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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will put immense pressure on the FDA to ban pharma ads on TV if he’s confirmed as HHS secretary. He has repeatedly advocated to ban drug ads on TV and radio, even as recently as November. The US is one of only two countries (New Zealand being the other) where D2C pharma advertising is completely legal. Kennedy believes lax pharma ad rules have led to an overreliance on prescription medications among Americans. He also believes pharma companies account for too much of TV ad spending, leaving media companies less likely to cover the sector critically. Prescription...

...that was displayed in the police gym and then sent an unauthorized individual into the police facility to check.

In a dedicated X article, Raja Koduri, who is said to be one of the brains behind Intel's graphics division, has given us a rundown of the actual problems within the organization, detailing organizational flaws and much more. "You don't learn when you don't ship." "The spreadsheet & powerpoint snakes – bureaucratic processes that dominate corporate decision-making – often fail to grasp the true cost of surrendering performance leadership. They optimize for minimizing quarterly losses while missing the bigger picture. A climate of fear surrounds any attempt at skunkworks initiatives outside established processes – one misstep, and the bureaucratic snakes...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron is in Washington, and did a joint press conference with President Trump today, on the Russia-Ukraine war. News reports on the press conference fall along predictably partisan lines. This Sky News report is objective, if only because it is so brief: A half-turn, in a carefully choreographed dance, the US leader asserting optimism, the French one, much more cautious in response. President Trump repeated his view that the war in Ukraine would soon end. He signalled a dramatic shift by Russia, suggesting President Putin might accept the deployment of European peacekeepers on the ground in Ukraine....

Those condemning President Trump’s firings of resistance officials are not attacking the executive — they are attacking our democracy. Donald Trump is not acting like a dictator. And he’s not acting like a king. He’s governing as the executive — the position to which he was elected by a majority of voters. Yet with every decision President Trump makes, the left responds with claims that our very democracy is at risk. But, as is often the case, if you allow the ignorant to talk long enough, they shine a light on their stupidity — and their true motives. And with...

Nearly 3.7 million consumers who bought the software from Avast between August 2014 and January 2020 can expect emails to arrive in their inboxes this week or next notifying them of their eligibility to apply for compensation, the FTC stated.According to regulators, Avast for years collected information on customers through its antivirus software and browser extensions including data on:religious beliefshealth concernspolitical leaningslocationsfinancial status

oin with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: That if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Religion Forum threads labeled *Prayer* are closed to debate of any kind.1 John 5:20 "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true...

WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they had accomplished in the last week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary, according to three sources with knowledge of the system. The information will go into an LLM (Large Language Model), an advanced AI system that looks at huge amounts of text data to understand, generate and process human language, the sources said. The AI system will determine whether someone’s work is mission-critical or not. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management emails were sent...

Over the weekend, Hezbollah held a long-delayed public memorial service to its former chief terrorist, Hassan Nasrallah. The terror network filled a stadium in Beirut nearly five months after the Israeli Defense Forces killed him in an airstrike, that coming after decapitating much of the rest of Hezbollah in Operation Grim Beeper. The IDF also made a surprise appearance at the event, startling Nasrallah's sycophants:It appears that the terrorists burying Nasrallah were so surprised by the @IDF flyover & dropped the scumbags coffin.One can only assume that the @khamenei_ir representatives were also scurrying like mice for cover.😜😜 pic.twitter.com/de1PciBpAV— Maurice Hirsch,...

Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. Can we please make this happen!! What about Oregon and Washington to Boot?? A package deal for all 3! pic.twitter.com/1CZljIdyaq— Larry Gator🐊 (@LarryLarrygator) February 24, 2025In what I hope for their sake is a bit of protest sarcasm, Danish citizens have been gathering signatures for a petition calling on their government to buy California. For one thing, they couldn't possibly afford the state. California is vastly larger than Denmark, has a GDP vastly larger than the Scandinavian country., and has a population about 5x larger. It's GDP is 10x larger...

A panel of U.S. Circuit judges upheld a Massachusetts school district’s policy, allowing staff to use a different name and gender pronouns for a student — without notifying the child’s parents. A lawsuit filed by the parents of a middle school student was dismissed in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The parents had brought attention to how staff at Baird Middle School in Ludlow, Massachusetts, “violated their constitutional rights” as guardians by concealing the fact that their 11-year-old daughter had asked to be identified by a different name and pronouns. The parents, Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri, argued...

"This outside entity sending this email has no legal authority over me," she said. "And even in the Office of Personnel Management's own description of this email program, this mass federal email program, all replies are voluntary. So I think this is all a big threat to coerce federal employees, and what we need to be doing right now is speaking up against this and standing against this so that we can get back to our work of serving the American public, so I can get back to actually doing my job." She argued that, on one hand, she is...

BREAKING: The CIA has released a statement on the trans sex chats, claiming it "will be taking immediate action on this matter." "The messages published today from an NSA messaging platform allegedly involving a CIA official are unacceptable and have no place at the Agency. The CIA will be taking immediate action on this matter which only further proves the need for serious reform." -Liz Lyons, Director of Public Affairs, CIA

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The Eagles, winners of their second Super Bowl in seven years after beating the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this month, would love to visit Trump this time around. "We would be honored to visit the White House," a club source said. "It's one of the things we had looked forward to doing, and we look forward to receiving the invitation." That's the thing: The White House has yet to extend the invite. Seems streamlining a bloated government, saving billions, trying to broker peace in the Middle East and Ukraine, and rooting for the USA hockey team takes up a lot...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Support Activity Panama City, FloridaThe United States Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSA PC), is located just outside Panama City, Florida and is a United States Navy military base. It is located within Bay County. Among other commands, it houses Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU).NSAPC consists of several tenant command organizations: Naval Surface Warfare Center: Panama City Division (NSWC PCD): This is the largest tenant command and the Research and Development arm of the base. It is part of the NAVSEA...

Senate Republicans on Monday criticized Elon Musk’s directive for federal government employees to lose their jobs if they did not send in a bullet-pointed summary of what they did last week at work, describing it as a rash decision that was not handled well. The email asking what they accomplished over the past week had set a deadline of Monday at midnight for responses. However, that was walked back by the Office of Personnel Management when it told departments and agencies that they could ignore that email. Nevertheless, some Senate GOP members took issue with Musk’s request as he continues...

Thousands of federal workers are seeking employment after being affected by President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts within the government. An official number of federal workers fired has not been released, but the list extends into the thousands. Most of the federal government’s workforce is based outside the Washington, D.C. area. "If you’re doing, say, vegetation sampling and prescribed fire as your main work, there aren’t many jobs," Eric Anderson, 48, of Chicago, told the Associated Press. Anderson was fired Feb. 14 from his job as a biological science technician at Indiana Dunes National Park. Cathy Nguyen, 51, of Honolulu, was...

Canadians have been left outraged by a telling clue that the United States is edging closer toward making its northern neighbor the 51st state. Amid repeated warnings from President Trump that he's interested in acquiring Canada as a state of America, Canadians noticed some provincial parks have recently been mislabeled as 'state' parks on Google maps. Speaking to CTV news, resident Rachel Deren said: 'I would like to draw attention to this disgusting display of American oppression of Canadian culture and autonomy. 'This alarming revelation has stirred many who have noticed, as it is an attack on our Canadian identity.'...

The 4 Nations Face-Off championship between the USA and Canada on Thursday night drew a significant audience for ESPN's broadcast. Canada's 3-2 victory over the USA in overtime averaged 9.3 million viewers, the largest audience ever for an NHL broadcast. The previous high was 8.9 million for NBC's telecast of Game 7 of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final between the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues. The ESPN audience peaked at 10.4 million viewers and gave the network its largest non-NFL or college football viewership on the network's platforms since the 2024 NBA Finals. Thursday's 4 Nations championship match still...