(0544) Dark out there, though long sleep again, wunnerful. We must not count our chickens đŁđ„ but a calm start to Monday and this week anyway. (0633)
5. Andy at 03:20 a.m. at 1496
It is late at night and a couple of beers have gone down the hatch when I saw this headline. |Â https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/19/at-camp-norway-built-in-a-polish-forest-nato-trainers-admit-ukraines-army-now-moves-faster-than-their-own/Â | My first thought was; in what direction do they move faster, if are they faster than the French then that is impressive.
4. Steve at 1496
- President Trump Reveals The Three Options Heâs Considering for Iran as He Says: âVery Big Things Are Going to Be HappeningâŠWhen Do I Blow the Entire Nation Up?â
- Former DSA Insider Sounds Alarm on Groupâs Rabid Anti-Americanism
- Fed Up Dutch Clash With Police as Anti-Immigration Protest Turns Chaotic in The Hague
- Seven Indicted in Germany for Allegedly Building Hamas-Linked âWeapons Depotâ Across Europe in Terror Plot
- German Election Exit Polls Show Right-wing AfD Ahead of Ruling SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Coming in Third in Berlin â Merz Refuses to Resign Despite Two Humiliating Defeats
- Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Tehran In Mass Drills
- Russian Army Seals Cauldron North of Veliky Burluk in Kharkov
- Gallup Poll Finds Record Share of US Workers Fear Losing Jobs to Technology
- Just Because AI Does Things That âLook Human,â That Does Not Give It Consciousness
- Greenland Bases Forever
- Much more.
3. Matt van Swol and the homeschooled kid
Outrage is erupting after a 22-year-old who runs into BURNING BUILDINGS as a volunteer firefighter was told he isn’t qualified to be a paid firefighter…
…because he was HOMESCHOOLED.
Then the city changed the job posting to cover it up.
His name is Andrew Coates. He’s 22 years old, in Nebraska.
Right now, today, he runs into burning buildings as a volunteer firefighter for Cedar Bluffs Fire. He is a state-licensed EMT.
He is doing the job. For free.
All he wanted was to get PAID to do it. In his words: “Make a career out of it would be the goal. To get paid to do what you love.”
So he applied to the Fremont Fire Department.
And in April, the city rejected him. Why?
Because his high school diploma says he was homeschooled.
That’s it. That’s the whole disqualification.
Not his EMT license.
Not his fitness.
Not his record.
Not his experience pulling people out of fires ALREADY!!
…how he was educated.
The job posting he applied to said “graduation from high school.”
That’s all it said.
He graduated high school.
He has a diploma.
And AFTER they rejected him, the city went back and added the word “accredited” to the job description.
His own fire chief, the man who has watched Andrew work, showed up to defend him:
“I feel the city of Fremont is really missing out here, and in my mind, because of his homeschooling, you guys are discriminating against him.”
Over THIRTY homeschool families showed up to stand behind this kid.
And the Civil Service Commission? They said it isn’t their job to touch city policy.
Homeschoolers are literally a generation of kids who read ABOVE grade level, who work with their HANDS, who volunteer in their communities, who show up for their neighbors.
And this young man is the proof.
At 22, he’s a certified EMT and a volunteer firefighter, while plenty of his peers are on a couch.
When your house is on fire at 3 a.m., I promise you will not ask the man dragging your children out where he went to high school.
You will not ask if his diploma was accredited.
You will thank GOD he came.
Andrew isn’t even fighting for himself anymore. His words:
“I think now it’s turned into we want to make sure that every homeschooler has an equal opportunity.”
That’s a better man than the policy that rejected him.
Fremont, you have a licensed EMT and an active firefighter begging to serve your city. And you turned him down over paperwork, then rewrote the paperwork to cover it.
Fix this.
Hire him!!!!!!!
2. DAD at 1496
a) France. Faced with the risk of being overshadowed by the presidential campaign, Macron points to the crises and positions himself as a âguarantor.â
Yet, at the highest levels of the state, a fear is emerging that the decade at the ĂlysĂ©e might end with a dual social and financial crisis, just as calls for mobilisation multiply and interest rates on French debt spiral upward…. (more)
b) [DAD â Yesterday I reported that the Lefties are going mad at a sermon given to the troopsâŠ]
âCalm down, lefties! Quiet!â â In leaked video, French soldiers clap and applaud as military chaplain slams leftists and warns of replacement…. (more)
c) The UK. Twenty women have undergone unnecessary mastectomies, while others suffered significant harm while under the care of an NHS trust.
Out of 514 cases reviewed by the County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust (CDDFT), 315 have been found to have suffered harm, with 77 of them significantly harmed. One patient is known to have died.
The trust has also identified missed or delayed cancer diagnoses that led to some of the patients subsequently seeing their cancer spread.
d) Autumn is here. Recently, hundreds of thousands of swallows established a roost in a chestnut coppice in the Mellois region. It is an extraordinary phenomenon that delights and amazes naturalists in equal measure…. (more)
e) Did you know that there is an Islamabad In UK? …. (video)
1. As mentioned before, it’s North America and the Antipodes mainly
… at this early hour. Britland kicks off after that. Kicking off with this now via Toodles:
Plus I’ll drop this in from Sassafrass:
