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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is recovering in intensive care after having emergency surgery to drain blood from his brain, a medical note published by the country's government said. The leftist politician, known as Lula, had reduced travel in recent months while doctors monitored his recovery from a trauma he suffered to the back of his head after falling at his home in late October.

10 December 2024 Tuesday of the 2nd week of AdventSt Eulalia de Mérida Chapel. Oviedo Cathedral Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 40:1-11Consolations from the heart of Jerusalem‘Console my people, console them’says your God.‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalemand call to herthat her time of service is ended,that her sin is atoned for,that she has received from the hand of the Lorddouble punishment for all her crimes.’A voice cries, ‘Prepare in the wildernessa way for the Lord.Make a straight highway for our Godacross the desert.Let every valley be filled in,every mountain and hill be laid low.Let every...

"There is nothing more fake than when the libs pretend to have an emotional outpouring over some dead loser they didn’t give a f*** about while they were living." — Aimee Terese. Were you thinking of Daniel Penny this weekend? A year and a half ago, the US marine veteran, age 26, subdued one Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless schizophrenic with a record of 42 arrests who was menacing riders on a New York City subway car. Neely was, at the time, a fugitive on an arrest warrant for felony assault on a sixty-seven-year-old woman. Penny applied a choke hold...

Good riddance! FBI Director Christopher Wray is preparing to resign as President Trump moves forward with nominee Kash Patel. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (IA) sent Christopher Wray a blistering letter on Monday and told him and his deputy Paul Abbate to step down for the good of the country.

Democrats are going to have a hard time reforming what they've become. With Donald Trump’s presidential reelection, Democrats are experiencing the stages of grief which are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Once they accept reality, Democrats will ask: How to return to power? If Democrats need to go from here to there, where is here? Today, the Democrat party fully subscribes to economic Marxism (which is a socialist variant) and cultural Marxism combined with violence (state-inflicted through lawfare and swatting against political opponents plus more generally distributed through organizations such as BLM and Antifa which riot). Adolf Hitler claimed,...

It looks like Joni Ernst is busy digging her own political grave. Her behind-the-scenes war against Pete Hegseth has sparked a firestorm from MAGA, who were fed up with the RINO senator from Iowa long before she started attacking Trump’s nominees.Many are shocked at Joni’s idiotic decision to go after Hegseth, and to nobody’s surprise, it’s backfiring spectacularly.Let’s not forget—this is the same woman who eagerly pushed through Biden’s national security pick, the warmongering, midwit disaster, Lloyd Austin. You know, the guy who didn’t even bother to inform the White House that he was battling cancer and missing work during...

The anti-Israel student coalition at Columbia University was booted from Instagram on Monday, the latest pro-Palestinian activist organization in New York to have a social media account banned. Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the consortium of dozens of student groups that took a leading role in the encampment protest last spring, was removed from the platform after posting plans on Saturday for a protest that included an image of a figure holding a Molotov cocktail. The account had more than 40,000 followers. The protest, which was scheduled for Monday, was to focus on Barnard College, the women’s college associated with Columbia.......

Was taken in and interrogated for three hours about social media post, and today will get three hours more. Media doxxed Tommy while he was on vacation with his family, photographed his kids, now they're after him for innocuous posts on X, accuse him without basis of inciting the South Port summer riots, while legacy media outlets post inflammatory and false stories and suffer zero consequences. Transcript linked below video.

Kentanji Brown Jackson may not know what a woman is, but she knows what it is to go to bed one night as just an ordinary Supreme Court justice and to wake up the next day as a Broadway star. Yup, she's hitting the Great White Way (or, maybe, in her case, the Great Black Way) to fulfill a childhood dream: taking a turn in a Broadway musical.Interestingly, the particular musical she's chosen, "& Juliet," is a tawdry pro-transgender show. I think we can now guess how Jackson will vote on Tennessee's "no 'gender-affirming' care on minors" law.The Hill reported...

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In the Republican wave election year of 2024, one of the few Democratic bright spots was Susan Valdés.... As it turns out, Democrats don’t get to keep Valdés at all. On Monday, she announced in a post on X that she was switching her party affiliation to Republican. In the upcoming legislative session, Valdés will caucus with the GOP. “I will not waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community,” Valdés posted in a statement to X. “I’m tired of being the party...

On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was again the victim of a swatting call at her north Georgia home. This call, however, had a lethal difference: an officer was killed in rushing to the scene to join the bomb squad. The incident will trigger a new Georgia law on swatting and raise questions over legal responsibility for such lethal consequences from such crimes. Greene has been a victim of swatting at least nine times. On this occasion, the caller made a bomb threat. The police department received the threat entitled “For Palestine” and ended with “VIVA, VIVA PALESTINA.” The...

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota, 58, signed off from her final broadcast with the network on Sunday after more than a decade on air and just five months after she lost her husband to pancreatic cancer. In an emotional farewell, Camerota reflected on her remarkable journey with the channel which she said had included 'interviews with presidents, heroes, and extraordinary individuals'. Camerota said experiencing such moments while working for CNN had been the culmination of her lifelong dreams in journalism. 'The journalists at CNN are the very best in the business,' Camerota told viewers as she expressed her deep gratitude for...

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Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, fell out of touch with some of his friends and family earlier this year, according to multiple media reports. The loss in contact seemed to align with a back surgery Mangione underwent to treat chronic pain linked to a pinched nerve. R.J. Martin, the founder of a co-living space in Hawaii called Surfbreak, told the Honolulu Civil Beat that Mangione lived in the community, near Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park, for six months in 2022.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. He Must Increase, I must decrease. (John 3:30)

Has anyone watched the streaming show on Amazon Prime titled Cross?

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was filmed giggling as she declared “f–k Germany” and “f–k Israel” at an anti-Israel rally in Germany Friday, video shows. The 21-year-old appeared as a speaker at the demonstration in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, which included a discussion focused on “solidarity with Palestine and the climate movement.” “F–k Germany,” Thunberg says in the clip, before bursting into laughter. “And f–k Israel,” she adds to rapturous applause and whistling from the crowd. A city spokesperson told German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur that 700 protesters attended the rally, which they described as peaceful. Thunberg, however, has...

FBI Director Christopher Wray plans to resign on or before Inauguration Day, according to recent reports. The move, widely seen as preemptive, reflects growing pressure from Republican lawmakers, led by Senator Charles Grassley, and signals yet another shift in leadership for an agency that has been at the center of political and institutional controversies over the past several years. While Wray’s resignation isn’t entirely unexpected, it raises important questions about the future of the FBI, the challenges it faces, and the public’s trust in one of the nation’s most powerful institutions. This moment offers an opportunity to reflect on Wray’s...

Imagine a universe where fundamental mysteries about our existence are so finely tuned that they seem orchestrated by some unseen cosmic necessity. What if this idea, a theory known as the “Anthropic Principle” and one often invoked to explain the seemingly improbable, could be tested and potentially falsifiable? A groundbreaking study on axion dark matter by Dr. Nemanja Kaloper, a physicist from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis, and Dr. Alexander Westphal, a professor at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany, now proposes a method for testing the Anthropic Principle, potentially shaking the foundations...