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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 As I reported several days ago as we awaited SCOTUS decision on 1512c2—this represents a collision course with Jack Smith. SCOTUS likely will hear oral arguments in March or April—the same time Trump is on trial for same charge. (If March 4 trial date sticks which seems impossible now) But let’s say it sticks. And Trump is convicted by DC jury. Then SCOTUS comes down with decision in June that reverses how DOJ (and Smith) interpreted 1512c2. The same month Judge Chutkan would be prepared to sentence Trump.

Blazing mad! “The REPUBLICANS are leaving tomorrow”. Along with several other ridiculous examples she throws in “THE REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED TO SECURE THE BORDER”.

Israel Israel ignored Joe Biden's criticism of its bombardment of Gaza, vowing its war against Hamas will continue no matter what and rejecting one of the American president's key requests regarding the Palestinian Authority. 'Israel will continue the war against Hamas with or without international support,' its Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said. His double down came after Biden issued a stunning rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Israel is losing support across the globe and its conservative government needs to 'change'.

A female prison officer accused of having an affair with an inmate insisted on wearing tight trousers to work, a court heard, as accusations emerged that she had a relationship with a second prisoner. Ruth Shmylo, 26, is on trial accused of having a five-month relationship with “manipulative” drug dealer Harri Pullen and having “secret phone sex” with him.

Department of Homeland Security officials are warning about the impact of policies being discussed in negotiations between the White House and Congress that would increase deportations, deny many migrants the right to seek asylum and make detention mandatory, according to current and former officials who spoke to NBC News. “It would break the border,” one current Homeland Security official predicted. “It would be completely counterproductive,” another warned. The second official noted that Customs and Border Protection detention centers, as well as those of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would quickly become so full that the agencies would be unable to keep...

Explanation: What excites the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission nebula on the left, catalogued as IC 1805, looks somewhat like a human heart. The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element, hydrogen, but this long-exposure image was also blended with light emitted by silicon (yellow) and oxygen (blue). In the center of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their atom-exciting energetic light and winds. The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The victim whose remains were discovered inside a suitcase floating in Oakland's Lake Merritt has been identified. The body found last month was 23-year-old Gabriel Gomez Raymundo, the Oakland Police Department announced Wednesday. Raymundo's body was found inside a dark-colored suitcase located on the edge of Lake Merritt near Lakeshore and Hanover Avenues on Oct. 31. Authorities have not revealed how long the suitcase had been in the water, but they have classified the case as a homicide. Oakland police investigators have limited details about the victim and are appealing to the community to share information such...

Reality has a way of asserting itself. Post-October 7, American Jews have begun to realize the democrat/Socialist/Communist Party really isn’t their friend, won’t protect them, and is actually allied with monsters that want to kill every Jew. It took until November 15, however, for FBI Director Christopher Wray to admit to Congress that golly, there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of likely terrorists crossing the border and that might be kind of a problem, like, you know, a terrorist problem maybe? A problem indeed, on top of another problem: when it comes to personal safety we’re on our own....

A former Facebook diversity program manager pleaded guilty to scamming the social media giant out of more than $4 million through a scheme in which she faked business deals in exchange for kickbacks, the Justice Department said. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who served as lead strategist and global head of employee resource groups and diversity engagement at Facebook, used the stolen funds to live an extravagant lifestyle that spanned from California to Georgia, prosecutors said. From approximately January 2017 to September 2021, Furlow-Smiles led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at Facebook and was responsible for developing and executing DEI initiatives, operations,...

The Harvard “doxxing truck” has shifted to hounding the Ivy League school’s embattled president — flashing her image and the message “Claudine Gay: the best friend Hamas ever had,” The Post has learned. Non-profit news watchdog Accuracy in Media — which first made headlines by exposing the names of Harvard students affiliated with a pro-Hamas letter following the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel — deployed four billboard-bearing trucks outside Gay’s home on Tuesday and Wednesday. Each truck idling near her residence, which is in a prominent building on the school’s campus in Cambridge, Mass., scrolled through different messages that...

NATIONAL COCOA DAY December 13th ushers in a celebration worthy of the winter holidays with National Cocoa Day. What better way to warm up after a cold day outside? #NationalCocoaDay We make hot cocoa with cocoa powder, heated milk or water, and sugar. However, Americans often use hot chocolate and hot cocoa interchangeably, sometimes causing a bit of confusion. There is a difference between the two beverages. We make hot chocolate by using ground chocolate containing cocoa butter. We mix it with hot milk, and it is drinking chocolate. Hot chocolate is also known as drinking chocolate. We make hot...

What do you know about the kissing game!? Sketch from season 4, episode 24 of The Carol Burnett Show.

Hungary appeared on a collision course on Wednesday with fellow European Union members over Ukraine's bid to join the wealthy bloc, a dispute that could hold up Kyiv's membership drive and was set to overshadow an EU summit. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reaffirmed his opposition to offering neighbouring Ukraine fast-track accession at this week's summit, saying to parliament this would not serve the interests of Hungary or the 27-member EU. With both sides digging in their heels, Ukraine's hopes of securing much-needed financial and military assistance to fight Russian invasion forces hung in the balance. "Our stance is clear....

The Biden administration made two virtue-signaling proclamations at last week’s COP28 conference in Dubai that it says will help save the planet from climate change. The policies aren’t likely to change the planet’s temperature by even one-tenth of a degree, but they might just destroy the 21st-century American industrial economy as we know it. First, Team Biden announced it will stop production of all new coal plants in the United States. This comes on the heels of President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency saying this year it would impose new power plant emission regulations that are virtually impossible for coal plants...

Janet mentioned this to me in a thread yesterday but I dont want it buried... https://rumble.com/c/FreeperVideosShe says starting in the new year she intends to donate 40% of the Ad revenue from the channel to Free Republic as a donation every month. I couldn't think of a better and more sustainable way to help the site and keep the lights on. Think about it. FR generates a lot of clicks so why not make sure the site benefits? It's a no-brainer. I notice currently there are 384 followers. Hopefully we can improve on that! Follow the account on Rumble and...

VIDEO AT LINK........... Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The Washington State Patrol said a major road was closed in both directions when a semi truck involved in a crash spilled its load of eggs across the roadway. Trooper Rick Johnson, public information officer for Washington State Patrol District 2, said on social media that boxes of eggs were spread across the roadway by a crash involving two semi trucks on State Route 18, near the Raging River Bridge in Issaquah. The Washington State Department of Transportation said the crash occurred about 3:50 a.m., and cleanup operations were still ongoing hours later....

Dear friends, I grew up in the world for 24 years before I came to Christ, so I know its thinking and ways because I once lived it and walked its course (Eph. 2:1-14). As I was at work, they were playing the world's Christmas carols which have a secular and demonic mood to it of utopia dreams through relativism and bankrupt human love; which excludes RIGHTEOUSNESS and Almighty God; man's ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator (Rom. 1:18-32). One song that was played today was John Lennon's, So This Is X-mas (War is Over). I had to laugh as I listened to...

Have you ever seen a dog with extraordinary skills that make you question whether it's a four-legged creature or a wonder on wheels? Meet Lucky, a Belgian Malinois dog who is taking the skateboarding world by storm. With his insane skateboarding skills, Lucky is capturing the hearts of dog lovers all over the world. In a viral video on Pinterest, Lucky effortlessly glides through the streets, conquering every obstacle that comes his way. From stairs to turns, there's nothing that can stop this talented pup.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly told lawmakers in the United States that his government is considering raising the military conscription age to over 40 years old in an apparent attempt to allay concerns about Kyiv’s ability to stand up to the much larger population Moscow can draw on to fight the war. Upon his latest lobbying trip to Washington D.C. to beseech Congress to back President Biden’s request for an additional $61 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Zelensky reportedly told sceptical Senators that his government is considering conscripting men above the age of 40 to increase troop levels...

'I do not support an unconditional call for a ceasefire,' Liberal MP Anthony Housefather saysThe federal government's decision to back a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict without certain conditions has prompted a mix of reactions from Liberal MPs. Some say they hope it will bring about peace. Others say it amounts to Canada abandoning Israel while it's at war with extremists. Some Liberal MPs take issue with the wording of the UN resolution, which demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire but does not explicitly call on Hamas to lay down its arms. The resolution stipulates that...