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For most of my life, I’ve been a fan of the National Football League. It wasn’t until recent years that I turned away from the game as the emergence of the social justice league has made games unbearable and support for the league untenable. But even if I still watched professional football today, I would be dropping my fandom soon after hearing what the future of the NFL holds. As NBC Sports reports, Executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent envisions an “inclusive” league that is focused on FLAG FOOTBALL so it can go global and spread absolutely insane wokeness...

The Department of Justice is investigating Texas' $3 billion border security mission known as Operation Lone Star for potential civil rights violations, according to state records. The Federal Coordination and Compliance Section of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) on May 16, saying that they've been made aware of potentially unlawful activity related to the border security mission. "The Department is seeking this information after receiving information indicating that DPS may be discriminating on the basis of race and/or national origin in its activities related to Operation Lone Star by...

Angel Oak Hopefully, the lone Quercus tardifolia will be nursed back to health and well cared for like Angel Oak, pictured here. One Quercus tardifolia found clinging to life in Big Bend National Park. Botanical researchers have discovered an oak tree once thought to be extinct, and now in immediate need of conservation within Big Bend National Park in Texas. The discovery was made by scientists representing a coalition of more than 10 institutions. Scientists headed by The Morton Arboretum and United States Botanic Garden (USBG) were ecstatic to discover a lone Quercus tardifolia (Q. tardifolia) tree standing about 30...

I'm in a sh*tty mood today. I will be heading to the Caan family to pay my respects. There's only a number who were OK'd to visit, and I'm one of the lucky ones My hero and mentor in Hollywood. Jimmy Caan gave me one of my first breaks in the business. I dont want to say which series but I (literally) told him about my problem with a douche studio guy who wont green light my project when I already spent $$ on the first 3 episodes, and this was many years ago. One call from Jim and that...

Investigators released surveillance images late Wednesday of two suspects in the gunpoint robbery of an aide to Mayor Eric Adams. The 33-year-old victim, believed to be a member of the mayor’s press team, was walking near York Street and Hudson Avenue around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday when two muggers shoved him to the ground, according to police. The robbers, one of whom displayed a gun, snatched the victim’s wallet and two cellphones, then fled into the nearby Farragut Houses development, authorities said. Police have previously said that one of the crooks fled on a Citi Bike. Officials said that the victim...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders state police and National Guardsmen to return migrants apprehended after illegal border crossings to the border. The announcement follows news of approximately 5,000 migrants being apprehended in Texas over the Independence Day weekend.

There will be no Grand Slam for Rafael Nadal in 2022. Nadal, the winner of the Australian Open and French Open earlier this year, is withdrawing from Wimbledon. The news was first reported by The Times in the UK.

Kenosha County supervisors have voted to oppose new gun restrictions and lift a ban on firearms in county buildings. The vote comes a day after the Highland Park parade shooting that left seven dead and dozens injured in neighboring Illinois and a July Fourth shooting in Kenosha that killed one person and injured four others. Supervisor Terry Rose was one of the board members opposed to loosening restrictions on firearms, citing the poor timing of the vote. “We didn’t expect to have a shooting in Highland Park yesterday or shooting here in Kenosha on the Fourth of July. But it...

A Republican running for Congress in Arizona ripped Democrats a new one during a campaign ad. Jerone Davison released a new political campaign ad aimed to confront "angry Democrats" while holding an AR-15. The video shows Davison sitting at his kitchen table with an American flag mug looking out his window as members of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), dawning white robes with donkeys printed on the front and armed with weapons such as pitchforks, approach his home. In the ad posted to Twitter with the caption "Make Rifles Great Again," Davison blasted Democrats who say AR-15s aren't needed. "Democrats...

A Mississippi teenager is being hailed as a hero after he jumped into an alligator-infested river to rescue three girls and a police officer from drowning. Corion Evans, 16, was on the shore of the Pascagoula River early Sunday morning when he and his friends saw a car drive over a boat launch and sink into the water. The three girls in the car had driven off Interstate-10 straight into the water after trying to follow the directions on their GPS at around 2.30am, according to WLOX. As they reached about 20ft from shore, their car began to sink. 'They...

Are the dominoes starting to fall in place?Former FBI Director James Comey along with his deputy Andrew McCabe were both recently audited by the IRS.The audits raised several eyebrows due to the fact the current IRS commissioner Charles Rettig was nominated by President TrumpMany people believe Comey and McCabe were targeted by the IRS however the IRS has denied these claims and has stated that the audits were completely random and that 1 of 30,000 Americans each year get audited.The audit of Comey began in 2019 and McCabes started in 2021 and as of right now no dirt has been...

Movie tough guy James Caan, best known for his work in such big-screen classics as "The Godfather," "Misery" and "Elf," died on Wednesday, his family said. He was 82.

MOSCOW (AP) — With Russia’s military action in Ukraine in its fifth month, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned Kyiv that it should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or brace for the worst, adding ominously that Russia has barely started its action. Speaking at a meeting with leaders of the Kremlin-controlled parliament, Putin accused Western allies of fueling the hostilities, charging that “the West wants to fight us until the last Ukrainian.” “It’s a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it looks like it’s heading in that direction,” he added. “Everybody should know that largely speaking, we haven’t even yet...

Puffy-faced Vladimir Putin is facing more health issues after he was spotted struggling to stay awake. The deranged dictator could barely hold his head up during a meeting with his Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday. He is rumoured to have thyroid cancer and health experts say that drugs used to treat the condition could explain the despot’s puffy face. The 69-year-old is known for working hard to maintain a masculine, hardman appearance – but his steady decline has unfolded in front of the world’s media. He mumbled a half-hearted congratulations to his soldiers before making the deluded claim they...

An angry little squirrel has been filmed trying to scare away a black bear 1,000 times bigger that was trying to steal its nuts in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. In a clip from new Disney+ documentary series America the Beautiful, a hidden camera captures the moment when a bear tries to raid the squirrel's stash of nuts that it has been gathering for the winter, and the squirrel does its best to chase it away. This camera trap footage is part of the documentary crew's approach, capturing fly-on-the-wall behavior that the animals might never have done if there was...

snip "In a first-ever joint appearance Wednesday with the director of Britain’s MI5, the U.K.’s domestic intelligence agency, Wray raised the possibility that China might be inching closer to invading Taiwan, noting that Beijing has been taking steps to shield its economy from sanctions that would come after such a move." snip “The widespread Western assumption that growing prosperity within China and increasing connectivity with the West would automatically lead to greater political freedom has been shown to be plain wrong,” McCallum said. “But the Chinese Communist Party is interested in our democratic, media and legal systems. Not to emulate...

Per the far-left Reuters, the pure evil that is the Biden Administration has “been flying or driving minors from Texas shelters to other states for abortions.” “Minors.” “Flying.” “Driving.” “For abortions.” Now that the moral and legal atrocity known as Roe v. Wade has finally been overturned, the corporate media have and will continue to look for stories that show how awful the not-killing-of-innocent-babies is. So Reuters came up with this beauty about the terrible plight of illegal aliens who will now have trouble accessing a clinic that will kill their innocent baby. Why? Because Texas has outlawed abortion, and...

One of the most frustrating aspects to our current state of national affairs is that no politician will articulate the basic commonsense problem, and how the people handling Joe Biden are directly to blame for it. Instead, DC and national politicians talk around it, all of them pretending not to know.However, at least there is one voice in Tucker Carlson who articulates the economic and political reality in a framework that most can understand.In his opening monologue tonight, Carlson succinctly points out how the current state of economic anxiety is directly the result of Joe Biden chasing the Green New...

European countries increased their LNG imports by 49%, from the start of the year to June 19, according to data from Wood Mackenzie, an energy consulting firm. By contrast, imports by India are down 16%, China by 21%, and Pakistan by 15% over that period, it said. “The European gas crisis is sucking the world dry of LNG,” said Valery Chow, head of Asia Pacific gas and LNG research at Wood Mackenzie. “Emerging markets in Asia have borne the brunt of this and there is no end in sight.”

DeSantis’ redistricting map was efficient in eliminating toss-up seats in the state. In all, 20 of the 28 districts now favor Republicans over Democrats under the governor’s map that will be used this year. One of the lost toss-up districts was Murphy’s District 7, which went from including much of Democratic-leaning central Orange County to one that stretched across Republican-leaning Volusia. As a result, while eight candidates fight it out on the Republican side, including state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, the biggest name among the four Democrats is Karen Green, a vice chair of the state Democratic Party. The amount of...