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Farage got an incredible 63% of the vote - all the other 33 parties together only got 37% Despite a lower turnout, Farage increased his votes to 22,000 Let’s see if the Establishment dare call another by-election because they will get really smashed again The Establishment were humiliated tonight @DPJHodges

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‘Detransitioners’ share sex-change horror stories about doctors pressuring them as impressionable teens: ‘Like a car salesman’ Three disturbing stories of children that were allegedly preyed upon by greedy hospitals and doctors — and encouraged as minors to undergo gender-care treatment — were outlined in the Department of Health and Human Services’ bombshell “Wolves in White Coats” report Thursday. Here are their stories. Clementine Breen Clementine was just 12 years old and anxious about her changing adolescent body, while simultaneously grappling with unprocessed trauma from sexual abuse years earlier. Desperate for an escape, she discovered the idea of transitioning gender in...

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Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and MartyrSome Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.” Matthew 19:3–6In Jesus’...

Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, said: “Calling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas a ‘genocide’ is not activism; it is a modern blood libel dressed up in academic language.” By Marhilda Heller. August 13, 2026. An alliance of 55 organizations has this week launched Gaza GenoLIE, an educational initiative about the “generated and orchestrated genocide lie promoted by anti-Zionists and antisemitic networks in the US, Europe and around the world.” It further says that the “Gaza Genocide” is one of the biggest lies of the 21st century. The website includes eight pieces of what it describes as “the Gaza GenoLIE...

Five current and former Refugio, Texas, city officials were arrested on Wednesday for fraud after they allegedly mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars that spanned 19 transactions. Refugio Mayor Wanda Dukes was charged with misapplication of fiduciary property, a first-degree felony, for misusing funds from the Refugio Economic Development Corporation between October 2023 and October 2025. City Secretary Callie Shreckengost was also charged with misapplication of fiduciary property. Current City Council Ixtlazihuatl Vasquez, former City Council Frank Hosey, and former City Council Michael Rocha were all hit with third-degree felony charges of abuse of official capacity. According to the indictment,...

The Battle of the Tappan Zee unfolded on the night of August 16–17, 1776. Patriot fireships attack HMS Phoenix and HMS Rose in an eighteenth-century engraving. Residents along the western shore of the Tappan Zee were awakened during the night by cannon fire as one of the American Revolution’s earliest naval battles erupted on the Hudson River. Looking across the water, families watched Patriot fireships drift toward two British warships while flashes of cannon fire illuminated the night sky. For nearly two hours, Patriot boats battled Royal Navy warships in a desperate attempt to drive away the British squadron. Today,...

"Love is kind" (1 Cor. 13:4). Kindness repays evil with good. Two men going opposite directions on a narrow mountain trail met each other head on. With a steep cliff on one side and sheer rock on the other, they were unable to pass. The harder they tried to squeeze past one another the more frustrated they became. The situation seemed hopeless until one of them, without saying a word, simply laid down on the trail, allowing the other man to walk over him. That illustrates kindness, which doesn't mind getting walked on if it benefits someone else. The Greek...

Critics accuse the New York City mayor of using a 'fake' accent while promoting his mother Mira Nair's Disney film

WNBA Task Force meets to define “women.” This pic is NOT from the short video. Somebody posted it on the X post: And VERY true!

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Cyber warfare is increasingly coming for U.S. water supplies. Water providers in at least seven U.S. states have been targeted by cyberattacks over the past two weeks, according to multiple agencies including the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Some officials indicated that as many as a dozen states could have been impacted. The hackers targeted components known as programmable logic controllers, which allow utility providers to manage the flow and even chemical composition of water supplies to the homes and businesses they serve, according to the agencies. In many cases, they...

Unprecedented moves in the AI space this week are giving stock market experts flashbacks to one of the most famous corporate scandals in history, stoking fears that we're in line for a similarly catastrophic fallout. The headline-worthy $500 billion that Wall Street just announced it's providing Nvidia clients to scale their AI infrastructure marks the beginning of an untested new future for financial engineering that commentators such as Ed Yardeni and Michael Burry are extremely wary of. And, based on the implications for the average portfolio and the economy at large, you may need to be wary, too. Predicting a...

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee sounds the alarm nationwide after James O'Keefe exposes in Minnesota that election officials let ONE PERSON vouch for 8 VOTERS, NO ID LEE: "Minnesota unintentionally makes a compelling case for the SAVE America Act." O'Keefe straight up walks up in Muslim garb, and the liberal woman says: "You can vouch for them." "She says, YOU ARE the ID." 🤯🤯🤯 SAVE America is existential for the republic, or this is coming to EVERY STATE. 📽️ @JamesOKeefeIII

Confirmed Royal Jet flights from Abu Dhabi into Iran have intensified scrutiny of unverified claims that the United Arab Emirates released billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, including gold, to reduce its exposure to future Iranian attacks. The allegations, attributed exclusively to anonymous senior sources in Tehran, describe financial transfers designed to preserve an apparent pause in Iranian missile and drone strikes against Emirati territory during the wider 2026 United States-Iran confrontation. Flight-tracking data confirms that a Royal Jet Boeing 737-7KK Business Jet, registered A6-RJA, conducted short return flights from Abu Dhabi to Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport and Karaj’s Payam...

Bishop Eleganti says Islam ‘cannot be integrated’ into West ‘There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti said in a new interview. ‘It is a system of domination.’Bishop Marian Eleganti, in an interview published Thursday, said that Islam cannot be integrated into Western political systems that the Christian faith has shaped.During the interview with La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana published August 13, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, emphasized that it’s impossible for Islam to be integrated into the Western world, which holds Christian foundations. The bishop further highlighted the “anti-Christian” agenda of both Islamists and...

A former Republican member of Congress who was once called Donald Trump’s “stooge” has resurfaced as a wine connoisseur in a quaint coastal California town. Devin Nunes made headlines constantly in the first Trump administration, with the Central Valley representative accused of meddling in Trump’s Russia investigation to protect the president and then suing a parody Twitter account called “Devin Nunes’ Cow” for $250 million after it called him a “treasonous cowpoke.” He left Congress to run Trump’s social media platform and then largely fell out of the news. He has since re-emerged as a wine investor and the owner...

The suspect is only 16 years old, but police determined his level of radicalization has reached an advanced stage. Italian police officers display a confiscated Islamic State (IS) flag during a press conference at the police headquarters in Romeo n January 10, 2017. - TIZIANA FABI / AFPA 16-year-old Italian of immigrant background has been arrested on suspicion of supporting ISIS and spreading jihadist propaganda, after investigators allegedly found a large collection of extremist material on his computer, including videos showing how to build an improvised explosive device. The teenager was arrested by Milan police in Grosseto, where he was...