[CBSnews] Vance Boelter, the man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota politicians and their spouses in politically motivated shootings early Saturday morning, is now in jug.
Multiple sources told WCCO on Sunday evening that Boelter, 57, was taken into custody near his home in Green Isle, Sibley County.
Shortly before 10 p.m., the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office posted a picture on social media that appears to show Boelter being taken into custody.
"The face of evil," the sheriff's office wrote. "After relentless and determined police work, the killer is now in jug. Thanks to the dedication of multiple agencies working together along with support from the community, justice is one step closer."
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed in their Brooklyn Park home while state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot in their home in Champlin. The Hoffmans are out of surgery and receiving care.
The manhunt for Boelter lasted over 24 hours, as authorities issued shelter-in-place orders for parts of the northwest metro.
"I'm grateful that this nightmare has come to an end with the suspected murderer captured alive so he can be charged, prosecuted, and punished for the horror he has wrought on our state," said Speaker Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) in a statement. "Thank you to the brave men and women of local, state, and federal law enforcement who have worked around the clock to ensure this evil man faces justice."
Officials said Brooklyn Park police arrived at Hortman's home around 3:30 a.m. and found a car that looked like a police SUV with emergency lights on. Boelter then left the home and exchanged gunfire with coppers before fleeing.
In a presser, officials said he was last seen in Minneapolis, wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and a dark shirt with light pants. Officials said he should be considered "armed and dangerous."
Gov. Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking VP running mate, governor of Minnesota and self-admitted knucklehead, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... called Hortman's death a "political liquidation" and ordered flags to fly at half staff to honor her and her husband. Hortman, who served as the Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House, leaves behind two children.
[BBC] MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service's 116-year history.
Blaise Metreweli,
…born in the most non-native borough in London (45%) (it appears to be a Labour safe seat) to an army radiologist with Georgian ancestry; Cambridge, not Oxford, though she did study anthropology; married with children, so at least there’s that…
who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year.
She is currently responsible for technology and innovation at the service and said she was "proud and honoured" to have been asked to lead.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the appointment "historic" at a time "when the work of our intelligence services has never been more vital".
MI6 is tasked with gathering intelligence overseas to improve the UK's security, with its core aims being to stop terrorism, disrupt the activities of hostile states cyber-security.
Its chief, commonly referred to as "C", is the only publicly named member of the service.
Ms Metreweli, 47, is currently Director General "Q" - head of the crucial technology and innovation division that aims to keep the identities of secret agents secret, and come up with new ways to evade adversaries like China's biometric surveillance.
"MI6 plays a vital role - with MI5 and GCHQ - in keeping the British people safe and promoting UK interests overseas," she said.
"I look forward to continuing that work alongside the brave officers and agents of MI6 and our many international partners."
Ms Metreweli, who studied anthropology at the University of Cambridge, has previously held director level roles in MI5 - MI6's sister, domestic security agency - and spent most of her career working in the Middle East and Europe.
On the King's overseas and international birthday honours list in 2024, she received the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for her services to British foreign policy.
Speaking to the Telegraph in December 2021 when she was at MI5, under the pseudonym of "Director K", Ms Metreweli said threats to UK national security "really are diverse".
"The threats we are looking at primarily exist around protecting government, protecting secrets, protecting our people - so counter-assassination - protecting our economy, sensitive technology and critical knowledge," she said.
She added that "Russian state activity - not Russia itself - remains a threat" and that China was "changing the way the world is and that presents amazing opportunities and threats for the UK".
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Great idea -- mostly because of the unambiguous, indisputable, remarkable successes that women in charge of K-12 and Higher Ed have achieved over the past few decades , in the U.S. and around the world.
Hiring based on sex: Such a fine record of such collosal achievements. What a really great idea, Mr. King, what a fine fantasy life , it's no wonder the man can sit in a room alone writing fiction.
[Breitbart] Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is defending her push to exempt farmers, meat packers, and restaurant employers from the nation's immigration laws [actually a temporary exemption but these have a way of becoming permanent]
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Rollins persuaded President Donald Trump to protect those groups from his much-stated campaign promise to deport illegal migrants.
Investors then persuaded Trump to lift enforcement on hotels, which are important to the commercial real estate sector.
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A few things I'd be demanding:
* Registration of all Illegal workers.
* Businesses to pay all unpaid employment related taxes.
* Businesses placed on active monitoring & probation.
* Enforce E-Verify and issue fines to violators.
* Mandatory HEALTH Exams and food handler card issued of all workers.
* Issue 1 year Work VISA's with renewal requiring a Police BkGrd Checks.
* Require Proof that US Citizens were given the opportunity and priority of hiring over VISA workers.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An attacker opened fire and wounded a person during a protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, US. The city police reported this on June 14 on the social network X.
It is specified that an unknown person opened fire in the city center, near State Street. The incident occurred during the nationwide No Kings action, directed against the policies of US President Donald Trump.
"We are investigating a shooting believed to be related to a demonstration near State Street... We can confirm that the shooting has left one person in critical condition. The victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries," the Salt Lake City police statement said.
The police called on the protesters to leave the scene. It is noted that the alleged attacker was detained.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that protests against the policies of President Donald Trump and his administration took place in a number of major cities. The demonstrations took place as part of the nationwide No Kings action on the day of the military parade in Washington and the birthday of the US President.
President Trump has warned of the possibility of using force in the event of protests during a military parade to celebrate the anniversary of the American army. The politician added that he considers the protesters to be people who hate their country.
…because that’s exactly what they are.
Here’s hoping the retirement home contingent were safely back inside for dinner before the excitement started:
Stephanie Mencimer
@smencimer
Salt Lake City seniors heading out for a #NoKingsProtest in front of their assisted living facility bright and early this morning.
On Saturday, an innocent bystander was fatally shot during an organized protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, when two event peacekeepers in neon vests opened fire on a suspect, Arturo Gamboa, 24, who ran toward the crowd with a rifle, and ended up shooting the wrong person.
[MAIL] Pakistan has threatened to drop a nuclear warhead on Israel if Benjamin Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Iran, according to a top Iranian officer. according to a top Iranian officer...Paks say: "Are you F'n stoopid? Don't drag us into your demise"
General Mohsen Rezaee, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a member of Iran's National Security Council, said in an interview: 'Pakistan has assured us that if Israel uses a nuclear bomb on Iran, they will attack Israel with a nuclear bomb.'
Pakistan and Israel are two of the nine countries that currently possess nuclear weapons, according to experts.
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[ZeroHedge] Friday the 13th was an apropos date for the Pentagon to take the next step forward on its march leading the United States further down a path toward becoming a technocratic hellscape. The US Army swore in 4 different executives from major technology companies as part of its newly established Detachment 201: The Executive Innovation Corps. The executives sworn in as lieutenant colonels in the US Army Reserve were Shyam Sankar, Palantir Technologies' chief technology officer; Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta; Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab, who previously served as the former chief research officer for OpenAI. The mission of Detachment 201 is to accelerate the modernization of military technology by embedding senior tech executives into the military as uniformed officers. However, the ties those executives have amplify concerns about the exponential growth of technocratic influence over the US government.
The assimilation of AI-driven technology executives into the army's ranks from companies like Palantir operates under the guise of improving efficiencies within the Pentagon that will aid in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's mission to reduce the wasteful spending of a Department of Defense that paradoxically announced its intent to garner the world's first $1 trillion military budget in April. That enormous budget was confirmed by President Donald J. Trump in April during his most recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. The announcement of that unprecedented spending target foreshadowed a new vision for the US military that the companies behind the executives enlisted as part of Detachment 201 are poised shape in their image.
Just 3 weeks after the budget target was made public by the White House, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll announced the launch of the Army Transformation Initiative. The memo unveiling the Army Transformation Initiative in May declared sweeping changes ahead for the army's command structure en route to a modernization pathway carved out to transform the foundational branch of the US military. In the memo, Secretary Hegseth wrote that he was tasking Army Secretary Driscoll to "implement a comprehensive transformation strategy, streamline its force structure, eliminate wasteful spending, reform acquisition, modernize inefficient defense contracts, and overcome parochial interests to rebuild our Army, restore the warrior ethos and reestablish deterrence." Detachment 201 is envisioned as a major force toward achieving those lofty expectations.
In the last 14 years, Palantir Technologies has laid the foundation leading to the implementation of the Executive Innovation Corps. Palatir has entrenched itself within the Department of Defense, culminating in a massive $795 million modification by the Trump administration to an existing contract it was initially awarded in May 2024 under the Biden administration. That contract modification brings its total value to nearly $1.3 billion, demonstrating the immense role Palantir will play in the modernization of the military by using its AI-driven technologies. The presence Palantir fortified by becoming a massive defense contractor over the last decade-and-a-half enabled the company to exert its influence, ultimately bringing companies aligned with its work into the fold.
Palantir is far from the only Peter Thiel-backed technology company to profit from the Department of Defense's efforts at military modernization. OpenAI and Meta, whose executives were also enlisted into Detachment 201, have shifted their own operations to focus on military applications to become part of this futuristic new era of the military industrial complex. OpenAI has partnered with Anduril Industries, Inc. (another Thiel-connected AI firm whose name is a reference to lore from J.R.R. Tolkein's the Lord of the Rings) to develop AI-enhanced air defense systems in one such project.
Anduril was co-founded by Palmer Luckey, the brother-in-law of former Florida congressional representative Matt Gaetz, along with former Palantri executives Matt Grimm, Trae Stephens, and Brian Schimpf in 2017 after Luckey was fired from Facebook earlier in the year. Luckey joined the company by way of founding Oculus VR in 2012 which Facebook acquired in 2014 for $2 billion. Although Anduril Industries maintains a much less visible public image compared to the like of Palantir, OpenAI, and Meta, its rapid growth since its founding has made it central to the axis those companies have formed.
In the early years following its founding, Anduril was awarded billions of dollars in contracts from the Department of Defense. Those contracts included a contract worth $967 million for the Advanced Battle Management Systems for the US Air Force awarded in September 2020, as well as a subsequent $1 billion contract in February 2022 to develop counter-unmanned systems for United States Special Operations Command. By the end of 2022, the growth fueled by its billions of dollars in military contracts from the DoD was accelerated by the injection of another $1.5 billion in capital from Valor Equity Partners. That investment raised the valuation of the company to $8.5 billion, cementing its stake as a major force in the future AI and its applications on US military technologies.
Evidence of the company's standing as a cornerstone of the new axis of mainstay US military contractors was further demonstrated in May following the decision of the army to reassign a $22 billion augmented reality contract from Microsoft to Anduril. That massive contract led to Anduril forming a partnership with Meta to fulfill the contract it was able to usurp from Microsoft. Anduril building its partnership with Meta also aided the rapid rebrand of the Mark Zuckerberg-founded company, which was previously viewed as an embodiment of big tech's malfeasance aiding the subjugation of the first presidential administration of Donald J. Trump, into a company now central to achieving the vision for the next epoch of the US military ushered in by the president's second administration.
That vision carries ominous undertones suggesting that the nightmarish reality unleashed by a technocratic takeover of the US military has become an inevitability. The realization of those fears was made evident following Anduril's announcement of its partnership with Meta. Following the $22 billion contract transfer from Microsoft into its hands, Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey stated, “My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers." Anduril and Meta aim to achieve that mission by harnessing the technology behind the VR headsets pioneered by Oculus, which led to Luckey's first work with Zuckerberg, and transforming it to used for advanced military applications. This venture will be done under a product offering named EagleEye, the flagship technology Meta and Anduril will build an ecosystem of militarized virtual and augmented reality devices around.
The mission declared by Palmer Luckey to blur the line between humans and machines on the battlefield by implementing Ai-powered military technologies has been taken on even more enthusiastically by one of the other companies to have an executive enlisted in Detachment 201. Thinking Machines Lab, which was established in just February 2025, focuses its operations on human-AI collaboration. The company was founded by Mira Murati, who previously served as the chief technology officer of OpenAI. After only 3 months in business, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have a valuation of $10 billion, making it one of the most valuable startups in the world. Despite being in its nascent days, the potential impact of the company's work on advancing US military technology has already thrust it into the echelon held by its world-renowned partners in the Executive Innovation Program: Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI.
Of all the innovations the companies aligned with the Executive Innovation Corps aim to build, the vanguard of the new age of US military technology that the Trump administration has boasted about its aspirations to achieve is that of a rival to Israel's Iron Dome. Trump has named the US equivalent of Israel's defense system the Golden Dome. With an estimated price tag of $175 billion, $25 billion of which is built into the contentious Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration hopes to have the Golden Dome fully operational before he leaves office in 2029. Those expectations have faced tremendous opposition as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated components of the Golden Dome alone could cost taxpayers $542 billion over 20 years, with the full cost of the program reaching as much as $831 billion. The Trump administration hopes that the advancements in technology brought to the project by the likes of Anduril, Palantir, and Elon Musk's SpaceX will lead to the project being completed within that short timeframe at a cost falling far below the CBO's projections.
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[YouTube] The Agenda: Their Vision | Your Future is a feature-length independent documentary produced by Mark Sharman; former UK broadcasting executive at ITV and Sky (formerly BSkyB).
In fiction and fact, there have always been people and organisations with ambitions to control the world. And now the oligarchs who pull the strings of finance and power finally have the tools to achieve their global objectives; omnipresent surveillance, artificial intelligence, digital currency and ultimately digital identities. The potential for social control of our lives and minds is alarmingly real.
The plan has been decades in the making and has seen infiltration of Governments, local councils, big business, civil society, the media and, crucially, education. A ceaseless push for a new reality, echoing Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, or George Orwell’s 1984.
The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future examines the digital prison which awaits us if we do not push back right now. How your food, energy, money, travel and even your access to the internet could be limited and controlled; how financial power is strangling democracy and how global institutions like the World Health Organisation are commandeered to champion ideological and fiscal objectives.
The centrepiece is man-made climate change and with it, the race to Net Zero. Both are encapsulated in the United Nations and its Agenda 2030. A force for good? Or “a blank cheque for totalitarian global control”?
The Agenda presents expert views from the UK, the USA and Europe.
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We're being told YouTube is bombarding viewers with adverts during the film every 5 minutes or so, which is ridiculous. Our YT channel is not eligible for monetisation so the ads don't help us. I'd suggest watching in Brave browser to avoid interruptions but also for a multitude of other reasons! Or take it offline entirely. Decentralisation is the name of the game here. You can download for free, and support the project, at this link: theagendafilm.com
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Kamala's smarmy-looking VP running mate, governor of Minnesota and self-admitted knucklehead, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
[MAIL] Pakistan has threatened to drop a nuclear warhead on Israel if Benjamin Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Iran, according to a top Iranian officer. 
