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  • Today’s Cryptogram

    07/20/2026 1:54:12 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 5 replies
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  • Today's Toons 7/20/26

    07/20/2026 1:21:04 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 1 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 7/20/26 | pookie18
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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes Pete Hegseth’s tribute to killed U.S. servicemembers

    07/20/2026 1:17:33 AM PDT · by RandFan · 28 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/19/26 8:12 PM ET | by Ashleigh Fields
    Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s post commemorating two U.S. service members killed in Jordan as a result of Iranian strikes. “Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve,” Hegseth wrote on social platform X. Greene said it was inappropriate to deem their deaths a “sacrifice.” “Sacrifice?? What the f— are you talking about?? They did not willingly sacrifice themselves. They were killed because of the war you, Trump, and the admin, are waging on behalf of a FOREIGN COUNTRY, Israel,” Greene wrote in a response on X. “You mean their deaths fuel...
  • Two Strong Earthquakes Strike Western Iran's Kermanshah Province

    07/20/2026 12:36:59 AM PDT · by know.your.why · 6 replies
    Times ^ | 07/20/2026 | H.Hakimzadeh
    Two earthquakes measuring 5.2 and 5.7 in magnitude struck the Kuzaran area of Kermanshah province in western Iran on Monday morning. The first earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.2 at Richter scale, occurred at a depth of 13 kilometers. A second, stronger 5.7-magnitude quake struck the same area at 7:18 a.m. local time. No official reports of casualties or damage have been released so far. Assessment teams and emergency response units have been dispatched to evaluate conditions in the affected areas.
  • [Catholic Caucus Devotional] My Catholic Life! Catholic Daily Reflections: The Certitude of Faith — Monday, July 20, 2026

    07/19/2026 10:37:56 PM PDT · by fidelis · 8 replies
    My Catholic Life! (YouTube) ^ | Monday, July 20, 2026 | My Catholic Life!
    Daily Readings from the USCCBSome of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.” Matthew 12:38–39Imagine if Jesus had responded differently to the scribes and Pharisees, saying, “Yes, I will perform a sign right now. Whatever you ask of Me, I will do.” Suppose they then asked Him to part the Sea of Galilee—just as Moses parted the Red Sea—and walk through on dry...
  • Democrats damn themselves with no-shows at hearing on fraud

    07/19/2026 8:39:35 PM PDT · by Libloather · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/19/26 | Post Editorial Board
    As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to... duck. They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door. The hearing actually covered two very different fraud topics: - Independent journalist Nick Shirley reviewed his welfare-fraud discoveries, including blatant abuses of Medicaid by New York adult day cares. - Undercover-video specialist...
  • Lammy fighting to ‘cover up’ foreigners’ crimes

    07/19/2026 8:22:07 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 6 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | July 19, 2026 | Charles Hymas
    David Lammy is taking legal action to block publication of foreign nationals' crime rates in England and Wales, provoking claims of a "cover-up". The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking to overturn a ruling by the Information Commissioner that data revealing the full scale of foreign offending in England and Wales from 2018 to 2024 should be published. The Centre for Migration Control (CMC), a think tank, asked the MoJ to reveal the total number of convictions broken down by nationality and offences for the seven years under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. But the MoJ claims the cost of...
  • ICE Has Only Seemed To Be Quieter

    07/19/2026 7:04:51 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    Washington Monthly ^ | July 19, 2026 | Anne Kim
    The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin. As a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin enjoyed a reputation for confrontation and theatricality. He often donned a cowboy hat on the Senate floor (a no-no for a body that prizes decorum) and strode the hallways of the Capitol bouncing a rubber stress ball. During a 2023 Senate hearing, the former mixed martial arts fighter challenged Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fistfight, taunting him to “stand your butt up.” In a...
  • Globalism: A Concept to Understand Our Times. Is there a constructive way to define the term “globalism”?

    07/19/2026 6:53:43 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 28 replies
    The Globalist ^ | November 12, 2026 | Stefan Richter, Uwe Bott
    The definitional lines between globalization and globalism have long been blurred. For its part, globalization is best defined as a process or series of processes that integrate the world economically, politically and socially. Globalism’s critical role But what is globalism? Quite often, the term is used synonymously with the word “globalization,” as if the two words were interchangeable. To be sure, the word “globalist” has come to be a battle cry — primarily on the political right, but is also one on the political left. The “globalist” charge is alternatively (ab)used to describe either the creation of some imaginary and...
  • Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction: As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire

    07/19/2026 6:40:21 PM PDT · by BusterDog · 107 replies
    Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is pummelling the country and, increasingly, its civilian infrastructure. As before, this unlawful bludgeoning strengthens the resistance of a hardline regime that cares little for its people’s suffering. How often have Trump and Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon’s wildling lord of bones, hailed a bogus victory? The president claimed this week to be “winning big”. No one believes him. Even as it counts the vast human and economic cost of his Persian folly, a watching...
  • The Mayor Who Wants to Empty Prisons and Defund the Police Has One Guy He Really Wants to Arrest

    07/19/2026 6:29:42 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 19 replies
    Jihad Watch ^ | 19 Jul, 2026 | Robert Spencer
    Zohran Mamdani, the Marxist Twelver Shi’ite mayor of New York City who wants to empty out the prisons, defund the police, and replace cops with social workers, has suddenly become a law-and-order guy. While he wants all manner of thugs, felons, and psychopaths menacing the law-abiding citizens of his once-great city, the callow authoritarian does have one man he is determined to put behind bars: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The New York Post reported Saturday that Mamdani “says he’s still weighing whether he can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister is scheduled to visit the Big Apple...
  • Is Immigration Becoming a Catholic Dogma? Inside Pope Leo XIV’s New Agenda

    07/19/2026 6:20:50 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 28 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | Julyy 18, 2026 | Gaetano Masciullo
    Is Immigration Becoming a Catholic Dogma? Inside Pope Leo XIV’s New Agenda As Pope Leo XIV's allies travel across America promoting a new immigration initiative, Gaetano Masciullo argues the Church is transforming prudential political questions into moral absolutes—with profound consequences for Catholic social teaching and the common good.The United States Tour of Mattia FerrariOn July 15, several outlets reported the news of a very particular tour that Mattia Ferrari, an Italian priest and coordinator of the World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), is carrying out from the end of June across 21 cities in the United States, starting from California...
  • California city chief arrested on a yacht just three weeks after taking over top job

    07/19/2026 6:15:20 PM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/19/26 | Daniel Farr
    Sausalito’s new city manager was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of felony burglary after Marin County sheriff’s deputies responding to a noise complaint found her aboard a yacht that authorities say belonged to someone else. Elaine Forbes told deputies she was having “a bad morning” and insisted they leave what she claimed was her boat, the Marin Independent Journal reported. Forbes, 53, was taken into custody less than three weeks after starting as Sausalito’s top administrative official. The arrest came two days after the Sausalito City Council placed her on administrative leave following a closed-session meeting. Deputies responded to the...
  • AMERICA Prayer Vigil 7/20/26 {Prayer}

    07/19/2026 6:09:01 PM PDT · by Kitty Mittens · 9 replies
    7/19/26 | Kitty Mittens
    Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14 Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.Psalm 72:12-14He will Take Care of the Helpless and Poor when they Cry to Him;For they have No One Else to Defend them.He Feels Pity for the Weak and Needy, and will Rescue them.He will Save them from Oppression and from...
  • What Was Missing From Trump's Address...

    07/19/2026 6:06:34 PM PDT · by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton · 14 replies
    7/19/2016 | Self
    So Trump's speech landed like a tree in the forest with no one listening. What could have made it more viral? I was thinking he could have started it with: "As I am speaking, the FBI is currently arresting hundreds of people connected to voter fraud..."
  • Just b******s... Boris takes aim at claims from Vance that immigrants are erasing civilisation

    07/19/2026 6:03:25 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 48 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | July 19, 2026 | KRISTINA WEMYSS
    Boris Johnson appeared to take aim at the US vice president today, branding his comments that immigrants are erasing British civilisation as ‘b******s’. The former prime minister said: ‘The population of New York that was born abroad is virtually identical [to London]. ‘I think in America, about 30 per cent of people are either first or second generation immigrants. The statistic I used to cite was that 40 per cent of our population was born abroad. ‘So all these raving about civilisational erasure, “Britain's going down the tubes” - I think it’s b******s.' According to the 2021 census, around 41...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: MAJ Louis Cukela ~ 20 July 2026

    07/19/2026 6:01:49 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 17 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ MAJ Louis CukelaInfo from this websitecolor="#ffffff">. Major Louis Cukela is a double recipient of the Medal of Honor, one by the Army and one by the Navy for the same action in World War I. He was serving at the time as Sergeant, 66th Company, 5th Marine Regiment at Villers-Cotterets, France. He was the last double...
  • Happy 104th Birthday, Rachel Robinson!

    07/19/2026 5:55:21 PM PDT · by fhayek · 8 replies
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Robinson
    Jackie Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson was born on July 19, 1922. She recently celebrated her 104th birthday.
  • Quo Vadis, Domine? - "Lord, whither goest Thou?": Rome and the Society of Saint Pius X

    07/19/2026 5:54:12 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 16, 2026 | Côme de Prévigny
    Quo Vadis, Domine? - "Lord, whither goest Thou?": Rome and the Society of Saint Pius XOn June 16th, Pope Leo XIV made a statement outside his residence at Castel Gandolfo concerning the Society of Saint Pius X, which was then preparing to consecrate four bishops without a pontifical mandate. The Pope affirmed that this decision grieved him, while concluding that he intended to press forward. "If they make that choice," he said, "it saddens me deeply, but we must move forward."Move forward toward what?A question immediately arises: in what direction do the Roman authorities wish to lead Catholics as they...
  • George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer | Live at Capitol Theatre (1984)

    07/19/2026 5:32:26 PM PDT · by Pol-92064 · 25 replies
    Youtube.com ^ | 01/01/2008 | George Thorugood
    Explore the sound of George Thorogood with “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer -