Free Republic

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: “Young people today can’t get ahead!” One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, “A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one income.” “That’s a fantasy,” says economist Norbert Michel. “We are much better off than we were.” My new video takes the meme’s claims one by one, starting with “a family could own a home.” On social media, many young people say things like, “Most people don’t live in houses...

@RepThomasMassie I received this troubling letter today from the attorney representing the most recent FBI whistleblower regarding the J6 pipe bomb investigation. Just a reminder to @FBIDirectorKash, in case this letter is warranted, federal law prevents retaliation against whistleblowers.

The U.S. Department of Education has contracted with far-right organizations Turning Point USA and the Heritage Foundation to develop a “patriotic” curriculum, perpetuating Stephen Miller’s guttural threat that “Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots.” Miller’s words echoed Joseph Goebbels’ commitment to indoctrinate children in 1930s Germany. On Veterans Day, we recall how 1950s American kindergartners learned to love our country. We stood proudly facing the flag with hands over our hearts, pledging “allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, for which it stands, one Nation...

REIS NUH ELMI KUO LS IVIXELSO CN OEI EPSQ VIKZ LSQ EI PZ OGNPSK OU GHS LRLN, PO'Z CIZO OU VIO EPJ GHS. - LCGLELJ VPSFUVS.

He’s a MAGA hater who targeted megachurches. A South Florida man, apparently bitter over losing his job, has been arrested after making online threats against a church he lives near that has a membership of more than 24,000, according to news reports. He also allegedly targeted unnamed politicians who “have only destroyed this country more then MAGA has.” According to WPTV in West Palm Beach, 32-year-old Michael Iaboni was arrested by Palm Beach County deputies on Saturday after a tip from the public. The tipster said Iaboni had been posting disturbing content to social media since losing his job, the...

.... Separately, President Donald Trump and Rep. Nancy Mace, another Republican who’s signed the petition, had been playing phone tag for the past 24 hours. The South Carolina Republican sent a direct message to the president Wednesday outlining why she’s supporting the discharge petition, according to a source familiar with the message who said it largely mirrored a public statement in which she said: “I will NEVER abandon other survivors.” But both the meeting and Trump’s efforts to talk to Mace underscored the administration’s concerns around the Epstein saga, which roared back Wednesday morning when the House Oversight Committee released...

The FBI was called Sunday after a loaded gun magazine was found on a Frontier Airlines plane at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Just after 4:30 p.m. Saturday, officers assigned to the airport responded to a call about a gun magazine found near Frontier Airlines Gate C-6 in Concourse C, according to a news release from the Atlanta Police Department (APD). A passenger on the Airbus A320 aircraft discovered what appeared to be a loaded magazine containing ten hollow point rounds near seat 7A, according to the release. Police said the magazine, marked with the initials "K H," was found...

Donald Trump was caught making an eyebrow-raising joke about the Syrian president's marital status at the White House this week. But the US President immediately lowered the tone by giving Sharaa a spritz of $249-a-bottle Trump Cologne before jokingly asking him how many wives he has. In an exchange captured on video, Trump said: 'This is men's fragrance,' as he sprayed some of the scent on Sharaa's beard while the Syrian leader smiled nervously. 'It's the best fragrance,' the 79-year-old said, adding that a second bottle of the perfume was for Sharaa's wife. 'How many wives? One?' Trump asked, as...

New words are routinely popping up to describe an evolving relationship landscape - but also paint a largely dispiriting picture. If buzzy dating terms and trends are anything to go by, 2025 hasn’t made relationships sound too appealing. Granted, the course of true love never did run smooth and all that, but considering how modern dating in a digital age leaves many confused, disillusioned and frequently reporting that it’s akin to wading through the bin juice of humanity, it’s hardly surprising that the ever-growing relationship glossary veers towards the negative. New words are routinely popping up to describe the evolving...

AI has become inescapable these days, with every app, search engine, and internet browser overloading us with pop-ups of why their new AI enhancement/assistant/plagiarism machine is something we just can't live without. In reality, AI is being shoved down all of our throats because a bunch of billionaire weirdos invested an insane amount of money into it and desperately need to convince us that they didn't bet on a lemon....The force-feeding of AI is an obnoxious intrusion at best, and giving people AI-induced psychosis at worst....Sam Rockwell plays Man From the Future, a man, well, claiming to be from the...

President Trump and his administration on Wednesday ramped up a pressure campaign on congressional Republicans who are pushing for a full release of the Justice Department’s files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, rushing to head off a House vote on the matter. Top officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files. She was summoned to sit down with top Justice Department and F.B.I. officials, according to two people familiar with...

Joe Lavorgna, counselor to Treasury Secretary Bessent, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the state of the government shutdown, what a reopened government will do to the economy and much more.

WOODSTOCK, ME — Political commentator Tucker Carlson sparked controversy this week when he welcomed Bigfoot onto his show to discuss how mind-controlling chemtrails are sprayed over the flat earth by the Jews. Viewers were shocked to learn that not only was Bigfoot real, but that the popular cryptid had been following conspiracy news for decades. Carlson nodded along with his guest, genuinely interested in what it had to say about Ben Shapiro. Bigfoot, who spoke with a series of unintelligible growls and whistles, was adamant that the Jews were behind the chemtrails and that it was all part of...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Law enforcement in suburban Detroit said a woman smashed her SUV into an Ulta Beauty store. Police in Royal Oak, Michigan, had responded to a report of a white SUV driving on train tracks early Sunday morning, WWMT reported. Police pulled over the woman, identified as Katrina Patterson, 26. They said they noticed an open container of alcohol in the vehicle, so they asked for her license. She instead drove away. Police followed her, the incident captured on their dash cam, as she eventually turned down an alley, went into a parking lot and accelerated, crashing...

Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed on a recent episode of her podcast that she was left infuriated by a moment on Air Force One in 2009 when she debated whether to wear Bermuda shorts while on vacation (snip) "The fact that we had to spend time thinking about that kind of stuff in ways that my husband didn’t — it was really infuriating," Obama said during an episode on her podcast (snip) The former first lady explained that in August 2009 she and the former president were set to depart Air Force One for a hike in the Grand...

Those advocating to replace Oklahoma’s election process with a California-style “open primary” include campaign contributors to the Democratic presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, as well as a range of other left-wing candidates in Oklahoma, records show. Oklahoma’s current election system allows Republican voters to pick Republican nominees in party primaries while Democratic voters do the same in their party’s primaries, with the two parties’ candidates then facing off in the November general election along with any independent candidates who file for an office. But under the proposed State Question 836, all Oklahoma candidates—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—would be...

In early January 2017, the Clinton campaign’s “Steele dossier”—a secretly funded collection of made-up stories and gossip alleging that Russia had dirt on Trump and that Trump was colluding with Russia against the United States—was published. The investigations it spurred would bankrupt Trump associates, destroy lives, and hamstring Trump’s ability to govern. It led to draconian censorship campaigns against conservatives. It hurt Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 general election. But no evidence was found that a single American, much less Trump himself, conspired with Russia.One document Ratcliffe released is a “tradecraft review” of the January 2017...

Adolf Hitler was trying to Make Germany Great Again. Rami Malek, representing all the Egyptian-Americans who fought for the U.S. during WW II. When asked to explain why he followed Hitler, Goering replies: “He made us feel German again… Along comes a man who says, ‘we can reclaim our former glory.’ Would you not follow a man like this?” A review quoted in the trailer reads, “Nuremberg is thrilling and urgent. More relevant than ever.

ZP ZN YBKI LOFB POF EZBR QBR DOQVQDPFV NKWECFV POQP POF RVFNN DQB CF NFFB. VQKJO LQKRY FEFVNYB.

@RupertLowe10 I didn’t say the death penalty for ‘overseas and foreign’ criminals. I quite clearly said foreign and domestic. What is wrong with the BBC? An urgent correction and apology please, @BBCPolitics .