/qnotables26/ - ===Q Notables 2026===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116118 (131723ZJAN26) Notable: @realDonaldTrump Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease. My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners. He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!

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https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011125800398176377

The White House / @WhiteHouse 01/13/2026 12:18:50

"Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away... He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116129 (131727ZJAN26) Notable: @USNavy We are underway! The #SNA2026 National Symposium has officially begun. #GoldenFleet

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https://x.com/USNavy/status/2011127536990728262

U.S. Navy / @USNavy 01/13/2026 12:25:44

We are underway!

The #SNA2026 National Symposium has officially begun. Over the next three days, we will focus on one thing: sharpening our competitive edge and building a more lethal, ready surface force.

#GoldenFleet

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116133 (131729ZJAN26) Notable: Space NASA etc

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Department of War Announces $1 Billion Direct-to-Supplier Investment to Secure the U.S. Solid Rocket Motor Supply Chain

Jan. 13, 2026

The Department of War (DoW), working in partnership with L3Harris Technologies, today announced the signing of a letter of intent outlining agreed-upon investment terms pivotal to expanding the production capacity of U.S. solid rocket motors.

The announcement marks the first direct-to-supplier partnership of this kind, with the DoW committing to a $1 billion convertible preferred equity investment in L3Harris' Missile Solutions business, which will become a separate company as part of this transaction.

This partnership positions the DoW and L3Harris to negotiate multi-year procurement framework agreements for solid rocket motors, vital to several critical munitions, pending Congressional authorization and appropriations.

An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is planned in the second half of 2026, providing the US government the opportunity to benefit on this unique investment framework. This investment will expand production capacity of a critical node to national security and the munitions industrial base.

The terms of the agreement scale up the domestic supply chain for solid rocket motors by providing the upfront investment and stability needed to increase production, modernize facilities, and bolster industrial resilience.

This is a direct outcome of the Department's new Acquisition Transformation Strategy and its "Go Direct-to-Supplier" initiative. The strategy calls for the Department to negotiate and invest directly with critical suppliers to save money and time, while proactively managing the single points of failure.

Under the framework of this unique strategic investment model, the Department of War will make a $1 billion convertible preferred equity investment as the anchor investor in L3Harris' new Missile Solutions company.

The terms of the agreement establish the basis for the creation of the new, publicly traded company focused purely on missile solutions.

This direct investment from the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) authority resources solid rocket motor production, a critical node in the munitions supply chain.

Since its acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, now Missile Solutions, L3Harris has significantly increased solid rocket motor capacity.

The investment from the DoW, along with sustained, long-term demand, will support Missile Solutions' rapid expansion of capacity for the DoW's critical missile programs, such as PAC-3, THAAD, Tomahawk, and Standard Missile.

"We are fundamentally shifting our approach to securing our munitions supply chain," said Michael Duffey, Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment.

"By investing directly in suppliers we are building the resilient industrial base needed for the Arsenal of Freedom. This direct-to-supplier model is a crucial step toward replenishing stockpiles, rebuilding our military, and reestablishing deterrence by ensuring the availability of critical components."

This partnership with L3Harris marks another critical achievement for the Department's Munitions Acceleration Council, which was established to rapidly identify and remove structural barriers, like supply chain vulnerabilities, to scaling weapons production and to translate urgent operational demand into executable, long-term industrial capacity.

Collaboration between a number of DoW components continue to drive forward and advise unique investment approaches to strengthen our industrial base, including the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, the Economic Defense Unit, the Office of Strategic Capital, and the Military Departments.

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4376463/department-of-war-announces-1-billion-direct-to-supplier-investment-to-secure-t/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116136 (131731ZJAN26) Notable: @realDonaldTrump Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease. My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners. He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!

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>>3753

Rest in peace, Scott Adams. 💙🇺🇸

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011127129354744155

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116145 (131735ZJAN26) Notable: BBC has filed a motion to dismiss President Donald J. Trump’s multi-billion dollar lawsuit over their deceptive editing

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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has filed a motion to dismiss President Donald J. Trump’s multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the deceptive editing of his January 6, 2021, aired during a Panorama documentary ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida court last month, accuses the BBC of defamation and violating trade practices law.

Court documents filed on Monday reveal that the BBC contends the Florida court lacks “personal jurisdiction” over the broadcaster, that the venue is “improper,” and that President Trump has “failed to state a claim.” The BBC previously apologized for the edit but rejected Trump’s demands for compensation, maintaining there is no basis for a defamation claim.

The broadcaster will also contend that the Panorama program was not aired in the United States and therefore did not defame Trump in the jurisdiction in which he seeks relief. It further argues that Trump has not demonstrated actual damage caused by the documentary, noting that he was re-elected and carried Florida with a commanding majority after the Panorama program aired. Trump claims the documentary was available on the Britbox service and accessible to American viewers, which the BBC disputes.

Additionally, the BBC asserts that Trump cannot plausibly allege “actual malice” in the documentary’s publication. The doctored clip, which is approximately 15 seconds long, was part of an hour-long television program that, according to the broadcaster, offered a balanced portrayal of his 2024 re-election campaign. An internal BBC memo leaked in November criticized the editing of the speech, and the scandal surrounding it has led to the resignations of senior BBC officials, including Director General Tim Davie and Head of News Deborah Turness.

In its motion, the BBC has also requested the court to “stay all other discovery” pending a decision on its motion to dismiss. A proposed trial date in 2027 has been indicated if the case proceeds. A BBC spokesman stated, “As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/01/13/bbc-seeks-dismissal-of-trumps-5-billion-defamation-claim/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116162 (131738ZJAN26) Notable: FBI Victim Services celebrated the retirement of Gio, one of the #FBI's first Crisis Response Canines.

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In December 2025, FBI Victim Services celebrated the retirement of Gio, one of the #FBI's first Crisis Response Canines.

Gio was the first federal facility dog to support a victim during testimony in a federal courtroom. Since joining the Bureau in 2015, Gio and his paw-tner Wally have assisted over 4,100 victims and families and deployed to 12 mass violence incidents.

The Crisis Response Canines program continues to be active with the FBI's newest recruits: Taz and Peg. Learn more about our CRCs and how they support the FBI's mission at http://fbi.gov/news/stories/meet-the-fbis-newest-class-of-crisis-response-canines

https://x.com/FBI/status/2011121193445736790

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116184 (131744ZJAN26) Notable: War Department Launches AI Acceleration Strategy to Secure American Military AI Dominance

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War Department Launches AI Acceleration Strategy to Secure American Military AI Dominance

Jan. 12, 2026

The Department of War today launches a transformative Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy that will extend our lead in military AI deployment and establish the United States as the world's undisputed AI-enabled fighting force.

Mandated by President Trump, this acceleration strategy will unleash experimentation, eliminate legacy bureaucratic blockers, and integrate the bleeding edge of frontier AI capabilities across every mission area to usher in an unprecedented era of American military AI dominance.

"We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI," said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. "We will become an 'AI-first' warfighting force across all domains."

The Department is taking a wartime approach to delivering capabilities, with an emphasis on three tenets: warfighting, intelligence and enterprise operations.

This approach will strengthen battlefield decision-making, rapidly convert intelligence data and modernize daily workflows, all in direct support of more than three million DoW personnel.

The catalyst for this acceleration will be seven Pace-Setting Projects (PSPs), each with a single accountable leader and aggressive timelines. These PSPs will establish a new AI execution standard for the entire Department:

Warfighting

Swarm Forge: Competitive mechanism to iteratively discover, test, and scale novel ways of fighting with and against AI-enabled capabilities – combining America's elite warfighting units with elite technology innovators.

Agent Network: Unleashing AI agent development and experimentation for AI-enabled battle management and decision support, from campaign planning to kill chain execution.

Ender's Foundry: Accelerating AI-enabled simulation capabilities - and sim-dev and sim-ops feedback loops - to ensure we stay ahead of AI-enabled adversaries.

Intelligence

Open Arsenal: Accelerating the TechINT-to-capability development pipeline, turning intel into weapons in hours, not years.

Project Grant: Enabling transformation of deterrence from static postures and speculation to dynamic pressure with interpretable results.

Enterprise

GenAI.mil: Providing Department-wide access to frontier generative AI models, like Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, for all DoW personnel at Information Level (IL-5) and above classification levels.

Enterprise Agents: Building the playbook for rapid and secure AI agent development and deployment to transform enterprise workflows.

This AI Acceleration Strategy is driving a major expansion of AI compute infrastructure through targeted investments and will unlock access to the data that gives the War Department an asymmetric edge.

The Department will bring in top American AI talent through initiatives like the Office of Personnel Management's "Tech Force" initiative and will empower small, accountable teams to attack complex AI integration opportunities.

The War Department will eradicate woke DEI from our AI capabilities and ensure our military has objective, mission‑first systems that will guarantee decision superiority and warfighting advantage in this AI era.

"Speed defines victory in the AI era, and the War Department will match the velocity of America's AI industry," said Emil Michael, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering.

"We're pulling in the best talent, the most cutting‑edge technology, and embedding the top frontier AI models into the workforce — all at a rapid wartime pace."

Grounded in the core tenets of warfighting, intelligence and enterprise operations – and following President Trump's direction – the War Department will accelerate America's Military AI Dominance by becoming an AI-first warfighting force across all domains.

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4376420/war-department-launches-ai-acceleration-strategy-to-secure-american-military-ai/

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4376486/war-department-swat-team-removes-barriers-to-efficient-ai-development/

https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/2003855671/-1/-1/0/ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-STRATEGY-FOR-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-WAR.PDF

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116198 (131747ZJAN26) Notable: Space NASA etc

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Astronaut Brains Change Shape in Space

January 12, 2026

Over the past half-century of manned spaceflight, scientists have learned a lot about how the human body responds once freed from the confines of Earth’s gravity.

Vertebrae drift farther apart, bones lose density, muscles atrophy, and fluids tend to migrate toward the head. But what about the brain?

According to new research published today in PNAS, human brains actually move and change shape in space.

Scientists came to that conclusion after studying MRIs conducted on 26 astronauts before and after spending time in microgravity.

Overall, they found that astronaut brains shifted backward, upward, and rotated toward the back following spaceflight.

Of course, detecting displacement of a gelatinous organ surrounded by fluid in microgravity might not seem like brain surgery (or rocket science). So, the scientists decided to go further, looking at changes in specific regions of the brain as well.

In fact, that’s where things got interesting. They found that different areas of astronauts’ brains were displaced more than others, and sometimes in a different direction than the brain overall.

Interestingly, the specific regions with the largest displacements were those responsible for sensorimotor functions.

In astronauts who spent more than a year in space, the supplementary motor cortex—that is, the part of the brain responsible for planning and coordinating movements—moved upward more than other brain regions.

Some of these changes affected astronauts’ abilities on Earth as well. Bigger movements in the posterior insula, which processes bodily sensations, were associated with greater declines in balance, post-flight.

Thankfully, these changes weren’t permanent—astronauts’ brains recovered around six months after their feet were back on terra firma.

https://nautil.us/astronaut-brains-change-shape-in-space-1261144/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505682122

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116213 (131751ZJAN26) Notable: WATCH IN FULL: President Donald J. Trump speaks briefly to reporters earlier this morning before departing for Michigan https:

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Andrew Leyden

@PenguinSix 42m

The @POTUS spoke to the press this morning about ICE and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell.

Jan 13, 2026 · 5:04 PM UTC

https://x.com/PenguinSix/status/2011122088015487454

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116241 (131757ZJAN26) Notable: @USMC Spiritual Fitness Month reinforces the principle of “inner strength from a higher purpose”

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U.S. Marines

@USMC 2h

#Marines and @USNavy #Sailors participate in a Spiritual Fitness Month motivational run at @MCIWPendletonCA.

Spiritual Fitness Month reinforces the principle of “inner strength from a higher purpose” by fostering personal faith, moral living, and community to enhance the resilience and readiness of the Marines and Sailors of @1stMEF.

#MarineCorps #USMC #SemperFi

Jan 13, 2026 · 3:56 PM UTC

https://x.com/USMC/status/2011104957236166769

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116243 (131758ZJAN26) Notable: Space NASA etc

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https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/you-can-now-reserve-a-hotel-room-on-the-moon-for-250000/

https://www.gru.space/wp

https://www.gru.space/reserve

You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000

Jan 12, 2026 3:04 PM

A company called GRU Space publicly announced its intent to construct a series of increasingly sophisticated habitats on the Moon, culminating in a hotel inspired by the Palace of the Fine Arts in San Francisco.

On Monday, the company invited those interested in a berth to plunk down a deposit between $250,000 and $1 million, qualifying them for a spot on one of its early lunar surface missions in as little as six years from now.

It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? After all, GRU Space had, as of late December when I spoke to founder Skyler Chan, a single full-time employee aside from himself. And Chan, in fact, only recently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

All of this could therefore be dismissed as a lark. But I must say that I am a sucker for these kinds of stories. Chan is perfectly earnest about all of this.

And despite all of the talk about lunar resources, my belief is that the surest long-term commercial activity on the Moon will be lunar tourism—it would be an amazing destination.

So when I interviewed Chan, I did so with an open mind.

Who are the customers?

Like many younger people, Chan grew up wanting to become an astronaut. But along the way, in high school and later college, he came to believe that he could lead a more impactful life by enabling everyone to go to space, not just himself.

“I realized I was born in this time where we can actually become interplanetary, and that is probably the singular most impactful thing one person could do with their time,” Chan said.

“So I charged towards building the systems necessary and technology to enable that future. That’s actually what led me to go to Berkeley to study electrical engineering and computer science.”

He had some interesting experiences in college, interning at Tesla to write vehicle software, and building a NASA-funded 3D printer that launched into space. Chan also had a stunning realization about the Moon.

There were all of these people building cool technology to get humans to the Moon. But he realized that the vast majority of this activity was backed by two pillars: the US government and billionaire-funded companies.

Who, he wondered, was the ultimate customer for these services? And were there actually any commercial customers for what was being sold?

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116249 (131758ZJAN26) Notable: Trump Affordability Win: Deportations Drive Rents Down

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Rapid Response 47 / @rapidresponse47 01/13/2026 12:32:31

Trump Affordability Win: Deportations Drive Rents Down

https://truthsocial.com/@rapidresponse47/posts/115888983344679573

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/12/trump-wins-affordability-rents-drop-americans-because-ice-deportations/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116254 (131759ZJAN26) Notable: Timothy Busfield's daddy used to work with Bill Clinton, bro ran the children's theater in Sacramento

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Timothy Busfield's daddy used to work with Bill Clinton when he was the governor of Arkansas.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/359422888/?match=1&terms=Roger%20Busfield%20Clinton

https://www.newspapers.com/image/359422888/?match=1&terms=Roger%20Busfield%20Clinton

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116262 (131801ZJAN26) Notable: Space NASA etc

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These Fuel Cells Could Provide Life Support in Space

Jan 13, 2026

GROTON, Conn. — Nimbus Power Systems today announced the successful completion of shock and vibration tests on an advanced, gravity-independent fuel cell technology.

The tests simulated the anticipated mechanical loads, including launch, for NASA’s upcoming Artemis crewed missions to the Moon.

The fuel cell met all performance targets throughout the tests, demonstrating the system’s structural and operational readiness for future flight integration, according to the company.

Fuel cells react oxygen and hydrogen to produce electricity, heat, and potable water, three vital resources for crewed space operations.

Nimbus' water management technology removes product water via a combination of capillary and hydraulic forces that are uncompromised by the space environment.

This water management advantage decreases system complexity and offers significant mass savings, resulting in more reliable and affordable space operations.

“These test results reflect the successful collaboration between Blue Origin and Nimbus Power Systems on advanced Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology specifically tailored to space applications,” said John Couluris, senior VP of lunar permanence at Blue Origin.

'We continue to leverage the latest advances in Nimbus’ terrestrial fuel cell technology to accelerate Blue Origin’s in-house fuel cell solutions for in-space and lunar products."

Blue Origin currently licenses Nimbus Power System's fuel cell technology for its Blue Moon Lunar Lander program and other space applications.

NASA will use the Blue Moon lander for its Artemis campaign to safely send astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface and back for expeditions on the lunar surface.

Nimbus develops fuel cell systems for the heavy-duty mobility, aerospace, and stationary power markets.

The company primarily provides high-efficiency replacements for heavy-duty engines currently serving these markets.

https://www.ien.com/product-development/news/22958310/these-fuel-cells-could-provide-life-support-in-space

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116266 (131803ZJAN26) Notable: @HillaryClinton - This is not about Right or Left, it’s about Right and Wrong.

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Hillary Clinton

@HillaryClinton 2h

This is not about Right or Left, it’s about Right and Wrong.

Jan 13, 2026 · 3:33 PM UTC

https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/2011099228848996494

Kek

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116280 (131806ZJAN26) Notable: Space NASA etc

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Quantum cameras could remake space-based intelligence

January 12, 2026 11:05 PM ET

Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a “quantum camera” for space-based imaging.

If it works, it could slash the cost of missile defenses and give smaller NATO allies and partners spy-satellite capabilities that were once exclusive to major powers.

Funded in part by NASA and DARPA, the Boston-based Diffraqtion is testing a radically different way to make images from photons.

You might think that the cameras on the world’s most expensive satellites are fundamentally different from what your grandfather used to take old movies.

But whether using chemicals and paper or chargeable transistors on a circuit, the process of deriving images from the behavior of photons has changed little in more than a century.

That is one reason why space-based image collection—especially at high resolution—is incredibly expensive.

It’s also why Johannes Galatsanos, Diffraqtion’s co-founder and CEO, uses the term “quantum camera” rather than “photography.”

“You basically have light coming through a lens; it hits a sensor, and then that sensor takes a JPEG, an image, and then you can view it… or you can run AI on top, right, and detect things,” Galatsanos said.

“Whether in space with high-resolution digital cameras or old-fashioned pinhole cameras, that process hasn’t [changed].”

That traditional method limits what can effectively be photographed based on diffraction, the process by which light beams pass through an aperture.

It’s also a reason why high-resolution imaging satellites, like the WorldView-3, are large and heavy: like a telescope, they are mostly glass lenses and empty space.

This is a reason why launches cost an average of about $50 million per satellite, and why why only a few countries have access to high-resolution satellite imagery.

Quantum science opens the possibility of collecting images using sensors that don’t require the same dense, heavy components. One of Diffraqtion’s cameras is the size of a small suitcase, launchable for just half a million dollars..

That just might be the key to shooting down highly maneuverable hypersonic missiles, as envisioned by the White House’s Golden Dome effort.

The method proposed by Diffraqtion might lower the cost of the imaging systems on space-based interceptors, or even reduce the number needed to do the job.

“You have more area coverage, you can look at more targets at the same time, and so on,” said Galatsanos.

The idea effectively reverses the process of deriving an image from photonic data. But in quantum science, the simple act of observing quantum behaviors changes them.

That’s useful for things like quantum encryption because it means that the message changes—obviously so—when intercepted. But it is also what makes quantum “photography” impossible.

Saikat Guha, another co-founder and the company’s chief science officer, has spent several years describing a new method for deriving information from quantum behaviors related to light.

This method does not “observe” the photons in the traditional sense, nor does it act like a bed of capacitors or a sheet of film.

Instead, it uses AI to model the optical field; so, rather than treating the scene as a blurry picture on a sensor, Guha’s method treats the arriving light itself as the ‘thing’ to be measured via quantum mathematics.

“What we do is [take] light as it comes to us. The visible light coming—we don't capture it, so there's no observation. But we transform the light, and at the end, when we have done the transformation, then we capture it.

So we still retain the entire information of the photon as it traverses through the camera. And at the very, very end, we can observe the outcome of that processing,” said Galatsanos.

Galatsanos says that a wide constellation of quantum camera satellites won’t be possible before 2030. But if the hypothesis proves out next month, it could change all aspects of space satellite imaging.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/01/quantum-cameras-could-remake-space-based-intelligence/410636/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116285 (131807ZJAN26) Notable: IRAN REVOLUTION LIVE STREAM WITH IRANIAN HOSTS - DAY 17

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116290 (131808ZJAN26) Notable: Timothy Busfield's daddy used to work with Bill Clinton, bro ran the children's theater in Sacramento

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>>3775

Timothy Busfield lived in Conway, Arkasas right outside of Little Rock.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1220815962/?match=1&terms=Roger%20Busfield%20Clinton

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116324 (131814ZJAN26) Notable: #29388

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Dough

https://fullchan.net/?1aac04e12bbb49e6#DCgNKN6wQZoEWL3Qruw3Cuj2Q5S7odJU7PvhS2DhQmSs

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116355 (131820ZJAN26) Notable: Lock Them Up!

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Lock Them Up

Bill Clinton did not show up.

Epstien visited the White House 17 times while Bill Clinton was President.

Bills blue dress and red high heels on full display.

The oversite committee moves to hold Bill Clinton in contempt.

🐸 this is fun....

https://x.com/i/status/2011114442264621340

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116378 (131824ZJAN26) Notable: The BEST innovators in drone technology. The most DOMINANT military in the world. All AMERICAN MADE 🇺🇸

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The BEST innovators in drone technology.

The most DOMINANT military in the world.

All AMERICAN MADE 🇺🇸

https://x.com/DoWCTO/status/2011130938177003679

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116399 (131828ZJAN26) Notable: President Trump takes selfies with Ford plant workers! 🇺🇸

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Margo Martin / @MargoMartin47 01/13/2026 12:59:02

President Trump takes selfies with Ford plant workers! 🇺🇸

https://x.com/MargoMartin47/status/2011135917478854796

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116408 (131830ZJAN26) Notable: @POTUS is greeted by workers at @Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant — home of the F-150 🇺🇸

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https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2011142600326279527

Rapid Response 47 / @RapidResponse47 01/13/2026 13:25:35

.@POTUS is greeted by workers at @Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant — home of the F-150 🇺🇸

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116420 (131832ZJAN26) Notable: We may be witnessing the messy death of a star in real time/NASA

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We may be witnessing the messy death of a star in real time

January 13, 2026

Could a star have its own heartbeat? It sounds more like poetry than physics, but in the case of a red giant named R Leonis, the answer is a resounding, if slightly erratic, yes.

For over two centuries, we have watched this star. R Leonis is a Mira variable, a type of aging star that pulsates like a rhythmic, celestial heart.

It expands and contracts, dimming and brightening with a regularity that makes it a favorite observing target for backyard astronomers and professional researchers alike.

We thought we had its rhythm figured out — a little wobble here, a slight drift there, but mostly a steady, predictable drumbeat in the constellation Leo, the Lion.

But a recent analysis of 200 years of data has revealed that this cosmic heart is beginning to beat faster.

In a new paper accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and available as a preprint via arXiv, researcher Mike Goldsmith dove into the historical records of R Leonis.

By combing through the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) archives, Goldsmith tracked the star's brightest and dimmest points across more than two centuries. The result? This old star is changing.

The most shocking finding is that the star's fundamental pulse, which is the time it takes to go from bright to dim and back again, has shortened by about three days since the early 1800s.

In the grand scheme of a star's life, three days might seem insignificant. But for a star that usually sticks to a strict schedule, it is a foundational shift.

It is the stellar equivalent of your formerly consistent resting heart rate suddenly picking up speed for no apparent reason.

So, what does the faster pulse mean?

The paper suggests we are witnessing the actual, real-time evolution of a star. R Leonis is an oxygen-rich Mira variable, a massive star nearing the end of its life. As it burns through its final reserves of fuel, its internal structure shifts.

But the period shortening isn't just a straight line. Goldsmith found clear modulations — long-term cycles of change — on timescales of roughly 35 and 98 years.

It appears that the star has multiple overlapping rhythms, like a drummer trying to play three different time signatures at once.

And then there's the dust.

We have always known that these stars are messy creatures. They cough up huge clouds of soot and gas into space, creating a circumstellar disk.

Goldsmith noticed something perplexing: The star's dimmest moments show a strange coherence; they stay at a very similar brightness for decades, before shifting.

This finding suggests that the dust shells surrounding R Leonis aren't just drifting away sluggishly; they are evolving, thickening and thinning in ways that fundamentally change how we see the star.

The paper relies heavily on historical observations, and while the AAVSO data offer useful historical context, measuring a star's brightness by the naked eye in the year 1820 is a bit different from using a modern CCD camera on a state-of-the-art telescope. There is always a chance that some of these modulations are artifacts of how we observe, rather than indications of how the star behaves.

But if Goldsmith is right, R Leonis is giving us a front-row seat to the messy, beautiful death of a star. It isn't a quiet exit; it is a series of fits and starts, a dance that is slowly accelerating as the star prepares for its final act.

As more data flow in from the next decade of digital surveys, we might finally understand if this period shortening is a permanent trend or just a passing phase. For now, the "heart of the lion" beats faster. It is enough to keep us watching.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/we-may-be-witnessing-the-messy-death-of-a-star-in-real-time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21296

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/24116444 (131837ZJAN26) Notable: We may be witnessing the messy death of a star in real time/NASA

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https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa55831-25/aa55831-25.html

Astronomers watch 2 supermassive black holes caught in a twisted dance with never-before-seen jet behavior

JAnuary 13, 2026

Astronomers have used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to observe a violent cosmic dance between a suspected pair of supermassive black holes at the heart of a distant galaxy.

The evidence for this tryst between cosmic monsters lies in the twisted properties of the jets that erupt around the black holes.

The supermassive black hole pair, or binary, lurks at the heart of the quasar OJ287, located at the center of a galaxy around 1.6 billion light-years away from Earth.

Using a level of resolution that would be able to spot a tennis ball on the surface of the moon, the team spotted two shockwaves flowing down the jet of OJ287.

The shocks, interestingly, were seen traveling at different speeds. And as they travel, passing through strong magnetic fields, these shockwaves appear to produce a phenomenon never seen before.

This is just the latest major black hole breakthrough delivered by the EHT, which in April 2017 captured the first-ever image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole M87*, released to the public in 2019.

The network of telescopes followed this up with an image of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's own supermassive black hole, which the public got to see in 2022.

Since then, the EHT has continued to make waves in black hole science.

"This result shows that the EHT is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets," EHT team member Mariafelicia De Laurentis said in a statement.

"Distinguishing observationally between what is due to geometry and what is instead the result of real physical processes is a key step in comparing theoretical models with observations."

Snapshots of a black hole jet

The team captured two snapshots of the OJ287 system on April 5, 2017, and then on April 10 in the same year.

These revealed substantial changes in both the structure and polarization of the OJ287 that occurred over the course of just five Earth days. That is the shortest interval over which such changes have been observed in a black hole jet.

These changes are thought to be the result of shocks interacting with instabilities in velocity called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.

They result in a highly twisted structure within a jet, with three distinct polarized components: two slower and rotating in opposite directions to one another, one faster and rotating counterclockwise.

This represented the first direct confirmation of a helical magnetic field with the jet of a black hole.

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BREAKING: Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met secretly over the weekend with the exiled former crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi — Axios

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2011141496045797873

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HAPPENING NOW: President Trump does an interview with

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