Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $13,038
16%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 16%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: goodriddance

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • American Father Flees To Russia To Escape ‘Wokeness,’ Gets Drafted into Ukraine War

    07/25/2025 2:10:34 PM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 50 replies
    TN ^ | Jul 24, 2025 | Naman Trivedi
    Derek Huffman, a Texas father, relocated his family to Russia to escape “wokeness” and joined the Russian military in pursuit of citizenship. Promised a non-combat role, he was instead deployed to Ukraine’s frontlines. His wife says he’s untrained, overwhelmed, and unpaid. Huffman says he’ll “do whatever it takes” to return safely.
  • Russian teens being sent into Ukraine meatgrinder despite Putin's promises

    07/26/2025 5:47:03 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    Express US ^ | 7/26/2025 | Charlie Jones
    Putin's summer offensive is stalling as Ukraine puts up a heroic defense leaving Russia resorting to teens to fill the ranks. Despite Putin’s promises, Russian 18-year-olds are being press ganged into the army straight out of school and sent into the meatgrinder on Ukraine’s battlefields. The Russian despot has made repeated promises to his people that no 18-year-olds will be called up to serve but evidence is emerging that at least 245 teens have been killed in Ukraine in the last couple of years. New government rules mean those fresh out of school can bypass military service and instead sign...
  • Ellen DeGeneres confirms she left the US because of President Trump and declares she and wife Portia de Rossi are 'staying in the UK' for good

    07/20/2025 4:44:09 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 107 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | July 20, 2025 | Amelia Wynne
    Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed she left the US because of President Trump in a candid new interview. The comedian and presenter, 67, now lives in the Cotswolds with her wife Portia de Rossi, 52, and told how they are 'staying here' for good now. This weekend she spoke with broadcaster Richard Bacon at the Everyman theatre in Cheltenham where she opened up about the huge life changes. She also said she and Portia - who first wed in 2008 - were considering tying the knot again in the UK after some moves in the US to reverse the right to...
  • Embarrassing REAL reason Stephen Colbert's show was canceled after bosses hatched plot while star vacationed

    07/18/2025 4:43:06 PM PDT · by Dahoser · 58 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | July 18, 2025 | Alex Hammer
    CBS canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because it was losing $40 million a year, it was claimed. Puck journalist Matthew Belloni revealed Colbert's astonishing lack of profitability Friday, hours after CNN first broke the news that the show was canceled because it was in the red. Belloni outlined how The Late Show - whose cancelation was announced Thursday - costs $100m a year to produce, with Colbert, 61, getting paid between $15 million and $20 million a year to host.
  • Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert’s Show for Political Reasons

    07/18/2025 1:33:41 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 18, 2025, 2:12 p.m. ET | Ashley Ahn
    Paramount, the network’s parent, recently agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”Democratic lawmakers are questioning the timing of CBS’s announcement to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which came days after Mr. Colbert criticized the network’s parent company for paying President Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit.Hours after CBS executives characterized the move as “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” lawmakers began suggesting that the cancellation was linked to Paramount’s recent settlement with Mr. Trump. Senator...
  • CBS to cancel Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after host blasted company's settlement with Trump as 'big fat bribe'

    07/17/2025 7:51:13 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 60 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 19:46 EDT, 17 July 2025 | Updated: 20:45 EDT, 17 July 2025 | MELISSA KOENIG
    CBS announced the cancellation of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert - just days after the host blasted the network's $16 million settlement with President Trump as a 'big fat bribe.' Colbert's show, which began in 2015, will now come to an end in May 2026, executives with the network and Paramount, its new parent company, announced on Thursday. 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season,' they said in a statement. 'We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise at that time,'...
  • CBS cancels 'The Late Show,' Stephen Colbert to end program in May 2026

    07/17/2025 5:25:09 PM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 49 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 17, 2025 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will be ending in 2026, the network announced Thursday. "'THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT' will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season," CBS said in a statement. "We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire 'THE LATE SHOW' franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television." CBS said it was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night," adding, "It is...
  • CBS Cancels The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Show to End in May 2026

    07/17/2025 5:27:31 PM PDT · by StAnDeliver · 39 replies
    LateNighter.com ^ | July 17, 2025 | Jed Rosenzweig
    "CBS has announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, bringing the show’s historic run—and the Late Show franchise itself—to a close."Colbert addressed the show’s cancellation himself while taping tonight’s show."
  • GOP Concern Grows Over Sen. Ernst Retirement Talk

    07/12/2025 8:04:53 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 8 replies
    Republicans were rocked last night by growing speculation that Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst would soon announce her retirement next year. As was widely reported, the Hawkeye State lawmaker has so far only about $1 million — a small amount for a well-known incumbent — in her campaign coffers. Should Ernst step down Rep. Ashley Hinson would run for the seat. A former TV anchor and stalwart Trump supporter, Hinson, 42, has long made no secret of her desire to run for the Senate in 2028 when Chuck Grassley is expected to retire at age 95.
  • Putin’s elite commander of bloodthirsty brigade accused of horror war crimes and massacres wiped out in Ukraine strike

    07/11/2025 12:41:17 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 41 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 7/11/2025 | James Moules
    VLADIMIR Putin's brutal war machine was dealt another blow today as Moscow confirmed the death of another top Russian military chief. Russian authorities have confirmed the death of Colonel Sergei Ilyin, commander of Russia's notorious 155th Marine Brigade. Telegram news channel Astra reported the Colonel's death on Friday, citing a now-deleted post from officials, the Moscow Times has reported. Ilyin had died "during the special military operation" according to a post attributed to the Urmarsky district administration. "Special military operation" is the euphemism used by Kremlin authorities when referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It follows speculation that the...
  • Tucker just dropped a bombshell about his final days at Fox News…

    06/26/2025 6:20:42 PM PDT · by george76 · 83 replies
    Revolver News ^ | June 26, 2025
    When Fox News abruptly fired Tucker Carlson in April 2023, the timing wasn’t just suspicious; it was glaring. Red flags were waving everywhere. It all started around the time he was airing never-before-seen footage from January 6th, exposing cracks in the official narrative. At the time, many suspected Tucker’s termination wasn’t just about ratings or contracts; it was about control. Now, thanks to Tucker himself, we know those suspicions were dead on. Maybe more so than you ever realized. ... According to Tucker, right after he was fired, Rupert Murdoch approached him and asked him to run against President Trump....
  • Gun control crusader and former US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy dead at 81

    06/26/2025 2:19:54 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 54 replies
    AP via Yahoo ^ | 6/26/25 | Frank Eltman
    Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who successfully ran for Congress in 1996 as a crusader for gun control after a mass shooting on a New York commuter train left her husband dead and her son severely wounded, has died. She was 81. News of her death was shared Thursday by several elected officials on her native Long Island and by Jay Jacobs, chair of the New York State Democratic Committee. Details about her death were not immediately available. McCarthy went from political novice to one of the nation’s leading advocates for gun control legislation in the aftermath of the 1993...
  • Top Joint Chiefs Adviser Removed Over Anti-Israel Social Media Posts

    06/22/2025 1:39:32 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 39 replies
    Conservative Brief ^ | June 19, 2025 | Jon Dougherty
    A top adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been relieved of duty following the discovery of several anti-Israel social media posts. U.S. Army Col. Nathan McCormack was removed from his advisory role on Israel-related matters following the discovery of the posts. According to his LinkedIn profile, McCormack served as the Levant and Egypt branch chief within the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J5 planning directorate. He reportedly posted several inflammatory comments on his X account, including calling Israel a “death cult” and referring to its government as “Netanyahu and his Judeo-supremacist cronies,” according to the Jewish News Syndicate. A...
  • North Korea has lost more than half of its troops sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine

    06/16/2025 3:41:29 PM PDT · by Engraved-on-His-hands · 47 replies
    The Express (UK) ^ | June 16, 2025 | Carrington Walker
    Half of the thousands of North Korean troops sent to help Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine have died in action, according to British Defence Intelligence. Roughly 11,000 troops have been dispatched by Kim Jong Un to aid Vladimir Putin's war effort in Eastern Europe since 2022 as the ties between their two countries has become closer. Now it has been revealed that more than 6,000 soldiers from North Korea have lost their lives after being stationed to the frontline in the Kurk region
  • Report: Teachers Union Boss Randi Weingarten Resigns from DNC, Citing Disagreements with Leadership

    06/15/2025 7:00:26 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/15/2025 | Katherine Hamilton
    Randi Weingarten, left-wing activist and president of the second-largest teachers’ union in the United States, is leaving the Democratic National Committee (DNC), citing disagreements with leadership and dismay at the direction of the committee. Weingarten, who heads the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and has been an influential member of the DNC for 23 years, wrote a letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin indicating that she is at odds with committee leadership, Politico first reported. “While I am proud to be a Democrat, I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging, and I do not...
  • Central Asia's tallest Lenin statue taken down

    06/08/2025 6:09:38 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    BBC ^ | 06/08/2025 | Danny Aeberhard , Ian Aikman
    Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union, the 23m-tall monument towered over the city of Osh for 50 years before it was quietly removed this week. Photos emerged on Saturday showing the communist revolutionary - who features prominently in Soviet iconography - lying on his back on the ground, having been lowered by crane. A statement from City Hall in Osh - the landlocked nation's second-largest city after the capital, Bishkek - said...
  • Riverside County death row inmate killed, 30 men attack murder suspect

    06/07/2025 7:37:51 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 23 replies
    KTLA ^ | June 6, 2025 | by: Lily Dallow
    A Riverside County inmate sentenced to death was allegedly murdered in a state prison by another inmate, which led to a large mob attack on Friday morning, officials say.
  • Ukraine is gaining the upper hand. Putin will be terrified

    06/02/2025 7:09:01 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 90 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 02 June 2025 | Owen Matthews
    Ukraine’s extraordinary attack deep inside Russia has, at a stroke, rewritten the rules of modern war. On Sunday a swarm of small drones, each costing under $500, rose over four Russian airfields deep inside Siberia and the Arctic and destroyed over forty strategic bombers reportedly worth over $7 billion. Thanks to meticulous planning, sophisticated military imagination and an underdog’s boldness of vision, Kyiv’s forces have landed a stunning blow on their far stronger opponent, opening a new chapter in the history of human conflict. The question that will be haunting Putin is – what’s next? Ukraine’s famously stone-faced chief of...
  • 'TURNING POINT' Ukraine ‘destroys 40 Russian aircraft including nuke bombers at four airbases’ in massive coordinated drone blitz

    06/01/2025 7:07:01 AM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 163 replies
    FOUR Russian airfields housing Putin's nuke bombers have reportedly been blitzed in an extraordinary drone strike - wiping out at least 40 aircraft. Ukrainian drones - reportedly launched from lorries inside Russia - targeted airbases in Belaya, Diaghilevo, Olenya and Ivanovo as part of a daring operation codenamed "Spiderweb".
  • Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia dies after battling cancer

    05/21/2025 6:54:15 AM PDT · by MountainWalker · 63 replies
    CNBC ^ | 5/21/2025 | Kevin Breuninger
    Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia has died at the age of 75 after a battle with esophageal cancer, his family said Wednesday.