Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “There is nothing left to talk about with the left. They hate us. They assassinated our nice guy who actually talked to them peacefully, debating ideas. “Then millions on the left celebrated and made clear they want all of us dead. To be honest, I want a peaceful national divorce. Our […] The post MTG: No Common Ground with Dems: They Literally Want to Kill Us… appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

You never know how a pet will react to a new four-legged friend joining the family. When Lorio prepared to have her cat, Pepe, meet their new puppy, she was likely nervous for a few reasons. It’s common for cats to feel uncertain around dogs in general, but this would be the cat’s very first time meeting a puppy. What if she got scared? What if she lashed out? There are a lot of ways in which this introduction could have gone wrong. But, much to Lorio’s surprise, it went in an entirely unexpected way… which isn’t to say that it went badly! You know, it’ll be much better if you witness this hilarious moment for yourself. Watch the video below to see this cat meet the new family puppy! @lorio.unleashed Good thing he stayed calm #catsoftiktok #catanddog #funnypets #funnycat #catscratcher ♬ original sound – emily “I also react like that every time I see a dog,” someone humorously shared in reply to Lorio’s video. Other commenters added, “Did you let your cat keep the puppy?” and “So cats get cuteness aggression too.” The Moment This Hyper Cat Meets a Puppy for the First Time Leads to Cuteness Overload That last commenter really seems to be onto something. It’s clear the cat isn’t angry or upset in any way. So, naturally, that must mean he’s overwhelmed by how excited he is to meet such an adorable puppy! Need more proof? This cat already fit in well with his canine siblings… @lorio.unleashed Show me your dog/cat duos or any other unlikely friends! Pepe was raised with dogs and truly believes he’s more cat than he is dog lol. #catvsdog #funnycat #catdog #catsanddogs #funnypet ♬ I Don't Wanna Stop – The Bamboos “Pepe was raised with dogs,” Lorio explained in the caption of her post, “and truly believes he’s more cat than he is dog lol.” Seeing cats and dogs get along so well is always so heartwarming! Another great example comes from this dog and cat who were kind enough to give each other a massage. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Cat Meets A Puppy For The First Time… And His Reaction Isn’t What You’d Expect! appeared first on InspireMore.

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Imagine sitting in southern Texas and knowing that in less than a day you could drive to se the world’s third largest cat. That is absolutely the reality in Mexico today, following a second national jaguar population census which found this charismatic cat is actually increasing in numbers across the country, reaching around 5,300 animals. […] The post Researchers Blown Away After Finding Jaguar Population up 30% Across Mexico appeared first on Good News Network.

A profound mental health crisis lies at the heart of violence in America. Decarlos Brown Jr., the man who brutally stabbed to death the Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, was in a mental hospital earlier this year, and diagnosed with schizophrenia. But doctors wouldn’t have released him if they had viewed him as a danger to himself or others. Similarly, the killers at Minneapolis’ Annunciation Catholic School and Nashville’s Covenant School both struggled with mental illness. Nearly all mass shooters also battled suicidal thoughts. “We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles warned after the stabbing death. “Mental health disease is just that—a disease. It needs to be treated with the same compassion.” After the Minneapolis attack, House Speaker Mike Johnson underscored the issue: “The problem is the human heart. It’s mental health. There are things that we can do.” Yet, despite the fact that more than half of mass public shooters over the past 25 years were already under the care of mental health professionals, not a single one was identified as a danger to themselves or others. An entire body of academic research now explores why mental health experts so often fail to predict these attacks. When professionals cannot identify threats before tragedy strikes, society must ask: What is the backup plan? The Minneapolis school killer admitted: “I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years.” After the Nashville school shooting, police concluded the killer was “highly depressed and highly suicidal throughout her life.” Yet even with regular psychiatric care, experts found no signs of homicidal or suicidal intent. The 2022 Buffalo, New York, supermarket killer showed the same pattern. In June 2021, when asked about his future plans, he answered that he wanted to attend summer school, kill people there, and then commit suicide. Alarmed, his teacher sent him for evaluation by two mental health professionals. He told them it was a joke, and they let him go. Later he admitted: “I got out of it because I stuck with the story that I was getting out of class and I just stupidly wrote that down. It was not a joke, I wrote that down because that’s what I was planning to do.” Many well-known mass killers saw psychiatrists before their attacks. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, was himself an Army psychiatrist. Elliot Rodger (near Santa Barbara, California) had received years of high-level counseling, but like the Buffalo killer, Rodger simply knew not to reveal his true intentions. The Army psychiatrist who last saw Ivan Lopez (the second Fort Hood shooter) concluded there was no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others.” Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooter James Holmes’ psychiatrist did warn University of Colorado officials about Holmes’ violent fantasies shortly before his attack, but even she dismissed the threat as insufficient for custody. And both a court-appointed psychologist and a hospital psychiatrist found Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho posed no danger to himself or others. Psychiatrists have every incentive to get these diagnoses right. Beyond professional pride and the desire to help, they face legal obligations to report threats. Families of victims have even sued psychiatrists for failing to recommend confinement. Despite this, psychiatrists consistently underestimate the danger. The problem runs deep enough to generate a whole academic literature. Some experts suggest psychiatrists try to prove their fearlessness or become desensitized to risk. Additional training in unusual cases may help, but predicting such rare outcomes will always remain extremely difficult. Hindsight makes the warning signs look obvious. Before the attack, even to experts, they rarely do. And while addressing mental illness, we should not stigmatize it. Mentally ill people are far more likely to become victims of violence than perpetrators. Only a tiny fraction ever commit murder. Take schizophrenia: More than 3.5 million Americans live with the disorder, yet only one schizophrenic has committed a mass attack since 2019. That makes the odds of such a crime less than one in 3.5 million—that is, extremely rare. No one wants dangerous individuals to access weapons. Are we going to disarm all mentally ill people, even though they themselves are at increased risk of violent crime? One woman we know saw her husband killed in front of her by her stalker. She was very depressed but feared that in seeking mental help, she would be denied the right to own a gun (which she needed to protect herself). Another factor that makes these attacks difficult to stop is that they are planned long in advance, with six months being about the shortest. The Sandy Hook, New Jersey, massacre was planned for more than two-and-a-half years, allowing the perpetrator plenty of time to obtain weapons. These killers, like the recent attacker in Minneapolis, often state outright in their manifestos and diaries that they target “gun-free zones.” They may be crazy, but they aren’t stupid. They expect to die, but they want attention when they do. They know that the higher the body count, the more media coverage they’ll receive. That’s why they choose places where no one can fight back. The attack in Charlotte happened in a “gun-free zone.” The woman had no chance to defend herself when the attacker struck from behind, and no one on the train intervened. Bystanders may have hesitated out of fear—after all, the killer was a large man armed with a knife, even though knives are also banned on public transportation. If someone had carried a firearm, they could have stopped the assault, just as a Marine veteran in July did in a Michigan Walmart, where at gunpoint he forced a knife-wielding attacker to drop his weapon. Others who tried to stop the attacker without a gun were stabbed. Our mental health system cannot serve as the last line of defense. Too many mistakes slip through. If mental health professionals can’t reliably stop these attackers before they strike, we must ask: What’s the backup plan? Leaving targets unprotected isn’t the best option. Originally published at RealClearWire.com We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post If Mental Health Experts Can’t Identify Killers, What’s Backup Plan? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. LaLiga, Spain’s top football league, is facing a firestorm of criticism after boasting about a staggering 142% increase in anti-piracy takedown notices in early 2025 while simultaneously causing extensive collateral damage across the internet. As the 2025/2026 season began on August 15, LaLiga ramped up its enforcement strategy, triggering widespread outages for entirely lawful websites, services, and platforms. These disruptions are tied to a controversial anti-piracy scheme operated in partnership with telecom giant Telefónica. The initiative, which enjoys judicial backing in Spain, allows LaLiga to instruct major internet service providers, including Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, and DIGI, to block IP addresses suspected of hosting unauthorized streams. The fallout is that entire chunks of the internet go dark for Spanish users, often during match broadcasts. LaLiga doesn’t target specific infringing content. Instead, it flags entire IP ranges, many of which are shared by thousands of unrelated domains. When one site is accused of hosting pirated material, everyone else sharing that IP address gets swept up in the block. The result is a digital dragnet that has ensnared companies as diverse as Amazon, Cloudflare, GitHub, Twitch, and even Google Fonts. TorrentFreak has documented repeated weekly blocks of platforms like Vercel since early 2025, while Catalonia’s own .cat domain registry has also reported service disruptions. The issue became so disruptive that iXsystems, the team behind TrueNAS, a widely used open-source NAS operating system, was forced to shift its distribution model entirely. After its CDN IPs were repeatedly blocked in Spain, making critical security updates inaccessible to users, the developers resorted to distributing their software via BitTorrent. “These locks have a significant collateral damage about legitimate services, which have nothing to do with football piracy,” TrueNAS noted. Their solution not only bypasses censorship but hands the bandwidth burden back to the same ISPs complicit in the blocking. In TrueNAS’s official community forums, users from Spain, Italy, and France reported ongoing issues with downloads and connectivity. Some turned to VPNs to circumvent the blocks, though even popular providers like Cloudflare’s free WARP service were reportedly blocked during peak match times. LaLiga, meanwhile, continues to tout its enforcement record. A self-published report revealed that over 26 million takedown notices were sent in the first half of 2025 alone, more than doubling the total from all of 2024. Yet despite this surge, only 11% of flagged streams were actually taken offline. LaLiga’s primary targets include hosting services and infrastructure providers, where enforcement remains minimal. Legal challenges to the league’s blocking strategy are piling up. Cloudflare and RootedCON have taken their grievances to Spain’s Constitutional Court after lower courts refused to curb the overreach. Despite mounting pressure, there is no indication that the blanket blocking will stop. On the contrary, as the new season unfolds, users are bracing for more censorship. Calls for reform are growing louder. Opponents of the regime argue that the current system punishes lawful users while failing to meaningfully curb piracy. As long as courts uphold LaLiga’s authority to dictate who gets to be online during football games, entire swaths of the internet will remain at risk, collateral in a campaign that blurs the line between protection and overreach. The reality is clear. LaLiga’s war on piracy has become a war on the open web. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions Across Spain appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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The president of the leftist magazine The Nation Bhaskar Sunkara was up in arms over Vice President J.D. Vance’s connection of his publication to billionaire George Soros during a recent TV appearance. The reality: Vance was hovering over the target, and Sunkara was being blatantly deceptive. Sunkara railed against Vance in an X post for saying Soros “funds” The Nation: “I'm not sure where he's getting his information, but JD Vance is lying about The Nation magazine.” He continued, claiming unequivocally that “we're not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation.” Here’s the deception: Up until 2019, The Nation was directly affiliated with the nonprofit media outfit The Nation Institute, which had in fact received at least $1,349,000 from Soros’s organizations between 2004 and 2019, according to Foundation Directory Online data. In January 2019, it was announced that The Nation Institute was officially rebranding to become the Type Media Center to expand beyond its connections to the magazine. Type Media Center Executive Director and CEO Taya Kitman, said in a statement then that “When the Nation Institute was founded more than 50 years ago, we were a modest organization affiliated with the Nation Magazine — but that name no longer reflects the breadth and impact of what we do today.” Apparently, there is still a connection between the organizations. The MacArthur Foundation, another leftist donor organization, described the relationship this way in a 2023 grant for $325,000 to the Center: “Type Media Center is a nonprofit organization that supports journalism and nonfiction writing through book publishing, fellowship programs, and The Nation magazine.”  I'm not sure where he's getting his information, but JD Vance is lying about The Nation magazine. We'd welcome donations from anyone who respects our editorial independence, but we're not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation. pic.twitter.com/LmcGgxVIWN — Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) September 15, 2025 Should we just pretend this connection doesn’t exist? After all, Soros has continued to fund the Center long after the rebrand. His most recent grant to the Center was in 2022 and amounted to $150,000 to "build a more equitable future in the field of public interest journalism by strengthening publishing and independent media.” One 2018 $60,000 grant from Soros, was intended “to provide support for the editorial director fellowship, which will enhance the Nation Institute's ability to undertake and support activities with emphasis on the independent media, civil liberties, social justice and peace.”  Either Sunkara doesn’t understand the concept of money being fungible or he knew all of this and pretended that one degree of separation between his publication and Soros meant definitively that “not one dime” has circulated through the magazine. Vance’s point in bringing up The Nation’s funding was the publication’s rabid hostility towards late TPUSA Founder Charlie Kirk, who was murdered in cold blood by an assassin during a September 10 event at Utah Valley University. One September 12 piece was about as vile as it gets: “Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning: The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.”  Is it beyond the pale for Soros to even be remotely connected to such race-baiting propaganda? No, and the money trail proves that he has been a longstanding fan of The Nation network, whether Sunkara chooses to admit it or not.  

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