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Chicago Public Schools are now allowing illegal immigrant students to miss class if they or their parents fear being targeted by immigration enforcement. An internal document obtained by education watchdog Defending Education states that students without legal status can be marked as 'excused' if a parent tells the school they are afraid of federal immigration authorities. 'If a parent/guardian reports an absence and attributes it to fear of federal representative-related procedures, schools CAN excuse the absence under “concern for student health and safety,"' the policy states. 'Additional information should not be provided in the memo box to respect student/family confidentiality.'...

General Michael Flynn has called for President Donald Trump to deliver a national address regarding what he describes as a developing color-revolution effort involving federal agencies, political groups, and outside organizations. Flynn issued the request in response to recent events, including the release of a video featuring lawmakers urging members of the military to “refuse illegal orders.” A post from Alex Jones on X stated: “Breaking! General Flynn Calls On President Trump To Immediately Address The Nation Concerning The Color Revolution Being Fomented By The Seditious 6 And The CIA As He Lays Out The String Of Illegal Investigations And...

Pete Hegseth has done an admirable job, restoring standards and respect for the US military after Democrats had been reducing it to a social engineering lab focused on promoting DEI and sexual psychosis. For this, the liberal establishment punishes him: Comedy Central animated series South Park took aim at President Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Wednesday, calling him a “douchebag,” in an episode that aired on the same day that two National Guard members were gunned down by a radicalized Afghan migrant in Washington D.C. Other liberals actually blame Hegseth for this act of terror. The cartoon characterizes...

Over the last November weekend of 2025, a memo circulated throughout the Federal Food and Drug Administration that might well trigger the entire unraveling of the US vaccine program with a focus on the mandated Covid shot in particular. The author is Dr. Vinay Prasad, who was a moderate critic during the Covid but has become ferocious since his appointment as the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research of the FDA. Of this memo, ACIP member and scientist Robert Malone has written: “I am stunned, gobsmacked by his letter below. The significance and importance of this letter...

The holidays are getting underway, and most of us are in a festive mood. (Especially me, having just returned from a terrific week in Amsterdam, about which I will do a post if there is overwhelming public demand.) But to be honest, the news wasn’t great. The issue of Somali fraud in Minnesota finally went national in a big way, which you could see as a positive, but the underlying reality is too depressing to contemplate. The search for peace in Ukraine continued to be elusive. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s political career flamed out. Six Democratic politicians encouraged service members to...

On Thursday, I wrote that leftist judges on the bench are creating a form of tyranny, for they have arrogated to themselves the constitutional power of the Executive branch of government. There is no more balance. According to the Democrat appointees on the bench, none of Trump’s actions are solely within the discretion of the democratically elected chief executive. Instead, all are subject to judicial review and approval. The day after I wrote that essay, Trump issued a statement via Truth Social voiding every document that was signed with an Autopen during Joe Biden’s presidency and threatening Biden along the...

Researchers report that lower plasma LDL cholesterol is associated with a higher risk of incident type 2 diabetes in adults followed in primary care, independent of statin use. In the study, investigators asked whether plasma LDL-C predicted incident type 2 diabetes during long follow-up and examined whether statin therapy altered that relationship. A cooperative of 140 general practitioners provided the data collection. Each doctor contributes to a shared electronic medical record that follows patients across visits. More than 200,000 adults appear in the system, with age and geographic distributions that naturally mirror the city of Naples. Slightly more than half...

A headline from Breitbart to begin this column: "Report: Afghan National Suspect in National Guardsmen Shooting; Came to America on Biden Admin's Operation Allies Welcome; Permission to Stay Expired."I wasn't aware that Afghans were ever our allies (not since the departure of the USSR from Afghanistan), but maybe there are a couple of people in Afghanistan who like America. Apparently, the guy who shot the National Guardsmen wasn't one of those two. But then, Biden has never known who our allies and enemies are.The immigrants who came to America (mostly from Europe) in the late 19th-early 20th centuries assimilated into...

A favorite leftist trope is that if wimmin ruled the world, whirled peas would abound. Well, we're seeing how stupid that idea is in real time as the claque ruling and ruining Venezuela gets a good look under the hood. According to El Mundo of Spain, which has a click-on English translation, Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, pretends to be a sweet little doting grandmother who lives to support her Maduro, writing: But don't be fooled: Cilia Flores is not the sweet 69-year-old grandmother (six years older than Maduro) who participates in Bolivarian feats and in the television marathons of the...

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. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

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The coastal city of Güiria, a longtime hub for smuggling and illicit maritime trade in northeastern Venezuela, is experiencing severe economic disruption and heightened government surveillance following U.S. military strikes on boats suspected of drug trafficking. The city, home to roughly 40,000 residents, has relied for years on the movement of drugs, contraband, food, and consumer goods between Venezuela and nearby Caribbean nations. Reuters reported Friday that the recent U.S. operations have stopped nearly all boat departures from the area, leaving local commerce at a standstill. “There was only movement in stores recently because of government bonus payments; otherwise, there’s...

In yet another shocking example of radical left ideology infiltrating public schools, a “non-binary” Baltimore high school English teacher has come under intense fire for sharing explicit kink-related content on social media, including videos where he role-plays as a pregnant woman with enormous prosthetic breasts. James Roman Stilipec, 50, who goes by “Jay Aress” online and teaches ninth-grade students at Reach! Partnership School, has been blasted by parents and conservative groups for flaunting his fetishes publicly, raising serious questions about his fitness to be around impressionable teens. Stilipec, a former U.S. Navy veteran with 36DDD breast implants he proudly calls...

The next time you notice a pigeon acting suspiciously, you may need to notify the authorities, as news broke this week that Russia had launched a flock of remote-controlled cyborg spy pigeons. Putin scientists unveil 'spy pigeons fitted with brain implants and cameras that can be controlled like drones' https://t.co/t1lUBm1zAf— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 27, 2025This confirms what many had long feared: the pigeons cannot be trusted. As reported by the Daily Mail: A state-linked Moscow neurotechnology firm boasts its operators can steer flocks of the flying pests across the sky at will. Researchers have launched field tests of so-called...

THE POWER OF LOVE What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. This story will keep you singing! Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling. Karen and her spouse found out that the new baby was going to be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael would sing to his sister in Mommy's tummy. The pregnancy progressed...

This is actually amazing. In a time of team sport politics and polarization, it takes an actual observer of sports to see through the nonsense. And Stephen A. Smith didn't disappoint in his analysis of Mark Kelly and the Seditious Six. [Language] 🚨NEW: Stephen A. Smith *GOES NUCLEAR* on Mark Kelly for telling military to disobey TRUMP🚨"How dare you do that!? I'm not a military person and I know better than that! You don't tell military men and women to ignore an order from the commander-in-chief! You don't do that!"… pic.twitter.com/gQgQeNiJGg— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 27, 2025What the hell...

A bar in Idaho is offering to give out free beer for a month to those who help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identify and deport illegal immigrants. The bar, Old State Saloon, has made headlines before when it declared June "Heterosexual Awareness Month." The bar posted to X, "ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!" The post, which has gone viral on the social media platform, also caught the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, which posted a dinosaur dropping a cup...

If you doubt that the Democratic Party is hostile to the USA, consider this: Nearly half of all households with noncitizen parents are accessing federal benefits, a category that includes both legal and illegal immigrants. The Trump administration is trying to end these programs, but Democrats are pushing back. Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., have filed a federal lawsuit challenging new USDA guidance that they say unlawfully restricts legal immigrants’ access to SNAP benefits. That is, the Democrats ruling these states want to overrule the president so as to enslave US taxpayers to foreigners, a high...

Hay fever, also known as allergic rhinitis, is the condition responsible for seasonal allergies or allergic reactions to other environmental allergens. A new study describes a large-scale survey of hay fever sufferers, comparing those who use eye washing as a preventative measure. The study reports that those using eyewash experience improved symptoms. While eyewashes containing benzalkonium chloride as a preservative have been shown to exacerbate certain eye diseases, a preservative-free eyewash has a generally good safety profile and is endorsed for reducing symptoms of allergic conjunctival diseases. However, robust research was lacking on the use of eyewash for hay fever....

West Virginia National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe was still “fighting for his life” on Saturday, three days after he was shot in an ambush-style attack in Washington, D.C., which also claimed the life of his fellow National Guard officer Sarah Beckstrom. Appearing on “FOX & Friends Weekend,” West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Wolfe remained in “very serious” condition, adding that his family was pleading for prayers. Morrisey said Wolfe comes from a long line of “folks who have contributed to service — local service and military service — so he’s got a tight-knit group really pulling for him right now.”...