[NYPOST] The homeless man who allegedly shoved a woman into the path of a moving Manhattan train made a chilling confession — telling cops, ''I did it because I wanted to,'' a court heard Tuesday.
Markeese Brazelis, 26, brazenly admitted to tossing the 23-year-old victim into an incoming A train at the 168th Street station shortly after he was arrested for the savage Monday morning attack, prosecutors said at his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment.
''I pushed her into the train because I was high and I was mad,''' Brazelis told cops, according to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Lauren Hatz.
''I did it because I wanted to,'' he allegedly said.
Prosecutors said the unhinged man should be held on $150,000 bail — arguing he posed a danger to the public as this was his third arrest in the subway system in just over a week.
Brazelis was busted on Jan. 19 for entering the prohibited area of the Bergen Street subway station — only to be released and then arrested four days later for allegedly grabbing a woman's butt as she stood next to her partner on a subway platform, according to prosecutors.
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A homeless man with two prior arrests said 'voices' in his head goaded him into pushing a 23-year-old woman in front of a New York City subway train on Monday morning.
[FoxNews] The White House on Tuesday revealed that some of the drones seen flying over New Jersey and other parts of the country in November were authorized to be flown by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared an update "directly" from President Donald Trump that clarified the origin of the drones, which caused a national stir and captured headlines for weeks late last year.
"After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized by the FAA for research and various other reasons," Leavitt said.
In addition to those authorized by the FAA, other drones flown by hobbyists were sighted, and that number increased as curiosity about the phenomenon grew, the White House said.
"This was not the enemy," Leavitt said.
The drone sightings in November and December originally raised public concerns and even attracted the attention of the FBI.
[NYPOST] Federal health authorities have upgraded their recall of 13-ounce bags of Frito-Lay potato chips over fears that consuming the products, which may contain undeclared milk, could potentially be fatal. Betcha can't eat even one...
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Frito-Lay was voluntarily recalling a limited batch of products.
''Those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled product,'' the FDA said in a notice that was posted on Dec. 16.
The federal agency issued a risk clarification this week, calling the recall a ''Class 1'' recall — the highest level of alert.
According to the FDA, consuming the chip could cause ''serious adverse health consequences or death.''
But it’s only dangerous for those allergic or very sensitive to milk products, not the overwhelming majority of the population.
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Gotta keep the proles skeered, ya'know?
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Wonder if it is too late to squeeze this into the RFK hearing.
[FoxNews] A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States.
As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County (60) and Johnson County (7) since January 2024, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).
There have also been 79 latent, or asymptomatic, tuberculosis (TB) infections reported over the last year, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County.
KDHE has reportedly been working with local health departments in response to the outbreak, following guidance on proper treatment and prevention from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, KDHE confirmed that the outbreak is "still ongoing, which means there could be more cases."
Two TB deaths associated with this outbreak were reported in 2024, KDHE noted.
In comparison, the CDC recorded 46 active TB cases in Kansas in 2023.
"In an effort to provide efficient and quality care to those individuals affected by the outbreak, KDHE assumed responsibility for the coordination and distribution of testing, treatment and medical consultation in Wyandotte County," the agency shared.
TB is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs, according to KDHE. It is caused by bacteria that spreads through the air when infected people cough, speak or sing.
"Kansas is not alone in its battle against TB, which kills more than a million people each year."
It is not spread by kissing, shaking hands, sharing food and drink, or touching objects, the same source stated.
Then Typhoid Mary could have gone on working as a family cook so long as she wore a simple cloth mask and wshed her hands, and need not have spent the rest of her life in isolation? That doesn’t sound right.
TB symptoms can include coughing, chest pain, coughing up blood or mucus, fatigue, weight loss, fever and night sweats.
KDHE confirmed to Fox News Digital that there is a "very low risk" of infection to the general public.
Wendy Thanassi, M.D., senior medical director of TB and Infectious diseases at QIAGEN North America, encouraged employers, doctors and community leaders to "organize testing" to stop the spread.
"One simple blood test can identify this sleeping killer before it awakes, and one course of antibiotics can stop it from infecting the people we love," she said.
A person with active TB will no longer be infectious "shortly after beginning treatment" with antibiotics, according to KDHE.
There were 9,633 cases of TB disease reported in the U.S. in 2023, according to the CDC, which is 15.6% more than the prior year.
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This isn't Kansas, this is Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, Kansas City Kansas.
Wyandotte had been a hardscrabble with manufacturing, Johnson used to be affluent and conservative, but I think the kids were raised to be too good to work at an entry level job, and didn't look so hot last I was there.
Coupled with my feed getting Holy Shit Pandemic! oh yeah where? ummmmm...Kansas, going hard with Illegals.
[Breitbart] Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle had the opportunity to ask one of the first questions at the first White House press briefing of the new administration, as the Trump White House made it clear that it is restoring press passes to journalists revoked during the previous administration and opening up the briefing room to new media voices.
“In light of these announcements, our first questions for today’s briefing will go to these new media members whose outlets, despite being some of the most viewed news websites in the country, have not been given seats in this room,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, giving one of the first questions to Breitbart News.
“Karoline, first off, thank you to you and President Trump for actually giving voices to media outlets that represent millions and millions of Americans,” Boyle said, asking her to “expand upon what steps the White House is going to take to bring more voices, not less, which is what our founder, Andrew Breitbart, believed in, into this room where they rightly belong.”
“As I said in my opening statement, Matt, it is a priority of this White House to honor the First Amendment,” Leavitt said. “And it is a fact that Americans are consuming their news media from various different platforms, especially young people. And as the youngest press secretary in history, thanks to President Trump, I take great pride in opening up this room to new media voices to share the President’s message with as many Americans as possible.”
“In doing so, number one, we will ensure that outlets like yours, Axios and Breitbart, which are widely respected and viewed outlets, have an actual seat in this room every day,” Leavitt added, encouraging anyone else in the country producing legitimate news content — whether as a podcaster, blogger, or more — to apply for press credentials.
“We encourage people to apply. Again, as long as you are creating news-related content of the day and you’re a legitimate independent journalist, you’re welcome to cover this White House,” she added.
Boyle also asked Leavitt if Americans can expect to see this warp speed of actions taken by President Trump to continue into the first 100 days.
“You laid out several of the actions that President Trump has taken that — obviously stark contrast to the previous administration — breakneck speed from President Trump,” Boyle said.
“Can we expect that case to continue as the you know, the first 100 days moves along here and beyond that?” he asked.
“Absolutely,” Leavitt replied. “There’s no doubt President Trump has always been the hardest working man in politics. I think that’s been proven over the past week,” she said, reminding the American people that Trump signed over 300 executive orders in the first week.
“He’s taken historic action,” she said. “This President did more in the first 100 hours than the previous president did in the first 100 days. So President Trump, I think you can all expect for him to continue to work at this breakneck speed. So, I hope you’re all ready to work very hard. I know that we are.”
[The Free Press] Retired Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker, 59, spent almost two years as a senior adviser to the Air Force’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Pentagon, attending dozens of meetings about implementing DEI initiatives. This was an unusual role given Walker’s career path: He had over 400 hours of combat flights and, most recently, had overseen West Virginia’s Air National Guard.
But in 2021, when the Air Force established its Office of Diversity and Inclusion, staffers assumed that Walker would be on board with their belief that DEI was a "warfighting imperative." Why? Because Walker is black. But that assumption was wrong.
Walker was a mole.
Alarmed by DEI programs that were little more, in his view, than "Soviet indoctrination," he leaked information to an organization called Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS). This group consists of retired military veterans and civilians who oppose woke ideology in the military. They, in turn, alerted lawmakers like Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Mike Waltz about what they were hearing from Walker and other active duty service members who opposed the military’s diversity policies.
"No one delved into how I thought," Walker told The Free Press. "They took one look at me and assumed I believed these things. I learned to listen and had to bite my tongue a lot."
Walker, who prefers to go by his pilot call sign, Mookie, took notes and mostly kept his head down, so he could keep reporting what was going on. "I thought, If this is allowed to stand, all of the senior people within the [Department of Defense] are going to bring along this propaganda and get rid of anybody who doesn’t go along with it."
Mookie recalled a private meeting in 2022 attended by generals and other key Pentagon staffers. At the meeting, Alex Wagner, the Air Force assistant secretary, asked the group to brainstorm ways to get the general public to accept drag shows on Air Force bases.
Close to retirement and with nothing to lose, Mookie finally spoke up. "I reminded the group that since the 1980s, the Air Force has not allowed lingerie shows," he said. "They don’t allow burlesque shows. So why would we allow drag shows?"
His comment seemed to have an effect. In June 2023, the Department of Defense officially banned drag shows on all military installations.
But that was the exception, not the rule. In 2022, Mookie recalls attending a training course at Georgetown University for Air Force generals and senior officers called "Managing for Inclusion." The professor, he said, informed the group that white people were oppressors and black and Hispanic people were the oppressed, so they couldn’t be racist. The professor also taught the class how to ask someone for their pronouns at the beginning of a conversation.
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Saying two astronauts are 'stuck' in space is like saying a gymnast is stuck at the olympics.
It's what they trained their whole life for. Be getting free drinks for years on this story.
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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.
