Free Republic

Aid agencies are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s mission to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development, which they say is already hampering efforts to provide assistance to Palestinians reeling from 15 months of war in Gaza. Medical supplies, food deliveries and other vital humanitarian supplies were already being held up in other parts of the world by the administration’s 90-day freeze on all foreign aid, and humanitarian organizations are warning that the situation in Gaza could become even more dire if there is a similar delay there. USAID has been a major funder of support for Palestinians...

Just how bad were the workings of USAID, which is now in the process of being shut down by DOGE and President Trump?Tucker Carlson has a long interview with Mike Benz, a former State Department cyber affairs official, who seems to know the granular workings of USAID activity, which was essentially used as a slush fund for Democrat priorities -- open borders, Black Lives Matters riots, Soros district attorneys, color revolutions, the drug trade, COVID, the big corporations, transgender surgeries, censorship and media bankrollings, missing Ukraine cash, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.Video at link. It shouldn't surprise anyone that...

We reported the other day how Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) called out his Democratic colleagues and some of the "tofu-eating wokeratti" for "screaming like they're part of a prison riot because they don't want us reviewing the spending." He was at it again on Thursday on the floor of the Senate, where he nuked the Democrats and USAID from orbit, listing some of the things that the Democrats didn't want you to hear about. Ready to have your mind blown? Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it...

video

Welcome to DataRepublican.com Have you ever wondered where the money goes? Billions of dollars are spent on government grants, charities, and other organizations every year. We're connecting the dots between government grants, charities, and drawing connections to expose where the money flows. We've found some interesting connections, and we've made the data available for you to explore. See what you can find, and if you find something interesting, please ..let me know on X! https://x.com/datarepublican //// "Worth following @DataRepublican." - Elon Musk https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1884490061195989176 /// Love your insights! You’re a must follow on this platform." - Charlie Kirk https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1878821674436714737

· Scientists used a 5,564-qubit quantum computer to simulate and observe "false vacuum decay" — a process that could determine our Universe's ultimate fate by transitioning it to a more stable state· The research team created and tracked quantum bubbles containing up to 306 qubits, revealing how smaller bubbles bounce around among larger ones in a complex quantum dance that persisted for over 1,000 qubit time units· This breakthrough demonstrates how table-top quantum experiments can help us understand fundamental cosmic processes without requiring massive facilities like the Large Hadron ColliderNearly 50 years ago, physicist Sidney Coleman proposed an intriguing idea:...

Responsive to NSDM-314, I submit herewith the first annual report on International Population Policy, which has been prepared by the Interagency Task Force on Population Policy. The report was approved by all Members of the Under Secretaries Committee; Treasury submitted a statement of clarification, which is attached to the report. This report develops further the general strategy set forth in NSSM-200 study (approved by NSDM-314). It underscores in particular the NSSM-200 recommendation that the President and the Secretary of State, as well as our Ambassadors and others, treat the subject of population growth as a matter of paramount importance and...

The fundamental problem is this: electronic technology advances far too rapidly to be something that gets permanently integrated into a car that you may want to own for more than, say, five years or so. There’s nothing that ages an otherwise perfectly-fine car more dramatically than integrated technology that was cutting-edge when the car was new.

Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal. Harry’s immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington DC, with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa. But the president told The New York Post Friday that he isn’t interested in throwing Harry out of the country.

On Friday night, CNN anchor Boris Sanchez discussed President Donald Trump’s use of Gitmo to house some of the most dangerous illegals being deported by ICE. President Trump signed an executive order for the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to send illegal aliens to the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The facility will be able to hold up to 30,000 people who are in the United States illegally and will be used, according to Trump, to house the “worst of the worst.” “We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American...

One is a 23-year-old software engineer from Nebraska who helped decipher an ancient scroll buried for centuries. Another was the runner-up in a “hackathon” contest last year as a Harvard senior. A third is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar start-up. These are among the operatives linked to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) whose work to slash public spending and reshape the federal bureaucracy have sent shockwaves through government agencies. For the past couple of weeks, DOGE staffers have appeared without warning throughout the nation’s bureaucracy, seeking access to sensitive files, databases and computer systems. Their movements inside offices...

The truth about Catholic Relief Services: It is not merely a non-profit that helps the poorFrom 2013 through the 2022 fiscal year, USAID awarded CRS a whopping $4.6 billion in total funding, more than any other organization on the planet.President Donald Trump’s attacks on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has Catholic Relief Services (CRS) worried it may have to let half of its staff go, according to an internal email written by its CEO.“We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year,” Sean Callahan reportedly said this week.News of...

Lindy Li, a Democrat-turned-MAGA supporter, continues her media tour, spilling her former party’s behind-the-scenes drama, which kicked off reports that top donors are furious that they collectively shelled out $2 billion and got the brakes beaten off them by Donald Trump and the Republicans. She also offered insight into the delusional world Democrats wallowed in before Election Day, where some thought Iowa was within their reach. Now, she revealed that Hunter Biden ‘commandeered’ the White House after Joe Biden got pummeled by Donald Trump in the June debate on CNN, which eventually became an election-killing event for Democrats. It gets...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has Democrats furious and the Washington establishment a-boil — desperately trying to mire DOGE’s “break things and move fast” in lawfare and other counterpunching. But the drive to uncover government waste and projects directly opposed by the public must not stop. President Trump and his minion Musk need to keep the disruption growing, shining sunlight into dark fiscal corners. Friday saw lefty “consumer advocacy” group Public Citizen team up with the University of California student government to sue to stop DOGE from getting Education Department data, citing supposed privacy concerns even though it’s working...

The Volusia Sheriff's Office said it needs the public's help to find a former New Smyrna Beach condo association president they believe stole or misused $1 million using some of the money to buy himself specialty products that included acne cream. Julius Bruggeman, 76, formerly of New Smyrna Beach, is wanted on charges of grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, and racketeering, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. A seven-month investigation showed Bruggeman stole or misappropriated about $1 million from the New Smyrna Beach Club Condo Association over a 10-year period, investigating deputies said. The complex is home...

['Civ: Did anyone not see this coming?]Boeing Expects NASA to Cancel SLS Contracts, Signaling The Demise of SLS... | 10:03Ellie in Space | 179K subscribers | 69,824 views | February 7, 2025

The Department of Education used $1.2M of your tax dollars to fund an LGBTQIA+ Pride Center at San Diego community colleges. To make matters worse, it appears that they used some sort of disaster fund to do this. Our taxes have been a slush fund for leftists. ... $1.2 million for Pride Centers at San Diego colleges? Ideological grifting at its finest. Jacobs says it's for staffing and resources, but what about border security or veterans' care? Taxpayers need accountability, not woke slush funds. How about using this cash for real priorities?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's Justice Department has disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as a means to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.The move to disband Task Force KleptoCapture is one of several moves undertaken by the Justice Department under the new leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi that presage a different approach toward Russia and national security issues.The department also ended the Foreign Influence Task Force, which was established in the first Trump administration to police influence campaigns staged by Russia and other nations aimed at sowing discord, undermining democracy...

Evidence from 2,000-year-old DNA reveals that women in Celtic society stayed in their ancestral communities after marriage, whereas men were mobile, and that the southern coast of Britain was a hotspot for cultural exchange.Marriage practices, particularly those that define where spouses live (and die) after marriage, are fundamental to human societies. These patterns shape perceptions of family, tribe and clan, influence community belonging and regulate land ownership. Anthropologists have long studied such practices globally, finding that patrilocality — in which a married woman moves to her male partner's community — is the most common. However, it remains unknown how deeply...

Rémy Bossu, Secretary-General of the European-Mediterranean Siesmological Centre, said “days, or perhaps, weeks” would be needed to evaluate the unusual tremors but said that the series of quakes typically occur in the build-up to a larger tremor. A state of emergency has been declared in the idyllic Greek island of Santorini amid a series of near-constant tremors in recent days, which have almost emptied the famous Greek tourist haven of visitors and residents. The largest tremor so far was recorded on Wednesday evening, when a quake with a magnitude of 5.2 coursed through the island. It was the first to...