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[snip] On November 21st, Superheavy booster 18, the first next generation block 3 Superheavy, suffered a catastrophic structural rupture during ground testing at the Massiey's outpost. Intended to fly alongside ship 39 for Starship flight 12, the vehicle experienced an energetic failure in the opening phase of its proof campaign. The event immediately ended booster 18's qualification path and pushed flight 12 several months beyond SpaceX's original target. [/snip] Elon Musk Revealed Root Cause 'COPV Failure' on Booster 18 V3 After Inspection! Weird Explosion | 10:29 SpaceX Community | 69.2K subscribers | 5,114 views | November 22, 2025

A Rhode Island high school will reinstate a teacher who was put on administrative leave after he called assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk a "piece of garbage." In an email sent Friday and obtained by Fox News Digital, interim Superintendent Bob Mitchell of Barrington Public Schools said social studies teacher Benjamin Fillo would return to teach despite violating the district’s social media policy. "The high school teacher at the center of the recent district independent investigation will be returning to the classroom on December 1," the email from Mitchell read. "The investigator’s now public report confirms that the...

I don't think i'll ever look at Christmas cookies the same again More show notes: Royal Dansk Danish cookies are made in India. How are they made? click on the video and be prepared to barf. You think they can't drive in America? Well they can't cook in their own country. Don't buy any food that says "Made in India" after watching this video!!!

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (I John 5:14)

https://babylonbee.com/news/average-iq-in-congress-expected-to-rise-7000-points-after-mtg-resignsWASHINGTON, D.C. — With Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announcing her resignation in January, the average IQ in Congress is expected to rise about 7,000 points. Though the new average will be in the low 40s, the score will be substantially higher than the current mark of -6,940. "It's a big step up," explained Congressional aide Tim Buckley. "The mean IQ of a Congressman will still be roughly that of a baked potato, but we'll take it. She's been really dragging us down." Though the IQ test was not supposed to have the possibility of a negative score, Greene has gone...

Will the European Court Decide Whether to Recognize Polygamy as a Right?The European Union, in words, boasts of being a bulwark of Western civilization, a guarantor of international peace, a guardian of free enterprise, democracy, stability, and peace among peoples, having created the largest single market in the world and promoting “rights, freedoms, and cooperation.” In reality, as repeated in other analyses, the European Union is undergoing a drastic Sinicization, with all that this entails.Moreover, to confront the steep demographic decline and the growing Islamization of the continent, bureaucrats—especially the more progressive ones, though not only them—must reckon with internal...

When you’re discussin’ cussin’, many fancy it too much fussin’. I learned this years back when, after editorializing against it years ago, a reader responded that “we aren’t all Little Lord Fauntleroys.” (Why, that #$@&%*!) In truth, though, objections to vulgarity go beyond 19th-century fictional characters. Some observers warn that its acceptance is a sign of cultural decay. And none other than the Father of our Nation, George Washington, inveighed against it. It “is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation,” he wrote in 1776, “that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.”If that doesn’t...

2176 The celebration of Sunday observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public, and regular worship "as a sign of his universal beneficence to all." 109 Sunday worship fulfills the moral command of the Old Covenant, taking up its rhythm and spirit in the weekly celebration of the Creator and Redeemer of his people.

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. In a plaintiffs’ brief filed as part of a major lawsuit against four social media companies, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.” “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumar reportedly...

You can't hide hunger, as proven by a Florida woman who was in such a hurry to grab her pizza from the Little Caesars restaurant that she got nabbed for driving 107 miles per hour to get there. This all happened on Nov. 6, and police say Yazmin Victoria Erazo's excuse was that she was hungry and wanted to get her pizza before the establishment closed and they locked her pizza in the store for good. She got pulled over at exactly 11:54PM, and the store closed at midnight. She was so close to the pizza, but police put the...

Impossible sounding, and often untrue, stories about the famous have been around for as long as there have been celebrities. Still, as you'll see in the following countdown of Rock Music's 25 Craziest Conspiracy Theories, this particular kind of superstar buzz exploded once we took off on the information superhighway. One of the older examples predates the internet, as fans openly wondered whether Paul McCartney had been replaced by a lookalike prior to 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But fast forward a couple of decades, and it gets really weird: A conspiracy theorist later emerged who actually thought...

Grok Summary of Video Transcript:Concise Summary of Spidey’s Analysis (Brian Harpole on the Sean Ryan Show)Spidey’s core conclusion:Brian Harpole is not lying about loyalty — he genuinely believes his team and “brothers” would never betray Charlie Kirk.He is showing massive stress and deviations only when discussing the actual security failures and competence on the day of the assassination, indicating he knows (at some level) that his team catastrophically failed in their duty.Key contrasts in behaviorLoyalty / Mossad / extremist questions → Close to baseline, calm, quick denials, minimal stress (except one weak one-sided shrug about never being to Israel).Competence /...

Kellogg Fired Over Leaking 28-Point Plan – Proposal Designed To Trap Putin It seems that Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, got fired over leaking news of the 28-point ‘peace plan’. Let’s follow the traces. On Tuesday the 18th November someone ‘leaked’ to Axios reporter Barak Ravid who then wrote the first story of Trump’s new plan for Ukraine. Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war The plan’s 28 points fall into four general buckets, sources tell Axios: peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, security in Europe, and future U.S. relations with Russia and Ukraine. … Trump’s...

A Missouri judge who wore an Elvis Presley wig in his courtroom and played the singer’s music from his phone during court proceedings has agreed to a deal that would cut his career on the bench short. Judge Matthew Thornhill in suburban St. Louis faces a six-month unpaid suspension under the deal he reached with a state board to avoid a disciplinary hearing. After the suspension, he would serve 18 more months on the bench before resigning from the St. Charles County Circuit Court.

~ GIVING THANKS ~ Psalm 92:1 - 5 1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. 5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep." Psalm 95:1 -...

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is breaking with veteran party strategist James Carville, arguing that Democrats should “win more elections” rather than change the rules. His remarks come as a response to Carville’s recent calls to pack the Supreme Court and confront the party’s “identity left.” “I strongly rejected trying to pack the Supreme Court or to change those things,” Fetterman said on “Saturday in America.” “When I ran for the Senate back in the ‘21, ’22, I rejected those things,” he added. The difference in opinion between Carville and Fetterman underscores a growing divide within the Democratic Party between reformers...

Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that “abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas” in response to a ProPublica report published Wednesday. Clinton’s comments came in a Wednesday post on the social platform X, which included a link to ProPublica’s story. According to the outlet, a 37-year-old woman named Tierra Walker had been dealing with health issues during her pregnancy. She faced increasing blood pressure and diabetes and was aware she faced a raised chance of potentially fatal pregnancy complication, according to ProPublica. In mid-October of last year, Walker decided it was necessary to request...

What’s the allure of the views of Bible prophecy that dismiss God’s promises to Israel and exalt the church as God’s kingdom on the earth? Why do many teachers go astray from what the words of Scripture tell us about our future as well as that of the world? These questions again came to my mind after I received an email boasting that “dispensationalism is on the decline.” By that, the writer meant that many Christians are turning away from our belief in Jesus’ thousand-year rule on the earth. As evidence, he cited Kirk Cameron’s apparent switch from belief in...

Iran is facing a mounting crisis, one that is driving their nation to the brink of disaster. This disaster is not the result of Israel or the United States dropping bombs on Iran, nor the result of crippling sanctions. The catastrophe Iran is facing is an unprecedented drought. The skies are shut up, the clouds are dry, the reservoirs are empty, the land is parched, and catastrophe looms. Here are some of the sobering facts about this deepening crisis, which constitutes the worst drought in the nation’s recorded history. Iran has suffered six consecutive years of drought. 10% of the...

Grok Summary of Video TranscriptMain focus: Labour’s major immigration crackdown, presented as the toughest in years.Key policy changes (announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood):Time to qualify for indefinite leave to remain (settled status) doubled from 5 to 10 years for everyone who arrived after 2021 (~2.6 million people affected).Can extend to 15–20 years if someone claims benefits for >12 months.Can be shortened for high economic contributors (e.g. NHS workers, high-value entrepreneurs).Core message: “Settling in the UK is a privilege that must be earned.”Builds on earlier asylum changes (temporary status, reviewed every 2.5 years) and explicitly modelled on Denmark’s tough centre-left...