scores, Do No Harm found that whites and Asians generally need to score significantly higher than blacks and Hispanics to be admitted into the school. The MCAT is the standardized test that all prospective doctors must take to be admitted into medical school.

“In 2024, the average MCAT score of accepted Asians and whites (combined) was more than 4 points higher than that of accepted blacks and Hispanics (combined) — equivalent to a gap of about 14 percentile points. On GPA, accepted Asians and whites on average had 0.36 higher scores than accepted Blacks and Hispanics,” Do No Harm wrote in a summary of its analysis of the data.

According to data from 2024, the average GPA score of students accepted into the Southern Illinois School of Medicine, broken down by race, was: Hispanic (3.45), black (3.50), white (3.85), and Asian (3.89). For the MCAT (best score being 528), the average scores were as follows: Hispanic (503.5 – 58th percentile), black (505.7 – 65th percentile), white (509 – 75th percentile), and Asian (512.8 – 85th percentile).

“When comparing to the average scores of all accepted applicants, whites/Asians scored slightly above average while blacks/Hispanics scored significantly below average,” Do No Harm noted in its report.

The 2024 data also reveal that whites and Asians who were rejected had average higher MCAT scores and GPAs than blacks and Hispanics who were accepted. The average MCAT score for whites/Asians rejected was 505.7, compared to the 505.2 of blacks/Hispanics accepted. For GPA, the average for white/Asians rejected was 3.66 compared to the 3.50 of blacks/Hispanics accepted.

The data also show that 21 Asians with perfect GPAs were rejected in 2024.

“Of the 24 black or Hispanic applicants admitted in 2024, 17 had MCAT scores lower than the average white or Asian rejected applicant; 13 had GPAs lower than the average white or Asian rejected applicant,” Do No Harm noted. “In 2024, no Asian admitted student had an MCAT score below 503. Meanwhile, half of black admitted students (9 of 18) had an MCAT score below 503.”

These trends hold for every year from 2020 to 2024, with average rejection scores for whites/Asians being higher than average accepted scores for blacks/Hispanics, as Do No Harm noted that 2024 was “not an outlier.”

“Blacks and Hispanics were admitted with lower MCAT and GPA scores than whites and Asians in each of the past five years at the school,” Do No Harm reported. “A five-year average of SIUSOM’s accepted applicants shows that there was a difference of 0.34 GPA points between the two racial groups.”

The same could be found when comparing MCAT scores.

https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2025/05/med-school-caught-rejecting-white-and.html

The Looming GOP Food Fight Over Pesticides

Some in the Republican Party say they’re worried about farmers in their districts who rely on pesticides. And there are apparent concerns within the White House that abrupt regulatory action could trigger supply chain issues.

But at the same time, Republicans are bought in on Making America Healthy Again, and the MAHA movement wants pesticides banned in other countries to be similarly banned here. Or, at the least, they want their constituents to be able to sue makers of popular weed killers like Roundup, which has been linked to cancer.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former Democrat presidential candidate who’s become a superstar with President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters, seems to have figured out how to toe the line between the two camps.

On Thursday, RFK released the highly anticipated MAHA Commission report, which detailed a variety of potential causes of the childhood chronic illness epidemic. Though the report takes on pesticides — its authors order a study on the chemicals by next year — there’s a clear effort by RFK and his top allies to quell fears of quick regulatory action.

“American farmers rely on these products, and actions that further regulate or restrict crop protection tools beyond risk-based and scientific processes set forth by Congress must involve thoughtful consideration of what is necessary for adequate protection, alternatives, and cost of production,” the report states.

This effort has been in the works since before the report. Top RFK advisor Calley Means signaled last week that while the report will state the “truth” about pesticides, HHS has no desire for “nanny state” regulatory measures on pesticides, especially since abrupt action could spell a “disaster.”

“This report is on the truth, it’s on the dynamics. It’s a fact that we ingest 25% of the world’s pesticides in the United States, and many of our leading pesticides, in other countries across the world, have chosen to phase them out or ban them, calling them carcinogenic and disruptive to kids. Those are the facts. Those are easily Google-able. The United States government has never recognized those facts,” Means said. “When you get to policy, and I want to make this clear: I don’t think anyone in the Trump administration, I don’t think it’s the right policy, to say that insinuates that we need to have some sort of European anti-growth regulatory nanny state.”

“The policy solutions from this are not obvious,” he continued. “Pesticides are deeply ingrained into the U.S. agricultural system and it would be a disaster to phase them out tomorrow. Nobody is suggesting that.”

Means also noted that throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump said he wants “the truth” on pesticides, seeming to downplay pushback from the White House.

https://www.stationgossip.com/2025/05/the-looming-gop-food-fight-over.html

Palantir insiders dump over $119M in shares, heavy insider exit raises red flags investors watch closely…

🚨 $PLTR - Insider Sale Alert:

*PALANTIR'S KARP SELLS $50.4 MILLION IN SHARES

*PALANTIR'S COHEN SELLS $43.5 MILLION IN SHARES

*PALANTIR'S SANKAR SELLS $21.2 MILLION IN SHARES

*PALANTIR'S GLAZER SELLS $4.32 MILLION IN SHARES

That's alot of insider selling.

https://x.com/JesseCohenInv/status/1925790381406359898

Massive power outage hits southeastern France; 160,000 homes left in the dark as police investigate possible arson.

A widespread power outage struck southeastern France, cutting electricity to 160,000 homes and disrupting daily life in Cannes and nearby towns. The blackout affected traffic signals, businesses, and even the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, forcing organizers to switch to emergency power sources to keep events running.

Authorities are investigating the cause of the outage, with early reports pointing to a fire at an electrical substation near Cannes. Police suspect arson may be involved, though no arrests have been made. The fire weakened the grid overnight, and by morning, a high-voltage line failure plunged the region into darkness.

The timing of the blackout could not have been worse. Cannes was hosting the final day of its world-famous film festival, drawing global attention to the city. Traffic lights failed, causing congestion in the streets, while businesses struggled to operate without electricity. Some shops closed entirely, while others resorted to cash-only transactions.

Emergency crews worked quickly to restore power, but the scale of the outage made repairs difficult. The French electricity transmission system operator RTE confirmed that restoration efforts were underway, though full service had not yet been restored.

The incident has raised concerns about infrastructure security. If arson is confirmed, it would mark a serious attack on critical energy systems. Officials are reviewing security measures at substations and transmission lines to prevent future disruptions.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250524-cannes-hit-by-power-outage-on-final-day-of-film-festival

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/police-probe-possible-arson-attack-as-cannes-and-parts-of-southern-france-suffer-power-cut

https://kfor.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-power-outage-hits-cannes-film-festival-and-traffic-in-southeastern-france/

SEC case vanishes after Sun pumps $75M into Trump crypto venture. Sun drops $23M into Trump coin earns VIP seat at president’s dinner

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun for years wouldn’t set foot in the U.S. for fear of arrest. The Chinese-born tycoon, facing scrutiny from U.S. authorities, even missed a chance to fly on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket despite paying $28 million for the opportunity.

Now, Sun isn’t just back in America. He is in suburban Washington to attend a dinner with President Trump as a VIP guest.

After weeks of industry speculation, Sun confirmed in a social-media post Tuesday that he is the largest holder of the president’s $TRUMP memecoin. His some $23-million stash catapults him into the exclusive circle of 25 investors who were invited to a private VIP reception with Trump on Thursday. Critics say the event is among the most glaring demonstrations yet of the conflicts of interest for Trump and his family as they pursue a range of business ventures.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/justin-sun-trump-crypto-dinner-7efd5367

Israeli envoy to US accuses Netanyahu’s political opponents of ‘blood libel’

Appearing on right-wing podcast, Yechiel Leiter also claims the premier is currently being tried on ‘trumped-up charges,’ falsely says he was indicted in submarine graft case

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter accused “the extreme left and the media” of doing everything possible to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a politically charged podcast interview with right-wing non-profit PragerU in which he harshly criticized the premier’s opponents.

Members of the diplomatic corps are supposed to be non-political, and his comments marked a rare instance of an Israeli politician or diplomat publicly bashing political adversaries in English, which Netanyahu has also done and been castigated for in Israel.

Leiter added that the prime minister’s political opponents, who have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war in Gaza for political reasons, are guilty of a “blood libel.”

“It’s legitimate to oppose a government. I’ve opposed governments in my political career, and that’s fine. But don’t cross the border, don’t cross the line. Don’t level blood libels at your own prime minister,” he said.

“I’ve known the prime minister for 40 years. He’s a sensitive man who cares about people. Prolong a war? What kind of insanity is that? How dare they say something as malicious as that? He wants the war to end, but in victory because he carries the weight of the Jewish people on his shoulders.”

on May 22, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter accused “the extreme left and the media” of doing everything possible to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a politically charged podcast interview with right-wing non-profit PragerU in which he harshly criticized the premier’s opponents.

Members of the diplomatic corps are supposed to be non-political, and his comments marked a rare instance of an Israeli politician or diplomat publicly bashing political adversaries in English, which Netanyahu has also done and been castigated for in Israel.

Leiter added that the prime minister’s political opponents, who have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war in Gaza for political reasons, are guilty of a “blood libel.”

“It’s legitimate to oppose a government. I’ve opposed governments in my political career, and that’s fine. But don’t cross the border, don’t cross the line. Don’t level blood libels at your own prime minister,” he said.

“I’ve known the prime minister for 40 years. He’s a sensitive man who cares about people. Prolong a war? What kind of insanity is that? How dare they say something as malicious as that? He wants the war to end, but in victory because he carries the weight of the Jewish people on his shoulders.”

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According to successive polls, most Israelis believe Netanyahu is more interested in remaining in power than winning the war or freeing hostages. The most recent poll aired Saturday on Channel 12, showed that 55 percent of the public believes that Netanyahu’s main goal is to remain in power.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, is greeted by Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter on his arrival in Washington DC, February 3, 2025. (Yechiel Leiter/X)

Leiter proceeded to dismiss the criminal charges in Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial. “The charges are crumbling like a deck of cards,” he said. “They just built these sand castles. The idea was to tire him to the point where he’d break. He’s not breaking.”

“He was in court the week that he was planning the operation in Lebanon. Over what accusation? That we ordered submarines from Germany, and why was it from Germany and not from elsewhere? And these are all trumped-up charges. It has to stop,” Leiter said.

Netanyahu, who is under indictment in three separate cases, has been testifying in court since his trial resumed in December. He faces charges of fraud and breach of trust in Case 1000 and Case 2000, and charges of bribery as well as fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000.

Responding to reported tensions between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, Leiter said that these were baseless rumors: “There is tremendous respect between the two of them,” he said. “We have a very warm and cordial relationship.”

According to him, “If President Trump had remained in office, we would have reached that point of normalization with Saudi Arabia.”

When asked about growing Qatari influence, Leiter said: “I’m a lot more uncomfortable with Qatar than anybody else.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-ambassador-to-us-accuses-netanyahus-political-opponents-of-blood-libel/

Julie Rothschild Levi: Becoming an accidental influencer in Israel

“I learned Hebrew. I became a Zionist. Israel got into my blood, and I knew Israel was going to be in my life somehow,” she says.

Julie Rothschild Levi has five children, two grandchildren, and three aliyah stories. Oh, and one shtick.

Creating comedic content on social media as “Julie Shtick,” this Minnesota transplant to Rehovot has become what she calls “an accidental influencer” with about 35,000 followers.

Blessed with huge green eyes, a voice made for the media, and an expressive freckled face reminiscent of her comedic idol, Carol Burnett, Levi produces hilarious reels, often riffing off the cultural divide.

JPost Videos

She pokes fun at Americans’ fractured Hebrew (a shopper asking the butcher for “chicken bras” instead of “chicken breasts” or a student apologizing for being “ugly” rather than “late”) and Israelis’ fractured English.

She dramatizes the differences between American and Israeli styles of parenting, cooking, and emoting. She takes on the role of made-up characters, such as Jolene Rochel, a Southern belle ba’alat teshuva (“recently religious”) trying to be a balabusta (“traditional homemaker”).

https://www.jpost.com/aliyah/article-855054

WTF does this do for American's?

MIGA

"THEY KNEW ABOUT ALL OF IT" and they kept from the American people

https://rumble.com/embed/v6rjs3p/?pub=4

Barack Obama just got dragged into Diddy’s trial after one aide’s shocking testimony

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal saga took an unexpected turn that has everyone talking.

A former aide stepped into the courtroom and revealed something about Diddy and a former President that sent shockwaves through the legal proceedings.

And now Barack Obama has just gotten dragged into Diddy’s trial after one aide’s shocking testimony.

Former employee revealed bizarre Obama connection that left prosecutors stunned

David James, who worked for Diddy from 2007 to 2009, revealed a strange detail about his former boss’s daily habits that has raised eyebrows across social media.

During testimony on Tuesday, James told prosecutors about Diddy’s extensive daily drug regimen, including a detail that prompted an immediate follow-up question from the court.

“There were various pills, but one was in the form of a former president’s face,” James told prosecutor Christy Slavik during questioning.

When asked to specify which former president, James replied without hesitation: “President Obama.”

https://247politics.net/barack-obama-just-got-dragged-into-diddys-trial-after-one-aides-shocking-testimony/?utm_medium=email

ADL Demands Mass Censorship, Police Crackdown on Anti-Israel Protests in Wake of DC Shooting

The Anti-Defamation League responded to the shooting of two Israeli embassy aides in DC by demanding mass censorship, deplatforming, the repeal of Section 230 and a police crackdown on anti-Israel protests.

ADL's Midwest Regional Director David Goldenberg took part in a press conference with other Jewish leaders in Chicago on Friday where he raged at tech platforms for loosening up their censorship regimes.

"Right now tech platforms are not accountable for having misinformation," Goldenberg said. "Congress needs to amend Section 230, which provides immunity to tech platforms."

"These tech platforms are not guaranteed under the Constitution," he added. "They're just not!"

"They can use their user agreements to kick people off, to deplatform – they did!"

Goldenberg also went on an unhinged rant demanding Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson fire those the ADL views as "hostile" towards the Jewish community.

"When you find out they have that history, you get rid of them!" he insisted.

Goldenberg also demanded police be unleashed on anti-Israel campus protesters.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Thursday similarly pounced on the shooting to demand Twitch deplatform critics of Israel like Hasan Piker.

As Rahm Emanuel famously said: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64938

In the history of mankind, Nimrod stands unequalled for his symbolism of evil and Satanic practices. He is credited for having founded Freemasonry and for building the legendary Tower of Babel, in defiance of God's will. [Nimrod figures in some very early versions of the history of Freemasonry, where he was said to have been one of the fraternity's founders.

According to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions refers to Nimrod as one of the founders of Masonry. Thus in the York MS., No. 1, we read: "At ye making of ye toure of Babell there was a Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt called Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons." However, he does not figure in the current rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod]

Not only did Nimrod kill and eat the fair-skinned descendants of Shem, he often burned them alive. The type of human sacrifice involving the eating of the slaughtered human victims derived its name from the combined names of his uncle, Canaan, and the demon god Baal, the two names being combined to form the word 'cannibal'.

The records of the genocide against the people of Shem [Shemite, Semite] are apparent throughout the archives of history, but there is not a school or university whose faculty will apprise its students of this simple fact. The reason for this odd development is that the descendants of Ham traditionally have usurped the educational process … of even greater interest is that not a single school of theology anywhere in the world takes note of this central fact of history, a red (blood stained) thread which runs continuously through the record of events.

• excerpted from The Real History of the Earth. Why in Hell All This is Happening Again! : Anonymous : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive pg. 88-90. (More extensive overview continues to pg. 95)

https://archive.org/details/trh-77_202111

Netanyahu's SHOCKING TV Attack Backfires Hilariously!

Right, so yesterday I put out a video titled is this Benjamin Netanyahu’s most insane speech to date? And frankly I should have held on another day, because last night he put out a televised attack so deranged and bereft of any semblance of reality in an attack on the leaders of Britain, France and Canada, three nations that have bent over backwards for Israel and frankly still are, because they have dared to demand humanitarian aid get into Gaza and an end to Israel’s atrocities there. Netanyahu won’t countenance any comments along the lines of Israel ceasing its genocide in Gaza, by Netanyahu’s own words the ethnic cleansing of Gaza according to the Trump plan must be the condition upon with the genocide ends, but to hammer his point home, he has now labelled Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer as Hamas supporters given what they have asked. He is incredulous that sanctions have been threatened against Israel and has compared the phrase Free Palestine to being equivalent to a Hitler-style salute having once more referred to Hamas as neo-Nazis.

https://youtu.be/az4TTn0RoY0

1.2b social media users' data stolen in historic breach: Check your bank account NOW

Over a billion Facebook users have had their private account information stolen in one of the largest data breaches in social media history.

A cybercriminal using the alias ByteBreaker claims to have scraped 1.2 billion Facebook records and is now selling the data on the dark web.

Scraping, or web scraping, involves using automated tools to collect large amounts of data from websites, similar to copying and pasting information at scale.

Cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews revealed that the stolen data includes names, user IDs, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, gender information, and location data such as city, state, and country.

Investigators say ByteBreaker exploited a flaw in a specific Facebook tool designed to let apps or programs access user data.

If verified, ByteBreaker’s trove would represent the largest single data-scraping incident from a social media platform to date.

Officials are urging all Facebook users to change their passwords, freeze their credit, and activate fraud alerts on their bank accounts.

They warn that the dataset scraped by ByteBreaker contains enough information for cybercriminals to open credit cards in victims’ names or access their financial accounts.

ByteBreaker shared a sample of 100,000 user records on the dark web to prove they have the data.

However, both Facebook and cybersecurity experts are questioning if the cyber thief actually has what they claim.

A spokesperson from Meta told Daily Mail that the stolen information ByteBreaker allegedly has is actually from a 2021 Facebook breach involving more than 500 million users.

'This is from 2021, so it's not a new claim. We disclosed this years ago and have taken steps to prevent similar incidents from happening,' Meta said in a statement Thursday.

According to researchers from Hackread, some of the data in the 100,000 user sample ByteBreaker posted on the dark web was from that 2021 breach, so it's possible the cybercriminal is trying to pass off old data as new.

Cyber experts added ByteBreaker claimed in their dark web ad that the 1.2 billion accounts were stored in '200 million rows.'

In databases, however, each 'row' represents one user's complete info (name, email, etc.).

So, 1.2 billion records should need 1.2 billion rows, not 200 million, adding even more skepticism to the hacker's story.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14739873/facebook-users-data-stolen-historic-breach.html

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