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A Chaunax, a genus of bony fish in the sea toad family Chaunacidae, is seen at a depth of 1,388 meters (4,553 feet) on a seamount inside the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More than 100 new species have been discovered on an underwater mountain range off the coast of Chile. Among the never-before-seen critters seen on the expedition are corals, glass sponges, sea urchins, amphipods, lobsters, plus a gaggle of peculiar fish and squid that are already known to science (but no less strange). The discoveries come from an international group of scientists who recently...

Kirkland for Congress phone call.... totally sound prerecorded. Any Freepers in CA listening to it?

TRANSCRIPT Hey y'all and welcome. MY name is Brian and this video shows how Trump cuts through all of the BS in politics. I was watching and I heard the story of an incredible unbelievable young woman who was battling rare bone cancer. They made a mistake. A doctor or Hospital made a mistake she called it a it was a medical error her name is Natalie Harp. She lit up the television screen like very few people I've ever seen do. And, she talked about how they were preparing her for death. However, because of "right to try" she's...

A rocket barrage from Hezbollah into northern Israel including the Golan Heights... CPAC...El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele... The rearrest of that former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov... Israel's war cabinet agreeing to send a delegation...talks on release of hostages... Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announcing a committee meeting to approve more than three thousand new Jewish housing... Four dead, 19 missing, a 14-story building destroyed by fire in Valencia, Spain... An attack this evening on the US base at the Al-Omar oil field in Syria... US Central Command says a merchant vessel was struck and damaged...six drones were shot down in...

Two outbursts from the sun occurred as widespread cellphone outages were reported throughout the United States on Thursday (Feb. 22). Two powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on the evening of Wednesday (Feb. 21) and during the early morning of Thursday (Feb. 22). An X1.8-class flare occurred at 6:07 p.m. ET (2307 GMT) on Feb. 21, and another, an X1.7 class flare, erupted at 1:32 a.m. ET (0632 GMT) on Feb. 22. The flares erupted from a region of the sun that "continues to exhibit strong magnetic complexity," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote in a statement...

President Joe Biden has overseen a record-breaking level of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border — a large portion of which is being released directly into American towns and cities. From February 2021 through January 2024, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shows that more than 7.2 million illegal aliens have arrived at the nation’s porous southern border. Thus far in Fiscal Year 2024, with only four full months completed, nearly a million illegal aliens have crossed the southern border. In Fiscal Year 2022, Biden broke records by overseeing close to 2.37 million illegal aliens at the border, and...

Officials of Nassau County, New York, are bucking the liberal establishment of the state after moving to place a ban on men competing as women in the sports facilities the country controls. County Executive Bruce Blakeman says the ban is intended to protect the integrity of women’s sports. “What we are saying here today with our executive order is that if a league or team identifies themselves or advertises themselves to be a girls or women’s league or team, then biological males should not be competing in those leagues,” Blakeman said, according to WLNY-TV.

Email sent to all of Macomb County Michigan Republican Precinct DelegatesFebruary 22,2024 Delegates:Greetings all Delegates and Alternates to the March 2nd District Convention You will see below the call to convention that was sent out on February 20th from the Hoekstra Administration. We are now faced with a "two competing convention issue", one in Detroit and one in Grand Rapids. You have every right to attend whichever one you choose, but many of you are new delegates and are unfamiliar with the way the structure functions. You will be electing 3 Delegates and 3 Alternates to the Republican National Convention....

Today I offer a news story about a multi-billion dollar theft by government fiat of the Mesquite gold mine reserves that geologists then estimated to be worth between $40 to $100 billion in gold. I haven't investigated to see what the ultimate value was, but if anyone is interested let the rest of us know. This was originally posted by Jim Robinson on April 29, 1998. Free Republic was still in its infancy, and I was a newbie who joined the forum just two Months earlier. I would like to say I remember this, but I don't. It's another...

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton has become eligible for day parole. The 74-year-old was convicted for the murders of six women in December 2007, receiving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. He was also charged in connection with 20 other murders, with DNA evidence linking additional missing women to his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C., but the charges were stayed because Pickton was already serving the maximum sentence. He has been linked to possibly murdering up to 49 women and feeding their remains to his pigs. On Wednesday, families of the victims held a...

He helped fuel Disney’s animation renaissance in the 1990s, then worked on stop-motion films for Laika Studios.Kent Melton, the animation sculptor who created maquettes made of clay for iconic characters found in movies including Aladdin, The Lion King, Mulan, The Incredibles and Coraline, has died. He was 68. Melton died Thursday at his home in Stone County, Missouri, of Lewy body dementia, family members told The Hollywood Reporter. One of the few artists left in the industry who still sculpted in clay, Melton was a key player in the Disney animation renaissance of the 1990s. Later, he helped Laika Studios...

Apair of drug dealers, including one who was charged last year in the overdose death of his infant son, allegedly tried to smuggle court documents soaked in liquid fentanyl into Rikers Island, prosecutors said Thursday. Adam Kamagate and Curtis Braswell were indicted on multiple drug charges this week in what the Staten Island District Attorney’s office called a first-of-its-kind case. Braswell, 37, allegedly delivered court paperwork infused with liquid fentanyl, cocaine and PCP to Kamagate, a 37-year-old Rikers inmate, at Staten Island’s Supreme Courthouse in hopes of the drugs reaching the Big Apple jail.

<p>A judge in Texas has ruled against a teen who claimed that suspension over his dreadlocks was a violation of his rights.</p><p>Darryl George, 18, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu has been suspended twice after the the school district declared that his hairstyle violated its length policy.</p>

Vice Media announced in a memo this week that it will be laying off hundreds of employees as it faces a sale. Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon said in the company-wide email that the decision to lay off “several hundred” staff members did not come lightly. “This decision was not made lightly,” Dixon wrote. Dixon added that fired staffers will be notified of the next steps next week.

Note, however, that no mainstream fact-checking organization or misinformation watchdog group is springing into action to correct their claims. Liberal news outlets reported on the interview—The Huffington Post cheered Pelosi for putting Trump "on blast"—without calling it into question whatsoever. It's very telling what gets counted as misinformation and what doesn't. Pelosi was, until very recently, the third-most-powerful Democrat in Washington, D.C., yet her brand of conspiracy theorizing received little pushback. Psaki certainly didn't do her part.

A day after Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced that a suspect in two Arizona stabbing investigations won’t be extradited in a New York murder case, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg held his own news conference to call out the decision as “political grandstanding.” …… Raad Almansoori, 26, is accused of stabbing two women in separate incidents in Phoenix and Surprise last weekend. On Saturday, police say he stabbed a woman during an attempted carjacking near 19th and Glendale avenues. Then, on Sunday, he allegedly followed an employee into the bathroom of a McDonald’s in Surprise and stabbed her multiple...

Congressman Andrew Ogles refers to Hamas [terrorists], they should have all been killed, but lying Code Pink paints his words on "children" - falsely. The fake phrased clip is at: instagram[dot]com/reel/C3nacL7tkEH/ Parsed, intentionally. Ogles keeps saying all Hamas should have died and Jennifer Somerville of Code Pink edits it / phrases it as if he was talking about "children"... he ends the clip by: "death to Hamas".

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) takes a 10-point lead over Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake in a new head-to-head poll, the result of Arizona’s electorate “steering away from the MAGA brand.” The new poll from Noble Predictive Insights (NPI) finds in a two-person race, Gallego leads Lake, 47% to 37% among likely voters with 16% of voters unsure. Gallego, the likely Democratic nominee, and Lake, who is the front-running Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, are competing for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)’s seat. Sinema left the Democratic Party a little over a year ago to become an independent.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that President Joe Biden’s student loan program “is not giving anybody’s money away” because the people who got “forgiveness” “have already paid back” their loans. Clyburn said, “I think we need to explain to people what is going to happen going forward. It’s one thing to eliminate the loan, the debt that’s already been accumulated. What they did yesterday, about 1.5 billion, that’s added on top of the 137 billion that has already been forgiven. Going forward, every two months, for the next four years,...

Mike Sapraicone won 84% of the New York Republican County Chair vote for Senate Nominee. Sapraicone, who serves as CEO of a private security company, last year had considered a run to unseat Rep. George Santos (R-NY) As The Gateway Pundit reported, Sapraicone is a dirty cop and a bad nominee for Republicans in the Big Apple. While serving with the 114th Precinct Detective Squad, Sapraicone faced at least four complaints alleging unlawful use of force and abuse of authority, and he was accused of suppressing evidence and fabricating a confession in one case where the judge found that the...