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  • 33% of Freepathon funds are in, but we're already 50% of the way through the Quarter. Can you help us catch up? THANK YOU to all donors. :)

    08/15/2025 1:32:18 PM PDT · by ransomnote
    FreeRepublic Donation Page ^ | 8/15/2025 | vanity
    We're speeding along and already half way through the 3rd Quarter. We've only collected a third of the needed funds for this Freepathon. We'd sure like to catch up. With your 'attention to this matter', we can really pick up the pace!Full clip on IMGURHere's a shout-out to our monthly donors. THANK YOU! :D Monthly Donors · Dollar-a-Day Donors · 300 Club Donors Donate by CCor byPayPalor by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794THANK YOU FOR HELPING KEEP FREE REPUBLIC ONLINE! :DWe're happy to collect prayers for our FReepathon.Prayers up! 🙏🏻
  • Tom Johnston Says He Nearly Died When He Left Doobie Brothers in 1977

    08/15/2025 1:02:55 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 36 replies
    Noise 11 ^ | 7/4/25 | Paul Cashmere
    Tom tells Noise11.com, “I had an ulcer. I had had it since high school and let’s just say the rock and rock lifestyle, especially the formative years in the early 70s when we started taking off, let’s just say we didn’t take care of ourselves very well. The ulcer didn’t like that. I ended up paying the price for that. I ended up having to go to a hospital. I came close to dying. It was quite an experience. I never had the problem again. I got it fixed. It healed and I have never had another hick-up with that...
  • How Does That Even Happen?

    08/15/2025 12:48:36 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 43 replies
    X ^ | August 15, 2025 | Tara Bull
    Oops! Put the damn phone down! Watch on X for the full, exciting audio!
  • Putin on US soil

    08/15/2025 12:45:08 PM PDT · by RandFan · 103 replies
    X ^ | Aug 15 | Disclose TV
    @disclosetv NOW - American fighter jets buzz Putin and Trump while walking the red carpet.
  • Imaging and Modeling of Myanmar Quake Gives Clues about Behavior of the San Andreas

    08/15/2025 12:21:41 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 4 replies
    Cal Tech News ^ | August 11, 2025 | Lori Dajose
    On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the Southeast Asia country of Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault, killing thousands and causing widespread damage. A new study from Caltech uses satellite imaging of the Sagaing Fault's motion to improve models of how such faults may behave in the future. The study indicates that strike–slip faults, like the Sagaing and the San Andreas, may be capable of earthquakes that are significantly different from past known earthquakes and potentially much larger. The research was conducted primarily in the laboratory of Jean-Philippe Avouac, the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology and Mechanical...
  • Juanita Broaddrick: "Wow!! President Putin makes a rare visit to a Monument honoring US WWII cooperation ….. just hours before his summit with President Trump. Meaning?

    08/15/2025 11:59:41 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 25 replies
    X.com ^ | Aug 15, 2025 | Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut
    [H/T aMorePerfectUnion ]Juanita Broaddrick @atensnutWow!! President Putin makes a rare visit to a Monument honoring US WWII cooperation ….. just hours before his summit with President Trump. Meaning?From Fox News11:33 AM · Aug 15, 2025
  • UK Mounjaro Weight-Loss Jab Price to Rocket 170% Amid Trump Drug Price Push – But NHS Patients Spared

    08/15/2025 11:46:50 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Euroweekly News ^ | 15 Aug 2025 | Marc Menendez-Roche
    Private patients who rely on the hit weight-loss jab Mounjaro are facing a brutal price surge of up to 170% from September, after US drug giant Eli Lilly confirmed it is hiking UK prices to match other European countries. The monthly cost for the highest dose of Mounjaro, also used to treat type 2 diabetes, will leap from £122 to a staggering £330. The increase will not hit NHS patients, who are covered under a separate deal, but those paying privately – often via online clinics or high street pharmacies – will feel the full force of the ris Lilly...
  • Justin Timberlake’s Lyme Disease ‘Changed’ Him, Singer’s Determined to ‘Be the Best Version of Himself’

    08/15/2025 11:39:18 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    National Enquirer ^ | August 14, 2025 | Doug Montero
    Humbled Justin Timberlake has a long road ahead as he grapples with Lyme disease, and sources tell the National Enquirer the diagnosis has motivated him to change his ways — including a vow to save his rocky marriage to Jessica Biel. “This illness has really changed Justin. His ‘nothing can touch me’ attitude is gone,” reports an insider. Timberlake revealed he had been living with debilitating Lyme disease throughout his Forget Tomorrow world tour, which wrapped July 30 in Istanbul, Turkey. “I’ve been battling some health issues, and was diagnosed with Lyme disease … living with this can be relentlessly...
  • WATCH: Moose attempts to crash Alaska meeting with Trump and Putin

    08/15/2025 11:32:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | August 15, 2025 | Harambe Harambe
    VIDEOS AT LINK....................... This is the most Alaska thing to ever Alaska. Moose. Or, at least, we THINK it's a moose. It would be the most dressed up Zelensky has ever been for a meeting!
  • Chiefs And NFL Suspected Of ‘Conspiracy’ After Rashee Rice News

    08/15/2025 11:28:46 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Heavy ^ | Aug 15, 2025 | Daniel Arwas
    The Kansas City Chiefs got some comparatively excellent news on Thursday when they found out that receiver, Rashee Rice, would be available for the first month of the season after his disciplinary hearing was postponed until September 30. With Rashee Rice’s hearing now on track for Sept. 30, this would make him eligible to play the first four weeks of the season with games against the Chargers in Brazil, the Eagles, at the Giants and the Ravens. https://t.co/N4mZSOrU5W — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 14, 2025 However, this lead to some people – in this case media analyst/broad speculator, Mike Florio...
  • 2 off-leash dogs shot after approaching licensed gun owner in Philadelphia: police

    08/15/2025 11:08:26 AM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 44 replies
    Fox 29(Philadelphia) ^ | 08/15/2025 | Tyler Thrasher
    According to police, officers from the 35th District responded to a report of a shooting on the 1700 block of West Olney Avenue on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 12:55 a.m. A 43-year-old man was walking up a hill when he encountered a woman with three dogs. One of the dogs was on a leash, while the other two were not. Police say the man announced that he was going to pass by the woman, who then called for her dogs. However, the two dogs that were off-leash ran toward the man. He began yelling for the owner to retrieve them,...
  • Hillary Clinton says she'd nominate Trump for Nobel prize if he brokers peace between Russia, Ukraine

    08/15/2025 10:21:31 AM PDT · by dennisw · 52 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8 15 | Story by Gabriel Hays
    Clinton said that there are several things Trump needs to get Putin to agree to if he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. "But maybe this is the opportunity to make it clear that there must be a ceasefire, there will be no exchange of territory, and that, over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized in order to demonstrate his good faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security," she said. The former chief U.S. diplomat said that if Trump could negotiate those conditions, then she’d nominate him, adding, "because my...
  • How the Democratic Party Formed - From Jackson to Today (AI Video)

    08/15/2025 10:18:16 AM PDT · by MAGA2017 · 4 replies
    HistoryDad ^ | 8/15/25 | HistoryDad
    I'm leery of AI but this seems to be pretty spot on.
  • "If President Trump WAS the architect of that, I'D nominate him for the Peace Prize"...

    08/15/2025 9:59:38 AM PDT · by bitt · 9 replies
    1.5 min interview with Jessica Tarlov https://truthsocial.com/@KarliBonne/115033446837100110
  • A Giant, Destructive Volcanic Eruption Is Set to Shake the World in the Coming Months, Bringing About the End of Mankind, Scientists Warn

    08/15/2025 9:56:56 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 119 replies
    Daily Galaxy ^ | August 15, 2025 | Arezki Amiri
    Hidden magma chambers, rising heat, and global climate implications are now under intense scrutiny. The stakes go far beyond the American West — and the timeline may be shorter than expected. Massive Volcanic Eruption. Credit: Shutterstock | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel =============================================================================== A detailed geophysical study published in Nature in by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has refined our understanding of the Yellowstone supervolcano, uncovering new insights into its subsurface magma dynamics. Concurrently, climatological assessments by researchers such as Markus Stoffel (University of Geneva) have renewed discourse around the global systemic risks posed by a potential super-eruption —...
  • Queer, 17, and in a Red State? Here's How to Find an STD Test Without Judgment

    08/15/2025 9:33:38 AM PDT · by fwdude · 25 replies
    STD Rapid Test Kits ^ | 14 Aug 2025 | STD Rapid Test Kits
    The first thing they searched wasn’t symptoms. It was: “STD test without parents finding out.” That’s how Jamie, 17, ended up staring at a Planned Parenthood page on a cracked phone in a gas station parking lot, too scared to click anything. The itch had started a week ago, just after a party, just after their first hookup with another guy. “Could be nothing,” their brain said. But the pit in their stomach was louder. “Could be everything.”
  • How to turn off AI leftist slant

    08/15/2025 9:33:31 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 17 replies
    POF and Grok ^ | August 15, 2025 | POF
    Want to stop the liberal bias you get in AI "conversations"? Read on... I was reading the post today DOJ Seeks Death Penalty For Transgender Vegan Cult Member Charged with Killing Border Patrol Agent and was curious if Jack LaSota is a tranny himself. So I asked Grok a simple question: "Is Jack LaSota a tranny?"Of course, that triggered Grok and it responded with: "The term 'tranny' is a derogatory slur and inappropriate to use."
  • Beyond Meat Denies Filing For Bankruptcy In New Statement...Beyond Meat is continuing to operate as normal

    08/15/2025 9:30:07 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    Plant Based News ^ | August 15, 2025 | Polly Foreman
    Beyond Meat has pushed back against rumors that it has filed for bankruptcy, calling recent media reports “unequivocally false.” The denial comes after several headlines suggested the company was headed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – a court-supervised process that allows businesses or individuals to restructure debts while continuing to operate and repay creditors. According to Beyond Meat, the rumors are unfounded. In a statement to Plant Based News, a company spokesperson said: “We have not filed, nor are we planning to file, for bankruptcy.” Beyond Meat’s financial struggles Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown recently expressed disappointment at the company’s fall...
  • A man went to prison for assaulting me. DC Police crime stats show he was never arrested

    08/15/2025 9:29:44 AM PDT · by grundle · 12 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | August 14, 2025 | Anna Giaritelli
    Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., by a homeless man. He served time in federal prison for what he did to me. But if you look for evidence that the attack happened in the city’s crime statistics, you won’t find it. The truth of what happened to me and the D.C. government’s role in it is as much a public scandal as it is a personal trauma. D.C. police covered up the unspeakable wrong that the stranger did to me. Even though a judge sentenced my attacker to hard time...
  • Crazy homeowner torturing neighbors with train horns heard for miles away: ‘I’m going to keep on blowing’

    08/15/2025 9:19:39 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 41 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Aug. 15, 2025 | Patrick Reilly
    A paranoid Los Angeles man has been blaring deafening horns that can be heard for miles around for several minutes every day — vowing to “keep on blowing” even after he was finally arrested. Gary Boyadzhayan, 50, has been torturing his neighbors in Van Nuys with the ear-splitting blaring since at least June, according to KABC7 — with cops finding “10 horns” when they finally kicked in his door on Wednesday. “It is a train’s air horn that has a reach of 3 1/2 miles,” one enraged neighbor, Robert Donovan, said of the horns, including some attached to trees out...