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SNIP On Monday night, Jon Gruden informed the team that he will resign as the team’s head coach after a New York Times piece was written in regards to emails he sent back in 2011. The piece showed a number of concerning emails with vulgar criticism directed at Roger Goddell, President Barack Obama and more. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Raiders received word of these emails on Friday but did not take action over the weekend. Instead, Gruden coached on Sunday against the Bears in what was his final game as the coach for the Raiders. The news was...

Joe Biden received a brutal surprise when visiting a Chicago suburb. He was reportedly there to urge people to get vaccinated. There were plenty of people in “deep-blue Illinois” who were unhappy about Biden’s visit, Western Journal reports. Protesters lined the road and trucks honked their approval. Video footage shows protesters chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” as well as one person holding a sign that read “Let’s go, Brandon.” The phrase has become popular after NBC reporter Kelli Stavast mistakenly believed NASCAR fans at Talladega Superspeedway were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” in support of driver Brandon Brown. In reality, fans at...

My work-place wants to bring in an MFA system for anybody to log onto their computers and I don't know exactly why they want this system. I need to upload an app onto my phone and enable the biometric ID. I'm thinking of either hitting factory reset on my phone, since I don't know how much I can trust the MFA app to not keep track of my phone activitie, or buying a cheaper second phone, just for loading this app and using the phone to make phonecalls. Although I hate to spend the money to do, but it seems...

Nancy Pelosi Praises Pope Francis for his ‘Immense Moral Clarity’ROME — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi described this weekend’s private audience with Pope Francis as a “spiritual, personal and official honor.”The pope’s leadership “is a source of joy and hope for Catholics and for all people, challenging each of us to be good stewards of God’s creation, to act on climate, to embrace the refugee, the immigrant and the poor, and to recognize the dignity and divinity in everyone,” Pelosi wrote in a press release on her website.In her accolades to the pontiff’s “immense moral clarity,” Pelosi carefully avoided...

The jumping off point for this Substack piece by Freddie deBoer is the story I wrote about here. If you missed it, the very short version is that a progressive data analyst named David Shor, who was literally fired from his job last year because a cancel mob went after him, is trying to warn Democrats that they are not going to win elections anytime in the next decade if they keep talking like leftist college professors. His advice to the party is simple: Talk about broadly popular things you support not about broadly unpopular things the far left is...

Some state school board associations are challenging the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) recent letter to President Joe Biden. The NSBA compared parents to domestic terrorists and called for the president to direct the federal government to “deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.” Several days later, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was tasking FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to convene to discuss strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff. Janet Turney-Giles and Gina Patterson, president and executive director of the Virginia School...

If I were an epidemiologist - and I could not explain the observations below - I would resign my position and become a heretic to my profession - as a bastion of pretenders. But once you have letters behind your name, all self-accountability evaporates.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Camp Beauregard, LouisianaCamp Beauregard is a U.S. Army installation located northeast of Pineville, Louisiana, primarily in Rapides Parish, but also extending northward into Grant Parish. It is operated and owned by the Louisiana National Guard as one of their main training areas.The current base covers 12,500 acres and is home to many different units and elements of the Louisiana Army National Guard. The camp was named for Louisiana native and Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. Camp Beauregard is one of ten U.S. Army installations named for former Confederate Generals.Camp Beauregard’s long history...

A small plane crashed in a densely populated San Diego suburb Monday, killing at least two people, including a UPS driver, and leaving a trail of destruction that sent neighbors scrambling to help neighbors. At least two others were injured. Witnesses described a retired couple being rescued from one of two homes that were destroyed in Santee, a largely residential suburb of 50,000 people. Ten other homes were damaged. Several vehicles, including a delivery truck, were also torched.

Former President Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party remains strong. That was evident at this weekend's rally in De Moines. Thousands of Trump supporters packed the Iowa State Fairgrounds. What was even more telling were the influential Republican politicians who were also there. Longtime Senator Chuck Grassley, who is running for an eighth term, appeared on stage with Trump. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DONALD TRUMP: I'm thrilled to announce tonight that Senator Chuck Grassley has my complete and total endorsement for reelection. Chuck. (APPLAUSE) CHUCK GRASSLEY: I was born at night but not last night. (LAUGHTER) GRASSLEY: So if...

Cruise lines may have violated Florida's ban on vaccine passports as three cruise lines are currently under review. Cruise lines that operate from Florida are on a list released from the state’s Department of Health of businesses that may have broken the rules on requesting proof of vaccination for the so-called vaccine passport. Cruise Lines Could Be Fined Three cruise lines could be in some trouble related to Florida’s vaccine passport ban. The Orlando Sentinal reports that the Florida Department of Health released a list that features 120 cases of businesses in Florida that may have broken the vaccine passport...

Mr. Haroon asked for help on Nextdoor (a neighborhood chat site) in Georgia, desperately looking for a way to get for his family out of Afghanistan. I private messaged him. Here is our conversation. My Question: The Biden Administration is telling US that those citizens still in Afghanistan refused to be evacuated. This might be too touchy a question for you to answer, and therefore, you don't have to answer. His Answer: That’s a complete lie. Who doesn’t want to evacuate at this circumstance. His way if evacuating people was a disaster. Myself and my friends and families voted for...

19 Mi-17 helicopters; 7 UH-60 helicopters; 7 A-29 Tucano attack aircraft (one aircraft was shot down by the air defense of Uzbekistan); 17 Cessna 209B light multi-purpose aircraft; 11 Pilatus-12NG aircraft. It is known that some of the equipment of the former Afghan Air Force is already located on the territory of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There is information that in the near future this equipment will be relocated to American military bases within the framework of the agreements reached between the countries.

Poland’s central bank, the National Bank of Poland (NBP), which stunned gold markets back in 2019 when it purchased 100 tonnes of gold bars in London and then promptly flew the gold back to Warsaw, has just confirmed that it now plans to buy another 100 tonnes of gold during 2022. The news was confirmed this week by Adam Glapiński, president of Poland’s central bank, in a 5 October special interview with Polish magazine ‘Strefa Biznesu’ in advance of the ‘Congress 590’ economic conference in Warsaw. As well as heading the Polish central bank, Glapiński is also an economics professor....

Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary, said on Sunday that she believed former President Donald Trump would run for his old job in 2024 and hire "people of the January 6 mind." During an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Grisham told host Chuck Todd that she was initially skeptical of another presidential bid by the former president. "At first, I really didn't think he'd run again," she said. "I honestly thought this was a lot of his bluster, which he's good at doing. He was doubling down. He'll never admit to losing. I thought he was going...

Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate and football legend Herschel Walker has hauled in $3.7 million since launching his campaign roughly five weeks ago. Walker, endorsed by former President Donald Trump to take on Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock (GA) if he makes it through the Republican primary, was able to mount a massive fundraising haul by receiving donations from donors in all 50 states.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At first glance, Moderna Therapeutics looks like the most enviable biotech startup in the world. It has smashed fundraising records and teamed up with pharmaceutical giants as it pursues a radical plan to revolutionize medicine by transforming human cells into drug factories. snip Moderna’s technology promised to subvert the whole field, creating therapeutic proteins inside the body instead of in manufacturing plants. The key: harnessing messenger RNA, or mRNA. In nature, mRNA molecules function like recipe books, directing cellular machinery to make specific proteins. Moderna believes it can play that system to its advantage by using synthetic...

Internet sleuths are peddling a conspiracy theory that Brian Laundrie is hiding under a flower bed in his parents’ Florida backyard after claiming drone footage captured a hand poking out of the soil. They are alleging that the drone video, which is being shared widely on social media, shows the 23-year-old fugitive’s parents, Chris and Roberta Laundrie, gardening in their yard. The footage appears to show a woman resembling Roberta tending to a flowerbed as her husband stands nearby. It wasn’t immediately clear when the drone footage was shot.

[Catholic Caucus] Pope urges Church to leave behind "outworn pastoral models"Francis officially launches two-year consultation of the world's Catholics leading up to the next assembly of the Synod of Bishops Pope Francis during the opening Mass of the Synod, Sunday, October 10 in St. Peter's Basilica.Pope Francis has launched a two-year consultation of all the world's Catholics, an ambitious project to prepare the agenda for the next meeting of the Synod of Bishops in 2023."In these days, Jesus calls us, as he did the rich man in the Gospel, to empty ourselves, to free ourselves from all that is worldly,...

No, GOP swampers, Donald Trump is not going away. Much to the shock and dismay of establishment Republicans in Washington, President Trump has no plans whatsoever of going quietly into that good night. Or retirement. Or surrender. Or whatever. Did you see his rally in Iowa this weekend? Or the one in Georgia before that? No. Your long, national nightmare is nowhere near over. And the fact that so many of them think that Mr. Trump might just walk away reminds us of just how fantastically out of touch from their own voters the Republican Party has been for decades....