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OKLAHOMA CITY—An Oklahoma judge agreed to step down Friday after she was caught sending hundreds of texts from the bench while overseeing a murder trial in the killing of a 2-year-old boy, including messages that mocked prosecutors and were sprinkled with emojis. District Judge Traci Soderstrom also agreed to not seek judicial office again in Oklahoma under a proposed settlement agreement filed with the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary. She had faced removal from the bench over accusations that included gross neglect of duty, oppression in office, lack of proper temperament, and failure to supervise her office. Judge Soderstrom had...

@SenMikeLee Senator Lee has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 3 hours denouncing Ukraine funding without real border security.

Within an hour of arriving in downtown Portland to investigate the city's newly-declared 'state of emergency' over its fentanyl crisis, I am on the phone calling 911. One of dozens of homeless drug addicts lining the sidewalks has just taken a hit from a piece of aluminum foil in open view and collapsed in a lifeless heap. In a county where overdoses caused more than 200 deaths in 2022 alone, I fear another might be about to happen right in front of me.

Earlier this week, journalist James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group visited a Ramada Inn by Wyndham converted to a migrant housing facility that is reportedly being run by the Casa Alitas program in Tucson, Arizona. According to O’Keefe, buses were coming in with new migrants every 15 minutes, including during his “interrogation” by a Pima County Sheriff Deputy. During the interaction, O’Keefe disclosed that he had an “undercover” inside the facility. It was reported by O’Keefe that there was a makeshift room in the hotel with over 150 cots set up (photo). The reporting by O’Keefe caught the attention of...

@BasedMikeLee Mitch McConnell has been very effective at passing Democratic policies into law. He’s hoping to add this Ukraine bill to his long list of accomplishments on that front. If you don’t want that to happen, please remind your Republican senators that any 41 of them can stop this!

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Bryce Stanfield, a student-athlete who was hospitalized after a medical emergency, has passed away, Furman University announced on Friday. Stanfield, a 21-year-old football player and health sciences major, collapsed during a workout Wednesday morning at Paladin Stadium. He was taken to the hospital and placed on life support. His coaches said he had a back strain that had limited what he could do before practices started, but it was something he had been dealing with and was being rehabbed to get ready for the season. They were not aware of any other medical issues

Hamas terrorists hid a top-secret intelligence center underneath the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza that was uncovered by the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli military said on Saturday.The Hamas intelligence center included an electrical room, industrial battery power banks, and a living space for the terrorists, The Times of Israel reported. The IDF’s discovery comes after revelations that at least a dozen of the agency’s workers were connected to Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, according to an Israeli intelligence dossier.The controversial U.N. aid group — which says it is “committed to advancing the human development of Palestine...

California cops have been left scrambling as gangs of thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard mile-long trundling freight trains to loot expensive electronic goods, high-end clothing and jewelry. Sometimes the robbers strike while the lumbering locomotives are still moving, while others brazenly trigger the emergency brakes so that their accomplices can hack their way into the metal containers. LA is the undisputed 'capital of cargo theft' with trains ferrying goods from the major ports, but the spate of train thefts have almost doubled across the nation since 2019. The issue of mass cargo theft shot into...

If a Republican did this, it would be grounds for impeachment. Politics is often pathetic, but there’s still a good deal of pettiness in making Attorney General Garland take the fall for Special Counsel Hur’s report in which he described Biden’s serious memory problems.Joe Biden has told aides and outside advisers that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not do enough to rein in a special counsel report stating that the president had diminished mental faculties, according to two people close to the president, as White House frustration with the head of the Justice Department grows.Biden and his closest advisers believe...

Billy Currington’s song [People Are Crazy] recounts a chance encounter in a bar between the narrator and an older man. The conversation that day ranged widely, covering politics, women, personal brokenness and the difficulty of transformative change, along with the reality of God’s grace in the midst of life’s messiness. When the two finally separated at 2 a.m., the older man’s conclusion was, “God is great, beer is good and people are crazy”. The narrator thought no more about the meeting until he read in the paper that a rich man had donated his entire fortune to a virtual stranger:...

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A passenger on board a Lufthansa flight from Thailand to Germany died Thursday, after his fellow travelers watched in horror as blood gushed out of his mouth and nose.The unidentified 63-year-old German man was seen boarding the Airbus A380 in Bangkok shortly before midnight visibly sick, with “cold sweats” and “breathing much too quickly,” Karin Missfelder recounted to Swiss German outlet Blick.At first, she said, his wife claimed they had to rush to catch the flight — which is why he wasn’t feeling well.But after watching the man for a few moments, Missfelder — who is a nursing specialist at...

Joe Biden’s America. A Pakistani man who entered the US illegally in California in November of 2023, was released into the US in January with “tracking technology.” This was after he was confirmed as a match on the US terror watchlist. This technology was part of the government’s ‘Alternatives to Detention’ program. So, with this logic, an illegal alien who has ties to terrorists was let go with a digital babysitter. The Pakistani was arrested after ICE in Los Angeles was informed of he was on a terror watchlist. Daily Caller reported: Federal immigration authorities caught and released a Pakistani...

With the Department of Justice's Special Counsel report calling President Biden's mental competency into question, there is renewed speculation that Democrats may seek to replace Biden on the ballot in the upcoming presidential election. But who would they pick on such short notice? The Babylon Bee has exclusively obtained the following list of potential replacement candidates: Taylor Swift: Though many saw it coming, years of meticulous Deep State planning is finally coming to fruition. President Xi: He's been running the country behind the scenes for years, so he might as well make it official. Claudine Gay: Just imagine all of...

You think I'm kidding?You think I'm shining you on?Think again, friend-o: There is nothing shiny about me. I am sandpaper covered in coal-dust.I'm sure you already know that the New York Times' first instinct was to Pivot to Republicans Pounce:Luke Thompson is posting amusing tweets, in which he quotes a member of the partisan traitor media or a member of the traitorous Democrat Party, and then pronounces: "We have entered the Soviet grain report phase of the Biden presidency." Referencing, of course, this sort of headline that would run in Pravda every harvest season:THIS YEAR'S GRAIN HARVEST EXCEEDS ALL RECORDS...

@alexbruesewitz STATEMENT ON MIKE GALLAGHER QUITTING CONGRESS: @RepGallagher was considered by many as a rising star in the GOP. But instead of embracing the MAGA movement, he decided to betray the grassroots and protect the swamp. Mike is now quitting congress because he knows he would face an embarrassing defeat in the upcoming primary. His vote to protect Alejandro Mayorkas was a foolish, career ending mistake. He claims that he voted against the Mayorkas impeachment out of principle, but that’s just not the truth. As reported by the Heritage Foundation’s @MHowellTweets, Gallagher was potentially involved in a horse trading agreement...

Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), currently serving as the chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, has announced that he will not seek reelection this November. Gallagher made the announcement on Saturday, signaling a significant shift in his career path and the political landscape of Northeast Wisconsin.

“It’s not if they are going to attack, it’s just when they are.” That’s what Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said after attending the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference in Washington, D.C, held Feb. 3-6, according to the Journal-News. At the conference, FBI officials warned sheriffs from across the country about imminent terrorist attacks on the U.S. “There are people already here who have come to this country who hate us and want to kill us,” Jones warned. He’s on a mission to make sure his department is prepared. https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1755253062908665856/jOfqhKmD?format=jpg&name=small The new generation of terrorists is sophisticated. The FBI warned...

Biden is a doddering old fool who doesn't know which way is up. Barack Obama and George Soros have been choosing all of his players and calling all of his shots for three years. So it shouldn't have been a big surprise when Hur, supposedly Biden's pick for special counsel, said Biden is too scatter-brained to be prosecuted for retaining classified documents. Following that assessment Biden's handlers allowed Biden to make the biggest mistake of his career. That was to go in front of a national TV audience and demonstrate what a doddering fool he is. https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/either-biden-is-an-elderly-man-with-a-poor-memory-or-he-needs-to-be-charged-pick-one/ But it didn't...

“Smart Cities,” which are very similar to “15-Minute Cities,” are no longer theoretical. The infrastructure is already being implemented across the globe and plans are in the works to move us into them. Most of our audience will say they would never participate, but their options may be limited if they don’t get ready to push back BEFORE they’re rolled out. In the near future, there will be three types of places where people live in western society, particularly in the United States. Most will live in variations of the current major cities, packed into small geographic locations as these...