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Lawyers for former President Trump argued Wednesday that a federal appeals court should not accelerate its consideration of whether he is immune from prosecution over claims related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The attorneys said federal prosecutors are attempting to speed up the case so it can be decided before the 2024 presidential election. “The prosecution has one goal in this case: To unlawfully attempt to try, convict, and sentence President Trump before an election in which he is likely to defeat President Biden,” they wrote. “This represents a blatant attempt to interfere with the 2024 presidential election...

It looks as though Claudine Gay will be keeping her job as president of Harvard University, despite not only her shameful appearance before Congress refusing to denounce student calls for genocide but also being revealed as a serial plagiarist. The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium reports that journalists were looking into claims of plagiarism by Gay, and in response, the university hired a law firm specializing in defamation to intimidate them. In the meantime, more scholars are coming forward to say that Gay plagiarized their work. WOW: Harvard claimed it initiated a probe of Gay’s work when it learned about...

They're suspending the rules and need 2/3rds to pass the FISA attachment to the NDAA. What are the odds? I bet they will vote this through almost unanimously! Sad. In any case, you could pressure your Rep. today or tomorrow...

The Biden Administration holding up licenses to sell more than 20,000 US made rifles to Israel... Ukrainian drones down tonight in the Moscow Region... A suspect is now charged in the murder of Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll... US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Saudi Arabia meeting Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman... In an apparent attempt to appease Hungary the European Union lifting a hold on about 10 billion Euros... US politics the House of Representatives voting to start an impeachment inquiry involving Joe Biden... The recall of more than two million Tesla vehicles... Drone strikes on two US...

The estate of the late Gary Rossington, the last surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd who passed away in March, is on the market for $12 million.Listed by Cynthia Chandlee of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, the property is located in Milton, Georgia, approximately 30 miles north of Atlanta, sitting on 80 acres of land.According to the home’s listing, the property features a main and guest house, two barns and a private lake complete with two boat docks.The main house is 7,516 square feet, with five bedrooms and five and one-half baths, a formal dining room, study, eat-in kitchen...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) 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...

Here’s one case where no one can deny that corporate DEI was a scam. A former head of DEI programs for Facebook has pleaded guilty to swindling the company out of $4 million, not including whatever money they were spending on her actual salary.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...

"FBI agents abused America's surveillance apparatus to open a groundless counter-intelligence campaign against a Republican presidential candidate. Despite the abuses, years of calls for reform, the Senate is presented w/ NDAA that continues the status-quo.""Since the FBI demonstrated a willingness to evade the rules to spy on an aid to a presidential candidate, we should not be surprised that Carter Page was far from the only victim of FISA authorities." "The Senate will sweep this under the rug. We will have no reform. They have known for five years that this is coming up, and they are not going to...

The Biden-Harris regime has announced a new “White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience.” This new council is charged with preventing such problems as we experienced in the famous “supply chain crisis” of 2021 and early 2022 that preceded, and contributed to creating the current economic downturn. Granted, the Biden-Harris regime had already created a “Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force” in the first months of 2021, virtually as soon as they changed the names and dress sizes on the White House letterhead, and that didn’t seem to help. Maybe they’re hoping we forgot about that one. But then again, maybe...

Yours truly plans to write a broader post about the increasingly sorry state of the Ukraine conflict, at least from the Western perspective. Within a very short period of time, the messaging has changed from exhortations about the inevitability of Ukraine success to tight media focuses on itty bitty parts of the conflict to depict Ukraine as gaining ground, to now admissions not only that the great Ukraine counteroffensive failed, but that Ukraine itself will have to go on the defensive. We’ll give a very short recap of the state of events, and then turn to a question that, as...

I turn down most invites to act as an admin for FB groups but this one lets me practice reaing Russian, the group is called Мы из Владивостока (We are from Vladivostok) and is generally a social group for people living in the Russian far East. One lady tonight wants to post the following: Идет срочный набор на работу без квалификации водителей всех категорий , на заводы и фабрики , строителей , сварщиков , поваров , разнорабочие , механики автомобилей и столяры , парикмахеры , медсестры и врачи в дома престарелых , в Америку , Канада страны ЕВРОПЫ Швейцария и...

According to multiple reports, Hamas leaders who have been living in luxury in five-star hotels in Qatar are reportedly on the run, fleeing Qatar, The Jerusalem Post is reporting that several of the leaders fled their locations, "turning off their phones and not accepting calls, KAN's Arabic language channel reported citing sources in Doha on Tuesday evening."KAN News also reported that Saleh al-Arouri, a senior member of Hamas, left his usual residence in Beirut for Turkey.According to the Israeli War Room account, the leaders have fled to Algeria because their "safety can no longer be guaranteed" in Qatar.#BREAKING: Initial reports...

The roller coaster of this year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) has ended with a historic new agreement: For the first time, world governments have said countries should transition away from fossil fuels. The deal comes after days of tense negotiations, especially over the fossil fuel language, which caused the Dubai conference to stretch into overtime. Climate advocates have praised it as a step forward, but also raised concerns about potential loopholes in its language and criticized it for not going further as the climate crisis deepens — and fossil fuel production continues to increase.

Zelensky has once more descended on DC in velvet-toned Hollywood fashion, for a last ditch plea to convince Republicans to unlock his money. He proceeded to break into this unusually…direct speech: Well, okay, maybe that was a joke. Continuing, there are a few interesting side-notes to contextualize his visit. Firstly, there was rumor that Zelensky was already being ‘side-lined’ by virtue of Yermak taking his place in globe-hopping, as he did last time when it was him visiting DC and soaking up all the high profile meetings. Some suspected that Yermak was in fact being presented as the true leader,...

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who headed the Republican House majority during former President Trump’s first two years in office, says that Trump is not conservative but instead an authoritarian narcissist whose guiding principle is to aggrandize himself. Ryan defended former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for standing up to Trump and said many Republican lawmakers probably now regret not voting for impeachment charges and missing their chance to remove him from the political stage.

“This has gone too far,” wrote Elon Musk on his X platform on Saturday. Musk was reacting to a post by Seth Dillon of the satire site, the Babylon Bee. Dillon wrote this about actor Siaka Massaquoi, a North Hollywood resident who was arrested by an FBI SWAT team at Burbank Airport when he and his pregnant wife Charlotte returned to Los Angeles after a trip to Nashville:… As Siaka was returning home from a trip to Nashville for the Daily Wire’s latest premiere, the FBI was waiting to arrest him and charge him with crimes related to his presence...

News broke Wednesday that the Supreme Court will hear arguments about a lower court decision that curtailed the use of mifepristone, an abortion pill that accounts for more than half of all abortions carried out in the United States. Mifepristone is administered at abortion facilities and is also available via mail order. SCOTUS will be reviewing an appeals court decision from August that put limits on the availability of mifepristone, ruling that the Food and Drug Administration failed to adequately address safety concerns about the drug when it loosened regulations on it in 2016. Here's a bit more about how...

If there's anything that indicates a politician or group of politicians isn't taking something seriously, it's when they apply a Band-Aid over a problem when it's noticeable, and then let things go back to the way they were. That's what happened in San Francisco when the city cleaned up their homeless encampments and open-air drug bazaars during the visit of the Chinese dictator Xi. Now, according to one San Francisco business owner, it's once more business as usual in the city by the Bay.Less than a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit,...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that he has seen “no evidence” that President Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. “I’m going to take the same position that I’ve taken since 2019 that all I can say is there’s some indication, maybe some compromise with China particularly, but I have no evidence of it,” Grassley told CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. He continued, saying the facts “haven’t taken me to that point where I can say that the president’s guilty of anything.”