DOUBLING DOWN: Dem wants to do 'welfare check' on alleged MS-13 gang member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-wqQJkOOI
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey FURIOUS after being TURNED AWAY from trying to meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
"I'm the Congressman that represents Kilmar. I came all the way down from the United States…and now they're telling us we got to go all the way back to San Salvador to get a permit. That's ridiculous!"
"We ought to have a chance to come in and visit. They knew we were coming. They knew why we were coming. And they know we have the right to do this. So they need to just cut the crap."
"Let us get in there and have a chance to see him and talk with him. You got his lawyer here. You got somebody from the unions here. Talk with them. Let us in. Stop playing games. Let us have a chance to talk with."
@NayibBukele
's people are master trolls 🤣
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1927143515026338224
Tom Cruise Is Having 'Serious Conversations' About Returning for a Tropic Thunder Spinoff
-Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie says he and Tom Cruise have had "very serious" talks about a Les Grossman movie
-Cruise played Les Grossman in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, directed by Ben Stiller
-In the movie, Grossman is a Hollywood studio executive with an explosive temper
Tom Cruise's Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman is ready for a comeback.
During an interview with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, director Christopher McQuarrie said he and Cruise, 62, have had "serious" conversations about making a standalone Les Grossman movie.
"The conversations we’ve had about Les Grossman are so f—ing funny," McQuarrie, 56, said during his interview. "[Cruise and I are] talking about it. We’re having very serious conversations about it, and how best to do it."
McQuarrie added that amid the serious challenges of filming The Final Reckoning, a relief came from discussing the chaotic character. In the 2008 Ben Stiller-directed movie, Cruise's Grossman is known for his explosive temper and giant hands, plus some hilarious dancing abilities.
"Just to be sitting at a breakfast table not talking about the movie we’re making for a minute is such decompression. And just riffing with Tom playing Les Grossman at the table, it was one of the real joys of making this movie," McQuarrie said. "It was all the stuff we were doing, planning the future while slugging out the present."
Cruise's latest project sees him reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in the potentially final Mission: Impossible film, which earned a five-minute standing ovation during the Cannes Film Festival.
In a video posted by The Hollywood Reporter's Chris Gardner, Cruise thanked the festival crowd for their applause, saying he was "very grateful" to be a part of the franchise, which he has fronted for three decades. The actor also thanked McQuarrie, who has directed four Mission: Impossible films.
"Every step of the way, what you've done, how you've expanded it, how you just went beyond our expectations," Cruise continued, also calling the director "absolutely brilliant."
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is in theaters now. Tropic Thunder is streaming on Paramount+.
https://people.com/tom-cruise-serious-conversations-tropic-thunder-spinoff-11741887
Unlimited L's
@unlimited_ls
NEW: Two men brutally beat and rob a uniformed off-duty NYPD cop - He was kicked so hard in the head that it left a sneaker imprint on his face
The father of 23-year-old Taveon Hargrove was later arrested for trying to use the officer’s credit card
Two masked men dressed in black assaulted him and stole his gun belt from the vehicle
The officer was kicked in the head and suffered a fractured eye socket
He was hospitalized and later listed in stable condition
The second suspect has not yet been identified.
https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1927136192757154185
Well he was involved Paypal afterall… Musk confirms X Money beta testing ahead of planned 2025 launch
Elon Musk has confirmed that X Money, his planned payment and banking platform, has entered beta testing ahead of its 2025 launch.
Musk announced the beta phase on May 25, stating that it will have very limited access to ensure extreme care when handling users' savings. The platform has been actively securing money transmitter licenses across the U.S., with 41 licenses obtained so far.
Originally envisioned in 2022 after Musk acquired Twitter, X Money is part of his broader plan to turn X (formerly Twitter) into an "everything app" that integrates payments, banking, and social media.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-confirms-x-money-beta-testing-launch-2025
You do.
Four VW execs found guilty of fraud in trial that transformed Europe’s auto market
Four former Volkswagen executives received prison sentences Monday for their role in the emissions-cheating scandal that fundamentally transformed Europe’s car market. The verdict, delivered after a three-year trial in Braunschweig, Germany, marked the latest chapter in a 10-year-long saga that reshaped the continent’s relationship with diesel technology.
Jens Hadler, who oversaw diesel engine development, received the harshest sentence of four and a half years for orchestrating what judges called “particularly serious” fraud. His team had installed software allowing vehicles to recognize emissions testing, temporarily increasing pollution controls during inspections while running dirty the rest of the time.
The scandal’s impact extended far beyond corporate boardrooms. Before 2015, diesel vehicles commanded over half of Europe’s car market, marketed as environmentally friendly alternatives to gasoline. Today, that figure has collapsed to just 10% of new car sales.
The whole affair also accelerated Europe’s transition toward electrification. Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids now account for 25% of new car sales, while Volkswagen itself has become Europe’s leading EV manufacturer, selling three times as many battery-powered cars as Tesla in April, reports The New York Times.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/26/four-vw-execs-found-guilty-in-trial-that-transformed-europes-auto-market/
German Chancellor greenlights missile strikes deep inside Russia: ‘We have removed the limits’
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/germany/article/2025/05/26/germany-s-merz-says-western-allies-no-longer-impose-range-limits-on-ukrainian-weapons_6741699_146.html
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday, May 26, that Germany, along with Ukraine's other key Western backers, had lifted range restrictions on weapons they send to Kyiv to fight against Russia. Merz, who took office early this month, also vowed that "we will do everything in our power to continue supporting Ukraine, including militarily," in close coordination with other supporters.
"There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British nor by the French nor by us nor by the Americans," he said. "This means that Ukraine can now defend itself, for example, by attacking military positions in Russia… With very few exceptions, it didn't do that until recently. It can now do that."
The previous German government of center-left chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly backed Kyiv but shied away from sending it long-range Taurus missiles, worried that this might escalate tensions with Russia, a nuclear power. Merz has in the past said he favors delivery of Taurus, which could strike targets deep inside Russia. His government has since stressed it would no longer detail what arms it is sending to Ukraine, preferring a stance of strategic ambiguity. Speaking in a lengthy interview with public broadcaster WDR, Merz did not say whether Germany would now send Taurus missiles to Kyiv.
The recently appointed chancellor took the opportunity to slam Russian President Vladimir Putin's reluctance to engage in talks to end the fighting in Ukraine. The Kremlin chief has responded to diplomatic efforts to bring the conflict to a close by prosecuting the war "harder than before," Merz told WDR. "Putin obviously sees offers of talks as a sign of weakness," Merz said.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/germany/article/2025/05/26/germany-s-merz-says-western-allies-no-longer-impose-range-limits-on-ukrainian-weapons_6741699_146.html
German Chancellor greenlights missile strikes deep inside Russia: ‘We have removed the limits’
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday, May 26, that Germany, along with Ukraine's other key Western backers, had lifted range restrictions on weapons they send to Kyiv to fight against Russia. Merz, who took office early this month, also vowed that "we will do everything in our power to continue supporting Ukraine, including militarily," in close coordination with other supporters.
"There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British nor by the French nor by us nor by the Americans," he said. "This means that Ukraine can now defend itself, for example, by attacking military positions in Russia… With very few exceptions, it didn't do that until recently. It can now do that."
The previous German government of center-left chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly backed Kyiv but shied away from sending it long-range Taurus missiles, worried that this might escalate tensions with Russia, a nuclear power. Merz has in the past said he favors delivery of Taurus, which could strike targets deep inside Russia. His government has since stressed it would no longer detail what arms it is sending to Ukraine, preferring a stance of strategic ambiguity. Speaking in a lengthy interview with public broadcaster WDR, Merz did not say whether Germany would now send Taurus missiles to Kyiv.
The recently appointed chancellor took the opportunity to slam Russian President Vladimir Putin's reluctance to engage in talks to end the fighting in Ukraine. The Kremlin chief has responded to diplomatic efforts to bring the conflict to a close by prosecuting the war "harder than before," Merz told WDR. "Putin obviously sees offers of talks as a sign of weakness," Merz said.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/germany/article/2025/05/26/germany-s-merz-says-western-allies-no-longer-impose-range-limits-on-ukrainian-weapons_6741699_146.html
Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine
Russia launched its largest-ever drone-and-missile assault on Ukraine overnight into Monday, according to Ukrainian officials, defying President Trump’s calls for an end to the bombardment.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched more than 350 explosive drones and at least nine cruise missiles. Kyiv scrambled aircraft and deployed electronic warfare systems and mobile air-defense teams throughout the country in response, the government said.
The latest attacks came just hours after Trump issued a strong rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin, denouncing airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital and other cities that killed at least 12 people Sunday.
“He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers,” Trump said late Sunday in a social-media post, referring to Putin. “Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever.”
He also criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying in the same post that Zelensky “is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”
The Kremlin said Monday’s strikes were a response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, which Moscow said involved dozens of drones over the weekend. Ukrainian officials said the strikes damaged several Russian military-industrial facilities, including a factory that makes parts for ballistic missiles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its own overnight salvo against Ukraine struck an air base in a central region of the country as well as other military objects in several regions.
“This was a retaliatory strike,” said Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. He called Trump’s criticism of Putin an “emotional reaction” at a time when Russia and Ukraine are taking some steps with U.S. encouragement to open talks about an end to the war.
Zelensky denounced Monday’s attacks and called for fresh economic sanctions against Russia.
“Only a feeling of total impunity can allow Russia to launch such strikes,” he said in a post on social media. “There is no meaningful military sense to this.”
The latest exchange of missile-and-drone attacks comes as efforts to end the war have reached something of an impasse. Russia last month dismissed a proposed 30-day cease-fire that was brokered by Trump and accepted by Ukraine, and has insisted that Kyiv first agree to discuss its disarmament and the abandonment of its aspirations to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
After a call with Trump last week, Putin said a memorandum could soon be drafted that commits Moscow and Kyiv to working on a peace deal. But Peskov said Monday that even this initial document—essentially an agreement to keep talking—hadn’t even been finalized by the Russian side, let alone passed to Kyiv.
The only tangible result of talks this month between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, the first face-to-face negotiations in nearly three years, was a prisoner swap involving around 1,000 soldiers from either side. Prisoners of war from Ukraine and Russia began arriving home Friday.
The intensifying campaign of Russian and Ukrainian strikes comes as both sides step up production of strike drones capable of flying hundreds of miles.
Russia has been expanding its military-industrial complex, turning shopping malls into drone production facilities and expanding a factory that specializes in making Shahed strike drones with help from Iran, a Russian ally.
Russia has also evolved in its methods of evading Ukraine’s air defenses. The drone attacks it launches now feature an array of decoy projectiles that are meant to imitate strike drones but carry no explosives. Ukraine uses up expensive air defense missiles and ammunition to shoot them down.
https://archive.is/90VmT
5 Years Since George Floyd’s Overdose Death Killed Over 3,000 People
It’s been 5 years since the overdose death of George Floyd, which came during a violent struggle with police by the career criminal, was exploited to suppress law enforcement and unleash nationwide race riots and a crime wave that, among other devastating effects, killed over 3,000 people.
3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.
That’s an additional 2,244 black people killed.
56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.
3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.
3,000 deaths is a whole lot more impressive than a golden coffin and members of Congress kneeling, but Floyd was just an instrument. The radical left now champions Hamas. Next Tuesday, it will be some other means of mobilizing rage to generate violence and its ultimate goal of a political revolution.
The media is running pieces about how the ‘wave of change’ from George Floyd’s death faded away. It hasn’t entirely. Crime rates are improving, but the dead aren’t coming back.
The racist BLM movement killed thousands of people with its pro-crime advocacy. The campaign was funded by powerful foundations and donors. There have been no apologies or retractions. What there really should be are trials.
Democrats have pulled back from some of their more radical proposals to dismantle law enforcement because the public turned against them, but there’s every reason to believe that they’ll embrace them again if the environment appears favorable.
This isn’t over yet. And it may be a long fight before America can breathe again.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/5-years-since-george-floyds-overdose-death-killed-over-3000-people/
The U.S. Penny is officially dead
The U.S. government is phasing out the penny, whose use has spanned more than two centuries.
The Treasury Department will stop putting new pennies into circulation by early next year. Afterward, there won’t be enough pennies to use in everyday cash transactions, and businesses will need to start rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents, the Treasury said in a statement.
The move is the culmination of a long bipartisan effort to do away with the lowest-denomination unit of American currency, which is more likely to end up lost or buried under couch cushions than to be used for transactions.
President Trump has been critical of the penny, as was President Barack Obama. Trump, in a social-media post in February, asked the Treasury to halt penny production. Since then, bills to stop its production have been introduced in both chambers of Congress.
The U.S. Mint, which is the Treasury’s in-house coin producer, projects an annual savings of $56 million in reduced material costs. The penny, though worth only a cent, costs nearly 4 cents to make. The Treasury said it expects savings to grow once it stops using some of the production facilities.
The Mint will stop making pennies after it runs out of the blank templates used to make them. The final order of blanks was placed this month, according to the statement.
Americans will still be able to use pennies in cash transactions after production stops. As pennies fade from circulation, businesses will have to adjust pricing. Noncash transactions will continue to be priced at exact change. The Treasury said state and local governments should provide guidance to retailers so that sales taxes are properly collected.
Congress sets the rules for currency production, including the size and composition of coins, and can discontinue or eliminate coins. But the Treasury said it has the power to halt the production of new coins.
With production costs rising, the U.S. government lost more than $85 million last year on the roughly three billion pennies it produced.
Meanwhile, Americans throw away up to $68 million in coins a year. They are left in plastic bins at airport security checkpoints and even used in art and home decor.
Some 60% of actively circulating coins, or as much as $14 billion, sit in coin jars, according to the Federal Reserve.
But the penny remains deeply embedded in American culture. Traders buy and sell penny stocks. Grandparents advise that a penny saved is a penny earned. Friends are always eager to offer their two cents.
The U.S. is following in the footsteps of Canada, which stopped producing the coin in 2012 and eventually started to round cash transactions to the nearest 5 cents. Australia and New Zealand stopped producing one-cent pieces decades ago.
The U.S. penny was one of the first coins made by the Mint after its establishment in 1792. At the time, its design featured a woman with wind-swept hair. The penny has since shrunk in size, and its composition has changed from pure copper to a mix of zinc and copper. In 1909, Abraham Lincoln was first featured on the coin in honor of his 100th birthday, according to the Mint.
https://archive.is/Ys5DC#selection-3371.0-3407.379
Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine
Russia launched its largest-ever drone-and-missile assault on Ukraine overnight into Monday, according to Ukrainian officials, defying President Trump’s calls for an end to the bombardment.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched more than 350 explosive drones and at least nine cruise missiles. Kyiv scrambled aircraft and deployed electronic warfare systems and mobile air-defense teams throughout the country in response, the government said.
The latest attacks came just hours after Trump issued a strong rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin, denouncing airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital and other cities that killed at least 12 people Sunday.
“He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers,” Trump said late Sunday in a social-media post, referring to Putin. “Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever.”
He also criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying in the same post that Zelensky “is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”
The Kremlin said Monday’s strikes were a response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, which Moscow said involved dozens of drones over the weekend. Ukrainian officials said the strikes damaged several Russian military-industrial facilities, including a factory that makes parts for ballistic missiles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its own overnight salvo against Ukraine struck an air base in a central region of the country as well as other military objects in several regions.
“This was a retaliatory strike,” said Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. He called Trump’s criticism of Putin an “emotional reaction” at a time when Russia and Ukraine are taking some steps with U.S. encouragement to open talks about an end to the war.
Zelensky denounced Monday’s attacks and called for fresh economic sanctions against Russia.
“Only a feeling of total impunity can allow Russia to launch such strikes,” he said in a post on social media. “There is no meaningful military sense to this.”
The latest exchange of missile-and-drone attacks comes as efforts to end the war have reached something of an impasse. Russia last month dismissed a proposed 30-day cease-fire that was brokered by Trump and accepted by Ukraine, and has insisted that Kyiv first agree to discuss its disarmament and the abandonment of its aspirations to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
After a call with Trump last week, Putin said a memorandum could soon be drafted that commits Moscow and Kyiv to working on a peace deal. But Peskov said Monday that even this initial document—essentially an agreement to keep talking—hadn’t even been finalized by the Russian side, let alone passed to Kyiv.
The only tangible result of talks this month between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, the first face-to-face negotiations in nearly three years, was a prisoner swap involving around 1,000 soldiers from either side. Prisoners of war from Ukraine and Russia began arriving home Friday.
The intensifying campaign of Russian and Ukrainian strikes comes as both sides step up production of strike drones capable of flying hundreds of miles.
Russia has been expanding its military-industrial complex, turning shopping malls into drone production facilities and expanding a factory that specializes in making Shahed strike drones with help from Iran, a Russian ally.
Russia has also evolved in its methods of evading Ukraine’s air defenses. The drone attacks it launches now feature an array of decoy projectiles that are meant to imitate strike drones but carry no explosives. Ukraine uses up expensive air defense missiles and ammunition to shoot them down.
https://archive.is/90VmT
The U.S. Penny is officially dead
The U.S. government is phasing out the penny, whose use has spanned more than two centuries.
The Treasury Department will stop putting new pennies into circulation by early next year. Afterward, there won’t be enough pennies to use in everyday cash transactions, and businesses will need to start rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents, the Treasury said in a statement.
The move is the culmination of a long bipartisan effort to do away with the lowest-denomination unit of American currency, which is more likely to end up lost or buried under couch cushions than to be used for transactions.
President Trump has been critical of the penny, as was President Barack Obama. Trump, in a social-media post in February, asked the Treasury to halt penny production. Since then, bills to stop its production have been introduced in both chambers of Congress.
The U.S. Mint, which is the Treasury’s in-house coin producer, projects an annual savings of $56 million in reduced material costs. The penny, though worth only a cent, costs nearly 4 cents to make. The Treasury said it expects savings to grow once it stops using some of the production facilities.
The Mint will stop making pennies after it runs out of the blank templates used to make them. The final order of blanks was placed this month, according to the statement.
Americans will still be able to use pennies in cash transactions after production stops. As pennies fade from circulation, businesses will have to adjust pricing. Noncash transactions will continue to be priced at exact change. The Treasury said state and local governments should provide guidance to retailers so that sales taxes are properly collected.
Congress sets the rules for currency production, including the size and composition of coins, and can discontinue or eliminate coins. But the Treasury said it has the power to halt the production of new coins.
With production costs rising, the U.S. government lost more than $85 million last year on the roughly three billion pennies it produced.
Meanwhile, Americans throw away up to $68 million in coins a year. They are left in plastic bins at airport security checkpoints and even used in art and home decor.
Some 60% of actively circulating coins, or as much as $14 billion, sit in coin jars, according to the Federal Reserve.
But the penny remains deeply embedded in American culture. Traders buy and sell penny stocks. Grandparents advise that a penny saved is a penny earned. Friends are always eager to offer their two cents.
The U.S. is following in the footsteps of Canada, which stopped producing the coin in 2012 and eventually started to round cash transactions to the nearest 5 cents. Australia and New Zealand stopped producing one-cent pieces decades ago.
The U.S. penny was one of the first coins made by the Mint after its establishment in 1792. At the time, its design featured a woman with wind-swept hair. The penny has since shrunk in size, and its composition has changed from pure copper to a mix of zinc and copper. In 1909, Abraham Lincoln was first featured on the coin in honor of his 100th birthday, according to the Mint.
https://archive.is/Ys5DC#selection-3371.0-3407.379
Really solid point the doctor made. We see a lot of pictures from back in the day of healthy people but like today, the people back then only took pictures of themselves when they looked good and at their best angles.
‘VIOLENT CAMPAIGN’: Treasury Department targets cartel leaders with sanctions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4oVER13Ro
'GO AT IT': JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon okays bitcoin trading despite being a critic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7OtLfhluqs
Young traders bet on prediction markets to get rich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-PtTfHwM0A
Driver arrested after vehicle plows into Liverpool soccer fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdq5Sv5UqYg
Might be a normie who bet all his savings and house on Aston Villa so he got pissed at the cheering Manchester fans and ran them over.
You gotta be careful who you're happy around sometimes, especially military aged Muslims that just arrived to your neighborhood less than a year ago.
ONE WEEK LATER: New details emerge in NOLA jailbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5kfqYs1o8