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-Great Cultural Revolution
American Truckers United Issues Dire Warning On 'Unsafe' Highways Amid Flood Of Migrant Drivers, Crashes
[ZERO] Shannon Everett of the trucking advocacy group American Truckers United (ATU) has been one of the most outspoken folks about the Biden-Harris regime's role in the surge of migrant drivers with non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses (CDLs). He warns the influx has transformed U.S. highways into a national security threat and a growing public safety crisis, citing multiple fatal crashes this year involving migrants behind the wheel of fully loaded 80,000-pound big rigs.

"This is an urgent wake-up call for every American," Everett wrote on X, alongside a video warning about the hundreds of thousands of migrants operating big rigs with non-domiciled CDLs. He urged heightened situational awareness on the nation's highways, citing concerns that lax licensing standards have put unqualified, non-English-speaking drivers behind the wheels of 80,000-pound rigs.

He continued, "Our highways are no longer safe. Reckless immigration policies and weakened licensing standards have unleashed a deadly crisis on our roads."
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2025 07:22 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  I guess they would like all truckers to be union.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2025 11:47 Comments || Top||

#2  They've been ringing this bell since this last winter on I-40 where a large number of 'truckers' were overwhelmed by winter conditions and caused a whole series of wrecks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2025 13:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Americans have claimed to have seen UFOs more than 2,000 times in six months
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Americans have claimed to have seen UFOs more than 2,000 times in the first six months of 2025. This is evidenced by data from the National UFO Reporting Center ( NUFORC ).

It is noted that during the first week of July, the center received 87 calls about activity of "extraterrestrial origin." At the same time, unidentified flying objects were encountered most often in January - more than 560 times per month. Often, Americans allegedly saw quickly and silently flying triangles with multi-colored lights, as well as glowing balls and plates.

“A black triangular object hovered about 300 feet above my house for about one and a half to two minutes,” one person who contacted the center complained.

Earlier in 2024, Donald Trump, then a candidate for US President, promised to declassify materials on UFOs and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In February 2025, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of UFO cases feared that they might be fired amid cuts being carried out by the White House.

On June 8, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation according to which the Pentagon covered up its secret operations with UFO data. In particular, the military department used reports of "saucers" to divert attention from the testing of stealth aircraft, including the F-117.

In addition, the famous Russian ufologist Valery Uvarov revealed in a conversation with the Regnum news agency two possible options for why the US authorities need stories about UFOs. In his opinion, in the first case, Washington is trying to distract ordinary Americans from the state's problems in the economic and political spheres. In the second case, the authorities want to hide the truth that they really do have UFO debris, as well as programs to study artifacts from the Moon and Mars.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [104 views] Top|| File under:

#1  #1 I've seen UUFOs, my problem is trying yo figure out if its a 787 or a 330. At least I think they are airplanes, but all I could see is a blob like object with two contrails streaming from them.

That make them UFOs right?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/13/2025 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Since a lot of Americans (and other "Westerners") cannot distinguish between a man and a woman ...
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/13/2025 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3 
Just saying...
A couple of Dollar Tree Helium Balloons with stick on Mini flashing LED's and a few superglued strips of aluminum foil.

Cost under $20.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/13/2025 4:33 Comments || Top||



-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Scientists have recorded a rapid increase in solar flare activity
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Scientists have been observing a rapid increase in the number and area of active centers on the Sun since July 11. This was reported on the website of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Experts noted that the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is currently monitoring solar phenomena. According to scientists, activity has also been recorded on the far side, not visible from Earth.

“From July 11 to 12, 17 flares occurred on the Sun, which corresponds to an increase in flare activity of approximately three times compared to the average values for July,” the report said.

Scientists noted that the number of M-level flares will increase in the next couple of days. However, the increase in activity has not yet created any direct threats to Earth.

The laboratory believes that the change in solar activity is global in nature.

On June 18, during the monitoring of solar activity, a powerful X-class flare was registered. According to the Institute of Applied Geophysics, its strength was X1.2, and its duration reached 16 minutes.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [86 views] Top|| File under:


#2  From Wiki -"Solar cycle 25 began in December 2019. Several predictions have been made for solar cycle 25 based on different methods, ranging from very weak to strong magnitude. A physics-based prediction relying on the data-driven solar dynamo and solar surface flux transport models seems to have predicted the strength of the solar polar field at the current minima correctly and forecasts a weak but not insignificant solar cycle 25 similar to or slightly stronger than cycle 24. Notably, they rule out the possibility of the Sun falling into a Maunder-minimum-like (inactive) state over the next decade. A preliminary consensus by a solar cycle 25 Prediction Panel was made in early 2019.[24] The Panel, which was organized by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and NASA, based on the published solar cycle 25 predictions, concluded that solar cycle 25 will be very similar to solar cycle 24. They anticipate that the solar cycle minimum before cycle 25 will be long and deep, just as the minimum that preceded cycle 24. They expect solar maximum to occur between 2023 and 2026 with a sunspot range of 95 to 130, given in terms of the revised sunspot number."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/13/2025 7:12 Comments || Top||



-Land of the Free
Volunteers in Texas Serve Thousands of Meals per Day to Rescue Workers, Flood Victims

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 08:38 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Raining there again this morning.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/13/2025 12:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pam Bondi To Take The Blame For The Epstein Case Whitewash According To FBI, WH Intel
[WHATAFINGER Video]
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2025 08:50 || Comments || Link || [54 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about some blame for all the folks that flew to the island for naughty massages from kids.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2025 11:45 Comments || Top||

#2  People seem to be more interested in actors with kids than they are on stopping the trafficking of these kids. With that the left and their bots smell blood in the water and are exploiting MAGA against itself...
people like Bannon, who decides issues based on social media bots, is gaslighting for clicks and money. We need to put a little trust in our president, he has not done us wrong yet...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/13/2025 14:23 Comments || Top||


New bill would eliminate federal tax on home sales
[JustTheNews]
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 08:16 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under:



Let it burn: U.S. Forest Service to cut $391M

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 08:14 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under:

#1  States fires are states problems.
Too bad CA.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 11:55 Comments || Top||

#2  They don't remediate or replant after a fire, so why fund them...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/13/2025 14:19 Comments || Top||


The Trump Administration Is About to Make a HUGE Move Against the Deep State
[PJ Media] In a bombshell revelation, investigative journalist John Solomon confirmed to Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice that the Department of Justice and the FBI have been quietly building a major criminal conspiracy case targeting the Deep State’s decade-long effort to derail Donald Trump. According to Solomon, the scope of the investigation could finally deliver the accountability that many in the MAGA movement have long demanded.

"I think next week, over the next 10 days... the base, who’s been wondering, ’Where is all that accountability?’—they’re gonna get some big surprises," Solomon said. He claimed the case reaches back to the summer of 2016, before Crossfire Hurricane was launched, and extends all the way through to 2024, encompassing "a large series of events" aimed at stopping Trump from winning the presidency.

Solomon said the massive case has been built largely out of the public eye, obscured by media theatrics and political infighting. "It’s been masked by a lot of this infighting and drama and soap opera stuff," he said. "But the truth of the matter is, MAGA base Americans are gonna be happy when they see where this is all heading."

I hope so!

Bannon pressed Solomon to clarify whether this was, in fact, a formal investigation by federal authorities. Solomon didn’t hesitate. "There is a conspiracy case that was opened that looks at this window as a very large window," he confirmed. "I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a special prosecutor named by Pam Bondi in the next week or two."

This is the most interesting part of the revelation to me, especially in light of the blowback Bondi has received over the whole Epstein client list debacle that has FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino threatening to resign unless she is removed. Could Bondi be reassigned to be special prosecutor to keep Bongino and Patel at the FBI?
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2025 02:34 || Comments || Link || [190 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Always just about to happen.

Look, Epstein worked for Mossad and that should have been blown wide open by now. He hung around with Ehud Barak after his child fucking conviction. We aren't hearing this, so what the fuck.
Either Trump turned traitor or he's not in control of our government.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/13/2025 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Yeah, Trump is a traitor and you are Peter Pan.
Posted by: Albert McCoy9505 || 07/13/2025 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm starting to think the Gepids are the smart ones
Posted by: Frank G || 07/13/2025 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #2: Trump turned traitor or he's not in control of our government.

Traitor? No, but it's a difficult chess game. Type "A" personalities sometimes have trouble working together. Wrestling the power away from those who are "in control" (after 60-70 years) is a massive undertaking. Didn't go well for JFK. Nearly didn't go well from Trump. Let's all hope and pray he survives the crooked bastids.

* Some have said 'had JFK survived his presidency, Vietnam would have never happened.' Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2025 7:35 Comments || Top||


#7  /\ Sadly Skid, I don't think she will. I hope I am wrong. The Discovery Process would likely expose many in the Congress and elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2025 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  I see progress. My expectation is a four year plug battle royal. There will be a Market Garden; there will be a Bastogne. By the time we get to the Rhine, we will be bone tired. At some point we will discover what they have been hiding and it will be horrifying. What we don’t have an option to do is quit.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2025 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  The Discovery Process

I believe the effort to codify the hallowed hall whispers will occur, but not be released.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 12:04 Comments || Top||

#10  What we don’t have an option to do is quit.

As it was best said, the die is cast.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2025 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  This isn't a burn it all down presidency. It's foundational work on which to build, over 8 - 12 years, can't be done in 4. Some of those E-listers will be needed come next election, or in other ways. The MSM needs to be distracted. The people need to be shown and decide the America they want, especially in generationally locked down blues states. Lot of moving parts.
Posted by: jefe101 || 07/13/2025 15:15 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Delta issues urgent warning over airplane seats as airline is forced to make cuts

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 08:46 || Comments || Link || [103 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Well, they haven't gone with hanger straps, at least...
Posted by: Shegum Whetle4937 || 07/13/2025 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  A lot of talk about blended wing body, but nothing about how it's going to be powered.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 07/13/2025 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  "axing unpopular trips such as flights on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and trips with unusual takeoff times"
Yeah, let the planes just sit there. That'll make money.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/13/2025 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  "Hey Google..."

In 2023, JetZero announced its Z4 project, designed to carry 250 passengers, targeting the New Midmarket Airplane category, to use existing Pratt & Whitney PW2040 43,000 lbf (190 kN) engines.

The Pratt & Whitney PW2000, also known by the military designation F117 and initially referred to as the JT10D, is a series of high-bypass turbofan aircraft engines with a thrust range from 37,000 to 43,000 lbf (160 to 190 kN). Built by Pratt & Whitney, they were designed for the Boeing 757. As a 757 powerplant, these engines compete with the Rolls-Royce RB211.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  A lot of talk about blended wing body, but nothing about how it's going to be powered.

Solar and wind power. Good enough for Ironheart.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2025 13:48 Comments || Top||


Army using latest military technology to reduce aircraft birdstrikes – 'Coyote Rover' [robot] drones

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 08:04 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, if only they would cut the grass while on patrol.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2025 11:59 Comments || Top||



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  Another massive Hamas underground terror tunnel in Gaza has been found and destroyed by the IDF, connecting Rafah and Khan Yunis
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