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  • No One in the Movies Stays Dead Anymore

    06/09/2025 9:03:06 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 53 replies
    Variet ^ | 06 07 2025 | Owen Gleiberman
    The “John Wick” franchise has just returned to life with “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas as a Ruska Roma dancer who trains as an assassin to avenge the death of her father. But even if the series’ producers hadn’t come up with the genius idea of making a spin-off movie about a killer who puts the brutal pow in plié, the “John Wick” series would still be coming back to life. At CinemaCon in early April, it was announced that Keanu Reeves would be returning to star in “John Wick 5.” That might have come as a surprise to anyone...
  • Nationwide anti-American protests planned for June 14

    06/09/2025 7:34:28 PM PDT · by ViLaLuz · 40 replies
    NoKings.org ^ | June 9, 2025 | No Kings
    NoKings.org activist organizing is planning nationwide anti-Amercan (anti-Trump) "protests" on June 14, the U.S. Army birthday national celebration. See their partners page. They have many far-left sponsors including teachers and labor unions, democrats, climate change believers, Bernie Sanders, LGBTXYZ groups, etc. Most likely many of these sponsor groups receive public funds.
  • Türkiye's Manisa mayor dies after electrocution accident at home pool

    06/09/2025 1:01:45 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 17 replies
    Turkiye Today ^ | 6/9/25 | Newsroom staff
    Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek died from injuries sustained in an electrocution accident at his residence, Health Minister Memisoglu announced following the mayor's hospitalization and treatment. The 48-year-old mayor was electrocuted around 11:35 p.m. local time while investigating a suspected electrical fault in his pool's motor system at his home. Family members immediately shut off electrical breakers and called emergency services after hearing distress sounds.
  • No signs of riots or looting today in LA.

    06/09/2025 10:46:34 AM PDT · by dragnet2 · 41 replies
    freerepublic | 6/9/2025 | dragnet2
    This could change but so far no signs of looting or riots today. Looks like Trump made the right move! ☺ Go Trump!
  • When Families Disagree

    06/09/2025 10:17:35 AM PDT · by MosesKnows · 26 replies
    June 9, 2025 | MosesKnows
    I have observed that today's politics causes family divisions and family break-ups. Which side initiates breaking off communication more, the left or the right political position? My opinion is that the left side breaks off communication and shuns the right side of the family more.
  • Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up. A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients.

    06/09/2025 9:11:52 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 28 replies
    New York Times ^ | June 6, 2025 | Brian Rosenthal
    Now, a federal investigation has found that officials at the nonprofit in charge of coordinating organ donations in Kentucky ignored signs of growing alertness not only in that patient but also in dozens of other potential donors. The investigation examined about 350 cases in Kentucky over the past four years in which plans to remove organs were ultimately canceled. It found that in 73 instances, officials should have considered stopping sooner because the patients had high or improving levels of consciousness. Although the surgeries didn’t happen, the investigation said multiple patients showed signs of pain or distress while being readied...
  • Sunny Hostin: An Undocumented Immigrant Is Not A Criminal Because He Or She Is Undocumented, Racist To Say Otherwise

    06/09/2025 8:55:21 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 56 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 1/28/25 | Ian Schwartz
    SUNNY HOSTIN: Can I say something? Because, you know, they keep on talking about criminals and immigrants being criminals. And I just want people to understand what the facts are and the stats are, is that undocumented immigrants are much less likely to have committed crimes than American citizens. American citizens commit more crimes than anyone who is undocumented. I also want to make the point that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or she is undocumented. That is a civil offense. So to call people illegal is in and of itself, I think xenophobic and racist
  • America may be on the brink of a ‘civil war’

    06/09/2025 8:32:00 AM PDT · by Signalman · 66 replies
    youtube ^ | 06/09/2025 | skynews. australia
    Sky News host Andrew Bolt claims the United States is almost at the brink of a “civil war”. “I got to say, it is happening again, scenes that look almost like a civil war in America,” Mr Bolt said. “When Donald Trump was first elected president you had American cities being torched, by rioters, by anarchists and the hard-left, all encouraged by anti-Trump Democrat politicians who are exploiting race resentments after the death of a drug-affected George Floyd.”
  • The LA riots could destroy Donald Trump’s presidency

    06/09/2025 7:24:40 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 107 replies
    The Telegraph(UK) via Yahoo ^ | 6/9/25 | David Kaufman
    We’re only a few days into the anti-riot crackdowns in Los Angeles by various armed government enforcers and already there are lives at stake. No, not the lives of the hundreds of protesters out on the streets across America’s second-largest city, but the political lives – or at least longevity – of some of the highest-profile personalities to emerge during president Trump’s second turn in the White House. SNIP But the most consequential political life at stake here is that of Donald Trump himself – whose ultra-adversarial, bully-like tactics have yet to be tested as they are right now...
  • My dad has passed away

    06/09/2025 12:08:55 AM PDT · by hoagy62 · 76 replies
    6/8/25 | Hoagy62
    I knew this was coming but it's not a post I wanted to make. My dad, Robert, has passed away. He was 87. He was a staunch conservative, and a very big fan and supporter of President Trump. He and President Trump shared a birthday, June 14th. He did serve in the Air National Guard as a clerk. He wasn't a person who got into the internet. He was one of those people that eschewed the ways of modern life. He knew about Free Republic because I told him about it. He did support what we do here.
  • Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China Russia’s spy hunters are increasingly worried about China’s espionage, even as the two countries grow closer.

    06/08/2025 3:17:45 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 9 replies
    New York Times ^ | June 7, 2025 | Jacob JudahPaul Sonne and Anton Troianovski
    In public, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says his country’s growing friendship with China is unshakable — a strategic military and economic collaboration that has entered a golden era. But in the corridors of Lubyanka, the headquarters of Russia’s domestic security agency, known as the F.S.B., a secretive intelligence unit refers to the Chinese as “the enemy.” The threats are laid out in an eight-page internal F.S.B. planning document, obtained by The New York Times, that sets priorities for fending off Chinese espionage. The document is undated, raising the possibility that it is a draft, though it appears from...
  • DHS Deploys Elite Border Patrol Units To Crush LA Riots

    06/08/2025 12:23:17 PM PDT · by Signalman · 39 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 6/7/2025 | Cullen McCue
    The Department of Homeland Security has deployed elite SWAT units to quell the ongoing insurrection in Los Angeles that erupted on Friday night. After a second consecutive day of rioting and attacks on federal agents conducting immigration enforcement actions, Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks announced that a massive federal response was underway. “Several arrests have already been made for assault on a federal agent. ANY attack on our agents or officers will not be tolerated,” Banks announced at 2:12 p.m. local time. “You will be arrested and federally prosecuted.” Fox News border correspondent Bill Melugin reported that elite Border...
  • Russia says it is sending more Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies to border amid spat over prisoner swap

    06/08/2025 8:59:07 AM PDT · by kiryandil · 30 replies
    CNN Not News ^ | June 8, 2025 | Christian Edwards, Kosta Gak, Billy Stockwel
    Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap. “I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies of military personnel will also begin to move,” Lieutenant General Aleksandr Zorin said on Sunday, according to TASS news agency. The transfer of “more than 6,000 bodies” was agreed earlier this week during peace talks in Istanbul, Zorin said, blaming Ukraine for failing to “confirm receipt” of other bodies of Ukrainian soldiers which Russia claims it...
  • You have more to fear from the USPS than the IRS. (vanity)

    06/08/2025 8:12:56 AM PDT · by eastexsteve · 72 replies
    06/08/2025 | self
    This actually falls under the "you won't believe this" section, but I felt it was worth sharing.
  • A Brief History of Consumer Culture

    06/08/2025 8:09:32 AM PDT · by Languager · 13 replies
    MIT Press ^ | Jan 11, 2021 | Kerryn Higgs
    Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff...
  • The Modern Weaponization of Our National Security System Is The Lasting Legacy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder

    06/07/2025 10:40:06 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 16 replies
    theconservativetreehouse.com ^ | October 29, 2021 | Sundance
    SNIPThere is a distinct connection and similarity between how 9/11/01 was used and how the January 6th DC event is being used. That similarity is not accidental. In many ways what we are seeing is a replay by the same DC elements only they are two decades apart.Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national...
  • Why gay bars are closing — and what’s taking their place

    06/07/2025 9:45:38 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 57 replies
    Marketplace ^ | 6/13/24 | Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom
    Across the country, gay bars — often a fixture of queer nightlife — have been shuttered at an alarming pace. More than 45% closed between 2002 and 2023. But the closing of gay bars is prompting some to reimagine queer nightlife, argues Amin Ghaziani, a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Sabri Ben-Achour: So let’s start with this idea of the disappearing gay bar. This comes down to economics that I think are very relatable to a lot of businesses. It’s not that they’re not viable as a business, it’s that they’re getting priced out.
  • Secretariat’s Belmont Stakes 1973 & Extended Coverage

    06/07/2025 8:53:45 AM PDT · by NKP_Vet · 24 replies
    https://youtu.be/ ^ | June 25, 2012
    Secretariat’s unbelievable 1973 Belmont Stakes. The fastest Belmont ever ran. His track records in all three Triple Crown races still stand 52 years later.
  • What is with Veterinarians these days?

    06/06/2025 2:34:29 PM PDT · by OldGoatCPO · 41 replies
    Vanity ^ | 06/06/25 | OldGoatCPO
    [What if] Innovative education models, including competency-based, three-year DVM programs, distributed clinical models, professional skills training, shared faculty, asynchronous offerings, distance learning, and AI-assisted instruction, enable new graduates to enter the workforce as competent, confident, and financially stable professionals.
  • Kash Patel Tells Joe That Epstein Killed Himself(Video)

    06/06/2025 10:34:59 AM PDT · by Jayster · 33 replies
    Joe Rogan Experience(YouTube) ^ | June 6, 2025 | JRE Clips
    Kash Patel Tells Joe That Epstein Killed Himself On YouTube