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Hippies, we have to talk. While for years the generation born right after you has been lumped together with you because of similarly high birth rates, the reality is that generations are defined by shared formative experiences, not just numbers. Baby-Boomers were born between 1946 and 1954, whereas those born between 1955 and 1965 had very different formative years, coming of age during the late 1970s and 1980s. As the Hippies hold onto their failed ideas, this generation urges them to step aside so the problems they created can be addressed. For years, it’s been assumed that Boomers and Hippies...

The image of Nigel Farage has loomed over this party conference season, as the established parties scramble to come up with a response to the rapid rise of Reform UK. Labour and the Liberal Democrats launched all-out attacks on Farage, portraying him as a threat to the very fabric of British society. But here at the Conservative Party conference, the attacks have, in general, been more muted. Reform is not just an electoral menace to the Conservatives, but an existential one. The party is leaking members, elected officials, and influence to Reform. In the past few hours, Farage's party has...

Fox New’s Bill Melugin - The truck driver who killed 3 and injured others in fatal freeway crash in Ontario, CA, is a 21 year old ILLEGAL ALIEN by the name of Jashanpreet Singh, who entered the U.S. illegally, but released by Biden admin in 2022

The President can use the military to protect federal facilities and federal personnel carrying out legitimate federal functions.Supporting the disorder outside federal buildings, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims that “the right wing in this country wants a rematch of the Civil War.” He has one thing right. But, in a result that would have shocked his state’s most favored son, Abraham Lincoln, the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, are relying upon the discredited theories of Confederates and segregationists to unconstitutionally resist federal authority. President Trump has no choice but to deploy military units to protect...

President Trump’s team is trolling Democrats harder than ever during the shutdown. It's a page stolen from his campaign and his own online habits.White House digital staffers have unleashed a social media strategy full of taunting memes and fake videos, following President Donald Trump’s lead in a bid to bolster his base as the government shutdown drags on.The amped-up tactics are meant to mock Democrats for their proposal to reverse recently passed restrictions on Medicaid, which the GOP falsely claims pays for health care for undocumented immigrants. The memes include a recurring stunt of placing animated sombreros atop images of...

Magnificent 13 Guardian Angels 1979 Curtis Sliwa discusses the start of the Guardian Angels in NYC. At 23, Curtis Sliwa decided he had seen enough and with the help of others spearheaded a self-help, all volunteer organization that kept NYC subways safe and set the standard for a worldwide community safety revolution. Learn more at www.GuardianAngels.org

The latest exercise in Swiftiana combines bawdiness with a certain impulse toward conservatism, as the singer embraces suburban dreams of marriage and white-picket fences while rhapsodizing about her fiancé’s reproductive organ. In that sense it’s an appropriate text for the Trump era, when coarseness and right-wing politics have been married in a distinctive way

A new shareholder campaign is calling for Tesla investors to vote against Elon Musk’s proposed 2025 CEO Performance Award, arguing it would deepen governance risks and weaken corporate accountability. Ahead of Tesla’s Q3 2025 earnings report, a coalition of unions and watchdogs launched the “Take Back Tesla” initiative, urging investors to reject Musk’s pay proposal at next month’s annual meeting. The plan would grant the CEO additional shares worth nearly $1 trillion over ten years, expanding his ownership stake in the company to about 25%. Unions and watchdogs argue that Elon Musk’s proposed plan rewards distraction The Take Back Tesla...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Mushrooms Falling From The Sky! U.S. Air Force tactical air control party (TACP) specialists assigned to Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron descend over Malemute Drop Zone during airborne training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Air Force special warfare Airmen and Alaska Army National Guardsmen from the 207th Aviation Troop Command conducted the training to demonstrate airborne and mission-readiness skills in an arctic environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members...

Video at link. Interesting part starts at 11:22. This is what his kind really think.

Sorry, Tarifflationistas. The Data Just Proved You Wrong For months, critics of President Trump’s tariff strategy have warned of an inevitable wave of inflation. That wave turned out to be a ripple, and it seems to have already ended. The logic of the tarifflationistas sounded straightforward. They claim that if you raise tariffs on imported goods, consumers would pay more for everything. But new data from the Harvard Tariff Price Tracker tell a very different story. A year after the tracking began, prices do not show signs of tariff-induced increases. What’s more, the only meaningful price growth lately has come...

The FBI is still offering a $500,000 reward for information that helps identify the person who placed pipe bombs at the offices of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee on January 5, 2021. As part of our ongoing investigation, we're releasing an updated video of the subject, which includes previously unreleased footage, higher quality video, and longer clips of the subject's movements.

On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed an article on transgender people leaving the U.S. Marlow stated, “I’ve got to tell you, how many of you in the audience are thinking, if transgender Americans are leaving the country, how many of you are thinking, I voted for this? I voted for this. This is exactly what I voted for. … We should let them live in peace, as long as they don’t try to groom us and don’t groom our kids.”

New York City's mayoral candidates are set to meet for their final debate Wednesday night, with Democrat Zohran Mamdani looking to stay in control of a race increasingly seen as his to win, while former Gov. Andrew Cuomo amps up the pressure on Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop out. With just days left until early voting begins, Cuomo has made a series of urgent pleas to the city’s conservative voters to ditch Sliwa and to support him instead, casting the Republican candidate as a “spoiler” whose presence in the race will deliver Mamdani a win. The debate may be the...

Welcome back to Saving Castles! Join us for an exclusive private tour of Château de Gizeux, one of the Loire Valley's most remarkable survival stories. When the French Revolution threatened to destroy this 600-year-old castle, one brave woman's ingenious plan saved priceless Renaissance treasures that remained hidden for over a century. 600 Year Old Castle's Secret: How Fake Walls Saved Priceless Art | Part 1 | 21:20 Saving Castles | 15.3K subscribers | 83,441 views | May 26, 2025 The incredible survival story of the François I Gallery's 400-year-old painted walls How false walls and ceilings protected Renaissance art from...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver believes WNBA players “deserve” a big pay increase in their next collective bargaining agreement. While speaking of progress, equality, and recognition, the words were uttered with confidence, maybe even pride; these are all noble ideas. Yet sports, much like life, have a single, unflinching referee: the market. The current salary cap for the WNBA is a wee bit over $1.5 million per team, with around $250,000 allocated to the top players, and Silver said those numbers should substantially rise. Yet for all the talk of "deserve," the league is still dependent on the NBA's financial umbrella...

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that an athletic organization violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when it barred a transgender athlete from competing, culminating a six-year-long legal battle. Minnesota Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson affirmed that a sport organization’s policy barring trans women from competing is “facially discriminatory and constitutes direct evidence of discrimination based on sexual orientation under the [Minnesota Human Rights Act’s] prohibition against discrimination in business and places of public accommodation.” The decision reversed a court of appeals ruling that had sowed doubt on whether the organization, USA Powerlifting, had made the decision to...

President Trump on Wednesday appeared to rule out providing Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, arguing that the long-range weapons are too complex for Kyiv to deploy without substantial US training. “The problem with the Tomahawk is – a lot of people don’t know – It’ll take a minimum of six months, usually a year, to learn how to use,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. “The only way a Tomahawk is going to be shot is if we shot it,” the president added. “And we’re not going to do that.” Trump’s interest in...

OMG! You must watch this! This is absolutely Kamala! 🤣🤣🤣 You will say, damn, who did this? 🤣

California will pour $80 million into food banks and send members of the National Guard and California Volunteers corps to pass out food as public benefits dry up due to the ongoing federal shutdown, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday. Newsom said he was expediting $80 million in food aid and dispatching volunteers on a “humanitarian mission” two days after announcing that residents who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in-state as CalFresh, would likely not receive any benefits in November if the federal government remained shut after Thursday. Around 5.5 million Californians receive CalFresh benefits, which average out...