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Irate Trump supporters have slammed Saturday Night Live for its brazen skit mocking the president's response to being named in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Saturday night's cold open sketch sparked outrage among conservative critics for depicting Donald Trump inadvertently admitting to a damning relationship with the disgraced sex trafficker. 'You people are sick!' one X user reacted to the five-minute satirical segment. 'Hope [Trump] sues the hell out of them,' another chimed in. 'SNL makes fun of Trump. Water is wet. Predictable and boring,' one critic bluntly called out the show. Set at a press conference, Trump, played by James...

... The backstory: Barco's family fled Cuba as refugees, and they first went to Venezuela, where Barco was born. He came to U.S. legally with his family when he was four. and enlisted in the U.S. Army at 17. During his time in the Army, Barco was deployed to Iraq twice. He applied for citizenship while overseas, but was told his paperwork was lost. After he was severely injured in an explosion that involved an improvised explosive device (IED), Barco received a Purple Heart. ... Dig deeper: When Barco returned to the U.S. from his overseas stint, he began suffering...

A woman in California of all places takes a stand for women in fiery video after being harassed by a man in the ladies' locker room.The war to keep men who believe they are women out of women’s locker rooms found an unlikely fighter this month: a lesbian gym rat from Los Angeles who has run into so many men in the women’s locker room she’s screaming about it at the top of her lungs. In the video that has more than 18 million views on X, Hyman was getting kicked out of her gym after complaining about men invading...

The arrests of MLB and NBA players could be just the tip of a massive iceberg.The sports world was rocked again this week when two pitchers for Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians were arrested on charges related to gambling. Coming on the heels of the recent indictments of numerous current and former NBA players and a head coach on similarly disturbing allegations in October, the already heated debate about increasingly widespread legal wagering on pro sports has intensified. The overriding concern is about the potential damage it will cause among bettors, not to mention those consuming sports simply for pleasure,...

Police say the 53-year-old man was cleaning his shotgun when his dog accidentally set it off, shooting him in the lower back.SHILLINGTON, Pa. — A 53-year-old man shot in the lower back by one of his dogs is expected to survive, police say. The shooting happened Tuesday, Nov. 11 around 11 p.m. in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Shillington Police Department Captain Michael Schoone said the man was cleaning his shotgun when one of his dogs jumped on the bed and the gun went off."He's not sure what stage of cleaning he was in at the time, so it's unsure if the dog's...

HBO host Bill Maher on Friday criticized democratic socialism and warned of its potential negative impact on the Democratic Party, urging both voters and party leaders to steer clear of the ideology. The "Real Time" host took specific aim at two prominent democratic socialists during his "New Rule" segment, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. "Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it's the Republican Party. Get it?" Maher joked. "And if you missed his victory speech in last week's mayoral election in New York, don't worry. You'll see...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) changed his opinion on the surprise provision added to his clean continuing resolution that allows senators to sue the federal government for surveilling them without their knowledge. Johnson appeared on Fox News Sunday following a meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD). The pair previously disagreed on the last-minute addition as a source familiar with the provision told the Washington Examiner that Thune included it in the bill at the request of members of the Senate GOP conference, saying there was a “strong appetite for it.” Meanwhile, Johnson said he “did not appreciate” the...

It was, and remains, fashionable in some quarters abroad and even here at home, to question the concept of American exceptionalism after the 2024 election. Naturally, some of those feelings were driven more by the man who won the contest rather than a dispassionate understanding of what has made America so special and unique since its founding. European intellectuals often see America’s patriotism and success as attributable to luck or some sort of cosmic accident that would be impossible to reproduce. But anyone looking to discount America’s economic success is liable to be sorely disappointed as we approach 2026. Three...

VIDEOThe U.S. Senator from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, is DESPERATE to get on the Democrat presidential ticket in 2028. That is why you are starting to see a lot more of her in the media as well as the former (meaning also current) CIA member being hyped by the CIA aligned media such as Politico as a potential 2028 presidential or VP candidate. The problem for Slotkin is that in large part due to her BIZARRE background such as having been raised by two lesbian moms she has to "normalize" herself which means attempting to appear as just a mainstream midwestern...

Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is reiterating her calls for the release of all Epstein files, after US President Donald Trump called her a "traitor" and said he no longer supports her. Speaking to CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Greene told host Dana Bash that while she still supports the president, she does not agree with his efforts to keep the Epstein files under wraps. She said Trump's attacks on her are not just perpetuating toxic in-fighting in politics, but also putting her safety at risk. "He called me a traitor, and that is so extremely wrong, and...

Around 20 people are believed killed in a terrorist attack at a hospital run by religious sisters in the North Kivu village of Byambwe, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with missionaries denouncing the “shameful silence” of the international community.A terrorist attack on civilians took place on Friday night in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing around 20 people, many of them sick and confined to hospital beds. Despite a recent US-mediated agreement between DRC and Rwanda, fighting with the M23 rebel group continues unabated in the eastern provinces, while the central government also faces...

Despite the blow, it has now been reported that Disney has its eye set on remaking another old cartoon: Sleeping Beauty. He also claimed that it will be set in Mexico instead of France, where the original took place. Sleeping Beauty followed princess Aurora, who had been cursed by an evil fairy named Maleficent, forcing her to fall into a deep sleep that can only be broken by true love's kiss.

Lee calling on those present – including Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett – to make cinema what he called “an art of the Spirit.” Vatican officials cast Pope Leo XIV’s meeting Saturday with three dozen Hollywood and Italian A-lister cinema stars as “cultural outreach” by a pontiff who has long had a soft spot for film.But in a papacy barely six months old, even small things can be a cultural Rorschach test – including the conspicuous absence of high-profile conservative stars at Saturday’s event.Leo’s guest list included Oscar-winning director Spike Lee; two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett; comedy director Judd Apatow;...

https://babylonbee.com/news/shoe-manufacturers-rush-to-design-new-nickel-loafersU.S. — With the penny no longer being minted, shoe manufacturers announced that they were working hard to replace the old penny loafer slip-on shoe design with an exciting new nickel loafer. Penny loafers got their name from teenagers in the 1950s who placed pennies in the leather slots stitched across the saddle of the shoes. But with pennies now obsolete, shoe companies were rushing to design the world's first nickel loafer. "Things change, and we have to change with them," said shoe manufacturer Tom Shoemaker. "Pennies may no longer be in production, but we can't just stop making loafers....

Former first lady Michelle Obama said in a conversation published to her YouTube page Friday that the country is not ready for a woman president, adding that the U.S. has “a lot of growing up to do.” “As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said. “That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.” “You know, we got a lot of growing up to do, and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they...

Michigan Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, will oversee her own election results when she appears on the ballot.On Thursday 22 GOP members of the Michigan House and Senate sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) send election monitors to provide oversight for Michigan’s 2026 primary and general elections.One of their major causes of concern? Michigan’s secretary of state, Democrat Jocelyn Benson — the state’s chief election official and consistent opponent of election integrity — is running for governor, and in 2026 she will oversee her own election results when she...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:35 — 26.3MB)Subscribe: Android | RSS | MoreThe United Nations is once again attacking homeschoolers in an attempt to control the education of youth to embrace collectivism, climate hysteria, social-emotional learning, and globalism, explains Alex Newman for The New American’s Behind The Deep State. A new UNESCO report, prepared under the supervision of a literal North Korean totalitarian, explains that homeschooling, if not done by the UN’s standards, can violate a student’s “human rights.” Therefore, all forms of education must be viewed through a “rights-based” lens.This invasion of parental rights and educational...

I’m probably in a minority of one, but I’ve concluded that Michelle Obama is a pitiable woman because she is incapable of happiness. Mind you, she’s not a harmless woman, because she uses her bully pulpit to spread her misery by making other people, especially women and minorities, equally dissatisfied, paranoid, and hate-filled, but there’s still something pathetic about a woman who has everything yet still sees herself as the victim. Michelle’s latest rant was about hair. (snip) But for Michelle—because she’s a leftist and the personal is always political—the fact that the current style is for lustrous straight hair...

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said he thought “a hundred or more” House Republicans could vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.Host Jonathan Karl said, “President Trump fought long and hard to prevent your discharge petition from going through. You won that battle. Now what happens? How many Republicans in the House follow your lead and defy the president on this?”Massie said, “I think we could have a deluge of Republicans, a hundred or more. I hope to get a veto-proof majority on this legislation when it comes up for a vote. The president’s been saying...

What did Jesus really know about the Book of Enoch and the Nephilim giants? Does the Bible hint at “extraterrestrials” cohabiting with mankind in a forgotten golden age? Glenn Beck sits down with ‪@TimothyAlberino‬ for a mind-blowing conversation that connects the dots from Genesis 6 to the coming post-human apocalypse. As futurists like Yuval Harari openly declare the end of humanity, gene editing, artificial wombs, IVF, and transhumanism are rapidly remaking man in a new image. Alberino issues a chilling wake-up call to Christians: “There’s only one qualification for redemption at the cross of Christ — you must be human.”...