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  • This Election Should Be A Discussion On The Constitution

    09/23/2026 7:59:40 PM PDT · by 7thson · 18 replies
    My outlook on the upcoming mid-terms is bleak. With so many Socialists running throughout the United States, one would think that this is a great time die for the Republican candidates to talk about the U.S. Constitution. Instead, it seems that once again, the Republicans are steadfast in their ways to give this election to the Democrats. What say you fellow Freepers?
  • CNN Staffers Panic over Paramount Merger: ‘Bloodbath Coming,’ Newsroom Is ‘Like a Funeral’

    09/23/2026 6:39:06 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9-23-26 | Simon Kent
    CNN Staffers Panic over Paramount Merger: ‘Bloodbath Coming,’ Newsroom Is ‘Like a Funeral’ CNN news anchor Jake Tapper (C), flanked by Univision's news anchor Ilia Calderón (R), waMandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Simon Kent23 Sep 20263,997 2:47 Paramount’s looming acquisition of CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly sending shivers down the collective spines of news gathers at the 46-year-old legacy outlet. As Breitbart News reported, Paramount reached a deal with 12 state attorneys-general Monday that surmounted a major hurdle to closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery which will now go ahead. This clears the way for...
  • 'I'm done with medical abuse': actor Arnaud Denis dies by euthanasia in Belgium

    09/23/2026 5:19:12 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 18 replies
    Euronews ^ | 09 22 2026 | Vincent Reynier
    The French actor and director had been in unbearable pain since a polypropylene prosthesis was fitted in 2023 after a right groin hernia. Aged 43, he was euthanised this Tuesday in Namur, Belgium. Actor and director Arnaud Denis, left severely disabled after the insertion of an anti-hernia implant, chose to end his life by euthanasia in Belgium on Tuesday at the age of 43 to put a stop to his suffering, his lawyer Philippe Courtois told AFP. "The decision taken by Arnaud Denis was made in consultation with three doctors in Namur. His body could no longer carry him. He...
  • IonQ shares rise after company says it made a major quantum computing breakthrough

    09/23/2026 10:18:06 AM PDT · by zeestephen · 8 replies
    CNBC (Business News) ^ | 23 September 2026 | Caleigh Keating
    The milestone makes it possible for a single standard computer processor to find, fix and decode computer errors as they happen, as it runs continuously in the background. The successful test stands to alleviate a significant industry bottleneck in which previous systems became easily overwhelmed in fixing errors, leading to delays.
  • Pigskin Pickem Thread, Week 3

    09/23/2026 10:11:00 AM PDT · by WhoisAlanGreenspan? · 14 replies
    Fool's Ball, Week Three, Pigskin Pickem ThreadYour home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)
  • Black TikToker Triggered By Continued Existence Of Cotton Fields

    09/23/2026 9:20:26 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 81 replies
    notthebee.com ^ | Sep 23, 2026
    It's 2026 and I think I've found the most woke video to ever exist. This lady discovered that cotton fields still exist, and obviously the existence of this crop is racist towards black Americans. "Okay, when I didn't think they did cotton fields anymore. Y'all check this out. Y'all see that? There is literally a cotton field. Do y'all see that? Isn't that crazy?" How in the world do people like this exist?
  • ‘The View’s Sunny Hostin boasts she was holdout juror who spared NYC’s Butcher of Tompkins Square Park cannibal killer

    09/23/2026 8:08:45 AM PDT · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 10 replies
    NYPost.com ^ | 9/23/2026 | Chris Nesi
    ‘The View’s Sunny Hostin boasts she was holdout juror who spared NYC’s Butcher of Tompkins Square Park cannibal killer “The View” co-cost Sunny Hostin revealed Tuesday that she was the lone holdout juror in the 1991 trial of a notorious New York City cannibal killer — resulting in the “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park” being found not guilty by reason of insanity. Hostin made the boast, which stunned her colleagues, in a discussion about Lindsay Clancy’s own insanity defense, and the attempts by Clancy’s lawyer to question the holdout juror in that case. The gruesome Butcher of Tompkins Square Park...
  • Inivite ALL the YOUTUBE Indie Media to Cover the White House

    09/23/2026 6:25:50 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 15 replies
    9/23/2024 | NIkos1121
    Subject: A thought on the media blackout… Hey everyone, Now that Fox has officially joined the rest of the legacy networks in sidelining and boycotting Trump events, I think there’s a massive opportunity here that his team ought to jump on. Instead of playing defense with the traditional press pool, why not flip the entire table? Trump and his communications team should take this opening to invite—and yes, fly in—the independent media to take over the White House Press Briefing Room for an entire week. Fill those front-row seats with people who actually speak directly to the audience: Benny Johnson,...
  • Law Enforcement Forced to Draw Taser on WNBA Player Paige Bueckers During Entitled Nightclub Arrest Meltdown in Miami (Video)

    09/23/2026 6:16:40 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 34 replies
    thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Sep. 23, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft
    Newly released law enforcement bodycam footage obtained by the California Post reveals a chaotic 4:20 a.m. confrontation outside Miami’s notorious 24-hour strip club and nightclub E11EVEN, where officers were forced to draw a taser directly at WNBA player Paige Bueckers. The wild incident, which occurred on March 5th following a championship party, resulted in the arrest of Bueckers and Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale. According to police affidavits, Ogunbowale allegedly struck a nightclub worker in the face with a closed fist before officers intervened to restore order. When Miami police officers arrived on the scene to regain control of the...
  • Today's Cryptogram

    09/23/2026 5:45:27 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 9 replies
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  • The Laughing Cow ditches iconic smile and teases cheese shoppers with cryptic message on packaging

    09/23/2026 4:16:52 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 37 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/23/2026 | Stepheny Price
    For the first time in more than 100 years, the laughing red cow has traded her trademark smile for a somber expression on select packages of The Laughing Cow Creamy Original cheese wedges rolling out nationwide. Bel Brands told Fox News Digital the frown is only temporary and promised the mystery will begin to unravel in the coming days.
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones Sacrificed Her Kid For Race Communism. Imagine Her Plan For Yours

    09/22/2026 7:43:05 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 12 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 9/22/2026 | Brianna Lyman
    “Ijust want what’s best for you.” My parents said that to me countless times when I questioned a decision they made on my behalf. Most parents say some version of that. Even though as children we may not understand why our parents did something, we could trust that our parents were in fact doing what was best for us and were trying to put us first. But Nikole Hannah-Jones’ daughter cannot say the same. For, as Hannah-Jones herself writes in a New York Times op-ed, she “had not chosen [her daughter]” nor had she given her “what she needed to...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    09/22/2026 2:12:20 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 15 replies
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  • Man charged with capital murder after 5-year-old shot and killed in northwest Harris Co., HCSO says

    09/21/2026 12:43:50 PM PDT · by Round Earther · 19 replies
    ABC 13 (Houston) ^ | 9/20/26 | Kelvin Henry
    HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Less than 24 hours after a 5-year-old was killed and two others were injured in a shooting in northwest Harris County, a suspect has been arrested, the sheriff's office said. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez confirmed on Sunday night that 47-year-old Jeremy Porter was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting death of Zah'layah Walter. He was booked into the Harris County Jail. According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the shooting happened on Grant Road near Jones Road on Saturday around 11:30 p.m.
  • CNN Sues Trump For Violating Its First Amendment Right To Fabricate News

    09/21/2026 12:13:41 PM PDT · by V_TWIN · 17 replies
    babylonbee.com ^ | September 21, 2026
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the latest wave of legal turmoil enveloping the nation's capital, cable network CNN sued the Trump administration for allegedly violating its First Amendment rights to fabricate the news. CNN, MSNOW, and Politico expressed outrage after President Donald Trump expelled the outlets from the White House, arguing that his administration was denying them their constitutional rights to make things up and report them as facts. "He has no right to keep us from making things up," said CNN personality Kaitlan Collins. "It is the right — and indeed the duty — of major news outlets in the...
  • Florida couple struck by lightning while walking hand in hand, hail good Samaritans for saving their lives

    09/21/2026 9:25:12 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 54 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Sep. 21, 2026 | Chris Bradford
    A Florida couple were hit by lightning while walking hand in hand – and they hailed a quick-thinking group of good Samaritans who helped save their lives. Aaron Walenga, 48, and his wife of 17 years, Clare Walenga, had just dropped their kids off at church and were walking along the West Orange Trail in central Florida when they were struck by the bolt on Sept. 2, WHSV reported. CPR was given to Clare Walenga, 43, after she was struck, while Aaron was hospitalized, but both survived the near-death experience thanks to the actions of four pals on their weekly...
  • Pakistan launches airstrikes into Afghanistan overnight, killing three

    09/21/2026 7:06:57 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 23 replies
    Pakistan launched airstrikes into Afghanistan overnight, killing three people and injuring four others, the Taliban said Monday in response to a series of deadly attacks Islamabad blames on militants it says are harbored by Kabul.
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    09/21/2026 3:23:27 AM PDT · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 12 replies
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  • To what degree are Protestants and Catholics allowed to worship in Russia?

    09/20/2026 6:25:22 PM PDT · by LouAvul · 40 replies
    I listened to a missionary to the Ukraine in church today. He showed some pictures of Christians living in Crimea, now under Russian control, who had to worship in secret because Putin has outlawed Christianity. I also heard from a different preacher that Christians are no longer allowed to worship and assemble freely in Russia. Is that true? I was there in 1995 and Protestants and Catholics could worship freely.
  • Disney+ Updates Terms of Use To Allow Ads on Every Subscription Tier, Including Premium

    09/20/2026 6:16:17 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 42 replies
    Fiction Horizon ^ | 09 19 2026 | Josip Kraljik
    Disney+ has revised its Subscriber Agreement to explicitly permit advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription plan, including the ad-free Premium tier that customers pay a premium specifically to avoid commercials. According to the updated terms, which Disney began emailing to subscribers and requiring them to accept via an on-screen prompt, all plans “may include limited advertising content, ads before or after content playback, clips, and trailers for Disney content, products, and services, as well as branded or sponsored content.” Disney describes the update as a “clarification” of existing language rather than an entirely new policy, and...