Free Republic

Zohran Mamdani's pick to lead the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) has never been a firefighter. Lillian Bonsignore, who has previously served as the EMS chief for the FDNY, will also be the first person to lead the department who is also openly gay. Bonsignore is a veteran EMS employee of the FDNY but has never served as a firefighter herself. Bonsignore said that she "knows the job" and "knows what the firefighters need" despite being primarily in the EMS role. She retired in 2022 and will be the second woman to serve as the FDNY commissioner under...

Multimillionaire Sami Sheen says it’s “impossible” to pay her bills on time because it’s simply “not fun.” The 21-year-old daughter of Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards — who has been a highly successful OnlyFans creator since June 2022 — made a barrage of candid admissions to her TikTok followers Monday. “At what age do I have to start adulting?” she asked in a selfie-style video, confessing that she’s “so bad at being an adult” because she still views herself as a “16-year-old girl.”

The Kennedy Center’s free Christmas Eve Jazz Jam did not take place in 2025 for the first time in more than two decades. The long-standing holiday tradition was canceled after the board of trustees voted to rename the venue the “Trump Kennedy Center,” adding President Donald Trump’s name alongside John F. Kennedy’s. Jazz drummer and vibraphonist Chuck Redd, who had hosted the concert since 2006, canceled the performance after seeing the name change appear on the Kennedy Center website and then on the building itself. The decision was announced only days before Christmas, with no replacement programming and no detailed...

Tim Walz’s spoiled brat daughter, Hope Walz, wished illegal aliens who are being “terrorized” by ICE a Merry Christmas this week in a TikTok rant. ICE agents worked through the holidays and descended on Somali communities in Minnesota. On Christmas Day, ICE agents raided Little Somalia. Hope Walz lashed out at ICE and wished illegal aliens Merry Christmas. “I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to all. Today, I’m holding our neighbors that ICE has been terrorizing near and dear to my heart and sending them all the love and light as well as all the unhoused folks… just anybody...

<p>What can my fellow Freepers tell me about Shawn King?</p>

Ford Motor Company logged far more recalls in 2025 than any other automaker, according to federal safety data, eclipsing a decade-old industry record and underscoring ongoing quality issues affecting millions of vehicles across multiple model lines. According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford logged 152 recalls in 2025. The manufacturer with the second-most recalls was Honda, with 53, followed by Forest River with 32, General Motors with 27 and International Motors with 26. Last week, Ford filed a recall with the NHTSA over a software error that may cause a loss of drive power in certain...

Katie Couric spoke out against "bothsidesism" in news coverage and insisted people don't want "just the facts" in the current media environment. (snip) "So what I try to do and what we try to do is help people stay abreast of everything that's happening, which is increasingly difficult given the velocity of things that are thrown at us primarily by this administration," Couric told host Dylan Byers. "But try to understand and give them some perspective and context and help explain in some cases why people need to be aware and concerned about some of the things that are happening...

Hiya kids! Hiya, Hiya!Good Morning Crypto-FReepers.I see some of the same old faces out there.But that's OK - I like you anyway.Here's today's quote. I think it's timely.Have fun!!! Ha Ha Ha!I'll be good - I will, (like heck) I will. Ha ha ha. CVN RWY CVMYX PCSN QVRA RWYO, JYCZ VAR: JAZ, IYWAXN, S IZSVM GAQ MAAN RSNSVMP AJ MZYCR FAG, LWSUW PWCXX IY RA CXX HYAHXY.JAZ QVRA GAQ SP IAZV RWSP NCG SV RWY USRG AJ NCBSN C PCBSAQZ, LWSUW SP UWZSPR RWY XAZN.-XQTY 2:10-11(TFB)Where'd I put my magic twanger? Oh, here it is - - -boinng!__ HAL'S...

Adam the Woo is gone, and the silence in his wake reveals more about modern America than 1,000 trending hashtags ever could. On December 22, David Adam Williams, known to untold millions simply as Adam the Woo, was found unresponsive in his home just outside Walt Disney World. He loved this theme park beyond words and videoed it countless times, eagerly sharing his adventures with viewers across the globe. A friend conducting a welfare check sent for help after seeing Adam’s motionless body through a window. Authorities pronounced him dead at the age of 51. He apparently died in his...

Few things better illustrate why there has been a steep decline in the quality of writing at The New Yorker under the editorship of David Remnick than his absurd reaction to finding out that a letter supposedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to convicted serial sex offender Larry Nassar which implicated President Donald Trump in something bad has been determined to be fake.On Tuesday, Remnick revealed just how sadly his obsession over his Orange Whale has overwhelmed him to the extent that he has laughably lost whatever sense of rationality he might have left as you can see in "Trump, Epstein,...

A Muslim who trained in Somalia, Cholo Abdi Abdullah, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to commit a 9/11-style terrorist attack in the U.S. United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John A. Eisenberg, and Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Christopher G. Raia, made the announcement on Monday. He was convicted for multiple crimes that included conspiring to provide—and providing—material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, commit aircraft piracy, destroy aircraft, and commit acts of...

Fool's Ball, Week Pigskin Pickem Thread, Week 17 Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

J KXOVS DKX WXMMY NQ TKVJYDEOY SOZ DKXVX NMS UOEJMJOV TOVNMY IMOZ OQS LJMS OQS YLXXD, DKX LNVSY VXIXOD NU IXOTX NQ XOVDK, ANNS-LJMM DN EXQ. — KXQVZ LOSYLNVDK MNQAUXMMNL

A grand jury has chosen not to indict the father of two Kentucky State University students who faced murder charges following an on-campus shooting that left one student dead and another critically wounded. Following Tuesday's hearing, defense lawyer Scott Danks announced via social media that grand jurors voted against indicting his client, Jacob Lee Bard, for the Dec. 9 shooting, and he has been released from custody. Bard's legal team previously told media outlets that 20 to 30 individuals had assembled to attack his son and family, and that he acted justifiably in shooting two people who were assaulting his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After the latest batch of Epstein files was released by the Department of Justice, it has become evident to everyone that Jeffrey Epstein, along with being a vile sex trafficker, had some sick fetish for girls with giant black square heads. "It's disgusting," Attorney General Pam Bondi said. "But you wanted us to release the files, so here you go. Now you get to see how obsessed he was with black square heads, too. Be careful what you wish for." In nearly every released photo, girls with black square heads are seen posing with Epstein and...

Open in the app Skip to content Dec. 24, 2025 9:39 am GatewayHispanic logo Gateway Hispanic app-store Play Store Main Menu Light/dark button ADVERTISEMENT Featured on GPBreaking News A faith-based animated film dominates the box office and brings family, authority, and traditional values ​​back to the center of cinema Rafa Gómez-Santos Martin Rafa Gómez-Santos Martín Dec. 23, 2025 9:00 am 2 min read 10.052 An animated film based on faith is a box office smash and puts family, authority, and traditional values ​​back at the heart of cinema. Truth Tweet Share Gettr Gab Telegram LinkedIn Comments SMS E-mail Print WhatsApp...

Approximately 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 as the group lost its ability to bill Medicaid, according to a report by the nation's largest abortion provider. On Dec. 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled that Planned Parenthood is unlikely to succeed in its claims that being stripped of its Medicaid funds is unconstitutional, overturning a lower court's order that had temporarily blocked a provision of President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, legislation that enacted key items of his legislative agenda on issues including taxes and immigration. That law...

Authorities in Florida are accusing a 51-year-old woman of shooting and killing two ex-husbands on the same day this week. Susan Erica Avalon was arrested on Thursday on charges of second degree homicide in Manatee County, where her first ex-husband lived, according to Sheriff Rick Wells.(snip) It all started on Wednesday afternoon when the Manatee County Sheriff's Office received a call to respond to a shooting in the Heritage Harbor neighborhood, according to Wells. When deputies arrived, they saw a 54-year-old man with two gunshot wounds. He was shot in the abdomen, Wells said in a press conference Thursday. "The...

P BSGGBW LNSBT, P FNSZSZQ FGPY, P FGPDBW YVTW, GNW TKKY PXPY. IWG SZ GNPG CBPLW, FK LYVTW, HKYBKYZ, GNW NKCW KH PBB GNW UKYBT UPF DKYZ. — PZKZ

A Christmas Prayer By Rian B. Anderson It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I'd wanted so bad that year for Christmas. We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Daddy wanted a little extra time so we could read in the Bible. After supper was over I took my boots off and stretched out in front of the fireplace and waited for Daddy to get down the old...