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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign saw another setback over the weekend as the Republican candidate saw support withdrawn from top America First movement figures such as Mike Cernovich after DeSantis’s staff attacked him and others for asking questions about DeSantis’s position on the Russia hoax. The incident started with Darren Beattie, a former Trump White House official, tweeting a clip of DeSantis — then a congressman — talking about then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into “Russian collusion” between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian agents. Beattie tweeted the clip with a question, asking if DeSantis still stood by what...

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat, announced today that he is running for the U.S. Senate. He hopes to take the seat currently occupied by Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Gutierrez has competition in the Democrat primary race. U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat, is already in the race. Gutierrez is an immigration lawyer and he is known as a tireless advocate for gun grabbing, especially after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He is running because “Texas is just broken, and it’s been broken for a long time.” Gutierrez is 51-years-old (Cruz is...

A joint investigation carried out by two media organizations and a professor at a German university has offered what may be the most accurate estimate yet of the number of Russians killed and injured in the first 15 months of the war in Ukraine.Analyzing existing reports about published obituaries, mortality data from the Federal State Statistics Service, and extensive records from the National Probate Registry, we estimate that between 40,000 and 55,000 Russian men under the age of 50 died fighting in Ukraine by May 27, 2023. When factoring in the number of men wounded so seriously that they did...

Ray Epps appears in a promotional video put out by 60 Minutes, 4/21/23. (Credit: 60 Minutes/Twitter) January 6 “Insurrection” figure and alleged federal provocateur Ray Epps has filed a lawsuit against FoxNews for “defamation.”Now lawyers representing Mr. Epps and his wife are proceeding with plans to sue Fox News for defamation. “We informed Fox in March that if they did not issue a formal on-air apology that we would pursue all available avenues to protect the Eppses’ rights,” said Michael Teter, a lawyer for Mr. Epps who sent the network a cease-and-desist letter asking for an on-air apology and...

The Daily Signal has been able to get 217 pages from the National Security Administration (NSA) under FOIA. Those pages show the huge effort to “torpedo” the Trump administration before they even took office with an effort to go after Gen. Michael Flynn, the man who would be National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump.Flynn’s conversation with the Russian ambassador in the period between November 2016 and Jan. 2017 was intercepted by intelligence officials for the Obama administration, and then his name was unmasked.The Signal requested the information in March 2021 and didn’t get the documents until June 30, 2023.Some...

For the past decade, Disney has been the Teflon movie studio, remarkably adept at withstanding the tectonic changes impacting the film industry, and well fortified by its arsenal of key properties such as Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar. But this year, the long-reigning titan of the box office has shown cracks as four of its biggest releases from those brands and others have struggled in theaters. There was the dispiriting release of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” a rare Marvel movie to likely lose tens of millions in its theatrical run; “The Little Mermaid,” a remake of the 1989 animated classic...

Tens of thousands of women across Ukraine have bravely taken to the battlefield to fight alongside their male counterparts amid Russia's ongoing war — but many of these women are defending their country in uniforms several sizes too large, according to a new Daily Beast report. There are approximately 60,000 women serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces, the outlet reported this week, citing several female soldiers who described a widespread lack of women's resources in the military that has exacerbated the dangers already faced by Ukraine's military volunteers. Women described wearing ill-fitting uniforms and body armor, stumbling in "huge" men's shoes,...

In the earlier part of the Video, a actual Video of Biden is analyzed and thought to be fake?

Many find it shocking the Department of Justice (DOJ) could be capable of ginning up false allegations against a former president in a previous election and would again do the same prior to the 2024 election. This shock, however, is a mark of just how drastically conservatives have failed to recognize the long decline of the DOJ and its ultimate transformation into a political subsidiary of a radicalized Democratic Party. Conservatives would do well to observe seminal moments that have led the country’s top law enforcement entity to its present dire state. In that review, all roads ultimately lead back...

The federal judge who issued a July 4 preliminary injunction blocking the Biden regime from colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans denied the administration’s motion to stay on Monday.Less than one week after he agreed the federal government appeared to lead “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history” and is “alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s right to free speech,” Judge Terry Doughty of Lousiana’s Western District Court ruled against the Biden administration’s assertion that agencies “face irreparable harm with each day the injunction remains in effect.”“Although this Preliminary Injunction involves numerous agencies,...

Prosecutors in Japan will pursue the retrial of an 87-year-old former boxer - considered the world's longest-serving death row inmate - nearly six decades after he was convicted of murder, an official said on Monday (Jul 10). The decision comes after Tokyo's High Court in March ordered the retrial of Iwao Hakamada, in what his supporters saw as a long-awaited first step towards his acquittal. Prosecutors told Shizuoka District Court on Monday they would go ahead with the new trial and seek a guilty verdict, an official in the prosecutor's office told AFP.

The sole suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders was found dead Sunday, according to the Chicago Tribune. Tribune investigative reporters Christy Gutowski and Stacy St. Clair, who conducted a long investigation into the mystery, reported that sources told them prime suspect James Lewis died at his suburban Boston home at the age of 76. In Sept. 1982, fear gripped the Chicago area and the country after seven suburban residents died due to taking Tylenol that was laced with lethal doses of potassium cyanide. Copycat killings followed later in the U.S. Lewis was a tax consultant who sent a letter to...

Work is in progress on Bagster's new watch, standing guard over those who have gone before us. I hope to post the new content next thread.[H/T Grey_Whiskers, TruthWillWin]Q1881Clickable links to links in post:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvTqqYCb-e8https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/sunday-nights-matt-doran-goes-undercover-with-operation-underground-railroad-to-bring-down-haiti-child-sex-ring/news-story/dcecf5950ca5b6d501c48ed927127bc3Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The...

Last weekend, police broke up a major sex-trafficking ring in Colombia, which has become a destination for tourists looking for sex with boys and girls. The police had help from an American who went undercover to rescue the children. Tim Ballard has one mission: to track down child traffickers. Four months ago Colombian authorities asked him to investigate a tip that children were being sold there as sex slaves. American Tim Ballard helped authorities in Colombia bust a major sex-trafficking ring, saving 54 children. CBS NEWS "Within a half hour this individual walks up to me asking me what I'm...

Torrential downpours unleashed flash floods on the US Northeast on Monday (Jul 10) that washed out roadways, overwhelmed rivers, forced numerous boat rescues and killed a woman who was swept away in front of her fiancé, officials said. More than 13 million Americans were under flood watches and warnings from Eastern New York state to Boston and Western Maine to the northeast, the National Weather Service said in its forecast on Monday, after storms that began over the weekend inundated rivers and streams. Private forecaster AccuWeather estimated damages and economic loss at US$3 billion to US$5 billion, preliminarily, based on...

A woman claims she is “devastated” after discovering old text messages on her husband’s phone calling her “ugly” and bragging about how he was using her. Jane Lewis, a 40-year-old from New Jersey, revealed that she was scrolling through her unidentified husband’s phone with permission when she came across disturbing text messages from when the two first got together six years ago. “I went through his messages to see who he was talking to,” Lewis told Kennedy News. “Him and his friend don’t text that often so I only had to scroll back about 10 messages.” As she quickly scrolled...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — Tennessee is likely to succeed in defending in court the state’s prohibitions on minors receiving transgender drugs and surgeries, a three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Saturday. Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, joined by Judge Amul Thapar, ruled against a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of Tennessee’s law, which was set to go into effect on July 1. Sutton wrote that the state is likely to win on the merits of the case, and he argued that federal judges should not insert themselves into the debates about transgenderism and seek to...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Fernández, pro-Communist China bishop among new cardinals named by Pope FrancisPope Francis has announced the creation of 21 new cardinals at a September 30 consistory, including the newly promoted Archbishop Victor Fernández and Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong – a staunch defender of the Vatican-China deal – among the list. Making the announcement at the end of his Sunday Angelus on July 9, Pope Francis presented the names of the 21 prelates whom he intends to raise to the cardinalate in the September 30 consistory. Of those, 18 are under the age of 80 and thus...

Blaze TV announced Monday that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson will be hosting the first Republican presidential forum of the 2024 primary season. The event will take place at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, later this month. “Blaze Media is teaming up with THE FAMiLY LEADER to bring you the first presidential forum of the 2024 Republican Primary season, hosted by Tucker Carlson,” Blaze TV tweeted. “We’ll be live streaming this event all day Friday, July 14th on BlazeTV and the BlazeTV YouTube channel,” the news outlet added. Blaze indicated that the GOP candidates who are...

Following the filing of sexual abuse charges against nine members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in October 2022 and February 2023, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced Friday that she filed charges against five more men in the religious organization for sexual assault and exploitation of children. “The details of these crimes are sad and disturbing, facts which are made even more abhorrent because the defendants used their faith communities or their own families to gain access to victims,” Henry said in a statement. “Our office will never stop working to seek justice for those who have been victimized, and we...