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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Texas mom purchased ammunition and tactical gear for son as he planned 'mass violence' at school
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Texas mom was arrested for allegedly purchasing ammunition and tactical gear for her son, who was accused of planning 'mass violence' at his San Antonio middle school.

Ashley Pardo,
…based on that photo, she looks like the kind of ambitious mama eager to give her son a leg up in the family business…
33, was arrested for aiding in the commission of terrorism after she allegedly made a slew of concerning purchases for her son, including ammunition magazines, a tactical vest, a helmet, and army clothing, according to an arrest affidavit.

The boy's grandmother told authorities that she found magazines loaded with live ammunition and an bomb with the words, 'For Brenton Tarrant,' written on it.

Tarrant is a white supremacist who was convicted of killing over 50 people praying at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

The grandmother also found a note with the names of mass shooters and their victims.

He allegedly told his grandmother that he was 'going to be famous' before Pardo picked him up from school on Monday morning, law enforcement told ABC News.
The motivation being fame rather than killing Moslems, but what about the apparent gang connection through his mother? Leaving it on Page 1: WoT for now.
The grandmother had seen the boy 'hitting a live bullet with a hammer' and he allegedly told her that Pardo purchased him 'guns and ammunition.'

Pardo had allegedly bought the gear for her son in exchange for babysitting his younger siblings, the arrest affidavit noted.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 04:09 || Comments || Link || [74 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs


Queer leftist nonbinary anti-police activist Preston Casey Palmer, of Minneapolis, was arrested in a child sex sting
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… Palmer has a history of radical leftist social media posts seeking the abolishment of law enforcement. He has expressed hatred of my journalism. He also has pressured Minneapolis Public Schools
@MPS_News
to cut ties with police in order to "protect" children.

I have reached out to the Minneapolis Park Police for comment.
Posted by: Fred || 05/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [141 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Gen-Pop should welcome this f*&k toy
Posted by: Frank G || 05/15/2025 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems to be a common theme with these sickos
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/15/2025 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Buttigieg defends Biden's mental acuity in 2024 as he weighs his own
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 5:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The return of neopagan bronze-age perverts continues apace.
Posted by: Difar Dave || 05/15/2025 11:57 Comments || Top||


US Man Shoots Chef Over Bacon in Sandwich
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In the United States of America, in the city of Springfield, a man shot a cook because of bacon in a sandwich, which he does not like. This was reported by the WWLP TV channel.
According to the internet, WWLP is in Springfield, Massachusetts rather than any of the many other Springfields across the country.
The article states that in 2022, American John Brown Jr., according to recordings from the bar's surveillance cameras, communicated with the establishment's chef, Benito Agronom, but when he handed him a dish with bacon, he began to quarrel with him.

The argument quickly escalated into a fight. As a result, the customer threatened to kill the cook and left the bar. About half an hour later, he returned with a gun and shot his opponent several times. The cook could not be saved. Brown Jr. was arrested. He was given 18 years in prison.
In 2022 the Biden-Harris administration had everyone riled up, and in many places the police were not permitted to do anything about it, especially in the Blue areas of the country.
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [202 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
18 years for Murder????

Oh! That's right. It happened, in a Liberal run, Yankee Democrat controlled state Judicial system during the Biden Regime.

A period to be known as the National Democrat Party, showing their support of Oddity & Depravity.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/15/2025 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  And you see, I've been the same way about no bacon.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/15/2025 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Goes and fetches a gun tells me its premeditated. A lazy DA goes for 2d degree for a plea bargain to save time and money. Justice is for sell.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/15/2025 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Wild East.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/15/2025 11:20 Comments || Top||

#5  We Found the Best Plant Based Bacon
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ That's a crime against nature.

And WHY do vegans keep demanding fake meat? Shouldn't they just eat their murdered plants as plants? If they want 'meat' that isn't meat, I think it shows a very deep seated self-hated and admittance are wrong.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/15/2025 14:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Surprise surprise he's not Amish.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/15/2025 19:01 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
[Mother's Day] Planned Parenthood Report Reveals Record Abortions, Taxpayer Funding
[Breitbart] Planned Parenthood released its 2023-2024 annual report over Mother’s Day weekend, revealing record abortions and taxpayer funding.

The report, called “A Force For Hope,” states that 402,230 unborn babies were killed in abortions, up from 392,715 the previous year. At the same time, the organization received $792.2 million in taxpayer funding, up almost $100 million from the previous year.

The report’s release comes as congressional Republicans weigh defunding Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations through budget reconciliation. Defunding abortion providers through the reconciliation process would allow the Senate to bypass the critical 60-vote threshold for a simple majority vote instead, capitalizing on Republicans’ overall trifecta. While federal funding for abortions specifically is barred by the Hyde Amendment, pro-life opponents argue no federal funds should be used to prop up any organization that performs abortions.

According to the pro-life organization Live Action, Planned Parenthood only accounted for nine of 86 Title X grant recipients — although Planned Parenthood likely makes up 40 percent of all abortions in the U.S. when compared to the Guttmacher Institute’s 2024 estimate of 1,038,100 total abortions.

Planned Parenthood’s report highlights that the organization is working “to block abortion bans in states around the country since the loss of the federal right to abortion in 2022,” and that it is part of “approximately 30 open cases, including challenges to abortion bans as well as lawsuits against Medicaid and medication abortion restrictions, medically unnecessary ultrasound and waiting period requirements, and other barriers to care.”

The report details Planned Parenthood’s other services besides abortion, showing some significantly increasing since the last report, while others have steeply declined.

Prenatal services were up 11 percent from the previous year at 7,008,
up to 7000 across the entire country?? How does that compare to long term trends, because it seems an absurdly low number…
and adoption referrals were up 25 percent, from approximately 1,700 to 2,100. Total clients were up by 1.5 percent to 2.08 million, and “total services” were up 3.49 percent, which includes each of the 943,104 pregnancy tests counting as a service. Net assets and total liabilities was up to $3.1 billion, the “highest ever recorded” according to Live Action.

Some decreases in 2023-24 documented by the pro-life organization include:

  • Excess revenue over expenses: down nearly 85 percent, from $178.6M to $27.4M

  • Private revenue: down 31 percent from $997.5M to $684M

  • Total contraceptive services: down just over 1 percent

  • STI testing/treatment: down 11 percent

  • Overall cancer screenings: down 8 percent

  • Breast screenings: down 10 percent

  • Pap tests: down 12 percent

Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of so-called “gender-affirming care” — a left-wing euphemism for sex-mutilation surgiers and drugs given to people who identify as transgender. In 2022, the organization reported that 41 of its 49 affiliates provided such services, including puberty blockers for minors and cross-sex hormones, according to the Senate HELP Committee.

However, Planned Parenthood mixes “gender-affirming care” into its “other procedures” category, which makes tracking more difficult. The “other procedures” category includes “WIC services (a federally funded nutrition program for low-income women, infants, and children up to the age of five), pediatric care, transgender services, other adult preventive care, and high complexity visits, including infertility services,” according to the report.

The report lists almost 78,000 “other procedures,” which interestingly reflects a significant drop within the past several years.

“In past years, the “other procedures” category climbed over 1500 percent (~16k in 2020 to ~257k in 2021), with some suspecting “gender-affirming” services to be the cause,” Live Action detailed. “However, the 2022-23 report’s “other procedures” category fell by 30 percent (to ~177k) and dropped another 56 percent the current year (to ~78k).
The fad is fading? That’s very, very good.
“By not specifying the services provided under broad categories, Planned Parenthood could easily bury these numbers wherever it chooses from year to year, making it nearly impossible to track based on annual reports,” the pro-life organization noted.

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 05:07 || Comments || Link || [50 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Justice Department charges Russian Harvard researcher with smuggling biological samples into Boston
she could not "swallow" the samples
[JustTheNews] The charging documents accuse Kseniia Petrova of smuggling clawed frog embryos and embryonic samples into the U.S. through the Logan International Airport in Boston in February, stating she failed to declare the material and get a permit.

The Justice Department on Wednesday charged Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova, who is originally from Russia and fled the country in 2022, with smuggling over failing to disclose scientific samples she had in her luggage earlier this year.

The charging documents accuse Petrova of smuggling clawed frog embryos and embryonic samples into the U.S. through Logan International Airport in Boston in February, stating she failed to declare the material and get a permit.

Petrova allegedly told investigators that she was not sure whether she had to declare the material when coming into the U.S. but text messages on her phone revealed a colleague allegedly reminding the scientist to declare them.

"If you bring samples or antibody back, make sure you get the permission etc,'" one text message read. “What is your plan to pass the American Customs with samples? This is the most delicate place of the trajectory.”

Petrova admitted to the colleague that she did not have a plan for getting the material into the U.S. because she could not "swallow" the samples.

The revelation occurred after Petrova attended an immigration hearing in Vermont, where the federal judge scheduled a bail hearing for the scientist later this month, per the New York Times.

Attorneys for Petrova said the incident would normally result in a fine and be treated as a small infraction, but a Customs officer canceled her J-1 visa and arranged for her deportation.

“Almost immediately after the hearing, we were blindsided by the unsealing of a meritless criminal complaint,” Petrova's attorney Gregory Romanovsky said. “The timing of Kseniia’s transfer out of ICE custody into criminal custody is especially suspect because it happened right after the judge set a bail hearing for her release.”

The criminal charge will now carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, a term of up to five years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000.
Elections have consequences, as they say. The rules changed, and she got caught.

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 05:43 || Comments || Link || [53 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A powerful M-class flare occurred on the Sun
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On the morning of May 14, a flare of the penultimate power class (M) occurred on the Sun. This was reported on May 14 by the press service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics (Federal State Budgetary Institution "IPG").

“On May 14 at 06:25 Moscow time, an M5.3 flare lasting 37 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4087 (N17E68),” the institute’s website said.

It is specified that at 10:45 Moscow time, a solar flare M1.2 was also recorded. Solar flares are divided into five classes: A, B, C, M and X, depending on their power. They can be accompanied by emissions of solar plasma, clouds of which, upon reaching the Earth, can lead to magnetic storms.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of April 5, a flare of the penultimate M class was also recorded on the Sun. Solar activity began at 22:46 Moscow time and continued for about half an hour.

Earlier, on March 28, a flare of the highest X-score occurred on the Sun. It was specified that before that, a flare of the highest level was registered on February 23. At the same time, according to scientists, part of the energy was most likely shielded by the solar disk, and therefore the actual score of the flare may be even higher.

Dramatic photos courtesy of Skidmark:
Massive solar storm causes worldwide blackouts as experts warn the worst is yet to come

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The sun has unleashed the strongest solar flare of the year, triggering strong radio blackouts across the globe.

Just after 11:30 a.m. ET, a massive X2.7-class solar flare erupted from a newly emerging from a cold, dark region known as AR4087.
That was yesterday — I completely missed it.
X-class flares are the most intense in the solar storm scale — capable of disrupting communications, damaging satellites, and even threatening power grids on Earth.

These flares are born from sunspots — dark, cooler areas on the Sun’s surface where intense magnetic activity builds up.

When that magnetic energy is suddenly released, it can launch powerful bursts of plasma and radiation into space at the speed of light.

If directed at Earth, these high-energy waves can ionize the upper atmosphere, creating radiation storms that interfere with high-frequency radio signals and other technology-dependent systems.

Tuesday’s flare was rated an X2.7, placing it on the lower end of the most dangerous class of solar flares, but still powerful enough to impact large swaths of the planet.

Experts warn that more flares may be on the way as sunspot AR4087 rotates into direct alignment with Earth in the coming days, increasing the chances of further solar storms.

The flare sent X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation hurtling toward Earth at the speed of light, rapidly ionizing the upper atmosphere.

In other words, this sudden surge of radiation caused electrons to break away from molecules in the outermost layer of the atmosphere, making it electrically charged.

This charge disrupted high-frequency radio signals, leading to communication blackouts for some radio operators in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

These regions were the only ones affected because they were on the daylight side of Earth when the solar flare erupted.

Experts say we can expect more solar flares through next week as sunspot AR4087 rotates to directly face Earth.

'This is getting intense, especially as this active region turns closer into view,' aurora chaser Vincent Ledvina wrote in a post on X early Wednesday morning.

Following the X-class flare, the sunspot unleashed another burst of energy — an M5.3-class solar flare, he added.

'What does this [active region] have planned over the next days... we'll have to wait and see,' Ledvina wrote.
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [173 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Texas heat to surpass sweltering US deserts as triple-digit temperatures reach historic levels

Ah, TX summer.
Finally!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 3:26 Comments || Top||

#3  A powerful M-class flare occurred on the Sun

"...And Enterprise is the only starship available. We have departed Spacedock and should arrive momentarily."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 05/15/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Yawn
Posted by: Xyz || 05/15/2025 7:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Yawn

You won't be yawning in 5 billion years when the Sun goes nova.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/15/2025 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6 
"...And Enterprise is the only starship available. We have departed Spacedock and should arrive momentarily."

Well, they'd have more, but Starfleet spent six years redesigning the follow-up Constellation class instead of building them.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/15/2025 13:57 Comments || Top||

#7  “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” -General Sheridan. Texas summer -- hot and humid on the coast.
Posted by: magpie || 05/15/2025 15:48 Comments || Top||

#8  If Nevada is tearing apart, we won’t have to wait 5 billion years.
Posted by: Bigfoot Pheart9225 || 05/15/2025 17:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, they'd have more, but Starfleet spent six years redesigning the follow-up Constellation class instead of building them.

The problem was one day, they wanted portholes, and another, they wanted them removed.

Then they did battle damage simulation, and they had water coming out of the Warp Drive, and sand out of the Photon Torpedoes.

But the real issue was they had Commanders who wanted to be Captains, Captains who wanted to be Commodores, and Commodores who wanted to be Admirals.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/15/2025 17:56 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Report: U.S. Engineers Find ‘Rogue Communication Devices' in Chinese Solar Panels
[Breitbart]
U.S. engineers have discovered mysterious, undocumented communication devices lurking in some Chinese-made solar power inverters and batteries Reuters reported.

“The rogue components provide additional, undocumented communication channels that could allow firewalls to be circumvented remotely, with potentially catastrophic consequences,” said Reuters’ sources, who spoke anonymously because they had not been given permission to speak on the record.
Is the threat exaggerated, or merely not even slightly new?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 05:15 || Comments || Link || [92 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The Panels need to know...where they are, don't they?
Posted by: Phatch Sproing2490 || 05/15/2025 12:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama wanted to do this with thermostats so officials could adjust them or even turn them off.

Hey, wait a minute, wasn't there a solar power event or something recently?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/15/2025 14:36 Comments || Top||


Economy
BLS PPI for April shows no near-term inflation threat
summary:

January 2025 looked bad with a 1.1% increase and Feb looked almost as bad with a 0.4% increase but March and April 2025 looked much better with a -0.1 and +0.2 change respectively.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/15/2025 09:34 || Comments || Link || [57 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quantus Insights
@QuantusInsights
🚨 April shocker: U.S. Treasury posts $258B surplus — 2nd largest ever.
• Tax receipts surged to $850B
• Customs duties (Trump tariffs) doubled to record $15.6B
• Borrowing needs down $53B this quarter

For a gov’t hooked on deficits, this is a rare fiscal win—driven by new trade policy.
7:34 PM · May 14, 2025
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2025 13:12 Comments || Top||


Siemens Healthineers announced it is shifting manufacturing for its Varian company from Mexico back to the U.S.
[X]


Posted by: Fred || 05/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [88 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There should be some fine or 'entry-application-fee' for the returners. Call it a border transition tax.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/15/2025 16:14 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2025-05-15
  Large number of prisoners escape from prison in Libya amid clashes
Wed 2025-05-14
  Israel intercepts Houthi ballistic missile; 2 hurt running for shelter
Tue 2025-05-13
  
Mon 2025-05-12
  IDF says over 50 targets hit in Gaza over past day, including terror cells, buildings
Sun 2025-05-11
  SDF thwarts multiple ISIS attacks in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province
Sat 2025-05-10
  Trump announces nuclear-armed nations agree to ceasefire after weeks of tensions
Fri 2025-05-09
  IDF says over 150 targets struck across Gaza in the past 3 days
Thu 2025-05-08
  ‘Precise Operation' ‐ Marco Rubio Announces Daring Rescue of Venezuela Regime Hostages
Wed 2025-05-07
  India opens ''Operation Sindoor'' against Pakistan
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  Explosions all over Iran. No airplanes or drones involved.
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  Yemen’s Houthis report around 10 overnight US strikes in Sanaa and surrounding area
Sun 2025-05-04
  Boko Haram kidnaps 50 loggers in Nigeria
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  20 major airstrikes were carried out in Syria by the Israeli Air Force
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  RAF Typhoons pound Iran-backed Houthis' drone-building facilities with airstrikes in Yemen


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