The FBI makes a huge announcement about Jeffrey Epstein and his suicide. This will solve nothing.
Leftists have found a way to reward laziness in schools.
And Elon Musk is off to greener pastures.
Farewell
According to the Daily Wire:
On Wednesday night, Elon Musk made it clear that the reason he was leaving his role leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project was due to a rule limiting special government employees to 130 days of service rather than any rumored feud with President Donald Trump.
He stated on X:
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
This Will Solve Nothing
This Solves Nothing
According to the Daily Wire:
The governing body that oversees California high school sports clarified on Wednesday that its new policy for the upcoming track meet this weekend would still award girls their rightful places on the podium, even if a trans-identifying boy has one of the top scores.
In a statement shared with The Daily Wire, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said that at the state championships, “a biological female student-athlete who would have earned a specific placement on the podium will also be awarded the medal for that place and the results will be reflected in the recording of the event.”
The CIF statement is a follow-up to an announcement made on Tuesday that stated that female athletes who lost out on qualifying for the state track and field championships because they were forced to compete against a boy would be invited to the event. The updated guidance means that if trans-identifying student AB Hernandez places in the high jump, triple jump, or long jump, he will be accompanied on the podium by the female athlete who would have finished in his position. The final events are set to be held on Saturday, with qualifying events held on Friday.
“On Friday, May, 30, if necessary, in the high jump, triple jump and long jump qualifying events at the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships, a biological female student-athlete who would have earned the next qualifying mark will also be advanced to the finals,” the CIF stated.
This Will Definitely Make Our Kids Smarter
According to the Post Millennial:
On Tuesday, the San Francisco public school district announced a new grading policy that will allow students to graduate classes with a score as low as 21 percent. The “Grading for Equity” method eliminates homework and weekly test scores from a student’s final semester grade.
Instead, there will be one test at the end of each semester to decide if a student has passed the class. The final exam can be retaken several times, The Voice San Francisco reported.
Maria Su, the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, enacted the new guidelines without seeking approval from the board, according to the nonprofit. The changes will impact 10,000 students across 14 high schools in California’s Bay Area.
Students may submit assignments late, fail to attend class, or choose not to attend at all without consequence to their academic performance. As of current, receiving an A requires a minimum score of 90 percent, while a D is set at 61 percent. Under the new scale, a student can obtain an A with a score as low as 80 percent, typically a B- and a D with a score as low as 21 percent, which is otherwise known as an F.
Educators, students, and parents have expressed concerns regarding the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative, particularly how it would impact academic standards and college readiness, Newsweek reported. The San Francisco school district’s experiment comes in spite of President Donald Trump’s executive order signed in January that eliminated DEI programs in federal taxpayer-funded institutions.
Supporters of the policy argue that by reducing the emphasis on behavior-based penalties like missing or late assignments, it more accurately reflects a student’s learning, while critics believe it would hurt students who are already on pace for college placement.
RIP
According to CBS News:
The Treasury Department said it plans to stop manufacturing the penny, calling time on one of the first coins minted by the U.S. government.
The federal agency placed its final order for penny blanks this month, with the United States Mint slated to end manufacturing of the penny when that runs out, a Treasury official told CBS MoneyWatch. The blanks — flat, metal discs that the Mint turns into coins — will run out in early 2026, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.
The penny, which dates from the early days of the U.S. Mint after its establishment in 1792, now costs more to manufacture than the coin is worth. The 1-cent coin cost about 3.7 cents to manufacture and distribute in 2024, according to the U.S. Mint’s 2024 annual report.
Ending production of the penny will save the Mint about $56 million in annual savings, the Treasury said on Thursday.
Despite their coppery look, pennies are mostly made of zinc, with their distinctive appearance coming from a copper overlay. Zinc’s cost per metric ton is more than double what it was in 2000, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/top/u-s-treasury-places-final-penn-ZudB9Pp9R3utU_jAYgQ11w
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasury-penny-mint-to-stop-making-pennies/
Nothing is Safe!
CIA’s Star Wars Website Cover
The covert Star Wars fan site maintained by the CIA featured an elaborate facade to appear legitimate. Visitors would find listings for popular Star Wars video games including Star Wars Battlefront 2 for Xbox, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II for Xbox 360, and Star Wars the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for Nintendo Wii.12 Adding to its authenticity, the site displayed a cartoon image of Yoda with the quote “Like these games you will” and included links to an online Star Wars merchandise store with the enticing tagline “So you Wanna be a Jedi?”13
To further enhance its credibility, starwarsweb.net also advertised Lego Star Wars sets, creating a comprehensive fan experience that effectively masked its true purpose as an intelligence communications tool.1 The website appears to have been active around 2010, blending seamlessly into the vast landscape of Star Wars fan communities online while serving as a channel for the CIA to communicate with informants in foreign countries.
Discovery by Security Researcher
The revelation of the CIA’s covert Star Wars fan site came through the investigative work of an amateur security researcher who uncovered the true purpose behind starwarsweb.net.12
This discovery was particularly significant as the site was part of a larger network of CIA-operated websites that had initially been exposed by Iranian authorities more than a decade ago.2
The consequences of this exposure were severe and far-reaching, ultimately contributing to a devastating wave of deaths among CIA sources in China during the early 2010s.23
This security breach represents one of the most significant compromises of CIA digital communication infrastructure in recent history, highlighting the inherent risks of using themed websites as covert communication channels.
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-f-6U_czLFYRLGmtLsKAjC3Xw
What Is Taking Them So Long to Get Here?!
According to the New York Post:
Good things don’t come in threes.
Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react.
“Twenty co-orbital asteroids (space rocks in the orbit of two celestial bodies) of Venus are currently known,” the authors warned in the arockcalyptic study, which was published in the journal “Astronomy and Astrophysics.”
The international research team, led by Valerio Carruba of Sao Paolo University in Brazil, wrote that at least three of the asteroids — 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1 — that circle the Sun in tandem with our twin planet have unstable orbits that take them dangerously close to Earth, The Daily Mail reported.
If this shaky trajectory is shifted only slightly by a small gravitational change or other force, they could be set on a collision course with our planet, per the study.
“Co-orbital status protects these asteroids from close approaches to Venus, but it does not protect them from encountering Earth,” the researchers warned, according to the Daily Galaxy.
Carruba and co came to this conclusion by using imitation space rocks to simulate a range of possible outcomes over 36,000 years, finding that there is a sizable population of low-eccentricity asteroids — those previously thought to be harmless — that could be propelled toward Earth via gravitational shifts and other factors.
To make matters worse, the aforementioned cosmic rocks’ orbits make them almost invisible to Earthly detection devices.
While scientists at NASA and other space agencies routinely track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, the telescopes can’t spot rocks in a sub-orbital path with Venus due to the sun’s glare, which shields them like a cosmic cloaking device, WION reported.
Due to this interstellar blindspot, the Rubin Observatory in Chile would have only two to four weeks to spot deadly asteroids, leaving us little time if they were on a collision course.
For reference, a mission to engineer something that could deflect a killer space rock generally takes years to formulate.
“Low-e (low eccentricity) Venus co-orbitals pose a unique challenge, because of the difficulties in detecting and following these objects from Earth,” the authors write in their conclusion.
It would be bad news if one of these intergalactic gravelstones hit home.
Asteroids 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1, measure between 330 and 1,300 feet in diameter, making each one capable of destroying entire cities and causing massive fires and tsunamis, the Daily Mail reported.
An impact would leave a crater over two miles wide and generate one million times more energy than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
Unfortunately, due to the constraints of terrestrial monitoring equipment, we may have to look to the stars for a solution.
“We believe that only a dedicated observational campaign from a space-based mission near Venus could potentially map and discover all the still ‘invisible’ PHA (potentially hazardous asteroids) among Venus’ co-orbital asteroids,” the authors wrote.
However, the powers that be better hurry as researchers predict that co-orbital asteroids’ orbits could become unpredictable in just over 150 years — a blip in the interstellar timescale.