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Posted on 08/18/2026 5:52:03 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
Can anyone tell me why "Breaking News (News Activism)" which I have on my sidebar mostly has "Sunday Morning Talk Show Threads" listed. Is there some secret religious thing I'm missing?
I ask because it's annoying no breaking news is posted there, it's always bothered me, but now even more so because someone I know recently said to me, "There's no breaking news on FreeRepublic. It's always the same old things."
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Ive noticed that as well. Just grateful this place is still here.
The Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread is a longstanding weekly posting.
I hardly ever look at the Breaking News and Front Page News sidebar stuff except to see how much now-irrelevant non-breaking news is still in there!
The Illuminati and the Bild-a-bears have gotten together
with the Roth children and hacked your internet systems.
Because of the Devil and also tunnels.
Trust the plan.
I got slammed for posting about an earthquake while the ground was still shaking!
We do need to be a bit kinder to each other.
I've asked for years just WHAT is VetsCoR? No one knows.
And since Jim died, no one in charge cares to clean up the different forums. Especially Breaking News.
Free Republic is like a fine old mansion left to decay. The neglect we see with the forums is just one sign of impending destruction.
A sidebar bit my sister.
When the Freepathon breaks a lousy 25%, that is Breaking news.
Now look way way down in Breaking...
Let's not allow our FReepathon to get too far behind, folks.
Posted on 7/21/2026, 7:35:15 PM by Chris Robinson
Nearly a month ago!
If Chris can't give a care to run a Freepathon, then why should anyone care to contribute.
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There’s stuff left on the sidebar for years and years. I’ve come to just ignore it completely.
You probably have it turned off in your settings.
Any user can force a thread into the Breaking News category (or at least it used to be that way.) Maybe someone can remind us of the procedure.
Anyway, if a mod deems it’s not Breaking News, he will remove it from that category.
The question is, what’s the threshold for what’s “breaking news”?
I once posted a thread about an alliance between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and one other nation (either Egypt, Pakistan, or Qatar), because it had just been announced that morning, and there were no other threads.
It got pulled out of Breaking News.
Much of the “breaking news” is more than two weeks old.
A bit of modernization wouldn't hurt either. For example, "Anthrax Scare" is listed under "Hot Topics". LMAO.
Here’s what I posted on the Sunday thread:
I hate to see Free Republic’s Breaking News bar so deserted, with the only item our Sunday thread for the previous 3 weeks.
There are things that are breaking news happening every day.
Are FReepers not putting them in, or are the moderators taking them out or both, or something else?
Just pick all.
However, at some point, what was considered qualifying for breaking news, started shifting.
e.g. I would post a thread on a Trump event, if a thread wasn't already started, and try to tag it as breaking news
It would be removed from breaking news, and sometimes the thread moved to chat or blogging.
Lately, it seems that threads posted as news, even if it was of events on the main page of other news sites, were being moved to blogging or chat.
Not news, then no breaking news threads.
FR use to have threads of events just after they happened and were reported on... Now, not so much.
Not being able to post things as news as it happens, and tag it as breaking to direct people to one thread, instead of on of several others that subsequently get created, then why post threads at all?
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