Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

The China Hack: 60 Minutes Explores America’s Growing Cybersecurity Threat

'60 Minutes returns on Sunday, October 12, 2025, with a segment titled The China Hack, delving into the escalating cyber threat posed by China’s state-sponsored operations against critical American infrastructure.'

Morning #glow lighting up the skies at the #albuquerque #balloonfiesta.
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FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

In his first television interview since retiring, Gen. Tim Haugh warns that China has hacked into U.S. computer networks to an astonishing degree. And he believes he knows why. Scott Pelley reports, Sunday on 60 Minutes.

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Q: Isn't it perhaps your responsibility to pass some kind of legislation to pay troops, to pay federal workers?

MIKE JOHNSON: We did that

Why Democrats Think They’re Winning the Shutdown Fight
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“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

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NEW: “The Justice Department seemed poised to pursue an indictment against Letitia James on pathetically weak charges. Yet the charges that actually ended up in the indictment a jury returned on Thursday may somehow be even weaker.”

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Outside the Broadview detention center, ISP + Broadview PD are still blocking Harvard + 25th. It's officially after curfew.

One organizer is urging some remaining protesters to leave (they are mostly ignoring the plea). It's truly mostly press here now, including a number of far right/chud media.

It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.

MIT has rejected Fat Satan’s blackmail, making it the first university not to bend the knee.

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

Let’s show it on October 18th
NO KINGS 2.0 protests
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NEW: Is it good if your boss asks you to let them know if you get fired?

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“King Donald The First. F*ck that.” Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people. #NoKings

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