In the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, Trump is peddling two big lies about federal aid to the devastated areas: (1) That FEMA aid has been diverted to illegal migrants, and (2) the Biden administration and Vice President Harris are withholding disaster aid from Republican areas. There isnR[...]
October 12th, 2024 - 7:30 pm § in Misc.
Andrew Irvine partial remains found on Everest
George Mallory and Andrew Irvine (photo, left) disappeared while attempting Mount Everest’s summit on June 8, 1924. They probably didn’t reach the summit, but if they did, they were first to climb Everest by any route, preceding Hillary and Tenzing by 29 years. They were last seen climbing upwar[...]
October 12th, 2024 - 2:29 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Video: A border wall will stop ’em!
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Who’s lying, Putin or Trump?
Trump denies journalist Bob Woodward’s account that he sent Covid-19 tests to Putin early in the pandemic. But the Kremlin says he did. Because those statements contradict each other, they can’t both be true. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: False labeling
When cops pulled over a stolen car in Portland, Oregon, they encountered a pair of drug dealers with a sense of humor. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Trump plans ethnic cleansing of Colorado city
On Friday, October 11, 2024, Trump unveiled his plans to “rescue” a Colorado city from the grip of foreign criminal gangs. Dubbed “Operation Aurora,” it entails sending in “elite squads of ICE, Border Patrol and federal law enforcement officers to arrest and deport ever[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 2:03 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Mt. Rainier is shrinking
The Cascade volcano’s true summit is a rocky point 14,399.6 feet above sea level. For decades, though, an ice hump on the crater rim poked 22 feet higher into the sky, and everyone thought Mt. Rainier’s elevation was 14,410 feet (or 14,411, after someone added a foot). But Earth is warmi[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 5:36 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake is incompetent
In late August, I wrote (here) that Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. Senator. Now, weeks away from the election, after she debated Rep. Ruben Gallego, her Democratic opponent, I’m confident she’ll take a shellacking. Lake blew the debate, refusing to admit she lost Arizona’s 2022 go[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 4:50 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Border wall
Although Trump lies about immigrants, wildly exaggerates migrant crime (U.S. citizens are twice as crime-prone), and has made immigration his 2024 campaign issue (see story here), his border wall (photo below) may come in handy when climate change — which Republicans insist is a hoax — d[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 1:43 am § in Science
U.W. professor wins Nobel Prize
Prof. David Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, shared the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize with two other scientists “for their use of artificial intelligence in predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences.” Their work may enable humas to “design[...]