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Just afternoon in Niagara county, New York. Little bit of a rush early on. Now. Only a trickle due to all the early voting that happened over the past week. Couple of notes: Dominion voting machines are in use. The indicators showing that they are currently not hooked up to the internet but one never knows when that can change. More important, it appears the turnout for the election is about 3:00 to 1 female here. Once again, early voting captured most but there are a high number of females voting today. I need to get back in there but...

The Cabinet has appointed a full Ambassador of Palestine to Ireland for the first time, following a recommendation by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin. The appointment of Dr. Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, who is the current Palestinian Head of Mission to Ireland, comes after the Government decision last May to recognize the State of Palestine. Formal diplomatic relations between Ireland and the State of Palestine were established on 29 September, through an exchange of diplomatic notes. On 17 October, the government of the State of Palestine formally notified the Department of Foreign Affairs of its intention to change...

Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday, she argued that people need to vote for her to preserve the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments, that Trump “wants to terminate the Constitution.” Yet, on the First Amendment, Harris previously called for government “oversight or regulation” of social media to stop what she calls misinformation. In 2022, her vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Tim Walz, claimed: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” On gun ownership, Harris went so far as claiming: “I am in...

When POTUS DJT officially becomes 47th POTUS. I have all three available. Which do you recommend? Thank you.

Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has backed former President Donald J. Trump as voters in the United States head to the polls to select the next leader of the free world. Geert Wilders, who now stands as the main power player behind the government in The Netherlands and, consequently, one of the most influential populist leaders in Europe, endorsed Donald Trump for president on Tuesday. Writing on the X social media platform, the Party for Freedom (PVV) leader said: “Of course, it’s up to Americans and Americans only to decide who their next President will be. And I am not...

The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s estimates of reported crime to claim that crime has been falling. When the FBI released its numbers for 2023 in September 2024, it hid that it had revised its earlier crime data for 2021 and 2022, hiding the increase in 2022 and that there had been a net increase in crime over 2022 and 2023. Just days before an election in which crime has been a major issue, the FBI continues to hide the revisions. On Thursday, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair...

Viral baby hippo Moo Deng has made a shock prediction in the 2024 US presidential election. The zookeepers at Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo tested the four-month-old hippo by giving her two fruit-filled watermelons to choose from, emblazoned with either Donald Trump's name or Kamala Harris. They then let Moo Deng, whose name means 'bouncy pork' choose which melon she wanted to feast on, which would in turn reveal her presidential pick. The young mammal opted for Donald Trump. However, one of the zookeepers later revealed on social media that Trump's melon contained some larger pieces of fruit in it,...

Philadelphia City Commissioners' Office Tells Non-Citizens They Can Vote

Aserendipitous discovery may lead to a new way of fighting cancer – even tumors that are resistant to immunotherapy – by suppressing a mechanism that cancer cells use to evade the body’s immune system. “It all happened by coincidence,” explained study lead Professor Carmit Levy of Tel Aviv University, in a statement. “My lab studies both cancer and the effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun on our skin and body – both of which are known to suppress the immune system. Cancer suppresses approaching immune cells and solar radiation suppresses the skin's immune system.” “While in most cases,...

"I knew the laptop records could be vetted and confirmed," Catherine Herridge says. "I was confused by what seemed a disconnect between the CBS News division and 60 Minutes." Fired CBS News investigative journalist Catherine Herridge broke her silence on "the question I get asked the most" in her newsletter Sunday: "What happened with the Hunter Biden story at CBS before the 2020 election?" The short answer is the Tiffany network did not direct the CBS News investigative unit "to develop more reporting on the laptop" in October 2020 after Herridge vetted materials including "a million dollar retainer from a...

R's with a 218,311 ballot lead with 2.1 percent higher turnout percentage to registered voters. Couple this with a almost 300k voter registration edge I would estimate R's are in good shape. Over 140k ballot advantage in Maricopa.

Conversation Lara Trump @LaraLeaTrump Good news on Cambria County! We successfully secured a court order extending voting hours until 10 PM to make up for long lines. STAY IN LINE! VOTE! 🇺🇸🗳️ Quote Michael Whatley

Despite what you hear from Democrats, voting in the United States is ridiculously easy. Mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, provisional ballots if you're not sure, and ranked-choice ballots if you want to confuse everyone. But before all that, there's registering to vote. This, too, is ridiculously easy, although potential voters must make an effort to sign up. The funny thing about voter registrations is that they supply a "tell" for how an election will go. This is especially true in states where voters register by party. Alex Castellanos, senior aide to the campaigns of Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, told Fox...

Just four months ago, our British cousins voted in an election that changed the course of their country. Today, we go to the polls and will hopefully change the direction of ours. There are some interesting comparisons between the two elections. Granted, we won’t know the result of the U.S. elections until tonight — or maybe later — but there are some weird similarities and some obvious differences between the two elections. Let’s start with the timing of these elections. The British elections took place on July 4, eliciting snickers from Americans. I don’t know if Britons ever think about...

Two polling sites in Fulton County were briefly evacuated Tuesday morning after receiving bomb threats. According to Nadine Williams, Fulton County’s Director of Registration and Elections, five polling stations in total were targeted. While authorities deemed the threats non-credible, the Etris-Darnell Community Center and C.H. Gullatt Elementary School were evacuated for about half an hour. Both sites have since reopened and resumed normal operations. Williams says the county is now pursuing a court order to extend voting hours at these two locations past the standard 7 PM statewide deadline to make up for the interruption. South Fulton School Police reported...

Former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin has been a vocal critic of her old boss, but whenever she was asked directly, she wouldn't commit to voting for Kamala Harris — until Tuesday morning. To kick off the show, she revealed that she officially cast her vote for a Democrat for the first time in her life.

[Catholic Caucus] Why does Pope Francis want Fr. James Martin, Rupnik colleague in the Vatican communications office?The Vatican communications office includes one of the foremost LGBT advocates in the Church and a close collaborator of one of the most scandal-plagued priests in Rome.Fr Martin (far right) and Govekar (3rd from right) at the Dicastery for Communication, plenary assembly 2024.With the Vatican in dire need of well-directed communications as the Holy See attempts to promote the Synod and the 2025 Jubilee, the inclusion of Father James Martin, SJ and a close ally of scandal plagued Father Marko Rupnik in the Vatican’s...

LBJ’s corrupt ghost still haunts South Texas during this most most important of American elections. The Commander Jay Furman for Congress Campaign reports that an alarming number of voters in Webb County Texas (Laredo) were not presented with correct electronic ballots during Early Voting. Apparently robbed of their most sacred American voice, the good citizens of Webb County are not surprised that the race to replace Department of Justice indicted (28-count) U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar is fraught with such bold injustice. Beginning several days into early voting, the campaign received reports from voters that Furman’s name was not appearing on...

Day #46 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. We are coming down the home stretch here, folks -- and we will be done by early next week, God willing! And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll...

Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy will have access to Legos, cocoa, and coloring books in a post-Election Day “Self-Care Suite.” “In an email to McCourt students,” reports the Free Press, “Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, introduced the school’s post-election ‘Self-Care Suite.’” “In recognition of these stressful times,” she adds, “all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much-needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day.”