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Top tip: don’t yeet your sneakers over a power line if you want to wear them again. Image credit: Alex Farias / Shutterstock.com ============================================================================== Ever been out walking and spotted a pair of sneakers slung over a power line? It’s not an uncommon sight, and with good reason. Shoe tossing – or shoefiti – is done all over the globe and for all sorts of reasons, so let’s dive into some of the most common theories behind this seemingly counterintuitive behavior. Memorial Humans have been memorializing the dead for millennia, with graves and burial sites dating back as far as...

Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to Vice President Kamala Harris’ backflip from being an “open border radical” to discouraging people from crossing the border illegally. “Oh they did come Kamala. They came and they weren't turned back,” Ms Panahi said. “11 million entered illegally. Well done border czar.”

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Touting President Joe Biden’s ‘Investing in America’ agenda, and speculation that he may be selected as a VP candidate, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit Central Indiana next week. The exact location of the visit to Central Indiana is not mentioned in a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation, other than it is a ‘future EV battery manufacturing facility in Indiana.’ Buttigieg is the former mayor of South Bend, Ind.

After several very confusing days, Joe Biden finally emerged on Wednesday after dropping out of the presidential race over the weekend. Appearing very frail, the president addressed the nation from the Oval Office in what was billed as an explanation of why he abruptly stepped aside as the Democratic Party nominee. Unfortunately, though perhaps expectedly, Biden provided no real information at all. In fact, his clearly deteriorating condition combined with the things he said only served to deepen the scandal around him and Kamala Harris. Who is actually the president? Why is he remaining in office if he can't run...

Armed Citizen® TodayA home invader wielding a knife with a sheath inscribed "Hail Satan" was shot and wounded by a Taylor, Texas, homeowner on May 28. Police responded to a call late that evening from a residence, with the caller informing dispatchers that a man with a knife was attempting to enter the house. Before officers arrived, the knife-armed suspect broke into the home and was shot by the homeowner. When officers arrived, the burglar had left the house and was found lying on the front porch, suffering from a gunshot wound to his hip. The 23-year-old suspect has been...

The good Dr struggles to explain Kamala by repeating some of her more interesting statements. This is baaaad.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Presidential candidate Kamala Harris distanced herself from Kamala Harris after members of the press confronted her with questions about her past. "I am not now nor have I ever been Kalama Harris," Kalama Harris replied. "I have no knowledge of Kamala Harris and I can assure you Kalama Harris has never been a part of who I am. Any claims to the contrary are sexist and racist." Following Kamala Harris's statement, news outlets were quick to condemn anyone who has ever referred to Kamala Harris as Kamala Harris. "As usual, the Republicans are engaging in a misinformation...

ransomnote I watched a video about the Dem party in disarray, with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran and made some quick notes on the content about 2 days ago.I think their theories create the most plausible and interesting description I've found of the musical-chairs scuffle taking place in the Dem party as they tussle over the selection of their candidate for the 2024 election.I initially posted my notes on the first 11 minutes of the video in a comment to FR (Part 1). I went back to make notes on the rest of the video because I...

The bodies of hostages Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, Maya Goren, Kiril Brodski, Oren Goldin, and Ravid Katz have been returned to Israel./Image: IDF/X On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the recovery of the bodies of five hostages murdered by Hamas after the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. The bodies of Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20, Maya Goren, 56, Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19, Oren Goldin, 33, and Ravid Katz, 51, have all been returned to Israel. According to the military, the operation to recover the bodies in Khan Yunis was based on precise intelligence information obtained, among other...

The video is from a bit less than 20 minutes after the shooting. (One should only need to watch less than twenty seconds.)

Kamala Harris becomes the first sitting Vice President to appear on RuPaul's Drag Race

Ecuador’s Navy announced the start of a campaign to protect the Galápagos Islands from the predatory practices of Chinese illegal fishing vessels that have, for years, endangered their maritime biodiversity. The announcement comes shortly after the conclusion of Galapex III, a series of multinational naval training exercises designed to fight illegal fishing that the Ecuadorian Navy hosted from June 23 to July 9. The navies of the United States, Canada, South Korea, Italy, Spain, and neighboring nations — such as Colombia and Peru — participated. “The problem is that the number of foreign fishing vessels reaches a point where they...

Vice President Kamala Harris only condemned Wednesday’s anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protest and vandalism in Washington, DC, after Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and others called her out for her silence. Harris was mum on Wednesday’s protests — which saw Union Station desecrated with antisemitic graffiti — until almost midday Thursday, prompting criticism from Vance. “Anti-American and pro-Hamas rioters burned the American flag in front of the US Capitol, and the woman who wants to be our president is still refusing to condemn it,” he wrote in a post on X at 10:54 a.m. Anti-American and pro-Hamas rioters burned the...

Florida Carry’s recent legal victory will benefit every law-abiding Floridian seeking to purchase a firearm. The Florida Carry, Inc., is proud to announce a major court victory against the administrative state in Florida. This victory will benefit every law-abiding Floridian who wants to purchase a gun. The case, Pretzer v. FDLE, was decided last week by the First District Court of Appeals. Florida Carry General Counsel Eric J. Friday of Kingry & Friday, PLLC, in Jacksonville, with substantial assistance from U.S. Law Shield, brought the lawsuit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and director Rick Swearingen, who Mark...

A group of Neo-Nazis have been filmed hurling disgusting racial abuse at a group of black children. The incident was caught on camera in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 14 and showed the group, who play music in the city, being abused by a group of men belonging to the Goyim Defense League. In the disturbing video, one of the Nazis can be heard telling the youngsters, some of whom are as young as eight-years-old, 'walk around us n*****'. The group of kids can be seen crossing the road in the downtown area of the city with their makeshift drums as...

Explanation: These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers. Still, this deep telescopic image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries embedded in surrounding fields of interstellar dust. Within the Iris itself, dusty nebular material surrounds a hot, young star. The dominant color of the brighter reflection nebula is blue, characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight. Central filaments of the reflection nebula glow with a faint reddish photoluminescence as some dust grains...

Former President Donald Trump missed 12 putts while playing a round of golf alongside Bryson DeChambeau. The 2024 Republican nominee for president appeared on the professional golfer's popular "Break 50" series, where they raised money for charity. Trump, 78, and DeChambeau, 30, played a two-person scramble, a common golf game in which "each player plays from the teeing area on each hole, one of the tee shots is selected and all the players play their second shots from within one club length of that location, no closer to the hole, and in the same height of grass in the general...

The US House of Representatives voted Thursday "condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border." The resolution passed by a vote of 220-196. Six Democrats—Yadira Caraveo (CO), Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Jared Golden (ME), and Mary Peltola (AK)—crossed over to vote in favor of the resolution.

Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has closed down the Islamic Centre Hamburg, along with its "Blue Mosque", accusing it of propagating extremism and being "a front" for the Iranian government. On Wednesday morning, hundreds of armed state policemen stormed Hamburg's Imam-Ali-Mosque, commonly referred to as "Blue Mosque" due to its turquoise facade, which is run by the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH). Fifty-three institutions and mosques in five different states across Germany with alleged ties to the centre were also subject to raids. In addition to the centre in Hamburg, authorities banned nationwide subsidiaries in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin. In a...

[Catholic Caucus] On the Suppression of the TLM on the Covadonga PilgrimageAn ominous sign indicating the credibility of the reports that discuss a further suppression of the Apostolic Roman Rite by the Roman Curia of “Mercy” was the recent announcement by the Vatican prohibiting the celebration of the Gregorian Rite at the Shrine of Our Lady of Covadonga on the final day of the Our Lady of Christendom pilgrimage in Asturias, Spain.At the Archdiocese of Oviedo they have informed us that they have received instructions from the Dicastery for Divine Worship stating that the Traditional Holy Mass is not to...