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President Trump’s mass deportation machine continues to PICK UP SPEED: -National ICE-involved arrests have skyrocketed up to 1,121 per day. -The Trump Administration's build-out of the 287(g) program has seen illegal alien custodial transfers, from local law enforcement to ICE, surge up to ~550 per day. -CBP border apprehensions are currently averaging ~275 per day. In total, we’re currently seeing ~1,946 illegal aliens get forcibly deported per day – 710,290 per year – and that number continues to increase.

Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate, according to new report. Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's "democratic integrity". The findings come as a proposed independence referendum in the western Canadian province could face a vote as soon as this autumn. Earlier this week, a group behind a citizen-led petition seeking independence for Alberta said that it had acquired the number of signatures needed to trigger a referendum. The Alberta separatist movement has its roots...

The National Park Service revealed the coyote is from Angel IslandThe origins of a coyote that drew international headlines after it was spotted swimming ashore to San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island have been revealed. Initially thought to have made the mile-and-a-quarter journey from San Francisco, which faces the southern edge of Alcatraz, the animal turned out to have made a much longer 2-mile swim from Angel Island State Park, according to new DNA evidence collected by National Park Service ecologists. The coyote’s whereabouts still remain unknown. “We are surprised by the coyote’s origin,” Park Service wildlife ecologist Bill Merkle said in...

Sir Christopher Nolan is many things. The Spielberg/Lucas/Cameron manqué of our time. A double Oscar-winner for Oppenheimer, a picture that is nowhere near his best work. The most acclaimed director of film bros, who somehow ignore his standing as a white, British privately educated filmmaker. But what nobody has ever seriously asked before is “Is Sir Christopher camp?” ... I would have cast Michael Fassbender, but hey-ho. Damon rocks a beard of varying lengths and grayness, and wears an expression of becoming seriousness. At various points in the trailer, he makes it clear that he wants to go home. This...

Gov. Greg Abbott’s office notified Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen to cancel the “DFW Epic Eid Celebration,” a Muslim event to be held at the city-owned Epic Waters Indoor Water Park.The Public Safety Office (PSO) sent the letter to Jensen on Wednesday regarding the event celebrating the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. ...“Epic Waters is owned by the City and managed by a third-party operator,” the City of Grand Prairie said in a Tuesday statement. “Like other City-owned facilities, it is available for rental by individuals and organizations.”The city said they have been in contact with the Epic Waters...

There are still some Trump supporters out there who continue to bill the Trump administration as some kind of great victory for the forces of populism against the “deep state.” A year into the second Trump administration, it is clear this is not a serious position. The populism of the Trump campaign has clearly failed and what we ended up with instead is a continuation and strengthening of the status quo. Over the next three years of this second Trump term, the welfare-warfare state will only get larger...Consequently, the only hope in providing any truly limiting factors on state power...

U.S. — Members of the Democratic Party from across the nation issued a statement clarifying that everyone is an evil Nazi except that one guy running for Senate in Maine who has a Nazi tattoo. While the Democrats' political strategy for years had been to label all sorts of people as evil Nazis, ranging from Republican politicians to concerned parents at PTA meetings. But after Graham Platner became the presumptive Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, the Democratic Party sought to explain that the man with the skull-and-crossbones "Totenkopf" tattoo was definitely not an evil Nazi. "Graham Platner is definitely...

San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain caught fire as it was being disassembled on Wednesday morning, sending plumes of smoke into the sky as flames licked the sculpture’s 10-ton cantilevered arms. The news comes just a couple of weeks after the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced it was preparing to take apart the controversial landmark ahead of a $40 million renovation of the Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park. “Today, during torch cutting activity, debris inside the tubes ignited,” Coma Te, director of communications for the San Francisco Arts Commission, which owns the fountain, told SFGATE in an email. “The...

CTRL F ‘WHITE MEN’ I hate predictions and even as I am a terminal optimist, I hesitate to say this, but: The New York Times is dead to rights cooked. The Trump Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing The New York Times for workplace discrimination. A current employee of the Times – you read that correctly – is working with administration lawyers on a suit charging that the paper is racist against white men and that racism is a matter of employment policy. Totally illegal by the way and has been for decades. Elites would be shocked to learn...

Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis spent months, even longer, trying to put together an organized crime case against President Donald Trump as Democrats were weaponizing a number of government agencies to attack him. It fell apart when an appeals courts commented on her decision to hire a paramour to work on the case, and both he and she were ordered off the case entirely. Now it appears that taxpayers may never know the actual amount of money wasted in the political agenda. A report from the investigators at the Center Square explained some expenditures are known, others remain concealed. The report...

A 12-year-old Georgia boy was left heartbroken after his therapy pig was allegedly killed by three ghoulish neighbors – who were found with the dead animal in aprons and gloves beside a boiling pot of water. Garrett Cox, who has ADHD and autism, is now struggling to cope after Bootsy, his 400-pound emotional support pig, was savagely shot dead after wandering from her pen and off the family’s Hoschton property, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, last week, according to multiple reports. “I miss her so much,” the young boy told WSB-TV about the award-winning pig, while clutching the ribbons...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Bringing Cheer To Orphans! U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Team 3215, A Co., 432d Civil Affairs Battalion, attached to Task Force 82, and soldiers assigned to the 57th Detachment, Slovak Armed Forces Civil Military Cooperation, celebrated the holiday season with Slovak orphans at the Centrum pre deti a rodiny-Necpaly (Center for Children and Families-Necpaly) in Lešt’, Slovakia. Gifts were brought to the Center to communicate the importance of celebrating the holiday season with the community and demonstrates the strong partnership among friends and allies. (U.S. Army Photo courtesy...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: New Synodal Document Promotes Homosexual Testimony Against Catholic TeachingA newly released Synodal report doesn’t just suggest reform—it openly redefines sin, elevates homosexual testimony, and calls for a sweeping “paradigm shift” in Catholic teaching. Beneath its dense language lies a direct challenge to centuries of doctrine. What’s being proposed is not development—but transformation. On May 5, 2026, Cardinal Mario Grech introduced the Synod on Synodality’s publication of the Final Reports of Study Groups No. 7 and No. 9:“These two reports touch the very heart of ecclesial life. The first reminds us that the selection of a bishop is...

President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials. Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials...

Former President Barack Obama and outgoing "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert took turns singing the praises of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during their interview Tuesday night. During a prerecorded interview that aired Tuesday from the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Colbert spoke with Obama about the direction of the Democratic Party, specifically regarding the ongoing rift between the liberal and the progressive wings of the party. "So you have great leaders. You have people like (Virginia Governor) Abigail Spanberger and (New Jersey Governor) Mikie Sherrill, very centrist. But then you have further left, like AOC and Zohran Mamdani,"...

A team of scientists in China recently demonstrated this somewhat comically idealistic solution, reporting their findings in a recent paper published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. This new “living” plastic, as the team describes it, contains plastic-degrading microbes that activate and self-destruct on command. Although this isn’t the first time scientists have tested similar materials, the new experiment looks promising. A proof-of-concept test with a wearable plastic electrode confirmed that, as intended, the plastic degraded completely within two weeks. Scientists had consistently explored whether some bacteria known to be capable of breaking down polymers could be engineered within plastic. In...

"Any woman born in the samurai status group was a 'female samurai' even if she never picked up a weapon, just as any man born into that status group was a samurai, no matter how wimpy/untrained/etc. he may have been," Sean O'Reilly, a professor of Japan studies at Akita International University, told Live Science in an email.It's unclear how often female samurai fought in battle, however. Women who fought in battle are sometimes called "onna-musha," which translates to "women warriors.""I must say, as an historian, that onnamusha -- female warriors -- were probably not as frequent or as militarily significant...

The Justice Department plans to ask the Supreme Court to allow it to intervene in President Donald Trump's appeal of the $83 million jury verdict in a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. The DOJ explained in a Tuesday filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which cites the Westfall Act, that the federal government should be substituted as the defendant in the lawsuit. The DOJ had previously certified that Trump was acting "within the scope of employment" when he made statements that Carroll claimed were defamatory, The Washington Examiner reported. The 2nd Court of Appeals denied...

ATLANTA (AP) — The federal government can keep the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee’s decision came after lawyers for the county had argued that the ballots and other election materials, as well as any electronic copies the Justice Department has made, should be returned because the seizure was improper and unconstitutional. The Jan. 28 seizure by the FBI targeted the elections hub in Georgia’s most populous county, which is heavily Democratic and includes most of the city of...