Leavitt Holds Powerful White House Press Briefing on MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Leaves the Media Stunned

There are some things that just leave you speechless, and what happened in the White House Press Room today is one of them. And it didn’t just leave me speechless — it left the reporter pool stunned, too.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she’d be holding an impromptu press briefing with a special guest on Wednesday afternoon, and if you missed it, it was a doozy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Terry Newman: Won’t somebody please think of the mass murderers?

On Monday, during a campaign stop in Montreal, Pierre Poilievre had the audacity to suggest that his government would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court decision that ruled that consecutive parole ineligibility periods for multiple murderers was “cruel and unusual punishment” and violated the murderer’s human dignity. For most reasonable Canadians, this is a no-brainer. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, however, rushed to condemn the move as “dangerous,” while CBC’s Power and Politics host David Cochrane and his panel guest Rob Russo suggested it was a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. But the problem of light murder sentencing does exist, and not just for mass murderers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", "Law and Order", Conservative Party, Election 2025

Doug Ford is acting like he wants Pierre Poilievre to lose

In Ontario, there are 43 seats held by the Liberals federally that, remarkably, are held by Doug Ford’s Conservatives provincially.

The Premier is coming off a third straight majority victory in the province’s February election. His party’s riding organizations are in place. Had he gotten out the pom-poms in support of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, he could likely have helped him win some of those ridings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

The truth about life on other planets – and what it means for humans

There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news that signs of a gas, which on Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been found on a planet called K2-18b.

Now, the prospect of really finding alien life – meaning we are not alone in the Universe – is not far away, according to the scientist leading the team that made the detection.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Criminals Are Outpacing the Police in the Tech Arms Race

Disruptive technologies like AI are empowering bad actors faster than law enforcement can respond.

On New Year’s morning, American citizens awoke to news of another mass-casualty terror attack. Using a rented a pick-up truck, a man plowed through revellers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street, killing 14 and wounding at least 57 others.

This was no crude act of vehicular terrorism: the attacker employed smart glasses to reconnoiter the area before striking. He had wired his vehicle with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and strategically planted additional bombs across the neighborhood. The materials used were not black-market contraband but commercially available technology, repurposed for destruction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Crime

I lean centre-left. But as a gun owner, I feel my only choice is the Conservatives

Firearms have been a big part of my life, even though I didn’t grow up around them.

When I was 12, I got the chance to shoot a small-bore rifle for the first time in the Air Cadet program. Target shooting demands focus, discipline and consistency. That challenge had me hooked from the start.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Florida State University Shooter Named As Phoenix Ikner Son Of a Local Sherriff Officer

The son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy killed two people at Florida State University and wounded six others on Thursday after gaining access to his mother’s handgun and going on a campus rampage, police said. The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was shot by officers and taken into custody before being transported to the hospital, according to police. He is believed to be an FSU student. His mother was assigned by the sheriff’s office to protect a local public school.

h/t DickFitzwell

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Chinese Election Interference Network Tied to Senate Breach Investigation

A Canadian Parliamentarian assessed by national security officials to be part of a Toronto-based Chinese consulate election interference network was the subject of a high-profile foreign interference investigation into an alleged breach of Canada’s Senate, The Bureau has confirmed through multiple intelligence sources.

Sources said the investigation examined allegations that the Parliamentarian enabled a close associate—described as a female Chinese national—to bypass Senate security protocols.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

PBS Hosts ‘Zionist’ to Defend Protesters, Call Trump McCarthyite Danger to Jews

Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS and CNN International, was hosted by regular show fill-in Bianna Golodryga, who is probably even more bluntly liberal than the formidable Christiane Amanpour herself.

The opener teased the upcoming interview with Kenneth Stern, self-styled anti-semitism expert at the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, with his hostile thoughts on the Trump administration’s attempt to protect Jewish students on college campuses via cutting off funding to schools that refuse to clamp down on pro-Hamas hatred.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

The $24M Pearson gold heist was the stuff of a wild caper movie. After two years, here’s what we know about the fate of the accused – and the bullion

Two years have passed since sweaty, visibly shaking Air Canada manager Simran Preet Panesar gave Peel Regional Police a tour of the site of Canada’s largest ever gold heist — a hangar outside Pearson International Airport.

The warehouse manager led investigators to the spot where a white truck pulled up on the afternoon of April 17, 2023, and a man stepped out to present a doctored document.

The document, for frozen seafood that had already been collected, was quickly approved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Right-wing media including Rebel News dominate post-debate news conferences says Carney’s CBC

Rebel News and other right-wing media outlets dominated the question-and-answer sessions with federal party leaders after Wednesday’s French-language leaders’ debate — though not all of them got answers to their questions.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney was the first leader to take 10 minutes of questions from the media after the debate, which took place at CBC/Radio-Canada in Montreal.

The news conference is overseen by the Leaders’ Debate Commission, an independent debate-planning body that sets out the criteria parties must meet for their leaders to participate in the event. The organization is also responsible for accrediting journalists who participate in the Q&A session after the debates.

“Rebel News and other right-wing media outlets” – That statement is a confession that the CBC is by default a “left-wing media outlet.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Election 2025