June 25, 2026

01a Apocalyptic

An Asteroid Just Streaked Over Antarctica, Becoming the Second Closest Flyby Ever Recorded– www.discovermagazine.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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One week ago, an asteroid flew so close to Earth that it nearly broke the record for the closest asteroid approach ever.

This space surprise came to astronomers’ attention on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, when the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spotted an asteroid named 2025 TF a few hours after it had passed Earth. Flying over Antarctica, the asteroid came a mere 428 kilometers (266 miles) from Earth’s surface. For reference, the International Space Station orbits our planet at a similar altitude, approximately 370 km to 460 km (254 miles).

Asteroid 2025 TF may have only amounted to a near miss, but keeping tabs on near-Earth objects like this — even if most miss Earth — is a never-ending responsibility for astronomers.

Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Funnels Big Money to Radical Allies Plotting Control of City Hall: ‘Seize State Power’– gellerreport.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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New York City’s voters are about to make worst mistake of their voting life, when they cast a vote for the Communist Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani has given $33,000 to the NYC Democratic Socialists of America chapter; one of the most dangerous political organizations in the United States. New York City is about to enter an era of chaos. Watch the video below to learn about the Mamdani supported Democratic Socialists of America.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has given over $33,000 to the NYC Democratic Socialists of America chapter

Newly released campaign finance records reveal New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign gave over $28,000 last month to the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, a radical group that has boasted about the level of influence it will have if Mamdani is elected mayor.

The Mamdani campaign made a payment of $28,677.57 to DSA’s NYC chapter on Sept. 15 and filled in the purpose field that the funds were for “Other: explntion / Texting.”

Greta Thunberg Posts Photo Of Starved Israeli Hostage To Lament ‘Palestinian Prisoners’– dailycaller.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Young climate activist Greta Thunberg faced heavy backlash after sharing a now-deleted photo of a starved Israeli hostage in a Tuesday post about how badly Israel treats its prisoners of war, according to screenshots online.

The collaboratively created Instagram post was supposed to speak to the “uncomfortable truth” of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody. It comes after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, an international effort to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, leading to Thunberg and others being taken into Israeli custody. (RELATED: ‘Finish What You Started’: Freed Gaza Hostages, Relatives Have High Hopes For Trump’s Peace Plan)

“The suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion — it is a fact of cruelty and dehumanization. Humanity cannot be selective. Justice cannot have borders,” the now-deleted slide of the post reads, depicting a still of Evyatar David’s starved body. It was taken from a hostage video in which David was being forced to dig his own grave, according to PBS.

The activists posted the photo two years after David was captured during Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians.

Russia sends Trump bold warning over Afghanistan air base plans during Taliban talks | World | News– www.express.co.uk

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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A top Kremlin official says the US must not be allowed to retake a massive airbase in Afghanistan, warning it could lead to “new conflicts”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the comments as he hosted a delegation of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government in Moscow.

The Taliban last month rejected a bid from President Donald Trump to take back control of Bagram Air Base, which was America’s largest military site during the 20-year war in Afghanistan. In a warning to the US, Mr Lavrov said: “The deployment of military infrastructure of any third countries on the territory of Afghanistan, as well as on the territories of neighbouring states, is categorically unacceptable under any pretext.” The base has been in the hands of the Taliban since the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in 2021.

“The military presence of any extra-regional players could only lead to destabilisation and new conflicts,” Mr Lavrov said.

“The history of Afghanistan has seen a lot of situations with foreign military presence. I believe everyone should have drawn the right conclusions long time ago.”

Mr Trump previously cited Bagram Air Base’s close proximity to China — the US’ biggest economic and military competitor — as one of the reasons the US wants a presence there again.

“It’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons,” he said. “So a lot of things are happening.”

Germany to allow police to shoot down drones, interior minister says– www.euronews.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Germany will give its federal police the power to shoot down drones, following the disruption caused by recent unknown drone sightings at Munich Airport.

On Wednesday, the cabinet approved the new reform, which now awaits approval in parliament.

The move comes after suspicious drone incursions at Munich Airport led to air traffic being suspended for several hours last week, with thousands of passengers directly affected.

Other European countries, including Denmark and Lithuania, have also spotted rogue drones in recent weeks.

In response, EU leaders such as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have attributed the incidents to Russian hybrid warfare, something Moscow denies.

Days after the drone sightings in Munich, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said federal police reform is intended to reorganise responsibilities and make it easier to defend against drones.

Virginia AG Candidate Walks Back Texts Fantasizing About Killing Political Opponents › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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The Democratic nominee in the Virginia Attorney General’s race is on the defensive after text messages sent in 2022 were revealed, showing Jay Jones fantasizing about the murders of a state GOP lawmaker and his children.

Jones has received considerable backlash from Republicans over texts in which he said that he’d like to give then-House of Delegates Speaker Todd Gilbert “two bullets to the head.”

Jones also suggested that Gilbert might change his position on gun control if he were to witness the murder of his own children.

While Jones has since offered a public apology to Gilbert for his comments, saying he takes “full responsibility for my actions,” and adding,  “Reading back those words made me sick to my stomach. I am embarrassed, ashamed and sorry.”

“I have reached out to Speaker Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife Jennifer, and their children,” Jones wrote, “I cannot take back what I said; I can only take full accountability and offer my sincere apology.”

Jones also faced harsh criticism over comments made in a 2020 conversation about removing qualified immunity from police in which Del. Carrie Coyner warned Jones that, without legal protection, police officers would get killed.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Breaks with Republicans to Support Obamacare Subsidies– slaynews.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is winning praise from the Democrats after the congresswoman broke with House Republicans on the issue of Obamacare subsidies.

Greene has strayed from her party’s shutdown talking points to join a handful of Republicans in supporting the Democrats’ plans.

The Georgia congressman is demanding the renewal of the Obamacare tax credits at the center of the government shutdown.

She is warning that premiums will double unless Congress acts.

“I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year,” Greene wrote on X.

CNN’s Erin Burnett runs cover for Antifa, falsely claims it barely exists and ‘right-wing extremism’ is worse | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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The study Burnett uses to justify her claims that right-wing extremism is worse cites rising left-wing extremist violence and includes Islamic terror as “right-wing.”

On Wednesday, the Trump administration held a roundtable with journalists who have been documenting and reporting Antifa activity specifically in the United States for at least a decade. President Trump and key leaders within his administration attended this meeting to hear first-hand accounts of the violence and mayhem caused by members of this group, but for CNN’s Erin Burnett, Antifa barely exists and “right-wing extremists” are worse.

Burnett played a clip of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem discussing Antifa networks, saying that it’s “just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.” Burnett was incredulous, indicating that Hamas was more legitimate since they’ve been engaged in a two-year war against Israel. Hamas’ efforts have been supported on American and international streets by Antifa, but Burnett didn’t mention that.

“And ISIS? These are incredible things to say,” Burnett said with a smirk. “And obviously I’m not going to sit here and defend anybody who considered themselves part of an Antifa movement, such that it is, but ‘such that it is’ is the operative part of that sentence. Antifa is far from a major sophisticated terror organization like Hezbollah, Hamas, or ISIS. In fact,” she went on, “it’s not even like far-right groups like The Proud Boys or Oathkeepers, which have national leaders like Antifa.”

“There is no organized hierarchy to the group,” Burnett went on. “And according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, compared to right-wing extremists, Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited.” A study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in September reads “2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing terrorist attacks outnumber those from the violent far right.”

Shutdown Dems Demand Concessions They Never Gave GOP– thefederalist.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Democrats’ position on the government shutdown contains no small amount of hypocrisy. Even the corporate media have pointed out that people like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were decrying the problems associated with government shutdowns as recently as March.

But the problem with Democrats’ demands, such as they are, goes well beyond hypocrisy. Democrats are insisting on getting their demands met — namely, an expansion of Obamacare, via extension of enhanced subsidies — in exchange for reopening the government. In making that appeal, they’re citing Republicans’ unsuccessful efforts to defund Obamacare, chief of which was the government shutdown in 2013. Viewed from this perspective, Democrats’ position looks even more asinine — they are demanding that they succeed where Republicans (largely) failed.

Watch: Sen. Kennedy Lists Worst Items Dems Demand Funded Before They’ll Reopen Government– www.westernjournal.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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With the government shutdown, Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy is exposing all the strange, nonsensical initiatives Democrats want funded before it reopens.

For as much as Democrats, like New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, insist this is a war over healthcare, Kennedy decided to read some of the specifics for where that party wanted your tax dollars going before business could resume — none of which sounded like Schumer’s “healthcare” claim.

Footage of Kennedy reading off this list was posted to social media platform X on Tuesday.

“We took out, and here’s what they want us to put back in,” Kennedy said in preface.

“We found that under President Biden, they were spending $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia. We took that out. The congresswoman [New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] says, ‘We’re going to shut down the government until you put that back in.’

Beshear on whether he would vote for Jay Jones: ‘That would be a very, very tough one’– thehill.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) did not give a clear answer on whether he would vote for Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones following leaked text messages in which he openly talks about violence directed toward former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R).

“Would you vote for him if you lived in Virginia?” Beshear, a former attorney general himself, was asked in an interview that aired Wednesday on Fox News’s “Special Report” about Jones.

“It would be a very, very tough one for me to look at. It’s just really wrong, and it bothers me,” the Kentucky governor responded.

Pressure has recently mounted on Jones to exit his race after the text messages were leaked. Multiple Republicans in and out of the Old Dominion have urged Jones to drop out, including President Trump and Vice President Vance.

The Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, has rolled out advertising linking her opponent, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) to Jones.

Canadian commentators call Freedom Convoy leaders’ sentences ‘onerous,’ ‘too stiff’– www.lifesitenews.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Canadian political pundits and right-of-center media were quick to blast what they called “onerous” house arrest conditions placed on Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who were sentenced yesterday by an Ontario judge after earlier being found guilty of mischief.

Rebel News head Ezra Levant, who has been covering the trial extensively, gave his assessment of the verdict, saying there was “good” and “bad” news.

“Good news: no additional jail time for Tamara Lich or Chris Barber,” he wrote on X.

“Bad news: onerous house arrest provisions. The real punishment was the longest mischief trial in Canadian history. Total political vendetta by Doug Ford’s prosecutors.”

On October 7, Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey sentenced Lich and Chris Barber to 18 months’ house arrest after being convicted earlier in the year convicted of “mischief.”

As reported by LifeSiteNews, the Canadian government was hoping to put Lich in jail for no less than seven years and Barber for eight years for their roles in the 2022 protests against COVID mandates.

7,000 Homes Lost: Fire Victim Says Government Failures Are Real Culprits in Palisades Blaze– www.louderwithcrowder.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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As you may recall, Los Angeles nearly burned to the ground in a fire that many would argue was preventable. Now, while the DOJ has announced the arrest of the man allegedly responsible for starting the blaze, don’t forget that it was sheer government incompetence that allowed 7,000 homes to be destroyed.

It was the government that failed to prepare for extreme fire danger. It was the government that didn’t maintain reservoirs. It was the government that didn’t deploy fire trucks in the first crucial hours. That was the government—whose sole job is to protect public safety and maintain infrastructure—and they failed thousands of Angelenos.

Court Declares Gun Ban Unconstitutional—Then Demands Names of Pro-2A Group Members– www.usacarry.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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LAFAYETTE, LA — A federal judge has issued a final judgment in the closely watched case Reese v. ATF, acknowledging that the federal prohibition on handgun sales to adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment—but limiting the practical impact of the decision to a small, narrowly defined group.

On October 7, U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays issued a two-page ruling in compliance with a January 2025 decision from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. That earlier ruling found that the federal law barring handgun sales by licensed dealers to adults aged 18 to 20 was unconstitutional.

Judge Summerhays’ final order declared the statute unconstitutional only as applied to three individual plaintiffs—Caleb Reese, Joseph Granich, and Emily Naquin—as well as members of the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and Louisiana Shooting Association (LSA) who were members of those organizations on November 6, 2020 and who reside within the Fifth Circuit’s jurisdiction, which includes Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

The judgment blocks the federal government from enforcing the handgun sales ban against those specific individuals, but only if the buyer is between 18 and 20 years old and is covered by the limited group named in the case.

Is ICE Today’s Klan? – Truthdig– www.truthdig.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Masked, armed law enforcement agents who regularly violate the law and strip people of their constitutional rights is nothing new in America. They have, in fact, a long and well-documented history, including states — after years of abuse by masked men — passing laws specifically to prevent them from concealing their identities when performing law enforcement operations.

In this era, we call them Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents; during the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries they called themselves the Ku Klux Klan. They often operated with the blessing of both federal and state governments, deputized and given badges and guns, and “enforced the law” while wearing their famous white hoods to conceal their individual identities.

ICE operates today with a level of anonymity, impunity and intimidation that closely parallels the Ku Klux Klan’s tactics as masked, semi-official enforcers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both used legal or quasi-legal authority, masked identities and violent or coercive tactics to carry out their missions, all without individual accountability while targeting vulnerable minorities and subverting legal norms to do so.

Satellites detected strange gravity signal coming from deep within Earth almost 20 years ago, study reveals– www.livescience.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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Satellites detected a strange gravity signal off the coast of Africa nearly 20 years ago, suggesting something unusual had happened deep within the planet to distort its gravitational field, according to a recent study.

The large gravitational anomaly lasted for about two years over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It peaked in January 2007, the same month Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone (though, of course, there was no connection between the two events).

The strange anomaly, and the jerk, were caused by a previously unknown geological process, the researchers suspect. Their findings, published Aug. 28 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, indicated that a shift in minerals may have caused a rapid redistribution of mass in the deep mantle, near the core, altering Earth’s magnetic field.

 

Senate Dems Refuse to Call Jones To Drop Out For Violent Texts– thefederalist.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 1

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In response to a Federalist inquiry, not a single Democrat U.S. Senator called for the Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones to drop out of the race in light of his text messages fantasizing about assassinating Republican Todd Gilbert.

“Put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones wrote, after running a hypothetical about how to allocate two bullets among Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. The 2022 text messages were first reported by National Review on Friday. According to a source cited by the outlet, Jones also “suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views” in a follow-up phone call with a Republican state lawmaker.

The Federalist reached out to each Senate Democrat, asking if they would call for Jones to drop out of the race in light of his violent comments.

Only Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., addressed The Federalist’s inquiry. Though Kaine criticized Jones’ remarks, he also refused to call for him to drop out. “There is nothing that can justify these indefensible words, and they are contrary to all I’ve known about Jay Jones for decades,” Kaine said. “With hundreds of thousands of Virginians already having voted, it’s up to Virginians to decide.”

from thefederalist.com

U. Chicago professor faces charges for alleged battery of police officer outside ICE center– www.thecollegefix.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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A University of Chicago professor who described her employer as “evil” and a “colonial landlord” over the summer is now facing felony charges for alleged aggravated battery against a police officer.

The charges stem from sociology Professor Eman Abdelhadi’s involvement in a protest Friday near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, The Chicago Maroon reports.

Abdelhadi was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated battery, a felony, and two counts of obstructing the peace, a misdemeanor, according to information the Cook County Sheriff’s Office provided to Fox News Digital on Monday.

In a post Monday on Bluesky, the professor appeared to suggest that law enforcement officers were the ones to blame for the violence at the protest.

“Claim: rioters attacked ICE,” Abdelhadi wrote. “Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass.”

She also reposted a video of herself yelling “Shame!” at police officers while wearing a “Free Palestine” T-shirt.

from www.thecollegefix.com

BREAKING: Democrat candidate for Virginia AG Jay Jones cancels fundraiser amid GOP assassination fantasy scandal | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

pgnewser October 9, 2025 0

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It’s a sign that Jones’ campaign is now in full damage-control mode.

Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia, has called off a Thursday night fundraiser that was set to be hosted by best-selling novelist David Baldacci. A person familiar with the situation confirmed the cancellation to Axios, describing it as a sign that Jones’ campaign is now in full damage-control mode.

from thepostmillennial.com