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BREAKING: Bukele announces that El Salvador is launching a military operation in Haiti against the gangs. The goal is to free 4 Salvadoran citizens kidnapped by the Haitian gangs. Bukele threatens that El Salvador will eradicate the Haitian gangs if they hurt the kidnapped men: “To the gang leaders and gang members holding our four compatriots hostage in Haiti: Our kidnapped men are not combatants. They are aviation technicians who are part of our mission in Haiti, within the framework of an international mission. Our mission consists only of pilots and technical personnel, whose primary job is to carry out medical evacuations and save lives, not to wage war. However, they were kidnapped in a cowardly manner while returning after buying food at a market in the area. That is why, today, we have launched a military operation to rescue them. We have a single objective: to bring our four compatriots back home alive, without any harm. However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today's attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive. And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too. We still have time to avoid this. Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was before the kidnapping. The decision is in your hands”

🔥🚨 SHAMELESS! Ilhan Omar finally broke her silence after the DHS raid, and she went straight to TikTok to ask for MONEY. Under federal investigation, and her first move is passing the hat. Minnesota deserves ANSWERS, not a fundraising pitch.

Mom of 7 fatally struck by train while filming morning run wearing noise-canceling headphones trib.al/0w4g9uM

1. America needs more Evellyns (solid revolver choice with the Model 10 🇺🇸). Unfortunately she passed in 2024 but went out on her own terms on her own property at the age of 94. 2. If this happened 2026 America, in 99+% of the country, police would put a flash bang through her window, pull up and breach the door in an armored vehicle, and shoot her if she was armed. The statist rot that has brought us to this point is fixable but it has to be noticed first. Notice this dichotomy accordingly... #CivilRights #2nd #2a #history #decline #PropertyRights #model10 #38special #individualism

Sometimes homeschooling has to be paused to shoot squirrels who are stealing tomatoes from the garden.

📍Winnipeg, Manitoba A Canadian woman was assaulted then had her life threatened by an Indian slumlord after she tried to serve him with an Order of Compensation. He threw garbage at her then came after her with a shovel! She ended up needing stitches and has possible nerve damage on a finger. If ever there was a case for remigration, this is it. See her follow up below.

Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea Is Exploding in The US. And It's Growing Resistant to Medicine | ScienceAlert A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI). In the United States, roughly 450,000 people acquire shigellosis each year, which can lead to dysentery. Historically, this highly contagious bug has mostly been spread through contaminated food or water during travel, and among young children in day care. But since the turn of the century or so, Shigella bacteria have emerged as a sexually transmitted infection as well. Shigella infections can make anyone sick, but they are now considered 'endemic' in some communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). Several of the strains transmitted in these communities have grown resistant to multiple antibiotics. Some are now superbugs, on the brink of becoming untreatable. A recent analysis from the US CDC found that among nearly 17,000 Shigella isolates, versions that were extensively drug-resistant (XDR) rose from 2011 to 2023. In 2011, isolates that were resistant to five commonly used antibiotics made up 0 percent of the samples. By 2023, they made up 8.5 percent. The vast majority of these drug-resistant versions had infected adult men, many of whom had not traveled internationally in recent months. Molecular biologist Shangxin Yang says hospital workers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are now seeing roughly one case of extensively drug-resistant Shigella a month. In 2022, by comparison, they saw just one case all year. "It's almost like an explosion of this pathogen in the community," Yang told CIDRAP News at the University of Minnesota. Sexually transmissible shigellosis was first reported in 1974, but it represented a minority of cases at the time. Now, emerging evidence suggests that sexual contact is a major route of transmission. It's difficult to verify this information, however, as patients and clinicians may not realize that Shigella can be sexually transmitted, and sexual history may not be recorded. That said, according to US CDC data, more than a third of patients with extensively drug-resistant shigellosis were hospitalized, and nearly half of those with known HIV status had HIV. "Together, it's a very concerning pattern of XDR Shigella strains that are being seen among vulnerable populations," epidemiologist Naeemah Logan from the CDC told CIDRAP News. "This is by no means unique to the US, but really part of a broader global pattern." Geneticist Kate Baker from the University of Cambridge, senior author of a recent study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, has identified a similar surge in the United Kingdom. "Many men who have sex with men are unaware of the serious and increasing risk posed by sexually transmitted Shigella," said Baker in a July press release. "This disease has gone from being relatively treatable with off-the-shelf drugs to being close to untreatable over the course of the last decade or so." In March, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned that while most cases of Shigella resolve without treatment, more severe cases do require treatment, and "the options available are becoming limited." In 2025, 86 percent of Shigella sonnei samples and 94 percent of Shigella flexneri samples tested by UKHSA researchers showed resistance to antibiotics. These are the two most commonly spread strains through sexual contact among GBMSM in England. In previous research by Baker and others, up to a third of patients with sexually transmitted Shigella were hospitalized for an average of four to five days. "This isn't just one form of sexually transmissible diarrhea," says Baker. "This is multiple overlapping variants emerging that are all quickly becoming resistant to the drugs we use to treat them. It's highly likely that if you contracted your Shigella through sex, you require different treatment to someone who contracted it through travel." No one knows why that is, but Baker's 2026 study points to 'bystander resistance' as one driver. This means that an antibiotic meant for one pathogen may not be the right drug or dose for another present pathogen, thereby breeding resistance as a side effect. In response to the recent study, Alicia Calvo-Villamañán, a researcher at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine in Lisbon, Portugal, pointed out an intriguing association. "When the UK's national treatment guidelines stopped recommending the use of [azithromycin] to treat gonorrhea infections," they wrote, "the emergence of azithromycin resistance in Shigella slowed down." That doesn't mean one is causing the other, but it suggests that treating other STIs may be a risk factor for drug-resistant Shigella infections, which aren't often screened as STIs. The California Department of Public Health says that the best way to prevent Shigella infection from sex is to not have sex with someone who has had diarrhea in the last two weeks. Using barriers during oral and anal sex is also advised, as is washing up before and after sex. To minimize transmission, anyone who suspects they may have Shigella should get tested and seek treatment if necessary. "Clinicians should be asking patients with dysentery about sexual transmission and giving advice accordingly," said Daniel Richardson, a consultant in sexual health at University Hospitals Sussex in July. "They need to know that sexually transmitted Shigella has more antimicrobial resistance than other forms of the disease, and that patients may need checking for other sexually transmissible illnesses." sciencealert.com/sexually-tr…

Flight passenger's odd appearance at major US airport leads officers to wild discovery trib.al/uVmQTVP

What is going on in America with truck drivers This “truck driver” is backing into a spot in a truck parking lot. When you look at the driver, he seems to be a little kid. But he’s backing into this difficult spot like he’s been trucking for years In America you need to be at least 18 years to get a CDL in the state you’re in typically and you need to be at least 21 to drive across state lines There is no way this kid is 18 I found into on this truck company, It’s Hess Transfer LLC out of Jonestown, Pennsylvania. It’s a very small trucking company with only about 7 driver e

India police SNIPER SUSPENDED after ‘BRICS SECURITY BREACH’ — The Print OFFICER DEEPAK BANGAR POSTED INSTAGRAM FOOTAGE of himself ARMED atop HOTEL hosting FOREIGN DELEGATES Instagram ACCOUNT BLOCKED, SNIPER STRIPPED OF BRICS DUTY and SENT HOME

Cops examining over 1M images taken from Philly house of horrors as fifth missing woman is ID'd trib.al/qYnnh4v

@grok Steelman this argument and reply.

Scientists Are Making Concrete With Human Poop – And It Gets 42% Stronger | Michelle Starr, ScienceAlert Concrete is, quite literally, the foundation of the modern world. Almost every construction project in the world uses the material in some form. There's just one problem, and that's a big one: Making one of its central ingredients – cement – is horrendously bad for the environment. The act of heating and processing limestone to make cement is one of the world's foremost sources of carbon dioxide emissions – so, understandably, scientists have been looking for ways to mitigate this problem. And researchers led by civil engineer Raghuvesh Tiwari of Manipal University Jaipur in India may have just hit upon an ingenious solution that takes care of two environmental birds with one stone. By mixing in biochar made from the human poop slurry processed at fecal sludge treatment plants, their concrete "yields significant improvements in concrete properties," they write in a paper accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Concrete owes its extraordinary usefulness to a combination of properties. It's malleable when wet, and can be poured into almost any shape, yet cures into a material strong enough to support enormous loads and durable enough to last for decades (or millennia). It's usually made from a few things in specific quantities: sand, gravel, water, and the cement itself – which is primarily made using limestone. Unfortunately, that ingredient mix is finicky – altering the balance, or substituting some of the cement for something else, can produce concrete that is not as strong or durable as the real McCoy. It's not going to be very useful as a building material if it literally cracks under pressure. One increasingly promising cement substitute is biochar, a carbon-rich material made by heating organic matter in an oxygen-poor environment. The beauty of biochar is that it can be made from many kinds of organic matter. And humans produce quite a large amount of organic matter – up to around 400 grams of poop per person per day, which isn't much on an individual level, but when you get several million people doing it, it's kind of astonishing that our sewers are as effective as they are. Anyway, all those daily tons of poop have to go somewhere, which is where the dots start to connect. In India, fecal sludge treatment plants have been established to safely manage human waste, which can be processed into biochar through pyrolysis – so the researchers figured, if sawdust, wood, rice husk, and other biochars are effective at making concrete, ¿por qué no los poop? To put it to the test, Tiwari and his colleagues obtained fecal-sludge biochar from a treatment plant in Warangal, India. To make the biochar, fecal sludge is dried, then heated in a low-oxygen environment at temperatures between 350 and 450 degrees Celsius (662 to 842 Fahrenheit) to produce biochar. The biochar is then ground and sieved into a fine powder. The researchers used this powder to replace varying amounts of cement – 5, 10, and 15 percent – in conventional concrete, then subjected the resulting poopcrete to a battery of tests to see how well it held up. And, incredibly, a little bit of poop made the concrete better. The researchers measured the shrinkage, compressive strength, flexural strength, water absorption, and porosity of their different mixes, and this is where it got really interesting. Overall, the strongest concrete was generally produced when 5 percent of the cement was replaced with poop biochar. But the poopcrete had another interesting trick: It continued to gain substantial strength as it cured. The researchers report that after 91 days, the 5 percent mix had recorded average increases of 20 percent in compressive strength and 36 percent in flexural strength. At 10 percent cement replacement, those increases were even larger: 21 percent for compressive strength and a whopping 42 percent for flexural strength. The poopcrete didn't appear to pay for its strength in some of the other properties the team tested. At 5 percent, it generally absorbed less water and had lower porosity than conventional concrete, while its drying shrinkage was also lower. At 10 percent, its performance remained broadly comparable to ordinary concrete. But there is – isn't there always? – such a thing as too much poop. At 15 percent cement replacement, the concrete still grew stronger as it cured, but its overall strength lagged behind the 5- and 10-percent versions. So why does adding a little poop make concrete stronger? The researchers think several effects work together. For one, poop biochar is highly porous, riddled with tiny cavities that can soak up water and gradually release it as the concrete cures. This effectively turns the biochar particles into tiny internal reservoirs, keeping water available for the chemical reactions that harden and strengthen the cement. But the poop isn't just sitting there holding water. The biochar is rich in silica, which can react with compounds produced as cement cures to form more of the calcium silicates that help give concrete its strength. In other words, it's pozzolanic – the same broad class of chemical reactions famously exploited in ancient Roman concrete, just with, well, human feces instead of the volcanic material the Romans used. Finally, the fine biochar particles can fill gaps in the concrete and improve the way its ingredients pack and bond together. The researchers could actually see the result under a microscope. Concrete containing 5 percent biochar had a denser, more tightly bonded structure than conventional concrete. But at 15 percent, that structure began to deteriorate, with more pores, cracks, and poorly bonded regions appearing. Now, we're not going to run out and start building skyscrapers out of poopcrete tomorrow. The researchers note that more work is needed to assess how it performs under real-world conditions, such as freeze-thaw cycles, salinity, and extreme temperatures. There's also the matter of heavy metal accumulation, which is a known problem with sewage sludge. Locking potentially harmful heavy metals up in concrete could be a bonus, but it's not known how well they will stay locked up, or whether they will leach out over time. The study also did not assess the impact of this method on carbon emissions. However, replacing even a fraction of concrete's cement with a material made from a waste stream humans produce in inexhaustible quantities could potentially tackle two problems at once. And if there's one thing we can rely on humans to produce in consistently large quantities, it's definitely poop. The research has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. sciencealert.com/scientists-…

12ga. SELF-STABILIZED Exploding slug - One of my favorite tests.

The only thing Muslims do is LIE. A Palestinian boy in Gaza practices dying for the cameras. “Gotta make it look believable. Try again, Abdul!”

this is historically accurate

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We've been out Americaned KFC in China launched the Oreo Chicken Burger I looked it up and this Oreo chicken sandwich from KFC in China has roughly the same making of calories as the standard chicken sandwich from KFC in America…. That’s pretty wild to think about Just shows how unhealthy the American version of processed food really is