News Briefs – 03/19/2025

 

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Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.

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I recently purchased two drones from different manufacturers for different purposes. They were linked to the remotes indoors, and both were taken out on different days to my backyard, midway within the 80 feet or so between my house and the house which, in the thermal, it appeared was emitting the beam which heated the aluminum foil over me and began the spattering noise. It is a grass ground, with no metal under it like piping or wiring. Both drones initially were locked by the controllers, which popped up warnings of “magnetic field interference,” directing me to move the drone away from the source of the magnetic field, or calibrate the drones in its presence. I tried moving the drones all around the yard between my house and the other house, a space about 60 feet by 140 feet, but the warning persisted and eventually I had to perform the calibration procedures, with the DJI remote directing me to spin the drone 360 degrees around its axis in a couple of different directions, and the Autel remote directing me to move the remote in a specific figure 8 motion. Both procedures resolved the problem, and the drones were subsequently usable, but I am curious if anybody has any ideas whether that is common, or if that fault, when starting a drone, would be probative in any way. I would imagine at a normal house or yard, they would simply have taken off.

Also, I now have the ability to get precise industrial grade temperature readings off of surfaces and do thermal mapping. If anybody sees a way to use that ability on transformers or electrical wires to monitor current flow through them for use in locating the beam source, I would welcome any assistance in understanding anything I should look for, as in what might be significant or noise, and so forth. Should a transformer, viewed in a full color spectrum pallet look some specific way, and would a fake transformer look different?

I also notice, strangely, all the neighbor’s transformers appear a flat, uniform gray, apparently from paint, as if new, but mine is now fully rusted, to the point I would not be surprised to see a breach of the outer shell, with absolutely no paint visible. I have wondered if that bears any significance.

Trump releases JFK files, historians note there is no search functionality, the documents have not been OCR’d, and there is no index telling them where stuff is. Verdict so far is nothing new, but will take days to fully parse. 30,000 more pages coming tomorrow though.

Gateway Pundit does some of the highlights found so far.

The JFK files released on US President Donald Trump’s executive order reveal that CIA agent Gary Underhill who alleged CIA involvement in John F Kennedy assassination was killed less than six months later.

 

Juanita Broadrick says she was swatted.

38K Chinese Illegal Aliens Living in U.S. Despite Being Ordered Deported.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a televised interview Tuesday that the administration “absolutely” would continue deportations in spite of the federal judge’s order to stop.

Brandon Gill has publicly called for Ilhan Omar to be deported and sent back to Somalia.

Pete Hegseth slashes 60,000 Pentagon civilian jobs in massive purge sending shockwaves.

Biden appointed Judge, Ana Reyes, just blocked Trump’s ban on transgender military service.

Here is DC District Chief Judge Boasberg’s brother in law bragging about his pal’s connections to Diddy.

Judge Boasberg, who ordered the plane of illegal gang members returned to the US has a daughter who makes money offering illegals advice, which is a conflict of interest.

Boasberg’s sister is also heavily into the NGO game, so she’s probably helping to siphon funds from the treasury.

The Trump administration is taking steps to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired in an effort to downsize the government, according to court filings in one of two cases where judges deemed the terminations unlawful.

U.S. Institute for Peace called D.C. police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing, claiming they were not subject to Presidential authority and the institute has control of its own building & the land it sits on. But instead, the D.C. police allowed DOGE to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

People are reporting all over X that Hegseth has ordered the docs on Benghazi released, but I see no other reporting on it.

Republican who recently introduced a bill that would declare “Trump derangement syndrome” a mental illness is busted trying to hire a 16 year old prostitute. He rose to where he was because surveillance knew he was doing that. And the dumbass either dumbly thought he could oppose Cabal, or he has done mush worse, and was given this script to act out, and felt relieved people would not know what a real degenerate he is.

“Schumer mocks “greedy” Americans who want to keep more of their own money: “Their attitude is, ‘I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me?'”

Doxing website that shows personal details and home locations of Tesla owners has Molotov cocktail as cursor.

We are saving Israel for last:

Gene Hackman’s wife was making phone calls a day after she supposedly had died, and some were to a medical clinic on an unrelated issue, and the clinic said she had no symptoms of shortness of breath or chest pains, as she would have if Hantavirus killed her.

Hamas protest organizer at Columbia turns out to likely be a British Spook. So a character in the play acted out for the nation, who was the basis of an act by the administration which curtailed speech, and which was supposedly an attack, was actually a theater kid too. I think they do those things as a message to others, and to psyop them, so the “victim” they do it to is also one of them because they can control the resistance you see as well.

A technology mogul based in Spain, who sits on the board of the German company that owns the American media outlet POLITICO, publicly admits that he is using his position to influence the corporate news outlet’s reporting to align with his personal political views.

Radars Deployed To Mexico Border To Detect Cartel Drones. Drones are undoubtedly the future of warfare.

Ukrainian sniper takes out Russian drone. Interesting in that the Russians are using DJI Mavic 3’s, in this case the Classic, which as an over .55 lb drone should be broadcasting Remote ID. Since the Russians are sophisticated, it is a safe bet they have a way to jailbreak the firmware to eliminate the Remote ID broadcast, which among other details, broadcasts the operator’s/remote’s exact GPS location for use by law enforcement in cases where the drone is being operated where it should not be, like over an airport. Lots of Ukie drone operators supposedly were killed early on, being unaware that as they deployed over .55lb drones, the Russians were picking up the Remote ID signal, and sending artillery to the GPS locations of the operators. Also the Ukrainian used thermal, which is smart as you cannot see those drones at higher altitudes with optical light. So if you want to use thermal drones in CWII (all of which are over .55lb), you will need Russia’s trick to kill the Remote ID broadcast, and if you want to be able to scan the sky for drones tracking you, you will probably need 640×512 thermal on hand, to catch that heat signature.

Power was out in central Ukraine on Tuesday following a countrywide Russian attack involving more than 130 drones that damaged critical infrastructure.

“The strike was fatal”: Russian drones destroy Ukrainian oil refinery.

After Lengthy Phone Call Russian President Putin Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire Proposal Beginning With Energy and Infrastructure Cessation.

In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.

The Trump administration has directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end language translation services for people calling for information about their immigration or employment status or their benefits.

Fifth Circuit Gives Trump Opportunity to Act on Suppressors.

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Sam J.
Sam J.
1 day ago

“I also notice, strangely, all the neighbor’s transformers appear a flat, uniform gray, apparently from paint, as if new, but mine is now fully rusted, to the point I would not be surprised to see a breach of the outer shell, with absolutely no paint visible. I have wondered if that bears any significance.”

Heat ruining the paint, maybe. Heat will break down the paint causing it to rust.

teotoon
teotoon
1 day ago

Trump Admin Moves To Reinstate Over 24,000 Federal Workers…If Trump doesn’t appoint a Provost Marshall soon in order to stop these insurrectionists, he is going to have a very short presidential term; but a long prison term on trumped up charges.

anonymous
anonymous
Reply to  teotoon
20 hours ago

The Enemy has already declared war upon him, the rightful-elected POTUS. Several times, and that’s before you count all the pre-47 bullshit, up to and including trying to kill him. He needs to loose the dogs of war. Right fucking NOW.

Samuel Maverick
Samuel Maverick
1 day ago

The country’s judicial system sucks. These TRO judges are drunk AND high. Lower courts are a problem but the fish rots from the head down.

If Sotomayor and Kagan retire or cannot carry on in these next four years (actually ANY retirements), Trump should nominate the nastiest Constitutionalists to replace them. One after the other. Make that process look exactly like the DOGE rampage. Exhaust these limp wristed leftists. That’s what should be done in the lower courts as well.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Samuel Maverick
22 hours ago

Trump needs to make exposing the dirty laundry of judges throughout the system from bottom to top, and then removing them, one of his top priorities.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
23 hours ago

Maybe Biden is too senile to testify that he authorized them.
Or maybe he resents how he was treated and doesn’t want to say he authorized them.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
22 hours ago

One of my most “out there” possibilities is that Joe Biden has been subverting Obama the entire time. It explains a lot. The dude is still Biden and doing horrible Biden things. But the guy has pretty much wrecked the Obama Project (Cabal Faction). And he’s done it so consistently.

Idk. Just a way of explaining a lot of things that don’t make sense. Like Obama’s famous complaint about Biden always “eff’ing every single thing up” (paraphrase).

He may just hate Obama. He may he working for the Bushes. Or the Clintons. Or “the Feds”.

A lot of the weirdness about his demeanor and actions makes a lot more sense if one just assumes he has DJT level protection and was doing it all to destroy the Obama Faction.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
20 hours ago

But there do seem to have been multiple “Bidens”.
What would be required would be for Jill to be in on it so that nobody on the other side would dare dispute the authenticity of “Biden”.

They’ve trained the public so well to dismiss that kind of thing that if she insisted it was nonsense they would be stuck.

Last edited 20 hours ago by Farcesensitive
Farcesensitive
Reply to  Thesokorus
20 hours ago

Biden is an arch-racist, maybe that is all the reason he and Jill needed.

Farcesensitive
1 day ago

Someone posted this on another site:

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You are receiving this notification because your trip is affected by this alert and your organization has opted you into receiving travel based alert notifications. For further questions about this notification please contact your organization travel risk management team or submit request for information to XXX

Travel Affected – Warning Alert – US – Protests – Nationwide Update 6

Activists to continue rallies across the US through at least end March to denounce the national government’s policies.

Severity Warning Alert
Categories Vehicles and Roads, Mass Transit, Civil Unrest
Alert Begins Mar 19, 2025, 1:52:39 AM
Alert Expires Apr 1, 2025, 11:59:00 PM

   Event Anti-government protests
   Affected Area(s) Nationwide US
   Date Through at least end March
   Impact Heightened security, localized transport and business disruptions; possible clashes, vandalism

Summary

Activists denouncing national government policies, including the detention and deportation of undocumented migrants, plan to continue holding protests across the US through at least the end of March. Protests are probable near government offices, central squares, and major roads, especially in major cities and state capitals. Larger protests may draw hundreds to thousands of participants.

Heightened security is likely around related gatherings. Localized transport disruptions are probable, especially if demonstrators march along or block roads. Clashes between protesters and police or supporters of opposing political camps are possible.

Advice

Exercise caution near any rallies that materialize. Heed instructions from authorities. Plan accordingly for localized road travel delays. Immediately depart the area at the first sign of any security disturbance.
Affected Area

Location(s) affected by this Alert

   United States

curt
curt
1 day ago

why the transformer questions? im an electrician, residential is not my forte but are you suspecting they swapped out your transformer because they needed alot more current output for their beaming machine? Tesla chargers for example use about 75 amps and ive heard that may require a panel wire upgrade to the house but never heard any mention of transformer upgrades so maybe theres some extra capacity there typically. i think in canada they often share transformers with one or more houses.
Yours may be old n rusty just cuz its old n rusty and last to be be replaced or hasnt failed yet, depending on countys replacement procedures. OR it could be old n rusty cuz its an older type with higher capacity that could run 2 kore houses like mentioned.
generally physical size determines capacity but newer more efficient designs may have much smaller footprint for same output as the old ones. BUT as i say my residential experience is low.

Agape
Agape
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
18 hours ago

unconscious or catatonic

It might be worth getting a non-wireless air quality meter (CO2, PM, VOC) that can log readings on the device itself. Just in case there’s any AQ correlation with specific incidents. If so, there are ways to defend against AQ vectors.

Farcesensitive
1 day ago

President Trump just exposed Arthur Schlesinger’s full 15-page memo calling for JFK to break up the CIA in 1961.

Schlesinger called the CIA a rogue “state within a state.”

“No one knows how many potential problems … are being created by CIA clandestine operations.”

THREAD

Schlesinger: “The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state.”

“There is no doctrine governing our conduct of clandestine operations.”

Schlesinger slammed the idea that the CIA should “fight fire with fire” to defeat communism.

“If fighting fire with fire means contracting the freedoms traditionally enjoyed by Americans in order to give more freedom to the CIA, no one seriously wishes to do that.”

Schlesinger: “CIA operations have not been held effectively subordinate to US foreign policy.”

“In short, no one knows how many potential problems for US foreign policy — and how much potential friction with friendly states — are being created at this moment by CIA clandestine intelligence operations.”

In practice, Schlesinger told JFK, the State Department had become a “rubber stamp” for CIA clandestine operations.

“The concept of ‘contingency planning’ has legitimized the concrete preparation of operations still presumably in a hypothetical stage.”

“If a group is assembled and revved up on a contingency basis, then the failure to carry the project through (it is argued) will invite the disappointment and alienation of the group.”

“CIA has effectively ‘made’ policy in many parts of the world.”

“A number of governments still in power know that they have been targets of CIA attempts at overthrow — not a state of mind calculated to stimulate friendly feelings toward” the US.

Schlesinger recalled Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann’s reaction to the botched Bay of Pigs invasion:

“I would never have favored initiating this operation, but, since it has gone as far as it has, I do not think we can risk calling it off.”

Schlesinger proposed that JFK de-couple the CIA’s clandestine operations from its research and analysis work.

“If intelligence is too closely connected with operations, then those committed to a particular operation will tend to select out the intelligence which validates the operation.”

In conclusion, Schlesinger proposed “a drastic overhaul of the State Department” to rein in CIA clandestine operations.

“The State Department would be granted general clearance authority over all clandestine activity.”

Schlesinger also proposed splitting the CIA into two agencies, one for clandestine and paramilitary activities and another for information collection and analysis.

One month after JFK’s assassination, former President Harry Truman echoed Schlesinger’s fears outlined in this 1961 memo.

“There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position.”

Truman wrote that he set up the CIA to streamline information-gathering.

“At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department.”

But between his presidency and JFK’s, Truman witnessed a change in the CIA.

“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.”

“It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.”

“I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.”

Truman called for the termination of the CIA’s “operational duties” and the restoration of the agency to its “original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President.”

https://nitter.poast.org/holden_culotta/status/1902200798257263001

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 day ago

Re: Judge orders reversal of all USAID demolition

Gee, “Judge” Theodore “Ching-Chong” Chuang. I wonder what British family his ancestry hails from in the founding of America?

Or, maybe, is it just another case of a controlled foreigner actively seeking to destroy the heritage American by any means necessary? Trump is eventually going to have to address the civ-nat bullshit for what it is: a foot in the door for hostile foreign invaders to sabotage from within.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 day ago

Since the Russians are sophisticated, it is a safe bet they have a way to jailbreak the firmware to eliminate the Remote ID broadcast

Hardware is required to broadcast anything. I’m sure they’re wiping the drives and running totally custom software at the military level of sophistication, but the solution for us regular joes could be as easy as A.) knowing countermeasures have to be taken in the first place, and B.) snipping off an antenna that sends that signal.

Thesokorus
Thesokorus
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 day ago

Amazing world. I checked to see if Kremlin had any news in re drones because there’s usually a pairing of a UKR story about a mil tech and aKremlin one. Just like there were duelling strikes on energy plants a day or so ago.

Russia’s defense industry
18 Mar, 04:05
Russia to deliver 2,000 jam-resistant kamikaze drones to Ukraine operation zone
According to the People’s Front, UDK drones have destroyed over 50 US-made Bradley vehicles and over 30 M777 artillery guns

MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Krasnodar designers and the Kulibin Club will hand over to Russian troops in Ukraine 2,000 UDK kamikaze drones that deceive electronic warfare by switching video and control channels, the People’s Front told TASS.

“UDK are kamikaze drones with a control system that automatically changes frequencies in flight. It is also possible to manually change the frequency of video transmission. It is a method to bypass hostile electronic warfare and win time for the mission. Our drones have destroyed over 50 US-made Bradley vehicles and over 30 M777 artillery guns,” it said.

UDK can carry a 4-kg payload. The first US-made MaxxPro armored vehicle was destroyed by the drone.

The front said over 10 thousand drones had been delivered to Ukraine operation zone and another batch of 2,000 units is prepared.

The Kulibin Club of the People’s Front selects, tests and supports serial production of the best innovations by Russian engineers. This initiative has helped deliver thousands of hi-tech electronic warfare systems to the frontline to counter enemy drones. Russian troops have also received quadcopters, self-propelled robotic carts and other innovative equipment

phelps
1 day ago

On USAID, I haven’t found the order yet, but what’s being quoted is a non-sensical order that can’t be complied with. USAID isn’t shut down. It is still running with about 280 employees.
update: I found the order, the original tweet was pulled down by the author because it overstates the order. The judge ordered that the USAID employees get access to their email and expense reporting systems back, and that DOGE can’t disclose any PPI outside of DOGE (which is stupid, because there is literally no evidence that DOGE has or has attempted to do so — it’s all blueAnon fever dreams.)

Last edited 1 day ago by phelps
AnonElectrical
AnonElectrical
1 day ago

AC, I have some thoughts on the transformer questions, but will not be able to get you a good response for a couple days. Can you tell me the number on the side of transformer, is it pole mounted, is there more than one, does if power only one house? The rust could be significant, but I need more info. The number will be something like 15, 25, 30, 45, or 60. It is the KVA rating and indicates the amount of power it can carry. The magnetic field is curious, did you check to see if an old fashioned compass correctly pointed north?

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> Trump releases JFK files, historians note there is no search functionality, the documents have not been OCR’d, and there is no index telling them where stuff is.

All that means is that the FBI just turned over “boxes-O-stuff” without an index. Bondi probably had to throw a lot of manpower at the files just to vet them for “national security.” Not much time there for OCRing and indexing.

The Feebs probably had an index, but that would be an FBI-generated document *about* the files, not part of the specified JFK documents. The index likely went to the shredder or secure delete.

And, really, who would trust the Feds’ work on either? How many readers would be going through comparing every image to every OCR page, and reading the text to make sure everything got properly indexed? And they could blame any discrepancies on rushed work or sabotage.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 day ago

https://nitter.poast.org/HarrisonHSmith/status/1902382712729608339

Hey y’all … are you “sticking to your personality profile assignment”?

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TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> Pitzer was found dead

Jim Garrison, a Lousiana prosecutor, ran his own investigation based on Oswald’s pro-Cuba activities. Unlike the disaster of the Warren Commission, Garrison treated it as any other criminal investigation, documenting things in excruciating detail. A lot of people don’t care for Garrison or his work, but he had photos or depositions to back up almost everything he wrote.

He finally called off his investigation because way too many times, when he would subpoena someone for a deposition, they’d wind up dead. And these were people only peripherally involved in Oswald’s brief activities in Louisiana; no real connection to the assassination, as far as he was able to determine.

Huck
Huck
1 day ago

Monty Python, we have a classic skit for you as Vox Day comments on Hungary’s gay parades ban:

“It’s rather remarkable that Clown World succeeded, even briefly, in openly celebrating sin in this regard. Although I suppose both the Sloth and Gluttony parades were always going to be a bit challenging, while the Autism parade simply never got out of the very, very detailed planning stages. In any event, it’s good to see Clown World being methodically pushed back on every side.”

https://voxday.net/2025/03/19/rolling-back-clown-world/

Anon
Anon
1 day ago

Judges can create Legal precedent. However, they have no authority to over-rule the executive where the no law is breached.

Time to impeach the stay behind judges.

Last edited 1 day ago by Anon
TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> Navy … pistol … left-handed

Unfortunately, the US military really, *really* doesn’t like left-handed shooters. How much varies by branch and decade, but typically they forced people to shoot right-handed. Sometimes if their scores were bad enough they were allowed to shoot left-handed, but at other times they were simply washed out.

Here in the Year of Our Lord 2025 the US military *mostly* allows people to shoot left-handed, but you’ll still be issued a right-handed firearm, as the US military hasn’t bought into the “ambidextrous” thing like some countries have.

Anyway, for a guy whose Navy career spanned the late 1940s to 1966, I wouldn’t see anything unusual about him shooting right handed, no matter what hand he wrote with.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  TRX
1 day ago

If you’re suicidal, you’re at such a compromised emotional state (usually assisted by severe intoxication or drug use) that the odds of you rationally choosing to use a non-dominant hand is very low. You’re far more likely to resort to base instinct, which is dominant hand, grab aim pull.

It’s great to be skeptical, it’s another thing to actively try and make excuses for patterns we see repeated over and over again.

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> wet affairs

Shortly after the USSR collapsed and the KGB was reconstituted as the SVR, the Federation started selling access to the old KGB files in exchange for hard currency. The CIA and FBI bought a lot of information from the Federation, just to be able to close a bunch of open files.

Naturally, the SVR wouldn’t release anything that would affect Russian national security, but they provided files on Alger Hiss (yes, he was a Russian spy) and the Rosenbergs (ditto), probably with the idea that “the Soviets did it, not us.”

If they were involved in the JFK assassination they might not have released the files, but they FBI would almost certainly have made a request for any Soviet files related to that, and there should be records of the requests, both here and at the SVR.

Even if the Yeltsin government denied involvement, that was more than thirty years ago. Most Americans weren’t even born in 1963; that’s ancient history. Maybe Kash or Don ought to make another request to the SVR; Vlad is in a position where unsealing the files (if any) would be a gesture that would mostly be politically helpful to the Federation.

EricTheAwful
EricTheAwful
Reply to  TRX
1 day ago

It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but in Roger Stone’s “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”, he documents that Kennedy and Khrushchev wrote each other frequently and developed a relationship. After his assassination, Khrushchev was inconsolable. He told somebody he was afraid the CIA would think the Soviet Union did it, and he was told “No, the CIA did it.”

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> Pete Hegseth slashes 60,000 Pentagon civilian jobs in massive purge sending shockwaves.

Interestingly, Wikipedia says “About 23,000 military and civilian employees work in the Pentagon, as well as about 3,000 non-defense support personnel.”

ncesc.com says:

  • Civilian Employees- Over 26,000
  • Military Personnel- Over 3,000 (excluding the joint staff)
  • Contract Workers- Over 19,000
  • (about 48,000)

warethemighty.com: 20,000

Reader’s Digest (rd.com): 26,000

The 60,000 number doesn’t match well to the previously-accepted number of people working at the Pentagon. They have ~40,000 “work from home” people?

Hopefully these aren’t more of those “phantom employees” that seem to be able to draw checks despite not existing.

Anonymoose
Anonymoose
Reply to  TRX
1 day ago

I wonder if, in response to the judge ordering people to be put back on the payroll, it effectively does the same thing as Musk’s “are you a human” email. Fire everyone, but for re-in statement while the cash is pending you have to take actions to get back on the payroll/admin leave that non-existent employees can’t do. Like take a pic of your face and id and match them.

EricTheAwful
EricTheAwful
Reply to  TRX
1 day ago

The problem we have is they equivocate on “The Pentagon”. Sometimes they only use it to refer to the building and the organization that maintains it; other times it means the entire DoD. They don’t use a consistent meaning for “The Pentagon” in context.

”The Pentagon” is fairly spread out. It consists of personnel in the actual building, in the Mark Center in Alexandria, personnel in Crystal City and Roslyn VA, and other locations.

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> The Trump administration is taking steps to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired in an effort to downsize the government, according to court filings in one of two cases where judges deemed the terminations unlawful.

“Welp, the judge says you have to be re-hired. But your old job doesn’t exist any more. Budget cuts and DOGE mean we’re out of those nice “do nothing and get paid” jobs, but we have some openings in the US Customs and Border Protection, we can even give you your choice between Texas and Alaska. You didn’t know we have CBP in Alaska? Yeppers, we surely do. Yes, it surely does get cold up there.

And you’re welcome to apply to any branch of the armed services, assuming you can meet the requirements. No, you don’t qualify for moving expenses; as far as we’re concerned you’re a new hire. No, no seniority for new hires. Fairs are where they sell cotton candy; this is the government. We don’t do fair.”

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> Republican who recently introduced a bill that would declare “Trump derangement syndrome” a mental illness is busted trying to hire a 16 year old prostitute. 

Face it, Congress isn’t exactly filled with “the best and brightest.”

That’d be prison and the sex offender list, then. Too bad.

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> A technology mogul based in Spain, who sits on the board of the German company that owns the American media outlet POLITICO, publicly admits that he is using his position to influence the corporate news outlet’s reporting to align with his personal political views.

Well, DUH!

If he owns enough of the company to make them print his views, he’s no different from Bezos, Murdoch, or the dudes who published the Volkischer Beobachter, Brdzola, or Il Popolo d’Italia.

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> Radars Deployed To Mexico Border To Detect Cartel Drones.

Yet, for half a century much less capable radars to spot light planes were completely out of the question.

TRX
TRX
1 day ago

> safe bet they have a way to jailbreak the firmware to eliminate the Remote ID broadcast

You don’t need to jailbreak them. That’s what the SVR is for.

“You will give us the source code. And you will keep your mouth shut, unless you want your children to be sent to a whorehouse in Thailand. Are we clear on this? Da. I am glad you are sensible in this matter.”

DigUpTheRoot
DigUpTheRoot
1 day ago

This seems dumbfoundingly obvious to me, so I have to assume Trump is playing 5D chess, but…. Passing the CR (budget Continuing Resolution) was blindingly STUPID. If USAID (et al) no longer have funding, no judge can order employees back to a job where THE EMPLOYER NO LONGER EXISTS.
They say: “follow the money”, which is true. And I add: Cut the money off at the source!!!

Anon
Anon
Reply to  DigUpTheRoot
15 hours ago

This is what they do if France. A company goes bust and the directors are arrested for laying off staff.

TRX_tracker
TRX_tracker
1 day ago

TRX comments for today, 19 March 2025:
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Farcesensitive
1 day ago
Anon
Anon
Reply to  Farcesensitive
16 hours ago

same ol’ same ol’

Sam J.
Sam J.
21 hours ago

An idea since you have drones. Get a EMF sensor. They have all sorts of these on Amazon, ebay, etc. The sensors are cheap by themselves but cost more as a package. I wonder if you could tape one to your drone so that you can see the readout on the drones camera then fly it towards the transformer and the power lines. So test it with no beam on all the lines around you then find out if it’s increasing when beamed. I also wonder if that combined with the other data you have might not be enough to get some sort of injunction on these people? I see one for $12,59 with a meter reading 9on Amazon. If strapping it so the camera will see it is difficult you could add some light mirror and then strap it in a more a balanced position. You fly it recording the meter reading while filming it so that the two values can be linked. Maybe you could have half the camera on what it’s flying into and the other half have a mirror pointed at the meter.

Agape
Agape
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
20 hours ago

The GQ EMF meter can log internally (once per second) for later download of CSV via USB port. You would then have to correlate the meter samples with flight path timing.
Re: your 3/18 comment

From then on, every turn or body adjustment triggers a spattering for twenty or thirty seconds, and then it dies off over ten seconds or so. But it is every time I move, so either somebody is watching me assiduously, or, it feels more likely, it is somehow automated.

This is likely standard wireless motion sensing based on Doppler Radar. Can be done with $20 ESP32 sensors, some WiFi 7 consumer routers, Google Nest mmWave “sleep detection”, law-enforcement “through-wall sensing” radar and some laptops from 2024/2025. There are web news articles going back 15 years on finding targets in buildings in various countries. Hundreds of academic papers available via web search, and public open-source code.

You can completely block that motion detection channel, using grounded aluminum radiant barrier that is sold in 4-foot wide rolls. But that still leaves other forms of attack, which would then be deprived of a motion trigger, so might actually be used more often. If other forms of attack need a lot of energy, maybe they cannot be used continuously, which is why they are only triggered in response to motion.

I’ve previously suggested that human motion is used as a “billing/accounting event”, where System A tracks target existence and independent System B responds to that signal. If System B needs System A to get paid, then shielding against System A may be enough to reduce System B.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_radar

kid
kid
21 hours ago

In the past day/week or so at least 2 of my comments didn’t come through, maybe 5+.

Farcesensitive
18 hours ago

Trump Admin Removes Advisory From HHS Website Labeling Gun Violence A Health Crisis

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-admin-removes-advisory-hhs-website-labeling-gun-violence-health-crisis

Anon
Anon
16 hours ago

Small point, USAID should be pronounced “You Said”, or perhaps “US AIDS”

Too many commentators pronouncing is US Aid – which was the trick from the beginning