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  • One of Israel’s most dangerous mob bosses shot dead by assassin at point-blank range

    08/24/2026 12:03:15 PM PDT · by DFG
    NY Post ^ | 08/24/2026 | Chris Bradford
    A notorious Israeli mob boss was gunned down at a gas station — with shocking video showing his assassin creeping up to shoot him at point-blank range from behind. Yanis Yushvaev, the head of the Caucasian Mafia and one of Israel’s most dangerous criminals, was gunned down in Caesarea on Sunday — 10 years after surviving an assassination attempt. The killer, in a gray hoodie and baseball cap, was seen following the mob boss and two friends out of the gas station — then whipping out a handgun and shooting from a blank range on the steps, video shared by...
  • Question: What Does "Being On Vacation" Have In Common With "Being a Democrat", "Having a Stroke", and "Dying"???

    08/24/2026 11:45:47 AM PDT · by Susquehanna Patriot · 6 replies
    Answer - All are lame excuses for not contributing to the Free Republic 3Q2026 fund raiser. Is it me, or are we wayyyyyyyyyyyyy behindddddddd on the quarterly fund-raisins? Only 25% and 2/3 of the way through the quarter?!?!? Maybe some have seen it worse than this. And the number of postings seem to have decreased, unless I am looking at the wrong page. Help me understand the situation.
  • Nolte: Democrat Michigan Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed Suggested U.S. Creates Terrorism

    08/24/2026 11:08:23 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 8 replies
    Democrat Michigan Senate nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (aka Abdul El-Sayed) suggested to a group of supporters last year that America creates terrorism. (snip) Here is the pertinent part of his insane comments:I think the approach that we’ve often taken with terrorism has been to figure out how to leverage the might of the U.S. military to go in and root out, right, certain terrorist organizations, et cetera. And where that’s necessary, that’s necessary. But I also think we need to be curious about why those things happen in the first place. Like, what drives somebody to want to commit such...
  • Penn State frat pledges were made to cut and bag cocaine for college drug ring, authorities say

    08/24/2026 10:26:49 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    AP News ^ | August 18, 2026
    Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said. The illicit initiation was revealed Monday as Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday charged 14 people — including 13 current or former Penn State students — in connection with the alleged drug ring. The man accused of leading the operation, 24-year-old Agostino Abbatiello, surrendered on Tuesday after failing to appear for a scheduled arraignment on Monday on charges including possession with intent to deliver and conspiracy. He was ordered jailed without bail.A message seeking comment...
  • 49ers owner Jed York arrested in Ohio, pleads no contest after prostitution charge amended

    08/24/2026 10:11:45 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 40 replies
    CBS Sports ^ | 8/24 | Jordan Dajani
    York was sentenced to two days in jail and ordered to pay $1,150 in finesSan Francisco 49ers owner and CEO Jed York was arrested in East Palestine, Ohio, this weekend and pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools, per WKBN. York was sentenced to two days in the Columbiana County Jail with credit for one day served and ordered to pay $1,150 in fines. Court documents obtained by KRON4 state the disorderly conduct charge was amended from engaging in prostitution. York was arrested by the local police department, which was assisting the Mahoning Valley...
  • Minnesota tree trimmer charged in coworker’s death after on-the-job horseplay turns deadly

    08/24/2026 10:11:04 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 23 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | August 23, 2026 | Bonny Chu
    A tree-trimming employee has been charged with manslaughter after allegedly crushing his coworker’s head with a hydraulic grapple while the pair were reportedly "f—ing around" on the job, according to Minnesota authorities. Responding to reports of an incident, police discovered Lynch lying on the ground with "a significant amount of blood around him and significant trauma to his head," the complaint said. Lynch was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the county. Authorities said Crimmins was operating a boom, a movable mechanical arm attached to a truck, when he and Lynch began messing around with their shadows. "He and...
  • This One Insane Graph Explains The Lindsay Clancy Defender Dynamic

    08/24/2026 10:00:58 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 21 Aug, 2026 | Hayden Daniel
    More than half of all leftist white women younger than 30 have been told by a medical provider that they have a mental health issue. The Lindsay Clancy murder trial seems to be an open and shut case. Her attorney freely admits that she did indeed strangle her three children to death. That should be it, right? She’s found guilty after a short trial and sent to prison (although she deserves far worse). Yet this case has become an internet firestorm. TikTok-addicted women, itching for the chance to be the amateur sleuth who breaks open the case like in...
  • Auckland woman dies before being welcomed back to life with parking ticket

    08/24/2026 9:51:25 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    dangerousminds.net/ ^ | 08/20/2026 | Auckland woman dies before being welcomed back to life with parking ticket
    A 54-year-old woman in Auckland, New Zealand, has received a full apology from the parking company Smart Compliance Management after they issued a parking ticket to her on the day she died, then came back to life. The woman was arriving at the New World Supermarket in Orewa on Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast when she collapsed in the parking lot on July 26. ... After what was almost certainly the longest few moments of their life, however, the chest compressions worked. ... He also said that the paramedics from the ambulance told him, after his daughter had been taken to North...
  • What the Hell Is Wrong With Women?

    08/24/2026 9:23:48 AM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 77 replies
    Townhall ^ | 08/24/2026 | Kurt Schlichter
    Perhaps we should shut down womanhood until we find out just what the hell is going on here. The last couple of weeks have been more insane than usual, and everything has been insane for the last couple of decades, but this insanity has been mostly about the crazy things that crazy women do. And most of the ladies involved are women of pallor from the middle to upper-middle class. From bizarre social media imbroglios, like a mom demanding all the other moms stop sending Oreos to school because her kid isn’t allowed to have Oreos so no kid can...
  • Ohio doctor who wrote paper on why teens kill allegedly murdered in plot orchestrated by her own teenage daughter

    08/24/2026 9:08:07 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | August 23, 2026 | KELLY GARINO, US REPORTER
    An Ohio doctor shot dead in a murder plot allegedly hatched by her own 18-year-old daughter had years earlier written an academic paper examining the psychology of teenage killers. Tamela Dutcher, 55, was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after she was gunned down by two men as she sat on the couch inside her Delaware County home last week, according to an affidavit obtained by Oxygen. Her daughter, Bryanna Dutcher, and the two men, identified as her boyfriend Christian Evans, 20, and his roommate Dajameous Payne, 21, have now all been indicted in connection with her murder. Bryanna's arrest...
  • More than half of all Canadian politicians are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, it's really as simple as that. We have Police stations in Canada that are operated by and only answer to the CCP (TRANSCRIPT 3 min video)

    08/24/2026 8:53:08 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 12 replies
    X.com ^ | August 23, 2026 | William Makis @MakisMedicine
    The video is well worth watching just to compare Carney to Trump!https://x.com/MakisMedicine/status/2091545122102026639 William Makis@MakisMedicine·23hCanada is a national security threat to the United States.Prime Minster Mark Carney and more than half of all Canadian politicians are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, it's really as simple as that.We have Police stations in Canada that are operated by and only answer to the Chinese Community PartyCanada has the largest fentanyl drug labs (superlabs) in North America, it has the largest child sex trafficking networks in North America, it has some of the largest money laundering operations.Canada should have begged for a deal...
  • It's been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back? (Pluto demoted 20 years ago today)

    08/24/2026 8:51:36 AM PDT · by DFG · 41 replies
    Space.com ^ | 08/24/2026 | Keith Cooper
    In August of 2006, astronomers at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) democratically voted to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet — but 20 years later, with our greater knowledge and understanding of planetary systems, is it time to revisit the controversial decision? Should Pluto be called a planet again? For several years before the IAU vote, there had been agitators among the astronomical community lobbying for our solar system's nine worlds to become eight, and for Pluto's planetary status to be revoked. In 2000, Neil DeGrasse Tyson even went as far as to remove Pluto from the planets display at...
  • Mother slit throats of her 3 children, told their father 'say goodbye to your kids': cops

    08/24/2026 8:27:18 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 86 replies
    CBS News Austin ^ | August 10, 2026 | WKRC
    MANDAN, N.D. (WKRC) - A mother allegedly murdered two of her young children by slitting their throats and attempted to kill another after telling their father, "Say goodbye to your kids." According to an affidavit obtained by Valley News Live, officers responded to a residence on the afternoon of August 6 regarding a report of a mother who had stabbed her children. First responders arrived to find the mother, 22-year-old Kailey Erhart, holding a knife to her own throat in the home, per the affidavit. Erhart, who was covered in blood, reportedly dropped the knife and told officers to kill...
  • 49ers owner Jed York arrested and found guilty of two misdemeanor charges

    08/24/2026 8:18:37 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 41 replies
    WCMH NBC4 reports that San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in the Youngstown, Ohio, area over the weekend and found guilty of two misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools. Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area shared the news. York was sentenced to two days in jail and ordered to pay $1,150 in fines.
  • Kyle Kirkwood Dominates for Historic, Star-Spangled Victory in D.C.

    08/24/2026 7:57:24 AM PDT · by sopo · 16 replies
    Indy Car ^ | 08/23/2026 | Paul Kelly
    Kyle Kirkwood made history Sunday by winning the Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C., the first-ever motor race around the National Mall and the iconic monuments and buildings of the nation’s capital city. And after a disastrous day for NTT INDYCAR SERIES points leader Alex Palou, can Kirkwood make even more history by catching Palou in the final three races of the season for a championship? SEE: Race Results Florida native Kirkwood drove his No. 27 Sam’s Club Honda to a 3.0906-second victory over the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet of Christian Lundgaard, leading three Andretti Global drivers in...
  • The Terrorist On Campus

    08/24/2026 7:29:28 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 20 Aug, 2026 | Sarah Adams
    Mohamed Bailor Jalloh went to prison for working with ISIS. His college put him back on campus, without knowing why he'd been in federal prison. Sarah Adams was a targeting officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. It’s as cool as it sounds. She was in charge of disrupting terrorist attacks by identifying the people and organizations that pose a threat to the United States, a job that put her on the ground in the Middle East. She helped lead the investigation into the deadly terror attack on our diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, and then wrote the book on it....
  • Midterm-convention Trump-fest may backfire on GOP

    08/24/2026 7:17:43 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 26 replies
    “It’s not just a convention. This is to rally the troops,” Denton County GOP Chair Melinda Preston said. The president is insisting on giving Democrats exactly what they want: keeping the attention on him. That is certainly the likely upshot of the first-ever GOP midterm convention being held in Dallas Without an energized MAGA base, Republicans won’t even be in the vicinity of victory.
  • The Greatest Cover-Up in Economic History: How Washington Hid Its Role in the 2008 Crash

    08/24/2026 6:48:44 AM PDT · by Pete Dovgan · 31 replies
    Power & Market ^ | 8/24/2026 | Kevin Villani
    The commentary in a recent Wall Street Journal by Senator Phil Gramm and Representative Jeb Hensarling did the nation an immense service by dismantling the persistent myth that private market greed and financial deregulation caused the 2008 financial crisis. As they rightly pointed out, inflation-adjusted mortgage rates during the bubble era were historically high, and financial institutions were suffocating under increasingly strict federal mandates, not running wild in a deregulated vacuum. Yet, for nearly two decades, the public has been fed a completely fabricated baseline narrative. Having served as the Chief Economist at the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
  • Sickos keep walking early under Newsom’s soft parole law

    08/24/2026 6:31:31 AM PDT · by Libloather · 4 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/23/26 | Nina Joudeh
    Some of California’s most notorious killers, rapists and child predators now get a shot at freedom decades before their sentences are up thanks to the controversial elderly parole law. Inmates previously had to reach 60 and serve at least 25 years before qualifying, but legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 lowered the threshold to 50 and 20 years, beginning in 2021, as California sought to ease prison overcrowding. But the change has since come under fire because criminals opening the door to parole for criminals handed sentences designed to keep them locked up for life. While inmates aren’t...
  • Britain’s DEI-Maddened Police Force - All too willing to overlook the telltale signs of Islamic supremacy.

    08/24/2026 6:04:05 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 24 Aug, 2026 | Hugh Fitzgerald
    Police in the UK have for years been practicing affirmative action for Muslims, the principle being that since Muslim areas are the most crime-ridden, police officers should “look like” those they are policing. Presumably a population that regards white policemen, infidels all and thus “the most vile of created beings,” as “the enemy” will see Muslim officers more sympathetically. One of those Muslim trainees is Mohammad Hassan of the Greater Manchester Police, who has just gotten himself into a world of woe. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about him here, and more on Mohammad Hassan’s off-duty activity, not fighting crime but committing...