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@thehill .@RandPaul "It looks like the dam is breaking. If you look at Democrat cities and Democrat states, even they are hearing from Democrat parents [...] saying, 'We're tired of this, we're not going to do it anymore and our kids need to have the freedom to take the mask off'." Clip...

Students have repeatedly vandalized Pride posters at Spencer Lyst’s high school in Williamson County, Tennessee. Teachers have skipped over LGBTQ issues in class textbooks. Trans kids in his state have been legally barred from competing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. Parents have called on school officials to remove books about sexual orientation and gender identity from the county’s elementary curriculum. And while leading his school’s Pride club at a September homecoming parade, Lyst and other LGBTQ students were booed by a group of parents. “I’m so used to it, but it shouldn’t be something I...

A standoff between police and protesters played out near Parliament early on Monday morning, the 14th days of the anti-mandate protest Dozens of police officers held a line against protesters on Molesworth Street in central Wellington. Some protesters were chanting 'freedom'. Police brought in trucks with concrete barriers which have been placed at the entrance of Molesworth Street...

The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre. Note: Videos are taken down from youtube as soon as the livecast is over and they are moved to Odysee. This link will only work for the livestream. Use the link below for the Odysee backup channel to find the archive and view later. Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure to join early and leave your questions in the chat section. Always a fast-moving show. Wide-ranging discussions...

Well, this isn’t exactly a new story. The bleeding has been occurring for years, and Democrats have ignored it. It reached critical levels under Obama, where state party apparatuses truly withered away and died. Hillary Clinton pledged to fix that in 2016 but she lost the election. In the age-old debate about the allocation of outreach resources, the Left could have done what they should have which is double-down on rural white working-class voters or go all-in on the urban-based elites. The Democrats decided to do the latter. Four years later, Democrats saw their hopes of a huge House majority...

(VANITY) TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II ('50S) - ROUND 6 ROUND 6 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II COMMENCES!ROUND 6 – THE FINAL 4 Votes due: Sunday, Feb 20 @ 12:00 pm Eastern. 4 songs, 2 pairs, 2 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed. Any ties will be broken via Billboard annual ranking, then back to Round 1 ranking (seed), then Round 1 point total, then Round 1 vote count. See run-down of the pairs in my next reply post. Format in survey: Poll seed – year - song title – act The survey is at 1950s...

Pollster Frank Luntz said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans will win control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections and that only former President Donald Trump could prevent it. Guest-host Jonathan Karl said, “Are Republicans feeling some anxiety about tying themselves too closely to a Donald Trump where it seems to be the legal walls seem to be moving in on him?”

Yesterday, a group of Ottawa residents won a private class action lawsuit to freeze at least 146 cryptocurrency wallets and bank assets tied to the main organizers of Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” in a bid to stanch funding for the ongoing demonstrations. Known as a Mareva injunction, the lawsuit was filed by Ottawa residents Zexi Li, Geoffrey Devaney, and the Happy Goat Coffee business against key convoy organizers including Chris Barber, Benjamin Dichter, Tamara Lich, and Nicholas St. Louis. The hearing was held in private without public notice or access, lawyer Paul Champ who represents the residents bringing the suit, told...

The President of the Republic spoke by telephone with the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Putin, on Sunday, 20 February. They agreed on the following points: - the resumption of work within the framework of the Normandy format on the basis of the exchanges and proposals made by Ukraine in recent days. - intensive work to enable a meeting of the trilateral contact group to be held in the coming hours with the aim of obtaining a ceasefire commitment from all stakeholders on the line of contact. - the need to give priority to a diplomatic solution to...

A Pennsylvania man accused of shooting an Uber driver and dumping her body in a wooded area was ordered held without bail on Friday pending a preliminary hearing later this month. Christine Spicuzza’s dash cam video shows Calvin Crew pulling a gun on her 10 minutes into the ride and ignoring her pleas for her life before grabbing the dash cam and shutting it off, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. Investigators found the body of the 38-year-old mother of four, almost 24 hours after she picked up Crew, 22, to drive him from Pitcairn to Penn Hills. SNIP Spicuzza reached...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is an idiot. He’s a weak man spawned from two powerful families (the Trudeaus and the Castros) who is in power based solely on his status as puppet to the globalist elites in the World Economic Forum. He hates his own people and will persecute them for the sake of holding onto as much control as possible.The problem is, all of that was true BEFORE the Freedom Convoy challenged his authority and put medical tyranny on notice. Trudeau is not suited for dealing with conflict like this. He’s better at kneeling with BLM to make...

Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms. Now some districts are finding their broader efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion are also being challenged. As her Colorado school district’s equity director, Alexis Knox-Miller thought the work she and a volunteer team were doing was on solid ground, especially with an audit in hand that detailed where the district was falling short in making sure all students had the same opportunities. But in December, Knox-Miller reluctantly disbanded the equity leadership team after more than a year of meetings. New conservative...

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 6:27-38 Friends, our Gospel today is taken from Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain in Luke. It is one of the more puzzling texts in the New Testament. It speaks of loving our enemies—not tolerating them, or vaguely accepting them, but loving them. When you hate your enemy, you confirm him as your enemy. But when you love him in response to his hatred, you confuse and confound him, taking away the very energy that feeds his hatred. There is a form of oriental martial arts called aikido. The idea of aikido is to absorb...

While admitting that "7.5% inflation is concerning," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that "it's not all bad. Things would be worse without it." "I can understand how the average consumer might be worried that rising prices will negatively impact their standard of living, but the erosion of the purchasing power of the US dollar also has its benefits. To most ordinary people the government seems an all-powerful master of its situation. What they don't realize is that the government is the biggest debtor in the nation." "The declining purchasing power of dollars means that we can pay back our debt...

It has been obvious since early 2020 that there has been an organized cult outreach that has permeated the world as a whole. It’s possible that this formed out of a gigantic error, rooted in a sudden ignorance of cell biology and long experience of public health. It is also possible that a seasonal respiratory virus was deployed by some people as an opportunity to seize power for some other purpose. Follow the money and influence trails and the latter conclusion is hard to dismiss. The clues were there early. Even before the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020...

When the mayor of Washington, D.C., announced changes to the city’s mask mandate last week, spit hit the fan. As of March 1, District residents will need to cover up in order to attend school, go to a library, or ride in a taxi. But gyms, sports arenas, concert venues, and houses of worship—you know, all the places where people like to breathe hard or sing and shout in close proximity—will be facial free-for-alls. If the goal of mask policies is to reduce transmission of the coronavirus as much as possible, then D.C.’s new rules are difficult to reason out....

The New York Times Editorial Board has taken a stance in support of Canadian truckers' right to protest, saying that peaceful demonstrations are a vital part of democracy. The left-leaning Times Editorial Board said that the demonstration in Ottawa 'ranks as a nuisance' and ought to be tolerated in the name of free speech. 'Allowing nonviolent, even if disruptive, protest is an important tool for maintaining social cohesion in a polarized society,' the board's opinion piece stated. 'We disagree with the protesters' cause, but they have a right to be noisy and even disruptive,' the board wrote. 'Protests are a...

Watch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft lift off atop an Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. The Cygnus bears the name S.S. Piers Sellers, in honor of the late NASA astronaut and climate researcher, and will transport research, crew supplies, and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Onboard science includes:• A study that examines the effects of a drug on breast and prostate cancer cells• A new combustion facility• An investigation on skin aging in microgravity • New hydrogen sensors that will be tested for the space station’s oxygen generation system•...

Political writer Peter Schweizer’s latest book reportedly accuses 20 current and former GOP members of having essentially sold out to China. Released late last month, “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” has attracted attention thus far mainly for its bombshells about President Joe Biden and his extremely wealthy family. But also contained within the book is a treasure trove of bombshells about elected Republicans, ranging from current Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell to former President George H.W. Bush. Regarding McConnell, Schweizer reportedly writes that the Senate leader and his wife both “enjoy some of the deepest and...

I thought that with Nazis in the news with what is going on in Canada and some comparing the World Economic Forum to the Germain party, this would be a good time to see if any FREEPERS viewed this thing from the History Channel. I think it is still streaming on Amazon. It is quite jaw-dropping and adds additional evidence to the rumors about many top Nazis relocating to South America. It adds evidence of poison gas factories and infrastructure projects like hydroelectric power plant construction. I was surprised this information was not more well known.