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California Assemblyman Dr. Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley), who received his Masters in Social Work, founded and directs the nonprofit Center Against Racism and Trauma (CART), which has been tax-exempt since February 2022. “California quietly boosted taxpayer funding for a nonprofit founded by a sitting Assemblyman from $250,000 to $6 MILLION—a 2,300% increase. Its latest IRS return reports zero employees, zero volunteers and only $57,667 in annual expenses,” White House Correspondent and War Room co-host Natalie Winters claimed Thursday on X

Auto racing has been a part of American culture as long as I can remember, but I never recall racing having been a part of the White House before. At least not until this summer, when on July 13, an event that was billed as a “Grand Prix Showcase” played out on the narrow strip of pavement between the West Wing and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou, 2026 Indianapolis 500 winner Felix Rosenqvist, and David Malukas stood alongside Roger Penske, the team owner and businessman who bought IndyCar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway outright in...

Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had formerly headed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which had offered a pass to the Muslim sex grooming gangs who had trafficked and raped as many as 250,000 women and girls in the UK. Starmer had initially refused to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs, claiming that they were merely a local matter, before finally giving in to political pressure. “In a number of cases presented to us, particularly in cases involving groups, there’s clearly an issue of ethnicity that has to be understood and addressed,” Starmer awkwardly admitted. “The CPS, under...

SEATTLE - Starbucks has filed a notice with the state announcing details on a layoff of more than 200 corporate employees at its headquarters in SoDo. According to economics experts, the workforce reduction stems from two distinct groups within the company. Who's impacted by the layoffs What we know: Joseph Phillips, Professor of Economics at Seattle University, says the first group includes around 120 information technology workers who chose not to relocate to Starbucks' new corporate office in Nashville. He says the second group is made up of employees who worked on Starbucks' store design.

A Texas appeals court on Friday delivered a significant victory to Infowars founder Alex Jones, drastically reducing the massive $50 million judgment against him in one of the Sandy Hook defamation cases. The Texas Third Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis to exceed the state’s strict statutory cap on punitive (exemplary) damages. The court ordered the punitive damages reduced from roughly $45.2 million down to $1.5 million, $750,000 for each parent, in line with Texas law, according to Reuters. Jones still faces the roughly $4.1 million...

ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis invoked his Fifth Amendment rights Thursday during a congressional deposition examining whether the Democratic fundraising platform’s fraud safeguards allowed illegal foreign donations to enter U.S. elections. DeBergalis appeared behind closed doors before investigators from the House Administration, Oversight and Judiciary committees. The deposition lasted less than 30 minutes, according to Fox News Digital. The three Republican-led committees are jointly investigating ActBlue, a major fundraising platform that has processed billions of dollars for Democratic candidates and liberal organizations. Invoking the Fifth Amendment is a constitutional right and does not establish wrongdoing. ActBlue has repeatedly denied violating campaign...

Earlier Friday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in public remarks that he believes it would be 'better to end the war today while we are in a position of strength and dignity.' Pezeshkian claimed that Tehran made zero 'concessions' to the US when it signed a memorandum of understanding with Trump in June. However, Iranians are dealing with a worsening cost of living crisis due to the country's inability to export oil, The Financial Times reported. Trump warned Thursday he will launch a campaign to crush Iran's economy and threatened 'tremendous' punishment on any country that does business with Tehran....

Folks, Somehow, the green dildo has returned. If you think back to pretty much a year ago, you'll remember that there was an onslaught of green dildos being thrown onto WNBA courts mid-game. It was stopping the action every time. The craze then spread to the NFL where fans were throwing the sex toys onto the field, but it didn't really have the same effect. People ran the bit into the ground very quickly and it was no longer funny.

Before 1976, it was assumed by wildlife managers that hunting bears made the bear population more cautious of humans and reduced human/bear conflicts. In 1975, the Director of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service stated that the taking of grizzly bears should be of two types.The taking of nuisance bears; andLimited sport hunting to create an adequate fear of man. From the Federal Register, VOL. 40, NO. 145 — Monday, July 28, 1975 p. 31735: “In a seasonal sport hunt, bears are exposed to relatively large numbers of humans for a limited period of time, and so learn to avoid...

A decade after Natalie Murphy was sentenced to prison for the death of her boyfriend in Juneau County, she is asking Gov. Tony Evers to shorten her sentence. Murphy, now 33, was one of 12 people who appeared before Wisconsin’s new Commutation Advisory Board Friday as the state held its first commutation hearings in decades. Murphy was 21 when she was arrested on Feb. 12, 2015, after Andrew Dammen was shot and killed inside an apartment in Necedah. Murphy was initially charged with first-degree intentional homicide. She was ultimately convicted of first-degree reckless homicide and second-degree recklessly endangering safety. In...

Thanks to the heroic efforts of Nick Shirley, James O’Keefe, Dr. Oz, and RFK Jr., Americans are beginning to get an idea of the horrifying scope of the money blown by federal, state, and municipal social services bureaucracies. Billions, possibly trillions, earmarked for daycare, elder care, medical treatments, hospices, pharmacies, addiction rehab, and sober living facilities funded lavish lifestyles and foreign terror organizations. What made America vulnerable to this tsunami of fraud has its roots in the late 19th-early 20th century progressive movement. Somehow, for certain influential citizens, the American system didn’t seem to offer enough for the underclass. In...

Well, Starship's Next Flight Just Changed! Big time actually. The first Starship tower catch now pushed back months so we will have an ocean splashdown for the upper stage again with Flight 14. Never the less, Ship 41 just completed its static fire testing ahead of what should still be Starship's first fully orbital flight. Meanwhile, Ship 40 has reached Christmas Island after Flight 13, and a massive semi-submersible vessel is on the way to transport it all the way back to Starbase, Texas. Along with that China's reusable ZhuQue-3 successfully lands, NASA astronauts conduct more ISS spacewalks, Rocket Lab...

.... today we're going to talk a little bit about some of the things that are afflicting our nation. Feminism is really infecting our nation, and I would say homosexuality. Feminism and homosexuality seem to have some common roots. I'm not exactly sure I've got this nailed down, Bill, but does appear that the abandonment of gender roles as established by Scripture is tied into the abandonment of biblical sexual orientation as well as biblical gender roles as established by the Creator Himself. So the minute you start seeing gender roles fall apart, you begin to see sexual orientation fall...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.“IF MY PEOPLE, WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/22/26)[Prayer]Personalities2 Samuel 8:1-14 David’s Victories 8 In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the control of the Philistines. 2 David also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute. 3 Moreover, David defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went...

Two longtime Massachusetts fishermen initially thought they were reeling in a shark, but instead they caught a 1,200-pound marlin, believed to be the biggest of its kind ever hauled in on the East Coast. Damon Sacco, a seasoned charter fishing boat captain from the Bay State had been fishing for hours with his client on Wednesday when he caught a glimpse of a giant fin breaking the water’s surface about 100 miles off Cape Cod, MA. At first, Sacco thought it was a massive shark but then he “got a better look at it and thought, dang, that thing’s pointed”...

The American Center for Law and Justice recently submitted two California Public Records Act requests seeking information from the attorney general and secretary of state as to how California ensures that only lawful U.S. citizens are voting in elections. In response, California authorities admitted that they do not track non-citizens on voter rolls as required by federal law. Not only does the state have no idea how many non-citizen voters are registered to vote but also it has no formal procedure for investigating illegal voting. California prohibits cities from requiring voter ID. The state essentially has a “Trust me, bro”...

AI-powered cyberattacks are already here. Quantum computing could soon break the encryption underpinning the modern economy.

Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) may have been crazy like a fox when she delivered what looked like an epic debate flub when she admitted “national security is not my thing,” said one state expert who has been watching the fallout. The comment had shades of a Joe Biden-style collapse when she uttered it Wednesday night in response to a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea during the only debate in the Senate Republican runoff race. But some political pros say it was a designed ploy to separate herself from her opponent Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). At a minimum,...

Opinion ‘Rape leaflets’ for migrants enrage the British public — and prove Trump’s point Something extraordinary happened in Britain this week: Our leftist government acknowledged a truth it has long denied. Our leaders admitted they are importing men who are so backward, so misogynistic and so out-of-whack with Western values that they don’t understand that rape is wrong. The woke fools who run this country conceded, after years of denial, that President Donald Trump and the rest of the supposedly “racist right” were correct all along: Europe is being overrun by brutish men from afar who think they can do...