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Ben Schrader, Chief of the Criminal Division of the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, resigned in protest after a federal grand jury indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for transporting undocumented migrants within the United States during the years 2016 through 2025. "This prosecution is wrong on so many levels," Schrader complained. "When US District Judge James Boasberg ordered President Trump to retrieve this man he had deported to El Salvador the Judge's intent was that he would be set free, not be indicted and prosecuted. It's just more contempt of court from Trump." "Worse still, Mr. Abrego...

A tourist allegedly used a drone to buzz an osprey nest in Yellowstone National Park and could face up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine for the violation of park rules. ============================================================ Yellowstone National Park visitor Vince Botkin said unidentified tourists used a drone to buzz an osprey nest in the park. The National Park Service confirmed that “an individual” was cited for illegally flying a drone near an osprey nest late Thursday. (Courtesy Vince Botkin) ============================================================================ A tourist accused of buzzing an osprey nest with a drone in Yellowstone National Park could face stiff penalties, including...

CNN’s Stelter: ‘Days-Old’ L.A. Images Being Replayed ‘Same Way’ Some ‘Talk About 2020 As If That Happened Just Last Week’ Video Source: CNN Ian Hanchett12 Jun 202533 1:53 On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter said that there’s a “constant replaying of old images, days-old images” from Los Angeles “in the same way that some people like to talk about 2020 as if that happened just last week.” Host Laura Coates asked, “Brian, L.A. leaders, politicians, they are very angry with the way in which they believe the media is portraying what’s happening...

After suffering devastating naval losses in the Black Sea at the hands of Ukrainian asymmetric warfare, including drones and anti-ship missiles that sank its flagship Moskva, Vladimir Putin has launched an initiative to “re-vamp” the Russian Navy. However, this plan faces deep skepticism due to Russia’s struggling, sanctions-hit shipyards and the appointment of former KGB hardliner Nikolai Patrushev to lead the effort.

On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s scheduled June 25 meeting. The slate includes highly credentialed scientists, leading public-health experts, and some of America’s most accomplished physicians. All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense. They have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations. The committee will review safety...

The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity. The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam. Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false. The “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson fable and the Covington Kids myth were quickly exposed. The Duke Lacrosse and Jussie Smollett melodramas were laughable. Russian “collusion,” “laptop” disinformation, and Joe Biden “fit as a fiddle” gaslighting were utter lies. But more recently, the hard left lost its mind championing...

Economist Steve Moore said on Newsmax Wednesday that he underestimated certain economic indicators under the Trump administration. Inflation increased less than expected in May, with the Consumer Price Index increasing by 0.1% from April and 2.4% year-over-year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Reflecting on his past predictions, Moore said on “Carl Higbie Frontline” that inflation numbers had surprised him in recent months. “I’ve got to confess, I’ve been wrong on the inflation numbers over the last three or four months as well. But at least I’m willing to admit I was wrong,” Moore said. Moore, who previously expressed...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing mounting backlash after a leaked report revealed she had ordered the LAPD to stand down during violent riots, leaving federal officers without critical backup as the situation spiraled out of control.. when DHS and FBI requested assistance because they were overwhelmed by rioters, LAPD sat idle waiting for direction. Instead of allowing the Incident Commander to act, Mayor Karen Bass bypassed established protocol ... By personally directing operations, Bass functioned as a de facto Incident Commander, in direct conflict with the City’s Emergency Operations Plan and National Incident Management System (NIMS) protocols. This...

Mmm dd, 2025 Thursday of week 10 in Ordinary Time San Juan de Sahagún chapel, Burgos Cathedral, SpainReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 3:15-4:1,3-6The veil over their eyes will not be removed until they turn to the LordEven today, whenever Moses is read, the veil is over their minds. It will not be removed until they turn to the Lord. Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas attacked a bus full of aid workers with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Wednesday, killing at least five local Palestinians who worked with the group. Several members of the group may also have been taken hostage. In a statement, GHF said: Tonight, at approximately 10 p.m. Gaza time, a bus carrying more than two-dozen members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation team, local Palestinians working side-by-side with the U.S. GHF team to deliver critical aid, were brutally attacked by Hamas. At the time of the attack, our team was en route to one of our...

Democrats have a long history of inciting violence. Examples abound, from starting the Civil War, to forming the KKK, to violently resisting school integration, to the Michael Brown and George Floyd riots, to the current anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles. Democrat-run cities are typically the most dangerous, poorly run environs in the U.S., and when you push the oppressor/victim narrative across the media landscape, violence gets put on the menu. Their rhetoric ramped up during Trump 45's administration when Democrat politicians and celebrities openly called for violence against President Trump and Republicans, even while accusing Republicans of being aggressors. And...

A driver accused of killing a father of two when he drove his car into a crowd of people was seen "smiling and laughing" after the collision, a jury has heard. Hassan Jhangur, 25, fatally injured Chris Marriott, 46, when he ploughed into the group in Burngreave, Sheffield, on 27 December 2023. Giving evidence witness Riasat Khan said he remembered hearing a car "screeching" round the corner before it hit him and five others, including Mr Marriott. Jhangur, of Whiteways Road, Sheffield, denies the murder and manslaughter of Mr Marriott but admits causing his death by dangerous driving. The court...

With money and bodies, American leftists are backing the Second Mexican American War, the one we thought was settled in 1848. Courts have enjoined Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua bad guys. Venezuela opened its prisons and let those really awful excuses for humans out to wreak havoc in the United States. Trump identified a “predatory incursion” that one judge was sufficiently sapient to see. But the others are oh so offended that these “American fathers” are being sent back to their home countries. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is afraid that a rival gang...

Nancy Pelosi might need to read up on the Constitution before going out in public again. The former House speaker, who twice held the most powerful job in Congress, went before the Washington press corps on Tuesday to mount a full-throated attack on President Donald Trump for using the California National Guard to crack down on rioting in Los Angeles over the objections of Golden State Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. And she made up sections of the Constitution that don’t exist to do it. -snip- “I hope the president would read Article 10 of the Constitution, and I urge all...

All members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned Wednesday, citing alleged political interference by members of the Trump administration. In a statement posted to Substack, the dozen former board members said they “voted overwhelmingly” to resign “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission and mandates Congress established for the Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago.” snip The prestigious program — which awards a select group of scholars and academics the opportunity to continue research abroad each year — is managed by the State...

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We all knew that this was coming. When voters came out in force last November to make sure that President Trump’s margin of victory exceeded Democrats’ systemic fraud, it was obvious what would happen next. Democrats would do what Marxist globalists and Western Intelligence agencies have been doing across the world for many years: instigate riots, mayhem, sabotage, and general rebellion. As any thinking person now understands, whenever the powers that be don’t get the election results they want, they just foment revolution and work to overturn the will of the people (see Victoria Nuland and the U.S. State Department’s...

An Air India passenger plane crashed near Ahmedabad International Airport on Thursday. The aircraft — a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — was en route from Ahmedabad to London with 242 passengers on board, the State Police Control Room confirmed to ANI. The plane caught fire after crashing and fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the blaze, said fire officer Jayesh Khadia. "A plane crashed in the Meghaninagar area near the airport. It is not yet clear what type of plane it was," said Ahmedabad police commissioner, GS Malik. The DGCA has dispatched a team from Delhi to Ahmedabad....

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. PSALM 145