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Republican voters ousted Utah’s most powerful lawmaker, state Senate President J. Stuart Adams, Tuesday after a series of controversies and mounting criticism for his role as one of the key decision-makers advancing a proposal to build a controversial data center in Box Elder County. Two other key GOP lawmakers — Sen. Daniel McCay and Rep. Trevor Lee — were voted out as well. Hundreds of thousands of dollars poured into the competition pitting Adams of Layton against Weber State University’s ex-general counsel, Stephanie Hollist, and former Legislature attorney Braden Hess. Hollist held the lead around 11:30 p.m. with 43% of...

BLM activist breaks down in tears over “demonic” white people; says black people cannot “live normal lives” due to slavery hundreds of years ago. “How do you expect us to live normal lives? And then with all of that we didn’t get no compensation.” ***** He's crying so hard he might soil himself

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's gamble to push the New York Congressional delegation even further to the left paid off Tuesday night with a hat trick of wins. Mamdani ousted two sitting Democrats and filled a vacant congressional seat with young democratic socialists in a forceful show of progressive power. All seats are rated safely Democratic, so Mamdani's trio is expected to win their general elections in November. First was former city comptroller Brad Lander in the seat currently occupied by Democratic Representative Dan Goldman. NBC News called the race for Lander less than 10 minutes after polls closed....

"If you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, 'Do not commit adultery,' also said, 'Do not commit murder.' Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law" (James 2:9-11). You sin when you fall short of God’s holy standard or go beyond the limits of His law. Many people attempt to justify their sinfulness by categorizing sins according to their...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

We are a day or two late bidding farewell to Tucker Carlson, but, given the attention we have paid to his descent, a few comments are in order. Carlson says he is leaving the Republican Party. This is from Axios: “I’m out,” Carlson said on an episode of the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast that aired Thursday but gained traction online Monday. * “And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.” * “I would not support the Republican Party. There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party,” Carlson said, adding that the GOP has...

Primary night in New York marked the first major test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's political movement, and it was widely successful. All three of Mamdani's endorsed candidates for Congress were victorious, marking a massive win for the left and a major blow for establishment Democrats. Mamdani endorsed in three competitive House primary matchups in New York City, breaking with Democratic leaders by throwing support behind leftist candidates who were unafraid to criticize Israel and push for ambitious economic policies. The biggest upset of the night came in New York's 13th district, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community...

Today we are here to announce the results of the 2026 National Healthcare Fraud takedown. This announcement marks the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating healthcare fraud in history. When we talk about the team that's working on these cases, I want to give some context around that. There are nine healthcare fraud strike forces that have been part of this effort. 57 US attorney's offices, 41 state attorney general's offices—not red states, not blue states, but both—working together with the federal government, multiple law enforcement agencies, including inspector generals, some of the agencies that are here with...

The Scottish Government revealed all prisoners would be segregated by biological sex with immediate effect today, regardless of which gender they identify with. It comes four days after a judicial review ruled that the Scottish Prison Service’s policy of segregated prisoners by gender-identity rather than sex was illegal. And three days after SPS chief executive Linda Pollock wrote a memo to staff insisting “the admissions practice remains in place” while bosses “carefully consider” the ruling. The SNP government then used a planted backbench written question in parliament, in the name of former SNP minister George Adam, to put their capitulation...

It's mind-boggling that elections and election results take so long to complete, especially in a developed nation such as the United States.A person votes in the Virginia redistricting referendum at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Alexandria, Va. AP Photo/Julia Demaree NikhinsonIt's inexcusable that our modern society can't establish firm timelines and expedite tabulation when many nations, both developed and developing, announce results on the same day as the election or within a day or two. Many of those countries lack the election technologies that the United States takes for granted.In the case of very close elections similar...

Ed Morrisey wrote a couple of posts about the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Texas, James Talarico. I can't add much to his reporting, but I thought I would throw in my 2 cents regarding the Democrats' miscalculations in choosing their candidates for seats they hope to pick up this year. You can read Ed's posts here and here. The first goes through Talarico's desperate attempts to cover up his "progressive" image, and the second shows the peril of not being "progressive" enough to satisfy the even more whacko leftists out there, who want to focus on racial politics....

There's a major heatwave taking place across most of Europe this week. Here's visualization showing the "temperature anomalies" which have driven temperatures in many European capitals close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (and in some cases over that). Europe is melting! The size, intensity, and longevity of this #heatwave is enormous. Peak temperatures will reach 45°C / 100-115°F this week in #France . You are looking at temperature anomalies in the cloud layer over the next 2 weeks, which peak at +20°C. #Europe is Earth’s fastest warming continent, and European heat extremes are increasing faster than models project they should, likely...

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Donald Trump’s approval rating is soaring in a new survey, with the president’s poll numbers reaching a level that hasn’t been recorded in months. Trump’s approval rating now stands at 47% in the latest Daily Mail/JL Partners poll -- a 4-point increase from the 43% rating recorded in the survey’s last three months and a 5-point climb from his all-time low in mid-March. The 47% approval rating is Trump’s highest since February, before he decided to launch joint strikes with Israel against Iran. Meanwhile, the president’s disapproval rating is 53% in the latest survey, four percentage points lower than the...

In 2016, Kellyanne Conway became the first female campaign manager to win a presidential election. Kellyanne, a former pollster, is extremely bright and talented and helped Donald Trump win his first elected office as President of the United States. Instead of celebrating her outstanding win, the media attacked and smeared Kellyanne mercilessly for the next four years as she moved into a prominent role in the Trump administration. Meanwhile, her disgruntled husband George (now former husband) became a media darling after he joined the far-left in daily attacks on his wife's boss, Donald Trump. George also managed to kick off...

The US military fired several high-energy laser and high-power microwave weapons for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday. The US Defense Department demonstrated several high-energy laser and high-power microwave weapons for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, Laser Wars has learned, the first publicly known instance of a sitting US defense secretary personally observing a live directed energy weapon firing. The demonstration, which occurred at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, was attended by Hegseth and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael. “We have dramatically increased investment in scaling directed energy technologies, signaling...

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics. LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world’s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides raw speed, the system stood out because it uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units, which most...

Crying Terror-Linked Islamists Infiltrated Texas GOP. Then they pretended to be the victims and the media bought it. June 24, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield. “A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears,” Houston’s PBS station reported. “They’re Conservative, Vote Republican, and Love America. The Texas GOP Wants Them to Leave,” a Texas Monthly story complained. The story of how the supposed “patriotic” Republican Muslims were being kicked out made the rounds of the media. There was one little problem. None of it was true. According to the Texas...

Coffee Shop in NYC in Full Retreat After Hateful Attack on Jewish Congressman Backfires in Every Way Possible. By Samuel Short June 23, 2026. Poetica Coffee in New York City claims to be a welcoming place for every guest that walks through the door, but their latest spat with New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman shows they aren’t as welcoming as it would seem. [https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/nyc-coffee-shop-bans-pro-israel-politician-in-nasty-post-despite-promise-to-treat-all-customers-with-unconditional-dignity/]The New York Post reported Goldman made his way into Poetica’s Brooklyn location, and things seemed typical enough until an angry post on social media platform Instagram was made by owner Parviz Mukhamadkulov, who is originally...