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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kim-jong-un-level-insanity-110206256.html President Donald Trump says he plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium near the White House to host a UFC fight on his birthday. The president confirmed the MMA event last year, although his critics have branded the plan to build an arena for the event as “Kim Jong Un-level insanity.” “They are going to put up something that’s really amazing,” Trump told reporters. “It's really having to do with our great 250th birthday, where we’re having so many wonderful things. “UFC’s coming, as you know, in front of the White House, where they’re building, literally, a stadium. We’re gonna have over 100,000 people. This is gonna have a lot of…I won’t even say how many people because I think it can set a record for racing. It’s gonna be very, very important.” Trump made the announcement while holding a meeting in the Oval Office about his executive order to bring an IndyCar street race to the capital. However, Trump’s critics have slammed the plans to build the 100,000-seat arena. “Do the American people have a say? Who is paying for this?” one X user asked. “That is what America needs,” another user wrote on X. “Right now. No Epstein. No war. No dying service members. Let’s talk ballroom.” “This is Kim Jong Un-level insanity,” author John Pavlovitz wrote on X. During his second term, Trump demolished the East Wing in order to make way for a $400 million ballroom and paved over the White House’s rose garden. He has also teased plans to build a huge ceremonial arch for America’s 250th birthday. Much of the planning around his birthday UFC fight, which will be held on June 14, has been kept under wraps, though. “We’ve been so secretive about this,” UFC CEO Dana White told iFL TV. “I’ve got boards, which I’m sure you’ve seen, hanging in our War Room. This isn’t even on the boards. “We bring in a whiteboard, we write the fights down, and then erase them every time we have a matchmaking meeting,” he continued. “Usually, matchmaking meetings are every Tuesday. They’ve been every day for the past two weeks.” “I’ll announce the whole card this week,” White added. “The card is done.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/virginia-legislature-passes-bill-banning-211110172.html The Virginia legislature has passed a bill that prohibits the state’s public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was a “peaceful protest” or that there was “extensive election fraud” in the 2020 presidential election. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) is expected to sign the bill that was passed on party-line votes by Democratic majorities in the state House of Delegates and Senate and is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., according to a report by The Washington Post. The text of the bill, HB333, adds new language to the Virginia statutes that requires any local school board that imposes new restrictions on “[a]ny program of instruction on or relating to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol” and “any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials, or any instruction provided by a teacher as a part of any program of instruction.” Any school that teaches about the events of Jan. 6, 2021 is required by HB333 to “[d]escribe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.” The new statutory language also says that schools shall not “describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest” or “state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.” The bill’s sponsor, Virginia Del. Dan Helmer, a Democrat representing Fairfax, characterized HB333 a response to a website launched by the White House on Jan. 6, 2026 that blamed Democrats and Capitol police for the violence, accused then-Vice President Mike Pence of “cowardice” and “sabotage,” and claimed no wrongdoing by President Donald Trump. “The White House webpage says January 6 was a peaceful protest, and people who instigated it were the police and National Guard,” said Helmer. “This is a preventative measure against a massive disinformation campaign on the part of the White House.” Republican legislators criticized HB333 as “state-sponsored mind control,” reported the Post, adding that the bill “raises complicated questions about how far government should go in dictating how historical events are portrayed, particularly in an era when even basic facts are increasingly treated as matters of partisan debate.” Helmer rejected claims by Republicans that this was an effort to ban speech and argued it was instead about “establishing guidelines.” “All this does is put guardrails on to ensure public education in Virginia can’t lie to our kids,” he told the Post. Last year, Oklahoma attempted to require its schools to teach debunked conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 election, but were stymied by the state’s supreme court.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flailing-trump-79-t-keep-115510877.html Flailing Trump, 79, Can’t Keep His Story Straight on the War He Just Started President Donald Trump can’t seem to explain why he went to war with Iran or what his goals are for the military campaign. The president has given four different explanations in two days about how long he plans to bomb Iran and what he envisions for the country’s future, leading to accusations that he’s making up the deadly military campaign as he goes along. The administration has also given shifting explanations about why Trump started the war in the first place. The repeated contradictions suggest the president does not have a long-term strategy in place for the joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign, which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered a wave of retaliatory attacks in the region that left three American soldiers dead. President Trump has refused to answer questions about his bombing campaign in Iran, which began Saturday morning in the capital of Tehran. / Getty Images “All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told The Washington Post at about 4 a.m. local time on Saturday, soon after announcing “major combat operations” against Iran. Later that day, he told Axios that he could end the war in “two to three days” if Iran’s new leaders agreed to end its nuclear program. Then on Sunday, he said the ongoing attacks would last “four to five weeks,” and insisted that it wouldn’t be hard for Israel and the U.S. to continue bombing Iran despite the risk of more U.S. troops dying in a wider regional conflict, The New York Times reported. One option, Trump said, would be to leave most of the government intact, like in Venezuela, but with leaders who were willing to work with the U.S. to avoid further attacks. He said he had “three very good choices” about who could lead Iran. But then, on Sunday night, Trump changed his story yet again by telling Jonathan Karl of ABC News that the top candidates to take over Iran had been killed in the initial attack on Saturday. “The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,” Trump told Karl, according to a post on X by a veteran Washington correspondent. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei was killed during the initial wave of U.S.-Israeli attacks. / Iranian Leader's Press Office - Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty On Sunday, Iran’s top national security official, Ali Larijani, said an interim committee would run the country until a successor for the supreme leader was chosen, the Times reported. The president appeared to be calling up journalists to “workshop different timelines and goals for his war,” The Economist’s Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom remarked in a post on X. “He’s throwing spaghetti at the wall,” Carlstrom said, adding that there were “plenty of possible scenarios in which Trump declares victory and leaves the region with an absolute mess.” The U.S. continued to bomb Iran on Sunday. / ATTA KENARE / Atta Kenare/ AFP via Getty Images According to Politico, the president spoke to 10 different reporters over the weekend but failed to offer consistent, specific answers to their questions about his plans or the justification for the war. The administration’s explanations for why Trump ordered the strikes have been equally murky. The White House on Saturday claimed that after weeks of deliberations, Trump finally decided to launch a full-scale attack against Iran because the U.S. had received indications that the country was planning to launch missile attacks against U.S. bases. But during a briefing with congressional staffers, Pentagon officials said there was no evidence that Iran had been planning preemptive strikes. President Trump's attacks against Iran have ballooned into a wider regional conflict, with Israel striking Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. / - / AFP via Getty Images During a video announcing the strikes, Trump also claimed Iran was building missiles that “could soon reach the American homeland.” U.S. intelligence assessments, however, contradicted that claim, finding that Iran was years away from developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and wasn’t interested in doing so. After the U.S. military’s Central Command announced that three soldiers had been killed at a base in Kuwait and five seriously wounded, Democratic lawmakers blasted the president for putting service members in harm’s way without laying out a plan for victory in the region. More in World Iran’s ferocious retaliation for US-Israeli strikes has rattled its neighbors CNN ‘Sorry for Your Loss!’ Cenk Uygur Ruthlessly Mocked for Praising Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Mediaite Trump Can’t Commit to Honor U.S. Troops He Got Killed The Daily Beast 720 Helping Government Agencies Accelerate AI-Fueled EfficiencyCustom Content from WSJ | Deloitte Podcasts Ad In a video statement Sunday, Trump shrugged off the casualties as “the way it is.” Rep. Pat Ryan of New York, a 43-year-old combat veteran of the Iraq War, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that it was “pathetic” the president hadn’t provided answers to the families of the fallen soldiers. “It’s because he doesn’t have answers,” Ryan said. “There’s not a plan here, or if there is, he’s not sharing it with the American people.” The former U.S. Army intelligence officer said the Iran campaign was reminiscent of “past ill-conceived, half-baked regime-change wars that sound good until they start, and then all of a sudden, no one knows what the heck is going on, and it’s young American men and women that pay the price.” Reached for comment, a White House spokesperson told the Daily Beast the president had articulated three “clear, achievable” goals for military operations against Iran: destroying the threats posed by Iran’s ballistic missiles, missile industry, and navy. View comments(178) Advertisement Terms and Privacy Policy Your Privacy Choices About Our Ads Up next Trump takes unconventional approach to communicating to the public about war in Iran DAVID BAUDER Mon, March 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM CST 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google Typical of an unconventional presidency, the Trump administration waited more than 48 hours to make any live, public communication to the American peopleabout why it had decided to go to war with Iran. President Donald Trump discussed why he launched the attack prior to a White House ceremony honoring military heroes on Monday but took no questions from reporters. Earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine briefed journalists at the Pentagon. The two days previous, Trump delivered two pretaped statements that were released on Truth Social, the social media site owned by the president's media company, and granted telephone interviews to more than a dozen journalists — several of which produced fragmented responses that, to some, clouded as much as they cleared up. The communications strategy opened Trump to criticism that he hadn't done enough to explain the rationale and objectives of the war, even as the American military suffered its first casualties. By contrast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has teamed with the U.S. against Iran, delivered two statements the day the war began and addressed reporters Monday at the site of a missile attack that killed nine people. The Israeli military has held multiple press briefings each day. “The American people need a commander in chief, and he has been absent in that role,” Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, said on CNN Monday. Emanuel, a Democrat, is contemplating a run for the presidency in 2028. An unconventional strategy leads to criticism Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, wrote on social media that “after Trump launched a new war on Iran, he did not rush back to the White House to make an Oval Office address to rally the nation as other presidents have done. He stayed at Mar-a-Lago to attend a glitzy political fundraiser.” That post provoked a response from Steven Cheung, White House communications director. “Imagine being a reporter so consumed with Trump Derangement Syndrome that he wants President Trump to mimic the failed policies of the past. The truth is that President Trump spent the majority of his time monitoring the situation in a secure facility, in constant contact with world leaders, and made multiple addresses to the nation that garnered hundreds of millions of views. He also took dozens of calls with reporters.” The calls included one with Baker's colleague at The Times, Zolan Kanno-Youngs. Trump's mobile phone number is known to many of the reporters who cover him, and the president often takes their calls for on-the-spot interviews. Besides The Times, he spoke in the aftermath of the attack to journalists for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Axios, Politico and an Israeli television station. Most of the calls were brief and marginally illuminating; Politico's Dasha Burns said Trump answered but said he was too busy to talk. The public couldn't hear what Trump said in the interviews and was dependent upon what the journalists chose to report on the conversations. “I spoke to President Trump today and he told me that the operation in Iran is going to go very fast,” Libby Alon, a reporter for Channel 14 News in Israel, wrote about her interview on X. “It’s doing very well, and (will) make the people of Israel very happy, and the people of the world very happy.” The Times reported that in its six-minute chat, Trump “offered several seemingly contradictory visions of how power might be transferred to a new government — or even whether the existing Iranian power structure would run that government or be overthrown.” In one of his two conversations with Trump, ABC News' Jonathan Karl said when he asked about the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the president said: “I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first.” CNN's Jake Tapper went on the air minutes after his conversation Monday, saying Trump told him “the big one is coming soon,” an apparent reference to a future attack. Asked for comment, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said: “President Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in American history. The American people have never had a more direct and authentic relationship with a president of the United States than they have with President Trump.” Hegseth briefing concentrates on friendly reporters Pentagon reporters learned late Sunday about Hegseth's briefing. Reporters from The Associated Press, Reuters, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and Stars & Stripes were permitted into the briefing room, but Hegseth did not call on them. Instead, he took questions from NewsNation and Trump-friendly outlets like the Daily Caller, Daily Wire, One America News and the Christian Broadcasting Network. Most mainstream news outlets left their regular stations at the Pentagon last fall rather than agree to Hegseth's rules restricting their work. Hegseth denounced the “foolishness” of people wanting to know details of the operation in advance, such as whether Americans would commit to more than air power, and said the operation would continue as long as it took to achieve objections. He initially ignored NBC News' Courtney Kube when she called out a question: “President Trump put a four-week time limit on it. Are you saying he's wrong?” Later, Hegseth denounced Kube for asking “the typical NBC sort of gotcha-type question. President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it might take — four weeks, two weeks, six weeks, it could move up, it could move back. We're going to execute at his command the objectives he set out to achieve." Unlike Pentagon briefings in past administrations, reporters were given assigned seats, with the Trump-friendly outlets seated in front. Jennifer Griffin, Hegseth's former colleague at Fox News Channel who left the Pentagon with other reporters after not accepting his new rules, was seated in the last row. ___ David Bauder writes about the intersection of media and entertainment for the AP. Follow him at http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-own-intel-agencies-iran-112258501.html Trump’s Own Intel Agencies Say His Iran Claims Are Nonsense Leigh Kimmins Sat, February 28, 2026 at 5:22 AM CST 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google 1.4k JIM WATSON / AFP via Getty Images (JIM WATSON) U.S. intelligence experts believe that President Donald Trump’s claims about Iranian threats to the U.S. are vastly exaggerated. Trump, the self-proclaimed “President of Peace,” launched a wave of missile strikes on Iran early Saturday morning, telling the public in a prerecorded address that the U.S. military had begun “major combat operations.” The strikes, unauthorized by Congress and performed alongside Israel, are designed to stop this “very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests,” Trump, 79, claimed in the video message. “We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground.” However, this argument, which he also peddled during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, is tenuous at best. While Iran has a vast arsenal of short and medium-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel and U.S. military bases in the Middle East, it is years away from producing the intercontinental ballistic missile Trump warned of. An explosion on the streets of Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026, after Israel and the U.S. carried out a “preemptive strike.” / EHSAN / Middle East Images/AFP via Getty In an assessment from May last year, a month before Trump’s first strikes on the country, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said it would actually take nearly a decade for Iran to produce such weaponry. The report, titled “Current and Future Missile Threats to the U.S. Homeland,” stated that the regime could produce a “militarily-viable” intercontinental ballistic missile by 2035, “should Tehran decide to pursue the capability.” Sources told CNN that any suggestion otherwise is false. No intelligence suggests Iran is building an ICBM program to hit the U.S. at this time, they said. Three sources confirmed that Iran currently has no interest in expanding its capabilities in this field. Indeed, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview this week that Iran was not developing long-range missiles. “We have deliberately limited the range of our missiles to 2,000 kilometers,” he told India Today TV. He added that their short-range missiles are for defense. Despite the lack of intel suggesting Iran has ICBMs and a mind to use them on America, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly responded to CNN’s reporting, saying, “President Trump is absolutely right to highlight the grave concern posed by Iran, a country that chants ‘death to America,’ possessing intercontinental ballistic missiles.” He accused the Iranian regime of building missiles that “could soon reach the American homeland.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-exposed-hypocrite-own-iran-112938343.html For years, Donald Trump publicly claimed that a military attack on Iran would reflect an inability to negotiate, scrambled electioneering, or a limp attempt from a president to “show how tough” he is. Then, early Saturday morning, he did it anyway. In a video posted to Twitter, Trump—not even wearing a tie—announced the U.S. and Israel had begun “major combat operations” against Iran, with a large-scale preemptive strike in which he indicated Americans are likely to die. He claimed the strikes were carried out to prevent the Middle Eastern country from completing its nuclear program and said they would allow its people to overthrow the authoritarian regime that has been in place for decades. But this isn’t something the Trump of years gone by would have stood for, at least not if he’s taken at his word. “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate,” Trump said of President Obama in a shouty video clip in November 2011. “He’s weak and he’s ineffective. So the only way he figures that he’s going to get re-elected, and as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.” “@BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected,” he said in a post on X, then called Twitter, the following January. Israeli air defense systems destroy missiles after Iran retaliated. / Anadolu / Anadolu via Getty Images By the fall, he viewed aggression toward Iran as a pathway to re-election: “Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin—watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.” That October, he said, “Don’t let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected—be careful Republicans!” he warned. Trump’s assault on Iran comes just months before the midterms, where polling suggests Republicans could suffer heavy losses. Meanwhile, Trump’s own poll numbers continue to slide. The latest Emerson College Poll on Thursday showed disapproval rates have risen to 55 percent, a four percent leap from last month and a 14-point swing from when he took office last year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/6-times-trump-said-obama-202633373.html Here Are 6 Times Trump Said Obama Would Attack Iran — Over a Decade Before He Did It Himself Tom Durante Sat, February 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM CST 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google 3 Key takeaways Donald Trump repeatedly predicted on Twitter that former President Barack Obama would attack Iran to win an election, save face, and show toughness, years before Trump himself ordered strikes on Tehran. See more (Jack Gruber/AP photo/X) Years before President Donald Trump was even in the White House, he predicted that his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, would attack the Iranian regime. In fact, Trump predicted, foretold, and predicted some more on Twitter, now known as X. The first time was on November 14, 2011, seven months after the notorious White House Correspondents’ Dinner during which Obama mercilessly ribbed Trump with jokes about the birther campaign and sparked the then-reality TV star’s drive for the White House. “@BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election,” Trump wrote.

Trump’s tweets saying Obama will start war with Iran to distract from domestic failures come back to haunt him President Donald Trump, who joined Israel in joint military strikes on Iran in the early morning hours of February 28, had some strong opinions against going to war with Tehran – before he was sitting in the Oval Office. In 2012 and 2013, Trump repeatedly insinuated that then-President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran to shore up his re-election effort and to distract from his supposed faults as a leader. Obama never did attack Iran. That cannot be said for Trump, who has now attacked the Middle Eastern republic three times during across his two terms in office. On January 17, 2012, Trump wrote on social media that he believed Obama would "attack Iran in order to get re-elected." https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-tweets-saying-obama-start-195454701.html

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sexually-transmitted-ringworm-hits-minnesota-164746085.html Since then state officials say, “more than 30 confirmed or suspected cases have been reported in the metro area, resulting in the largest known outbreak of TMVII in the United States.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control describes the infection as “an emerging fungus” that was originally “described in travelers returning from Thailand after sexual contact with sex workers.” It’s since been documented in China and in Europe, and is primarily associated with men who have sex with men. Those who are infected are urged to avoid sexual contact, sharing personal items or clothing — and to wash and dry their clothing on high heat, which can kill the spores that may be in the fabric. The Minnesota health department advises that the rash — which is round and sometimes covered with pimples or bumps — can be mistaken for other skin conditions, such as eczema, or psoriasis.

Get 500 bT note and a half sized glass and ball from the waiter. All contestants lower their pants to their knees and try to bounce a ping pong ball into the cup. Bet the boys have practiced. The game I watched had the originator going around to all the contestants and rubbing the boys butt cracks as they watched other contestants.

I couldn't bring myself to make the boys chase ping pong ball for tips at Winner Boys. It seemed demeaning. When I entered I handed every boy and bartender 100bT.

Well it seems the new equation for the bar is keeping it and Sunee alive and well patronized. Maybe a touch too "Eros" for some- I visited once and couldn't get out fast enough. But with a few hot straight boys it could be fun in the pulpit seating high to he left of center, and safe profit for one boy at a time. Any "ping -pong -ball -in -the- cup" games there?

recollection- Both bars, Winner and NighBoys, gave free rent to boys during CoVid, whether the bars were open or not. A credit to both bar owners

Noticed Mike Dept Store (?) South of Boystown on Second Road had a whole section of strap-ons for sale!

Trouble remembering - his movie "Best Men". A little gay theme at the end?

I was under the impression that after hours boys dancing can sleep there overnight and have a safe relatively free place to sleep. So money spent there can help many gay boys of limited means, temporarily.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/john-oliver-says-no-dean-035822404.html John Oliver Says There’s “No Need” For Dean Cain To “Wear A Mask” As An ICE Agent Because There’s “F—ing Zero” Chance Anyone Will Recognize Him

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