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President-elect Donald Trump and his family enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago with people including Elon Musk and Sylvester Stallone. Musk took to X on Thursday night and wrote, "Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!" with two U.S. flag emojis while sharing a posted video that showed him and Trump sitting at a table alongside Barron Trump and Melania Trump. The Village People's "YMCA" played over the loudspeakers. The billionaire and the president-elect clearly were enjoying the music. User @ALX had posted the video, writing: "Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Barron and Melania blasting YMCA at Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving." The video had...

A solo vehicle crash involving a Tesla Cybertruck left three young people dead early Wednesday morning in the Northern California city of Piedmont, authorities said. While the identities of the victims have not been confirmed by authorities, CBS News Bay Area has learned that all three were recent students at Piedmont High School who graduated as part of the class of 2023. The victims were all home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday. The weight of the grief that has hit the Piedmont community was palpable as neighbors began to mourn the loss of the three young adults. Neighbors were...

He better watch out. Footage of a heated confrontation between customers apparently taken inside a Costco emerged the day before Thanksgiving — sparking online debate about naughty shopper behavior as gift-buying season gets underway. An aggravated man rammed a woman’s shopping cart with his own as he impatiently tried to push through a sea of shoppers in an aisle, according to a video a fellow customer posted on a Reddit Costco thread, which is not affiliated with the mega-chain store.

Analysis: Amid widespread accusations of targeting civilians, IDF employs rigorous strategies to minimize harm, including advanced warnings, precision strikes and humanitarian aid, highlighting commitment to protecting innocent lives in war zones. It is often reported in mainstream and state-controlled media, as well as in international forums, that Israel deliberately targets civilians and might even be committing genocide against the population of Gaza. These accusations are not only baseless but are also easily debunked by the following data, numbers and facts from the War in Israel database, an IDSF project. Before launching any strikes on cities, refugee camps or other territories,...

The Biden administration, with their takeover of the ATF, discontinued the publication of Firearms Commerce in the United States without announcement. Firearms Commerce of the United States was last published in May of 2021, shortly after the Biden Administration took residence in the White House. Many journalists and researchers, including myself, used the annual report as the basis of numerous articles about what was happening in the firearms industry. In January of 2023, at the SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas, I asked ATF representatives when the latest version of Firearms Commerce in the United States would be published. None had...

At least four Democratic representatives from Connecticut said Thursday they were targeted with bomb threats while home celebrating Thanksgiving with their families. Reps. Joe Courtney, Jim Himes, John Larson and Jahana Hayes each issued statements revealing they were targeted with bomb threats, prompting law enforcement to respond. In each case, law enforcement ultimately found no evidence of a bomb and all four lawmakers have reported their families are safe. The incidents come one day after several of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and administration appointees were similarly targeted in what the president-elect’s transition team called “violent and unAmerican threats to their...

An already hectic holiday travel day was made more chaotic with two separate plane collisions on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport just hours apart on Monday. In the first crash, an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to its gate clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane, local ABC affiliate station WCVB reported. “That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” Evelyn Pipione, a Frontier passenger ... Video obtained by Storyful shows the battered wing of the smaller Frontier plane underneath the wing of the...

"This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them." — Jeff Childers. You have every reason to believe that this arrogant, malicious, leviathan government, and the vicious intel / lawfare blob at its vanguard, is about to be turned upside-down, inside-out, and sideways. Every appointment by Mr. Trump is a dose of chemotherapy to this malignant beast, aimed at all its diseased organs. The rogue cells within are going to die hard, struggle against their extinction, shriek...

American travelers are outraged by signs appearing at US airports appearing to allow migrants onto flights without showing proper identification. US citizens traveling domestically have to show a valid identification card or a passport to board a plane, but signs at certain airports say there are different rules for some newly arrived migrants. The signs claim the Transport Security Administration is working with Customs and Border Protection to “validate adult non-US citizen travel documentation when the traveler does not otherwise have an acceptable form of identification.” In practice, this means migrants who have entered the country using the CBP One...

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Anti-Christian sentiment is rising across Europe, as documented by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC). Its latest report identifies 2,444 anti-Christian hate crimes in 35 European countries in 2023, underscoring an escalating crisis involving acts of violence, discrimination, and legal restrictions.

A report in The New York Times Magazine found that the University of Michigan's decade-long, roughly $250 million experiment in DEI has been a failure. . DEI is a bad idea whose time came with a vengeance several years ago, but now its continued ascendancy is in doubt. Perhaps the most important event this year outside of the presidential election is the intellectual collapse of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion, which is poisonous hokum that is finally being exposed as such. DEI has been one of the most morally perverse and damaging fads in recent American history. ... We’ve been...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Monday, Nov. 28. The extracts from the Southern papers sent you give the latest intelligence from SHERMAN. It is obvious that the rebels have given up all hope of being able to prevent SHERMAN from reaching an outlet on the seaboard. They will confine their efforts to making his expedition as fruitless as they can. Military men here feel the utmost confidence in regard to the ultimate results of the Georgia campaign, and whatever fears have hitherto been entertained respecting its success, are now completely dismissed. REBEL REPORTS. From Richmond Papers of Saturday....

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and “First Partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom are being mocked for a tone-deaf Thanksgiving message that name-checked indigenous Californians and illegal aliens but largely ignored everyone else. “Thanksgiving is an opportunity to especially celebrate the native peoples of this lad and reflect on their perseverance and endurance,” Mrs. Nesom said. “We’re grateful for all that you do and all that you are,” the governor chimed in.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (11/29/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (No Respecter of Persons) Acts 10:44-4844 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost...

Assisted dying bill moves forward....

A woman is issuing a grave warning to homeowners after claiming her property was destroyed in a fire that she says was caused by her Wi-Fi router overheating. Florida resident Keona Huntley.. posted a now-viral TikTok video in the aftermath of the fire, which she says started in her bedroom due to the internet box. Huntley shares horrifying footage of her property after the fire, while detailing how the terrifying blaze quickly spread throughout the entire house, leaving almost every room a charred shell. Beginning in her kitchen, Huntley captures the devastating aftermath of the fire, revealing blackened walls that...

Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest. It’s a fight that looks wide open. The certainty is that Trump himself will not be on the ballot, since the Constitution limits him to two terms. Vice President-elect JD Vance is the likely GOP front-runner as the party’s next presidential nominee.

Islamic preachers of progressiveness - to the West that is. * Linda Sarsour. * Ilhan Omar. * Rashida Tlaib. * Mehdi Hassan. * Ali Velshi. * Ayman Mohyeldin * Amna Nawaz. * Hasan Piker. Ilhan Omar (the one with tropes about money in Feb 2019, in Aug 2018, to Al Jazeera / Mehdi Hassan she said Americans should be "more fearful of white men" when discussing the threat of 'jihadist terrorism'; in 2019, "Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib partnered with vicious Anti-Semites to plan their trip to Israel") & "Palestinian" Rashida Tlaib (with a record of racism against other races...

Starmer does multiple screw ups and fails to remedy them, especially farmers and inheritance tax, heating allowance for seniors, and lawfare against opposition, national insurance, etc.