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WASHINGTON — A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Monday, comes several months after the Air Force confirmed that it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. It is just the latest in a series of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s policies that have sought to push transgender troops...

President Trump said he is withdrawing his support for GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a longtime backer who has recently criticized the Trump administration and called for the release of Justice Department investigative files into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The president, in a Friday night social-media post, said he would consider supporting a primary challenge to Greene. “I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support,”...

I usually scroll through the "comments" tab on FR to get a flavor for the post before actually clicking through. But the comments are no longer showing. It will show one Freeper responding to another, but does not show the actual comment. Happening on multiple devices. Anyone else having this problem, or notice it? Also, anyone else on the monthly donor team getting hit with two charges a month instead of one? Has happened to me a couple times in the last few months. Just happened this week, but I have not contacted the Robinson family out of respect for...

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani encouraged his more than 1 million X followers this week to boycott Starbucks. "Starbucks workers across the country are on an Unfair Labor Practices strike, fighting for a fair contract," the 34-year-old wrote on Thursday. "While workers are on strike, I won’t be buying any Starbucks, and I’m asking you to join us. Together, we can send a powerful message: No contract, no coffee." On the same day, Starbucks Workers United, a union representing workers at the coffee giant, announced it was going on an open-ended strike in what is being dubbed the "Red Cup...

https://babylonbee.com/news/in-devastating-blow-newly-released-emails-reveal-pedophile-didnt-like-trump U.S. - In a huge blow to President Trump, newly released emails indicate that he was not well-liked by a pedophile. Sources in the administration fear Trump may never recover politically from not being liked by a sex trafficker. "I don't know how Trump comes back from this," said a White House source on condition of anonymity. "These emails clearly indicate that a notorious pedophile bore ill will towards Trump and wanted to damage him politically. There is just no way around it - this evil criminal really did not care for Trump. This could be the thing that...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that contracts have been awarded for the acquisition of approximately one million barrels of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The contracts awarded on November 12, 2025, are for deliveries beginning in December 2025 through January 2026 to the Bryan Mound site. This announcement follows the Request for Proposal (RFP) that was announced on October 21, 2025. President Trump promised to refill the SPR and rebuild America’s strategic strength. Currently, the SPR holds just over 400 million barrels out of its capacity of approximately 700 million barrels. The SPR was...

Rodrigo Paz, the centrist senator who won the presidential election in Bolivia last month, was sworn in this weekend and immediately set to work to undo the policies of 20 years of nearly-uninterrupted socialist rule... ...Under the socialist rule of Evo Morales, Bolivia saw its energy industry nationalized and generous fuel subsidies paid out for years. These policies resulted in plunging natural gas production, dwindling foreign exchange reserves, a massive economic crisis, and fuel shortages as cheaper fuel in Bolivia encouraged smuggling en masse to neighboring South American countries. The universal fuel subsidy has depleted Bolivia’s U.S. dollar reserves, thus...

(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) The events of January 6th, 2021 have been declared an insurgency, attempted overthrow of the government, and the greatest threat to democracy in history, according to Democrats and the liberal media. In fact, they tried to impeach President Donald Trump accusing him of inciting the insurrection and failed. Then they launched the largest FBI investigation in history to track down all the persons present at the Capitol that they could identify and prosecute them, but yet not a single person was ever charged with insurrection. All of the claims that...

Corinth was the capital of Achaea, the Roman province that covered most of Greece. This video explores its most important monuments. Corinth: Roman Capital of Greece | 6:45 Scenic Routes to the Past | 47.3K subscribers | 6,906 views | November 14, 2025 0:00 Introduction 0:57 Temple of Apollo 1:47 Forum 3:06 Rostra 3:40 Lechaion Road 4:38 Sacred Spring 5:12 Odeon 5:41 Theater

The hemp industry is gearing up for a lobbying effort following a provision in the recent government funding package meant to stop the sale of intoxicating hemp products but could inadvertently destroy a legitimate $28 billion industry and kill 300,000 American jobs. The new ban tucked into the spending bill prohibits products containing more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container and is aimed at stopping the sale of intoxicating products often sold in gas stations and convenience stores. While the spending bill was still in the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) unsuccessfully offered an amendment to remove the language,...

The James R Thompson Center is a Chicago Icon. Designed by legendary architect Helmut Jahn, and opened in 1985, the building housed offices for the State of Illinois, as well as courts, a DMV, retail spaces and a food court. Its dazzling, 17 story high atrium created an inviting and well utilized civic space. But maintenance and operations issues would lead to its eventual sale. While many feared the building was headed for demolition, in 2021, Google purchased the building for use as its Chicago HQ. Its $280 million dollar renovation will mark a new life for the iconic building....

A new video tries to get to the bottom of things. One would think that after the nation’s socialist media compared a 3-hour protest at a public building that escalated into a riot with 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War for the past few years. One would think they’d leave no stone unturned in getting to the bottom of every unanswered question about that relatively short time period. But it appears that since they’ve exploited their version of the Reichstag fire to its fullest extent, they’ve suddenly lost all interest in the issue. They’ve grown strangely quiescent over an...

One of my favorite things to do here at JoBlo is to highlight obscure movies that deserve a lot more love. One of the best movies I’ve ever covered is Peter Hyams’ 1981 movie Outland. A kind of quasi sci-fi remake of High Noon set on Jupiter’s Moon, IO, it stars Sean Connery as a Marshal set to enforce law on a mining colony who finds himself marked for death by the company administering the moon when he discovers a conspiracy. They hire gunmen to take him out, and with no one on the moon willing to help him, he...

The story "The Man Who Wouldn't Join" (at the article link click) in consideration of Gabriel Marcel's "Man Against Mass Society", René Girard's notion of "the scapegoat mechanism" (violent mass psychology), Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda" (siloing of ideologies), and Edward Bernays' "Propaganda" (manipulative mass techniques). The Man Who Wouldn't Join is about a rebellious individualist who attains security from invasive collective-movement recruitment demands by finding a similar, rebellious individualist woman who also "won't join" with whom he can ally in a marriage. Our very belief in our individual political points of view is merely grist for the mill of oligarchic control,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continually touts her fundraising as a grass-roots effort that relies on small donations from regular people — but her campaign coffers are stuffed with big contributions from celebrities, wealthy activists and executives, a Post review found. Even many of AOC’s small-dollar contributions are larger than meets the eye, under an accounting loophole that lets big donors masquerade as little ones. Among the bold-faced names whose identities are buried inside her lengthy Federal Election Commission reports are Jane Fonda, the actress and activist has given $8,300 to the socialist lawmaker and “Squad” member over the years, including $500...

Hunter Biden ignited a wave of outrage this week after launching a vicious, deeply personal attack on New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, calling her a “whore” and suggesting no one would mourn her death. The remarks came during a Nov. 6 appearance on the Wide Awake Podcast, where the former-president’s son erupted into a tirade over Devine’s reporting on his now-infamous laptop. Devine, one of the first journalists to publish details from the laptop in 2020, has continued to report extensively on its contents. She later authored Laptop from Hell, a book documenting the emails, business records, and personal...

Americana music icon Todd Snider has died at 59, his label confirmed Saturday. The singer-songwriter, known for hits like Alright Guy, had been a defining voice in the genre for more than three decades, captivating fans with his tender, witty, and deeply human songs. His label, Aimless Records, shared the heartbreaking news on Facebook Saturday morning. Our beloved Todd Daniel Snider has departed this world,' they wrote. 'He relayed so much tenderness and sensitivity through his songs, and showed many of us how to look at the world through a different lens. 'We love you Todd, sail on old friend,...

By Dr. John BergsmaSome years ago I was driving through the back hills of Ohio with my son, and we passed a billboard in a farmer’s field that read: “God has a Judgment Day coming!” My son asked me if the farmer who had placed the billboard in his field was Catholic or a non-Catholic. I suggested he probably was a non-Catholic Christian. My son asked why Catholics didn’t put up billboards like that. I theorized that perhaps fewer Catholics owned farms close to the highway, or maybe they were less convinced that announcing the coming judgment was really an...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A former assistant dean at a Tennessee university has filed lawsuit claiming her rights were violated when she was fired for her comments on Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Laura Sosh-Lightsy was fired by Middle Tennessee State University in September after posting the following message in the wake of the far-right activists’ murder: “Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence. Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.” Sosh-Lightsy‘s attorneys said in the suit filed this week that her First Amendment rights were violated. She wants a jury trial and financial compensation for damages. The former administrator’s post sparked...

Stacey Plaskett, Looks like Epstein was coaching her. Will the Left ignore this?link