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There long have been claims, including some that are fairly wild, about the exhaust trails from passenger jets traveling over the United States.
Deliberate distribution of chemicals to change the weather, to alter populations, even for mind control.
Now Lee Zeldin, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President Donald Trump, has announced an online posting with explanations.
In his video message, he said the new web pages were posted to inform "anyone who's ever looked up to the streaks in the sky and asked, 'What the heck is going on?'"
A report in the New York Post said the facts debunk claims, including some from Zeldin's fellow Republicans, that contrails are actually "chemtrails" that are deliberately being used to distributed … something.
"We did the legwork, looked at the science, consulted agency experts, and pulled in relevant outside information to put these online resources together," Zeldin said. "Everything we know about contrails to solar geoengineering will be in there."
The EPA says the "contrails," or condensation trails, are common clouds created by the exhaust from high-altitude jets and can be seen "for the same reason that you can see the exhaust from your vehicle or your own breath on a cold day."
The EPA states, "The federal government is not aware of there ever being a contrail intentionally formed over the United States for the purpose of geoengineering or weather modification."
There are such distributions, the agency confirms, when low-altitude, propeller driven airplanes are used to distribute chemicals for firefighting, or farming, an industry that uses a variety of weed and pest controls.
Further, he said, despite headline claims about private individuals or government operations trying to "blot out the sun in the name of stopping global warming" are made up.
The report said, "Only one private company, South Dakota-based Make Sunsets, has experimented in the U.S. with solar geoengineering through what is known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB) to potentially lower the Earth's temperature."
But there have been plans that used processes like cloud seeding to modify the weather.
Most cloud seeding is carried out to learn how to combat heavy droughts and is "primarily funded at the state or local level," the GAO has reported.
Rep. Marjorie Taylore Green, R-Ga., has promised legislation to ban releasing substances into the atmosphere in attempts to alter the weather, and HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to a viral video by promising to "stop" such activity.
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After "two incredible years" at the helm of Elon Musk's popular X social media platform, CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down.
In a post on X Wednesday, she said: "When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I'm immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.
"I'm incredibly proud of the X team – the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable.
"We started with the critical early work necessary to prioritize the safety of our users—especially children, and to restore advertiser confidence. This team has worked relentlessly from groundbreaking innovations like Community Notes, and, soon, X Money to bringing the most iconic voices and content to the platform. Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xai.
"X is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world's most powerful culture signal. We couldn't have achieved that without the support of our users, business partners, and the most innovative team in the world. I'll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world."
Despite no reason cited for her departure, Yaccarino's announcement comes one day after X's Grok chatbot published a series of anti-Semitic posts, prompting the company to shut down its ability to issue text replies.
NBC News reported: "It wasn't the first time Yaccarino had to handle issues around antisemitism on the platform as CEO.
"In 2023, she had to weather the fallout after Musk shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish groups were part of a coordinated plot to spread anti-White hate. Musk's posts caused a wave of advertiser departures from the platform, which Yaccarino was tasked with managing."
"Yaccarino stood by Musk's side and defended him even as Musk continued to take actions that were contrary to her statements. In August 2023, Yaccarino met with the Anti-Defamation League's Jonathan Greenblatt to discuss how to address antisemitic hate on X. Days later, Musk began "liking" content related to the #BanTheADL hashtag led by far-right figures on the platform. It was one of several instances in which Musk appeared to publicly sidestep and undermine Yaccarino's work."
In a brief note, Elon Musk told Yaccarino: "Thank you for your contributions."
X remains the top news app in America since Musk purchased the company.
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Life just got a bit easier for those rushing to catch a plane at one of America's busy airports.
At Ronald Reagan National Airport in D.C. Tuesday, DHS Secretary announced that the Transportation Security Administration will no longer require any passengers to remove their shoes at security checkpoints.
The requirement has been in place for most passengers since 2006, part of the reaction to an attempted terrorist attack in which a passenger tried to ignite explosives in his shoes during a 2001 flight.
An email from the TSA about the news conference said the new policy would "make screening easier for passengers, improve traveler satisfaction and will reduce wait times."
Most people have had to take their shoes off for airport screening for nearly two decades after a passenger tried to ignite explosives in his shoes during a 2001 flight.
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A social media personality is learning there are consequences to accusing a Christian camp, Camp Mystic, of being racist.
The web influencer has blasted "people who are donating and helping find the missing girls" in the Texas tragedy that resulted from a sudden downpour and a flash flood. More than 80 people, include dozens of children, have died as a result.
Libs of TikTok labeled the comments, "One of the sickest things I've ever seen."
An update suggested the commenter was being removed, permanently, from a Houston city board to which she had been appointed.
She said:
I know I'm probably going to get canceled for this but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls Christian camp. They don't even have a token Asian. They don't have a token black person. It is a (sic) all-white white-only, conservative Christian camp. If you ain't white, you ain't right. You ain't getting' in. You ain't goin'. Period. And I think that context needs to be said in this matter. It's not to say that we don't want the girls to be found, whatever girls are missing or whatever right now. But you best believe, especially in today's political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls, especially with them being in east Texas, should be, most likely Hispanic, if this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting the type of coverage that they're getting. No one would give a f***. And all of these white people, the parents of these little girls would be saying things like they need to be deported, they shouldn't have been here in the first place, and yada, yada.
And before ya'll come at me. Before ya'll start leaving hate comments on my page about Oh these are just kids and they don't know no better (garble). Parents of these children who are choosing, and it is a choice in 2025. It is definitely a freaking choice. And to go into east G** **** Texas and to a (sic) all-white enclave, exclusionary, just for white people, with all the black people in east Texas, with all the Hispanic people in east Texas, somehow, some way, you have carved out an all-white, white only enclave, in east Texas, for your white children. Yah, I have a problem with that. I have a big problem with that. Once again, this is no shade to the girls. I hope they all get found, but once again, ya'll have to understand the climate that we're living in. They want you to have sympathy for these people. They want you to get out of your bed and come outta your home and go find these people, donate your money to go find these people. Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members, meanwhile, they are setting up concentration camps, and prisons for your family members. And I need ya'll to keep that in mind, before y'all get out there and put on your rain boots, and go find little girls.
Social media identified her as Sade Perkins.
Others posted images online showing that the camp is, in fact, not "whites-only."
Reports revealed Perkin's Tik Tok account soon was "down."
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Over 100,000 living armed services members and veterans have been negatively impacted by illegally mandated anthrax vaccines and COVID-19 shots. Yet according to military sources, the efforts of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to right those wrongs, though greatly appreciated, are falling drastically short due to bureaucratic obstruction.
WorldNetDaily spoke to Retired Air Force Col. Tom "Buzz" Rempfer, author of "Unyielding: Marathons Against Illegal Mandates" and advocate for service members and veterans subjected to illegal medical experimentation in the military.
Rempfer, whose book has been highly praised by everyone from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to COVID vaccine whistleblower doctors Peter McCollough and Harvey Risch, greatly appreciates the steps Trump and Hegseth have taken to help restore the careers of those affected by the Biden-era military's 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate. "We've come so far," he told WND, "watching the tide turn when Congress rescinded the mandate, when Trump signed the executive order [to reinstate troops], and when the Sec Def declared it was 'unlawful as implemented.'"
However, lamented Rempfer, "The corrections process isn't working, and it hasn't worked for over 20 years. The only way to fix the problem is through pardons or amnesty, wherein you take the adjudication step away from the DoD deep state bureaucrats."
To that end, Rempfer pointed to the work of Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc., or STARRS, the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates and the Calvert Task Group. Members of each of these organizations sent a letter to President Trump on June 5 expressing their grave concerns about both the COVID-19 and earlier anthrax vaccination mandates.
"As STARRS suggests," Rempfer told WND, "pardons or amnesty are the swiftest means to right the wrongs committed against services members who were affected by either of the mandates."
He added, "The courts and the DoD have already admitted anthrax and COVID mandates were 'illegal' and 'unlawful' respectively, so government should be correcting records just as expeditiously as they kicked and coerced troops out of uniform."
According to a recent Breitbart report, the Pentagon said, "Approximately 100 cases are currently under review [for reinstatement], with 13 servicemembers having already been welcomed back, while over 700 individuals who were ousted over their unvaccinated status have expressed interest in returning since President Donald Trump reclaimed the title of commander-in-chief in January."
For this, DOD Rapid Response celebrated on X, posting the message "We are RIGHTING THE WRONGS of the previous Administration!"
Rempfer took to X shortly thereafter, referring to the numbers shared by the Defense Department as "paltry stats" while looping in the wrongs committed against service members with both the anthrax and COVID-era mandates. He told WND, "Anthrax-era veterans had the same hope, but only three records were corrected, over 20 years, out of 37 courts-martials and thousands of less than fully honorable discharges and NJP's" (non-judicial punishment).
For Rempfer, "It's embarrassing, because at this rate, only a handful of anthrax-era and 100 or so COVID-era corrections will occur by the end of President Trump's term – less than 0.1 percent."
While over 8,000 service members were separated from the U.S. military over their objection to receiving the experimental COVID-19 shot, he estimates there are tens of thousands who left voluntarily, explaining, "the only reason service members voluntarily discharged is because they were coerced, taking the voluntary discharge over the punishment they would have faced if they remained in service."
"There have been two periods of documented, illegal experimentation on our troops in the last 20 years, and for me, this means we haven't learned any lessons," Rempfer told WorldNetDaily. "The Trump administration made an attempt to correct records in 2018 for those adversely affected by the anthrax vaccine, but there was zero outreach because they never even published the memo." In his opinion, "Trump was undermined, and he should be outraged at the sabotage of his attempts for civilian control of the military."
For this reason, Rempfer implores President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth to "take the time to address, once and for all, the adverse actions taken against service members who were punished for objecting to the anthrax vaccine and COVID-19 shot."
Because the anthrax vaccine and COVID-19 shot mandates were illegal, he said, "Troops shouldn't have to apply for discharge upgrades or reinstatement." Rather, if a service member was discharged because of his or her refusal, he argued "their discharges should be unilaterally, unconditionally and retroactively upgraded."
For those affected by the anthrax vaccine, Rempfer pointed out that 10 USC 1178 requires the Defense Department to track all service members who refused and were punished, "but they didn't comply with this 2001 law or the 2018 White House directive to correct anthrax records."
"Now is the time for the president and secretary of Defense to exercise their authorities under 10 USC 1552 to upgrade records."
Regarding President Trump's executive order, Rempfer said it could be amended to "include voluntary discharges that included coercion." He estimated that "the Boards for Correction of Military Records (BCMR) have probably received thousands of applications from other anthrax and COVID-era veterans whose discharge upgrade requests were denied." He emphasized, "Anthrax-era corrections are zero-cost administrative upgrades to fully honorable discharges." In fact, he suggests Trump consider an executive order for anthrax-era discharge upgrades, as he did for those affected by the COVID-19 shot mandate.
"Laws are being ignored," says the retired Air Force colonel. "No one complied with the law preventing a mandate of investigational drug products under 10 USC 1107 for the anthrax vaccine and 10 USC 1107a for the COVID shot." And on top of that, the lethargic BCMR process is undermining the president and Defense secretary, inhibiting their efforts to fully restore the nation's military.
Rempfer emphasized that he believes President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth absolutely have the best interests of the U.S. military in mind, and he simply hopes they'll hear his message and reinvigorate the appropriate actions for all service members and veterans adversely affected by anthrax and COVID-19 mandates.
"Pardons or amnesty are the only way out of this mess," concluded Rempfer, "and there's an army of veterans who are ready and able to help the president and Defense secretary remove the obstructions, fix the malfunctions and secure corrections for increased readiness and restoration of trust."
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Federal authorities have announced a stunning law enforcement that involves health-care fraud, hundreds of people and nearly $15 billion in tax money allegedly stolen from taxpayers.
The Department of Justice announced it has charges looming against 324 people, including nearly 100 physicians and other medical professionals in all 50 states, who allegedly scammed some $14.6 billion out of the government's health-care programs.
A report at the Washington Examiner noted it was what the DOJ described as "the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history."
Charges include a wide range of criminal offenses, including opioid trafficking, telemedicine fraud, transnational identity theft and more
"Of the total charged, 77 defendants were prosecuted by state attorneys general, while the remaining 247 face federal charges. Authorities said they seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets," the report noted,
The takedown "delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers," explained Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The action is a huge advance from Joe Biden's administration, which developed cases against 193 defendants involving alleged fraud of about $2.75 billion over the whole of the last year.
"These criminals didn't just steal someone else's money — they stole from you," said Matthew Galeotti of the DOJ's Criminal Division. "This is not healthcare. It is a staggering breach of trust."
Dan Bongino, deputy director fo the FBI, said: "Results matter. Talk is cheap. And this is not even the beginning of the beginning. If you're stealing from the public, or violating your oath to serve, then we're coming for you too."
Among the schemes:
A transnational crime ring that turned in billing of $10.6 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare, using stolen identities of U.S. residents.
A Middle East-based billing company that allegedly defrauded Medicare of $650 million, targeting Native American and homeless patients for addiction scams.
And, cases alleging nurses stole drugs from dying patients.
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One of Jill Biden's top aides while Joe Biden and his entourage occupied the White House, Anthony Bernall, had agreed to testify to Congress about its investigation into the mental decline of Joe Biden while he was in office.
One of the key questions still unanswered is did Joe Biden actually know what was going out as law over his signature, which was applied to various documents with an autopen process.
While Bernall had agreed to testify, on Wednesday he abruptly refused, so now members of Congress have issued a subpoena that will require his testimony.
Key is that any claim of White House immunity has been waived by the administration of President Donald Trump, which has the authority to make such decisions for the Biden White House.
Bernall was to be the second witness coming out of the Biden administration on the topic of Joe Biden's failings.
The Washington Examiner confirms that the House Oversight Committee has issued that subpoena, explaining he had "refused" to appear and answer questions.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the committee, said, addressing Bernall, "To advance the Committee's oversight and legislative responsibilities and interests, your testimony is critical."
The letter accompanied the subpoena.
The process to get Bernall's testimony has been littered with problems. His counsel had demanded a weeks-long delay, and that prompted the committee to suggest a subpoena.
"Within ten minutes of the Committee's email, your counsel responded that 'no subpoena is necessary,'" Comer wrote. "Yesterday, on June 26, your counsel informed the Committee that you were no longer willing to appear voluntarily for the transcribed interview. … To avoid any further delays, your appearance before the Committee is now compelled."
The investigation is looking at, among other things, "who was calling the shots" during Biden's final two years in office, and why his signature was increasingly replaced by an autopen to sign certain executive orders.
Comer said, "Now that the White House has waived executive privilege, it's abundantly clear that Anthony Bernal — Jill Biden's so-called 'work husband' — never intended to be transparent about Joe Biden's cognitive decline and the ensuing cover-up. With no privilege left to hide behind, Mr. Bernal is now running scared, desperate to bury the truth."
Former White House aide Neera Tanden, in fact, was the first witness in the investigation. She admitted handling the autopen signature process on documents but claimed she didn't know who ultimately authorized the actions.
"Tanden testified to the House Oversight Committee that she was authorized to direct autopen use from October 2021 to May 2023 while working as Biden's staff secretary and senior adviser," the Washington Examiner reported, citing her opening remarks.
She also told the committee she had limited contact with Biden and that she did not know exactly who provided final approval for use of the autopen, Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement.
Tanden also turned partisan in her comments, claiming the committee was overlooking Trump administration oversight to focus on Biden's behavior and the behavior of the Democrat's administration.
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Multiple arrests have been made at an event at Disneyland Paris which, media reports have confirmed, featured an alleged pedophile reportedly trying to "marry" a 9-year-old girl who was dressed in a wedding dress and had high heels taped to her feet.
"The park officials were told the whole thing was for a social media video, not an actual wedding, but apparently that didn't check out because four people ended up arrested by the French police: the would-be groom, the girl's Ukrainian mother, and two Latvian nationals," according to a report at Not the Bee.
The man was identified as "Jaskarn Jhaj" and the Daily Star reported he was identified by prosecutors as being "registered on the British Sex Offenders' Register."
The report said he was "on the run" from U.K. police.
"French prosecutors claim the 39-year-old man was known in the UK for 'sexual offences against minors' and has been charged with various offences after staging a 'pretend wedding ceremony' with the Ukrainian child at the resort's Sleeping Beauty castle," the report said.
The Star said workers "grew suspicious" after seeing the young girl wearing a bridal dress "with four-inch heels taped to her feet," and they called authorities.
The Independent confirmed there was a "British man arrested at Disneyland after fake wedding to nine-year-old girl."
Le Monde called it "a bizarre ceremony."
Not the Bee added, "Jhaj was wearing a disguise that had been 'professionally made up in order to display a totally different face from his,' according to the prosecutor's office."
The report explained the girl apparently was not injured, so the charges stemming from the incident apparently are just fraud.
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Sneers at critics of leftist, racist, sexist ideologies being taught in many classrooms, but one responds with, 'I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are'
Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union and spoke recently at a meeting of the City Club of Chicago.
She insisted that residents should "blame President Donald Trump, not the city's broken politics, for the fact that Chicago Public Schools are running a deficit of over a half a billion dollars," according to a Western Journal commentary published at the Gateway Pundit.
But the posting suggested her real title should be "the newest reason for you to homeschool your children."
That's because she went out of her way, snarkily ridiculing critics of the public education industry and its ideologies, to insist that she believes schools do own all the children.
She explained, "The budget and its choices manifest into real impact that our young people get to experience. So choices about the budget left students at Julian High School in 2025 without a math teacher for nearly a year, Clemente high school without a chemistry teacher … Those are not occurrences. Those are choices."
But her real ideology soon was revealed, when she explained, "one of the first social studies lessons taught in kindergarten classrooms is of community" as that lets children "come to understand the connectedness of people and institutions."
"The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point," she charged.
She pointed to "right-wing outrage" triggered by "a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year."
"The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe."
Turning on her sneer voice, she said, "And what comes next is, 'CTU, you think your children are its children.'"
She confirmed, "Yes. Yes we do. We do. [Sneering again] 'CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology.'"
She then claimed the corporate education industry educates, nurtures, protects and supports children, and even negotiates for them, although it was unclear what those negotiations involve.
Social media responses included:
"This is so vile."
"They wouldn't treat a dog they (sic) way those children are treated."
"I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are."
The commentary noted, "And of course they are. We're just coming off the Biden administration, where the president said — in the same speech, mind you — that we've got to stop making teachers 'the target of the culture wars,' then told a group of teachers that their charges are 'not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom.'"
The report noted the full speech is here:
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A constitutional expert publicly is calling for full support for a review ordered by President Donald Trump of the coverup of Joe Biden's "obvious deterioration."
It is Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University professor who not only has counseled Congress on constitutional issues but represented members in those fights, who said there are "ample reasons" for Americans to get answers "as we continue to struggle with the problem of presidential incapacity."
He pinpointed the moment that should have been a "wake-up call" regarding the "obvious deterioration" seen in Joe Biden as his presidency progressed from a campaign built on videos filmed in his basement to his long history of verbal gaffes, blunders and mental failures on exhibit from his White House term.
"'Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie?' When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if House Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence; he had attended the congresswoman's memorial service to lower the flags at the White House in her honor," Turley explained.
"As Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple noted last week, that moment should have been a wake-up call. In Washington parlance, it left no room for 'plausible deniability' about whether Biden was still fit to hold the office of president. And it wasn't just Democratic politicians who were willfully blind to Biden's obvious deterioration; it was the media, too."
He pointed out that's why all the nation should "fully support President Donald Trump's June 4 order for his administration to investigate Biden's competence and answer some of these questions, including the possible abuse of an autopen to sign legislation, pardons and other documents while he was president, instead of looking for political motivations."
Turley noted the House Oversight Committee also is conducting an investigating.
He cited the New York Times' claim the investigation was Trump's "campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies" but pointed out that was "a weird dissonance when journalists blame Biden's White House for a coverup, but then criticize efforts to investigate that coverup."
He conceded criminal charges are not likely to result, but investigation could end up with "forgery, obstruction of justice, fraud or other serious crimes" if the autopen was used without Biden's express authorization.
He cited the stroke sustained by President Woodrow Wilson a century back, and said Americans must have "accountability and greater transparency on matters of presidential health and competence."
While the 25th Amendment allows for a specific response to the incapacity of a president, it does not work when "staff have an interest in maintain the illusion to keep the president and themselves in power."
The worst thing, he said, for America "would be a collective shrug and a resumption of business as usual."
He said, "Biden was kept on a reduced schedule, allowing him to rally for single events. That is the difference between a major stroke and creeping cognitive decline. The 25th Amendment was designed for catastrophic medical events, not the slow slide to senility."
However, "The result for the office can be largely the same."