FIRST ON FOX: Trump will award Elon Musk the National Medal of Science at the White House Thursday.
Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su will also receive the science medal, while Michael Dell and Satya Nadella will receive the technology medal.
It marks Trump’s first time presenting the awards across either administration.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/first-f…
— @foxnewspolitics Oct 7, 2026
Day: October 7, 2026
Guess who the 2nd unnamed foreign country or intelligence service he was leaking information to is.Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral)Germany has arrested former BND chief August Hanning on suspicion of treasonous espionage. Prosecutors allege he obtained about 2,000 internal intelligence documents and used classified information in dealings involving foreign intelligence services. x.com/i/article/210755229191…— https://x.com/YourAnonCentral/status/2107552789853540861
— @YourAnonCentral Oct 7, 2026
John Horne Burns (b. 07 October 1916) was an American writer whose remarkable 1st novel, the best-selling “The Gallery” (1947), became a post-WWII classic and one of the first to depict homosexuality in the military.
Born in Andover, Massachusetts, Burns seemed destined for the respectable life of a bright, well-educated New Englander. Fortunately for literature — and unfortunately for Burns — respectability never quite took hold. He was educated at Harvard and taught at the Loomis School before entering the U.S. Army during World War II. He served in military intelligence in North Africa and Italy, experiences that supplied material for The Gallery.
Set largely in occupied Naples, the book portrayed American soldiers not as square-jawed liberators but as a collection of lonely, frightened, lustful, hypocritical and occasionally decent human beings. Consisting of nine “portraits”, it was the one titled “Momma” that drew the most attention — it took place in a Naples gay bar peopled by servicemen in uniform.
The Gallery was unusually candid about homosexuality. Burns himself was openly gay at a time when being so was professionally hazardous, socially dangerous, and generally considered everybody’s business except one’s own. Contrary to the establishment’s desire for homosexuals to be portrayed as loathsome creatures only worthy of disdain and death, his novel treated gay men with a sympathy and matter-of-factness rare in postwar American fiction.
Critics noticed. Some were impressed — others presumably preferred their soldiers properly ironed. Regardless, ecstatically reviewed, Burns absorbed the adulation like a damp sponge. By all accounts a nasty piece of work, extremely jealous, and bitchy to a fault, he declared himself equal to Tolstoy, and when Truman Capote’s first novel Other Voices, Other Rooms and the dust jacket photo that accompanied it caused a bit of a sensation, he countered with the comment that Truman looked like a “Mongolian idiot”. He also publicly and loudly declared his rival Gore Vidal’s “gay” novel City and the Pillar to be a dismal failure. Vidal, an early champion of Burns, was stung to the quick, and Gore being Gore, responded in kind. The two writers competed over everything, including which of them was more competitive. Privately, Gore admitted that Burns might be the superior writer. His only true consolation at the time was the grimly accurate prediction that he would outlast him.
Already a heavy drinker and a mean drunk, apparently, Burns felt success gave him license to wax loquacious about other writer’s (as seen by him, all too obvious) failures. In addition to his unfavorable opinions of Vidal and Capote, he took special umbrage with James Michener. Burns felt certain he was a lock for the 1948 Pulitzer Prize and proceeded to act like he was already its recipient, grandly extolling the merits of his 2nd work in progress. Instead, the award went to Michener for his debut, Tales of the South Pacific. This surprise victory launched Michener into commercial superstardom and left a humiliated Burns sucking wind. Harboring an exceptionally deep well of opprobrium for Michener, an embittered Burns spitefully refused to shake his hand when they gathered at a Life magazine photo shoot featuring young wartime writers, and he proceeded to write scathing reviews of Michener’s subsequent work. The New York literati took notice. Liquor fueled and oozing venom, his own support soon dried up as fast as his talent.
Having scored considerable success with Gallery, Burns proceeded to demonstrate that literary careers do not necessarily improve with practice. His second novel, Lucifer with a Book (1949), a savage portrait of a boys’ school (apparently influenced by his time at Loomis) was poorly received. A Cry of Children followed in 1952 and did little to restore his reputation. The reviews were brutal. Increasingly bitter toward the American literary establishment — and not especially enchanted with America itself — Burns took off for Italy, where he found the “trade” more amenable to his drunken pawing.
He boozed from dawn to dusk, lived recklessly, and acquired a reputation for being brilliant, difficult and spectacularly self-destructive. The promising young novelist who had once seemed poised for a major career instead became one of American literature’s more dramatic disappearing acts.
When he died at age 36 in Florence on August 11, 1953, speculation among those who knew him ranged from “he was pushed from a window” to “he took a bullet in the head from an unpaid call boy”. The official cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage and sunstroke brought on by abuse of alcohol. His reputation largely vanished with him until The Gallery was rediscovered decades later. Hemingway, who had briefly crossed paths with Burns in Europe, summarized his life as a writer — “There was a fellow who wrote a fine book, and then a stinking book, and then just blew himself up.”
Today John Horne Burns occupies an intriguing corner of gay American literary history — talented, caustic, wounded, frequently his own worst enemy, and the author of one extraordinary novel that stubbornly refused to disappear, even when its author did. 🏳️🌈
— @jmlx_john2 Oct 7, 2026
Germany’s ex-spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason.
He allegedly spent 16 YEARS taking thousands of classified documents and selling some of the information to a foreign power.
CHANCELLOR MERZ = ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL.
— @steve_hanke Oct 7, 2026
A gold statue of President Donald Trump fully naked can now be seen in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.
“The sculpture is a satirical out-cry against Trump and the U.S. assault on the green transition and the rule-based world order,” said Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt.
📸: Johannes Simon, Getty Images
— @USATODAY Oct 7, 2026
California Governor Gavin Newsom called for Trump to be removed from office after his comment about Iran bombing San Diego and LA. newsweek.com/25th-amendment-…
— @Newsweek Oct 7, 2026
The arrest of August #Hanning, #BND president from 1998 to 2005, has sharpened long-standing doubts in #London about sharing secrets with #Germany’s foreign intelligence service.
– Investigators believe Hanning spent 16 years after leaving office collecting highly sensitive material—situation assessments, partner-agency documents, and papers on the Iranian nuclear programme and the Russian military—and selling some of it to an undisclosed foreign power.
– British agencies are said to be checking whether their own material or personnel were compromised.
– US agencies are reportedly reviewing what they shared with European partners over the same period.
– This is the latest symptom of a deeper problem:
– After the Cold War, Berlin took a deep “peace dividend.” Defense spending fell from about 3.9 % of government outlays in 1991 to roughly 1.1 % of GDP by 2014.
– The BND was left underfunded and tightly constrained; until reforms this summer, officers could not fire service weapons, sabotage abroad, or spread disinformation. A later chief compared the service to Gulliver “tied up with a thousand threads.”
– Post-Gestapo and post-Stasi politics produced heavy oversight. After Snowden, a 2016 law restricted sharing with the #UK and #US, and a 2020 court ruling made foreign interception much harder.
– Failures reinforced the “weak link” label: the BND missed the 2022 invasion; officer Carsten Linke was arrested in late 2022 for allegedly passing #Ukraine secrets to Moscow; a 2024 air-force call leaked on Russian television exposed British personnel in Ukraine.
– Merz has raised the BND budget by about a quarter to €1.51 billion and granted limited sabotage and weapons powers.
– Is it late?
– I think it is, but better late than later.
– Is it enough?
– Probably not.
– Germany has to meet the foriegn end of #Russia’s hybrid campaign, Chinese collection, #Iran‘s plots against dissidents and Jewish targets, #ISIS infiltrations and #Hamas attack planning at the same time, and none of those threats is shrinking. Intelligence is slow, highly specialized, labour-intensive work. You cannot recruit, clear and train a service on demand, or rebuild source networks and technical capacity that were run down for decades.
– Funding is only half the problem. The other half is people like Hanning: a former chief now accused of collecting and selling secrets long after he left office, on top of a serving officer already charged with passing Ukraine material to Moscow. Extra money and new powers do not restore a service partners already treat as porous.
– This is a cautionary tale for much of #Europe: a starved service is a liability, and a penetrated one is worse.
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…— @Shtuni Oct 7, 2026
Ex-BND-Chef Hanning pflegte lange Jahre Kontakte nach Aserbaidschan. Dortigen Medienberichten zufolge reiste er bereits als BND-Chef dorthin und hielt als Pensionär die Verbindungen aufrecht. correctiv.org/aktuelles/inte…
— @tavisupleba Oct 7, 2026
#CIA CIA #FBI FBI #Mossad Mossad
August Hanning’s communications implicate both Israel and Russia in the hypothetical origins of 9/11 – Google Search google.com/search?q=August+H…
The order of importance:
Putin – FSB – Russia – Israel – Germany, each of whom had their own goals
The miserable Arab “culprits” are just the patsies and the SCAPEGOATS!
The blame for MISINVESTIGATION of 9/11 is on Bush administration, FBI at that time, and Robert Mueller.
REINVESTIGATE THE 9/11!
Kash Patel, please add it to your list of the FBI historical mistakes, on the number 1 slot.— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 7, 2026