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  • Ken Paxton leads the run-off against Sen. John Cornyn (Poll)

    03/09/2026 2:44:48 PM PDT · by RandFan · 2 replies
    X ^ | March 9 | @IAPolls2022
    TEXAS SENATE RUNOFF Ken Paxton: 49% John Cornyn: 41% Not sure: 11% — If Trump endorses Paxton Ken Paxton: 58% John Cornyn: 32% — If Trump Endorses Cornyn Ken Paxton: 44% John Cornyn: 43% Not sure: 13% —— Net Favs Paxton: +30 Cornyn: +6 TPOR | 3/7-9 | 781 LV
  • President Trump has offered asylum to the Iranian women’s soccer team.

    03/09/2026 2:30:33 PM PDT · by Morgana · 10 replies
    Joe Hoft ^ | March 9, 2026 | Joe Hoft
    Wow this is incredible. ADVERTISEMENT The Iranian women would not sing the Islamist Terrorist regime’s song when in a recent event overseas. The regime has since said they would be severely punished (killed) for not singing the anthem. The team recently shared SOS signs as they boarded the team’s bus. ADVERTISEMENT Australia is not helping, so President Trump has offered them asylum. BREAKING: President Trump has announced he will take in the entire Iranian women’s football team and grant them refuge. They are currently in Australia and the regime in Iran wants them dead for standing up to it. THANK...
  • Pixar Chief Creative Officer Says Studio Cut LGBTQ Content from ‘Elio’: ‘We’re Making a Movie, Not Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Therapy’

    03/09/2026 1:59:54 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 1 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 3-9-26 | Paul Bois
    “Previous versions of the film reportedly showed Elio with a pink bike and had a scene where he imagines a life together with his male crush,” it reported. “The changes sparked backlash within the Pixar staff, drama that was compounded by Disney’s decision to cut a transgender character from Pixar’s animated series Win or Lose.” Docter’s comments garnered significant backlash online.
  • Michigan Democrats are putting dead voters BACK ON the voter rolls after they are removed

    03/09/2026 12:29:19 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 24 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | March 9, 2026
    Michigan Democrats are putting dead voters BACK ON the voter rolls after they are removed After the dead people are added back, THEY ARE MAILED BALLOTS Michigan Rep Rachelle Smit “I took off a dead voter in my township and guess what? That dead voter was put back on” “There was a family member who at one point was registered at my in-laws home, and that family member had died nearly 20 years prior. They were put on the rolls at 2020. They were mailed voter application ballots without the authorization”
  • Video: Do Turks Hate Greeks and Vice-Versa?

    03/09/2026 11:48:19 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 32 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | Philip Chrysopoulos
    Despite their proximity as neighbors and many shared elements in terms of food, music, and culture, Turks and Greeks are often perceived as enemies rather than friends. On the world stage, Turkey and Greece seem to constantly butt heads, but do Turks and Greeks themselves harbor animosity toward their neighbors? Despite political tensions, Turks and Greeks, who are both known for their generosity, warmth, and welcoming spirit, seem to have much more in common than many would believe. Both Turks and Greeks share a beautiful geographic location in the Mediterranean and a climate that makes people in other parts of...
  • Quicksand Is the Hiking Danger You Never Knew You Had to Worry About

    03/09/2026 10:30:30 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 24 replies
    Backpack Magazine (backpacker.com) ^ | March 7, 2026 | Adam Roy
    It may not be the human-swallowing horror of Golden Age Hollywood films, but quicksand is a real-life hazard for hikers. It pays to know what it is and how to escape. “I didn’t think that was real.” That’s the reply I kept hearing from both coworkers and readers after we wrote about backpacker Austin Dirks’s rescue from a quicksand pit in Arches National Park in December 2025. Dirks was hiking a section of the Hayduke Trail when he stepped into what looked like normal sand, sinking his left foot up to the ankle. He managed to pull it out, but...
  • ICE Detains Nashville Immigration Reporter For Being Illegally In The Country

    03/09/2026 9:08:31 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 32 replies
    notthebee.com ^ | Mar 9, 2026
    You can't make it up. A Nashville, Tennessee, reporter was detained because she's apparently in the country illegally. In a written statement, a spokeswoman for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said on Friday that Ms. Rodriguez had overstayed her tourist visa 'and currently has no lawful immigration status.' But even amid the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement operations, Ms. Rodriguez is an unusual target for detention. She has an active asylum case, a pending green card application through her American husband and no criminal record. In the past, immigrants applying for green cards through their American spouses were not subject to...
  • Iran Boasts It Has Destroyed Hundreds Of US Missiles With Its Buildings

    03/09/2026 9:00:11 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 9 replies
    babylonbee.com ^ | March 9, 2026
    TEHRAN — As the conflict in the Middle East stretched into a second week, the Iranian government issued a public statement boasting that it had destroyed hundreds of U.S. missiles with its buildings. Despite losing dozens of members of its leadership, the embattled Ayatollah's regime remained defiant while taunting the world that it had successfully wiped out hundreds — if not thousands — of U.S. missiles, drones, and bombs by blocking them with buildings and military bases throughout the country. "The wreckage of their bombs can be seen strewn throughout the rubble of our cities," new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei...
  • Republican group attacks Thomas Massie for his opposition to Iran war

    03/09/2026 8:38:43 AM PDT · by RandFan · 59 replies
    Politco ^ | March 9 | RF
    Republicans attempting to oust Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in a bitter primary are deploying his opposition to the war in Iran. The Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund on Thursday released an ad supporting Ed Gallrein, the candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, that focuses on Massie’s opposition to the war. “America is at war with a fanatical regime that seeks nuclear weapons. American hero Ed Gallrein stands with President Trump, our country and our military,” a narrator says in the 30-second spot. “Thomas Massie, he stands with Iran and radical leftists in Congress,” the narrator says, “opposing Trump just like...
  • RON PAUL: Will the Dollar be a Casualty of the Iran War?

    03/09/2026 7:04:51 AM PDT · by RandFan · 68 replies
    Ron Paul ^ | March 9 | Former Rep. Ron Paul
    President Trump’s unconstitutional and unjust war against Iran is setting back his “affordability” agenda. The war has caused a big rise in gasoline prices. Among the related concerns is the hindering of the movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the only available passage for ships to transport oil from the Persian Gulf The increased costs will do more than raise prices at the pump. An increase in gas prices brings increased transportation costs that will be passed along to consumers. Prices of a variety of goods, including food, will increase. No wonder Energy Secretary Chris Wright, White House...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    03/09/2026 3:10:26 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 9 replies
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  • Moment defiant Iran hardliners rejoice as Khamenei's son is named new Supreme Leader - and vow to INCREASE missile attacks on 'infrastructure'

    03/08/2026 7:58:38 PM PDT · by Morgana · 36 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 8, 2026 | Sam Lawley
    Defiant Iran hardliners rejoiced this morning as Ali Khamenei's son was named the new Supreme Leader - while vowing to increase missile attacks on infrastructure. Mojtaba Khamenei, excluded from a list of three senior clerics his father reportedly identified last year, was on Sunday announced as the Ayatollah's successor after being appointed by the regime's 88-person assembly. The leader has strong links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and was chosen by Iran's Assembly of Experts 'under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards', according to Iranian media. And the 56-year-old Khamenei's potential impact on the escalating conflict in the Middle...
  • You have a 10 hour flight, which US president are you sitting next to?

    03/08/2026 10:31:48 AM PDT · by bitt · 173 replies
    You have a 10 hour flight, which US president are you sitting next to?
  • This Might Be the Clearest Sign Yet the Obamas’ Marriage Is a Total Lie

    03/08/2026 9:25:34 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 58 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 3/7/2026 | Matt Margolis
    Jesse Jackson's funeral was held Friday (snip) sitting with a bunch of other couples, Barack Obama once again went stag.(snip) So what's the excuse this time? Her absence at Jimmy Carter's funeral in Dec. 2024 was bizarre enough. Her excuse was that she was “on vacation” in Hawaii. She skipped Trump's second inauguration in Jan. 2025. Why? Her excuse was that she had nothing to wear. I’m not even joking. I could see her refusing to go to the Trump inauguration in protest, but skipping Carter’s funeral? Well, I know she’s not a big fan of white people, so maybe...
  • Anti-ICE protester accidentally lights himself on fire while attempting to burn an American flag

    03/08/2026 8:07:28 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 25 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | March 8, 2026
    Watch as a live streamer captures the moment an anti-ICE protester accidentally lights himself on fire while attempting to burn an American flag outside the Portland ICE facility. During the demonstration, the flames briefly spread and ignite parts of his own clothing before he quickly manages to put the fire out as people nearby try to put it out
  • ‘SNL’ roasts Kristi Noem for being ‘reassigned under the bus’ after Trump booted her from DHS top job

    03/08/2026 7:54:16 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 34 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 7, 2026 | Anna Young
    “Saturday Night Live” mocked former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for being “reassigned under the bus” after President Trump fired her this week. Ashley Padilla’s Noem – decked out in the 54-year-old’s signature coiffed hair and caked-on makeup – opened the sketch show by claiming she wasn’t axed, she “self-deported,” while taking aim at her rumored plastic surgery and a shocking excerpt from her book about killing her dog. “I just want to make it clear that I didn’t get fired, I self-deported,” she joked, skewering Noem’s controversial ads that pushed immigrants to leave the US voluntarily. “And though I...
  • The Most Savage Roast With Zero Words

    03/08/2026 5:28:20 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 24 replies
    YouTube ^ | 02/13/2026 | Film Leak
    "Proof You Don’t Need Words to Roast Someone" from the channel Film Leak Shorts (uploaded around February 13, 2026, and it's racked up millions of views).
  • Today's Cryptogram

    03/08/2026 3:21:56 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 14 replies
    ECRLA TL XEEY UE XEAO ZR RIL HXEULJ JEEP RIZR TL JE AER ULL RIL EAL RIZR IZU MLLA EDLALJ CEP VU. —ILXLA YLXXLP
  • Candace Owens says do NOT sign up for the U.S military

    03/08/2026 3:05:04 AM PDT · by RandFan · 93 replies
    X ^ | March 8 | Candace Owens
    @RealCandaceO Zionists are having a meltdown about what I said yesterday so let me reiterate: Do NOT sign up for or continue to fight for the U.S military. This war is on behalf of satanic pedophiles. Find the legal means to exit the military. Do not fight for child rapists. Come home.
  • Why Is the Internet Obsessed With Celebrity Clone Conspiracy Theories?

    03/07/2026 10:22:23 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 5, 2026 | Carly Thomas
    Jim Carrey, Selena Gomez and Avril Lavigne are some of the stars who have found themselves at the center of viral theories circulating on social media.The internet coming up with outrageous conspiracy theories is nothing new, but accusing celebrities of being cloned is undoubtedly a whole new level. Most recently, Jim Carrey, much to his dismay, has been at the center of the eye-rolling conversation. All because fans were convinced the Dumb and Dumber actor had been replaced by a clone due to his appearance at the César Awards in Paris, where he was being honored. It’s important to note...