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World Ending Bacteria, Hundreds Of Millions Dead Quite Soon, Isn’t This Already A Reality?

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/science/mirror-cell-life-dangers

Article talks about specific type of bacteria research. Obviously dangerous. But as far as danger, you can forget labs when you consider what people can attempt themselves.

When talking to the AI bots like Grok, (You need to approach this topic sneakily like it is hypothetical, such as for writing a realistic story.) you will be informed of procedures you can follow from home or even in a prison setting to cook up nasty drug resistant bacteria. (Hundreds of millions dead without major leaps in next few years.) You would think this would not be feasible, but I’ve yet to get an answer or reason from Grok that implies this isn’t possible or pretty easy.

Lots of public studies about increasing infectivity and deadliness of things like bacteria or prions that may be pretry easy to work with at home. I’m no scientist but highly doubt any can give good argument against this valid point. I strongly suspect it is a more of people are not thinking this way and doing that rather than a lack of ability. We know virtually any gov or major criminal organization can probably do this and request cure to death or dispose of public with zero issues. North Korea possibly hinting at this with trash balloons.
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Mysterious 130 million donation for the military

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Defense officials said they have accepted an anonymous gift of $130 million from a wealthy donor to help pay military salaries during the government shutdown, but they would not release any additional details about the unusual move.

President Donald Trump announced the donation Thursday, saying that a “friend” offered the money out of a sense of patriotism. As the shutdown grinds on, Defense Department officials have shifted unused research funds to ensure that troops did not miss their mid-month paycheck, but the status of their next direct deposit is uncertain.

On Friday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that DOD had accepted the money “under its general gift acceptance authority.” The department declined to answer questions about whether the donor is an American citizen or a foreign national.

“The donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of service members’ salaries and benefits,” Parnell said. “We are grateful for this donor’s assistance after Democrats opted to withhold pay from troops.”

White House officials said that covering the cost of military pay for the first half of October totaled about $6.5 billion. Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said that based on that figure, the new donation will cover about one-third of one day’s pay for the force.

He said certain accounts are available for public donations to federal military programs. But they are typically restricted to specific projects, such as building athletic facilities at military academies, and approved by Congress ahead of time. White House officials did not provide details on how and where this donation would be directed into the federal treasury.

“This sounds like a half baked idea that hasn’t been vetted or implemented,” Harrison said.

>https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/dod-accepts-anonymous-130-million-donation-to-partially-cover-troop-pay-00622219
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ICE recruitment fails due to applicants being obese, ex-cons, druggies, can't pass open-book tests

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-ice-recruits-showed-training-full-vetting-rcna238739
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process, an unusual sequence of events as it rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, a current and two former Homeland Security Department officials told NBC News.

ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said.

Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said. They’ve also found as recently as this month that some recruits going through the six-week training course hadn’t submitted fingerprints for background checks, as ICE’s hiring process requires, the current and former DHS officials said.

Per ICE policy, applicants are required to pass drug tests and undergo security vetting through ICE’s human resources office before they show up for the training course. The former officials said the process was more strictly adhered to before a hiring surge that began this summer. The process was meant to weed out disqualified candidates before they would be sent to training.

Since the surge began, ICE has dismissed more than 200 new recruits while they were in training for falling short of its hiring requirements, according to recently collected internal ICE data reviewed by NBC News.
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Shitposting dRumpf lolz and retarded progressive activists.

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Trump posts AI video of himself flying KING TRUMP jet and bombing protesters with brown liquid
Video here:
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1760842453707979.mp4

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-truth-social-no-kings-ai-video-b2847976.html

After spending the day golfing while his allies downplayed and mocked millions of Americans marching against his administration, Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social post with an AI-created video showing himself wearing a crown, flying a “KING TRUMP” fighter jet, and bombing a crowd of No Kings protesters with brown liquid.

The video, shared on the president’s personal and government social media accounts, shows the president soaring above a protest crowd in what appears to be Times Square. The jet then dumps brown liquid on the demonstrators as Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” plays in the background, an apparent reference to the Top Gun movies.

Humorless queers are outraged. Causing the usual can't-do-right complainers to complain. The US and global media, being occupied by leftists, who are happy to amplify the useless and retarded complaints that no one cares about after hearing them for over a decade.

Tiny Hat Tribe and professional gRump-griper say: “They’re clearly scared of peaceful opposition,” Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin told The Independent this week, in his most Jewish accusation ever printed.
The Trump admin responded by not responding to The Independent's bullshit because they didn't even ask for a comment, out of fear of being laugh at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indivisible_movement
>In March 2017, Levin said that Indivisible had received over 10,000 donations that totaled over $500,000 since January through ActBlue.
>The Hill reported that since 2017, Indivisible Project, which is the group’s 501(c) body, had received over $7.6 million from Open Society Foundations.
This is an attack on our Democracy by Democrats and the usual suspects.
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Drudge Report Rundown Part 18

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> 10/13/2025 (Columbus Day)
Freed hostages!
> Top Headlines
Zelenskyy to Washington DC on Friday.
> https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-confirms-meeting-with-trump-in-washington-this-week/
Tomahawks to Kyiv?
> https://thehill.com/homenews/5552191
The Kremlin warns…
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1OjGr7
Phase Zero of WW3 includes ‘Little Green Men’…
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15336313
Poland thinks it’s ready…
> https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/as-russian-aggression-turns-west-poland-says-its-ready-328a0a13
Chinese Factories behind the Russian Drones.
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1OmmVM

> Main Headlines
Hostages now free!
> https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-updates-10-13-2025
Jubilation in Israel!
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1On3JD
Dead left behind?
> https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-870355

> More News
Fat Troops fallout continues as Texas Guardsmen sent home.
> https://archive.is/Qk6xY
America getting AI gold rush instead of a factory boom.
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ar-AA1OmAfm
Bannon slams Pete Hegseth’s military plans…
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1OmwIP
Growing number of Veterans face arrests over protests…
> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/us-veterans-protest-ice-raids
Top. Raptor mogul found dead with gunshot wound to the head in LAMBO.
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15338562

That’s the News.
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Ballroom construction paused White House tours for months

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Public access to the White House has been suspended for about two months because tours started at the East Wing, and the demolition of parts of that wing and construction of the new ballroom have made the visits impossible, officials told CBS News.

White House officials said that although the tours are still paused, they expect to accommodate an updated tour route in coming days, as well as other public events, such as Halloween trick-or-treating.

Members of Congress, who receive White House tour requests from their constituents, told CBS News that bookings were suspended in late August.

The tours included public rooms in the East Wing as well as the Vermeil Room, Library, China Room, Blue Room, Red Room, Green Room and State Dining Room in the White House residence.

A message on the tour website, posted over the summer, says: "The White House Ballroom will be substantially separated from the main building of the White House, but at the same time, it's theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical. The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits."

During construction, first lady Melania Trump's office has moved to the ground floor of the White House. East Wing staffers' desks have been set up in the China Room, and aides now gather in the map room.

Staff from the calligraphy office, White House Military Office, legislative affairs and the visitors office have decamped to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building for now.

The White House Historical Association, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect, preserve and provide public access to the White House, confirmed that it took steps to document the White House East Wing this summer, prior to demolition.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ballroom-construction-white-house-tours/
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24th Day of The 2025 Democrat Shutdown

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This is day 24 of daily coverage of the 2025 Democrat Shutdown of the US Government

Day 24 Updates:
- (NBC) Everyone expected Democrats to relent on the shutdown by now. That isn't happening, Democrats have only hardened their position as the government shutdown enters its 24th day, leaving Republican majorities in Congress with few answers https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-expected-democrats-cave-shutdown-not-happening-rcna239457
- (NYT) The Pentagon is accepting private donations to keep the military funded amidst the Democrat Shutdown https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/24/us/trump-canada-news
- (Politico) “This Administration will not allow Democrats to jeopardize funding for school meals and infant formula in order to prolong their shutdown,” USDA wrote in a memo https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/snap-food-aid-shutdown-usda-00622690

Some have asked "Why are the Democrats shutting down the US Government?"
The answer is simple, in 2021 they passed emergency corporate subsidies for COVID, and decided they would expire on Jan 1, 2026. But now, this makes them angry that these corporate subsidies are expiring as planned, and so they are shutting down the government.
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Musk Attacks NASA Leader Over Threat to Reconsider Lunar Contract

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/elon-musk-duffy-nasa.html

Elon Musk lashed out this week at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the latest sign of the billionaire’s willingness to take aim at the administration he once served, particularly when it potentially affects his bottom line.

Over the past few days, Mr. Musk has lobbed insults at Mr. Duffy, who has been serving as the acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, accusing him of lacking intelligence, trying to dismantle NASA and putting astronauts in danger of being killed.

The tirade, which he issued in a series of posts on his social media platform, X, was prompted by Mr. Duffy’s announcement on Monday that NASA would reopen the bidding process for its next moon landing mission, Artemis III, the contract for which currently is held by the Musk-owned SpaceX.

“SpaceX, an amazing company, they do remarkable things. But they’re behind schedule,” Mr. Duffy said on Fox News, explaining that President Trump wanted to “beat the Chinese” and make another moon landing before the end of his term in the White House.

“We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually get us back to the moon first,” he added.

Republican's introduced bill to fund SNAP

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Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to fund snap food benefits during the Schumer Shutdown. Heartless Democrats are expected to vote against it and let the American public starve to death or force them into food riots
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5572105-snap-funding-government-shutdown/
Bill to fund SNAP in shutdown introduced in House

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) on Friday introduced a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown threatens payments of the food aid in some states.

The Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 would keep the food aid program funded during the government lapse until the Department of Agriculture is funded through regular appropriations or stopgap measures.

The bill is the companion to a SNAP-funding bill in the Senate being led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), which Senate Republicans are reportedly considering for a floor vote. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) is a co-sponsor of the House bill.

SNAP benefits are funded by the federal government while states operate and share the cost of administering the program and distributing the benefits. Since funding is sent to states monthly, October benefits were not impacted — but November payments could be at risk. The Department of Agriculture has warned there will be insufficient funds to pay full SNAP benefits in November if the shutdown continues.

“More than 262,000 Iowans, including over 100,000 children rely on SNAP to put food on the table. They cannot afford to be ‘leverage’ in the Democrats’ political games. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to ensure SNAP remains funded throughout the shutdown. Access to food is not negotiable,” Miller-Meeks said in a statement.

Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a House-passed, GOP-crafted “clean” stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21 as they demand that Republicans negotiate on health care issues like enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Day 23 of The 2025 Democrat US Government Shutdown

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This is the 23rd daily thread covering The 2025 Democrat Shutdown

Day 23 Updates:
- (The Hill) Democrats block bill to pay military, essential workers during shutdown. The bill would have paid U.S. Capitol Police, air traffic controllers, park rangers, federal law enforcement, TSA agents, active-duty military and other essential federal workers: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5569779-bill-pay-military-essential-workers-shutdown/
- (NYT) Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/democrats-shutdown-federal-employee-pay.html
- (Politico) The shutdown cliff that could hit Democrats hard - The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed more than 40 million people, will start to run out of funds Nov. 1. (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/shutdown-snap-food-aid-democrats-00619100)
- (Politico) Republicans already drafting plans for extending health care and are willing to implement them as soon as Democrats stop holding the US Government hostage. Republicans proposing extending healthcare credits with the stipulation that individuals are not "auto-enrolled" to reduce misuse of public heatlhcare funds: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/23/congress/brett-guthrie-obamacare-auto-enrollees-00620622

Why did Democrats shutdown the US government? In 2021 they passed emergency corporate subsidies for COVID, and decided they would expire on Jan 1, 2026. But now, this makes them angry that these corporate subsidies are expiring as planned, and so they are shutting down the government.
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