> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-CoFP942g

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-catholic-school-minneapolis-governor/story?id=125022493

> An 8-year-old and 10-year-old sitting in pews were killed when a shooter opened fire through the windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, police said.

> Seventeen others were injured in the shooting during a Mass that marked the first week of school, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.

> Fourteen of the injured victims were children ages 6 to 15, and the three adults who were shot were parishioners in their 80s, he said. All of those injured are expected to survive, O'Hara said.

> The shooter died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, O’Hara said. The FBI identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was born Robert Westman.

> Driver's license information reviewed by ABC News described Westman as a female, born on June 17, 2002. A name change application for a minor born on the same date, June 17, 2002, was approved by a district court in Minnesota in 2020, changing the name of a Robert Westman to Robin Westman, explaining the minor child "identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification."

> The mass shooting unfolded just before 8:30 a.m. when the shooter approached the side of the building and fired a rifle through the church windows toward the children and other worshippers sitting in the pews, O’Hara said.

> Dozens of rounds were fired, the chief said, and he called it a "deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping."

> 9/1/2025 (Labor Day)
Together these 3 people represent over 1/4th the planet’s population… Unbelievable!

> Top Headlines
Trump ends Capitalism in America?!
> https://archive.is/buA5M
Trump may have to give refunds out for tariffs that failed…
> https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323797/us-trade-allies-confused-after-trumps-tariffs-suffer-legal-setback

> Main Headlines
“Axis of Upheaval”
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/31/xi-welcomes-putin-secretive-summit/
“China Rising”
> https://apnews.com/95f1421de601960a9c569933862a09a0

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French hospitals warned about WW3. (Red Text)
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15092271
China to unveil new antiUS ship weapons in one of their military parades…
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/01/china-unveil-us-ship-killing-weapons-military-parade/
Chinese Navy catching up to the 1st World standards.
> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmnpg31xlo
Somebody filmed throwing trash out the window of the White House…
> https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/ar-AA1LF5r9
Trump stunt to prove he’s healthy enough backfires.
> https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trumps-attempt-dismiss-health-concerns-35826562
Russian State TV comments that the Queen had bruises on her hands before she died…
> https://www.newsweek.com/2122521
Trump family 6 Billion dollars richer thanks to Crypto! (Red Text)
> https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-family-amasses-6-billion-fortune-after-crypto-launch-567faec5

They can buy whatever they want now… Like Jenna… Lots of it!

Major Trump Donor Found in Epstein's 'Black Book'—Thomas Massie

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jeffrey-epstein-little-black-book-thomas-massie-john-paulson-2125070

Republican Representative Thomas Massie has said billionaire John Paulson, a major donor to President Donald Trump's campaign, was in Jeffrey Epstein's "black book."

Paulson was previously named as someone in Epstein's "little black book," a contact book that was seized during investigations. Massie has raised the issue amid the backlash plaguing the Trump administration over its handling of files related to Epstein's case.

Being listed in Epstein's black book does not imply criminal conduct. While the book recorded names, phone numbers and addresses, it did not indicate the nature, frequency or legality of any contact.

A spokesperson for Paulson told Newsweek that no relationship between Paulson and Epstein "existed at any level or of any kind." They accused Massie of carrying out a "fabricated attack with no substance at all."

Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email.

Epstein survivors, lawmakers and the public have pressed for fuller disclosure of documents tied to the convicted sex offender to understand who may have enabled or benefited from his abuse.

On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee examining the Epstein probe released some 34,000 documents it had received from the Department of Justice, posting them online. However, the move has done little to silence demands for a full disclosure, with Epstein's accusers saying officials were still holding back documents.

Massie said on Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight that while Paulson had been named before, it was "indicative of the types of people who may be implicated or just embarrassed by a complete release of these files." The Kentucky Republican also said Paulson was one of "three billionaires right now running ads" against him.

https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-senate-cdc-3a5a090fc9d9f547377203fe5c61ffa2

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and explain the turmoil he has created at federal health agencies.

Kennedy said the fired CDC director was untrustworthy, stood by his past anti-vaccine rhetoric, and disputed reports of people saying they have had difficulty getting COVID-19 shots.

Medical groups and several Democrats in Congress have called for Kennedy to be fired, and his exchanges with Democratic senators on the panel repeatedly devolved into shouting, from both sides.

But some Republican senators also expressed unease with his changes to COVID-19 policies.

The GOP senators noted that Kennedy said President Donald Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for the 2020 Operation Warp Speed initiative to quickly develop mRNA COVID-19 vaccines — and that he also had attacked the safety and continued use of those very shots.

“I can’t tell where you are on Operation Warp Speed,” said Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis.

Tillis and others asked him why the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was fired last week, less than a month into her tenure.

Kennedy said she was dishonest, and that CDC leaders who left the agency last week in support of her deserved to be fired.

He also criticized CDC recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic tied to lockdowns and masking policies, and claimed — wrongly — that they “failed to do anything about the disease itself.”

“The people who at CDC who oversaw that process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving,” Kennedy said. He later said they deserved to be fired for not doing enough to control chronic disease.

Democrats express hostility from the start

> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=844plbHuW84

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyjq40vjl7o

> 4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US

> Lawyers representing controversial online forums 4chan and Kiwi Farms have filed a legal case against the UK Online Safety Act enforcer, Ofcom.

> Their legal complaint filed in a Washington DC Federal Court seeks a legal ban on the UK communications regulator enforcing or attempting to enforce the Online Safety Act against them in the US.

> "American citizens do not surrender our constitutional rights just because Ofcom sends us an e-mail," Preston Byrne of law firm Byrne & Storm said.

> Ofcom told the BBC: "We are aware of this lawsuit. Under the Online Safety Act, any service that has links with the UK now has duties to protect UK users, no matter where in the world it is based."

> A service doesn't have to be based in the UK to be subject to the act, and therefore face action from Ofcom.

> It could be enough for it to have a significant number of UK users, or to have the UK as a target market.

> But 4chan's lawyers want the US court to rule that US business with no presence in the UK are not subject to British legislation.

> The also want it to declare that the Online Safety Act is at odds with the US constitution's free speech protections.

> Lawyers for online message board 4chan recently told the BBC that Ofcom had provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine "with daily penalties thereafter" for failing to comply with two requests for information.

> Ofcom alleges 4chan has not complied with the act with respect to the requests for information, but has not confirmed the provisional fine.

> It has also stated that it continues to investigate 4chan over whether it is complying with Online Safety Act duties to protect its users from illegal content.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-force-grants-full-military-honors-ashli-babbitt-after-biden-military-leadership-denied-request

'The Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor,' former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill, said

The Air Force decided to extend military funeral honors to deceased Senior Airman Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a police officer during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

The decision came after Air Force leadership during the Biden administration previously denied the request in February 2021, shortly after Babbitt was killed. The decision also comes on the heels of a wrongful death settlement reached in July, which resulted in the government paying the Babbitt family nearly $5 million.

"On behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, I write to extend the offer for Military Funeral Honors for SrA Ashli Babbitt," stated an Aug. 15 letter from the undersecretary of the Air Force, sent to Babbitt's husband, Aaron, according to the family's legal representatives. "After reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect."

"After reviewing the circumstances of SrA Babbitt’s death, the Air Force has offered Military Funeral Honors to SrA Babbitt’s family," an Air Force spokesperson confirmed in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Babbitt was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol police officer as she was attempting to forcibly gain access to the Capitol chambers during the events of Jan. 6. Roughly three months later the Department of Justice announced it would not be pursuing criminal charges against the officer who shot Babbitt.

Both praise and criticism followed the news that the Air Force would be granting Babbitt her military honors, previously denied under Biden.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alligator-alcatraz-shutdown-cost-florida-218-million-rcna227980

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz."

The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.

Shutting down the facility for the time being would cost the state $15 million to $20 million immediately, and it would cost another $15 million to $20 million to reinstall structures if Florida is allowed to reopen it, according to court filings by the state.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management will lose most of the value of the $218 million it has invested in making the airport suitable for a detention center, a state official said in court papers.

Florida signed at least $405 million in vendor contracts, AP analysis shows

Built in just a few days, the facility consists of chain-link cages surrounding large white tents filled with rows of bunk beds.

An Associated Press analysis of publicly available state spending data showed that Florida has signed at least $405 million in vendor contracts to build and operate the facility, which officials had initially estimated would cost $450 million a year to run. A previous AP review found that as of late July, the state had already allocated at least $245 million to run the site, which opened July 1.