https://www.joe.ie/news/germany-to-introduce-compulsory-military-service-screening-amidst-growing-tensions-with-russia-849997

Germany to introduce compulsory military service screening amidst growing tensions with Russia

The new law will be active from 2028
With its fractious relationship with Russia showing no signs of improvement, Germany is set to introduce compulsory military service to 18-year-olds.

Per T-Online, US president Donald Trump’s proposed ditching of European security support has now forced German chancellor Friedrich Merz into spearheading increased military numbers.

The armed forces – known as the Bundeswehr – currently boasts 182,000 serving personnel, and this new push wants 80,000 more.

To make this a reality, all 18-year-old men will have to fill out a questionnaire about their interest to serve from 2028, whilst women can do so voluntarily.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/walmart-recalls-its-frozen-shrimp-in-13-states-citing-potential-radioactive-contamination
Walmart has recalled frozen, raw shrimp sold in 13 states because federal health officials say it could have potential radioactive contamination.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked Walmart to pull three lots of Great Value brand frozen shrimp from stores after federal officials detected Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, in shipping containers and a sample of breaded shrimp imported from Indonesia.

The products could pose a “potential health concern” for people exposed to low levels of Cesium-137 over time, FDA officials said.

“If you have recently purchased raw frozen shrimp from Walmart that matches this description, throw it away,” FDA officials said in a statement.

The risk from the recalled shrimp is “quite low,” said Donald Schaffner, a food safety expert at Rutgers University.

Cesium-137 is a byproduct of nuclear reactions, including nuclear bombs, testing, reactor operations and accidents. It’s widespread around the world, with trace amounts found in the environment, including soil, food and air.

The level detected in the frozen breaded shrimp was far lower than FDA intervention levels. However, the agency said that avoiding potentially contaminated products could reduce exposure to low-level radiation that could lead to health problems over time.

The FDA is investigating reports of Cesium-137 contamination in shipping containers and products processed by P.T. Bahari Makmur Sejati, doing business as BMS Foods of Indonesia. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials alerted FDA that they found Cesium-137 in shipping containers sent to U.S. ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Savannah, Georgia.

FDA officials collected several product samples and detected contamination in one sample of frozen breaded shrimp. The shipping containers and products were denied entry into the U.S.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/23/us-general-whose-report-on-iran-nuclear-sites-damage-angered-trump-fired

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s preliminary intelligence assessment angered President Donald Trump for reporting that the US attack on Iranian nuclear sites in June had inflicted limited damage, according to reports.

The Pentagon firings on Friday, which, according to US officials who spoke to the Reuters and Associated Press (AP) news agencies, also include two other senior military commanders, are the latest moves by the Trump administration to purge officials at the Department of Defense .

It was not immediately known on what grounds Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, who led the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) since early 2024, was fired.

But President Trump had previously decried the agency’s initial findings on US strikes against Iran.

The initial DIA assessment – which was widely reported on by US media – contradicted claims by Trump that the strikes totally destroyed the nuclear sites, drawing the ire of both the president and officials within his administration.

https://apnews.com/video/trump-holds-up-photo-sent-to-him-by-putin-as-he-expresses-frustration-over-war-in-ukraine-fd270cf3ee7d446da2ef6be0c6787a76

In an unexpected moment during an event about the 2026 World Cup draw, President Donald Trump pulled out a photo of him and Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Alaska. Trump said Putin sent the picture and told reporters he planned to sign it for him.

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

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gorsuch-calls-lower-courts-trump-194131707.html

> Gorsuch calls out lower courts as Trump administration allowed to end NIH grants

> The Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday allowing the administration to cut nearly $800 million in National Institute of Health grants related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

> The 5-4 ruling was a win for the Trump administration, which took the issue to the highest court after a lower court judge in Massachusetts required the federal government to continue making the payments. The plaintiffs in the case included a coalition of 16 Democratic state attorneys general and public health advocacy groups, who argued the Trump administration was being discriminatory.

> Since Trump took office the decision noted that federal institutions like the NIH — the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world — have been making policy changes to better align with the current White House’s politics.

> Trump has pushed executive orders to roll back Biden administration policies that were created with the purpose of “advancing racial equality.” As soon as he took office last January, Trump took action to end what he called “radical” DEI completely, labeling it as demonstrating “immense public waste and shameful discrimination.”

Trump got so rattled that the stopped posting in ALL CAPS
>folding like a lawn chair
check
>TACOing on ALL CAPS
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>shills whining like little girls
triple check

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-trump_n_68a4a033e4b0c2c76f851c00
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s social media account mimicking Donald Trump’s all-caps online posts is getting under the skin of prominent conservatives on the right.

The reaction to Newsom’s pitch-perfect parody of Trump — including his wild rants, name-calling, and use of AI-generated images — is shining a light on the absurd behavior of the president of the United States, who has largely gotten a pass from his party for doing the same thing.

“You have to stop it with the Twitter thing,” Fox News host Dana Perino said Monday of the potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender. “If I were his wife, I would say: You are making a fool of yourself, stop it. … He’s got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little more serious.”

“I don’t know what he’s trying to do but it comes across as childish and — you are the governor of the biggest state in the union — what are you doing?” added Fox News host Trace Gallagher.

For years, and often in the middle of the night, Trump has posted screeds against his perceived enemies on his social media website Truth Social, hurling invectives and sharing conspiracies once considered unthinkable for an American president. His critics have repeatedly accused the media of normalizing the bizarre posts and “sanewashing” his language online.

Newsom’s team is trying a different approach — one that’s earned the governor praise from the Democratic base and lots of eyeballs. According to Newsom’s office, the aggressive new strategy has resulted in the @GovPressOffice account on X gaining more than 250,000 followers, more than 225 million impressions, and more than 1.5 million profile visits since Aug. 1.

https://people.com/tenn-man-charged-raping-unconscious-woman-in-front-church-just-before-she-died-11792132

A Tennessee man is accused of raping a woman as she drifted in and out of consciousness by the front steps of a Nashville church — shortly before she died.

Mohamed Mohamed, 39, is charged with four counts of rape in relation to an alleged assault on an unconscious woman in front of the house of worship on Nolensville Pike in Nashville’s Woodbine neighborhood Thursday evening, according to a press release from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

Authorities say a Fire Department crew was traveling down Nolensville Pike just after 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, when they spotted an alleged sexual assault taking place. The fire crew alleged that Mohamed was attempting to pull the woman’s pants up as they pulled over.

The woman, who remains a Jane Doe, was seen on surveillance video apparently under the influence, walking unsteadily and setting herself down on the steps. Police say Mohamed then approached her, sat down beside her and began touching her as she drifted in and out of consciousness, attempting to swat him away to no avail.

Mohamed then allegedly lifted her off the steps, set her on the ground and “repeatedly sexually assaulted her,” police wrote in the press release.

The woman was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she died soon after arriving….