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Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew on Tuesday after his involvement in racist leaked texts from Young Republicans leaders. Ingrassia announced that he is withdrawing from a hearing for his Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs appointment. Ingrassia reportedly described himself as having a “Nazi streak” in the messages that were leaked and first reported on by Politico. “I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time,” he wrote. “I appreciate the...

Former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showrunner Elon Musk raged at Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday, accusing him of “trying to kill NASA” in an angry series of tweets that included a derogatory nickname. Musk and Duffy had previously sparred over Musk’s efforts at DOGE. “I think it might not have been intentional, might have been ham-handed [like] some of the requests that were made by [the Department of Government Efficiency], but my position was, we are not going to fire air traffic controllers,” Duffy told The New York Post‘s Miranda Devine earlier this year. “Safety-critical positions are...

The House Judiciary Committee referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on Tuesday over allegations that he “knowingly made false statements” to Congress about his role in the Russia collusion hoax.In the letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained by The Federalist, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, argued that “Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.” (snip) The referral highlights numerous instances in which Brennan allegedly issued untrue remarks when testifying before...

There are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in the immediate future, a White House official said Tuesday, a pivot after Mr. Trump suggested last week that he would meet his Russian counterpart soon in Budapest to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine. Mr. Trump said last week that he planned on meeting with Mr. Putin after senior American and Russian officials spoke. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov then had a “productive call,” the official said. It is unclear whether Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin...

SNIP SOURCE A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to stay a district court order that had prevented the deployment of National Guard troops to the city. The majority opinion found it was likely that the president had lawfully exercised his statutory authority.(Via Politico) – A federal appeals court panel has backed President Donald Trump’s authority to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, concluding that though the president’s claims on social media “may exaggerate” the violence in the city, he may still have had a valid basis for the deployment.The 2-1 ruling, endorsed...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that there is an expiration date for Obamacare subsidies “because that was all that we could get. But we’ve been arguing for a renewal of those tax credits for months. So, I don’t accept that particular Republican talking point” that the expiration date Democrats put into place is a Democratic policy.

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO. Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers, according to the chat. “MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of...

This is the best all-time Trump I have ever seen (Unfotunately, it's for Spanish-speakers.). It features Trump as lead Cuban-style singer, Hegseth and Rubio on guitars and Cruz on the drums and backup singer. The gals may be Bondi, Noem and I can't recognize the third one. The message is that illegals, Democrats and Maduro have been pulling all kinds of garbage and Trump arrived to put a stop to it. Click here.

WASHINGTON — Spirit Christmas is kicking off its holiday season early, with the first of dozens of stores opening over the weekend. Spirit Halloween, known for seasonally popping up in hundreds of locations around the country and offering a wide variety of costume pieces and decorations for folks to prepare for the October holiday, is expanding its spinoff Christmas-themed stores. The company will open 30 Christmas-themed stores across the Northeastern U.S. this year. Spirit Halloween first teased the return of its Christmas-themed pop-up stores in August. The company recently shared on social media a tour inside its newly opened Mays...

House Republicans are raking in record cash as the government shutdown drags on — pulling in nearly $24 million between July and September, according to new fundraising numbers. More than half of that haul — about $13.95 million — came in September alone, just as the GOP prepared for a bruising political battle over federal spending. The fight has since escalated into a full-blown standoff that has left Washington paralyzed and the government shuttered for 20 days. The National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) September windfall marks its best non-election-year September ever, up roughly 50% from the same month last year....

Where I work in Austin, I deal with a LOT of Hispanic customers, primarily Mexicans. They have been telling me for some time that there is almost no construction work available. Today, two in a very short space of time said they have no work. Furthermore lemons, avocados, poblano peppers or other produce into the U.S. due to tariffs and are unloading tons of it on the side of rural highways for the locals to pick up for free. We are about to see major economic problems as the Trump Administration attempts to fix YEARS of problems caused by Godless...

Sadly, President Donald Trump faces innumerable threats from both foreign adversaries and domestic radicals prone to violence. These are people suffering from severe “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Last year, the President survived two assassination attempts. On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks somehow evaded all security personnel at the President’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He used a drone to scout the location and climbed onto the roof of the building nearest to the rally site. Incredibly, the Secret Service did not utilize drones and claimed the roof was too steep to position their agents prior to the event. Before a Secret...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) struggled to respond after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trolled him on Saturday with a photo of a demonstrator in a giant p**** costume at a “No Kings” protest. The demonstrator in question, apparently at a rally in Portland, Oregon, held a sign that read: “Deport Deez Nuts.” “Breaking: Gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot!” the DHS account added as a caption to the photo. “You’re an embarrassment,” was all the governor could manage in reply, after months of trying to imitate President Donald Trum

Just hours after President Donald Trump cancelled all subsidies with Colombia and warned leftist President Gustavo Petro that he would be taking action against drug-trafficking organizations within the country if the Colombian president failed to deal with them, War secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. Military had carried out a successful strike on a drug-trafficking boat linked to a leftist terrorist group. “On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the...

Long read. Worth it. nose rings have become a definitive tell… One particular trend that has gone viral and has feminists enraged is “nose ring theory,” also known as “septum ring theory.” The trend is based on an observable stereotype: The idea that many crazed feminists on social media tend to have the exact same physical characteristics. It’s the blue hair, the face, neck and full body tattoos, the high cut bangs and, of course, they almost always seem to have septum rings in their noses. Men have noticed the similarities and are now avoiding any woman with these features....

I was sitting in a Starbucks the other day, typing away on the laptop open in front of me, pausing to look out the window and watch the cars roll by every few minutes, when a young guy walked over and just started talking to me. Him: “Do you mind if I talk to you a bit? Would you like to have a conversation?” Me: “Um, sure. Have a seat. Are you working on a project or something? Writing something?” Him: “No. I’m just trying to talk to more people. I used to be really socially awkward, so a few...

Dear Military Veterans,I would like to create a table of military service for those who served in the Marines and want to be included. I have already created a separate table for Free Republic's Navy Veterans and I want to create separate tables for each. It will help me organize my work if I tackle one branch at a time.Please look at part of a table below which I have provided as an example, and see what I have in mind. I'm open to suggestions, but this table is a quick way to get started. However, I am busy these...

Sorry, Facebook friend says "fact-check", "it's a thing", and I don't have time for that. What do you think of these claims about how "cruel" and "horrible" Trump's raids are? I'll include another ass who posted her claims too. Of course they cry "racism" and of course, are very non-self-aware regarding "DISGUSTING, DESPICABLE" and "classy" when it comes to supporting endless riots!

[H/T HoneysuckleTN]A Portland-area man has been federally charged for allegedly using a laser to try to blind a pilot flying a Customs and Border Protection helicopter. The pilot had to abort the planned landing.When law enforcement arrived at Brian Keith Kapileo Nepaial's home, they found meth and evidence of drug trafficking. He's been charged for that, too. He is now the third person in the Portland area federally charged for using a laser to try to crash a federal aircraft. pic.twitter.com/qyTprLNw2U— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 17, 2025

A federal grand jury has indicted two far-left extremists with ties to Antifa-linked groups on terrorism charges in connection with a coordinated, ambush attack on a Texas ICE facility on July 4. The indictments, which were handed down Wednesday and unsealed Thursday, were issued against Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts on charges of providing material support for terrorism, attempting to murder federal and assisting officers and discharging firearms during attempted murders. “For the first time ever, the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support to terrorism,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a...