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  • 19 cities will soon get Buc-ee's - does your area make the list?

    01/23/2026 11:51:27 AM PST · by DeplorablePaul · 15 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 23 January 2026 | MARTHA WILLIAMS
    For most drivers, gas stations are a necessary evil. For fans of Buc-ee's, they are a destination - and now the beaver-branded giant is about to pop up in more states than ever before. By the end of 2026, the 'Disneyland of gas stations' will open four more of its iconic outposts, with another 15 planned in the years that follow. Scroll down to see the full list.
  • Pro Athlete Struck By Lightning After Failing To Thank Jesus Christ For Victory

    01/23/2026 9:36:17 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 18 replies
    The Bee ^ | January 22, 2026 | Staff
    U.S. — Tragedy unfolded at a sporting event over the weekend, as a professional athlete was struck by lightning after unexcusably failing to thank Jesus Christ for giving his team the victory in the game. The traumatic incident occurred following the Los Angeles Rams' playoff win over the Chicago Bears, as Rams second-string longsnapper Garrett Drift met with the media during the team's postgame press conference. "It was a hard-fought win, I'm glad we were able to pull it off," Drift began when asked by a journalist about the game. "We really pulled together as a team, we focused on...
  • Ohio Nurse Who Posted Disturbing “Wish” For Upcoming Birth of Karoline Leavitt’s Baby Has Been FIRED

    01/23/2026 9:30:36 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 62 replies
    thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jan. 23, 2026 | Cristina Laila
    The Ohio nurse who wished White House Press Secretary to suffer a severe 4th degree tear during childbirth has been fired. In a viral video, the nurse, identified as Chanda Petrey-Czaruk, graphically wished that Leavitt suffer traumatic injuries during childbirth. “My wish for Karoline Leavitt, she is pregnant with a baby girl,” she says in the video, “and I truly do hope that baby is so healthy. I hope she is healthy and headstrong.” “So headstrong, in fact, that as she is emerging into this world, through her (censored for vulgarity) that she tears her from bow to fu**ing stern....
  • Democrats Keep Promising To Throw Their Enemies In Prison. Believe Them

    01/23/2026 9:20:00 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 30 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 23 Jan, 2026 | Breccan F. Thies
    Whether you’re a normal, conservative American who happens to like Trump, or Trump himself, Democrats will work tirelessly to throw their enemies in prison. emocrats have every intention of restarting lawfare against President Donald Trump and his allies the very moment he leaves office, and Republicans need to start taking that threat seriously. At a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, where the sole witness was get-Trump lawfare specialist Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought bogus charges against Trump twice, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said the quiet part out loud in an exchange with Smith. “Those indictments...
  • Parents of Timothy Busfield's accusers involved in separate injury lawsuit. (Suit happy?)

    01/23/2026 9:18:10 AM PST · by Az Joe · 8 replies
    MSN ^ | 01/22/2026 | Ryan Nauman
    The parents of the two children accusing Timothy Busfield of sexual abuse are involved in an unrelated ongoing lawsuit over alleged injuries the dad suffered, Us Weekly can exclusively report. On August 12, 2024, Ronald Rodis and Angele LaSalle filed a lawsuit against Southwest Executive Suites and various other defendants.
  • Ms. Rachel Apologizes For Accidentally Spray-Painting 'Go Away Jews' On A Synagogue

    01/23/2026 9:08:37 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 12 replies
    babylonbee.com ^ | Jan 22, 2026
    NEW YORK, NY — The woman behind YouTube's most popular and beloved educational content for children found herself in hot water, as Ms. Rachel issued a public apology for accidentally spray-painting "GO AWAY JEWS" on a synagogue. The internet personality was embroiled in controversy after witnesses reported seeing her run angrily up to a local synagogue and spray-paint the antisemitic message on the wall of the building, an act she later said was completely unintentional. "It was never my intent to do something hateful," Ms. Rachel said in a tearful video posted to social media. "When I spray-painted that antisemitic...
  • Ray Dalio Says the Monetary Order is Breaking Down and Fiat is no Longer a Central Bank Asset

    01/23/2026 9:03:31 AM PST · by Presbyterian Reporter · 22 replies
    Wall Street Gold ^ | 1/22/2026 | Ray Dalio
    RAY DALIO SAYS THE MONETARY ORDER IS BREAKING DOWN AND FIAT IS NO LONGER A CENTRAL BANK ASSET. GOLD AND SILVER BECOME THE ANCHOR WHEN PAPER CONFIDENCE CRACKS.
  • Blue Lives Matter Reveals Pro-ICE Decoy Operation With ‘Combat Veterans, Off-Duty Officers’

    01/23/2026 8:57:42 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 22 Jan, 2026 | Stacey Matthews
    “We’re not saying we had teams comprised of HUNDREDS of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far-left activists THOUGHT they were conducting ICE raids.” Blue Lives Matter Reveals Pro-ICE Decoy Operation With ‘Combat Veterans, Off-Duty Officers’ “We’re not saying we had teams comprised of HUNDREDS of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far-left activists THOUGHT they were conducting ICE raids.” Posted by Stacey Matthews Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 05:00pm 33 Comments PrintFacebookTwitterTelegramLinkedInWhatsAppEmail I think it’s safe to say that Trump 2.0’s immigration enforcement operations have once and for all exposed the...
  • Family Friendly Movie for this Weekend

    01/23/2026 8:40:35 AM PST · by fruser1 · 15 replies
    Self ^ | 1/23/2026 | self
    If you have power during the storm, here's a link to a free family-friendly movie on YouTube you can watch this weekend. One More Mountain 1994 / Donner party - Pioneer-drama with Meredith Baxter
  • Anti-ICE Minnesota agitator arrested days after daring Bondi to do so

    01/23/2026 8:27:50 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 25 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | January 23, 2026 | Alex Nitzberg
    William Kelly, one of the anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators who disrupted a service at Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minn., on Sunday, has been arrested. "A THIRD subject has now been arrested connected to targeting Cities Church in Minneapolis Sunday. William Kelly is now in custody," FBI Director Kash Patel declared in a Thursday post on X. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem noted in a post, "William Kelly is being charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, a federal crime, for his involvement in the St. Paul church riots." "William Kelly is now in custody," U.S. Attorney...
  • Partition Greenland!

    01/23/2026 7:28:08 AM PST · by DIRTYSECRET · 23 replies
    We should partition Greenland into Arctic Greenland, to be owned by the United States, and Sub-Arctic Greenland owned by Denmark. Most of Greenland’s rare Earth minerals have been found south of the Arctic Circle, and the United States should share in this natural wealth. There simply is no question that the United States, as the world’s superpower and primary defender of Western Civilization, must own and fully control Arctic Greenland
  • Businesses in Minneapolis are planning to close Friday to protest ICE

    01/23/2026 6:21:03 AM PST · by MrRelevant · 69 replies
    NBC “news” ^ | By Suzanne Gamboa and Natasha Korecki
    MINNEAPOLIS — Even with a below-freezing forecast through the end of the week, several residents and business owners said they are planning to turn out Friday for an “ICE Out” day of protest in the city. Organizers are calling for no work, no school and no shopping, and some businesses said they would close their doors as part of the civil action.
  • Hour of the Opponents in Davos

    01/23/2026 6:03:21 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 23 Jan, 2026 | Thomas Kolbe
    Wednesday was the day of the opponents at the annual World Economic Forum gathering in Davos. Donald Trump and Argentina’s Javier Milei tore apart the WEF agenda. One declared globalism as officially failed, the other wielded an intellectual-ethical scalpel through the decayed body of the establishment. Norwegian Børge Brende has been the chairman of the World Economic Forum since last year. He took over after a heated internal personnel debate from the WEF’s founder, Klaus Schwab, who for decades dominated the agenda of this shadowy institution for political will-shaping. Schwab did so with undeniable success. The WEF has become an...
  • Armed husband confronts suspected Florida kidnapper after wife is followed home

    01/23/2026 5:43:36 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 23 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | January 22, 2026 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
    Police have ruled a Florida man’s actions self-defense after he shot a felon who allegedly attempted to abduct his wife. Deputies arrived at the shooting at 12:27 a.m. to find the suspect, who died at the scene despite life-saving efforts. An autopsy found that Palomo died at the scene from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Before the alleged abduction, Palomo reportedly caused a disturbance at a nearby Circle K while appearing to be under the influence of drugs. According to Fox News affiliate WTVT-TV, citing the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Nicholas Palomo, a 36-year-old felon who had previously...
  • Iran: There Is A Path Forward

    01/23/2026 5:37:44 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 23 Jan, 2026 | Allan J. Feifer |
    The fact that Trump hasn’t dropped a bomb on Iran doesn’t mean that he is without options. Assume he knows the mullahs’ weaknesses and is acting accordingly. Whether you’re a Trump loyalist or someone who thinks Trump’s the devil, in Iran, we’re on the cusp of an incredible opportunity not seen since the end of WWII, and this is true despite the regime’s past survival in the face of uprisings. Historically, Iran’s internal security forces have brutally salvaged the regime. Beginning with Obama’s first term, the IRGC suppressed the 2009 Green Movement, the 2017–2018 economic protests, the November 2019 fuel...
  • Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy

    01/23/2026 5:11:07 AM PST · by DFG · 9 replies
    Science.org ^ | 01/16/2026 | Jeffrey Mervis
    In an unprecedented step for a major research university, Purdue University has begun to curb the flow of Chinese graduate students to its Indiana campuses. The policy follows pressure from Congress and President Donald Trump for U.S. institutions to monitor Chinese scholars more closely but goes far beyond those demands. The directive, which was first reported in early December 2025 by the Lafayette Journal & Courier and the Purdue student newspaper, has never been put in writing. But several faculty members confirmed to Science that it is in effect. Last spring it apparently led Purdue to rescind departmental letters of...
  • Trump Spanks Global 'Elites'

    01/23/2026 4:32:08 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 19 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 23 Jan, 2026 | J.B. Shurk
    The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, resembles a pagan ritual in which wealthy, famous, and powerful people come together to worship themselves. It takes place in a secluded ski resort in the eastern Alps, so that “elites” can indulge themselves far away from the planet’s detestable riffraff (that’s you and me). I’ve always thought that if extraterrestrial visitors from another galaxy or dimension were really here and truly interested in making planet Earth a better place, they could start by using their advanced technology to suck up the mountain of globalists in Davos, jettison the whole rock...
  • Today's Toons 1/23/26

    01/23/2026 3:54:23 AM PST · by pookie18 · 14 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 1/23/26 | pookie18
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  • More Hatred/barfalicious

    01/23/2026 3:26:07 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 4 replies
    May Lim's Post ^ | 23/1/26 | May Lim
    𝐀 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐱𝐞𝐬. 𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥. 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬. Embedded Video.
  • Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones's liberal nepo son is 'too spooked' to return to CNN after Scott Jennings eviscerated him during debut appearance

    01/23/2026 3:14:02 AM PST · by C19fan · 38 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22, 2026 | Will Potter
    The liberal nepo baby son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones is 'too spooked' to return to CNN after he was eviscerated by Scott Jennings last year, insiders say. Dylan Douglas, 26, an actor and political radio host, was reportedly left so upset by his on-air confrontation with Jennings that he is 'done with tough interviews', according to Hollywood insider Rob Shuter's Substack. Shuter cited sources close to Douglas that say he has made it 'crystal clear' he is done with all hostile interviews, including CNN and 'any outlet where a host might dare to challenge him.'