🇷🇺Ash from Bezymianny volcano eruption covers 2 villages in Kamchatka, Russia - ash column of up to 10 km high
In the Ust-Kamchatsky district in the village of Mayskoye and the settlement of Kozyrevsk fell out Ash from the eruption of Bezymyanny volcano.
Ash column burst out to a height of up to 10 km with the volcano's height being 3020 meters.
Volcanologists have assigned the volcano a "red" hazard rating, meaning it poses a hazard to air travel.
Emergency services have not received any complaints or calls from residents.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
In the Ust-Kamchatsky district in the village of Mayskoye and the settlement of Kozyrevsk fell out Ash from the eruption of Bezymyanny volcano.
Ash column burst out to a height of up to 10 km with the volcano's height being 3020 meters.
Volcanologists have assigned the volcano a "red" hazard rating, meaning it poses a hazard to air travel.
Emergency services have not received any complaints or calls from residents.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Record cold follows U.S. front; South America's cold push deepens
Record Cold Follows U.S. Front A sharp cold front is sweeping the United States, flipping the central, northern, and eventually eastern states from spring warmth to late-season freezes.
The Weather Prediction Center has stark lows spreading from the Southern Plains into the Midwest and Northeast through week's end, as a very cold air mass drops in, returning the Rockies, Plains and Upper Midwest to snow, frost and freeze territory.
The likes of Wyoming have already taken a hit.
On Tuesday, Rawlins fell to 8F (-13.3C), breaking its May monthly low-temperature record of 10F (-12.2C), set on May 2, 2013, in books dating back to 1951.
➡️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Record Cold Follows U.S. Front A sharp cold front is sweeping the United States, flipping the central, northern, and eventually eastern states from spring warmth to late-season freezes.
The Weather Prediction Center has stark lows spreading from the Southern Plains into the Midwest and Northeast through week's end, as a very cold air mass drops in, returning the Rockies, Plains and Upper Midwest to snow, frost and freeze territory.
The likes of Wyoming have already taken a hit.
On Tuesday, Rawlins fell to 8F (-13.3C), breaking its May monthly low-temperature record of 10F (-12.2C), set on May 2, 2013, in books dating back to 1951.
➡️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Mount St. Helens: the eruption that changed the U.S. in 1980 has an unexpected "culprit"... and no, it is not a volcano (it is animals, and the story is surreal)
What can a pocket gopher do against a volcano?
At Mount St.
Helens, the answer may be far more than anyone expected.
A study of the mountain's recovering soils suggests that one brief gopher experiment in the early 1980s helped restart an underground recovery process after the famous 1980 eruption.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
What can a pocket gopher do against a volcano?
At Mount St.
Helens, the answer may be far more than anyone expected.
A study of the mountain's recovering soils suggests that one brief gopher experiment in the early 1980s helped restart an underground recovery process after the famous 1980 eruption.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
U.S. DOJ accuses Yale medical school of illegally using race in admissions
The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month.
In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
Now, the Justice Department said Yale is violating that law.
In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said a DOJ investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than white or Asian students, despite having lower grade-point averages and lower test scores.
➡️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month.
In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
Now, the Justice Department said Yale is violating that law.
In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said a DOJ investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than white or Asian students, despite having lower grade-point averages and lower test scores.
➡️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions — and Trump takes victory lap: 'WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!'
President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining that they were not the most plausible outcomes.
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling framework of a 4-5°C warming by 2100 last month.
That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.
"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" Trump chided on Truth Social.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining that they were not the most plausible outcomes.
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling framework of a 4-5°C warming by 2100 last month.
That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.
"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" Trump chided on Truth Social.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Three killed after two teen gunmen open fire at San Diego mosque before killing themselves
A total of five people — including two teenage gunmen who inscribed anti-Muslim hate messages on their weapons — are dead after a shooting at a San Diego mosque.
Officers responded to the Islamic Center of San Diego for a report of an active shooter around 11:43 a.m.
Monday.
Outside the center were three adult men dead from gunshot wounds, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl, who spoke to the media after the shooting.
✍️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
A total of five people — including two teenage gunmen who inscribed anti-Muslim hate messages on their weapons — are dead after a shooting at a San Diego mosque.
Officers responded to the Islamic Center of San Diego for a report of an active shooter around 11:43 a.m.
Monday.
Outside the center were three adult men dead from gunshot wounds, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl, who spoke to the media after the shooting.
✍️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
"Stop Hiring Humans" Billboards Are Appearing In U.S. Cities...
"Stop Hiring Humans." Those words are now plastered on billboards from San Francisco to New York City, courtesy of a San Francisco-based startup pushing virtual AI sales representatives.
The company, Artisan, markets AI agents that handle outbound sales tasks like lead generation, cold emailing, list-building, and prospecting.
Their message is blunt: the era of AI employees is here.
Artisan's campaign highlights a growing trend of AI replacing human roles in sales and beyond.
👍🏼 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
"Stop Hiring Humans." Those words are now plastered on billboards from San Francisco to New York City, courtesy of a San Francisco-based startup pushing virtual AI sales representatives.
The company, Artisan, markets AI agents that handle outbound sales tasks like lead generation, cold emailing, list-building, and prospecting.
Their message is blunt: the era of AI employees is here.
Artisan's campaign highlights a growing trend of AI replacing human roles in sales and beyond.
👍🏼 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
🇨🇺Alpha-Gal Syndrome up 5,566% in ten Years (+ When the CIA carpet-bombed Cuba with weaponized ticks)
Anecdotal reports, many with accompanying video evidence, from around North America have inundated social media — well, on X at least; I don't know about the others because my accounts all got nuked during COVID — of astronomical increases in tick populations as well as boxes of ticks mysteriously appearing on farms and in woods.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Anecdotal reports, many with accompanying video evidence, from around North America have inundated social media — well, on X at least; I don't know about the others because my accounts all got nuked during COVID — of astronomical increases in tick populations as well as boxes of ticks mysteriously appearing on farms and in woods.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
🇨🇳Diplomacy of symbols: What Trump's visit to China revealed about the new global balance of power
Trump's China pilgrimage revealed not American strength but the exhaustion of an empire that increasingly mistakes spectacle for strategy, beneath smiling children and waving flags, standing between two civilizations moving in opposite psychological directions: one obsessed with image, the other quietly consolidating power.
The Ceremony of Decline Upon arrival, young men and women stood along the tarmac waving small American and Chinese flags in careful unison while cameras captured the choreography from every angle, the sort of polished diplomatic pageantry modern states have perfected for international consumption.
Yet one detail lingered beneath the surface of the spectacle: Xi Jinping himself was notably absent from the reception.
The symbolism mattered.
📍 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Trump's China pilgrimage revealed not American strength but the exhaustion of an empire that increasingly mistakes spectacle for strategy, beneath smiling children and waving flags, standing between two civilizations moving in opposite psychological directions: one obsessed with image, the other quietly consolidating power.
The Ceremony of Decline Upon arrival, young men and women stood along the tarmac waving small American and Chinese flags in careful unison while cameras captured the choreography from every angle, the sort of polished diplomatic pageantry modern states have perfected for international consumption.
Yet one detail lingered beneath the surface of the spectacle: Xi Jinping himself was notably absent from the reception.
The symbolism mattered.
📍 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
SPD leader faces backlash after saying migrants burdening welfare system is a lie pushed by 'right-wing extremists'
"Any responsible local politician could provide her with enough examples from their own city to prove the opposite," a former SPD member chimed in.
Labor Minister and Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-leader Bärbel Bas (SPD) says nobody is immigrating to Germany to take advantage of its social welfare system.
However, she has received substantial pushback directed at her claim.
Bas' comment came during a session of the Bundestag, when AfD MP René Springer asked Bas why she wasn't cutting spending on immigration due to the current budget crisis, given the clear burden it is putting on social welfare, a situation that is making German taxpayers increasingly angry.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
"Any responsible local politician could provide her with enough examples from their own city to prove the opposite," a former SPD member chimed in.
Labor Minister and Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-leader Bärbel Bas (SPD) says nobody is immigrating to Germany to take advantage of its social welfare system.
However, she has received substantial pushback directed at her claim.
Bas' comment came during a session of the Bundestag, when AfD MP René Springer asked Bas why she wasn't cutting spending on immigration due to the current budget crisis, given the clear burden it is putting on social welfare, a situation that is making German taxpayers increasingly angry.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
"Digital enslavement" is a subtle weapon of social subordination and global control
In a recent Buddhist retreat in Lima, Peru, about 200 participants were urged to abstain for the three-day retreat from our enslavement screens, "smart" phones, computers and television.
Difficult to say how many really followed the advice, but many did.
What was amazing is that during the first day, ignoring constant phone notifications was not easy for the many.
But consciously resisting it made it easier.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
In a recent Buddhist retreat in Lima, Peru, about 200 participants were urged to abstain for the three-day retreat from our enslavement screens, "smart" phones, computers and television.
Difficult to say how many really followed the advice, but many did.
What was amazing is that during the first day, ignoring constant phone notifications was not easy for the many.
But consciously resisting it made it easier.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Starmer hit with legal threat after barring conservative speakers from entering UK for national rally
The group of conservative commentators and politicians has demanded that the British prime minister retract remarks accusing them of being "far-right agitators". U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been issued with a formal letter of claim after several foreign politicians, commentators, and activists were blocked from entering the United Kingdom ahead of a major rally in London last weekend.
The legal threat was announced on Saturday by Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who said she and others had instructed a lawyer to act on their behalf over potentially defamatory remarks made by the prime minister last week.
👉🏼 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
The group of conservative commentators and politicians has demanded that the British prime minister retract remarks accusing them of being "far-right agitators". U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been issued with a formal letter of claim after several foreign politicians, commentators, and activists were blocked from entering the United Kingdom ahead of a major rally in London last weekend.
The legal threat was announced on Saturday by Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who said she and others had instructed a lawyer to act on their behalf over potentially defamatory remarks made by the prime minister last week.
👉🏼 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Supreme Court rules that freight brokers can be held accountable for negligence in commercial vehicle crashes
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on whether freight brokers are protected from lawsuits under state law in injury or fatality crashes involving the commercial vehicles that they hire.
On Thursday, May 14, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion in favor of Shawn Montgomery in the case MONTGOMERY v.
CARIBE TRANSPORT II, LLC. Montgomery suffered severe injuries in a crash involving truck driver Yosniel Varela-Mojena, who was hauling a load of plastic pots through Illinois for motor carrier Caribe Transport II, LLC. when the crash occurred in 2017.
Montgomery's vehicle was parked on the shoulder when it was struck by Varela-Mojena's truck.
‼️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on whether freight brokers are protected from lawsuits under state law in injury or fatality crashes involving the commercial vehicles that they hire.
On Thursday, May 14, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion in favor of Shawn Montgomery in the case MONTGOMERY v.
CARIBE TRANSPORT II, LLC. Montgomery suffered severe injuries in a crash involving truck driver Yosniel Varela-Mojena, who was hauling a load of plastic pots through Illinois for motor carrier Caribe Transport II, LLC. when the crash occurred in 2017.
Montgomery's vehicle was parked on the shoulder when it was struck by Varela-Mojena's truck.
‼️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Donald Trump is considering reversing course in front of Xi Jinping
The G2 summit between the US and China failed to produce any concrete responses to ongoing conflicts, from Taiwan to Iran, nor did it address issues such as tariffs.
President Trump, suddenly displaying good manners, listened attentively to his counterpart Xi Jinping and imagined what relations between their two countries might be like if they weren't at war.
The visit of US President Donald Trump to the People's Republic of China on May 13, 14, and 15, 2026, brought to light profound contradictions.
From a Chinese perspective, the goal was to ensure that Washington would always respect Taiwan as a Chinese province, not an independent state.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
The G2 summit between the US and China failed to produce any concrete responses to ongoing conflicts, from Taiwan to Iran, nor did it address issues such as tariffs.
President Trump, suddenly displaying good manners, listened attentively to his counterpart Xi Jinping and imagined what relations between their two countries might be like if they weren't at war.
The visit of US President Donald Trump to the People's Republic of China on May 13, 14, and 15, 2026, brought to light profound contradictions.
From a Chinese perspective, the goal was to ensure that Washington would always respect Taiwan as a Chinese province, not an independent state.
👀 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
🇿🇦South Africa's farming crisis may trigger food shortages across the continent
For decades South Africa has operated as the breadbasket for half of the African continent, and the vast majority of that food was grown by white farmers (Boers and Afrikaners). In other words, the very survival of Africans has long been dependent on the hard labor of the white people they are taught to despise.
South Africa has around 142 race-based laws which largely discriminate against white citizens, especially when property, business and government office is involved.
‼️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
For decades South Africa has operated as the breadbasket for half of the African continent, and the vast majority of that food was grown by white farmers (Boers and Afrikaners). In other words, the very survival of Africans has long been dependent on the hard labor of the white people they are taught to despise.
South Africa has around 142 race-based laws which largely discriminate against white citizens, especially when property, business and government office is involved.
‼️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
What they really think: CEO scrambles into damage control after "lower-value HUMAN capital" comment triggers outrage
StanChart CEO says quote was 'taken out of context' Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters and his team spent Wednesday in damage-control mode after the head of the London-based international bank told investors on Tuesday that artificial intelligence would be used to replace "lower-value human capital," sparking a backlash online.
"Many of you will have seen media coverage following the Investor Event in Hong Kong, particularly the reporting around automation, AI, and workforce changes," Winters wrote in an internal memo to employees on Wednesday that was seen by Bloomberg.
He continued, "I know this may be unsettling when reduced to simple headlines or a quote out of context."
➡️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
StanChart CEO says quote was 'taken out of context' Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters and his team spent Wednesday in damage-control mode after the head of the London-based international bank told investors on Tuesday that artificial intelligence would be used to replace "lower-value human capital," sparking a backlash online.
"Many of you will have seen media coverage following the Investor Event in Hong Kong, particularly the reporting around automation, AI, and workforce changes," Winters wrote in an internal memo to employees on Wednesday that was seen by Bloomberg.
He continued, "I know this may be unsettling when reduced to simple headlines or a quote out of context."
➡️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Sinkhole causes delays, cancellations at New York City's LaGuardia Airport
A sinkhole near a runway at LaGuardia Airport caused delays and cancellations Wednesday after crews discovered the issue during a routine inspection, officials said.
According to FlightAware, LaGuardia Airport was experiencing arrival delays for airborne aircraft averaging 35 minutes and increasing.
What we know: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the sinkhole was identified around 11 a.m. near Runway 4/22 during the airport's daily morning airfield inspection.
👉🏼 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
A sinkhole near a runway at LaGuardia Airport caused delays and cancellations Wednesday after crews discovered the issue during a routine inspection, officials said.
According to FlightAware, LaGuardia Airport was experiencing arrival delays for airborne aircraft averaging 35 minutes and increasing.
What we know: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the sinkhole was identified around 11 a.m. near Runway 4/22 during the airport's daily morning airfield inspection.
👉🏼 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
🇮🇱🇱🇧Israel's northern shock: Hezbollah exposes the limits of Israel's 'Arrows of the North' campaign in Lebanon
From the Israeli side, the 2026 confrontation in south Lebanon tells a story of its own.
Military censorship kept much of the home front under control, but it could not contain the recriminations that followed a string of failures on the northern front.
The shock at Hezbollah's performance did not stay with military correspondents, security commentators, or analysts close to the army.
It reached Northern Command itself.
❗️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
From the Israeli side, the 2026 confrontation in south Lebanon tells a story of its own.
Military censorship kept much of the home front under control, but it could not contain the recriminations that followed a string of failures on the northern front.
The shock at Hezbollah's performance did not stay with military correspondents, security commentators, or analysts close to the army.
It reached Northern Command itself.
❗️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Unanimous Supreme Court ruling: Freight brokers can be sued for neligently hiring illegal alien and unqualified foreign drivers
In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that freight brokers can be held personally liable for negligently hiring dangerous trucking companies, including those flooding our highways with illegal aliens and unqualified foreign drivers who can't even speak English, let alone follow CDL regulations! Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered the opinion in Montgomery v.
Caribe Transport II, LLC, confirming that federal law does NOT shield these greedy middleman brokers from state negligence lawsuits.
The case stems from a horrific 2017 crash in Illinois where trucker Shawn Montgomery lost part of his leg after being smashed by a carrier hired by freight giant C.H. Robinson.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that freight brokers can be held personally liable for negligently hiring dangerous trucking companies, including those flooding our highways with illegal aliens and unqualified foreign drivers who can't even speak English, let alone follow CDL regulations! Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered the opinion in Montgomery v.
Caribe Transport II, LLC, confirming that federal law does NOT shield these greedy middleman brokers from state negligence lawsuits.
The case stems from a horrific 2017 crash in Illinois where trucker Shawn Montgomery lost part of his leg after being smashed by a carrier hired by freight giant C.H. Robinson.
🙌 Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
🛸World-shaking UFO files release imminent as insider Jeremy Corbell hints at 'much bigger' secrets in next disclosure drop
Americans are waiting with bated breath for the next wave of UFO files after officials promised the release will be 'very soon.' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced Monday on X that the materials are currently 'actively being processed' for publication.
While details about the imminent disclosure dump remain secret, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell told the Daily Mail it could include 46 classified UFO videos requested by lawmakers earlier this year.
'There is something much bigger coming,' he said.
Corbell claimed he personally provided officials with access to the videos via what he described as classified 'intel links' linked to hidden government servers, after unknown sources leaked the clips to him.
‼️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Americans are waiting with bated breath for the next wave of UFO files after officials promised the release will be 'very soon.' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced Monday on X that the materials are currently 'actively being processed' for publication.
While details about the imminent disclosure dump remain secret, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell told the Daily Mail it could include 46 classified UFO videos requested by lawmakers earlier this year.
'There is something much bigger coming,' he said.
Corbell claimed he personally provided officials with access to the videos via what he described as classified 'intel links' linked to hidden government servers, after unknown sources leaked the clips to him.
‼️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds
Trump administration accused of cutting military's civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in Iran.
The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog.
❗️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate
Trump administration accused of cutting military's civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in Iran.
The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog.
❗️ Read More
@sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate