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At the NFL league meetings in March, the San Francisco 49ers were confident they would be bringing the Super Bowl back to Levi's Stadium. Barring a sudden change of direction, that confidence will be rewarded at the spring owners meetings in Minneapolis next week. There, the 49ers' bid for Super Bowl 60 in 2026 is slated to be approved by the NFL, a league source said, confirming a report by Sports Business Journal. "If the Bay Area has the opportunity, we would be honored to host Super Bowl LX," 49ers president Al Guido said in a statement. Should the Bay...

Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services...

While it may have taken a little longer than House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would have liked – something he joked about – he got the votes to become speaker. He also got his plan to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending, known as the Limit, Save, Grow Act, to pass the House, which so far represents the only plan passed to avoid default. Amidst such developments, the speaker's approval ratings seem to be doing pretty well. He even has a net positive, according to a recently released poll from The Economist/YouGov. McCarthy has a favorability rating of 40...

Protesters, drag performers and at least one adult in a so-called “furry” costume were on hand last weekend for a “family-friendly drag show” that was moved to a local church at the last minute.The “Pride Prom” event hosted by Grayson County Pride was originally scheduled for May 13 at Pecan Grove Park West in Sherman, located about 65 miles north of Dallas.Prior to the event, however, the location was reportedly changed to 118 W Pecan Street, which is the address of the Mosaic Campus of First United Methodist (FUM) Sherman, according to the church’s website.The location change was first reported...

After Wednesday’s headlines broke that Fox News is reshuffling its primetime lineup in the wake of top-rated host Tucker Carlson’s departure, multiple news outlets and Twitter pundits opined that the moves must indicate that host Laura Ingraham had been fired from her 10 PM show, “The Ingraham Angle.” Not true, several sites including Deadline and Mediate responded Wednesday evening, citing a Fox statement that indicated strong support for the opinionated host.Jessica Jensen Ketner, a senior director of media relations for Fox News said in an email:Reports based on various tweets by left wing activists are wildly inaccurate — Laura Ingraham,...

Non-binary" ex-Biden official Sam Brinton arrested as "fugitive from justice." (Credit: YouTube) Welp, “they” did again.And by “they,” I mean so-called “non-binary,” “gender-fluid,” LGBTQ-advocating ex-Biden official Sam Brinton, who went and got “their self” arrested, again. The former deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy was taken from his apartment in handcuffs.Before we dig in, rather than waste time recovering Brinton’s infamous past, check out the following related RedState articles if you’re so inclined:Former Biden Nuclear Waste Chief Sam Brinton Will Undergo Mental Health Evaluation to Avoid Jail TimeNon-Binary Biden Official...

Join 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. US Military Songs: United States Armed Forces Medley When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. Luke 11:21...

The last time we looked in on the stalemate among the White House, congressional Democrats, and Republican leadership in the House on the debt ceiling deal, the talks had been placed in neutral, with only aides for all parties doing the talking. That came after Joe Biden’s administration scrapped a scheduled follow-up meeting for last Friday, readers might recall—nearly a week ago.As Biden was leaving on his trip to Japan and several other pan-Pacific countries, including Australia, on Wednesday, it was announced the trip would be cut short to get back to the negotiating table on Sunday, according to the...

We’ve seen the left losing their minds over Justice Clarence Thomas going on free trips with a friend he’s knowFn for many years. Not only is there nothing improper about this, there isn’t any indication that it had to do with court decisions or that the friend tried to influence Thomas in any way.Why were the Democrats trying to throw things like this up against the wall on Thomas now? Because they want to do all they can to try to invalidate the Supreme Court, specifically by getting rid of Thomas. As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) explained, this had nothing...

A great irony that I believe went unobserved and unmentioned, in the recent controversy surrounding Disney, and its fight with Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Republicans in general . . . In the 2020 cycle, America First Action committee was a super PAC dedicated to supporting federal candidates who back the policy agenda of President Donald Trump. When you add up all of the PAC’s donations received in the cycle, and sort the donations by donor employer, the single biggest employer is . . . the Walt Disney Company, at $10.5 million.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco’s legendary troupe of queer and trans nun activists, have been benched from the Dodgers’ Pride Night after a right-wing pressure campaign.

It's Friday morning in North Korea where there is explicit denunciation of the South Korean-US live fire drills set to begin next Thursday... Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed back into the fold of the Arab League holding a summit meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia... The US will sanction 300 more people and entities as it expands its sanctions on Russia. Parties in third countries will also be sanctioned... The British Government announcing new sanctions on Russia... Three one-day rail strikes planned in the UK in the weeks ahead... The US Supreme Court deciding in favor of tech giants Google and...

More than 140 United Methodist Church congregations in the Susquehanna Conference, including 14 in the Harrisburg area, plan to end their affiliations with the denomination under agreements approved by the conference Wednesday night. Among those churches are 14 in the Harrisburg district and 43 in the York district. The seven-district Susquehanna Conference includes 870 churches, almost 150,000 members and close to 580 pastors. Nationally, simmering disagreements over the 6.4 million-member church’s position on ordaining and marrying members of the LGBTQ community, as well as other issues, have caused a rift fueling the “disaffiliations” by more moderate and conservative churches. Marriage...

ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Department of Social Services has reopened a case involving young kids with disabilities after it was discovered the state may have cut corners in the investigation. The allegations of physical restraint with zip ties were made against a teacher in mid-Missouri. FOX 2 is not identifying the teacher or school district they work for because the state originally found they did nothing wrong. In an email obtained by us, State Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R) formally requested the Missouri Department of Social Services reopen the investigation into the allegations, days after FOX 2’s investigation aired...

Attorney Tom Renz of https://tomrenz.com/ joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the legal battle to hold the medical industry responsible for their murder protocol based COVID response.

I just saw a Bud Light commercial that I’d never seen before. A young woman in a bar bellies up to the bar for 5 Bud Lights, which she picks up free hand and begins to carry across a crowded room. At on point she encounters a slightly older man carry 4 beers, but on a tray. She finally makes it to her table, which is all women. The frat days are over. Bud Light, in their own world, is the beer of chicks and chicks with dicks.

On the 20th of May, 1932, 34 year old Amelia Earhart left Newfoundland to successfully attempt the world’s first female pilot solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. She landed in Ireland the next day, after surviving strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems. When President Hoover presented the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society to Earhart, her modesty looked to me like An Epitome Of Cool. Hoover: “The whole of America is proud of you and your performance.” Earhart: “I do thank you sincerely. I fear my exploit was not worth so great an honour.” When Canadian...

Bud Light sales are down for a fifth straight week as the financial beating endured by the Anheuser-Busch brand following its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney appears to have no end in sight. Sales of Bud Light fell 23.6% for the week ending on May 6 compared to numbers recorded in 2022, according to a report citing data acquired by Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ. The week before, which ended on April 29, Bud Light saw its sales down 23.3% relative to the same time last year. Anheuser-Busch, the brewery behind the iconic blue can, has not fared any...

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is “absolutely entitled” to censure left-wing billionaire George Soros “without being labeled an antisemite,” according to former New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind, who accused Soros himself of “legitimiz[ing] antisemites.” n a post from Wednesday, Hikind, who serves as chairman of Americans Against Antisemitism (AAA), highlighted the error of automatically attributing any criticism of the Democrat megadonor to antisemitism. His remarks followed Musk’s comparison of Soros to the notorious X-Men villain Magneto who draws on his experiences as a Holocaust survivor to motivate his hatred for humanity. “[Elon Musk] is absolutely entitled to criticize Soros without...

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. Analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia — found paying back that debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel. In Kenya, the government has held back paychecks to thousands of civil service workers to save cash to pay...