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  • President Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani and Others Accused of Trying to Overturn 2020 Election

    11/10/2025 6:37:23 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 11 replies
    townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2025 | Amy Curtis
    : President Trump issues pardons to Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Tyler Bowyer, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, and several others President Trump issued a sweeping pardon overnight that included Rudy Giuliani and more than 70 others accused of, indicted for, or charged with various crimes related to the 2020 elections.
  • 250th Marine Corps Birthday

    11/10/2025 6:35:31 AM PST · by Dead Corpse · 4 replies
    YouTube ^ | CMC
    Happy Birthday Marines. Semper Fi.Birthday Message on YouTube.
  • 7 Things You May Not Know About the U.S. Marine Corps (250th Birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps today)

    11/10/2025 6:22:30 AM PST · by DFG · 10 replies
    History.com ^ | 11/10/2015
    1. According to legend, the first Marine Corps recruitments took place in a bar. Marine tradition holds that the Corps was formed in a bar. The story dates to late November 1775, when newly commissioned Captains Samuel Nicholas and Robert Mullan supposedly organized the first Marine Corps muster at Tun Tavern, a popular watering hole in Philadelphia. The two officers are said to have lured potential Marines with mugs of beer and the promise of adventure on the high seas, and their recruits later made up the first five companies that served aboard Continental Navy ships. While there’s little hard...
  • "Bill Maher: The Rich Are Fleeing Blue States -- and He Explains Why" [7:07]

    11/10/2025 6:20:52 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | November 8, 2025 | Raw Nation Report
    Bill Maher presses his guests on the migration of wealth from high-tax blue states to Florida -- what some are calling "Wall Street South." From rising costs in New York to the surge in Florida’s real estate market, this debate reveals how much post-COVID economics and state policy have reshaped where Americans live and invest. "Bill Maher: The Rich Are Fleeing Blue States -- and He Explains Why" | 7:07 Raw Nation Report | 679 subscribers | 159,308 views | November 8, 2025
  • “We Couldn’t Believe How Weird It Was” – The World’s Strangest Dinosaur Just Got Weirder

    11/10/2025 6:14:15 AM PST · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | November 09, 2025 | University of Birmingham
    Artist’s impression of Spicomellus afer. Credit: Matt Dempsey Research on fossils reveals that ankylosaurs’ iconic tail weapons evolved much earlier than scientists had previously believed. =========================================================================== The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than scientists realized… A new study published in Nature reveals that Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon more than 30 million years earlier than any other known ankylosaur. It also featured a distinctive bony collar lined with meter-long spikes extending outward from each side of its neck. Spicomellus is recognized as the oldest ankylosaur ever discovered, dating back over 165 million years to the Middle Jurassic...
  • WATCH: SWAT captures suspect after ceiling fall ends hours-long Indian River County standoff

    11/10/2025 6:04:00 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 10 replies
    wptv.com ^ | Nov 07, 2025 | Scott Sutton
    SEBASTIAN, Fla. — A Sebastian man with an extensive criminal history was taken into custody this week in Indian River County after a standoff that lasted several hours, deputies said. According to a post on the Indian River County Sheriff's Office Facebook page, deputies received an alert from license plate readers about a stolen Ford F-350 heading westbound near Louisiana Avenue on County Road 512. Rodgers was seen unloading wood at the home, but fled inside after seeing law enforcement. Authorities said Rodgers hid in the attic of the home for several hours before video showed him falling through the...
  • Is Firefox and DuckDuckGo blocking access to newsmax?

    11/10/2025 5:52:10 AM PST · by antidemoncrat · 15 replies
    11/10/2025 | antidemoncrat
    When I try to access news max on Firefox using DuckDuckGo search engine I get the message "Secure Connection Failed". What's going on?
  • These are the 8 Senate Democrats who voted to end the shutdown

    11/10/2025 5:47:36 AM PST · by RandFan · 12 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/09/25 11:30 PM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted Sunday evening to proceed to a House-passed continuing resolution, taking a major step toward ending the 40-day shutdown. The Senate voted 60-40 to advance the House bill, which will serve as the legislative vehicle for a bipartisan deal to fund military construction, veterans’ affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the legislative branch through Sept. 30 and the rest of government through Jan. 30. It sets the stage for the House to return to Washington later this week to vote on the bill in hope of getting to President Trump’s desk for his...
  • Cleveland Guardians pitchers indicted in connection to sports gambling investigation

    11/10/2025 5:30:13 AM PST · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    ABC News ^ | November 09, 2025 | Aaron Katersky
    Two Major League Baseball pitchers allegedly conspired with sports bettors to rig pitches they threw so the bettors would profit from illegal wagers, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and the FBI announced in an indictment on Sunday. Cleveland Guardians player Luis Leandro Ortiz was arrested Sunday at Logan Airport in Boston. Emmanuel Clase, also of the Guardians, was not yet in custody as of Sunday afternoon. According to the indictment, the pitchers started conspiring with sports bettors in 2023 on specific pitches they would throw during MLB games. The bettors then used that information to place prop bets worth hundreds of...
  • Math for Socialists

    11/10/2025 5:27:46 AM PST · by Pete Dovgan · 30 replies
    Self ^ | 11/10/2025 | Self
    Figured I would do some 'rough' figure Math for any of the NYC Socialists who can read. Feel free to check the article for references above. Population of NYC= 8,478,072 Budget is 188 Billion a year. 1% of NYC accounts for 90% of Tax Revenue for the NYC. Therefore 84,000 people are responsible for 169 Billion of the 188 Billion of Revenue for NYC. Here is the Math for soaking the Rich. If the Rich leave, say 50% to florida or other districts, you lose 50% of 169 Billion of your budget. That's a no go for Police, Fire, Sanitation,...
  • Senate Votes 60-40 To Reopen Government 🚨One Republican, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, opposes the CR🚨

    11/10/2025 5:10:31 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 34 replies
    spacepolicyonline.com ^ | November 9, 2025 | Marcia Smith
    Senate Majority Leader John Thune finally got the eight Democrats/Independents he needed to vote in favor of a Continuing Resolution that will allow the government to reopen. Tonight’s vote was just one step — though a critically important one — in a process that could take several days to play out. Among other things, the CR is different from the one that passed the House on September 19 so the House will have to vote on it again.
  • Whaddya Mean: Capitalism is not Working?

    11/10/2025 5:01:10 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10 Nov, 2025 | Christopher Chantrill
    Peter Thiel tells Shawn Fisher at the Free Press that: Capitalism is not working for a lot of people in New York City. It’s not working for young people.Dear me. Here we have the whole world fainting because Tucker Carlson dared -- dared -- to interview Nick Fuentes, and Peter Thiel says something completely off-the-charts wacko. Capitalism not working? Capitalism works every minute, every hour, every day, for everyone, whether you like it or not. What is not working right now is the mountain of government programs and regulations and left-wing conceits that are piled high on capitalism like spices...
  • WWII Navy Veteran Sinks British Establishment

    11/10/2025 4:19:55 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10 Nov, 2025 | J.B. Shurk
    A war hero warns Brits — on live TV — that they are no longer free. For once, a video has gone “viral” on social media platforms that actually deserves to be seen by everyone. It involves hundred-year-old Royal Navy and Arctic Convoy veteran Alec Penstone in a live appearance on Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain. Co-hosts Adil Ray and Kate Garraway intended to use Penstone as a pre–Armistice Day prop for conveying to the country’s viewing audience that corporate news reporters are just as patriotic as ordinary Brits who are thrown in jail for waving Union Jack flags...
  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

    11/10/2025 1:57:48 AM PST · by OttawaFreeper · 16 replies
    YouTube ^ | Feb 9 2017 | Gordon Lightfoot
    Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner Records The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald · Gordon Lightfoot
  • Today's Toons 11/10/25

    11/10/2025 1:36:23 AM PST · by pookie18 · 6 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 11/10/25 | pookie18
    Click on link
  • 'Killed because they are Alawites': Fear among Syria's minorities after the fall of Assad

    11/10/2025 12:32:55 AM PST · by RandFan · 7 replies
    BBC ^ | Nov 10 | BBC
    The killer came by night – a masked man on a motorbike who struck without warning and then sped away. It's become a familiar pattern in some corners of the new Syria in recent months, as the country's fragile unity is eroded by revenge attacks and sectarian killings. The main targets are Alawites, the sect of the ousted Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. But this time, on 1 October, the victims were Christians – Wissam and Shafiq Mansour, cousins who were both 39, and were as close as brothers. As they chatted with a friend over coffee and cigarettes, they were...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    11/10/2025 12:12:16 AM PST · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 12 replies
    HRTR HR ALTREMRA ITVW HZNULOXMVO HURO MV NVH ZOA HURO MV TRZY, HR NUVSJA NVVO HZOM KTRZA. — MUVWZN QRIIRTNVO
  • Mythbusters: What happens if you store your ammunition and loaded guns in an over, forget that they're in the oven, and turn the over on?

    11/09/2025 11:52:27 PM PST · by grundle · 40 replies
    Pluto TV ^ | Mythbusters
    Mythbusters: What happens if you store your ammunition and loaded guns in an over, forget that they're in the oven, and turn the over on?
  • Rand Paul - only GOP holdout - speaks

    11/09/2025 10:49:05 PM PST · by RandFan · 58 replies
    X ^ | Nov 9 | Sen. Rand Paul
    @RandPaul Tonight the process of opening the govt begins, less chaos is a good thing but hidden deep in the swamp speak of the Republican bill will be a waiver of PAYGO the long-standing law requiring new spending to be offset with cuts. And so it goes, a trillion here a trillion there. $38 trillion in debt and counting. A depressing outcome
  • Why Earth is Closest to Sun in Dead of Winter

    11/09/2025 9:52:29 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 46 replies
    Space.com ^ | January 2, 2007 | Mary Lou Whitehorne
    Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle. It is elliptical, or slightly oval-shaped. This means there is one point in the orbit where Earth is closest to the Sun, and another where Earth is farthest from the Sun. The closest point occurs in early January, and the far point happens in early July (July 7, 2007). If this is the mechanism that causes seasons, it makes some sense for the Southern Hemisphere. But, as an explanation for the Northern Hemisphere, it fails miserably.In fact, Earth's elliptical orbit has nothing to do with seasons. The reason for seasons was explained in...