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On Thursday's Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch managed to flout virtually every "ism" taboo imaginable in castigating the Republican congressmen who yesterday stormed Adam Schiff's closed-door impeachment inquiry. Here was Deutsch: "Those white guys, those middle-aged, boring, nerdy-looking white guys walk down that [sic] steps was pathetic . . . these pathetic weenies walking down that step . . . How pathetic. And Willie and I were talking, just as men, how do you go home and look at your wives and look at your children? Just pathetic, pathetic people."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

A Texas dad’s desperate battle to keep his 7-year-old son from undergoing a gender transition championed by the boy’s mother has captured the attention of conservatives nationwide – including the Lone Star State’s governor, who announced a review of the case by top officials, even as all involved await a pivotal court ruling Thursday that could alter the boy’s life forever. Jeff Younger petitioned the court earlier this month for sole custody of his twin boys, James and Jude, in an effort to prevent their mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas, from allowing James to begin hormone replacement therapy. According to Georgulas,...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the weathered face of a balding, middle-age man suffering from back trouble and severe dental disease. He died more than 600 years ago and was buried in Aberdeen, Scotland. Using facial reconstruction technology, researchers crafted a digital model that offered a glimpse of the man — known by researchers as "Skeleton 125," or "SK125" — showing what he may have looked like in life, Aberdeen City Council representatives said in a statement. The result reveals the 46-year-old man's face, with blue eyes that are set close together and a jaw that is missing many of its teeth....

Why even bother showing up for work when they can't cross examine, they can't call witnesses, they can't subpoena, they aren't privy to vital information, and they only hear information when it is splashed up on news tickers on cable news shows when they see the words "sources say." Republicans might as well show up when Dems say they are ready to open it up. Schiff won't allow anything opened up because he says Republicans will share information, but someone is still leaking, and they turn out to be leaks that support the Democrats' narrative, they are Orange Man Bad,...

Bette Midler tweeted we should "be more grateful" to the man who attacked Sen. Rand Paul in 2017. The star's tweet came after comments Paul made about the Kurds being "ingrates” for disrespecting U.S. troops in Syria. “I DO NOT promote violence but... Rand Paul says the Kurds are being ‘ingrates’ for taking their frustrations out on US troops. Which is a good reminder for us all to be more grateful for the neighbor who beat the s--- out of Rand Paul,” Midler tweeted on Wednesday. Paul was assaulted by neighbor Rene Boucher in November 2017 while he was mowing...

Two neutron stars smashed together and shook the universe, triggering an epic explosion called a "kilonova" that spit lots of ultradense, ultrahot material into space. Now, astronomers have reported the most conclusive evidence yet that in the aftermath of that blast a missing-link element formed that could help explain some confusing chemistry of the universe. When that shaking — ripples in the very fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves — reached Earth in 2017, it set off gravitational-wave detectors and became the first neutron- star collision ever detected Immediately, telescopes all over the world whirled around to study the light...

The U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement is ready to go, but the Trump administration blames one person for holding it back: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “She fiddles while the USMCA is in the deep freeze," White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told FOX Business' “Mornings with Maria” on Thursday. "The false narrative here is this whole issue about labor enforcement. That problem’s effectively been solved.” The USMCA was ratified by Mexico on June 19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada will ratify the deal once Pelosi brings it up for a vote in the House, where her Democratic party regained control in...

The peso is falling — and so, it seems, is the sky. Inflation and poverty rates are soaring. National reserves are shrinking fast. In short, Argentina — in a terrible deja vu of crises past — is hurtling once again toward the economic abyss. But on the bar stools and wooden chairs of Santa Evita, a grill house dedicated to Eva “Evita” Perón, the political heroine who died a Broadway-worthy death in 1952, the customers are retranqui, Argentine slang for cool and calm. Because the presidential election is coming. And the Peronistas — the heirs to the complex populist political...

An Arizona businessman announced his campaign on Wednesday to challenge Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) in the 2020 GOP primaries. Local ABC News affiliate ABC 15 interviewed Daniel McCarthy Wednesday, during which he told the news outlet his plans to run against McSally. McSally was appointed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) in 2018 after interim Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) stepped down. Her appointment came after she lost the 2018 race against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Her new challenger, McCarthy, is the co-founder of The Original Makeup Eraser, a company that produces makeup-removing cloth

Judge Judy Sheindlin is speaking out about her political views in a new op-ed. The TV courtroom personality, 77, wrote a piece for USA Today in which she endorsed former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg for president even though he's not currently running for the position. This op-ed is also the first time Sheindlin is publicly announcing her political stance. "I realize I am taking a personal and a career risk," she wrote. "I have carefully stayed away from politics for 50 years, except to vote. But times have changed in our country, and I believe the moment...

Tillis, in particular, appears to be sweating the challenge from businessman Garland Tucker (R), as the incumbent has dropped $2 million on a pre-primary ad buy and is highlighting his backing from Trump. McSally and Tillis should both be OK in their primaries, but pressure from the right likely will keep them in line with their party on an impeachment vote, which could deprive them of crossover support in states that backed Trump in 2016 by about 3.5 points apiece but appear to be live targets for the eventual Democratic presidential nominee next year.

University students have slammed campus bosses for charging £150-a-week for 8x10ft 'pod' accommodation they claim is 'not fit for humans'. The University of West England installed 21 en-suite 'pods' in one of the university's car parks last month in order to meet increased demand. But the units have been branded 'appalling' and 'not mentally viable' by some of the students living there, some of which have already moved out just one month in. First year students at UWE living in its Purbeck Court complex say they have been taunted by their peers for 'not living in real accommodation'.

Elizabeth Warren has finally finished spending all the fake money she intends to raise from her wealth tax, a policy that is unlikely to be enacted, and, were it somehow to become law, would almost certainly raise substantially less money than she claims. The latest idea that Warren wants to finance with her wealth tax is an $800 billion plan to spend more on public schools, which includes grants for schools with low-income and disabled students, as well as $50 billion for school infrastructure. The plan follows a $1.25 trillion plan to make public college tuition free and cancel a...

In the wake of Sen. Ben Sasse's decision not to sign on to a formal endorsement of Trump's reelection by leading Nebraska Republicans, GOP primary challenger Matt Innis of Lincoln said he "will gladly support President Trump" and suggested that Nebraska Republicans should consider that difference when they vote next May. snip Innis responded: "A clear difference between my opponent and me is that he won't support our Republican candidate for president and I will. Nebraskans should consider that when they go to the polls." Sen. Deb Fischer, Reps. Jeff Fortenberry, Don Bacon and Adrian Smith, Gov. Pete Ricketts and...

Senate Democrats are attempting to repeal an IRS regulation that is designed to keep people from exceeding the $10,000 limit on state and local tax deductions. Democrats will force a vote, scheduled for Wednesday, to overturn the regulation through the Congressional Review Act, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

All of sudden my iPhone will not access FR. Keep getting a message that Safari cannot establish a secure connection. Oh, Great and Powerful Tech FReepers...please help.

A cute cat called Cinderblock appears to be taking things easy while completing her workout on a special treadmill. The cat from Bellingham, Washington state who is morbidly obese, is now on a weight reduction program, which involves an underwater treadmill in order to shed the pounds. But the clever kitty appears to have found a way to avoid getting on all-fours and in an adorable video shot by her vet, the cat simply taps away at a passing treadmill.

WeWork's new Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure on Wednesday defended the $1.7billion payout to the office-sharing company's founder Adam Neumann and said there is now 'zero risk of the company going bankrupt'. According to an audio recording of a meeting he held with employees that was reviewed by Reuters, Claure, who is also the chief operating officer at SoftBank, said: 'There's a level of gratefulness that we're going to have for Adam, because he's the one who built this business.' The meeting took place a day after WeWork's largest shareholder, SoftBank Group Corp, provided a $9.5billion lifeline and took over the...

A woman inside a Florida Taco Bell was reportedly seriously injured when a suspect doused her with gasoline and set her on fire Wednesday night. The disturbing attack occurred at about 6:15 p.m. at one of the fast food chain’s Tallahassee locations, according to The Tallahassee Democrat. The suspect, identified by police as 32-year-old Mia Williams, fled the scene and is still being sought.