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Washington — A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it created a centralized database that contains Americans' private information, which she said has since been used by some states to incorrectly remove U.S. citizens from their voter rolls.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., sided with a voting rights group and nonprofit that works to protect privacy in finding that the administration violated three different laws with its new system that includes Americans' citizenship data. [emphasis added]
Yes. Sparkle. Aside from the question as to whether the Administration violated the law to allow states to verify citizenship, the name alone makes me giggle. Look, a lot of silly names came out of the 1960s and 1970s. A friend had a classmate who had to bring in his birth certificate to show that his middle name was
But I think I would have changed my name rather than sound like I forgot to stop using my stripper stage name. I speak as someone whose first and last names seem to be unspellable by some.
I have been using a GL.iNet GL-MT6000 (Flint 2) WiFi 6 router on my home network since last December and it's on sale for Prime Day. It's a good deal if you're in need of a new home or small business router for use behind a cable modem or similar connection.
The router supports WiFi 6 on the 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands, VLANs, and more than one WAN connection.
It has built in support for AdGuard but I'm running a Pi-hole VM on my Proxmox box for DNS-based filtering.
I've been very happy with it. Underneath it runs OpenWRT. GL.iNet provides a custom web GUI for it that allows you to handle most functions but you can also access the OpenWRT LuCI web GUI for more granular control. OpenWRT is extensible, which has allowed me to install extensions like fail2ban and also blacklist entire countries based on their IP blocks. E.g., any connection initiated from know hotspots for bad actors like Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the PRC, Best Korea, and Iran are simply dropped by my firewall.
Give it a look if you want something more capable than the gateway provided to you by your ISP.
With the resignation of Sir Kier "Two Tier" Starmer, the UK is poised for its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. That's what happen in failed states.
[Homer Simpson] The seventh Prime Minister in ten years so far.[/Homer Simpson]
Busted Knuckles has an unimprovable sendoff for Sir Kier.
This month I shot what I believe will be the last of The Pin Shoots, my all-time favorite shooting match that began in the mid-1970s as the Second Chance Shoot. It was conceptualized and run by Richard Davis, “the man who bullet-proofed America’s police” when he became the first to use ballistic nylon and later Kevlar […]An unidentified man and woman were having a domestic dispute when the woman's son arrived at the house on Hickory Lane, fighting with his mom's boyfriend.
At some point, the son was pushed out of the home, while a member of the male homeowner's family approached the house. The door closed on the son's face when he started firing at the door, shooting the male homeowner through it twice.
The son was then shot by the approaching family member, sustaining multiple bullet wounds. Fultondale Police say that both men are now at UAB Hospital in stable condition.
The neighbor said he thinks someone was trying to steal Stout’s pickup truck.
“If anybody was messing with his truck I don’t blame him. I’d probably do the same thing I come out and somebody was trying to steal my truck,” the neighbor said.
Officers on the scene said they were responding to a shots fired call. First responders administered a blood transfusion to a victim before taking them away in an ambulance.
Huntsville police have not released the shooter’s identity or the condition of the person shot. According to jail records, Stout is behind bars, charged with murder.
This Week in History: On June 23, 1810, John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor) organized the Pacific Fur Company in Astoria, Oregon. — 1931: American pilot Wiley Post and Australian navigator Harold Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field, New York, to attempt to set a new record circumnavigating the Earth. They successfully complete their series of flights in 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes. — And on June 25, 1798, US President John Adams signed into law the Alien Friends Act, authorizing the president to deport any foreigner deemed “dangerous to the peace and safety of the United …
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In this article, I’ll describe how medicine and society will change, and why you should become a fitness nut and not just a prepper. There’s a stereotype of preppers, and it’s not kind: A middle aged or older man with a BMI that passed 30 before he was 30 and grew by 1% every year, a ton of guns, canned food, and a half-hearted vegetable garden. I know because I resemble that. As I’ve been struggling to recover my health, I’ve had a few realizations that have kept me on the path to fitness. Health is something money can’t buy. …
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Chambered in 5.7x28mm or in 9mm, the Dark Arms StowAway Rifle packs more punch than similar survival rifles chambered in .22LR or .22WMR. The StowAway is a single-shot, bolt-action rifle. It has a detachable, 16-inch, threaded barrel. It is 31.78 inches long when fully assembled. I found the rifle to be simple, reliable, and reasonably accurate during my testing. The rifle is light at only 2.8 pounds, easily breaks down into less than 17 inches in length, but is ruggedly built in spite of its feathery weight. A hollow pistol grip provides enough space to store many rounds of 5.7X28mm …
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This week’s graphic is a map that shows the population density of U.S. counties, as of 2026. Every prepper knows that in a crisis, fewer people generally means fewer problems. Note the low population density in the American Redoubt. There is only one county in the entire American Redoubt region that is shaded dark green. That is Ada County, Idaho, with 519,000 people. For perspective, that is just a bit more than Raleigh, North Carolina. Ada County’s population includes the roughly 236,000 residents inside the city limits of Boise. – JWR The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest The on-again, off-again war in Iran may be on again, as Israel continues to hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. And ipso facto, the markets continue in turmoil. A recent headline: Vance lands in Switzerland as Iran says Strait of Hormuz is closed over ceasefire violations. Pictured above in the ancient fortress of Hormuz. JWR’s Comment: Unless the Iranian government stops treating the Lebanese Hezbollah Shiites as their kin, then there …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, some more technological advances with negative consequences. An AI Camera Put Another Wrong Man in Jail Over at The Liberty Daily: How a Bad AI Camera Hit Put …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — In anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson recommended this insightful essay at Holly’s Substack: To Boss Ourselves. Here is a brief excerpt: “I was raised in a culture, if not a family, that taught me my dignity came from somewhere higher than any …
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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. The photo above is courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service. Redoubt News Links Going-to-the-Sun Road expected to fully open on Monday for the 2026 season. Video: Political refugees explain why they fled Washington state for Idaho. Buzz kill: Bee truck overturns, resulting in a honey-covered Highway 191, near Big Sky. Quite impressive, for a small-town airshow: Moses Lake airshow 2026 highlights. Federal judge blocks Idaho’s ‘transgender bathroom law’ …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: The U.S. Treasury Secretary Has Devised a New Tax That Will Balance The Federal Budget A Tax Of Five Cents On Each Personal Pronoun In Every Contemporary Christian Praise Chorus. Note From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.” – Emperor Justinian I, ‘Institutes’ bk. 1, ch. 1, para. 1
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NEW from Osight comes the XE AMRS and SE red dots! Feature rich and affordable, these red dot sights are available now!Not much discussion since Musk left but what he started is still busy. The sheer volume of stuff is amazing. Not multibillion savings but add them all together and they add up to a lot. A professional services contract for a national health advisor in Senegal for $524K. I would love to know how much eventful ends up in Virginia.
After yesterday's coverage. 6/22/26 Fox News:
A fugitive accused of helping mastermind a $3.7 billion Medicare fraud scheme — one of the largest in U.S. history — is in American custody after authorities tracked him down in Turkey and flew him back to the U.S. to face charges, the FBI announced Monday..
It used to be an article of faith on the left that we would have enough money to take care of every poor person if we were not wasting it on the military. I wonder if we could take care of every poor American if so much of the budget was not being stolen, often by non-citizens.
Only a billion if you round. 6/19/26 Houston Chronicle:
A nurse practitioner from Nevada has been charged with multiple federal felonies after being accused of using clinics in the Houston area to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare.
Marizel Yukee, of Las Vegas, was indicted Thursday on federal Medicare fraud charges. Yukee is accused of working with others to defraud terminally ill people by providing them with unnecessary treatments and then billing the government for their care.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District resigned Sunday night, nearly four months after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the LAUSD's headquarters as part of an ongoing investigation.
An LAUSD spokesperson confirmed to Eyewitness News that the district received a letter of resignation from Carvalho...
On Feb. 27, two days after the FBI conducted searches at Carvalho's home and LAUSD offices, the district's Board of Education voted unanimously to place him on leave pending the outcome of the probe.
"Mr. Carvalho remains confident that the evidence will ultimately demonstrate that he acted appropriately and in the best interests of students," said a statement released in March, attributed to a spokesperson for Carvalho. "We hope the school board reinstates him promptly to his position as superintendent."
Authorities have not charged Carvalho with any crimes.
The FBI also searched a third location near Miami. The Miami Herald reported the Florida property belonged to Debra Kerr, who previously worked with AllHere, an education technology company that had a contract with Los Angeles schools before it collapsed and its leader was indicted for fraud.
In 2024, Carvalho heavily touted a deal with AllHere for an AI chatbot named "Ed" designed to help students. But about three months after unveiling the technology and paying the company $3 million, the district dropped its dealings with AllHere, which collapsed into bankruptcy. Months later, founder Joanna Smith-Griffin was charged with securities and wire fraud, along with identity theft.
At the time, Carvalho denied personal involvement in the selection of AllHere, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Do you wonder why Los Angeles city schools perform so much worse than the standard? Perhaps less money spent on "Ed" and more on "Education."
(NewsNation) — China has alleged marine life is being weaponized by foreign intelligence agencies for espionage.
China’s Ministry of State Security released an article Friday on social media platform WeChat, saying an “invisible secret war” is ongoing.
“In recent years, the work of national security organs has found that overseas spy intelligence agencies continue to collect and steal sensitive data from our ocean through a variety of new spy devices,” the ministry said.
he article named a variety of measures allegedly taken by foreign agencies to collect information, such as buoys, unmanned submarines, wave gliders and marine life.
“Spy turtles” and “spy fish” are existing in the China sea, according to the ministry.
Have those Chinese fishing fleets devastating fisheries around the world caused those who identify as aquatic to make common cause with us?
6/19/26 College Fix has a collection of college hate crime hoaxes. Among the more interesting stories: 1/16/26 College Fix:
A red cross and a reference to a 15th century French duke has caused an uproar at Northwestern University as LGBT students and professors fear for their safety.
Around Jan. 6, someone painted a “Cross of Burgundy” and wrote “CHARLES THE BOLD DUKE OF BURGUNDY 10 NOV 1433 — 5 JAN 1477” over a “trans flag” on campus. Students regularly paint over “The Rock” with various messages....
“It’s one thing to go repaint the entire rock white with a red (symbol) and take away the trans memorial,” Yarberry (pictured) told the student newspaper. “But to use the trans memorial as the backdrop for a symbol associated with Nazism and fascist ideologies, that is a very political statement.”
While Yarberry and others were painting over the X, “a student approached them and took responsibility for painting the cross.”
“[T]he student mostly defended the decision as solely expressing interest in the duke of Burgundy. The person did not identify themself,” the newspaper reported.
Yes, X is definitely a fascist symbol. Remember these?
Kudos to the student sufficiently interested in history to do homage to a Duke of Burgundy. I suspect most Poison Ivy League students think this is about a wine.
Never leave home with one, a support bag will make all the difference at long range competitions and for those long hunting shots. Or is that of the BBC? 6/18/26 Houston Chronicle:
International visitors to Houston this summer are enjoying the full splendor of the Bayou City, from Houston's iconic stadiums to its sprawling gas stations, to its delicious beer and barbecue.
One international news outlet added one other feature to Houston during its broadcast of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Wednesday: majestic mountains.
No, that's not a typo. BBC, the British news outlet, hosted a World Cup studio show on Wednesday shortly after the completion of DR Congo's 1-1 draw against Portugal in the second 2026 World Cup match held at Houston Stadium. The studio show broadcast an AI-generated image of Houston's skyline in the background as analysts discussed the match, featuring a largely accurate depiction. One issue with the AI image? The left side of the screen was adorned with rolling foothills and mountains, depicting a scene more fit for Los Angeles, Salt Lake City or Phoenix than Houston.
This is a problem at two levels: the misuse of AI (although an ordinary green screen can also be manipulated to have this effect) and a reminder of how little BBC, often considered a good standard for news media, cars about truth.
My wife's great concern about AI is is power to deceive. If young people were receiving adequate educations, this would be less of a problem. Seeing the Apollo 11 footage with a tiny set of McDonald's arches, or more realistically with a microphone boom shadow in the foreground, will deceive many
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Lori Price recently successfully defended herself from a black bear attack in Alaska. Her dog was severely wounded by the bear. Then the bear came after her. She used a 9mm Glock 43 to defend herself. Joe Allgood interviewed her for In Depth Alaska (video link).
On Sunday, June 7, 2026, Lori Price was hunting mushrooms, near Skilak Lake. Skilak lake is south of highway 1 on the Kenai penninsula, about 20 miles east of Soldatna, Alaska. She was almost ready to go home. She had two dogs with her, a chocolate lab, Liz and Chaos her German short-hair. The dogs were not very far away, but the woods was very dense. Both dogs wore bright colored GPS collars.
Lori heard a yip, an expression of alarm and fear from Chaos, then a loud roar from a bear. Immediately, she hears yelps of pain and fear from her dog. Lori charged into the woods, a dense combination of alder, Devil's club and other trees to get to her dog. As she dashed in she was screaming for her dog. In a tiny opening, she looked up, and a black bear, with the blood from her dog dripping from its face and teeth, was coming at her. Lori always carries a pistol and bear mace with her. The bear was only 4-5 feet away as Lori drew her Glock 43 and fired. The bear dropped.
Out of the corner of Lori's eye she sees the GPS collar for her dog. She saw Chaos lift his head and he was a bloody mess. In that instant, the bear got up. Lori reacted and shot again. The bear went down again. Lori's chocolate lab was trying to push past Lori, to get between her and the bear. Lori was holding her back. The German Short-hair, Chaos was dragging himself to Lori. Lori was gathering herself and the dogs to get away. The bear rose again, and Lori fired again She is sure she hit the bear the first two times. She is not certain about the third time. The bear took off as Lori ran down the hill with her dogs. She gets out of the woods, not far from where her 4 Runner is parked. Lori tries to call 911with some success, but the connection was patchy. She flagged down Captain Shawn and his wife Sandra from Homer, telling them she needs first aid for her dog. They grab their first aid kit. They jump into action. She asks them to hold Chaos as she grabs her 4 Runner to take Chaos to veternary care. Chaos is bleeding profusely. Lori had been able to get ahold of her husband. Her husband arranged for aid to be ready on standby, and to meet her to help get their dog to the vet. They get Chaos to vet. Then Lori drops off the chocolate lab and goes back to Skilak Lake to coordinate with Fish & Game. Lori tells them Chaos is petrified of bears, and never would have initiated an attack.
On the way back from Skilak Lake, the veterinarian called and said Chaos would live, and they could take him home that night.
Lori went on to thank her husband for insisting she practice drawing and firing her Glock pistol. She said she learned things such as it was necessary to have a good belt, wear it snug so she could confidently draw the pistol without fumbling for it. She said it was important to practice drawing bear spray as well. She practiced at home with a laser practice system.
Analysis: Lori Price's practice is what saved the situation. The bear was very close. She may not have had two seconds from the time she saw the bear to the time she fired. In an emergency, you do what you have trained to do. She shot the bear, saved herself and her dog. The bear was not found, but the odds are it will not recover. Lori's experience is a good lesson for other Alaskans to follow. Practice and be prepared. Laser systems are good ways to practice drawing and firing, with little expense. The system allows safe practice while drawing, and shows where the first shot would land. Fast recovery from recoil is best practiced on the range. Do not practice with a loaded handgun in your home, or anywhere you do not have a safe backstop. Do not practice with live bear spray inside a building, or where other people are likely to be affected.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A person is dead after being shot by a homeowner during a reported burglary early Friday morning in Blue Springs, according to police.
The Blue Springs Police Department says officers were sent to a house on Little Garden Lane, just north of Colbern Road, for a burglary after a homeowner called saying someone had broken into their home.
McDonald chased Breland to the upstairs bedroom.
Breland then armed himself with a handgun and a gunfight ensued. He was struck multiple times, and died from his injuries, police said.
McDonald was also wounded during the incident.
McDonald fled from the house, leaving a trail of blood through the house and into the street.
Every night, I learn something new. Tonight, it was that having adjusted the polar axis to the right latitude, the locking bolts need to be tightened. These are either M8 or M10 Allen wrenches and my garage is too chaotic preparing to move to find my metric Allen wrenches at this hour.
UPDATE: While the screw threads might be metric, a 3/32" Allen head wrench fits perfectly. Or it needed a 2.38mm metric Allen head wrench. As much as most of the world is supposedly metric, the reality of a U.S. market prevents getting too far off our standard.
A fugitive accused of running a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud conspiracy has been captured overseas and returned to the United States, becoming the second suspect taken into custody from the FBI’s new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.
Federal officials said Herbert Leon Kimble, 60, was arrested in the Philippines after allegedly evading authorities for nearly two years.
Prosecutors said Kimble operated a healthcare fraud scheme that generated more than $1.2 billion in Medicare charges and affected thousands of beneficiaries, many of them elderly.
Authorities said the operation used call centers to steer patients toward medically unnecessary orthopedic braces.
Kimble pleaded guilty in 2019 to multiple federal offenses, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, healthcare fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, making false claims and offering kickbacks and bribes.
Okay, I know it is only a billion dollars, but to paraphrase Sen. Dirksen, "A billion here, a billion there, after a while it adds up to real money."
June 21st, the longest day of the year, and that is just an astronomical fact. Something to do with the tilt f the axis in our yearly orbit. The ancients noted this day in their observatories (think Stonehenge).
The beginning f summer. Tomorrow, the sunlit portion of the day will be a bit shorter, culminating on December 21s when the cycle starts again.
Today, through a fluke of the calendar is also a Hallmark holiday. Fathers Day. It's a holiday that I truly don't care about. I've never seen the utility.
Officers say the preliminary report is that two suspects, one armed with a knife and one armed with a firearm, tried to rob a man outside a convenience store near 36th St North and Lewis.
Police say the victim pulled his own gun and fired a shot, striking one of the suspects in the head. They say after the suspect was shot, he ran across the street and collapsed. That suspect was transported to the hospital in critical condition, according to TPD.
According to the investigation, the shooter was parked and sitting in his car when the man approached him and told him to leave. The shooter agreed to do so, but JSO said that when the shooter did not leave quickly enough, the other man reapproached him and pointed a rifle at him.
The shooter then shot the man several times before leaving the scene and calling police, JSO said. Investigators believe the incident was isolated and said there was no threat to the community.
