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  • “Straight Up Evil”: Tranny Ideology Should Be Outlawed and “Eradicated” From Public Life

    09/03/2025 6:48:35 AM PDT · by ViLaLuz · 33 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | Sept.2, 2025 | Bob Unruh
    Besides the harm the transgender ideology does to individuals, leaving boys being less than boys and girls less than girls after “treatment,” the lost families and lives, the multiple mass killers that have come from that lifestyle, there is a “threat” to public safety, and “as such, it should be outlawed and eradicated form public life.” ...
  • President Donald J. Trump’s 11 LIFE-CHANGING LESSONS!

    09/01/2025 9:14:21 PM PDT · by bitt · 13 replies
    https://truthsocial.com ^ | 9/1/2025 | THE WHITE HOUSE
    President Donald J. Trump’s 11 LIFE-CHANGING LESSONS! https://truthsocial.com/@WhiteHouse/115131985797538661
  • ‘It’s a joke’: San Jose Mayor slams California Legislature over lack of Prop 36 funding

    09/01/2025 5:14:38 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    ktla ^ | Aug 29, 2025 | Naythan Bryant
    San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan criticized Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature over a lack of funding for Proposition 36 on this week’s edition of Inside California Politics. Mahan called the $100 million allocation ’embarrassing’ during a wide-ranging interview on homelessness, mental health services, crime and more. “I’m disappointed frankly,” Mahan told host Nikki Laurenzo. “We said during the Prop 36 campaign it’s a two-step process — the voters need to make clear that they expect accountability for retail theft and they want to see people get treatment, and then the governor and the legislature need to fund expanded...
  • WRITERS GUILD: How to Publish Your eBook on Kindle

    09/01/2025 6:33:33 AM PDT · by Lazamataz · 62 replies
    Original Content | September 1, 2025 | By Laz A. Mataz
    I have two items to write about today. The first is, I was selected for a BookBub Featured Deal. This is a huge accomplishment! BookBub is a very respected, very prestigious book listing service. Historically, only one out of four titles are accepted, but I'm hearing that the current numbers are more like one out of twenty. For a new author, it's unheard of to be selected. In fact, in a writer's private TwitterX group, I was hearing "How did you *do* that??!" and "I've been trying to get on BookBub for YEARS now..." Second, the title of this thread...
  • Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 09/01/2025 Vol.511, Q Day 2866

    08/31/2025 9:08:15 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 7,378 replies
    Qalerts.app ^ | 09/01/2025 | FReeQs, FReepers, LurQers and Vanity
    Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115119962578158249 Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDTQ !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).>Decide for yourself (be objective in your...
  • Is Donald Trump dead? Rumours hit social media after president disappeared for days

    08/30/2025 6:20:37 PM PDT · by Jayster · 73 replies
    Metro(UK) ^ | Aug 30, 2025 | Brooke Davies
    Rumours have flooded social media Donald Trump is dead. The US president has only just been seen in public for the time in two days, giving the internet plenty of momentum to speculate on where he is. It comes after the 79-year-old was spotted with poorly blended and colour-matched concealer on his hand, sparking rumours of bruising and cannula usage. Vice President JD Vance, in trying to quash the rumours, only made it worse, insisting he is ready to take the top job in case of a ‘terrible tragedy’. He told USA Today: ‘Yes, terrible tragedies happen. But I feel...
  • Verizon customers report phone outages, with devices limited to SOS mode

    08/30/2025 3:52:31 PM PDT · by TermLimits4All · 17 replies
    CBS News ^ | 08/30/2025 | Kiki Intarasuwan
    Verizon customers across the U.S. Saturday reported issues with the network on their cellphones, with some saying that their devices have been limited to SOS mode for several hours.
  • ‘Taylor Swift Tax’ Sparks a New Housing War—and Your State Could Be Next

    08/30/2025 11:17:27 AM PDT · by Jacquerie · 31 replies
    Realtor.com ^ | August 14th 2025 | ALLAIRE CONTE
    Taylor Swift’s $17 million Rhode Island mansion isn’t just a star-studded backdrop anymore—it’s ground zero for a growing tax revolt aimed at the wealthy. Starting next summer, the state will slap a new surcharge on vacation homes worth $1 million or more, a move already dubbed the “Taylor Swift Tax.” The goal: Make deep-pocketed second-home owners pay more, and set the stage for a wave of similar crackdowns from Montana’s mountains to Connecticut’s suburbs. And yet, at the very top of the market, wealthy buyers are still scooping up real estate. As of April 2025, the $1 million-plus category has...
  • 3 dead after mob sets fire to Indonesian regional parliament building

    08/30/2025 8:19:57 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    NPR ^ | 08/30/2025
    An angry mob set fire to a local parliament building in an Indonesian provincial capital, leaving at least three people dead and five others hospitalized, officials said. The blaze in Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi province, began late Friday. Television reports showed the provincial council building ablaze overnight, causing the area to turn an eerie orange color. Rescuers retrieved three bodies by Saturday morning, while five people were hospitalized with burns or with broken bones after jumping from the building, said Fadli Tahar, a local disaster official. Protesters in West Java's Bandung city also set a regional parliament...
  • Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman’s mom once starred in a film directed by daughter she gave up for adoption

    08/30/2025 8:07:49 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/29/2025 | Shane Galvin
    The mother of transgender Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman once appeared in a movie made by her daughter — who she gave up for adoption as a child, a report revealed. Mary Grace Westman, 67, starred in the short film “Mary Meets Grace,” written and directed by her biological daughter, Faryl Amadeus, 44, who was adopted as a child from Kentucky, the Daily Mail reported. Faryl Amadeus, 44, is the filmmaker daughter of Mary Grace Westman, the mother of transgender mass shooter Robin Westman.In 2005, Amadeus traveled to Minnesota to meet her ‘five half-siblings,’ which would include a then 3-year-old...
  • I Tried the Viral Pillsbury Hack and Will Never Bake Cinnamon Rolls Any Other Way

    08/30/2025 5:06:12 AM PDT · by Twotone · 37 replies
    GetPocket.com ^ | unknown | Patty Catalono
    As the primary cook in my house, I’m always looking for smart shortcuts that deliver delicious results. While I adore homemade cinnamon rolls, the time and effort involved means I reserve them for lazy weekend baking projects or holidays. For all other times, I reach for a tube of refrigerated cinnamon rolls. If you’ve been anywhere near TikTok or Instagram in the last few years, you’ve likely seen cascades of heavy cream poured over refrigerated rolls in kitchens across the country. I first saw this hack from MacKenzie Smith of @grilledcheesesocial. She credits @mississippi_kween and @manthacancook with the inspiration, but...
  • 10-year-old “America's Got Talent” performer shreds the guitar on Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' (Video)

    08/29/2025 10:49:05 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 15 replies
    Entertainment via Yahoo ^ | 08 07 2025 | Raechal Shewfelt
    A pint-sized guitarist, 10-year-old Bay Melnick Virgolino, had the America's Got Talent audience rocking out on Monday's second round of the quarterfinals. He is young, yes, but not shy about showing celebrity judges Mel B, Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, and Sofia Vergara what he could do with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" in the last moments of the live episode. They were loving it as much as the crowd. "Wow, wow, wow!" Vergara said. "What a way to close the show. You're like a mini rock star!" SNIP
  • Gavin Newsom Joins Democrats in Mocking Child Victims of Catholic School Shooting

    08/29/2025 10:29:39 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 34 replies
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) joined other Democrats in mocking the idea of prayer in the wake of the mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis this week, noting that the children were praying at the time.In a post on X, responding to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claim that “prayer works,”, Newsom said: “There children were literally praying as they got shot at,” implying that prayer does not work.
  • 'India put us on the boat like captives - then threw us in the sea'

    08/28/2025 4:11:57 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    BBC ^ | 08/28/2025 | Samira Hussain
    40 Rohingya refugees allegedly deported by the Indian government to Myanmar... Three months after they were removed from India's capital, the BBC managed to contact the refugees.... Most are staying with the Ba Htoo Army (BHA), a resistance group fighting the military in the south-west of the country. On 6 May the 40 Rohingya refugees...were taken to their local police stations under the guise of collecting biometric data. This is a yearly process mandated by the Indian government where Rohingya refugees are photographed and fingerprinted. After several hours they were taken to the Inderlok Detention Centre in the city, they...
  • Foreign Government May Have Obtained Classified Intel From John Bolton

    08/28/2025 2:42:35 PM PDT · by Signalman · 2 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 8/27/2025 | Cullen McCue
    New details have emerged surrounding the investigation into former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who may have allowed a foreign government to gain access to classified intelligence when publishing a memoir in 2020, according to a bombshell report from the New York Times. Despite constant allegations from Democrats and mainstream media pundits of political targeting on the part of the Trump Administration, The Times reported that the current investigation into Bolton “began to pick up steam” during the Biden presidency. Intelligence officials began to investigate after obtaining evidence that he may have mishandled classified information, according to unnamed sources familiar...
  • A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

    08/28/2025 6:32:32 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 31 replies
    ProPublica ^ | July 15, 2025
    "Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage. (snip) “If I were an operative, I would look at that as an avenue for extremely valuable access. We need to...
  • ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center May Be Empty Within Days

    08/27/2025 3:53:55 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 16 replies
    New York Times ^ | Aug. 27, 2025 | Patricia Mazzei
    The number of people being held at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades has decreased sharply and may soon be down to zero, despite the state’s recent insistence that the 2,000 beds at the facility were desperately needed as part of President Trump’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants. Kevin Guthrie, the executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, wrote in an email on Friday that the detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, was “probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.” The email, obtained by The New York Times, was sent to the...
  • Transcript: President Trump Remarks on FIFA World Cup, Putin, DC Crime

    08/27/2025 11:00:15 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 1 replies
    singjupost.com ^ | August 22, 2025 | President Trump, transcript by Pangambam S
    Read the full transcript of President Trump’s remarks on FIFA World Cup, Putin, DC Crime from Oval Office on August 22, 2025. Trump delivers remarks from the Oval Office alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino regarding the FIFA World Cup, while also addressing DC crime statistics and economic updates.Major FIFA World Cup AnnouncementPRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, we have a very big announcement to make today. You all know Gianni, he came all the way from Italy, the beautiful country of Italy to be with us. He just got off the plane and he’s a hardworking guy, does a phenomenal...
  • German government approves bill on new model of military service — agency

    08/27/2025 9:31:40 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 7 replies
    TASS ^ | August 27, 2025 | TASS
    BERLIN, August 27. /TASS/. The German government has endorsed Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’s bill on a new model of military service, the DPA news agency reported.The bill introduces a voluntary military service similar to Sweden, where all school leavers are subject to military examination but only some eventually enter active service. The document also contains certain "mandatory elements," which in particular reinstate the examination of conscripts and oblige all men between 18 and 25 years old to fill out a form with a paragraph on their readiness to perform military service. Women may do so voluntarily.The authorities aim to make...
  • Cracker Barrel lost their mind. They must be smoking crack.

    08/26/2025 10:48:28 PM PDT · by Morgana · 23 replies
    Terrence K Williams youtube ^ | August 26, 2025 | Terrence K Williams
    I created CousinTs.com after they came for Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben. If they can erase them, they’ll erase anybody. Not me. Not us. Terrence is upset and is not holding back on Cracker Barrel. "we did not ask for this".