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This battery is about to change the world in 3 months, or make this guy a fool | Fred Lambert, Hacker News Donut Lab lit the EV and energy storage industry on fire last week with its announcement of a 400 Wh/kg solid-state battery cell that can last for 100 years. At face value, if true, we are looking at the single most disruptive announcement in the history of the electric vehicle industry and energy storage as a whole. We aren’t just talking about a better motorcycle battery. If the claims of a 5-minute charge, 100,000-cycle life, and ~400 Wh/kg energy density are accurate and scalable, as Donut Lab claims, this is the holy grail of energy storage. Battery breakthrough announcements generally don’t catch fire like this, but Donut Lab’s did because it said that the cell was already in production and will be in a production vehicle, Verge’s electric motorcycle, this quarter. It gave credibility to the claim, pushing everyone to report on it. Now, we have interviewed Donut Lab’s CEO and investigated the technology. At this point, it looks like either this battery changes the world within the next 3 months, or it will make the CEO look like a fool. In this article, we discuss the impact of the battery, whether real or not, as well as clues about the secret sauce behind its chemistry. The Holy Grail of Energy Storage Consider the implications. A battery that lasts 100,000 cycles is effectively immortal in human terms. You could charge it every single day for 270 years, and it would still be working. It means the battery outlives the vehicle, not just once, but ten times over. It changes the economics of transportation entirely: you buy the battery once, and you swap it into your next five cars. The power density required for a 5-minute charge and the 400 Wh/kg of energy density opens the door to commercial electric aviation, a sector currently strangled by the weight and slow charging speeds of lithium-ion. It solves the grid storage problem by offering a medium that doesn’t degrade, meaning utility companies could amortize the cost over a century rather than a decade. If this is real, the internal combustion engine didn’t just die today; it was buried 100 feet deep, and every other battery is not far behind. But, and this is a massive “but”, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and Donut Lab has yet to release that proof. And that brings us to the man making them. The Man Betting His Reputation I spoke with Marko Lehtimäki, the CEO of Donut Lab and Chairman of Verge Motorcycles. My goal was simple: ask him about the chemistry behind his battery and, if that doesn’t work, look him in the eye and figure out if he’s selling vaporware or if he’s sitting on the breakthrough of the century. Marko isn’t a random guy shouting about a battery breakthrough that will change the world. He is a legit entrepreneur. A computer scientist who built a no-coding app builder years before “vibe coding” was even a thing and sold it to SAP. After the successful exit, he became an investor and serial entrepreneur with his biggest, or most well-known, company being Verge Motorcycles, which has real products on the road. By announcing that this “miracle battery” is already in production and will be shipping in customer vehicles within 10 weeks, he is betting his entire personal reputation on this technology. If he misses this timeline or if the specs are fake, Donut Labs and Verge Motorcycles might not survive the credibility loss. He has a lot to lose here. In my article about the battery announcement last week, I noted that Marko’s presentation was incredible. He basically described a perfect battery: record energy density, incredible charge rate, unprecedented longevity, no rare metals, a cost lower than traditional Li-ion cells, and in scalable production right now. Sounds too good to be true? The only thing he didn’t share was details about the chemistry, beyond saying it doesn’t use lithium or other rare metals. What’s the point of protecting the chemistry if the battery is already in production and it will be in a product shipped this quarter? If that’s true, the battery will be reverse-engineered before the snow completely melts. We discussed it with Marko during our interview. His logic is that once the bikes ship, competitors will tear them down and figure it out anyway. But that won’t happen for another 10 weeks or so, and the head start is critical for a technology this disruptive. In the meantime, Donut Lab’s goal with the announcement was to get the attention of OEMs and ship them battery packs for validation. Marko said: We are right now shipping demo packs to OEMs under NDAs and under tight disclosures so that they can test that all of that is true, which serves our business very well [better than disclosing the chemistry]. But these programs with OEMs are likely to take a long time before they become public. Shorter term, there’s Verge Motorcycles shipping bikes with the battery by the end of the quarter. Before that, Marko also said that we should soon see third-party testing of those cells: We rather right now ship it to authorized research and science center that tests everything without opening it and telling everybody what’s in there. In short, we should have a good idea whether the claims are true or not in just a few weeks no matter what. What does Marko, or Donut Lab, have to gain by lying about this? I also discussed this with Marko and the only thing I could come up with is if he happens to be raising capital right now, but he shut that down: There are a million investors chasing us right now, but we are literally not talking to anybody. We tell investors that we can discuss terms after we have done all our disclosures. Marko insisted that Donut Lab is not taking any investment until they have proven their cells work. In short, it’s hard to find an upside for Donut Lab in making this announcement if the claims are not true. It doesn’t mean that they are, but it makes you think. The Investigation: What Is the “Donut Battery”? So, what is the secret sauce? Marko wouldn’t say, but after digging into public records, supply chains, and research papers, I believe we have a pretty good idea. Let me preface this by saying that I’m not a chemist or physicist, but I’ve been a journalist covering electric vehicles for more than a decade, and I’m pretty good at connecting the dots, and in this case, I’ve had the help of a couple of great sources, too. I’m not saying that this is the Donut Lab battery, but since they are not sharing much, we have to speculate, and all evidence points to a Finnish nanotechnology startup called Nordic Nano and its Chief Scientist, Dr. Bela Bhuskute. Donut Lab invested in Nordic Nano in October 2025, just months before this announcement. At the time of writing this, the press release has fewer than 200 views. The announcement went under the radar, and while Marko said that Nordic Nano is more of a “solar company” during our interview, the announcement mentions both solar and energy storage. Dr. Bhuskute’s research at Tampere University focuses on amorphous Titanium Dioxide nanostructures, which could benefit many different technologies, including batteries. It fits the “miracle” specs perfectly: - 100,000 Cycles: Traditional solid-state batteries are crystalline (like a brick wall) and crack when ions rush in. Dr. Bhuskute’s amorphous Titanium Dioxide is disordered (like a sponge) and “breathes,” allowing it to expand and contract without breaking. - 5-Minute Charge: This chemistry stores energy via “pseudocapacitance,” which is basically like Velcro. Ions stick to the surface almost instantly rather than having to burrow deep inside the material. - The Manufacturing: Nordic Nano uses a “nanofluid” printing process for its solar product using the technology. This aligns with Donut Lab’s description of a “clay-like” material that enables an easier manufacturing process. Some call this “battery printing”, which could explain Donut Lab’s ability to bring this to production in record time. When I asked Marko for the volumetric energy density (Wh/L), he claimed he “couldn’t remember”. Volumetric energy density is one of the few specs that Donut Lab hasn’t released. This battery is lighter than lithium-ion, but it could be bigger due to the amorphous nature of the titanium dioxide. However, the CEO claimed it has a higher volumetric density than traditional Li-ion batteries, without providing a specific number. If that’s true, not only could electric vehicles and energy storage switch to this new chemistry, but even personal electronics, such as smartphones. In 2025, Nordic Nano has been making moves, including securing a former large retail location in Imatra, Finland, near the Russian border: It could be where the company has set up production. Following investment from the Finnish government, Nordic Nano had to elaborate a bit on its products and confirmed that it is working on “solar energy systems and energy storage solutions”: The company’s range of products includes two product families: solar energy systems and energy storage solutions: The ultra-thin and flexible solar film collects twice the amount of energy compared to traditional silicon-based solar panels. Solid-state salt batteries are manufactured by printing from nanofluid, which enables the efficient use of space and the production of batteries in varying shapes. Furthermore, the company confirmed that it is using a “screenprinting” manufacturing method. This is not new. Other companies have produced battery cells with this technology with varying degrees of success. It appears that the bet is that the amorphous rather than crystalized titanium dioxide nanostructure could be more easily adapted and scaled with this manufacturing technology. Electrek’s Take I’m naturally skeptical, and this screams “too good to be true”, but I can’t find anything that categorically rejects the claims. I get battery breakthrough announcements in my inbox every week, and most of the time they never amount to anything. If I decide to spend some time researching them and talking to experts, I generally quickly hit a problem or two that make them commercially unviable. This announcement is different. We can’t really investigate the actual breakthrough; we can only speculate about it, since it is guarded. Marko’s logic for guarding the chemistry is sound, and the incentives to lie about what they have aren’t clear if he is not currently raising money. Then, because they claim this is already in production and will be in a deliverable product within weeks, we will know whether the claims are true in short order, and their reputations, especially Marko’s, are on the line. During my interview, Marko didn’t seem too worried about it. It doesn’t sound like someone who needs to quickly figure out how to deliver this, but rather someone who has a couple of aces in their hand and is looking to maximize them. It’s also strange that this innovation and then production quickly comes from a relatively small company. I thought researching Donut Lab would make me more skeptical about the claims, but it’s the contrary. It confirms that their technology stems from years of research, backed by university and government funding for its commercialization. Could it be that this critical research went under the radar and a small electric motorcycle startup in need of a significant bump in energy density stumbled upon it? Then, a savvy entrepreneur quickly found a way to optimize the impact of this potentially groundbreaking tech by spinning out a startup from the motorcycle company to market the battery to a broader market. Maybe? This could be real, or it could be hype. Again, I’m still skeptical, but I can’t point to anything specific that would disprove any claim made about this miracle battery. Again, if this is true, we are talking about a complete reset of the entire energy and transportation sectors. Donut Lab would become one of the biggest companies in the world. A Nobel Prize would be coming to Dr. Bhuskute and her colleagues in the near future. If it’s not, Marko and Donut Lab’s reputation would be destroyed. There might also be a middle conclusion where the battery is nearly as good as they claim, but when you ramp up production, other problems arise, such as scrap, which has been the undoing of another company that recently tried screenprinting batteries. Who knows? But it sounds like we should find out soon. Within weeks, we should get independent verifications of the specs. Then the bikes get delivered within months. You can fake a presentation, but there are things you can’t fake. https://electrek.co/2026/01/14/batter-about-change-world-or-make-this-guy-fool/
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BREAKING: Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University event | Hannah Nightingale, The Post Millenial The shooting took place around 12 pm local time. Charlie Kirk has been shot at an event held at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The Utah Valley University stop was part of Kirk’s American Comeback Tour, which is scheduled to hit numerous campuses across the nation in the fall. Video taken at the scene showed the crowd fleeing the area, while another angle appeared to show the moment Kirk was shot. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-valley-university-event
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Only 5% of New Yorkers Voted for Mamdani | Daniel Greenfield After Zohran Mamdani secured the Democrat nomination for mayor, millions of people around the country are wondering how the city that lived through 9/11 could have done this? The answer is it didn’t. Less than 30% of Democrats voted in the mayoral primary. Of those, supposedly, 43.5% voted for Mamdani. So some 12.9% of New York Democrats voted for Mamdani. 56% of registered voters in the city are Democrats so some 7.2% of city residents voted for him. New York City has a population of 8.2 million. Of those 432,305 or 5% voted for Mamdani. This isn’t a mandate. It’s a city that tuned out the election because it saw no one worth voting for and ceded the playing field to radicals and extremists. The media is doing its best to hype those numbers as a stunning mandate when what they really represent are high levels of turnout by Mamadani’s base and low turnout by everyone else. Who are those 5%? They aren’t New Yorkers because polls showed us Mamdani performing poorly with anyone over 50, with African-American, Latino and working class white voters. What’s left? White hipsters and Muslim immigrants. Mamdani’s base isn’t New Yorkers, it’s a coalition of white hipsters and Muslim immigrants, most of them weren’t even in the city during 9/11, like Mamdani, have no roots in the city, and no connection to its history. The quintessential New Yorker, as envisioned by a thousand Hollywood movies, TV shows and Broadway musicals, still exists, but is harder to find than ever. The city of those movies and shows can be glimpsed as a palimpsest under layers of chain stores, illegal migrants, social justice projects and vegan eateries before it vanishes again in the rain. What happened to New York is what happened to legendary cities across the country and around the world, from Philly to London, which is that the revival of the 90s was the final act in driving out its working class and middle class population. Rents soared until the only young people who could afford to live there were white hipsters and third world immigrants. And their politics became based on coalitions between the hipsters and the new arrivals. In New York City, as in London, it produced a Jihadist coalition that paved the way for a Muslim mayor. Even by 9/11, New York City already wasn’t ‘that city’. The Giuliani revolution that swept out bums and criminals was a victim of its own success. Much of the middle class had already left which was why so many of the victims of 9/11 were commuters. Those who didn’t were soon completely priced out. The working class, the Irish, Jewish and Italian men and women who appear as comic characters in countless shows, were soon priced out of everything except projects. Even as the world mourned for New York, the New Yorkers were disappearing. New York’s political system became a contest between establishment crooks from the old Democrat political machine and radicals from the new leftist insurgencies. Selecting Cuomo, an old crook with a venerable political lineage, to go up against a young hip radical was a political death wish. New Yorkers, with enough standards not to vote for Mamdani, were expected to go out and vote for a man they were almost certainly bound to hate and resent. The sudden unity behind Cuomo smacked of hypocrisy and made Mamdani seem like a genuine revolutionary. Most New Yorkers didn’t vote. They stayed home and allowed the 5% to have their way. Given a choice between two terrible candidates, in a city that has long since proven to be utterly corrupt, they opted out. They may have failed to protect the city, but the political establishment failed them badly by putting up Cuomo and seems likely to fail all over again as it now has to revert to holding up Mayor Eric Adams as the last best hope for New York City. In the 1991 Louisiana governor’s race between corrupt politicians Edwin Edwards and Neo-Nazi leader David Duke, bumper stickers read, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.” Voting for the crook may be important once more in New York City, but it’s not an ideal choice you want to give voters. Not unless you want below 30% turnout with the numbers favoring those who are most enthusiastic about their Neo-Neo-Nazi candidate and his plans to destroy the city. New Yorkers needed a real choice and instead they got a choice between eating a dead rat and committing suicide. Only 5% chose to commit suicide, but most didn’t want to eat a dead rat either. And the dead rat strategy is going to be a longshot in any political campaign. The best way to beat an evil candidate is with a better choice, not with a lesser evil. New York’s political system, without meaningful Republican participation, has decayed into a one-party system. Its already corrupt rules were further rejiggered to favor radicals with ranked choice voting, and whose elections are as shady as those of Chicago, Philly and Los Angeles. There’s no particular reason to trust the Mamdani election results than there is to trust the similar shady mayoral elections in Chicago and Los Angeles that gave their respective cities two radical destroyers in the form of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Mayor Karen Bass. It is all too possible that they will have a third candidate elected in a dubious election by a radical minority. Read more: https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/06/only-5-of-new-yorkers-voted-for-mamdani.html
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Masked illegal immigrant who allegedly stole Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing $3K in cash, passport arrested: sources | Joe Marino, Anna Young & Jennie Taer, New York Post An illegal immigrant was arrested Saturday for stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s pricey Gucci bag containing $3,000 in cash and other personal items – and a second migrant suspect is still on the loose, according to sources. Noem, 53, was on an Easter outing with her family at The Capital Burger in Washington, DC, when the masked thief stole the luxury shoulder bag, which also contained her driver’s license, passport, DHS badge and apartment keys on April 20. The suspect, whose identity was not immediately available, was busted by the DC Metro Police and the Secret Service, sources said. The perp, who is believed to be part of a large east coast robbery crew, is expected to appear in court early next week as law enforcement hunt for his accomplice, sources said. Officials are also looking for a second suspect who is also reportedly an illegal migrant. DC US Attorney Ed Martin noted it is unlikely Noem was targeted based on her high-profile position. “There is no indication it was because of that,” Martin told NBC News. “It was frankly, it was a nice looking purse. This was not an amateur. This was a person, a thief, that knew how to do this. You could see how he scouted the room out.” The bag, available for $4,400 per the label’s website, was on the ground at the former South Dakota governor’s table when it was taken, according to a complaint filed with local police. The high-end purse also contained a Louis Vuitton Clemence Purse inside, which sells for $600, according to the report. Security footage captured a white man in a N95 surgical mask, dark pants, a “fur-type” collar and a ball cap lift the DHS honcho’s bag before leaving the restaurant located about a mile from the White House. The suspect glanced around the restaurant before grabbing Noem’s bag, covering it with his jacket and then hustling out of the restaurant, according to sources who described the video. “It was kind of shocking, actually, because it was sitting right by my feet. I actually felt my purse — he hooked with his foot and drug it a few steps away and dropped a coat over it and took it,” Noem, who oversees the Secret Service, US Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard, recounted to podcaster Vince Coglianese. “I thought it was my grandkids kicking me in the legs, but it was very professionally done,” she added on the “Vince” podcast. “It tells me that this happens all the time to people, and that they live in communities where this is a danger and it reaffirms why I’m here.” ... Martin assured the alleged robbers will never step foot in the country again now that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is involved in the case. “President Trump’s direction to us is we charge these folks that are here illegally and we prosecute them, as well as deport them when need be, you know, as soon as that can happen,” he told NBC. “What I can tell you is he won’t be back on the streets of America.” Read more: https://nypost.com/2025/04/26/us-news/mask-wearing-thief-who-allegedly-stole-kristi-noems-gucci-bag-containing-3k-in-cash-passport-arrested-sources/
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Anti-Trump Protester Speechless When Asked Why He’s Protesting – Pulls Out Communist-Leader’s Talking Points Handed to Him With “Free Sign” | Brian Lupo, The Gateway Pundit A protest against President Trump and Elon Musk is underway in Washington DC today. The Gateway Pundit earlier reported on the youngest member of Congress threatening “subpoenas and investigations” if they take back the majority. But is this an organic rally? Or is it more in line with colour revolutions that the ‘Deep State’ within the U.S. has orchestrated across the globe, most notably the Orange Revolution (2004-2005) and Maidan in Ukraine (2013-2014)? MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was promoting these protests last night on her show, telling her audience, “Go to bed kind of early. Hydrate. Eat your Wheaties in the morning. Maybe put off that Friday night cocktail to make it a Saturday night cocktail…I’m only saying that because tomorrow is going to be very busy.” Maddow then brought on Soros-funded Indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin to promote the protests. This type of media rhetoric is right in line with the USAID-funded news organizations that popped up in Ukraine in late November, 2013, to promote the Maidan. It is worth checking out Oliver Stone’s Ukraine on Fire for free here to understand the innerworkings of USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy in helping to orchestrate these colour revolutions. Journalists on the ground are documenting people being bussed in, some dressed head-to-toe in “full Islamic garb” and donning Palestinian flags, as shown in a video posted by Laura Loomer to X. Another video showing “protesters” being bussed in was posted by Texas Patriot on X, showing at least five buses near the Washington Monument. During one speech at a “Hands Off 2020” stage, Stella Keating took to the microphone claiming to be “the first trans teen to ever testify before the United States Senate.” After a couple of minutes of ranting about not being “the threat” but rather “we are the future,” he ended by saying, “The question isn’t whether we belong, the question is what are you willing to do defend us?!” before walking off the stage. But perhaps the most hilarious engagement thus far came from Ted Goodman, who is on the ground interviewing “protesters.” During an interview with a man holding a sign that reads, “The Fascist Trump Regime Must Go!” Goodman learns that he was given the sign for free along with two pages worth of talking points. Goodman asked, “What makes Trump a ‘fascist’?” “Uhhhhhh….welll……he does things without, um, he just does anything he wants and not following laws and, you know….he’s a convicted felon, you know! And that’s all I know.” Goodman follows up, “Your sign says he’s a fascist. What makes him a fascist?” At this point, another protester interjects and says that “one of the things, he’s trying to control the media, right? He’s trying to control the narrative.” “How is he trying to control the media? Doesn’t every President try to control the narrative?” The “protester” admits that Presidents try to control “their own narrative” and then veers off to the renaming of the Gulf of America and “not allowing the Associated Press to come into the White House.” It is worth noting that President Trump has answered more questions and engaged more with the Press in his first two months than Joe Biden did in essentially his entire time in Office. Goodman follows up and reiterates what makes President Trump a fascist. At this point, the first ‘protester’ pulls out a piece of paper. “What’s that?? Who gave you that??” “The people that gave me the sign,” he responds. “It’s a free sign.” The ‘protester’ hands it over to Goodman and then pulls out another paper, which he also hands over to Goodman. “So what brings you out here today?” “Uhhhh just because I saw people hanging out with people,” he responds. The paper is apparently from Bob Avakian, a UC Berkeley Maoist and the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and the son of a former Alameda County Superior Court judge. Avakian has a history with the Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Panther Party dating back to the 1960s. Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/anti-trump-protester-speechless-when-asked-why-hes/
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Shock Poll: 75 Percent of Democrats Say Joe Biden’s Migration Flood Was an Accident | Neil Munro, Breitbart News A staggering 75 percent of Democrats do not believe President Joe Biden’s deputies deliberately kept the border open for migrants, according to a February poll by Harvard Harris. The February 19-20 poll of 2,443 registered voters comes just weeks after President Donald Trump deliberately shut down Biden’s destructive, expensive, and deadly migration during his first few hours in the White House. Fifty-two percent of Americans and 80 percent of Republicans recognize Biden’s Democrats — led by pro-migration border chief Alejandro Mayorkas — deliberately encouraged the inflow of up to nine million southern migrants. Those inadmissible migrants entered via a bewildering number of illegal and quasi-legal routes, such as “parole” and the “Welcome Corps at Work” programs. They were aided by billions of dollars in government funding and frequently welcomed as a boost to the economy. Amid the massive evidence of a deliberate policy, 75 percent of Democrats said the inflow “was not their deliberate policy.” So do 51 percent of people who describe themselves as independents or “other.” The poll asked: “Do you think Democrats deliberately kept the Southern border open to bring millions of immigrants into the country illegally or was that not their deliberate policy?” Elon Musk tweeted a response, describing the Democrats’ open-borders policy as “treason”: It’s not just that borders were “left open”. There was a massive, concerted campaign to usher in as many illegals as possible on an unprecedented scale in order to achieve permanent one-party rule. Musk’s own views on migration are tangled: He opposes illegal migration but favors high levels of white-collar migration via the uncapped H-1B program that has pushed millions of American college graduates out of good jobs and careers. The Democrats’ reluctance to recognize the party’s deliberate choice policy to open the borders may be a psychological defense to hide the colossal damage caused by their inconsistent views. The migration caused massive damage both to Americans and to the migrants that Democrats claimed to protect and promote. ... But some Democrats are admitting the obvious. David Leonhardt, a liberal writer at the New York Times, wrote on February 23: Supporters of mass migration often claim that it is inevitable, stemming from some combination of demography, globalization and climate change. Yet like most arguments for historical inevitability, this one is more wishful than accurate. Countries can exert substantial control over their borders. Japan has long done so. Denmark has recently done so. Biden tightened policy in his last year in office, and border traffic plummeted. Trump has pushed it even lower. If anything, modern technology, such as employment-verification systems, can make enforcement easier than in the past. When immigration advocates say that controlling borders is impossible, they are adopting an anti-government nihilism inconsistent with larger goals of progressivism. The poll also shows strong support for much of Trump’s migration policy. Eight-one percent support “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes,” and 76 percent support “losing the border with added security and policies that discourage illegal crossings.” Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/25/poll-75-percent-of-democrats-say-bidens-migration-was-an-accident/
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CBP Memo Reveals Cartel Members Are Deploying Weaponized Drones for Potential Use Against CBP Officers | Jordan Conradson, The Gateway Pundit Cartels at the southern border are reportedly escalating violent threats against U.S. border and law enforcement officers, with social media posts encouraging violence and the authorization of weaponized drones for use against border officers. Copies of recent memos sent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detail the threats on social media, NewsNation reports. Additionally, officers are warned that the cartels are expected to use drones armed with explosives. This news comes as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently said, “All options are on the table,” when he was asked if the U.S. will use military force against the cartels in Mexico. As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump also sent a message to “all who would attack Americans” on Saturday, stating, “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!” after announcing precision air strikes against ISIS in Somalia. “This action further degrades ISIS’s ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians and sends a clear signal that the United States always stands ready to find and eliminate terrorists who threaten the United States and our allies, even as we conduct robust border-protection and many other operations under President Trump’s leadership,” Hegseth said following the execution of the airstrikes indicating strikes on the cartels could be considered. This also comes after recent incidents of cartel violence on the Southern Border. As The Gateway Pundit reported, last Monday, Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with Mexican drug cartel members who tried to bring a group of illegals over the border in Fronton, Texas. Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently indicated that President Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act to combat the cartels in line with the “national objective of eradicating their physical presence on US soil.” The Insurrection Act "is still being considered based on operational needs on the southern border," said Miller. President Trump has already sent U.S. troops to the southern border, and military cargo planes are being used for the first time in history to deport planeloads of illegal aliens from Arizona and Texas. News Nation correspondent Ali Bradley explained that CBP officers are encouraged to wear ballistic gear and carry long rifles. WATCH: Bradley: We also just got her hands on a memo out of the Rio Grande Valley sector that actually says that—this is kind of crazy here—that the cartels authorized the use of weaponized drones, explosives, against CBP personnel and US law enforcement down there at the southern border. Now they're actually being encouraged, of course, to remain cognizant and vigilant, but they're also being encouraged to use their long arms, Blake. I have never seen this in a CBP memo before. They say, wear your ballistic gear… They are saying, watch out for these weaponized drones. We've seen a lot of in-fighting with two different factions of the cartel down in Tamaulipas; that is on the south side of the border in the Rio Grande Valley. And they have like an all out war happening between these cartel factions, so they are warning now that they might be using these weaponized drones against US personnel on this side, so definitely cause for concern there. Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/cbp-memo-reveals-cartel-members-are-deploying-weaponized/
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Bill Gates Calls for ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ to Be Censored by AI: Questioning ‘Vaccines’ Is ‘Inciting Violence’ | Frank Bergman, Slay News Billionaire Bill Gates is calling for members of the general public to be censored by artificial intelligence (AI) if they question the official narratives regarding “vaccines.” Gates, the Jeffrey Epstein-linked co-founder of Microsoft, made the call during a recent interview with CNBC. He was discussing the “threat” of “anti-vaxxers” and promoting plans for handling “vaccine hesitancy” using “real-time” censorship imposed by AI. Gates argues that those who urge people to avoid vaccines are “inciting violence.” Therefore, he insists that “anti-vaxxers” are a “threat” to public health. In response, Gates proposes a totalitarian approach, calling for speech “boundaries.” He claims that AI-powered computer systems can weed out and eliminate “vaccine misinformation” in real time. Gates runs multiple organizations that are heavily invested in vaccines. He has become one of the most prominent advocates for mass-injecting the public, from the traditional antigen-based biologics to the experimental mRNA “vaccines.” Gates is still pushing for Covid mRNA shots, despite the “vaccines” being linked to excess mortality worldwide. Gates recently announced plans to turn all vaccines into mRNA. ... Now the prominent philanthropist wants to use artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time censorship of vaccine-related “misinformation.” Conveniently, much of the so-called “misinformation” he wants to target is related to information that counters his plans. His comments during the recent CNBC interview have sparked a heated debate about free speech rights, mind control, and the rewriting of history by the elite. Gates, who is deeply and psychotically invested in vaccines through the Gates Foundation, GAVI, and the World Health Organization (WHO), has increasingly focused on combating vaccine “misinformation.” However, this form of censorship is really just the suppression of vaccine injury testimonials and the abolition of informed consent. In his latest interview, he expressed a desire to impose “boundaries” on speech, particularly relating to vaccines. Gates argued that free speech incites violence or deters individuals from getting vaccinated. Read more: https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-calls-anti-vaxxers-censored-ai-warns-questioning-vaccines-inciting-violence/
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Trump can fire anybody he wants, thanks to Sean Spicer | Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner President-elect Donald Trump is arriving at the White House armed with a legal weapon that will let him fire any of President Joe Biden’s appointees. Thanks in part to a court fight former Trump White House spokesman Sean Spicer lost over his firing by Biden from a three-year term to the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, the incoming president will have the legal backing to dump any of Biden’s over 4,000 appointments who try to stick around. And the best part, Spicer told Secrets, “They’ll have no one to blame but Biden himself.” The case dates to Sept. 8, 2021, when Biden began to fire Trump allies from the visitor boards at the academies of the Navy, the Air Force, and the Army. Spicer and others, including Russ Vought (just picked by Trump to head the Office of Management and Budget) and former Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, were unceremoniously dumped despite several of them having time left on their three-year terms. Spicer and Vought sued, saying that unlike White House staff or others appointed by a prior president, they couldn’t be fired because of their congressionally mandated terms. They lost, however, when a judge essentially ruled that the president could fire any presidential appointee, whether they had terms or not. A further effort failed, too. Spicer said that is exactly what he hoped the courts would do because he wanted to help a future Trump presidency fire Biden’s picks without having its hands tied. “What no one ever understood was this was not about actually getting back on the board, because my term had been expired for months. It was forcing them to argue in the affirmative that they had the ultimate authority to fire anybody at any time, which they did. And the court accepted that. So the Biden administration is now on record in court, and the court agreed that the president had absolute authority to fire anyone he wants,” Spicer said in an interview. Read more: https://washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3254409/trump-can-fire-anybody-he-wants-thanks-to-sean-spicer/
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Awkward moment Mika Brzezinski looks away while Joe Scarborough slams influencers in bizarre rant | Emma Richter, The Daily Mail MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was spotted in an awkward on-air moment as her co-host and husband Joe Scarborough slammed citizen journalist influencers during a bizarre rant Monday. The host of Morning Joe appeared shocked as Scarborough unleashed a foul-mouthed rant against influencers and commenters who he claimed get away with lying on social media while 'what reporters do matters.' The intense conversation stemmed from a speech that Axios CEO Jim VandeHei gave at the National Press Club Thursday, where he called out Elon Musk for claiming that the media has been replaced by 'citizen journalists.' VandeHei joined the Morning Joe show Monday as the MSNBC team congratulated him on winning the Fourth Estate award alongside his publication's co-founder, Mike Allen - but the conversation quickly took a sharp turn. After the Morning Joe team praised VandeHei, Scarborough immediately hopped on the bandwagon, repeating the CEO's comment he made last week about influencers 'popping off on Twitter.' As Scarborough grew aggravated, he dropped a curse word, leaving Brezinski speechless. 'And like you said, this is what gets me,' Scarborough said in reference to VandeHei's speech. 'If someone pops off on Twitter, or some other social media, and they lie, they make mistakes - you know what the cost of that is? Nothing. They do it again. 'In fact, it helps them because algorithms are rigged, so you stir up sh**,' he added, as Brezinski jumped in her chair before briefly looking away. During his speech on Thursday, VandeHei defended journalism while taking jabs at social media users - specifically Musk, the owner of X (formally known as Twitter). 'Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like, 'We are the media. You are the media.' 'My message to Elon Musk is: Bullsh**! 'You're not the media, you having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter anymore than me looking at your head, and seeing that you have a brain and telling you have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon, right?,' VandeHei added. The veteran journalist then said that 'being a reporter is hard, like really hard.' 'You have to care, you have to do the hard work, you have to get up every single day and say 'I want to get to the closest approximation of the truth without any fear, without any favoritism.' 'You don't do that by popping off on Twitter,' he explained. Scarborough told VandeHei that what he said 'continues to need to be said' because there is a lot of 'garbage flying around on social media.' 'What The New York Times does matters. What The Wall Street Journal does matters. What Jonathan Lemire does matters. What the Financial Times does matters. What MSNBC News and MSNBC reporters do matters,' he said. VandeHei agreed with Scarborough, as he mentioned that journalists aren't perfect. 'And it doesn't mean there aren't things that we get wrong,' he said, adding that he got so 'hopped up' during his speech because of what he's heard from reporters. 'I listen to so many reporters who feel like the industry is going to hell. Nobody trusts them, they're demoralized... And the truth is we don't have time to be demoralized! 'We don't have time to whine, we have to do our job! 'There is an information war out there,' VandeHei said adding, that 'there are still tens of millions of people who depend on great reporting.' Scarborough then referred back to those specific publications and stated that reporters that work for them 'don't have to worry' because they 'print truth all the time.' He then shocked his co-anchor with his language before she chimed in and said: 'Right, the more you hate, the more you make.' VandeHei suggested that people should read articles from media outlets every day to determine if they can trust them. 'Use your own eyes - do you feel like they're trying to get to the closest approximation of the truth with every story, and that most of the time, if not almost all of the time, they do? 'If they do then you can trust it as a news source,' he added. Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14123889/morning-joe-scarborough-influencer-rant-mika-brzezinski-msnbc.html
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Pennsylvania county gives update on probe of suspicious applications, says 17 percent are fraudulent | Just The News Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino on Monday updated voters on an investigation into 2,500 suspicious voter registration forms that were flagged to the county's elections board last month, confirming that 17% of the forms so far are fraudulent. A total of four Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter and mail-in ballot applications in the final spin into Election Day. Those counties are Cambria County, Lancaster County, Monroe County, and York County. York and Lancaster both uncovered thousands of potentially fraudulent applications, while Cambria and Monroe saw less than 50 each. D'Agostino said the majority of the suspicious forms in Lancaster County have been cleared, with 57% confirmed as valid voter registration applications. Another 26% are still under investigation because they are incomplete or unverified, and 17% were confirmed as fraudulent. "Those other two buckets are going to change, quite frankly, based on the continuing investigation," D’Agostino said of the applications still being reviewed, per Fox News. He also called the operation of vetting the applications a "painstaking process." Some of the forms that have been confirmed as fraudulent contained correct personal information such as the right address, phone, date of birth, driver’s license, and social security number, but the person on the application said they did not request the form, did not complete the form, and verified that the form contained a someone else's signature. It is not clear how long the rest of the investigation will take, but people who have been impacted by the investigation have been notified. The fraudulent and suspicious forms are not been limited to one specific party. Read more: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/lancaster-county-gives-update-suspicious-application-probe-says-17
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WOW! Wray Says There Were At Least Two Instances Where FBI Officials Expressed Disappointment That Trump Survived Assassination Attempt | The Gateway Pundit And we are supposed to believe that Trump would-be assassin Thomas Crooks acted alone? FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. On July 13 President Trump was grazed in the ear after a 20-year-old gunman named Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed on a roof and took several shots at Trump and rallygoers in Butler. ... GOP Congressman Chip Roy (TX) asked Wray if any FBI agents expressed disappointment that Trump survived the assassination attempt. “In 2015 and 2016 top FBI officials infamously texted about “their insurance policy to make sure Trump was never elected or inaugurated as president,” Chip Roy said referring to Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. “Have any FBI agents texted, emailed or expressed disappointment that Trump survived the assassination attempt or otherwise editorialized about the assassination attempt?” Chip Roy asked Wray. Wray said at least one FBI official has expressed disappointment that Trump wasn’t killed by the gunman. “That individual has been referred to our inspection division,” Wray said. Why wasn’t this person fired? Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/wow-wray-admits-two-fbi-officials-expressed-disappointment/
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Mayorkas denied 'repeated requests' for more Secret Service protection for Trump, GOP lawmaker says | Fox News The House House Homeland Security Committee will probe the Secret Service allegations, a source tells Fox News Digital A House Republican lawmaker is alleging that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas denied stronger Secret Service protection for former President Trump multiple times. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., made the accusation hours after Trump was grazed by a bullet at his Saturday Pennsylvania rally. "I have very reliable sources telling me there have been repeated requests for stronger secret service protection for President Trump. Denied by Secretary Mayorkas," Waltz wrote on X. The House Homeland Security Committee is planning on investigating reports that Trump was denied stronger Secret Service protection before the rally, a source told Fox News Digital. "The Committee has seen these reports, as well, and are going to be conducting thorough oversight into what happened both leading up to and in the immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Trump. Obviously, such reports are deeply troubling and demand investigation," the source said. One rally attendee was killed, and two others were injured after a shooter opened fire at the former president's campaign rally, according to a Secret Service statement. The shooter was also killed. Waltz, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, would not elaborate on his comments when Fox News Digital reached out to his office. Fox News Digital also reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-denied-repeated-requests-more-secret-service-protection-trump-gop-lawmaker-says
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Voting Shenanigans in Michigan | Eric Dawe In the 2022 mid-term elections in Michigan, voters handed control of the Michigan Legislature to the Democrats, giving them a majority in both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate -- something that hasn’t happened for forty years. Since then, they’ve been working hand in glove with our notorious Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, including passing a slew of bills that significantly transform election procedures in the State of Michigan and make it easier to commit election fraud, while at the same time making it harder to uncover it. ... Back to the story at hand. In November of 2022, Michigan voters also passed Proposal 2, a proposal to amend the voting procedures previously authorized in the State of Michigan’s Constitution. While the proposal passed with (ostensibly) 60% of the vote, the recent batch of bills purportedly written to implement the changes of Proposal 2 goes significantly beyond what was authorized by the voters. The new legislation hands over verification of absentee ballots from an elected bipartisan board of inspectors to city or township clerks. They also significantly expand the powers of election clerks and the Secretary of State. For example, the Secretary of State can now dictate election procedures without going through the formal rule-making process. This greatly increases the potential for fraud and significantly reduces the safeguards against it. Senate Bill 367 allows clerks in municipalities with at least 5,000 people to process and count absentee ballots eight days before Election Day. The eight-day, pre-election day window will make it very difficult for poll watchers to observe the handling and counting of mail-in votes. (What could possibly go wrong there?) Municipalities will work closely with the SoS, to whom the bill assigns the task of unilaterally “supervising the implementation and conduct of early voting for state and federal elections.” (God forbid that the SoS has entrenched political biases.) According to Representative Ruth Johnson (R) Holly, MI, these bills remove every instance of the word ‘fraud’ in the previous law and replace them with the word, ‘error.’ Criminality of intent is thus effectively insulated from prosecution and the ability to address election fraud is stripped away. In fact, under Senate Bills 603 and 604, alleged fraud can no longer be used to request a recount. Perhaps that’s the reason why Michigan Republican legislators were uniformly opposed to these bills. With a Democrat governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, might it not be wise to ask who stands to benefit from these bills that subtly, but significantly, change the state’s previous law and render voting fraud virtually immune from prosecution? Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/voting_shenanigins_in_michigan.html
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Approximately 13,000 islands around the world have increased land mass over two decades, disproving claims of climate alarmists about rising sea levels A Chinese study has revealed that approximately 13,000 islands worldwide have increased their land mass over the past two decades by 369.67 square kilometers (142.73 square miles), debunking claims that so-called climate change would make sea levels rise and wipe out islands. In the past few years, climate alarmists have insinuated that manmade climate change would swiftly drive shoreline erosion and island disappearance due to rising sea levels. But this Chinese study, published in the Journal of Coastal Research, has debunked these claims. (Related: Climate alarmists hype sea level rise by 2050, claim it could be 50 times greater than actual data.) The study, which highlights the impacts of climate change and human activities, examines surface and satellite records of existing studies to analyze shoreline changes in the 13,000 islands of Southeast Asian archipelagos, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. Based on the findings, an area equivalent to the size of the Isle of Wight has been added to these islands, totaling a remarkable 369.67 square kilometers. The researchers witnessed a net increase of 157.21 square kilometers (60.7 square miles) of land from when it was lost in the 1990s until 2020. Another study on the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu supported these claims. The Tuvalu study claims that 101 out of the 709 coastlines had increased their land mass by 2.9 percent while the rest had not experienced any loss of land. Additionally, the study found that 47 reef islands either expanded in size or maintained their stability over the past five decades. All this, despite facing sea-level rise rates surpassing the global average. Read more: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-12-13000-islands-increased-land-mass-disproving-climate-alarmists.html
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Over Half of Fani Willis’ Campaign Contributions Allegedly Tied to Illegal Money Laundering, New Complaint Claims Soros-funded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is now at the center of a scandal involving her campaign finances. A new complaint filed alleges that nearly half of Willis’ campaign contributions, amounting to approximately $168,000, are linked to illegal activity, including money laundering and identity theft. The Gateway Pundit first reported Fani Willis’ money laundering network back in September 2023. A bombshell investigation has uncovered jaw-dropping connections between Fani Willis and a sprawling web of election fraud and money laundering activities. The investigation, which spans across multiple states and multiple jurisdictions, has revealed a complex network of illicit operations aimed at undermining the very foundation of our Constitutional Republic and the rule of law. Sources close to the matter suggest that Willis was a massive beneficiary in the Federal and Georgia RICO enterprises. It appears that she is currently playing a key role in orchestrating a systematic scheme to manipulate election outcomes, casting doubt on the integrity of the entire electoral process. In the lead up to the 2022 midterm elections, my team uncovered a massive money laundering network of campaign finance contributions being made via ActBlue. One of the top beneficiaries of this money laundering RICO enterprise was none other than Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock. The Gateway Pundit was the first news organization to cover the massive money laundering network that financed the Raphael Warnock campaign. ADVERTISEMENT As our investigation progressed, we expanded our efforts into other states such as Missouri, Maryland, Wisconsin, Arizona, and then into every single state. Working with the Epoch Times investigative journalist Steven Kovac, we made a stunning find. Many of the top ActBlue “Contributors” never made the individual contributions. Many of these “Not Employed Individual Contributors” were the victims of a highly sophisticated money laundering scheme. The scheme was further exposed when I provided the data to James O’Keefe and his people at O’Keefe Media Group who captured many unwitting “Money Laundering Smurfs” in Maryland. This massive ongoing money laundering operation involves wire fraud, evasion of campaign finance limits, structuring of financial transactions, tax fraud, non profit fraud, identity theft, and elder abuse. The RICO operation is still in operation today. Using the identities of unwitting elderly, and other democrat voters, this massive RICO money laundering enterprise is the fuel for the entire election fraud RICO operation. The information on Fani Willis campaign contributions was obtained directly from the State of Georgia campaign finance database here: https://efile.ethics.ga.gov/#/exploreDetails/Pl-zpCz-kAajWgHI_O8eDJP4048PFnxLXRUfdOLcQk01/32/20423/371/2024 The first item we identified in the Fani Willis campaign finance report was that there were 222 contributions to her campaign that had ZERO donor information. You can check the names for yourself using the FEC campaign finance database here: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?two_year_transaction_period=2024&min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&max_date=12%2F31%2F2024 Peter Bernegger, a citizen investigator, made the allegations during an interview on The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, bringing to light what many have feared: a potential widespread fraud using campaign finance systems. According to Bernegger, after an extensive review of Willis’s campaign donations, he discovered discrepancies that suggest the contributions may not be originating from the persons they purport to represent. Bernegger’s findings suggest three main issues with Willis’s fundraising: - Firstly, 220 donations lacked the required name or address information, constituting a clear violation of state law and totaling approximately $23,000. - Secondly, there were donations exceeding the $3,000 limit, amounting to another $27,000 in unlawful contributions. - The most significant allegation involves “smurfing,” a method of structured campaign money laundering, where large sums of money are divided into smaller amounts and donated to various campaigns, including Willis’s, to evade detection. Bernegger’s team alleges that over 50% of Willis’s campaign contributions were unlawfully obtained through these methods, thereby compromising the legitimacy of her elections. The term “Smurfs” refers to unwitting individuals, often seniors, whose identities are allegedly used to mask these contributions, constituting identity theft and elder financial abuse. “We are filing [Friday] under sworn oath a complaint to the Georgia State Ethics Commission against Fani Willis of $160,000 in smurfing. You add these numbers up, and we’re over 50%, at least, of all her money coming into her campaign. It was unlawful, illegally obtained, and basically, she cheated in her elections by using that money,” Bernegger announced. With Willis currently involved in high-profile legal proceedings, including the prosecution of a former president, the outcome of this complaint could have significant repercussions. The complaint, supported by data and evidence, as Bernegger emphasizes, could lead to a thorough examination by the state attorney and possibly law enforcement agencies, given the criminal nature of the allegations. As the complaint goes forward, questions are raised regarding the potential consequences for Willis. Should the allegations prove true, the response could range from legal action, including arrest and indictment, to political ramifications, such as removal from office. Investigative journalist James O’Keefe III broke his first major investigation in March 2023, since the launch of O’Keefe Media Group. The legendary journalist released a video from his investigation of the Democrat’s vast network of donation harvesters. The investigation involved: ** MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DONATION HARVESTING ** HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL DROPS ** CROSSING NUMEROUS STATES! The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on the vast far-left network of donation harvesters as well. Chris Gleason first released the information and was first published at The Gateway Pundit back in December 2022. Chris Gleason found many “Campaign Finance Mules,” making hundreds, even thousands of donations per year. In April 2022, engineer Chris Gleason began working on his first data project involving elections. The project was tied to the 2022 midterm election. The goal was to determine who was most likely to vote for which candidate and how likely they were to support particular candidates and causes. These “Money Mules” were not wealthy individuals. They were average Americans living in an average house in an average neighborhood. Or at least that is how it would appear. The investigative group observed massive patterns and red flags in the data. Chris asked “active” donors what they would think if he told them that he had identified voters who were making thousands of campaign donations in an election year. They all had the same response. “Anyone making that amount of donations is laundering money and is part of a criminal enterprise.” In the case of Raphael Warnock, he was the top beneficiary of all 2022 Democrat candidates of this money distribution scheme. Most of these smurfs are unemployed, based on the data that Gleason provided to The Gateway Pundit. Far-left NBC reported on the donations received in the Georgia runoff for Senator: Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $52.2 million for his re-election between Oct. 20 through Nov. 16, more than doubling the fundraising total of his opponent, Republican Herschel Walker. Warnock, the top fundraising federal candidate of the 2022 election cycle by a long-shot, spent $39.2 million over the same period, which almost doubled Walker’s spend too. The incumbent closed the period with $29.7 million banked away. Walker still raised a significant amount over that fundraising period — $20.9 million. His campaign spent $16.5 million and closed with $9.8 million on hand. This is not a case of an outlier. This has been established in every state that they looked at. Overall, Raphael Warnock managed to receive over 358,000 donations from unemployed average Americans that totaled more than $24 million. When you start to dig into the data, you see that these same “Average American Donors” are donating thousands of times always to Democrat candidates and Democrat PACs; this is going on at a national and state level. Where did all of these “Unemployed Average Americans” get the money to make hundreds and thousands of donations to Raphael Warnock? According to Bernegger, they will also file a complaint against Warnock. “In addition to that, since we’re talking about Georgia, somebody who is probably the poster boy for this across the nation besides Joe Biden, is Warnock for Senate. He probably is the number one in all the campaign candidates that we’ve examined across the country. He is by far the number one in excess smurf donations, and we’ll be filing a complaint against him also,” he told Robinson. This smurfing is happening all around the country. In May 2023, The Gateway Pundit teamed up with social media personality and producer Tim Cramer to investigate donation harvesters in Indiana. Tim Cramer is the owner and creative director of Mosaic, a national advertising and marketing agency that works exclusively with conservative businesses, candidates, campaigns, and political special interest groups. Tim Cramer and TGP contributor Adam Sharp recently investigated donations harvesters in Indiana. The Gateway Pundit, with help from Chris Gleason, identified hundreds of Democrat Party donations harvesters active in Indiana. Tim and Adam recently went out and knocked on doors, and what they found was a major political scandal! Numerous individuals who were listed as Democrat Party – Act Blue donors denied making the hundreds and thousands of donations listed under their name! These Democrat donors told Tim and Adam that THEY DID NOT make these tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions! The Gateway Pundit, with the help of Adam, went to several homes in the St. Louis, Missouri region of suspected Democrat donation harvesters. What we found was similar to what we discovered in the other states. These homes listed as giving hundreds or thousands of donations to Democrat candidates either refuted the number of donations or denied the person was even living at the address! It is not just Fani Willis and Raphael Warnock. Chris Gleason investigated Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s other donors. What he found was similar to what The Gateway Pundit reported in several Democrat races. A major segment of donations came from donation harvesters. Many of these people are retired and unemployed. They are donating thousands of times to Democrats around the country. This is likely the largest political donations scandal in US history, and it is about to bust open. What we found at The Gateway Pundit was that these “contributors” follow a very similar pattern that we have witnessed in all of the states as a part of this RICO enterprise of money laundering, identity theft, fraud, elder abuse, etc. The Gateway Pundit has reported on Democrat donation harvesters in Maryland, Georgia, Missouri, Washington, Michigan, and New York. You can read more of these stories here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?s=donation+mule
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Unpicking the Mystery of the Body’s ‘Second Brain’ Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. From the moment you swallow a bite of food to the moment it exits your body, the gut is toiling to process this strange outside material. It has to break chunks down into small bits. It must distinguish healthy nutrients from toxins or pathogens and absorb only what is beneficial. And it does all this while moving the partially processed food one way through different factories of digestion—mouth, esophagus, stomach, through the intestines and out. “Digestion is required for survival,” said Marissa Scavuzzo, a postdoctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. “We do it every day, but also, if you really think about it, it sounds very foreign and alien.” Breaking down food requires coordination across dozens of cell types and many tissues—from muscle cells and immune cells to blood and lymphatic vessels. Heading this effort is the gut’s very own network of nerve cells, known as the enteric nervous system, which weaves through the intestinal walls from the esophagus down to the rectum. This network can function nearly independently from the brain; indeed, its complexity has earned it the nickname “the second brain.” And just like the brain, it’s made up of two kinds of nervous system cells: neurons and glia. Glia, once thought to be mere glue that fills the space between neurons, were largely ignored in the brain for much of the 20th century. Clearly, neurons were the cells that made things happen: Through electrical and chemical signaling, they materialize our thoughts, feelings and actions. But in the past few decades, glia have shed their identity as passive servants. Neuroscientists have increasingly discovered that glia play physiological roles in the brain and nervous system that once seemed reserved for neurons. A similar glial reckoning is now happening in the gut. A number of studies have pointed to the varied active roles that enteric glia play in digestion, nutrient absorption, blood flow, and immune responses. Others reveal the diversity of glial cells that exist in the gut, and how each type may fine-tune the system in previously unknown ways. One recent study, not yet peer-reviewed, has identified a new subset of glial cells that senses food as it moves through the digestive tract, signaling to the gut tissue to contract and move it along its way. Enteric glia “seem to be sitting at the interface of a lot of different tissue types and biological processes,” said Seyedeh Faranak Fattahi, an assistant professor of cellular molecular pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. They’re “connecting a lot of dots between different physiological roles.” They’re now being linked to specific gastrointestinal disorders and pain symptoms. Understanding the different roles they play in the gut could be critical for developing treatments, Scavuzzo said. “Hopefully, this is like the beginning of the glial-cell renaissance in the gut.” Glia Do Everything Scientists have known about enteric glia for more than a century, but until recently no one had tools for studying them. Researchers could examine neurons by picking up the action potentials they fire. But compared to neurons, glial cells are electrophysiologically “boring,” said Brian Gulbransen, an associate professor of neuroscience at Michigan State University. Aside from a few reports that pointed to their roles in maintaining healthy gut tissue, they remained understudied and underappreciated. That changed over the past decade or so. New tools that allow scientists to manipulate gene activity in glia or visualize them in different ways have “dramatically changed the way we look at the enteric nervous system,” said Keith Sharkey, a professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Calgary. For example, calcium imaging, a method Gulbransen developed while he was a postdoctoral researcher in Sharkey’s lab, allowed them to analyze glial activity by tracking calcium levels within cells. Thanks to some of these newer technologies, scientists now know that enteric glia are among the first responders to injury or inflammation in gut tissue. They help maintain the gut’s barrier to keep toxins out. They mediate the contractions of the gut that allow food to flow through the digestive tract. Glia regulate stem cells in the gut’s outer layer, and are critical for tissue regeneration. They chat with the microbiome, neurons, and immune-system cells, managing and coordinating their functions. “We think that they do everything,” Gulbransen said. “The more that people find out about them, it’s less surprising that they do these diverse roles.” They can also move between roles. They’ve been shown to change their identities, shifting from one glial cell type to another, in lab dishes—a useful ability in the ever-changing gut environment. They’re “so dynamic, endowed with the functional capacity to do so many different things, sitting in this incredibly fluctuating and complex environment,” Scavuzzo said. Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out—such as how many types of enteric glia even exist. A Force to Reckon With Scavuzzo became fascinated with digestion in childhood when she witnessed her mother’s medical troubles due to a congenitally shortened esophagus. Watching her mother go through gastrointestinal complications compelled Scavuzzo to study the gut in adulthood to find treatments for patients like her mom. “I grew up knowing and understanding this stuff is important,” she said. “The more we know, we can intervene better.” In 2019, when Scavuzzo started her postdoctoral research at Case Western under Paul Tesar, a world expert in glial biology, she knew she wanted to unravel the diversity of enteric glia. As the only scientist in Tesar’s lab examining the gut and not the brain, she often joked with her colleagues that she was studying the more complex organ. The first year, she struggled massively in trying to map out the individual cells in the gut, which proved to be a harsh research environment. The very start of the small intestine, the duodenum, where she focused her studies, was especially tough. The bile and digestive juices of the duodenum degraded RNA, the genetic material that held clues to the cells’ identities, making it nearly impossible to extract. Over the next few years, however, she developed new methods to work on the delicate system. Those methods allowed her to get the “first glimpse into the diversity of these glial cells” across all tissues of the duodenum, Scavuzzo said. In June, in a paper published on the http://Biorxiv.org preprint server that has not yet been peer-reviewed, she reported her team’s discovery of six subtypes of glial cells, including one that they named “hub cells.” Hub cells express genes for a mechanosensory channel called PIEZO2—a membrane protein that can sense force and is typically found in tissues that respond to physical touch. Other researchers recently found PIEZO2 present in some gut neurons; the channel allows neurons to sense food in the intestines and move it along. Scavuzzo hypothesized that glial hub cells can also sense force and instruct other gut cells to contract. She found evidence that these hub cells existed not only in the duodenum, but also in the ileum and colon, which suggests they’re likely regulating motility throughout the digestive tract. She deleted PIEZO2 from enteric glia hub cells in mice, which she thought would make the cells lose the ability to sense force. She was right: Gut motility slowed, and food contents built up in the stomach. But the effect was subtle, which reflects the fact that other cells are also playing a role in physically moving partially digested food through the intestine, Scavuzzo said. It’s possible that each involved cell type could regulate a different type of contraction, she suggested—“or they could just be additional mechanisms that organisms evolved to make sure we could keep digesting our foods to stay alive.” There are likely many fail-safes in digestion because it’s such an important process, she added. The experiment offered clear evidence that, in addition to other cells, “glial cells can also sense physical forces” through this mechanosensory channel, said Vassilis Pachnis, the head of the nervous system development and homeostasis laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute. Then, having sensed the change in force, they can shift the activity of neural circuits to trigger muscular contractions. “It’s a wonderful piece of work,” he said. Hub cells are only one of many glial subtypes that play functional roles in the gut. Scavuzzo’s new six subtypes, added to those characterized in previous research, together reveal 14 known subgroups of glia across the duodenum, ileum, and colon. More are likely to be discovered in coming years, each with new potential to better explain how digestion works and enable researchers to develop treatments for a variety of gastrointestinal disorders. A Pain in the Gut Gastrointestinal diseases often come with a dose of pain, in addition to disruptive digestive issues. Eating the wrong food, or too much of the right one, can cause a stomachache. Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia. Because glia are now known to control the activity of immune cells, they are suspected to play a role in many gastrointestinal disorders and diseases, making them good potential targets for treatments. Several years ago, Pachnis and his group found that glia are among the first cell types to respond to injury or inflammation in the mouse gut, and that tampering with enteric glial cells can also create an inflammatory response. In the gut glia seem to perform roles similar to those of true immune cells, Pachnis said, and so their dysfunction can lead to chronic autoimmune disorders and inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. “Glial cells definitely play a role in the initiation, the pathogenesis, and the progression of the various diseases of the gut,” he said. Glia are likely involved because of their central role in communicating between the microbiome, immune cells, and other gut cells. Healthy glia strengthen the intestines’ epithelial barrier, a layer of cells that keeps out toxins and pathogens and absorbs nutrients. But in patients with Crohn’s disease, glial cells don’t function properly, resulting in a weaker barrier and inappropriate immune response. “Different subtypes of glia can be functioning differently or dysfunctioning in a wide range of diseases and disorders where motility is impacted,” Scavuzzo said. They have also been linked to neural inflammation, hypersensitivity in the organs and even neuron death. For instance, Gulbransen and his team recently discovered that glia contribute to gut pain by secreting molecules that sensitize neurons. This is likely an adaptive response intended to draw the gut’s attention to damaging substances to dispose of them, Gulbransen said, which as a side effect causes pain. The findings, published today in Science Signaling, suggest that targeting glia could help alleviate some of the pain created by inflammatory disorders of the gut. Glia themselves can also become stressed by genetic problems, exposure to metabolites from the microbiome, bad diet, or other factors. Fattahi has observed that, no matter the cause, stressed enteric glia influence the entire tissue, and sometimes even damage neighboring neurons or recruit immune cells, causing additional inflammation and pain. These new studies in enteric glia will go a long way toward explaining many gastrointestinal disorders that researchers have struggled to understand and treat, Sharkey said. “I’m really excited to see how these cells have evolved to become central figures in enteric neurobiology over the years.” It’s becoming ever clearer that the neuron doesn’t act alone in the enteric system, he added. “It’s got these beautiful partners in glia that really allow it to do its thing in the most efficient and effective way.” @ScottAdamsSays https://www.wired.com/story/gut-second-brain-health-glial-cells-digestion-disease-pain/
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Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules Scientists have discovered a new way to destroy cancer cells. Stimulating aminocyanine molecules with near-infrared light caused them to vibrate in sync, enough to break apart the membranes of cancer cells. Aminocyanine molecules are already used in bioimaging as synthetic dyes. Commonly used in low doses to detect cancer, they stay stable in water and are very good at attaching themselves to the outside of cells. The research team from Rice University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas, says the new approach is a marked improvement over another kind of cancer-killing molecular machine previously developed, called Feringa-type motors, which could also break the structures of problematic cells. "It is a whole new generation of molecular machines that we call molecular jackhammers," says chemist James Tour from Rice University. "They are more than one million times faster in their mechanical motion than the former Feringa-type motors, and they can be activated with near-infrared light rather than visible light." The use of near-infrared light is important because it enables scientists to get deeper into the body. Cancer in bones and organs could potentially be treated without needing surgery to get to the cancer growth. In tests on cultured, lab-grown cancer cells, the molecular jackhammer method scored a 99 percent hit rate at destroying the cells. The approach was also tested on mice with melanoma tumors, and half the animals became cancer-free. The structure and chemical properties of aminocyanine molecules mean they stay in sync with the right stimulus – such as near-infrared light. When in motion, the electrons inside the molecules form what's known as plasmons, collectively vibrating entities that drive movement across the whole of the molecule. "What needs to be highlighted is that we've discovered another explanation for how these molecules can work," says chemist Ciceron Ayala-Orozco from Rice University. "This is the first time a molecular plasmon is utilized in this way to excite the whole molecule and to actually produce mechanical action used to achieve a particular goal – in this case, tearing apart cancer cells' membrane." The plasmons have an arm on one side, helping to connect the molecules to the cancer cell membranes while the movements of the vibrations bash them apart. It's still early days for the research, but these initial findings are very promising. This is also the kind of straightforward, biomechanical technique that cancer cells would find it hard to evolve some sort of blockade against. Next, the researchers are looking at other types of molecules that can be used similarly "This study is about a different way to treat cancer using mechanical forces at the molecular scale," says Ayala-Orozco. The research has been published in Nature Chemistry. @ScottAdamsSays https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-in-the-lab-using-vibrating-molecules
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Texas plant to generate 10 MW of power with desk-sized turbines Working with supercritical carbon dioxide is highly advantageous and could change how we look at steam turbines forever. A turbine the size of a regular office desk could soon power 10,000 households, as per a press release from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), which has set up a pilot plant in San Antonio, Texas. Called the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP), the demo pilot plant has seen the SwRI collaborate with GTI Energy, GE Vernova (GE), and the US Department of Energy. The steam turbines used in power plants worldwide are entirely a dated technology. The origins of the steam turbine go back to the 19th century and have not seen radical improvements in technology, even as one can find steam turbines in varying sizes and applications. The turbine's job is to use water as a thermal medium in power cycles. However, if one were to change the medium itself, the turbine could be much smaller in size. Enter carbon dioxide as a working fluid, and the turbines can be significantly downsized. Supercritical CO2 turbines Carbon dioxide exists in a gaseous form, but it can also be concentrated using high temperature and pressure, where it behaves like a gas but with the density of a liquid. Called supercritical CO2 (sCO2), this gas form has been on the US Department of Energy's (DOE) radar for a while since it allows the turbines to be as much as 10 percent more energy efficient than conventional turbines. Moreover, a three-foot (one-meter) turbine using sCO2 can perform the same job as a 65-foot (20 m) steam turbine, paving the way for a significant downsizing of the turbine. From the bus-sized turbines used today, one could transition to a golf cart or even a desk-sized sCO2 turbine. The STEP aims to make that possibility a reality, and a 10 MW demo pilot is being developed with $155 million in funding at SwRI's headquarters in Texas. That would be enough to power 10,000 homes. Working with solar concentration An added advantage of using sCO2 is the ability to take the gas to its supercritical state using concentrated solar power. This approach uses a system of mirrors to focus solar energy and use it for various purposes ranging from heating to power generation. According to CleanTechnica, the DOE has been working over the years to reduce the cost of concentrating solar power systems with limited success. Using sCO2 could drastically reduce the costs, providing a win-win situation for the two approaches. @ScottAdamsSays https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/desk-sized-turbines-power-10000-homes
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Wenstrup revealed new allegations that Dr. Fauci went to CIA Headquarters to “influence” its COVID-19 origins investigation. Whistleblower alleges that 6 analysts were offered significant financial incentives @ScottAdamsSays
