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Miriam Margoyles had Late Late Show presenter Patrick Kielty in stitches on Friday night as she expressed her delight at being a ‘left wing d*ke.’ The long-standing Friday night chat show saw the British-Australian actress joining Kielty on the couch, alongside comedian Emma Doran and international rugby player, Andrew Porter. The ever funny Miriam got a lesson on funeral sandwiches from Emma Doran and also spoke of why it’s so importance for her to speak out on the atrocities in Gaza. Elsewhere in their conversation, Miriam had Patrick cracking up as she spoke of being ‘unapologetically woke.’ She said: ‘I’m...

If Biden’s claim about believing Anita Hill is true, why did he leave a voicemail for Thomas praising him as a ‘person of character’?During his campaign to secure the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, Joe Biden infamously told the leftist co-hosts of ABC’s The View that, “from the beginning,” he believed Anita Hill’s unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment against now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “Not only didn’t I vote for Clarence Thomas, I believed [Hill] from the beginning. I was against Clarence Thomas, I did everything in my power to defeat Clarence Thomas and he won by the smallest margin anyone...

There’s more than one reason for the high prices hurting average Americans. But one of them is seldom discussed: the massive retail theft now plaguing our country. How serious is it?The total annual 2022 losses (e.g., including security and insurance) associated with criminality amounted to approximately $112.1 billion. Theft alone was 65 percent of this “shrinkage,” totaling a $72.9 billion loss. Of course, good citizens are supporting these criminals, too.In fact, theft cost the average family more than $400 in 2022.This isn’t distributed equally, though. Families in high-crime areas — i.e., people generally poorer to begin with — bear a...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether she believed illegal immigrants should receive taxpayer-funded healthcare during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night. Ocasio-Cortez, who continues to generate buzz as a possible 2028 presidential contender or a potential primary challenger to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to address questions about the ongoing government shutdown. Jill Ireland, identified by CNN as a California Democrat who works in insurance, submitted a pre-taped question: “Do you think taxpayers should be paying for the medical care of immigrants who are in the country illegally?”...

Some of the most astute writers and commentators who have weighed in on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire/hostage release/end of war issue that is on every media outlet’s front burner today and for the last few weeks is dead wrong about what they say is the foolish, dangerous, misguided, cave-to-the-terrorists, endanger Israel, empower-our-enemies choice that President Donald Trump and his negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have made in this delicate process.“What is it about cutting off the head of the snake Trump doesn’t understand?” rails one critic who questions why Hamas has not yet been obliterated.“What right does Trump have to...

GAZA — Day-to-day life in the terrorist occupied area of Gaza settled back into its normal pre-war routine, as with Israel's withdrawal to comply with the ceasefire agreement, Hamas was finally able to conduct public executions in peace. After two years of brutal conflict with Israeli forces, Hamas terrorists expressed relief that the peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump allowed them to get back to business as usual and handle the murdering Gazans themselves. "Like slipping into a comfortable pair of old shoes," said spokesterrorist Amal Qadir. "It's been a long time since we were able to enjoy...

How civil society can succeed where welfare has failed.Since the launch of the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the rate of those living in poverty, as defined by the US government, has stubbornly persisted. Yet before that, the American poverty rate was dropping fast. It was around 32% in 1950, but postwar prosperity and a booming job market lifted thousands out of destitution, bringing it to 12.8% by the time the War’s programs took effect in 1968. Yet in the intervening half-century, it has never dropped below 10%. This is not for lack of effort. Per capita government spending...

Dumb Question: If I place a 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Switch between my wireless router and my desktop computer, which connects via Cat6 cable to said router, will I get the 100/1000 Mbps speed between my desktop machine (whose LAN card is capable of 100/1000 Mbps) and other 100/1000Mbps equipment / computers connected to that switch, EXCEPT for the router?Note that the router's wired Ethernet "downstream" ports are limited to 10/100 Ethernet speed. That's not really a problem, insofar as my web browsing is concerned, as my ISP comes in at 70-80 Mbps at best / "on a good day", at...

Somebody had to. Drea de Matteo has stepped up and finally done what the rest of us either couldn’t or wouldn’t: made hyper-patriotic soft porn to tackle “chemtrails.” The actress tells Page Six she’s releasing her first-ever fully nude pictures on OnlyFans — which show her festooned in a body-paint tableau that covers her with rippling Stars and Stripes and a bald eagle keeping watch imperiously over her right nipple — to draw attention to “geoengineering.” Geoengineering is the well-established practice of reversing the effects of pollution by using man-made techniques, such as reflecting sunlight away from the atmosphere to...

NORFOLK, Virginia — New York Attorney General Letitia James is housing a second felon family member at her properties in Virginia — and The Post can reveal she and her big sister were partners in crime. James’ grand-niece Cayla Thompson-Hairston, 21 — who is an OnlyFans star with a public, X-rated social media presence — was charged in April 2024 with lying about her felony criminal record when she tried to buy a gun in Suffolk, Virginia, according to court docs. Cayla was legally “disqualified” from owning a firearm due to an August 2020 felony charge of malicious wounding —...

If politics is downstream from culture, and it is, we have a lot to worry about. This is frankly because American culture has long been rotting like a 10-day-old avocado in the sun. A good example, appearing in my X notifications yesterday, is a video of a white girl sporting corn-woven hair and speaking “Ebonics”-style while giving a cop a hard time. “Why is she talking like that?” asks the original poster of the 54-second clip (below). X users reacting to the video were unsparing, with no small number attributing her behavior to low IQ. And one seemingly incredulous respondent...

FIRST ON FOX: A federal grand jury indicted two alleged Antifa members with terrorism-related charges for a July 4 attack on an ICE facility in Texas.The indictment, issued Wednesday and unsealed Thursday, charges Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts with providing material support for terrorism, attempting to murder federal and assisting officers and discharging firearms during attempted murders."For the first time ever, the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support to terrorism," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement."This was a planned and coordinated terrorist attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado,...

Diane von Furstenberg’s marriage hasn’t changed after her long-time husband, Barry Diller, came out as gay. The fashion designer broke her silence on her husband’s recent admission that he is part of the LGBTQIA+ community in an interview with Variety published Thursday. When asked what it means to be “a woman married to a man who’s gay,” von Furstenberg replied, “What’s the difference?” “I don’t understand,” she added. The outlet explained that many women “wouldn’t want” to be married to a gay man and pressed her for more information. “But it doesn’t change anything. I’m sorry — it’s a stupid...

[Catholic Caucus] New archbishop of Vienna will be priest who expressed support for ‘women’s ordination’: reportA priest who belonged to a group that promoted ‘women's ordination’ and giving Holy Communion to non-Catholics and the civilly ‘remarried’ is poised to become the archbishop of Vienna, according to reports.A priest with a record of heterodox activism will likely become the new archbishop of Vienna.According to ORF Television, the Austrian national public broadcaster, 63-year-old Josef Grünwidl will be named as archbishop of Vienna after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in January.“The long wait for a new archbishop of Vienna...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Oct 16, 2025, 1:30 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American colleague Donald Trump discussed in a telephone conversation on Thursday the possible supply of US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said. During the call, Putin told Trump that Tomahawk missiles would not change the situation on the battlefield, but would harm relations between Moscow and Washington and minimize the chances of a positive settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, according to Ushakov. Furthermore, the official revealed that Trump pledged to take into consideration all of Putin's concerns during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the White...

Key Points Paxos mistakenly minted the stablecoins as part of an internal transfer, before it “immediately identified the error and burned the excess PYUSD,” the company said in a social media statement. There aren’t enough dollars in global circulation to back $300 trillion PYUSD, which would theoretically require more than double the world’s estimated total GDP. ============================================================== Paxos, the blockchain partner of PayPal , mistakenly minted $300 trillion worth of the online payment giant’s stablecoin on Wednesday in what the company called a “technical error.” Market watchers had spotted the enormous injection of the PayPal PYUSD stablecoin on Etherscan —...

Drew Struzan, the artist behind the posters for several iconic films and franchises, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter, died on Monday at the age of 78, after a years-long battle with Alzheimer's disease. A statement posted on the illustrator's official Instagram page announced Struzan's passing: "It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel it is important that you all know how many times he expressed to me the joy he felt knowing how much you appreciated his art."...

Explanation: Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. It is a large galaxy of over 100 billion stars with well-defined spiral arms that is similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100 (alias NGC 4321) is 56 million light-years distant toward the constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). This Hubble Space Telescope image of M100 was made in 2009 and reveals bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies. Studies of...

Before that, there will be a meeting of the countries' high level advisorsWASHINGTON, October 16. /TASS/. The presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, will soon hold a new in-person meeting, which will take place in Budapest, the US leader announced following a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart. "At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. <...> President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary <...>," Trump wrote on his page on the Truth Social...