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Reporters for the NY Post were at the border in El Paso today when a group of between 100 and 300 people came across the border from Mexico and tore down some fencing before pushing past members of the Texas National Guard and rushing the border wall.The Post witnessed around 600 migrants amassed at the international border on the Mexican side, who the Texas National Guard were attempting to push back in small groups amid a ‘spring surge’ of migrants arriving to the southern border hoping to get asylum in the US...A group of men with hoodies, gloves and winter...

An unruly passenger aboard an American Airlines flight was detained by police after being put in a headlock then thrown off the plane for hurling anti-Semitic slurs at an attendant. The fracas happened on American Airlines Flight 2506, destined for Philadelphia, and started before the plane left the airbridge at Tampa International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. In a video of the incident, the passenger can be seen verbally assaulting staff and fellow passengers as the unrest developed.

Candace Owens and The Daily Wire have parted ways after weeks of tension with her co-founder Ben Shapiro over the Israel-Hamas war and her promotion of various conspiracy theories. 'Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,' co-founder and CEO Jeremy Boreing posted on X Friday morning. Owens, 34, reacted to the news saying, 'The rumors are true - I am finally free.' She also shared her personal website for those who want to support her work and teased 'many announcements in the weeks to come,' saying she will bring back her show on YouTube after a brief hiatus....

BURLINGTON, Iowa — A woman is facing multiple charges after setting fire to a stranger’s porch in Burlington, Iowa on Tuesday. Burlington Iowa Police Department said the fire happened around 4:30 p.m. The home’s resident called the police after she got a motion alert on the security camera. She looked at the video and said she saw a woman lighting a fire. The resident claimed that she did not know the woman and never saw her before, police said. Officers located the woman seen in the video, later identified as Michelle Young 46, according to KWQC. She allegedly admitted to...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. What better way for Netanyahu to counter Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's completely inappropriate and disgraceful speech he delivered that encouraged Israel to hold an election while Israel is at war? Schumer most likely delivered that speech at President Biden's request. Biden doesn't have the nerve to be honest about his feelings about Netanyahu. He likes to point to several decades of friendship but privately he is stabbing Netanyahu and Israel in the back. Israel has a...

It was almost 20 years ago that The Official Friday Silliness Thread began. As far as I can tell it was TheBigB who began this great Freeper tradition. Looking back over his posting history, it seems he posted lots of funny threads and vanities since his sign on date in 2000. But I can’t find any evidence of an earlier OFST other than this one. Dated 11/19/2004. **Official Friday Silliness Thread**11/19/2004, 2:33:34 PM · by TheBigB · 604 replies · 16,767+ views11/19/04 | self Here is the very first joke on the very first Silliness Thread. To: TheBigBA senior citizens'...

Joe Biden spoke to a small crowd during his speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, about his “plans” to lower housing costs when he abruptly began rambling about once being the “poorest man in Congress.” “I had the [inaudible] things to be listed as the poorest man in Congress for 36 years,” Biden began. “I got a phone call, my wife was campaigning. I was campaigning up in New Hampshire back when that statistic came out in the nineties,” he said. “And she called — I used to call them because the kids were little when I was away, and say,...

The body of missing University of Missouri student Riley Strain has been found in a Nashville river after he went missing leaving a country bar earlier this month, authorities said. “The body of Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland River in West Nashville this morning, approximately 8 miles from downtown,” the Metropolitan Nashville Police wrote on X. His body was found in the Cumberland River near 61st Avenue North around 7:30 a.m. Friday, news station WKRN reported. No foul play is suspected, but an autopsy has been scheduled, police said. Strain was visiting the Music City with his Delta...

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A “completely innocent” Brooklyn teen was gunned down by a drive-by shooter in what cops believe was a tragic case of mistaken identity this week – with his grief-stricken sister saying he’d only gone out that night to drive his friend home from work. Christian Montrose, 19, had just parked his car in front of his house on East 104th Street near Avenue K in Canarsie around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday when someone rolled up in a black Acura and ambushed him, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters. “As he gets out of the car, he’s engaged in conversation...

[Catholic Caucus] Austria: Bishop Promotes a "God of Diversities"Homosexual activist Wilhelm Krautwaschl, 61, aka Bishop of Graz-Seckau, Austria, is promoting a prayer to a hitherto unknown idol which he calls "god of diversity" and who created "not only man or woman - no", reports Kath.net.During Lent, his diocesan bureaucrats sent propaganda texts by email or WhatsApp.On 7 March, the text was entitled "Under the Rainbow", written by a certain Marlies Prettenthaler-Heckel, a "theologian" paid as a "consultant" for the diocesan pastoral office. Her text is as follows:"God of diversity / You make everything so beautifulThere is not only blue or...

One of the arguments you've probably heard circulating during the war in Gaza is that there's a difference between Hamas, who the US government and most sane people see as terrorists, and Palestinians, who are usually portrayed as innocent civilians. An inconvenient fact for supporters of this division is that Hamas is not just a militant group operating in Gaza, they are the elected leaders of Gaza. Nevertheless, we're told that not all Palestinians support Hamas.But a new poll released Wednesday calls into question that idea. In fact, Hamas, its leaders and the attack on Israel on 10/7 remain remarkably...

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Mexico isn’t a partner or a friend on our southern border. It’s an antagonist, and it’s time we treat it as such.A group of several hundred illegal immigrants forcibly pushed past Texas National Guard troops on Thursday in El Paso, Texas, breaking through razor wire and assaulting guardsmen as they forcibly rushed a border gate.Video of the clash, which was filmed by reporters from the New York Post, quickly went viral. It shows the crowd of migrants, all of them adult men, at first putting their hands up as they crowd around a small group of Texas guardsmen trying to...

A two-headed western rat snake named Tiger-Lily underwent surgery to remove her ovaries due to a health issue. Photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ March 21 (UPI) -- A two-headed snake visiting the Missouri Department of Conservation's Powder Valley Nature Center will have her stay extended to recover from surgery, officials said. The two-headed western rat snake, named Tiger-Lily, was scheduled to leave the nature center this week, but the serpent will remain for a longer stay to be treated for a health condition detected by staff who noticed the snake sneezing blood after a feeding. "This...

Donald Trump's anodyne if overexcited comment that the U.S. auto industry would face a "bloodbath" if he's not elected and doesn't impose 50% or 100% tariffs on cars produced predictable results. "Don't outsmart yourself," Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) posted, and Joe Biden's campaign promptly charged Trump with promising a "bloodbath" if he loses, without saying that he used a common metaphor and was talking about the auto industry. That's a subject Team Biden is understandably touchy about, given the conspicuous fiasco of its electric vehicle policies. It's summed up in a lengthy Wall Street Journal report on how a "dramatic...

Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was put back in his place by Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), who reminded him about his romantic relationship with “Chinese spy” Fang Fang. Swalwell will never escape being the butt of jokes when it comes to Chinese spying. Waltz said Swalwell “knows a thing or two about how China penetrates our government.”

On Wednesday, while campaigning in Arizona, Joe Biden revealed that the government reached an $8.5 billion deal with U.S. chipmaker Intel to build four plants in the U.S. that will build advanced computer chips. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the deal would enable the U.S. to manufacture 20% of the world's most advanced computer chips by 2030 and create 30,000 jobs. “Failure is not an option — leading-edge chips are the core of our innovation system, especially when it comes to advances in artificial intelligence and our military systems,” Raimondo told reporters. “We can’t just design chips. We have to...

[Catholic Caucus] A German Bishop: Words and Deeds Can Contradict Each OtherHomosexual [pseudo] blessings are the beginning of a further "development of doctrine", Monsignor Helmut Dieser, the Bishop of Aachen, Germany, told Katholisch.de (19 March).The term "development of doctrine" is often used by heretics to mean "betrayal of the faith."Monsignor Dieser says that with the text 'Fiducia Supplicans', Francis has made it clear "that action does not have to reflect doctrine one-to-one". He overlooks the fact that this is the definition of hypocrisy.For him, 'Fiducia Supplicans' indicates "indirectly" that the doctrine has a potential for "further development" [he means: disintegration]....

Last fall, I interviewed nurses from around the country about the nursing shortage that was affecting everything from the cost of healthcare to patient well-being. I never found a home for it, and I ended up putting it on Substack. (Yeah, I thought I would give Substack a shot. If you're interested, I'll send you a link.) The nursing shortage is real. In some cases, the lack of skilled providers has been deadly for some patients. The good news is that the Mayo Clinic is trying to solve this problem. The bad news is that it is trying to solve...