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Jelly Roll can’t say he didn’t ask for it. After the rotund, country-rooted rapper drew fire from fans for using his guest-starring stint on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for consecutive nights of bashing President Donald Trump with all the sneering condescension of the modern left, he responded to critics by essentially telling them to stop listening to him. He might not have been expecting too many to take his advice. In a podcast Monday and a post on the social media platform X, conservative social media personality Johnson reported that he’d run the numbers on Jelly Roll’s social media accounts and...

FIRST TIME listening to THE TEMPTATIONS - "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" REACTION Yes, I know I'm a couple of hours early, but I have a couple of things on the schedule bright and early in the morning. I saw this "first reaction" video and I thought it was entertaining to watch someone young enough to be my granddaughter experience the song for the first time. Listened to it a couple of times earlier with headphones and the separation of the horns and bass guitar were still amazing! I'm sure we geezers will enjoy hearing this song from our youths...

Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. Why it matters: The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems — and it appears Chinese propaganda has infiltrated American circles with the hope of slowing the U.S. down. Driving the news: The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy,"...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) - Officials in Florida say a couple were arrested for abusing four children whom they allegedly held captive in a tractor-trailer for six years. Keisha Epps, 51, and Tamra Stewart, 37, are facing multiple felony charges relating to the battering, molestation and neglect of four children, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday. The children were held captive in the sleeper cab of a tractor-trailer for six years, he said. “This was a rolling prison,” Uthmeier said. The victims in the case – two girls and two boys – ranged in age from 5 to 9...

The School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL). At UNC, students hear this name in one of a few ways. One is “eww, that uber-conservative program that’s a waste of money and is trying to indoctrinate everyone.” A rare few respond with, “I haven’t heard of that.” But the vast majority just say, “oh…nice,” and immediately assume you’re a complete nerd. In all fairness, the last one might not be completely off. Yet none of these opinions completely describe the SCiLL program. SCiLL itself is intended to help students learn how to critically engage in civil discourse with people on...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Homecomings Are Still The Best! Col. Nate Vogel, 22nd Air Refueling Wing commander, poses with his family following his fini flight at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Vogel took one last flight on a KC-46A Pegasus before relinquishing command of the 22nd ARW. (U.S Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Felicia Przydzial) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Marines Fight! Sailors Fight with Sumo Suits! PACIFIC OCEAN - U.S....

President Trump has pulled off something Washington almost never sees: Hollywood studios, major entertainment unions and Adam Schiff are suddenly lining up behind the same America First jobs push. After meeting with actor Jon Voight, Trump called on Republicans and Democrats in Congress to create a federal production incentive for movies and television shows made in the United States. The goal is simple. Give producers a compelling financial reason to employ American crews, rent American soundstages and keep billions of dollars in production spending on American soil. Trump described Hollywood as a “complete and total disaster” after years of productions...

Karmelo Anthony’s family is asking supporters to fork over $250,000 to pay for the convicted killer’s appeal after a Texas judge shot down his request for a new trial. The GiveSendGo fundraiser has already raised $27,000 from grassroots supporters of the 19-year-old, who was sentenced to 35 years in June for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, 17, at a high school track meet in 2025 in Frisco. “We understand that the pursuit of justice through the appellate system requires tremendous resources. This is why the legal fund has been established,” family spokesperson Dominique Alexander told reporters on Wednesday. Last...

Labour’s front-runner to take on Zack Polanski at the by-election in Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency is a Somali former child refugee, The Telegraph understands. Sagal Abdi-Wali, who runs Camden council and was previously chairman of Sir Keir’s Constituency Labour Party, is understood to be considering a run for Parliament after the former prime minister announced he would stand down. Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee from Somalia in the early 1990s, and has said she has been a party supporter “as long as I can remember”. She was first elected as a Labour councillor in 2022...

VIDEO AT LINK. FRENCH TO ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT: 0:00 Savings. 0:02 Unfortunately, these savings are idle. 0:05 Today, €10 trillion in household savings remains in bank deposits, 0:14 and a significant portion of European savings is invested outside our continent. Europe must now 0:23 put these funds to work for our companies—and that is the goal of the Savings and Investment Union. 0:32 We have put proposals on the table regarding securitization, investments by banks and 0:40 insurance companies, and the integration of our markets and their supervision. 0:48 Together, these measures can unlock up to €470 billion in additional investment.

When schools teach about 9/11, the focus should be on honoring the memory of those who lost their lives, the bravery of first responders, and those who made sacrifices to save victims. Instead, North Monterey Unified School District in California is teaching students that 9/11 should be understood as an event that made “already existing prejudices against Arab and Muslim Americans more obvious and shameless” and as a catalyst for state-sponsored Islamophobia.

Dallas Wings center Li Yueru won't be representing China in the FIBA Women's World Cup due to passport issues. Li announced on social media her passport "was lost in the mail and still hasn't been found" (via the Associated Press' Doug Feinberg). "Throughout this time, we've all been working hard together and exploring every possible solution, but maybe we were just a little short on luck this time," she said. "As of today, the passport is still missing. "Sometimes, disappointment is simply part of life. I'm sad that I won't be able to be there this time, but I'm incredibly...

Richardson ISD is facing questions after a parent alleged that the district’s internet filtering system blocked her son’s search for President Donald Trump while allowing searches for former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Jeffrey Epstein. An anonymous Richardson ISD parent provided The Dallas Express with video that she said shows her son attempting to research Trump for a school assignment. According to the parent, when the student searched for Trump, the district device displayed a message stating, “WEBSITE BLOCKED BY RICHARDSON ISD.” The parent said the same blocking message did not appear when her son searched...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats voted down a proposed constitutional amendment to lock in the number of justices on the Supreme Court at nine. The amendment failed in a 212-206 vote, far short of the two-thirds majority needed to get it through the lower chamber. Only one Democrat, Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina, voted with Republicans in support of the proposed amendment. Republicans brought up the constitutional amendment as part of an effort to accuse Democrats of seeking to pack the high court due to its conservative majority and tie them to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). “We will...

Comcast made Wi-Fi motion sensing a headline feature on millions of Xfinity gateways. It reads the ripples your body makes in the signal, through walls, no camera. Here’s the five-minute check, friend. 🤯 WOW! Comcast made Wi-Fi motion sensing a headline feature on millions of Xfinity gateways. Your router reads the ripples your body makes in the signal: which room you’re in, standing or lying down, through walls, no camera, no light. And the fine print says motion data can go to law enforcement “without further notice to you.” The Short Version: Open your router app, hunt for anything labeled...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican claims Mass is ‘ecological school’ in ‘climate change’ document The Vatican’s International Theological Commission said the Eucharist can lead to ‘the ecological conversion that we so urgently need to undertake as a human family,’ in a new document on Wednesday. A lengthy document published by the International Theological Commission entitled “Caring for our Common Home – A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God” refers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as an “ecological school.”In the September 2 document focusing on the environment, “ecological conversion,” and so-called “climate change,” the Theological Commission devoted an entire...

Officials in Texas’ third-largest county voted Tuesday to significantly reduce the number of polling sites for this fall’s midterm elections, drawing protests from Democrats and voting rights advocates. Commissioners in Tarrant County, a fast-growing and politically competitive area that includes Fort Worth, approved a plan that results in 92 fewer Election Day polling locations compared with the 2022 midterms. The roughly 30% reduction leaves the county with 224 polling sites to serve 1.3 million voters. Voters in the county are able to cast ballots at any of those polling sites. The three Republicans on the Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted...

CBS staffers unleash 'storm of outrage' following report on Abdul El-Sayed's deleted 9/11 tweets. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.Ladies and gentlemen, please keep the journalists in your thoughts and prayers this week. They are working through some very big feelings in the wake of a "scandal" involving a mainstream news outlet daring to publish an accurate story about a Democrat. The CBS newsroom has been in disarray since Monday, when the outlet posted a story about Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Reporter Zak Hudak observed, rather obviously, that the U.S. Senate candidate...

𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿@USN_Submariner·9hTo hell, by compassOTD in 1920, the following exchange took place between freighter S.S. Alanthus & what appeared to be a buoy waving a white flag, as seen in the photo: • Alanthus: What ship are you? • Submarine S-5 • Alanthus: What nationality • United States • Alanthus: Where are you bound • To hell, by compassA day earlier, S-class submarine USS S-5 (SS-110) attempted to quickly dive during a drill, but forgot to close the induction valve.Water poured into the forward compartment, forcing the crew to abandon it. They blew the main tank but quickly sank to...