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Bodycam footage shows Erika McGriff arguing with Officer Randy Holton outside IDEA Charter School in Jacksonville, Florida, moments before the confrontation turned violent. A chaotic scene unfolded outside a Jacksonville charter school Tuesday afternoon, and for the first time, police enforced Florida’s new “Halo Law,” which makes it illegal to interfere with law enforcement officers within 25 feet of their duties. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, 39-year-old Erika McGriff, a habitual traffic offender with a revoked driver’s license, sparked the incident after leaving her running car in the middle of an intersection near IDEA Charter School on Bassett Road,...

The FBI secretly monitored the phone records of eight sitting Republican senators in an abusive fishing expedition done with impunity.In 1972, a small team of operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex to install listening devices. To this day, there is no conclusive evidence that Nixon personally ordered — or even knew of — the break-in beforehand. Yet Watergate shaped American political consciousness for decades. It gave the world a permanent suffix for scandal and became the ultimate symbol of abuse of power, a crisis so severe that...

If we are to properly set the conditions for a civilizational rebirth, we must accept that realistic rhetoric is the statecraft needed for renewal.Last week, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had signed off on the first phase of his Gaza peace plan — one of the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East in years. For our nation and the world, this was a moment of rare convergence, of both clarity and action. While much of the world has grown accustomed to the language of stalemate and moral equivocation, Trump’s foreign policy achievements underscore a deeper...

President Trump has just ousted Sergio Gor, the man many believe to be the Hatchet Man behind the sabotage of the Trump/Musk relationship. Sergio Gor previously served as director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, controlling hiring and firing across the administration — a role that carries significant power. But Gor is now out, being moved to be the Ambassador to India. You gotta love President Trump’s sense of humor…he finds out Gor has been (allegedly) stabbing him in the back and sabotaging his most important relationships to President Trump sends him to go live in that shithole named India...

Climate activists from "Futuro Vegetal" threw red paint on historic painting of Christopher Columbus at the Naval Museum of Madrid to stop global warming or something. The painting, by 19th-century artist José Garnelo, is titled "First Tribute To Christopher Columbus" and depicts the explorer landing in the Americas with a Christian cross. EuroNews reports the two liberal women were arrested. Police sources reported that both women were arrested for a crime against heritage after being detained by a museum worker until authorities arrived. Visitors were evicted during the intervention but hours later, the Navy announced on its social networks that...

A denomination founded as a theologically conservative alternative to the United Methodist Church has grown to include 6,000 member congregations worldwide.The Global Methodist Church, which was launched on May 1, 2022, announced on its Facebook page last Friday that it had reached the 6,000-member church milestone.“That's 6,000 pulpits preaching the Gospel,” stated the GMC. “6,000 altars where hearts are renewed. … 6,000 congregations worshiping in a variety of nations and languages.”“Join us in praying for the movement as we continue to welcome existing churches and plant new ones to spread the love of Christ to our communities and beyond.”The formation...

Antony Blinken, Joe Biden’s former Secretary of State, tried to claim that the Biden administration deserved credit for the Israel-Hamas peace agreement, arguing that Donald Trump’s success wouldn’t have been possible without the groundwork that Biden’s team supposedly laid. That’s pure fantasy. Hamas surrendered because Trump backed it into a corner with decisive pressure, not because Biden’s diplomats pulled off some behind-the-scenes miracle.Hamas surrendered its last living hostages, giving up the only leverage it had left in this mess they started two years ago. This wasn't some breakthrough negotiation. It was a complete capitulation, and Hamas knew it was their...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditional Latin Mass annihilated in the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee (Update: and a humiliating homily)The cruelty taking place under Leo XIV is becoming loud and deafening. Rome does nothing.Tragic. And not even one alternative venue was offered in a diocese of 14,000 square miles occupying all of East Tennessee. The current bishop was named by Francis last year. Document below:Update: If that were not enough, the faithful in the Novus Ordo mass in one of the venues, the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Chattanooga, were subjected to this simultaneously pseudo-overeducated and misinformed homily haranguing them about...

Today we’re introducing Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot. Figure 03 is designed for Helix, the home, and the world at scale. Our goal is to deliver a truly general-purpose robot - one that can perform human-like tasks and learn directly from people. To realize this vision, our engineering and design teams completed a ground-up hardware and software redesign to ship Figure 03 for: Helix: Figure 03 features a completely redesigned sensory suite and hand system which is purpose-built to enable Helix - Figure's proprietary vision-language-action AI. The home: Figure 03 has several new features, including soft goods, wireless...

When I first heard this news about the Board of Peace in Gaza, I felt some trepidation: Does Donald Trump need one more project to lead, given all that he’s doing in the U.S.? But the fact is, Trump is probably the best person to head this Board, and there are several reasons why. We don’t know many specifics about the plans for the Board, but we can identify the benefits of the organization and Trump’s role. Here’s what we do know at this point:The Trump plan envisions a ‘Board of Peace’ of international overseers led by Trump himself and...

China has just played its rare-earth card — and the shock waves reach far beyond trade. On October 9, Beijing imposed sweeping new export controls on a broad array of rare-earth metals and high-tech components. These obscure elements — neodymium, dysprosium, samarium, holmium, erbium, and others — are the hidden arteries of modern power. They magnetize motors that steer drones and electric vehicles, harden the guidance systems of missiles, and enable the high-temperature performance of GPUs — the silicon engines that drive artificial intelligence. Whoever controls rare earths holds a potential chokehold on the digital and military age. [SNIP] Weaponized...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) claimed that “nobody” knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist, despite promoting an Antifa “handbook” in a 2018 social media post. Ellison was reacting to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s remarks at a recent White House roundtable on political violence during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC when he said, “There really is no Antifa as an institutional organization… Nobody even knows what it is.” He went on to claim that “the first person I ever heard use the word Antifa was...

Maria Branyas, then age four, sitting on a wooden fence with her family in 1911 in New Orleans. (Credit: Arxiu de la família Branyas Morera - Own work, Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons) ================================================================ Study suggests Maria Branyas Morera’s daily yogurt habit could have shaped her tremendously healthy gut microbiome ========================================================================= In A Nutshell * Maria Branyas Morera lived to 117, yet DNA methylation tests showed her cells acting about 23 years younger than her chronological age. * Her daily yogurt habit coincided with unusually high levels of Bifidobacterium, a gut microbe common in younger people, and extremely low inflammation...

Georgetown Has Declared War on Catholicism"The mask is off" aptly describes Georgetown Law professors' obscene distortion of the Catholic Faith to secure legal protections for DEI as a religion.Georgetown Law professors William Treanor and Amy Uelmen have crafted a remarkably dishonest defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, disguising radical left-wing ideology as Catholic tradition. Their recent essay in America magazine represents not scholarly analysis but pure propaganda, a cynical attempt to baptize secular progressivism with holy water while hoping no one notices the fundamental contradiction. The audacity of their argument is staggering. These professors claim that opposition to DEI...

In the concrete canyons of America’s cities, there’s an ancient tactic as old as warfare itself: the ambush. Draw your enemy into unfamiliar terrain, seal off their escape routes, and strike when they’re most vulnerable. It’s a strategy perfected by guerrilla fighters from the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan. But last Tuesday night, this battlefield technique wasn’t deployed in some distant war zone—it was used against American police officers on the streets of Boston. The date was no coincidence. October 7th marked two years since Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israeli civilians, and pro-Palestinian demonstrators had gathered on...

Very suddenly last week, FR on my Android device became so tiny I can barely read it. Additionally, text no longer "wraps" when I zoom in. I've seen other Freepers report this happening. Search turned up nothing. Can anyone provide a fix? Thanks in advance.🙂

Former Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins, a Convicted Child Sex Offender, Killed in Prison Attack 1,017 MILAN, ITALY - JULY 06: Ian Watkins of Lostprophets perform at the 2012 Heineken Jammin FePier Marco Tacca/WireImage via Getty Breitbart News12 Oct 2025343 1:32 LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death at a prison in northern England, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offenses. Emergency services were called to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Saturday morning after Watkins, 48, was attacked with...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory—but every detail outlined about Britain’s gang crisis is real. For decades, gangs of predominantly Muslim men in towns across the UK have groomed, trafficked, and assaulted thousands of young girls while authorities looked the other way. Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Katie Lam joins “Problematic Women” to break down the shocking truth behind the UK grooming gang crisis, the systemic government cover-up, and why political leaders and law enforcement refused to act for fear of “inflaming community tensions.” Katie also shares her personal journey, from writing musicals and working in finance...

The anti-Trump wall of opposition showed cracks on MSNBC when Michael Cohen predicted that the federal government will secure convictions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Cohen, who served 18 months in prison before turning on President Donald Trump, his former client, upset his fellow panelists by observing that both Comey and James had politicized their offices long before they accused the White House of doing the same. “Do I believe, for example, that Tish James will be held accountable? Absolutely,” said Cohen. “Do I think James Comey will be held accountable? Absolutely.”...

Candace Owens doesn’t agree with Trump getting a Nobel Peace Prize because the people of Gaza are in danger. She said : "And Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize, by the way. For the planned ethnic cleansing so that they could profit on land and turn it into a beach town. So let me say this. This is our never again, okay? This is a Holocaust. A Holocaust just happened. A real Holocaust just happened. We will never forget this. You need to tell your children what happened in Gaza. You can tell them exactly who did it, exactly whose...