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  • These are not extremists. Ordinary British people are being criminalised

    07/26/2025 12:15:35 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 45 replies
    UK News Yahoo ^ | 25 July 2025 | Suella Braverman
    It is becoming harder by the day to pretend this is all normal. Epping, a leafy Essex town not known for rabble-rousing, has suddenly become a bellwether. It is not extremists making the noise, but mothers: ordinary, decent, quietly exhausted. One protestor’s placard said it best: “I’m not far-Right. I’m worried about my kids.” Eight days. That’s how long it took from Hadush Kebatu’s illegal arrival on our shores to his alleged assault of a local teenage girl. This criminal charge has pierced through the political haze, not because it is an anomaly, but because it is no longer rare....
  • Waste management, Italian-style

    07/26/2025 6:06:02 AM PDT · by Twotone · 48 replies
    The Blaze ^ | July 21, 2025 | O.W. Root
    Did you know ancient Rome was "sustainable"? Romans probably didn't use that exact buzzword, but apparently, they were recycling pioneers. When they weren't creating a mountain made out of garbage, that is. As someone who's been to Italy recently, I can tell you that that legacy of recycling lives on. Frankly, it's a mixed bag. If fact, the convoluted waste disposal system in that beautiful Mediterranean peninsula is the perfect embodiment of the current state of Europe. Garbage in, garbage out In America, you take your trash, and you throw it in the can underneath the kitchen sink. Then, when...
  • New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do

    07/25/2025 6:34:39 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 25, 2025 Updated 5:21 p.m. ET | Charlie Savage
    The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.The Trump administration in recent weeks has released a series of reports intended to undermine the conclusion reached by intelligence agencies before President Trump’s first term that Russia had favored his candidacy in 2016 and sought to improve his chances of winning.That assessment, an unclassified version of which was made public in January 2017, has long infuriated Mr. Trump. In disclosing the reports, he and his team are proclaiming that President Barack Obama and his team torqued the...
  • Blue Angels jets killed my beloved pet cat Layla...then did something that tipped me over the edge

    07/25/2025 8:40:50 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 131 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 7/25/2025 | Rachel Bowman
    A Seattle woman has accused the US Navy's Blue Angels of 'terrorizing' her elderly cat before its death, then violating her rights after they blocked her on social media for complaining, according to a new lawsuit. Lauren Ann Lombardi's 14-year-old cat Layla died on August 11 after suffering from congestive heart disease, which the cat mom claims was worsened by noise from the Blue Angels. 'Layla's final days on Earth were marred by sadistic suffering - cowering in terror beneath furniture while her ailing heart struggled against the Blue Angels' relentless noise pollution,' her federal lawsuit said.
  • Gabbard’s Attacks on Obama Put the Attorney General in a Tough Spot

    07/25/2025 10:25:10 AM PDT · by Jim Noble · 27 replies
    New York Times ^ | July 24, 2025 | Glenn Thrush and Julian E. Barnes
    The director of national intelligence gave the Justice Department little warning before she demanded an investigation. President Trump made clear this week that Tulsi Gabbard was back in his good graces. A few weeks ago, Mr. Trump excoriated Ms. Gabbard, one of his top intelligence officials, over a video she filmed during a trip to Asia that he saw as self-promotional, and she was left out of some meetings in the lead-up to the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to two people with knowledge of what happened. But on Tuesday...
  • Extreme heat can pose a danger to baseball players and fans. It’s also changing the physics of the game.

    07/25/2025 6:12:19 AM PDT · by Salman · 80 replies
    Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Sports ^ | July 25, 2025 | Kalen Lumpkins and Adriana Pérez
    ... Extreme summer heat during baseball season is not only making games uncomfortably hot and sweaty for fans in the stands — it’s also posing a danger to the health of players and changing the physics of the sport. Since 1970, human-made climate change has driven up average summer temperatures in Chicago by 2 degrees, according to the climate science nonprofit Climate Central. That lines up with an average increase of 2.8 degrees across 26 Major League Baseball home cities in the United States — except Los Angeles. The home of the Angels and Dodgers has had no measurable change...
  • ‘No To Blue Angels’ billboard goes up in Rainier Valley (Seattle)

    07/24/2025 2:26:20 PM PDT · by llevrok · 71 replies
    KIRO 7 TV News ^ | 7/23/25 | Deborah Horne, KIRO 7 News
    SEATTLE — A “No to Blue Angels” billboard just went up in Seattle’s Rainier Valley. The Blue Angels have been a fixture of Seafair for more than 50 year-- their thunderous roar could is the soundtrack to summer’s in Seattle. “I miss it more now because I don’t live on this side of town anymore,” said Carolyn Finney. She says she enjoyed the acrobatic show before moving to SeaTac. “Just seeing them fly around just close to the house down on, by the beach, that kind of stuff,” Finney said. “Yeah, it was exciting to see that.” However, a group...
  • Dear Ron Paul

    07/24/2025 2:22:05 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 47 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | July 24, 2025 | Spencer Neale
    Ron Paul should have been president. That’s how I see it at least. On everything that has come to matter the most, he has been vindicated. The wars have been a disaster and Dr. Paul knew it. The money printing has run this country’s economy ragged and enriched its most deceitful. And Dr. Paul knew it. Our people are spied on, pried on, cajoled, mocked, and belittled by the intelligence agencies and federal bureaucrats who throw around words such as “terror” while targeting our civil liberties. And Dr. Paul knew it. When it wasn’t pretty, Dr. Paul would say it....
  • Revenge or Justice?

    07/24/2025 5:31:20 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 39 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 24 Jul, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Tulsi Gabbard’s doc dump revives a damning question: Did Obama’s intel chiefs knowingly push the Russia hoax to cripple Trump before he even took office? Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to follow. The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors—purportedly along with President Obama himself—in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In addition, their efforts extended to sabotaging the 2016-2017 presidential transition and, by extension, the first three years of the Trump presidency. The released documents add some new details to...
  • Miranda Devine: The country deserves better than the Dems ‘cracked out clown show,’ ‘elite’ media ignoring Gabbard’s bombshell

    07/24/2025 1:50:42 AM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/23/25 | Miranda Devine
    America deserves better than the degenerate propaganda machine that passes for “elite” journalism. We deserve better than the evil “cracked out clown show” the Democratic Party has become. The New York Times and The Washington Post all but ignored DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell press conference Wednesday, at which she announced that she had sent criminal referrals to the DOJ and FBI implicating former President Barack Obama and his national security team in the “seditious conspiracy” of the Russia collusion hoax. No wonder the best of the Democrats have switched to the Trump GOP. Authentic, principled leaders who might once have...
  • The Butler Probabilities Were the Secret Service’s series of errors intentional?

    07/23/2025 8:27:27 AM PDT · by bitt · 52 replies
    https://spectator.org ^ | July 22, 2025, 10:00 PM | George Parry July 22, 2025, 10:00 PM
    “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming, Goldfinger “…probabilities cannot be bribed to deceive, and … they cannot be convicted of bearing false witness.” — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, Chapter 15 On July 13, 2024, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, before witnesses and unimpeded by law enforcement, climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building at the Butler Farm Show. He was 441 feet away from the stage on which candidate Donald Trump was addressing 15,000 enthusiastic supporters. From that perch, Crooks used a semi-automatic rifle to rapidly fire eight rounds at...
  • Compel Obama Now

    07/23/2025 8:22:51 AM PDT · by bitt · 34 replies
    https://townhall.com ^ | Jul 23, 2025 | Kevin McCullough
    There was a theme to the Obama years: say one thing, mean another, and spin it all as “historic.” This week, Barack Obama trotted out that same tired formula—this time in response to the bombshell DNI report declassified last Friday. His statement? “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.” Cute. But irrelevant. Because no one—certainly not the DNI—claimed Russia manipulated votes. That’s not the point. The actual claim from the Director of National Intelligence—now Tulsi Gabbard—is that Obama-era officials...
  • Epstein Has Become an Info Op to Sabotage Saving America

    07/23/2025 12:20:09 AM PDT · by Words Matter · 71 replies
    FPM ^ | 07.22.25 | Daniel Greenfield
    Letting the Left divide MAGA with an Epstein info op may doom America. .. The Trump administration has a limited legislative window to get anything done. Democrats have seized on the Epstein issue to sideline legislation and some House Republican leaders appear to be going along with it instead of staying laser-focused on passing as much of the president’s agenda as possible. The Dems know a golden opportunity when they see one and everyone insisting on Epstein answers that are never going to come (certainly not out of Congress, of all places) are squandering a very narrow window for getting...
  • In the blink of an eye, California turns on In-N-Out's CEO

    07/22/2025 7:09:57 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 127 replies
    SF Gate ^ | 07/21/2025 | Madeline Wells
    Billionaire In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder stirred up a storm of online controversy over the weekend when she revealed that she planned to move her family out of California to Tennessee. The news comes as In-N-Out begins to expand heavily into the South, launching a new joint headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville — where Snyder will also now be based. Snyder revealed the coming move on a recent podcast appearance, saying, “There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here.” The clip, from a new episode of...
  • 3 things that should scare us about Trump's fake video of Obama

    07/22/2025 11:58:36 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 59 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | July 22, 2025 11:47 AM PDT | Anita Chabria
    On Sunday, our thoughtful and reserved president reposted on his Truth Social site a video generated by artificial intelligence that falsely showed former President Obama being arrested and imprisoned. There are those among you who think this is high humor; those among you who who find it as tiresome as it is offensive; and those among you blissfully unaware of the mental morass that is Truth Social. Whatever camp you fall into, the video crosses all demographics by being expected — just another crazy Trump stunt in a repetitive cycle of division and diversion so frequent it makes Groundhog Day...
  • Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

    07/22/2025 11:46:20 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 22, 2025, 11:41 a.m. ET | Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman
    Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.At Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, the Trump administration is set to review, and possibly remove or alter, signs about how climate change is causing sea levels to rise.At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the administration will soon decide whether to take down exhibits on the brutality of slavery.And at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in Florida, Trump officials are scrutinizing language about the imprisonment of Native Americans inside the Spanish stone fortress.According...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii ~ 22 JULY 2025

    07/21/2025 6:00:01 PM PDT · by laurenmarlowe · 40 replies
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    ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Wheeler Army Airfield, HawaiiWheeler Army Airfield, also known as Wheeler Field and formerly as Wheeler Air Force Base, is a United States Army post located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii. It is a National Historic Landmark for its role in the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Wheeler AAF comprises approximately 1,389 acres of land adjacent to Schofield Barracks and is home to a variety of Department of Defense activities including the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the 169th Aircraft...
  • How Western Democracy Died

    07/21/2025 10:33:44 AM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 10 replies
    Unherd ^ | 7/21/25 | Thomas Fazi
    From a stumbling economy to soaring crime, France has plenty of problems. But, judging by recent events, the government seems to have another threat in mind: social media. Earlier this month, prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk’s X, alleging foreign interference through algorithm manipulation, while also condemning the platform for spreading “hateful” content. This followed a police raid on the headquarters of the National Rally, France’s leading opposition party, after the launch of yet another dubious investigation into campaign financing. The Fifth Republic is far from alone here. For Western democracy is under threat — not from “foreign...
  • Omar, He's Making Eyes at Me

    07/21/2025 7:45:09 AM PDT · by Twotone · 33 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | July 21, 2025 | Mark Steyn
    ~Ladies and gentlemen, the next mayor of Minneapolis... Mogadishu? Nope - Minneapolis victory party of Omar Fateh after he won the MN Democratic endorsement pic.twitter.com/QzBwVWPbC2 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 20, 2025 Minnesota Nice is looking more and more like Minnesota Suicidal. Whatever else may be said of it, in Mogadishu it would be considered weird - and kind of pathetic - to make, say, Garrison Keillor the mayor. In that sense, notwithstanding an IQ down at Congressional-approval level, Somalis are smarter than western progressives. Which brings me to our regular, if increasingly obnoxious, "As I was saying twenty years...
  • Miranda Devine: Trump wins the Epstein battle — as the left, media foolishly believe prez on the skids

    07/20/2025 8:06:24 PM PDT · by bitt · 35 replies
    https://nypost.com/ ^ | July 20, 202 | Miranda Devine
    If you listened to the rest of the media — both mainstream and social media — you would think Donald Trump was on the skids, that MAGA was at last turning on the president over the so-called Epstein Files. But nothing could be further from the truth, according to polling the president crowed about over the weekend and, also, according to history. Every single time his enemies count him out, Trump roars back with a vengeance. The latest effort last week to try to smear him as a sexual deviant and damage his marriage by tying him to child sex...