Free Republic

This USAID story is eliciting reactions that seem surprising to most people. Let me break down the real story for you. A short 🧵1/ USAID is a front for the CIA. They are an unaccountable agency, under the cover of humanitarian efforts overseas, who operate via various NGOs, to carry out domestic operations. 2/ When the dust settles we are going to find out that most of the domestic terror we have seen the last few years (think BLM and INTIFA riots) were funded by USAID. That is just the tip of the iceberg. 3/ They have been able to...

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. - A lawsuit filed in Shasta County Superior Court accuses the county’s Registrar of Voters, Thomas Toller, of multiple election law violations during the November 5, 2024, general election. The case, Ladd v. Toller, brought by petitioners Daniel T. Ladd and Laura Hobbs, alleges election mismanagement, failure to follow proper procedures and violations of state and federal election laws.....

Two of my favorite things in the world are reducing the size of government and watching leftists cry in thwarted frustration. We almost never see the former, and there’s not nearly enough of the latter to suit me. So I won’t pretend the last couple of weeks haven’t been fun. It’s amazing to watch Democrats wail and gnash their teeth at Elon Musk and his team of autists ferreting out government waste. A handful of nerds have lifted up the mossy rock of federal bureaucracy, and now we can see all the slimy little creatures hiding underneath. Now, I’m skeptical...

Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years—Palestine. During meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, Trump said he was going to move 1.7 million Palestinians out of Gaza. And just like that, he broke the long spell that had captured generations of world leaders, peace activists, and Middle East terror masters alike, who had paradoxically come to regard the repeated failure and haunting secondary consequences of the idea of joint Arab Muslim and Jewish statehood in the same small piece of land as proof of its necessity. Palestine...

According to Politico, Democrat Reps. Judy Chu (D-CA) and Gwen Moore (D-WI) marched into Speaker Johnson’s office unannounced and demanded answers on Musk’s DOGE team. Politico reported: Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk’s team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department. Their intrusion, amid an escalation of Democratic backlash against Musk’s sweep through the federal government, came shortly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrived at the speaker’s office to discuss how to implement President Donald Trump’s tax agenda....

LONGTIME MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell has confirmed she's quitting as the network reels from a flurry of abrupt departures. Mitchell, MSNBC's longest-running daytime host, is leaving after 17 years with the network. The Andrea Mitchell Reports host confirmed that her last day of hosting duties be Friday at 12 pm. She'll continue working for the Comcast-owned company as NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent. In October, Mitchell, 78, announced that she would be leaving the network, but didn't give a concrete date. At the time, she said, "After sixteen years of being in the anchor chair...

Fearful U.S. government workers weighed whether to take a buyout offer from the Trump administration ahead of a Thursday deadline, as officials pressed ahead with a restructuring effort that could dramatically shrink the U.S. civil service. Federal worker unions urged their members not to take the offers and said they may not be legal, despite administration assurances. The unions sued to block the offer, with a court hearing scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday (1800 GMT). At least 40,000 have taken the deal so far, according to a White House source, about 2% of the government's 2.3 million...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Making Bombs—Marine Style! U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Javier AquinoValcárcel, an aviation ordnance systems technician with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, labels a GBU-31 (V) 2/B joint direct attack munition during the squadron’s support of the Aviation Training Relocation Program at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, This iteration of the ATR Program provided MAG-12 squadrons the opportunity to sharpen their tactical proficiency and perform flight operations in Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands. AquinoValcárcel is a native of Puerto Rico....

Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. This means no spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers. And because we are not a 501C, we have preserved our God-given, constitutionally protected right to free speech without government intervention. If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today: Click here: to donate by Credit CardOr here: to donate by PayPalOr by mail to: Free Republic, LLC...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. will not grant visas to transgender women athletes trying to enter the country to participate in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Trump made the declaration at the White House during a signing ceremony of an executive order aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women's sports and directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refuse to comply. Trump said he will direct Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "to deny any and all visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying...

The US State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced on Wednesday that "U.S. government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees." This, the State Department notes, will save the US "millions of dollars a year." Rubio had warned Panama to curb Chinese influence over the Canal. This is a change in the recently implemented policy of Panama which required increased charge fees of all ships passing through the Canal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Liberals expressed outrage today after President Trump signed an executive order this afternoon that men cannot punch women in the face for sport. The order further states that mediocre male athletes have to hit the gym and try harder if they want to win. "It is a sad day in America when men cannot punch women in the face," said ESPN executive James Pitaro. "We at ESPN are appalled that we cannot televise men kicking the crap out of women while we cheer. President Trump has gone too far." Trump announced the executive order to a room...

U.S. Representative Al Green from Houston has announced that he will file new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The Democrat U.S. Representative announced his plan to file impeachment articles during a speech on Wednesday where he denounced President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The federal whistleblower protection agency has concluded the IRS wrongly retaliated against two agents who blew the whistle on political interference in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation and may have violated federal law by trying to gag the agents from disclosing wrongdoing, according to correspondence to Congress made public Wednesday. The Empower Oversight whistleblower center, which represented one of the agents, Gary Shapley, disclosed the findings of the Office of Special Counsel in a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Empower Oversight had filed a complaint with OSC in May 2023 alleging that Shapley and his...

82-year-old Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell was seen in a wheelchair Wednesday after reportedly falling multiple times in the Capitol building. Ken Klippenstein, a self described independent reporter, posted a photo of the aged senator being pushed in a wheelchair by an aide. “82 year old Senator Mitch McConnell spotted in a wheelchair after falling not once but twice today,” he wrote.

Trump’s newly-confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy annihilated twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Wednesday after she launched an attack on the agency. Secretary Duffy said he spoke with Elon Musk’s DOGE team to help upgrade the aviation system after do-nothing bureaucrats destroyed the US’s infrastructure over the years. “Big News – Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” Secretary Duffy said on Wednesday. Elon Musk said his DOGE team is working with Secretary Duffy to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system. “Just a few days ago,...

A House Oversight Committee hearing descended into chaos on Wednesday morning after Democratic lawmakers were blocked from subpoenaing billionaire Elon Musk.Recently, Democrats have raised concerns after Musk along with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have begun purging federal budgets and employees in the executive branch.On Wednesday, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) made a motion to subpoena Musk before the committee attempting to “dismantle federal agencies, fire people, transfer them, offer them early retirement, and have sweeping changes to agencies without any congressional review.”Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) immediately moved to dismiss the motion leading to outcry from Democratic lawmakers on...

House Republicans on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday ended the panel's Democrats' efforts to subpoena Elon Musk over his Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) latest moves regarding federal agencies and their workforce. Musk is considered the brains behind a recent buyout offer the White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent to federal employees last week, and sent some of his department's employees to several different agencies to tap into the Treasury Department and OPM, according to The Hill. DOGE staff also reviewed information from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where some employees have been...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Saturday, Feb. 4. As you already know, President LINCOLN and Secretary SEWARD returned from their interview with the rebel commissioners at Fortress Monroe, this morning, at a little after 10 o'clock. A Cabinet meeting was at once summoned, at which the proceedings and results of that interview were fully stated. I can give you a reliable report of the leading points. Mr. SEWARD reached Fortress Monroe in advance of Messrs. STEPHENS, HUNTER and CAMPBELL. Upon the arrival of these gentlemen, they were at once invited to an interview, and informed Mr. SEWARD of...

A heckler told Katt that Phoenix, Arizona, was Mexican land, and Katt COOKED him for almost 4 minutes.