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We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus.
by Bill Ackman
Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat.
“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
The part that's surprising to me is that there were two Navy sailors on the USS Lincoln who overdosed in a 10-day span, including the one who died, and it doesn't seem any of it was ever made public. NCIS was also investigating "drug distribution activities on the USS Abraham Lincoln" more broadly
Buried on PACER today: A Navy sailor is being charged with selling the fentanyl that led to the January 2023 overdose death of one of his shipmates on the USS Abraham Lincoln, based in San Diego
lukeharold.substack.com/p/us-navy-sa...
That’s what they’re trying to figure out
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against approximately two dogs.
Rep. Smith: "We always seem to miss something, and I'm very concerned that we're missing something here." Said police in NJ saw about 50 drones off the shore
Rep. Gonzalez: "madness" that we don't know more publicly about the drones in New Jersey
Jones: Small quantities of drugs have been smuggled using drones, but overall "from a cost model" it's an inefficient way to move product into the U.S.
Pfluger: What is the threat to the southern border (i.e., cartel use of drones)?
Keith Jones, CBP: countersurveillance is the biggest threat, drone use to monitor law enforcement operations
Rep. Pfluger: "What is going on in New Jersey?"
Robert Wheeler, FBI: FBI is "actively investigating"; "don't have an answer" for who's responsible.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) also in attendance given the recent headlines
www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/n...
Committee on Homeland Security about to discuss "unmanned aerial systems." Supposed to start at 11 PST, currently in a delay
homeland.house.gov/hearing/safe...
Comet, Aldebaran and Mars over Stonehenge ✨💫☄️
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
A trial has been scheduled April 21-25, 2025 for two Border Patrol agents who allegedly worked with drug traffickers to bring fentanyl, cocaine, meth, etc., across the U.S./Mexico border at the Tecate and Otay Mesa ports of entry in San Diego County.
lukeharold.substack.com/p/trial-date...
And yet when I tried to FOIA border patrol vehicle collisions, they sent me a spreadsheet with 18 pages of “unknown” deaths and injuries
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/v...
Your regular reminder that spending the night on a sidewalk should not be only way to watch, in real time, the institution that heads up 1/3 of our federal government.
I wrote this 1year ago and I’ll be coming out with an update soon on where these cases stand. They all involve asylum seekers who wanted to avoid being deported back into their home countries due to potentially life-threatening situations that they could face
lukeharold.substack.com/p/asylum-see...
🎙️ HAPPENING NOW: What’s next for South Korea after its martial law move stunned the world?
Join our reporters in the Bloomberg Live Q&A here ⤵️
Trump’s lawyers argue that having the case loom over his four-year presidential term that begins on 20 January would cause “unconstitutional impediments” to his ability to govern.
Del Mar will only have four council member over the next two years, which could have implications on key housing decisions that would require a 4/5 supermajority
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/21/d...
With Donald Trump as president, will Chinese tech giant ByteDance still be forced to sell its ownership in TikTok? Here are some possible scenarios of what might happen.
A jury convicted two men on all counts for their roles in a human smuggling network that arranged the passage of a family of four migrants who ultimately froze to death.
The FPPC had been investigating an anonymous complaint alleging that a Del Mar council member voted for a beach access point because it was close to her home. The reality wasn't quite that straightforward; the commission recently closed the investigation
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/11/s...
Except for Rancho Santa Fe, a lot of support for Kamala Harris throughout San Diego's north coastal communities
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/08/h...
NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models
What they did give me was 18 pages of this. They know the dates that the collisions happened, but not the time, location or if anyone was injured or killed.