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To hear National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher tell it, the loss of federal funding for the public network is as close to nuclear armageddon we can get without, you know, actually experiencing a nuclear attack. No matter. It's really, really, really bad, says Maher. "There's a real understanding of the need there, as well as for emergency alerting, in which public media plays an extraordinarily important role," she said. We absolutely have to have this 19th-century technology to warn rural Americans of an "emergency"? ... As Robby Soave points out, cutting off NPR and PBS from federal dollars...

Last month, the Department of the Navy officially renamed the USNS Harvey Milk—a much-needed course correction that finally put an end to the disgraceful decision to honor a known sexual predator.“This is not about political activists, unlike the previous administration. Instead, we’re renaming the ship after a United States Navy Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, as it should be,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explained. “People wanna be proud of the ship they’re sailing in, and so we’re renaming it after a chief, a Navy chief.”The Navy has renamed the ship the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in honor of Chief Watertender...

VIDEOMany have seen, heard, and laughed at Scott MacFarlane telling Chuck Todd about how the angry crowd at Butler, PA gave him PTSD to such an extent that he had to take Trauma Leave. However, few have heard MacFarlane describe his PTSD attack on that very day of July 13, 2024 when he described live on site how he and the rest of the press corps were jumping under the rafters in panic to dodge bullets far away and long after the last shots were heard. Scott's description of how the angry crowd upset him will tear at your hearts...

I'd said it here many times. Liberals have zero long term memory. Or they have memories of convenience. Either way, they're pretty much useless. The entire party is in disarray. No message, no leader and they're left trying to create a crisis they had in their power to resolve years ago. The Democratic Party has no leader and no message. That’s not a right-wing talking point; that’s the findings of a poll commissioned by a Democrat SuperPAC. As reported by The Hill, a survey conducted between May and June by Unite the Country showed voters perceive the Democratic Party as...

A criminal referral for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has just been issued to the DOJ! He is being referred over alleged perjury related to his whopping $2.5 billion building renovation project. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced on X: I am criminally referring Jerome Powell to the DOJ to investigate perjury regarding his crazy $2.5BN building.— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) July 17, 2025This is huge… To give you some context, the Federal Reserve renovation project has skyrocketed from the initial $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion. Jerome Powell is being suspected of fraud related to the extremely suspicious building project....

Key Points and Summary on Canada and F-35 – After a quarter-century of debate, Canada is in the final, critical phase of deciding the future of its F-35 fighter jet program. A comprehensive government review, expected by the end of summer 2025, will determine whether the nation proceeds with the full purchase of 88 stealth fighters.

President Donald Trump calling Israeli Prime Minister...Israel's deadly bombing... Tucker Carlson with a special release tonight discussing the Jeffrey Epstein... The "Wall Street Journal" out with a story...Trump saying the story is falsified... Later this evening...Trump on Truth Social saying he is directing Attorney General... In Southern Syria tonight fighting is raging between trial fighters and Druze militia...Israeli air attacks... A Maryland man arrested for threatening Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene... as outsider politicians...Massie...Greene...push for release of those Jeffrey Epstein files the insider politicians... A government committee in Israel voting this evening to fire the Attorney General... The US Senate...

OSZ @OpenSourceZone Democratic Party Approval Rating 🟢 Approve: 19% (-53) 🔴 Disapprove: 72% Quinnipiac | July 10-14 | 1,290 RV

It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump. Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein’s other associates for a 2003 birthday album, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

“It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump.” Above is Excerpt rest behind paywall More From X https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1945981866365849897 Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 🚨🇺🇸 WSJ BOMBSHELL: TRUMP’S EPSTEIN BIRTHDAY CARD EXPOSED… THE SECRET HE COULDN’T BURY The Wall Street Journal just dropped the story Trump desperately wanted buried:his 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, complete with a hand-drawn naked woman and his signature positioned as pubic hair. “Happy Birthday -— and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Those...

End Wokeness @EndWokeness Zohran Mamdani on abolishing prisons and jail: "What purpose do they serve, besides making people feel good?"

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Photo:Jordan Conradson/TGP) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed President Trump’s swollen legs and hand bruises on Thursday with an update from the President’s physician. “the President remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here,” she told reporters. In recent days, it was noticed that the President had bruising and other markings on the back of his hand and swollen ankles. This led to mass speculation, especially from the left, that President Trump was suffering from edema and a life-threatening heart condition. Photos:

Portland, Ore. — Federal police officers enraged anti-ICE agitators after using a Donald Trump impersonation voice to issue official orders to vacate ICE facility property.

LONDON — In a protest to make the nation's democratic process more inclusive, Muslims in the United Kingdom marched to demand that the voting age be lowered to 13 so their wives would be able to vote. Following intense debate on the wisdom and necessity of lowering the voting age in the UK, lawmakers agreed that there could be a case to be made for making it legal for the child brides of the country's millions of Muslim residents to vote in elections. "Every wife in the UK should have the right to vote, even when they are children," said...

OPINION: The First Amendment exists to protect dissent and divergent opinions, not just ideas that align with rigid campus orthodoxy The University of Oregon just learned a very costly lesson about free speech. This cautionary tale began in June 2022, when Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley responded to a University of Oregon Division of Equity and Inclusion “racism interrupter” post on Twitter by retweeting it with the comment “all men are created equal.” Ironically, it seems that UO’s definition of “inclusion” didn’t include tolerance for the principle of colorblindness. Rather than recognizing that Gilley’s quote from the Declaration of...

Maurene Comey lashed out at Trump in a message to colleagues after she was fired. Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, was fired as a federal prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office on Wednesday. “There was no specific reason given for her firing from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, according to one of the people who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters,” the AP reported. Maurene Comey didn’t call out Trump by name, but she attacked the president and his administration in a message after being...

Nebraska state leaders filed a lawsuit against Colorado on Wednesday seeking to have the U.S. Supreme Court assert the Cornhusker State’s century-old water rights to the South Platte River that crosses state lines. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, announcing the legal action at a news conference with Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers and other state and local officials, said, “Every drop of water matters.” Pillen and Hilgers accused Colorado officials of siphoning off more and more water every day, even as Nebraska had been “nice” with Colorado, which has seen increases in housing, agricultural and business development along the waterway. “We’re...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨Former mobster who was jailed in Epstein’s cell says Ghislaine Maxwell holds the key to the entire operation and the government is keeping her quiet with a deal, Haul her in and force her to testify: “The key person here is Ghislaine Maxwell… They got to bring her in and make her talk. I think they got a hold of her.. Told her to keep her mouth shut and she will get out.” 11:47 AM · Jul 17, 2025

(Jul. 16, 2025) — On June 18, former Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio began tweeting about the investigation his office opened into the “long-form” birth certificate image of then-sitting president Barack Hussein Obama II. Arpaio launched the probe in August 2011 after a group of more than 200 constituents approached him with concerns that if the image, released on the White House website on April 27 proved to be fraudulent as several experts asserted, their votes in the 2012 presidential election would be disenfranchised. ... continue reading at: https://www.thepostemail.com/2025/07/16/is-the-truth-about-the-obama-birth-certificate-about-to-emerge/

Following the fall of the Assad regime, Israel has established a new “red line” in Syria, launching major airstrikes on Damascus on July 16 to warn the new government against attacking the Druze minority in the south. The strikes, which targeted military headquarters, came after clashes erupted between Druze and other armed groups near Suwayda.