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The mega-rich are using private jets like taxis, warn climate scientists who tracked flights to calculate the planet-warming gases they release. The scientists worked out that the carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to climate change, rose by 46% between 2019 and 2023. Researchers traced all private flights globally, including summer weekend trips to Ibiza, Spain and travel to the Fifa World Cup and the UN climate conference in Dubai. Flying in a private jet for a single hour can release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the average person produces in a year, according to the research team. “There...

“Trump acquitted himself admirably in a valiant fashion as a man.”

Day #48 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...

Day #48 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...

CA saw one of the largest shifts from Dems to Republican in the country. Republican gains in the state legislature. Trump got 40% of the vote Prop 36 passed overwhelmingly George Gascon finally booted out San Francisco mayor gone Oakland mayor + DA gone You're next.

You want some hard truths about the democrat party? Well, allow me to give you some. I am a historian, and I have the paperwork to prove it and I have been involved with politics since I worked on Reagan's first campaign. I know the democrat party's history- pretty interesting stuff when you get into it. The democrat party has ALWAYS been the party of the wealthy elite- the plantation owners with their feudalistic, two tier caste system and slavery. They were willing to kill 300k o their own citizens and 340k of OURS to hold on to it with...

House Republicans claimed a mandate for their 2025 agenda and celebrated keeping their majority Thursday, even as they remain shy of the seats needed to officially secure continued control of the chamber in January. Why it matters: The jubilant tone of Republicans' first conference-wide call since Tuesday's elections underscores how confident Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other GOP leaders are that the battle for the House will break their way — an outcome that seemed unlikely just days ago. Votes are still being counted in 27 uncalled House races, but even Democrats admit that Republicans are on track to keep...

Democrat political analyst brags about Kamala’s huge win coming, buys champagne on Election Day and mocks Trump supporter selling it to her at liquor store. This is glorious, watch it. Trust me:https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1854592297427517691

Jimmy Carter turned 100 October 1. He lived long enough to vote for Harris: Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris (FreeRepublic thread)So... what happened this week when she got totally crushed by POTUS47 DJT? I haven't seen anything in the news. I kind of expected he'd take a look at the election results and croak. Anybody know what happened to ol' JC?

New York might be a 2028 swing state due to the ongoing political realignment under President-elect Donald Trump. Trump lost New York by fewer votes than Vice President Kamala Harris lost Florida. Harris lost Florida by a margin of 1,428,188 votes, while Trump lost New York by a margin of only 904,492, according to the New York Times on Friday with more than 95 percent of the vote counted. The data is a strong indicator of the political realignment under Trump, a massive problem for Democrats who have counted on the black, Latino, and blue-collar vote to win elections. Before...

20 minutes of libs having a meltdown, screaming, crying, saying they will leaving the country because they lost America over Trump winning. Some of this you've seen, most you have not. Be sure to catch the guy at 6:28 he's a riot

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) easily won reelection on Tuesday night in the Show Me State. Hawley defeated Democrat opponent Lucas Kunce 56% to 42%.

Biden/Harris: The garbage took them out.

In a report reviewed exclusively by Breitbart Texas, human intelligence developed by frontline Border Patrol intelligence officers reveals the possibility of a formal covert operation being conducted by the Maduro regime. The operation is designed to infiltrate the United States using released inmates and pairing them with Venezuelan intelligence operatives to “neutralize” human targets within the United States. The report’s narrative, generated by the Rio Grande Valley Sector Intelligence Unit (SIU), indicates that released inmates from Venezuelan prisons have been directed to travel to the United States alongside Venezuelan intelligence officers to track down former Venezuelan military members, politicians, and...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland slams Synod on Synodality: ‘I reject’ it, ‘it’s not Catholic’During LifeSite's election coverage, Bishop Strickland said, 'There are threats on the horizon. This Synod on Synodality, I reject, because it's not Catholic. Many voices have already said this is not the Catholic Church.'Bishop Joseph Strickland has issued a stinging rebuke of the Synod on Synodality while calling on Catholics to oppose those who follow in the footsteps of Judas Iscariot. “There are threats on the horizon. This Synod on Synodality, I reject, because it’s not Catholic. Many voices have already said this is not the Catholic...

The current White House administration is awkwardly going out of its way to broadcast the presence of “fair elections” and that the election system just proved that it’s working just fine.

China unveiled a 10 trillion yuan (US$1.4 trillion) program to help resolve a local government hidden debt crisis, as authorities moved to shore up a slowing economy facing fresh risks from the reelection of Donald Trump. Officials fleshed out the details of a debt swap plan approved by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress at a press briefing in Beijing on Friday. The funds for the program — already telegraphed last month but without a price tag — will be provided through 2028, they said. Finance Minister Lan Fo’an also pledged to take a “more forceful” fiscal policy...

Democrats didn't just lose badly. They lost to a convicted felon they ridiculed as a racist, misogynistic fascist — and an existential threat to democracy. And they didn't just lose to President-elect Trump. They lost the Senate ... likely the House ... many Hispanic men ... all three Blue Wall states ... both Southern swing states ... even substantial support in the bluest of states and cities. Why it matters: Top Democrats, including Harris advisers, tell us they feel like a lost party. Come January, they'll have scant power in the federal government, and shriveling clout in the courts and...

CNN pundit Van Jones says Democrats’ media strategy is a major reason Vice President Harris lost this week’s presidential election to former President Trump. “We got beat because the conservatives and Republicans built a different media system,” Jones said on the channel Thursday. “It had to do with online, had to do with podcasts, with streaming platforms. And they were spending their money there.” Jones bemoaned that many Democrats and mainstream media outlets were “laughing at Trump for throwing away his ground game and doing weird stuff online.” “It turned out we were the idiots,” he continued. “We woke up...

Actress Justine Bateman — the star of NBC’s beloved sitcom Family Ties — is trolling supporters of Kamala Harris who have posted meltdown videos to TikTok and other social media apps, penning mock scene analyses of their cinematic technique. “Shoot in a location that is not the interior of a car,” Bateman wrote on X. “The director has her walk into extreme close-up, reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood,” the actress concludes in another post. “The exhale through the nose at the end, a la Raging Bull, is a good button to the piece,” she praises yet another. Justine Bateman’s hilarious...