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I know but the the juxtaposition of LARPing amateurs with falling off mustaches on such a significant situation as day 1 Return of the Jedi opening I found funny.
Yeah. You know, one of the rare movie franchises that literally expanded minds.
Not my problem your imagination has parameters.
Was Steve Jobs up on stage presenting the iPhone not significant to you? Movies and storytelling in general is an existential mental stimulant.
DiJonai Carrington posts "White Privilege" on X in lockerroom after being ejected from game where she close lined Sophie Cunningham from the back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ATk8YLk60
>>24938024 (pb) CNN is stunned that Michigan voters HATE Abdulrahman Mohamed El Sayed, Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers is LEADING
El Sayeed has a crypto-muslim tow-truck driver scammer aura. Don't know how else to explain it otherwise.
>>24939474 (lb) Deer antlers hold secret to healing broken limbs, say scientists
Ya'll should read up on Traditional Chinese Medicine. They figured this stuff out like 2,000 years ago. The only downside of TCM is that many in China go to extremes like boiling animals alive so the food tastes and makes you high off adrenochrome.
Eating heart is good for your heart, eating eyes is good for your eyes, consuming grinded up bones is good for your bones. What a shocker.
Women good at looking sexy.
If every tow-truck driver and mechanic got replaced by robots, I would low-key be satisfied. Hard to feel sorry for them tbh.
Gina Milan
@ginamilan_
Only Sophie Cunningham could go from playing a Fever game to randomly showing up at a bar and singing “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” with the fans. 🥰🇺🇸
She’s truly the freaking best. ❤️❤️
https://x.com/ginamilan_/status/2088636239431790786
JPMorgan Debanked Polymarket Over Regulatory Concern, FT Says
(Bloomberg) – JPMorgan Chase & Co. terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket last year over regulatory concerns, the Financial Times reported.
JPMorgan notified the prediction-market platform that it needed to find a new bank in October, the paper said, citing people it did not identify. Polymarket is now working with a new lender, the FT said, without identifying it.
A representative for JPMorgan declined to comment. Polymarket, which didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, said in a statement to the FT that it continues to maintain "a close, active relationship with JPMorgan across multiple entities, operational integrations and material handling of customer fund flows."
The bank retains some ties to Polymarket as it looks to leave the door open for an underwriting role should it attempt to go public, the paper said, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Prediction markets have grown into a multi-billion dollar industry by offering financial contracts tied to everything from celebrity news to when the Strait of Hormuz will reopen. Wagers on sports dominate prediction market trades and stand at the center of a wide-ranging fight over how to regulate the industry.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/american-gen-z-takes-radical-140000776.html
Trump, mission org. confirm release of kidnapped American missionary pilot
President Donald Trump and the Evangelical Christian mission organization SIM International have confirmed the release of American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout, who was abducted in Niger last October.
“Kevin Rideout, a wonderful Christian Missionary, is back in United States Custody,” President Trump stated in a Truth Social post Friday morning, following early reports of Rideout's release, citing unamed officials.
“Kevin was kidnapped by Jihadi terrorists in West Africa — The epicenter of Islamist terrorism, where there have been more deadly attacks in the past year than anywhere else on Earth.”
“The United States of America looks forward to welcoming you HOME," the president said.
SIM International released a statement earlier Friday confirming that its “good friend and brother in Christ, Kevin Rideout, has been released after over nine months in captivity.” As explained by SIM International, Rideout was kidnapped outside his home in Niamey, Niger on Oct. 21, 2025.
“Kevin is in good health in the care of US officials,” SIM International stated. “He will soon be reunited with Krista, his children, and his extended family. Krista and the rest of Kevin’s family are profoundly grateful for the prayers offered on their behalf by people around the world throughout his captivity, and in particular for the deep level of prayer and support offered by our SIM family.”
While requesting respect for the “privacy of the family while they reconnect after this time apart,” SIM International invited Christians worldwide to “join us in giving thanks to the Lord for this incredibly good news!”
U.S. officials told The New York Times Thursday that Rideout had been released and was en route to the United States. Additional details about the terms of Rideout’s release remain unclear.
Rideout’s kidnapping prompted the U.S. Embassy in Niger to issue a security alert warning that “American citizens remain at a heightened risk of kidnapping throughout Niger, including in the capital city.”
Rideout’s release marks the second time this week that an American citizen detained overseas has seen his captivity come to an end.
On Tuesday, the White House and the U.S. State Department announced that Russia had agreed to release former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who had been imprisoned there for four years.
Gilman was flown home to the U.S. and arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland Tuesday evening. President Donald Trump noted that Russia released Gilman “very much on a Humanitarian Basis” and credited members of his administration with helping to make the development possible.
Statistics shared by the U.S. State Department reveal that 109 American citizens who have been “held abroad as hostages, wrongful detainees, or under concerning circumstances” have been brought home since the start of the second Trump administration on Jan. 20, 2025. While Gilman is included in the total, the database of imprisoned Americans brought home has not been updated to include Rideout as of Friday morning.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-mission-org-confirm-release-of-kidnapped-missionary.html
Democratic Party Insiders Behind Anchor Baby Hospital Network
Its Founder Received a Biden Lifetime Achievement Award. His Daughter Sits in a DCCC Leadership Circle.
Prime Healthcare leaders cultivated ties to Biden, Obama, Harris, Newsom and other top Democrats while their hospitals marketed “Birth Packages in South Texas” to pregnant women abroad.
Two Texas hospitals under investigation for allegedly marketing childbirth packages to foreign women belong to a politically connected healthcare empire led by a Biden-honored billionaire and a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s leadership network.
Dr. Prem Reddy founded Prime Healthcare and created the nonprofit Prime Healthcare Foundation, which owns Mission Regional Medical Center and Knapp Medical Center, the two hospitals now under investigation.
In 2024, Reddy received the Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award.
read moar:
https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/democratic-party-insiders-behind
Understanding the court’s next major case on asylum seekers: Wassily v. Blanche
This coming term, in Wassily v. Blanche, the Supreme Court will decide whether asylum beneficiaries are barred from obtaining lawful permanent residency if their asylum status has been terminated. Wassily is of considerable significance. While the termination of asylum status once was relatively uncommon, recent policy changes by the Trump administration have exposed far more immigrants to the risk of this.
The legal dispute in Wassily, which has divided the federal courts, dates back to unclear language in the Refugee Act of 1980. The Refugee Act laid the framework for the modern asylum system and defined legal standards for asylum officers, immigration judges, and other immigration adjudicators. The act used precise, detailed language in crafting the refugee process for noncitizens outside of the United States, but Congress left internal asylum procedures more undefined, with less statutory guidance. Over time, asylum claims increased dramatically, making unclear statutory gaps more and more troublesome.
Indeed, that lack of statutory clarity is front and center in Wassily. The Refugee Act specified that refugees processed outside the United States could only obtain a permanent resident green card if their refugee “admission has not been terminated.” By contrast, the act was unclear whether that same requirement also applied to asylees who had obtained asylum status from within the United States. For asylees applying to “adjust” to permanent resident status, as codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1159(b), the Refugee Act did not mention termination at all. Instead, the act only said that the immigration official “may” grant the green card for “any alien granted asylum” who met the admissibility requirements. The act did not say whether “granted asylum” meant anyone who previously had been granted asylum or whether that phrase was limited to those with a current asylum status.
Tamer Wassily left his native Egypt and entered the United States in 1993. He was granted asylum in 2000 based on his claim of persecution in Egypt as a Coptic Christian. Later, he was convicted of stalking and child endangerment, at which point the DHS sought to terminate his asylum status before an immigration judge. The immigration judge agreed and terminated this based on the finding that Wassily’s stalking conviction was a “particularly serious crime.” But the immigration judge found him eligible to adjust to a green card because the immigration statute did not contain “an explicit requirement” of current asylum status.
Byron Velasquez Arreaga entered the United States in 1995 and was granted asylum. He later was convicted of multiple crimes for driving while intoxicated. The DHS sought to terminate his asylum status and scheduled an immigration court hearing. The immigration judge terminated his asylum status for particularly serious crimes. In contrast to Wassily’s immigration judge, this immigration judge found that without a current asylum status, Velasquez Arreaga could not adjust status to a green card and he was ordered removed to his native country of Guatemala.
The parties appealed both cases. The Board of Immigration Appeals weighed in on the statutory confusion in a precedent decision: Matter of T-C-A-. The BIA interpreted the statute as meaning that only a noncitizen with current asylum status could adjust to permanent resident status. In Wassily’s appeal, the BIA relied on Matter of T-C-A-. It found that Wassily’s terminated asylum status made him ineligible for adjustment to a green card. The BIA also found Velasquez Arreaga ineligible for adjustment.
In tandem cases for Wassily and Velasquez Arreaga, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit agreed with the majority of circuits that only noncitizens with current asylum status were eligible for asylee adjustment. The 2nd Circuit concluded that the statutory phrase “granted asylum” was best understood to require a current asylum “status” – a legally significant term as used by Congress. The panel majority said its reading was “buttressed” by statutory context, including the Immigration Act of 1990. That act explicitly created a time-restricted exception that allowed some noncitizens to apply for green cards “regardless of whether or not such asylum has been terminated.” The circuit reasoned that this limited exception, as a “statutory note,” did not create a general rule that noncitizens could apply for permanent residency after termination.
In dissent, Judge Beth Robinson adopted the minority view of the circuits on this “difficult” statutory question. She reasoned that the asylee adjustment statute meant that “any” noncitizen was eligible to adjust who previously had been granted asylum. Under Robinson’s view, the absence of the word “status” from the statutory provision must have been an intentional omission by Congress.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari in June to review the statutory question of whether terminated asylees are eligible to apply for adjustment to permanent residency. In their petition for certiorari, Wassily and Velasquez Arreaga argue that the statutory text and context are clear that any noncitizen who was “granted asylum” previously can seek permanent residence after termination. They interpret “granted” as a past tense verb, and they contend that the omission of “status” in the statutory language must be given effect because Congress knew how to include such a requirement.
As broader statutory context, Wassily and Velasquez Arreaga emphasize the adjacent Section 1159(c), which allows for a discretionary “waiver” of other requirements for the noncitizen’s admissibility. According to them, it would be “strange” to interpret the statute as “categorically” stripping the attorney general of that discretionary authority where the asylee’s status has been terminated.
Wassily and Velasquez Arreaga also invoke the rule of lenity – the canon that a statutory ambiguity should be construed in favor of the noncitizen. They claim that lenity is especially paramount after the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, which eliminated the doctrine of Chevron deference to a federal agency’s (here, the BIA’s) reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
In an atypical move where only the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Circuits so far have looked at this issue, Solicitor General D. John Sauer agrees that the Supreme Court should grant review. Even so, the solicitor general maintains that the 2nd Circuit was correct in interpreting asylee adjustment as limited to noncitizens with current asylum status. The government says that Congress’ intent is best understood as giving effect to the termination of asylum “status” as a bar to obtaining a green card. The solicitor general relies on the statutory note in the Immigration Act of 1990 as evidence that Congress only excepted a small subset of asylees from the general rule barring terminated asylees from adjustment of status.
Without citing Loper Bright, the government disputes that the rule of lenity is applicable here at all. The solicitor general argues that the discretionary waiver at Section 1159(c) does not undermine the most natural reading of asylee adjustment because “the decision to terminate is itself discretionary” and the court should give effect to that waiver authority.
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The Supreme Court’s resolution of this case could impact the interests of the millions of asylum applicants with cases pending in the immigration courts and asylum offices, as well as those persons granted asylum status in recent years. Even if the Supreme Court narrowly frames this case as a discrete statutory question, it will clarify the effect of the government’s termination authority for anyone granted asylum. This is especially timely: in December 2025, the DHS announced that it would “comprehensively re-review” asylum approvals from “high-risk” countries since entry in 2021. At the end of that review, the DHS could elect to terminate asylum status. In June 2026, a federal district court vacated the DHS re-review policy, but the government is challenging that ruling.
That’s not all. The case also could have broader implications for federal administrative law if the justices take an interest in the parties’ arguments about the government’s discretionary authority or Loper Bright. The Supreme Court has not yet relied on Loper Bright in deciding an immigration case. In fairness, the 2nd Circuit found no need to do so, and the Supreme Court avoided a similar issue in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, a case that concerned the judicial standard of review for asylum “persecution” determinations. But that does not mean the court will continue to let this issue linger.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/understanding-the-courts-next-major-case-on-asylum-seekers-wassily-v-blanche/
GSA finds China-made tech labeled ‘Made in USA’ in federal procurement program, orders sweeping review
GSA demands AbilityOne Commission conduct sweeping audit of 18,000 items on Mandatory Procurement List.
FIRST ON FOX — An independent federal agency is under review for allegedly listing foreign-made products as American, including technology manufactured in China, and the Trump administration is demanding a sweeping audit of its products, pricing and supply chains.
In a draft letter viewed exclusively by Fox News Digital, the General Services Administration directs the U.S. AbilityOne Commission to verify the country of origin of every product on its Mandatory Procurement List and conduct a comprehensive audit of products offered through GSA on pricing, sourcing and compliance with federal law and procurement policy.
"Federal tax dollars spent on the AbilityOne program should support jobs for blind and disabled Americans, not foreign competitors," GSA Administrator Edward Forst wrote in a statement.
AbilityOne oversees a federal purchasing program intended to provide employment opportunities for people who are blind or have significant disabilities. Federal agencies are generally required to buy products and services placed on the commission’s mandatory list from participating nonprofit organizations.
"Many of AbilityOne’s product offerings raise serious national security concerns and cast doubt on its ability to carry out its mission," Forst added in the statement. "GSA will not allow questionable products to undermine the security of the federal marketplace."
Forst's department sent a letter to AbilityOne Commission Chair Christina Brandt to follow through on President Donald Trump’s March 2026 executive order requiring truthful "Made in America" advertising across federal procurement. The audit has also drawn interest from Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force.
"GSA requests that the Commission promptly conduct a full audit of all items offered for sale through GSA and related procurement data to verify COO [Country of Origin] representations, pricing, sourcing, and compliance with applicable law and policy," Forst's letter dated Friday read.
"Such an audit is necessary to provide transparency and accountability to the American people, protect the integrity of Federal procurement, and ensure that taxpayer dollars are not supporting inaccurate or misleading claims."
GSA said it found multiple examples of AbilityOne-associated technology products labeled on GSA procurement platforms as "Country of Origin: USA" that are, in fact, from foreign countries like China.
AbilityOne was given until Nov. 12 to respond to GSA's "areas of concern" and provide corrected country-of-origin information for products offered through the Federal Acquisition Service Verified Product Portal, address products currently listed with unclear origin designations and provide documentation explaining how it will conduct ongoing reviews.
"GSA holds all its contractors to the highest standards," Forst's letter concluded. "To ensure we apply the same rules to the AbilityOne Program, I'm instructing my Senior Procurement Executive to promptly take appropriate action to eliminate the exception that permits the Commission to offer items originating in China and other non-allied nations. He will work with GSA and the Commission to ensure effective implementation."
"GSA appreciates the Commission’s prompt attention to this matter. Ensuring that PL products available through GSA channels are fully compliant is essential to maintaining the integrity of the AbilityOne Program, the Federal marketplace, and the Government’s procurement obligations," he added.
The letter goes beyond country-of-origin concerns, raising questions about pricing and executive compensation at nonprofits participating in the program.
GSA said AbilityOne-affiliated nonprofits can sell products to the government with markups of as much as 55%, depending on pricing arrangements. The agency alleged that some products provide "limited or no meaningful employment or value added to the taxpayer" while nonprofit executives receive compensation reaching more than $1 million annually.
The letter contrasts those figures with an average annual salary of approximately $33,000 for blind workers, citing National Industries for the Blind data. An appendix identifies several AbilityOne nonprofits where executive compensation reportedly ranged from $500,000 to more than $1 million.
GSA also pointed to previous False Claims Act cases involving AbilityOne nonprofits.
Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a Wisconsin nonprofit, agreed to pay $1.9 million in 2020 to resolve federal allegations involving false claims and kickbacks on government contracts. GSA also cited a 2021 settlement in which Connecticut-based CW Resources paid $600,000 to resolve allegations that it falsely certified compliance with AbilityOne labor requirements.
Those settlements involved allegations resolved in prior cases and are separate from the country-of-origin findings outlined in the new GSA letter.
Those figures are expected to intensify scrutiny of whether participating organizations are directing enough federal contract revenue toward their workforce and whether executive compensation is consistent with AbilityOne’s mission.
The National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent federal advisor, is concerned the "policy relic" is "failing" in its mission, another example of how government waste, fraud and abuse must be audited by the Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force led by Vance.
"For years, NCD has reported that AbilityOne is a policy relic that hasn’t kept up with the needs of Americans with disabilities," NCD Acting Chair Neil Romano wrote in a statement Friday. "This is just another example of that overall failing."
Fox News Digital reached out to AbilityOne for comment on the allegations and the call for an audit and has not yet heard back.
GSA is also scrutinizing an AbilityOne policy known as "Essentially the Same," which allows certain products to be substituted for items already approved for the mandatory list. According to the draft letter, foreign-made goods have quietly displaced American products through that process, undercutting domestic manufacturers while continuing to benefit from preferential federal purchasing rules.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gsa-finds-china-made-tech-labeled-made-usa-federal-procurement-program-orders-sweeping-review
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Aug 14
NY Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher:
"If you steal soap, it means you need it"
She wants to allow "crimes of poverty"
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2088298282753597694
Fauci Joined a Foreign Vaccine Institute Months After Leaving Government – His Former Agency Then Funded Research Inside It
mRNA Vaccines. Pandemic Prevention. And Millions Of Your Tax Dollars.
The Italian institute now lists NIH-funded research in its own procurement records, including work on vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for potential pandemic viruses.
Just three months after leaving the federal government, Anthony Fauci took an advisory role at a newly created, Italian government-backed center devoted to vaccines and pandemic preparedness.
Less than 18 months later, Fauci’s former agency awarded more than $44 million to a pandemic-vaccine research program co-led by the center’s scientific director, the same scientist Fauci had agreed to advise.
Now, procurement records from the Italian institute provide an additional receipt: research connected to the NIH-funded program is being carried out inside the organization Fauci joined after leaving office.
The previously unreported sequence reveals another striking intersection between Fauci’s post-government activities and the massive infectious-disease funding apparatus he controlled for nearly four decades.
FAUCI LEAVES NIAID, THEN HEADS TO ITALY
Fauci stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on December 31, 2022, ending a 38-year tenure overseeing billions of dollars in federal infectious-disease research.
By March 2023, he had already found a new pandemic-preparedness project.
On March 29, Italian media reported that Fauci had agreed to serve as an “informal” strategic adviser to Rino Rappuoli, scientific director of the Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena.
Biotecnopolo was no ordinary private research shop. It was created under Italian law with four government ministries as founding members: the ministries responsible for universities and research, health, the economy and finance, and business. Its mission includes biotechnology, vaccines, therapeutics and preparation for future pandemics.
Its anti-pandemic arm, the Centro Nazionale Anti Pandemico, was allocated up to €340 million through 2026, according to the foundation’s own financial records.
Rappuoli made clear that Fauci’s involvement was intended to extend an existing relationship between the two scientists.
“I have known and worked with Anthony Fauci for years,” Rappuoli said while announcing Fauci’s role, adding that their scientific partnership would continue through Biotecnopolo.
In the very same statement announcing Fauci’s involvement, Rappuoli said the new pandemic hub intended to work with the American National Institutes of Health, along with the European Union’s HERA program and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
Several months later, when Fauci traveled to Siena to receive an honorary degree alongside Rappuoli, Biotecnopolo again emphasized that relationship.
The foundation said it was a privilege to “count on Fauci’s experience and knowledge” for developing its activities.
THEN CAME THE NIAID MONEY
Around the same period, Fauci’s former agency was launching a massive new vaccine initiative.
On March 16, 2023, NIAID published a funding opportunity for its new Research and Development of Vaccines and Monoclonal Antibodies for Pandemic Preparedness network, known as ReVAMPP.
The solicitation called for research centers focused on developing vaccines and monoclonal antibodies against virus families capable of causing future pandemics.
The Rappuoli-linked team won.
In September 2024, NIH announced the creation of the ReVAMPP network, which NIAID said it expected to fund at approximately $100 million per year, subject to available funding.
One of its largest awards went to Washington University in St. Louis.
Federal spending records show NIAID awarded $44,108,652 to a project formally titled “Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies to Respiro, Rubula, Peribunya and Phenuiviridae,” or R2P2-ReVAMPP.
Rappuoli was not merely an outside collaborator. University records identify Rino Rappuoli as a multiple principal investigator on the NIAID project alongside Washington University’s Sean Whelan and Columbia University’s Anne Moscona.
Washington University identifies Rappuoli as a co-director of the program and specifically notes his position as scientific director of Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena.
And the official ReVAMPP website lists Biotecnopolo di Siena itself as a participating institution.
The research includes prototype vaccines and monoclonal-antibody treatments for pathogens including parainfluenza, mumps, Oropouche virus, La Crosse virus, Rift Valley fever virus and Toscana virus.
Federal records say the researchers aim to create approaches that could be rapidly adapted if related viruses emerge as future pandemic threats.
BIOTECNOPOLO’S OWN RECORDS SHOW THE NIH PROJECT INSIDE THE HUB
The most revealing evidence comes from obscure Italian procurement records.
In July 2025, Biotecnopolo recorded a purchase of laboratory reagents and consumables under a project explicitly labeled:
“NIH_ReVAMPP.”
The responsible official listed on the transaction was Rino Rappuoli.
The entry appears in Biotecnopolo’s own 2025 procurement records.
Another laboratory purchase in the same filing carried the identifier ST00026798.
That same identifier appears in additional Biotecnopolo procurement notices as:
“NIH (PO ST00026798).”
The foundation’s procurement records associate the NIH-linked purchase order with laboratory and research services.
ANOTHER FAUCI REVOLVING DOOR
Fauci spent nearly four decades controlling NIAID, one of the most powerful infectious-disease funding agencies on the planet.
Within months of leaving that post, he attached himself to a foreign-government-backed pandemic center led by a longtime scientific associate.
That associate subsequently became one of the principal investigators on a $44 million NIAID-funded vaccine and antibody program.
His Italian institute became an official participating institution.
And its own records now show laboratory purchases tied directly to an NIH ReVAMPP project.
https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-fauci-joined-a-foreign
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
"White women, college: +23 El-Sayed"
SNL predicted this back in 2015
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2088133335235141705
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
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Aug 14
BREAKING: An FBI affidavit for a search warrant in the James Comey presidential threat case reveals his wife Patrice Comey sent him a Google screenshot of a nonviolent definition of the term “86” two (2) minutes before Comey posted the alleged threat against President Trump, indicating some forethought his posting could be construed as a threat.
https://x.com/jj_talking/status/2088664201271373881
Largest Wildberries warehouse in Moscow Oblast on fire after drone attack
A major fire broke out at the largest warehouse of Russian online marketplace Wildberries in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, following a drone attack on the night of 15-16 August.
Source: independent Russian media outlet ASTRA; Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin
Details: Photos and videos posted by residents of Moscow Oblast showed a fire engulfing the Wildberries logistics centre in the village of Koledino. The facility covers more than 200,000 sq m, making it the company's largest warehouse.
Another sorting and logistics hub, Severnoye Domodedovo, is also on fire in Domodedovo.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in the morning that 600 UAVs had supposedly been heading towards Moscow Oblast overnight, 201 of which, he claimed, had been shot down by Russian air defence in the region.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/08/16/8048855/
Olympic level mental gymnastics
Russian Stock Market Index falls 4.29% after a 3 day slide totaling 8.4%
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/stock-market
Meet Jason Arday’s Cambridge colleague, Farah Ahmed
A former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Jason Arday.
Farah Ahmed has explicitly attacked ‘western education’ as a ‘threat’ to Muslims, condemned democracy and integration, and criticized British schools for teaching pupils that child marriage is wrong.
During her time at Cambridge, she has written that the Islamic concept of education is sharply opposed to ‘gaining literacy and numeracy and other disciplinary skills demonstrated through qualifications’.
These statements are part of her long record of bigoted, extremist and separatist views on education.
BACKGROUND:
Critique of Western Education: In a 2002 Hizb ut-Tahrir pamphlet, Ahmed characterized Western education as a “threat” to Muslim beliefs, describing the national curriculum as “systematic indoctrination” designed to create “model British citizens” who support a “secular capitalist system.”
Rejection of Democratic Values: She has condemned democracy as a “corrupt tradition” and criticized British schools for teaching that practices like polygamy or child marriage are discriminatory, arguing instead that such interactions with “western culture” corrupt Muslim youth.
Promotion of Separatist Pedagogy: Ahmed co-authored a toolkit stating that Islamic education is “sharply opposed” to gaining literacy and numeracy skills, and she has promoted halaqah (Islamic study circles) as a dialogic pedagogy to develop shakhsiyah (identity), aiming to “unlearn conventional teacher education” in favor of “Islamically grounded” development.
Institutional Links: She previously ran private primary schools where trustees included Hizb ut-Tahrir members, and her academic work continues to explore the tensions between secular-liberalism and Islamic concepts of knowledge, autonomy, and personhood.
https://mikelilley.com/2026/08/11/meet-jason-ardays-cambridge-colleague-farah-ahmed/
Casey Krol
@CaseyKrol
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Birmingham, England 🏴
1944: 2 Mosques
2026: ~200 Mosques
This is what an invasion looks like.
https://x.com/CaseyKrol/status/2088754858912514292