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We are demanding that YouTube remove a music video which shows a Satanic ritual abortion. The video was uploaded by the Satanic Temple.The ritual abortion was carried out on Friday March 13 inside a bathroom at an unknown Hobby Lobby arts and crafts store. Hobby Lobby may have been targeted because of its evangelical Protestant ethos. According to a text contained in the video the ritual murder of the baby was carried out to “empower the patient against those with theocratic religious convictions.” They claim that: “the ritual wards off the effects of unjust persecution, which can cause one to...

For the roughly 15 million college undergraduates in the United States, the benefits of pursuing higher education include better employment prospects, greater social mobility, and even longer-lasting marriages. Research released last year, however, finds that at least one important life outcome — political ideology — is heavily dependent not merely on the decision to attend college, but also on the particular subjects students choose to study. The paper, authored by Israeli academics Yoav Goldstein and Matan Kolerman, used survey responses from nearly 500 American colleges and universities to isolate the political impact of students’ choice of college majors. Those who...

Earlier this week, the WNBA, the women's professional basketball league, announced that two former NBA players were ineligible to play in the league. Former NBA stars Royce (Roysha) White and Enes Kanter Freedom had announced they were intending to play in the league next year after the WENBA brass refused to condemn biological men playing in the league against women. The league did not elaborate on the reasons for declaring the two men ineligible. Since this announcement, news has broken that the league previously allowed trans players to play. In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal....

It is Friday! Time once again for stupid memes!

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe gave separate press conferences on Wednesday in which they refused to impose retaliatory tariffs against the United States on natural resources, in defiance of leftist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade war agenda.Smith and Moe said they had no problem with matching U.S. tariffs dollar-for-dollar, but they rejected Carney’s urge to escalate the trade war by applying punitive tariffs to vital natural resources in their provinces, such as oil and potash. (snip) The Conservative Party of Canada was pressing Carney’s government to release the full text of the U.S. trade proposal rejected...

Western media are reporting that CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow, Russia, to warn his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), about striking back against Baltic states. {CITATION} However, that’s only half of the story.Director Ratcliffe wasn’t simply telling Naryshkin not to hit back; he was telling Naryshkin that European NATO provocations against the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad (between Poland and Lithuania) were not ‘fully’ sanctioned by the United States. {CITATION Aug 18}EU NATO members have been conducting provocative military operations and psychological warfare via NATO exercises all around Kaliningrad. They have been getting...

Nvidia once again reported blow earnings yesterday. Their stock (along with many other chip companies) is absolutely unbelievable.They have 42,000 employees, and about half are now worth $25 million or more!!!Amazing.

Barbara Boyd does a solid job connecting the recent U.S-Canada trade friction to the globalist plans of Mark Carney in alignment with the European Union. The goal is to create and maintain broad opposition to the geopolitical reset underway as an outcome of President Trump’s larger and nationalistic economic agenda.This is worth the watch as many of the background happenings are interconnected, yet few people are putting it all together. Barbara Boyd argues that the most dangerous escalation is the proxy war with Russia, highlighting Russia’s warning that direct British involvement in strikes on Russian territory could make Britain a...

Deportees Sent to Tiny African Nation After Refusing to Get Off Plane Six migrants deported from the United States refused to leave a plane in Liberia last week and were instead flown to Equatorial Guinea. The group included four Cuban men, one Brazilian man and one Cameroonian woman, according to accounts from a person on the flight and a lawyer in contact with them, as reported by NBC News and The Associated Press. They arrived in Liberia Thursday as part of a third-country deportation arrangement. When the plane landed, the six refused to disembark, saying Liberia was “not their country.”...

F-15 Eagle Vet@F15sRdaBest·23h January 15, 2014. Roughly 45–50 miles off Virginia Beach. Lt. Kegan “Smurf” Gill is flying an F/A-18E Super Hornet with VFA-143 on a basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) training sortie. During a high-speed nose-low recovery (a Split-S type maneuver entered above recommended airspeed), the jet’s flight-control system enters the “G-bucket.” The aircraft incorrectly believes it is carrying bombs that are not actually loaded. This protective software limit reduces available G exactly when he needs maximum pull. The stick is in his lap, the jet stops responding, and he is trapped in a steep dive pointed at the Atlantic....

On a day that our nation genuinely mourns the loss of a cross-party generational pillar, Dolly Parton, I think back to my younger years and the more righteous culture. She was known for kindness and humility. I can think of only one more that was like her. I was taken from my father at a young age, through a feminist no fault divorce filled with false allegations. As a young man growing up lonely for fatherly love and advice, I found a large portion of what I needed by watching Little House on the Prairie, and specifically Charles Ingalls, played...

Driven by the decline of “third spaces” such as youth centres and pubs, an increase in remote working and rising loneliness – 40% of adults aged 16 to 29 feel lonely “always, often or some of the time”, – paid social events are now in vogue. “There hasn’t been anything that feels authentic to helping people meet people,” “The first place people in their 20s and 30s turn to when trying to make friends is Facebook groups, But they’ve ended up becoming a noticeboard for people who’ve, say, lost their dog or want to sell their bed.” Into this gap...

The threat of “ghost students” has become so prevalent at Minnesota’s largest community college that administrators now say nearly a third of all applications to the school are potentially fraudulent. That revelation recently came from Dara Hagen, vice president of Student Affairs at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. Enrollment fraud — using stolen identities of real people with the goal of stealing taxpayer-funded student aid — has become a nationwide problem over the last few years. “Since then, we’ve had about 29,000 fraudulent or potentially fraudulent applications that we’ve processed,” Hagen said. “We were seeing probably 42% of our applications...

Financelot@FinanceLancelotScott Bessent is choosing to fight the WW3 currency battle now because the 2020 lockdowns forced the entire world to enter the same 5 year debt cycle.Global debt is financed in Dollars.Every home, business and nation loan that was taken out in 2021-2022 now must be rolled over at significantly higher rates.This will compound the Dollar shortage at the precise moment Scott Bessent is threatening to cut off financial institutions and nations from the supply of Dollars.Starving a nation of Dollars forces them to liquidate their forex reserves, including U.S. treasuries significantly below the face value as they face sovereign...

ransomnote: Trump posted the same promotional video featuring Jim Rickards (June 2026) on Truth Social again today.Rickards has a strong track record of accurate predictions, including correctly calling Trump’s 2016 victory when many dismissed the idea.In the video, Rickards forecasts historic levels of societal and financial turmoil in the run-up to the November 3, 2026 midterm elections. He anticipates a cascade of destabilizing events—prosecutions, perp walks, protests, and broader unrest—and outlines the potential conflicts and strategic paths facing the Trump administration.Trump appears to keep elevating portions of this video because of Rickards’ detailed insights and guidance on navigating the tumultuous...

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...

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.

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...

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...