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US school shooting leaves three dead and over a dozen wounded - RT propaganda news

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https://www.rt.com/news/623598-two-dead-catholic-school-shooting-minneapolis/

The gunman took his own life after the rampage, authorities in Minneapolis have said
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Real reason behind the NG deployments in US cities

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So I'm gonna keep this as short as I can. The Trump administration will have you believe the deployment of the NG is to fight crime. It's not.

The POTUS is toying with a national deployment of the NG in cities across the country. It has nothing to do with fighting crime.

In May 2026, a planned "alien invasion" will be orchestrated by the US and foreign governments of Westen nations.

They are going to be craft either piloted by humans, or holographic projections to depict fleets of craft, both in our skies and in outer space.

Wild, I know. No, I don't know Dr Greer. Most of what he says is to sell his books, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Who am I? Certainly not someone looking for their 15 minutes of fame, or someone writing a book for monetary gain.

People will say who I work with are "high up", but it's actually the opposite. We're very much underground.

The deployment of the NG is to have boots in the major cities to quell civil unrest when the time comes. The guise of fighting crime is just that. A guise to get the troops out there before the fireworks start.

Soon, other nations will be doing this as well. We don't know what their individual justification will be, but expect to see it in the coming months.

Good luck everyone!


https://www.cia.gov
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Christian Republicans denounce the feeling of empathy

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https://apnews.com/article/conservative-christians-sin-of-toxic-empathy-c9ab96faf99605e010f487df61d92d8f
Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.

For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice.

“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies,” said Allie Beth Stuckey, author of “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.”

Stuckey, host of the popular podcast “Relatable,” is one of two evangelicals who published books within the past year making Christian arguments against some forms of empathy.

The other is Joe Rigney, a professor and pastor who wrote “The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and its Counterfeits.” It was published by Canon Press, an affiliate of Rigney’s conservative denomination, which counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth among its members.

These anti-empathy arguments gained traction in the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term, with his flurry of executive orders that critics denounced as lacking empathy.

As foreign aid stopped and more deportations began, Trump’s then-adviser Elon Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”

Even Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, framed the idea in his own religious terms, invoking the concept of ordo amoris, or order of love. Within concentric circles of importance, he argued the immediate family comes first and the wider world last — an interpretation that then-Pope Francis rejected.
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DOGE whistleblower complaint

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SSA whistleblower lodges complaint against DOGE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/a9f2afd18a79e330/b181d62a-full.pdf
Dear All:
The Government Accountability Project represents Mr. Chuck Borges, the Chief Data
Officer (CDO) at the Social Security Administration (SSA), and a whistleblower. Mr. Borges
presents the following disclosures to your attention pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 2302 , 5 U.S.C. § 1213
and 5 U.S.C § 7211 for your respective offices to take appropriate oversight action.
In recent weeks Mr. Borges has become aware through reports to him of serious data
security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees,
that risk the security ofover 300 millionAmericans' Social Security data.1 Mr. Borges' disclosures
involve wrongdoing including apparent systemic data security violations, uninhibited
administrative access to highly sensitive production environments,2 and potential violations of internal SSA security protocols and federal privacy laws by DOGE personnel Edward Coristine
Aram Moghaddassi John Solly and Michael Russo.3 These actions constitute violations of laws, rules and regulations abuse of authority mismanagement and creation of threat to public health and safety. Since February 2025 it has been widely reported that DOGE officials have sought to access
the American public's Social Security data purportedly to address claims of fraud. A lawsuit has
been filed resulting in temporary restraining order to limit DOGE's access to this sensitive
data What has not been reported are DOGE's actions in violation of SSA protocols and policies
under the authority of SSA Chief Information Officer (CIO Aram Mogaddassi to create live copy of the country's Social Security information in cloud environment that circumvents oversight.
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Bolton: what a nut!

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It turns out Bolton's home was raided because during Biden's presidency intelligence officials stole information from a foreign adversary's spy agency which contained emails sent by John Bolton containing classified information. They were sent over unclassified email, and he was leaking the information to write his book.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-investigation-update-biden-trump-foreign-emails-2120501
Joe Biden
Biden Admin Advanced Bolton Probe Over Foreign-Intercepted Emails: Report

he federal investigation into John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, gained new momentum during the Biden administration after U.S. intelligence collected evidence suggesting he mishandled classified material, according to a report in The New York Times.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the Times said U.S. agencies obtained information from a foreign adversary's spy service, including emails that Bolton appeared to have sent on an unclassified system while in the Trump White House. The messages, reportedly containing sensitive material from classified documents, were allegedly sent to people close to Bolton who were helping him prepare his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened.

The revelations explain why FBI agents executed searches of Bolton's Maryland home and Washington office last week — a dramatic escalation in an inquiry that had long been viewed as dormant.

Prosecutors sought the warrants to determine if Bolton, a vocal Trump critic, possessed evidence corroborating the foreign spy service's cache, the Times reported. While no charges are pending, the Times said the FBI searches were aimed at verifying whether Bolton still holds documents matching the intercepted material, which would bolster the case.

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

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(I can't even make up a funnier headline lmao)
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city’s streets.

The rejection by grand jurors was particularly noteworthy given the attention paid to the case of the man who threw the sandwich, Sean C. Dunn. Video of the episode went viral on social media, senior officials talked about the case, and the administration posted footage of a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers going to Mr. Dunn’s apartment.

It remained unclear if prosecutors planned to try again to obtain an indictment against Mr. Dunn, 37, a former Justice Department paralegal. They could also forgo seeking felony charges and refile his case as a misdemeanor, which does not require an indictment to move forward.

>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html
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Opinions on who is a modern day HST

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Not a fan of the druggie public image
But looking for someone who distrusts and questions all politics and politicians
Who doesn't suck anyone's dick and is entertaining
HST did eventually suck Dem dick, yeah I know
He also disliked Clinton as much as he disliked Nixon and wasn't afraid to say it
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/graffiti/hunter.htm
I'm looking to read/watch someone who isn't simping for either side
Does a journalist like that even exist anymore
Probably not, they're dying with the boomers
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NVM, Chinese Communists Committing Espionage in the Country now a good thing.

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I hope Fox News isn't considered a radical leftist news source.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-opens-door-600000-chinese-students-amid-beijing-trade-talks

Donald Trump said 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed into the U.S. to study at colleges amid ongoing trade talks with China.

Speaking at the White House Monday, the president's announcement signals a potential thaw in U.S.-China relations after escalating tariffs and restrictions on Chinese students.

"I hear so many stories that we're not going to allow their students," Trump told reporters.

"We're going to allow their students to come in. It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China," he added

Trump’s student visa offer comes against the backdrop of trade talks with the Chinese government.

Earlier this year, the administration imposed a 145% tariff on all Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to retaliate with a 125% tariff on U.S. exports.

Negotiators in Geneva agreed in May to pause additional levies, but Trump has continued to warn of further penalties.

Last week, he floated a 200% tariff on Chinese-made magnets, citing what he described as Beijing’s "monopoly" over the global market.

"I don’t think we’re going to have a problem with that," Trump told reporters.

"China, intelligently, went and they sort of took a monopoly on the world’s magnets. It’ll probably take us a year to have them," he said.

Currently, about 270,000 Chinese students are enrolled in U.S. universities.

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to "aggressively revoke" visas for Chinese nationals, particularly those tied to the Communist Party or sensitive research fields.

Trump has since shifted tone, telling reporters in June that he has "always been in favor" of welcoming students from China.
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Thing everyone warned was going to happen because of DOGE might've happened

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Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Security commissioner, resigned after she refused a DOGE request to access sensitive government records at the agency.

The underlying concern did not go away. The New York Times reported:

Members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer. The database contains records of all Social Security numbers issued by the federal government.

The Times’ report added that the database in question “includes individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities, making it one of the nation’s most sensitive repositories of personal information.”

It’s an open question as to why, exactly, DOGE would even want to upload such a database. (The controversial operation is ostensibly searching for fraud within the Social Security system, though its previous claims on the matter have fallen apart under scrutiny.)

>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/whistleblower-accuses-doge-team-endangering-critical-social-security-d-rcna227264
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Trumps Multinational Peace Summit

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Trump hosts a multinational Ukrainian Peace Summit
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5458636-trump-zelensky-eu-leaders-meet/
5 takeaways from the Trump-Zelensky White House meeting

President Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday as the search for an end to the three-and-a-half-year war intensifies.

Major European leaders also jetted in for the meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were all in attendance. So too were European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

In a relief for all concerned, the meeting was vastly different from the late February contretemps in the Oval Office, in which Trump and Vice President Vance berated Zelensky at length.

Here are the other main takeaways.

A positive tone but few specifics
The mood music was positive on Monday, but huge hurdles remain on the road to peace.

Trump was civil and solicitous toward Zelensky throughout the day, and he was also conspicuously affable to the European leaders, with whom he has had volatile relations.

Trump argued that “while difficult, peace is within reach.” He also held out the promise of an imminent trilateral meeting between Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin and himself at which the knottiest issues of the conflict could be unpicked.

Zelensky, for his part, enthused about his “really good” conversation with Trump — a far cry from February’s debacle.

NATO’s Rutte said he was “really excited” about the prospects for peace, while Starmer asserted there was a chance of “real progress toward a just and lasting outcome.”

Reaching that goal will be enormously difficult, however. Nothing that was said on Monday changed the underlying contours.

The Europeans lauded Trump for committing to provide security guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a settlement.
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