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Since parting ways with the NFL back in 2020, I walked away from 40 years of Philadelphia Eagles fandom. And while I can say I stopped living and breathing the league as I once did, I still watch from the outside from time to time. Part of it is morbid curiosity and hoping that one day the NFL drops the Wokeymon act. The other part is knowing that deep down, I realize that as long as Roger Goodell as Commissioner the only direction that the NFL will go is more woke and anti-American. And Goodell is not an old man...

<p>The video was released Thursday by Rep. Cheney’s reelection campaign, two weeks before a Republican primary election in Wyoming that the three-term congresswoman is bracing to lose. Echoing the criticism his daughter has made of Trump, Dick Cheney denounced him as a danger to the country through his relentless lies about the legitimacy of the 2020 election.</p>

"Recruiting and brainwashing children to become martyrs for Khamenei, Islamic Republic of Iran's supreme leader, sanctioned by the US. This video doesn't come from Iran. It was filmed in Houston, Texas this month. This isn't religious freedom. This is pure fundamentalism." [I have no confirmation it's Houston, but if you look at the end, the background street scene sure looks like cars going by on a U.S. street. Maybe someone who lives in Houston recognizes the location?]

This is the moment six Russian commanders were killed in a Ukrainian ambush, according to one of Kyiv's senior officers. Dramatic footage captured how a two-vehicle convoy - said to be carrying the Russian top brass back from a meeting - were struck by anti-tank missiles. Footage, thought to have been captured on the Donbas frontline near Avdiivka, shows how the lead vehicle was blown to smithereens before the second rolled over. -snip- It comes after Lieutenant Colonel Olga 'Kursa' Kachura, 52, who was Ukrainian-born but fought for Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's east, was reported killed. Kachura, who commanded an...

With fewer than 100 days until Election Day, talk of massive Republican gains in Congress has faded substantially amid a series of victories for the president and his fellow Democrats. Republicans have spent much of the last 18 months planning for 2023 and beyond. They're not just measuring the drapes in majority leaders' offices, they've been plotting to eject certain Democrats from House committees, preparing to investigate President Joe Biden's son and metaphorically rubbing their hands with glee at an anticipated ability to stop Biden's agenda – including his judicial nominees – in its tracks. That wasn't hubris. Biden's approval...

I miss this man very much. The wisdom displayed in this speech is profound. Schumer, Pelosi, et al should have to watch this every day. h/t to my friend Leo in NJ for inspiring me to post this.

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Liz Cheney urged the Justice Department on Thursday to prosecute Donald Trump — if it finds evidence that former president committed crimes in connection with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jesse Porter, 58, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after the deadly shooting inside the Anacostia Neighborhood Library. A woman was shot during a training as the trainer demonstrated how quickly a pistol could be drawn, sources told News4 A retired D.C. police officer faces charges after fatally shooting a special police officer at a training session Thursday inside a public library in the Anacostia neighborhood, authorities say. Maurica Manyan, of Indian Head, Maryland, was the victim, the Metropolitan Police Department said in an update Friday. She was 25 and worked as a public library special police officer, the department said....

A leftist organization called “The Queer Mathematics Teacher” is seeking to embed gender theory in K-12 math classes.Brandie Waid, the director of The Queer Mathematics Teacher, laid out a plan for incorporating gender theory into math classes in a blog post on the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) website. CASEL is sponsored by the Allstate Foundation.The Queer Mathematics Teacher is an educational consulting firm that seeks to promote “queer mathematics” in American K-12 classrooms. The firm sells a book titled “Talking about LGBTQ+ Identity,” which includes chapters titled “The Gender Unicorn,” “How Do I Talk About LGBTQ+...

The bizarre pom-pom creature is yet to be officially named. An image of the unnamed spaghetti worm from the newly released MBARI video. (Image credit: 2012 MBARI) A bizarre seafloor creature covered with luminous orange, spaghetti-like tentacles recently made its internet debut in newly released video footage. The unusual pom-pom-shaped creature is actually a type of segmented marine worm known as a polychaete, and it belongs to an appropriately named group: spaghetti worms. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured footage of the pasta-mimicking worm in 2012 using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), while they were exploring...

Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative who has said he would not have certified the 2020 election, won the Republican primary for secretary of state on Tuesday, making him the latest election denier to move closer to controlling his state’s election system. Across the country, Republicans who say the 2020 election was rigged are vying to be elected secretary of state, a position that would grant them immense control over their states’ election systems. As of July 28, at least 20 election deniers are running for secretary of state in 16 states, according to States United Action, an organization that...

In a full page ad in Variety on Thursday, Governor Newsom urged film and TV productions in Georgia and Oklahoma to move back to California to take advantage of new tax credits and to film in the state that doesn’t limit freedoms, such as the right to an abortion.

Griner has previously kneeled for the National Anthem and demanded the WNBA remove American flags from basketball arenasWNBA basketball player Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison on drug possession and smuggling charges today after she pleaded guilty to a Russian court last month. Griner was arrested in February when entering Russia to play for a women’s basketball team after authorities found THC vape cartridges in her luggage. While the cartridges are legal in some parts of the United States, marijuana is strictly prohibited under Russian drug laws

Just days after Mayor Eric Adams turned down Greg Abbott’s invitation to visit the southern border, the Texas governor sent a taste of the ongoing migrant surge to NYC’s doorstep — with the first busload of border-crossers arriving in Manhattan Friday morning. The Republican governor revealed in a statement that the migrant bus arrived at Gate 14 of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, but did not provide any additional details — such as how many people were on board or their countries of origin.

In his ads, and much of the public imagination, John Fetterman is a tattooed everyman from a rugged steel city outside Pittsburgh... Public records show — and Fetterman has openly acknowledged — that for a long stretch lasting well into his 40s, his main source of income came from his parents, who gave him and his family $54,000 in 2015 alone...

The FBI considers someone who displays a particular emblem representing the Second Amendment as a possible "Militia Violent Extremist," according to a new report from Project Veritas. The organization set up by James O'Keefe in 2010 as a nonprofit journalism enterprise to facilitate undercover reporting said it had obtained from a whistleblower an FBI document "which shows how the Bureau classifies American citizens it deems to be potential 'Militia Violent Extremists.'" "The FBI cites symbols, images, phrases, events, and individuals that agents should look out for when identifying alleged domestic terrorists," the report explains about the document marked for "FBI...

Ukrainian forces have exposed civilians to Russian attacks at times by basing themselves in schools, residential buildings and other places in populated areas, according to a report Amnesty International published Thursday.AP journalists observed several scenes in recent weeks that mirrored the findings of Amnesty’s researchers, including the aftermath of weapon strikes in eastern Ukraine where Ukrainian fighters, their vehicles or items such as ammunition were at attack sites.

Fisheries managers in the state are doing what they can to protect the resource while still providing opportunities for anglers Colorado is asking anglers to catch fish in two reservoirs. Jumbo Reservoir is popular among walleye anglers, but the state expects the reservoir to dry up completely in the near future. Late last month, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife department announced emergency public fish salvages for two reservoirs located on the state’s eastern plains. Fisheries managers expect Jumbo and Queens Reservoirs to dry up completely in the near future, and they are hoping the public can harvest as many...

While the study's results suggested that immunity decreases 20 weeks after vaccination, a third booster (of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, in the case of this study) helped the immune system to identify and neutralise the 20 different variants. The antigenic map allowed the team to identify and measure how each variant impacted the immune system. Dr Daniel Horton, co-author of the study and Reader in Veterinary Virology at the University of Surrey, said: "The emergence of this disease and its disruptive and deadly impact on our day-to-day lives demonstrates how crucial it is for the scientific community to work together to...

Words cannot describe this video (it's a spoof), but I promise you'll find it, er, interesting.