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The House Judiciary Committee fired off its first subpoenas under the leadership of Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), targeting a trio of Biden administration officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland over a short-lived memo dealing with threats against school board members. The subpoenas, sent also to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, follow a series of more than 100 letters on the 2021 memo from Judiciary Republicans. Garland signed the memo in October of last year, noting a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff” amid broader discussion...

In this youtube video, SerpentZA and LaoWhy86 break down all the latest news on the Chinese Spy Balloon. Although I don't ordinarily post their show (though I highly recommend them), I did so this time because they do a good job in analyzing Chinese propaganda on this issue and the common tactics they use to deceive western people on twitter, Reddit, and the other locations they infest. Show is about 2 hours long, so a little too much for me to transcribe for those FReepers with crummy internet connections.

Vanroy Evan Smith, 39, the man accused of striking a biking doctor with his Lexus and then fatally stabbing the victim has been charged with murder. Orange County, California – A bicyclist was struck by a driver then fatally stabbed on Pacific Coast Highway and Crown Valley Parkway in Dana Point on Wednesday afternoon in what is believed to be a racially motivated attack. The Gateway Pundit obtained Ring/surveillance video from a nearby home showing the driver striking the bicyclist. The video, which TGP decided not to post because it is too gruesome, shows the driver of a white Lexus...

"My Trans Wife, Trans Kids & I Are Leaving the USA If Our Demands Aren’t Met” "We are Leaving the USA if My Trans Wife, Trans Kids and I Don't Get What we Want"

Shocking footage shows women who appear to be sex workers walking up and down a stretch of road outside a Catholic elementary school in California. Dozens of videos captured by ABC News's I-Team show the women outside St. Anthony's in Oakland soliciting customers in cars parked outside the school gate. The footage was broadcast just 30 days after California passed a new bill decriminalizing loitering for prostitution under its Governor Gavin Newsom. The Democratic lawmaker who sponsored the bill told ABC7 that under the old system people were unfairly targeted based on their appearance, which would disproportionately affect transgender people....

A Maryland school district is educating students about "speciesism," which includes the oppression against plants as part of a lesson plan linked to Black Lives Matter. Teachers in Howard County Public School System [HCPSS] were instructed to assign students a "Privilege or Oppressed? Worksheet." The worksheet prompts students to identify "the places where they enjoy privilege and places where their status causes them to lack privilege." Speciesism is one of 13 "types of oppression," including racism, sexism, classism, ageism, and adultism. This type of oppression is illustrated through a chart that breaks down how each type of oppression is manifested...

So, a San Francisco reparations panel pitches $5 million — each — to black residents. This totally blows out the recent California Reparations Task Force proposal for reparations of $223,000 per recipient according to their recent report. Adding insult to injury is the contradiction that California has always been a Free State since statehood. If such reparations are actually made, then send the bill to one major remaining guilty party responsible for slavery, Jim Crow discrimination, and the KKK terrorism inflicted upon freed slaves and their descendants. Of course it would be the Democratic Party, whose sordid history is consistently...

A trans-identified male who claims to be the “mother” of two “trans kids” testified before a Minnesota House Committee in favor of Minnesota becoming a trans refuge state for people seeking out-of-state medical sex changes. The biological male has a trans partner as well as two children who are involved in gender identity. “My name is Amber Mom; I use she/her pronouns,” began the male who identifies as a woman and a mother. “I am also a proud transgender woman. But more importantly, I am the mother of two wonderful transgender and gender-expansive children.” Amber described the “torrent of damaging,...

The Ohio Department of Education is investigating an online homeschool network that aims to indoctrinate children as Nazis — but insiders say the state has little power to change the white supremacist curriculum. The Dissident Homeschool community — a Telegram channel — was founded in October 2021 by Katja and Logan Lawrence, a married couple with four children based in Upper Sandusky, according to a report published last month by the anti-fascist research group Anonymous Comrades Collective. In a conversation last year on the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung! Amerikaner,” Katja — who goes by “Mrs. Saxon” on the channel — told...

Horrific footage shows a schoolgirl being brutally beaten by two boys on a school bus – as they rain down punches on her head. The parents of the 9-year-old are now planning to press charges against her attackers after the sickening footage was posted online. None of her fellow students at the Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead, Florida, intervened in the attack. Instead, her peers filmed the merciless attack from the two boys and started cheering them on throughout the attack as they watched. The schoolgirl's parents have said they will demand criminal charges against the two boys who...

A caddie at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am received CPR after collapsing on the 11th fairway on Friday afternoon. The tournament, which is being broadcast live on CBS and involves big names like Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen and Gareth Bale, was temporarily stopped while an ambulance came onto the course to attend to the stricken man. Paolo Uggetti, a golf writer for ESPN, reported that the man - who was caddying for an amateur in the tournament - was still receiving CPR as he was stretchered to an ambulance on the 11th hole. The statement read: 'During the second round...

Update from Ukraine | The imminent Ruzzian attack on Ukraine Again in 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2UAqWB59AU Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-344-summary/ https://militaryland.net/maps/deployment-map

Ukrainian forces are unlikely to be able to recapture Crimea from Russian troops in the near future, four senior Defense Department officials told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers in a classified briefing. The assessment is sure to frustrate leaders in Kyiv who consider taking the peninsula back one of their signature goals. It’s unclear what led the briefers to that assessment. But the clear indication, as relayed by three people with direct knowledge of Thursday’s briefing’s contents, was that the Pentagon doesn’t believe Ukraine has — or soon will have — the ability to force Russian troops out of the...

There have been unconfirmed reports of an explosion in the skies over Billings, Mont., where a Chinese spy balloon had been hovering for several days. Although there have not been any official reports, there is speculation (not unfounded) that the U.S. military shot down the balloon, the payload of which is the size of two to three school buses; the payload is dwarfed by the size of the balloon.

Why did Joe Biden secure a $250,000 home equity line of credit? Joe Biden quietly took out a $250,000 line of credit against his Rehoboth Beach home in December amid his classified documents scandal. Biden took the line of credit out while his son Hunter is under federal criminal investigation. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/beachhouse2-1.webp Fox News reported: President Biden secured a $250,000 line of credit against his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home as his son, Hunter Biden, faces an investigation into his tax affairs and amid his own classified documents scandal, records obtained by Fox News Digital shows. Biden acquired the six-figure home equity...

A white officer involved in the fatal arrest of Tyre Nichols last month has been fired from the Memphis Police Department for several conduct violations during the incident. The department said in a statement on Friday that Preston Hemphill was terminated from his role for violations of personal conduct, truthfulness, compliance with regulations concerning a taser, compliance with regulations concerning equipment and inventory and processing recovered property. “After a thorough review of the circumstances surrounding this incident, we determined that Officer Preston violated multiple department policies,” the department said.

Arizona’s Valley of The Sun YMCA branches, located across Maricopa County, in Yuma and Flagstaff, Arizona, were recently briefed on how to handle media attention surrounding the YMCA’s policies allowing individuals who identify as transgender with opposite-sex genitalia to use locker rooms. Men who simply say they are a woman are seemingly allowed to use the women’s locker room in the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley plans to launch her presidential campaign in less than two weeks with an event in Charleston, S.C. Sen. Tim Scott will kick off a “listening tour” a day later — from the same city — before following Haley to Iowa. Former vice president Mike Pence will be in Charleston next week. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will start traveling the country after the Feb. 28 release of his memoir, headlining back-to-back GOP dinners in Houston and Dallas where “platinum sponsors” who chip in $50,000 will get photos and tickets to a VIP reception.

In Fedotova and Others v. Russia, (ECHR, Jan. 17, 2023), the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held that Russia violated the rights of three same-sex couples when it refused to permit them to marry. The court said in part: 206. The Government argued, firstly, that it was necessary to preserve the traditional institutions of marriage and the family, these being fundamental values of Russian society that were protected by the Constitution.... 209. Given that the Convention is a living instrument which must be interpreted in the light of present-day conditions, the State, in its choice of...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.