"Experiences may vary"
I believe Lexington for the first pic, USS Midway for the second one
Canada #82
Congress Advances Trump’s FY26 Defense Bill Restoring Warrior Ethos, Ending Wokeism, and Securing the Border
by Antonio Graceffo Sep. 5, 2025
The FY26 NDAA fulfills President Trump’s pledge to end wokeism in the military by eliminating DEI programs, banning CRT, and requiring promotions and academy admissions to be based solely on merit. It redirects over $1 billion from climate initiatives to strengthen combat readiness and restore the warrior ethos.
Both the Senate and House Armed Services Committees have approved the 2026 National Defense Acquisition Act, titled Peace Through Strength, but the bill has not yet become law. It must still pass floor votes in both chambers, move through a conference committee, and receive final approval before being signed by President Trump, likely toward the end of the year.
According to congressional summaries, the FY26 NDAA implements President Trump’s Peace Through Strength Agenda by codifying all or parts of 15 executive orders. These include Restoring America’s Fighting Force (EO 14185), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs (EO 14151), and Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border (Proclamation 10886).
Other measures include Securing Our Borders (EO 14165), Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States (EO 14167), Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base (EO 14265), The Golden Dome for America (EO 14186), Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (EO 14299), Restoring American Airspace Sovereignty (EO 14305), and Unleashing American Drone Dominance (EO 14307).
The bill fully funds the establishment and enforcement of National Defense Areas along the southwest border and authorizes deployment of National Guard and active-duty troops in support of Border Patrol operations. It also permits DoD to contract private companies for Customs and Border Protection support.
Over $900 million is dedicated to countering drug trafficking, including $398 million for DoD counter-narcotics operations and $116 million for National Guard counter-drug programs, reinforcing the principle that border security is national security.
Under Restoring Lethality and the Warrior Ethos, the NDAA eliminates DEI offices, CRT teaching, and climate programs across the Department of Defense, replacing them with priorities focused on warfighting readiness. All military promotions, accessions, command decisions, and service academy admissions must follow merit-based criteria, with race and ethnicity no longer allowed as factors.
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The bill also strengthens accountability outside the ranks. It prohibits Pentagon funding for colleges and universities that tolerate antisemitic demonstrations and blocks DoD contracts with advertising firms, such as NewsGuard, that blacklist conservative outlets.
In addition, the NDAA codifies more than 30 legislative provisions requested by the Trump Administration. These include revising national missile defense policy to reflect the Golden Dome, extending expiring bonus and special pay authorities, expanding joint task force authorities, providing DoD support to secure U.S. airspace and maritime domains, and extending counter-ISIS authority.
The FY26 NDAA carries out Trump’s Peace Through Strength Agenda by building a ready, capable, and lethal fighting force. It expands DoD authorities for border security, reforms the acquisition process to speed delivery of new technologies, and provides a 3.8 percent pay raise and improved benefits for military families.
Funding is authorized for Trump’s top priorities, including the Golden Dome, F-47 fighter aircraft, submarines, warships, and autonomous systems. It revitalizes the defense industrial base, grows American defense manufacturing jobs, and strengthens onshoring of supply chains.
The act identifies over $20 billion in savings, including $15 billion from DOGE-initiated reforms in Trump’s budget. It reforms civil service laws governing DoD civilian hiring and firing, expands Indo-Pacific readiness, and extends authorities to eliminate terrorist threats. It also codifies Trump’s executive orders promoting energy independence and deploying new nuclear power technologies.
Finally, the NDAA cuts red tape by shifting defense acquisition from compliance to rapid, cost-effective fielding of capabilities. It reduces decision timelines from nearly three years to as few as 90 days, empowers program executive officers with full oversight of programs, and strengthens the role of Product Support Managers to ensure sustainment is integrated early, preventing costly readiness failures.
In addition to making the military stronger, the FY26 NDAA saves taxpayers more than $20 billion, including $15 billion in DOGE-initiated savings outlined in President Trump’s budget request.
These savings come from a wide range of cuts: $40.5 million from eliminating DEI activities, $1.6 billion from climate change-related programs, $1.2 billion by retiring obsolete weapons systems, $6.8 billion through reductions in Pentagon bureaucracy, $5.5 billion from trimming consulting and service contracts, and $5 billion from eliminating inefficient defense programs.
Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military is once again a lean, mean, fighting machine.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/congress-advances-trumps-fy26-defense-bill-restoring-warrior/
Not gonna happen
Canada #82
==Rebellion: Anonymous Federal Judges Accuse Supreme Court of ‘Undermining Judicial System’ by Overturning Their Anti-Trump Rulings
by Kristinn Taylor Sep. 4, 2025
NBC News reported shocking interviews with a dozen federal court judges who hid behind anonymity to attack the Supreme Court for overturning their anti-Trump decisions, accusing the conservative dominated Supreme Court of undermining the judiciary.
This is the latest in an ongoing battle this year between anti-Trump Resistance judges on the federal bench using their rulings to enact their preferred policies and the Supreme Court trying to rein them in under constitutional order.
With Republicans holding the White House and both houses of Congress, Democrat activists are using their allies on the federal bench to obstruct and delay actions by the Trump administration to aggressively reform the government and rollback decades of entrenched liberal policies.
The attack by the anonymous judges comes the same week as one federal judge went on the record to criticize the Supreme Court in a footnote to a ruling, rejecting recent comments by Justice Neil Gorsuch accusing lower court judges of defying the Supreme Court.
In July, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a complaint against resistance Judge James ‘Jeb’ Boasberg over comments he made in March to Chief Justice John Roberts questioning whether President Donald Trump would obey court orders.
Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no explanation, with some worried the practice is undermining the judiciary at a sensitive time.
Some judges believe the Supreme Court, and in particular Chief Justice John Roberts, could be doing more to defend the integrity of their work as President Donald Trump and his allies harshly criticize those who rule against him and as violent threats against judges are on the rise.
In rare interviews with NBC News, a dozen federal judges — appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump, and serving around the country — pointed to a pattern they say has recently emerged:
Lower court judges are handed contentious cases involving the Trump administration. They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings. When they go against Trump, administration officials and allies criticize the judges in harsh terms. The government appeals to the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.
And then the Supreme Court, in emergency rulings, swiftly rejects the judges’ decisions with little to no explanation.
…The Supreme Court, a second judge said, is effectively assisting the Trump administration in “undermining the lower courts,” leaving district and appeals court judges “thrown under the bus.”
MSNBC reported on the federal judge who clapped back at Justice Gorsuch (excerpt):
A federal judge’s ruling for Harvard on Wednesday was significant in rejecting the Trump administration’s attempt to exert financial control over the educational institution. But just as notable was a footnote in the ruling that directly called out Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for his criticism of lower court judges.
“The Court is mindful of Justice Gorsuch’s comments in his opinion in APHA and fully agrees that this Court is not free to ‘defy’ Supreme Court decisions,” U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs wrote in the ninth footnote of her 84-page ruling. “APHA” refers to the high court’s shadow docket decision last month in National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association, in which the majority backed the Trump administration’s bid to cut NIH research grants.
The NIH case divided the justices to such an extent that five of them wrote separate opinions. Joined by fellow Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh, Gorsuch’s separate opinion cited multiple recent cases in which he said lower court judges bucked clear high court precedent. “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” he wrote, lamenting that his court’s interventions “should have been unnecessary.”
He concluded that the phenomenon, as he saw it, underscored “a basic tenet of our judicial system: Whatever their own views, judges are duty-bound to respect ‘the hierarchy of the federal court system created by the Constitution and Congress.’” He was quoting a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that warned of “anarchy” if lower court judges don’t follow high court precedent.
More:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/rebellion-anonymous-federal-judges-accuse-supreme-court-undermining/
"They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings" Not buying that for a second"
Canada #82
EU Slaps Google With Massive €2.95 Billion Antitrust Fine
by Tyler Durden Friday, Sep 05, 2025
The European Commission has slapped Google with a €2.95 billion fine for abusing its dominance in the search advertising market through "self-preferencing" practices, according to a new Financial Times report. The EU ordered Google to end these behaviors within two months or risk a potential breakup. This marks one of the largest EU fines against a company, following the €4.12 billion Android fine in 2018.
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera warned Google to draw up a "serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest, and if it fails to do so, we will not hesitate to impose strong remedies."
Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's global head of regulatory affairs, called the fine "unjustified" and said "it requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money."
The commission's investigation began around 2021, with formal charges issued in 2023. Brussels warned back then that the only solution for Google might be breaking up its ad-tech business.
Not since US v Microsoft, filed in 1998, has Silicon Valley been so threatened.
Meanwhile, in the US, Google earlier this week avoided a breakup order after a judge ruled against forcing divestitures of Chrome or Android. Instead, Google must share more data and stop exclusive distribution deals.
Even as Brussels and Washington ramp up antitrust actions against the tech giant, its New York-listed shares have gone parabolic this year.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/eu-slaps-google-massive-eu295-billion-antitrust-fine
>them protesting in uniform shows what they stand for
Shows they need to get in line for Article 15
>and they do not stand for israel
have many service members have you personally asked?
>unlike the tens of thousands that got vaxxed due to muh uniform
Sadly they trusted the Chain of Command at the wrong time, look what happened to the ones that refused it or put in for an exemption
Remember in November
Seattle School Board primary: Who’s ahead in early count
Aug. 5, 2025 at 8:19 pm
A former Seattle School Board director could return to the dais later this year, based on the leaders in Tuesday’s primary. Altogether, six candidates will advance in three competitive Seattle School Board primaries. The top two vote-getters in each race advance to November’s general election.
In the crowded District 5 contest, Vivian Song, a finance professional and former school board director, was ahead of Janis White, an attorney, disability advocate and parent of Seattle Public School graduates, in a five-person race, though six names were on the ballot because one candidate dropped out late. Song led White by 72.3% to 16.4%. The district includes schools in Capitol Hill, Chinatown International District, First Hill, Leschi, Madison and the Central District.
In District 2, data scientist Kathleen Smith led with 44.8%. Sarah Clark, the current District 2 director, was running second, with 43.6%. The district includes Ballard, Green Lake, Phinney Ridge, Greenwood and Magnolia.
The leaders in District 4 were Joe Mizrahi, the current director, with 67.4%, and Laura Marie Rivera, with 18.4% of the Tuesday vote count. The district covers schools in Fremont, Queen Anne, South Lake Union and portions of downtown.
The leaders in those races will join the two candidates in District 7, which did not have a primary because only two people filed to run for the open seat to replace Brandon Hersey. Carol Rava, a parent and education nonprofit executive, and Jen LaVallee, a parent and product designer, will face each other in November.
Michelle Sarju did not seek reelection in District 5. Seventeen people initially filed to run for School Board, although by the time of the primary, 14 names were on the ballot, and only a dozen candidates remained in the races.
Ballots will continue to be counted for several days.
The fall could be a consequential one for Seattle Public Schools, which will start the new academic year Sept. 3 without a permanent replacement for outgoing Superintendent Brent Jones.
The seven-member School Board, with potentially up to four new directors, could play a pivotal role in shaping the district’s future as it reckons with long-standing concerns that were overshadowed during last year’s monthslong school closure debate.
The candidates in the primary largely agreed on many of the issues, including calls to prioritize academics, address shortcomings in special education services and ensure students across the city have access to similar programs and opportunities. Families and School Board directors also want the district to fix its enrollment processes.
The budget is another big challenge. The district’s finance staff has estimated annual shortfalls in the $100 million range in recent years. Citizen analysts have argued the deficit is lower.
More:
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-school-board-primary-whos-ahead-in-early-count/
Prove it
Canada #82
Benny Johnson Leaves Unhinged Geraldo Rivera in Total STUNNED Silence After Asking the Most Obvious Question About Illegal Aliens
by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 5, 2025
It was a total demolition.
Benny Johnson absolutely dismantled Geraldo Rivera during a fiery debate on Piers Morgan’s show.
Geraldo, who has made a career out of defending the indefensible, tried to lecture America that illegal aliens are not criminals, even as he openly admitted that their “only crime” is coming here illegally. The circular logic was laughable, but Benny wasn’t about to let it slide.
Benny Johnson:
What do you mean by they’re not criminal aliens? Are you saying that they came here legally or illegally? Which is the answer?
Geraldo Rivera:
The only crime the vast majority of these people have committed is coming here illegally. That’s the only crime.
Benny Johnson:
But that makes them criminal.
Geraldo Rivera:
They’re not Tren de Aragua. They’re not MS-13. The vast majority of them commit fewer crimes than citizens do.
Benny Johnson :
Respectfully, do you understand the definition of the word “illegal”? Because you just said they came here illegally. Do you understand what that means?
For seven agonizing seconds, Geraldo sat in stunned silence, staring blankly, completely unable to respond.
Benny Johnson:
Do you understand the definition of the word “illegal”? Because you just said they came here illegally. Do you understand what that means? That means they broke our laws — the laws on the books.
Geraldo Rivera:
So did the jaywalkers.
Benny Johnson:
But I don’t understand. You just admitted their crimes — the vast majority of their crimes are here illegally. By saying that, you’re saying they’re criminals.
Geraldo Rivera:
In my day, they weren’t. First of all, to categorize what they are doing as a crime insults real criminals.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Rivera then went off on a bizarre tangent about Puerto Ricans being “deported,” despite Puerto Ricans being U.S. citizens who carry American passports.
Geraldo Rivera:
I am absolutely dismayed by the attempts to sow terror in the homes of Latino people. For instance, Puerto Rican people. Puerto Rican people look just like Dominican people, just like Cuban people, just like — more or less — Venezuelan people. And yet, Puerto Rican people are citizens. Puerto Rican people are being harassed by ICE. They’re citizens, but they are also Latinos. There is a racial component. There’s a racial component.
Benny Johnson:
Puerto Rican people have American passports, Geraldo. What are you talking about?
Geraldo Rivera:
And so now they carry their… So now, Puerto Rican people… Hold on. Now, Puerto Rican people have to carry their American passports to show you that they belong here. Do you carry your American passport, Benny? Do you?
Benny Johnson:
I carry an ID everywhere I go, yes — and a firearm. But is your contention that America is deporting Puerto Ricans back to America? Is that the point you’re trying to make?
Can you give me an example of that, for instance? Because I can give you an example, Geraldo. I can give you an example of white, Chinese, black, and Hispanic people that are all here illegally.
Rivera bizarrely tried to paint ICE agents as villains, claiming they are targeting “farmers, babysitters, and dishwashers.” Johnson, however, brought the real-world consequences: the brutal murder of nursing student Laken Riley by a Venezuelan gang member released repeatedly by left-wing prosecutors.
Johnson then hit Rivera with another truth bomb. Johnson explained why ICE agents wear masks, to protect their families from terrorist Venezuelan gangs like Tren de Aragua. Geraldo completely lost it. He mocked the comparison to U.S. Special Forces fighting ISIS.
More:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/benny-johnson-leaves-geraldo-rivera-total-stunned-silence/
>The Romans were in Britannia for a very long time before being unceremoniously expelled
Their empire crumbled so they went home
>we should start using a name that emphasizes the mental illness
About a year ago an anon came up with the term "Gender Anorexia"
Keeping a low profile hoping no one reposts the images of them together with her so they can live in peace
shameful peace, but peace
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created during WW2 when we were fighting Nazi Germany
I remember one of the tactics is to start arguments by posting incorrect stuff so rather than waste time or brad I'm just going to let you know I'll be in the background having a chuckle at your antics
Not seeing the proof, just tangent
>>23552752
Strange how the thing keeps getting cropped
the image was not posted by Q
Q did post yet you idiots can't grasp the subyle Q showed they are watching
Try Q #571
No free passes