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House raids over speech violations are becoming commonplace across Germany, even as violent crime explodes... On Wednesday morning at 6 a.m., a large-scale police operation was launched across Germany, targeting hundreds of individuals suspected of insulting politicians or spreading “hate and incitement” online. The massive crackdown saw police launch morning raids against 170 individuals, which saw police seize computers, cell phones, and tablets, and conduct searches in multiple locations across the country. The action, which was conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), uses the new Criminal Code Paragraph 188 to target individuals accused of racism and hate speech....

When Argentina elected outspoken libertarian Javier Milei, I expected great things from the South American nation. He's a free market, free people kind of guy who took the highest office in a nation that has been plagued with problems. The dude has been compared to Donald Trump, but he's far more of a pro-liberty guy than even The Donald. I've been interested to see what he'd do, and what I've seen so far mostly looks good. This, though, blows everything else out of the water. President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree Wednesday broadening gun rights in the country...

Obama’s embrace of censorship speaks to the desperation of a party that can’t survive without uniform control of the information space.. The modern Democrat Party is many things. But an ardent defender of Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech is not one of them. This theme was front and center during a sit-down interview former President Barack Obama participated in at The Connecticut Forum earlier this week. At one point in his conversation with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson, America’s 44th commander-in-chief broached the subject of “propaganda” and how “[t]hose in power, those with money, exploit [the information]...

BREAKING: Viktor Orban: "JD Vance is right. In Europe, freedom is not threatened from outside, but is being overthrown from within. Change is needed, this cannot go on."

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School Media interviews Oregon Firearms Federation Executive Director about Oregon's attack on not just the 2nd Amendment, but on virtually ALL the freedoms its citizens enjoy. Kevin Starrett doesn't pull any punches, and calls it exactly as he sees it. If you live in or care about the future of Oregon, this episode is a must! Oregon Erases the 2nd Amendment!!! (w/ Kevin Starrett of OFF) • OREGON is ERASING the 2ND AMENDMENT!!! (w/... https://www.oregonfirearms.org/ Vote-by-Mail Foes Pass Key Milestone https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2025... To make a difference... https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/ 800-332-2313 Old School Media https://oldschoolus.com/ https://oldschoolus.com/contact/

It's been pointed out over and over to the few crew that these cuts could not be included in the BBB because of rules. It has to be handled via recission packages. It will not be subjectedbto filibuster either. quote: Larry Kudlow asked, “So, rumor has it that we’ve got a big rescission package, an Elon Musk DOGE rescission package coming up, can you confirm it?” Vought answered, “I can. We’ll be sending that up on Monday or Tuesday, whenever the House is back in session, they will get our first rescissions bill. And, again, this has been proposed and...

Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem (D) introduced a bill this year to create a commission with the goal of reducing the number of miles driven by residents in their cars because of ‘climate change’, with an ultimate goal to “reduce the need for personal vehicles.” The 82-year-old Creem wants the state government to promulgate regulations that could fine residents for driving too much and force them into riding public transportation, using bikes paths and walking. Excerpt from Bill S. 2246: Section 81. (a) To relieve traffic congestion, improve air quality, and promote compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions...

84 years ago today, Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us to rethink everything with everything he wrote. Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque best. Trump forces us to revealuate this modern world all the time. Bob Dylan mastered and elevated American music twice to great literature in a few short years, first as a folkie but then as a great rock n roller. Potus 45 surprised everyone to come down a...

A federal court ruled in favor of religious and other broadcasters on Monday against a Biden administration rule that would have required them to annually report employees’ genders and ethnicities. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “workforce diversity” rule from 2024 in response to lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters and other groups that argued the regulation violated constitutional rights. Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr celebrated the ruling as he continues his broader push to end left-wing policies at an agency with significant control over America’s airwaves. “The FCC’s 2024 decision...

snip... The dashboard let out a debilitating shriek, as we drive away from the airport. The driver explained that the shriek is emitted by “the system” when he drives out of the “sector” of the airport. ...as we slowed to a stop before a red light, that “the system” fines him automatically if he does not stop - if he dares to drive through on a yellow light. He also explained that it records us “for safety.” He seemed to catch himself as I was asking if all of this surveillance was intrusive. He had started to agree but then,...

In what many citizens concerned with the survival of Austria as a European nation-state are calling a demographic tipping point, Muslims have now become the largest religious group in Vienna’s compulsory schools, comprising a striking 41.2% of all students across primary, secondary, and vocational education levels. The stark demographic shift has sparked outrage among conservatives and nationally-minded citizens in Austria, with the Freedom Party (FPÖ) warning that the capital is being culturally transformed beyond recognition. “This is no longer immigration. This is displacement,” said Maximilian Weinzierl, national council member and leader of the FPÖ’s youth wing. “41.2% of Muslim students—that’s...

WEST LA FAYETTE, Ind. — A crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people turned out to hear Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk speak on Thursday at Purdue University, with many eager to ask the conservative commentator a question. Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of the conservative student group, visited West La Fayette as part of his “American Comeback Tour.” The tour included stops this week at Illinois State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A campus police officer provided The College Fix with an estimate on attendance near the end of the event. Hundreds of students lined...

In Alice Springs in 1989, an Englishwoman seeing Australian Rules football for the first time on television said to me, “There are no rules.” I said to her “You cannot understand Australia without understanding this game.” But I couldn’t explain why. I still can’t. It’s something to do with freedom. Freepers, I need your thoughts.

...statues of treasonous Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee and Albert Pike will soon be returning. Their statues were removed nationwide after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Press access is not freedom, it's privilege. For the umpteenth time, AP executive editor Julie Pace claims that it’s fighting for the freedom of speech of all Americans by demanding exclusive cartel access to the White House. If Pace were at all literate, she would at least be arguing about Freedom of the Press, but neither one applies. Now if Trump had dispatched the FBI to take smash up the presses or ban the AP from operating for refusing to use the term Gulf of America, that would be a textbook First Amendment violation. But that’s not happening. Instead the...

‘They know our voice is so powerful and influential that they can’t accomplish their goals unless they shut us down. They will not succeed.’.. Americans’ constitutionally protected right to free speech “has been under worse attack in the last decade than at any other point in our nation’s history,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway told lawmakers during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. “The tentacles of the censorship-industrial complex are choking out freedom of expression, debate, and the right to criticize powerful institutions such as corporate media and the government,” Hemingway said. Throughout her opening statement, The Federalist’s editor-in-chief highlighted...

Shocking expose showed ex-Jihadist paid to attack Trump.. Freedom Center Investigates has lately been covering abuses at the Voice of America including attacking the Front Page Magazine,as ‘Islamophobic’, running Taliban attacks on Trump and employing an Afghan ex-Jihadist who had fought in a Jihadist group under Osama bin Laden’s mentor to attack Trump. Now the end is near. After our reporting, all employees at the VOA have been placed on administrative leave and many of the affairs of the Agency of Global Affairs Media are being wound down. I have mixed feelings about this. There was a time when we...

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' explained his decision to have his paper's editorial pages "shift toward defending the two pillars of a free society: personal liberties and free markets," saying "a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I'm excited for us to fill that void." Opinion...

One year ago today, Miley Cyrus, won Best International Song for “Flowers”. The first verse paints a chilling picture of the modern world: “We were good, we were gold Kinda dream that can’t be sold We were right ’til we weren’t Built a home and watched it burn.” I told Joe from Niddrie thatthe world needs a restoration of freedom. He told me a list of other problems he thought took precedence. Joe believed that conservatives need to stand up for the battler to alter the perception that conservatives only help business. I observed that American President Franklin Roosevelt described...

On the heels of Veep JD Vance’s 100% correct slam on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over speech rights, the latest Big Brother stunt from the United Kingdom has hit the airwaves. A 74-year-old Scottish woman was arrested for silently holding up a sign outside an abortion clinic asking people walking in if they wanted to chat with her. Rose Docherty is the first person arrested under the so-called “Safe Access Zones Act,” a 2024 law forbidding even the peaceful exercise of speech within 200 meters of abortion clinics. Vance restricted himself with Starmer to criticizing the terrible effects UK...