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They really did this. VIDEO AT LINK.............. The caption is perfect. This is who Republicans in Congress are trying to take food away from. Banner Ad Remember that Oliver Anthony song that says "if you're 5-foot-3 and 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds"? Anyway, here are the replies: COMMENTS AT LINK....................... I'm just scratching the surface of the comments, y'all. 👇 I didn't even include any of the funniest cruelest jokes.

Not long ago scientists had the novel idea to kill mosquitoes by turning our very own blood into a toxic, insect-killing death substance: Not surprisingly, I think most of us were like: Banner Ad So it would appear that the scientists have reverted to Mosquito Killing Plan B: Researchers in Maryland may have figured out a way that turns their affinity for breeding against them — leaving them disinterested in you until they die off days later. Entomologists at the University of Maryland traveled to West Africa to test their theory out. They took venom from spiders and scorpions and...

The media is trying so hard. The left-wing shills at Politico have seized on the chaos in California hoping it can be manipulated to catapult the state's Democrat governor into the national conversation. Trump has catapulted Newsom to the front of the Democratic resistance.The California Gov was overshadowed by Washington politics and Harris' political future. Now, he's back in the spotlight.https://t.co/3oBTeBwmPz— POLITICO (@politico) June 10, 2025But if this is his audition for 2028, it's not going very well. California Governor Gavin Newsom is up to his armpits in another mess of his own making. The progressive poser who during his...

Police say that around 12:15 pm, a skydiving plane crashed on Old Shelbyville Road in Tullahoma, Tenn., near the Tullahoma Regional Airport on Sunday. Allegedly, there were approximately 16 to 20 people on the plane. Four individuals were taken to the hospital, two of them with critical injuries, while the other two sustained non-critical injuries. Supposedly, the aircraft was reportedly a Tullahoma skydiving plane that crashed after clipping some trees, landing next to the Beechcraft Museum. Local authorities are at the scene, and FAA officials are on their way to the scene to start their investigation. This is an ongoing...

Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4, tried to blackmail engineers in internal tests by threatening to expose personal details if it were shut down, according to a newly released safety report that evaluated the model’s behavior under extreme simulated conditions. In a fictional scenario crafted by Anthropic researchers, the AI was given access to emails implying that it was soon to be decommissioned and replaced by a newer version. One of the emails revealed that the engineer overseeing the replacement was having an extramarital affair. The AI then threatened to expose the engineer’s affair if the shutdown proceeded—a...

If we are about to be taken over by Artificial Intelligence Overlords, I know for a fact that Google is NOT behind it. Everyone on the planet knows that Google has become, well... The AI from Google is especially screwed up and gives the worst answers in the world. People were happy to share some of the worst examples. Seriously ... how does Google's AI suck SO bad?! It must be purposeful, right? ============================================================================= SEE THE MANY EXAMPLES AT THE LINK. TOO MANY TO POST, BUT GOOGLE NEEDS TO SUE TEMSELVES FOR THIS TRAVESTY....................BUT IT'S FUNNY AS HELL!..................

Catholics, habemus papam! White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel early in the evening, and now Catholics have their pope: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, the first American pope, though he's also a Peruvian citizen. He takes the name Pope Leo XIV. The decision took around 24 hours and saw Prevost's election on the fourth vote. Some background on Pope Leo XIV: Born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois, Prevost entered the novitiate of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) in 1977 and made his solemn vows in 1981 ... His career in the Church has been marked...

This CNN segment was actually going quite well until CNN's Isobel Yeung sat down with a member of the Sinaloa Cartel and treated him as some sort of a victim of Donald Trump's anti-cartel policies. You gotta see this: VIDEO AT LINK.................. According to the Trump administration, you are a terrorists, I mean the cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization. What do you make of that? What's your message to Donald Trump if he's watching this? Yes, these are the questions CNN asked to a flippin' Sinaloa Cartel member who makes fentanyl for consumers in the U.S. Bro's...

Millions of people around the world are tuning it watch the Swedish moose migrate to their summer grazing pastures. "Den Stora Älgvandringen" aka "The Great Moose Migration" is an example of what is known as "slow TV", where people watch nature on live-capture cameras, instead of going out and experiencing it for themselves. The moose live feed runs for 20 days, 24/7, and includes the moose walking the same trek they have for 1000s of years, including crossing the Ångerman River, 186 miles north of Stockholm. https://www.svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen We have the same thing here in the states like this eagle live...

The FAA says there are about 20,000 wildlife strikes on planes every year, but Flight UA2325 from Denver to Edmonton was taken down by a RABBIT.

We can all only hope we'll be this prepared when disaster — any kind of disaster! — eventually strikes: A Tennessee family managed to save their home from biblical floods by building their own levee around the property. The Humphrey family home in Ridgely - about three hours outside of Nashville - was seen untouched by brown, murky flood water on April 8 after severe rainfall trapped more than 100 people in the area. Miraculously, the large home was still standing, as incredible aerial images posted to Facebook showed it sitting alone in the middle of a disaster zone while...

What religion is this? United Methodist Minister explains that praying to God as 'Our Father' can be painful, damaging, and traumatic for some, so she advises to pray instead 'Our Grandmother who art in heaven' or 'Our coach....'From Grandville Church in Lancaster. pic.twitter.com/8QMrK6l5OD— Protestia (@Protestia) April 7, 2025Whether you pray 'Our Father in heaven,' or 'Our mother in heaven,' or 'Our parent in heaven,' it makes no difference in terms of the prayer itself. The Apostle Paul is quite literally rolling over in his grave right now. God, by His own Word, is OUR FATHER. Jesus refers to God as...

That's right: He didn't leave the kids at the restaurant until THREE HOURS LATER, according to the cops and the witnesses who called the authorities. The oldest child, the 10-year-old daughter, told officers that her dad was going to deliver "a bag" to her mom. The police contacted the mom and the dad and asked them both to come to the McDonald's, where the police then arrested dad. Louis claimed that, while delivering the bag (which apparently never made it to mom?), he lost his ID and was out searching for it.

What do you think, guys? Does she seem like a great marriage prospect? [Warning: She swears like a sailor] I'm a very liberal woman, so I am obviously, like, very much everyone knows that I'm a liberal woman. My brother's gay. All my friends are gay also, like, abortion rights, female rights. But anyway, so I would, like, always ask him. I'd be like, 'What like, what's what's your politics? Like, what do you who do you where do you lean?' And he was just like, 'Well, like, socially, I'm a liberal, but, economically, I'm a Republican.' F*** that! The...

Brentwood Union Free School District changed its teams’ names to the “Spartans” from the “Indians” after New York State banned public schools from using Native American mascots. The district took a vote last April to choose a name to replace the Indians and selected the Spartans after “an inclusive process that involved input from students, staff and the broader community,” schools superintendent Wanda Ortiz-Rivera told Newsday. The district’s then-superintendent estimated in 2023 that changing its teams’ names from the Indians could cost more than $400,000. Now, the district is set to adopt the Spartans name at the conclusion of the...

Not the brightest tool in the shed 😆 VIDEO AT LINK..................... HE TRIED TO RAM HIS MARIO KART INTO A CYBERTRUCK 💀 Demarqeyun Cox, 33, had apparently been using the world's worst getaway car to ram multiple Teslas in the area of Texarkana, Texas. Fat man on a tiny bike ... I can't stop laughing The Texarkana Police Department put out this statement: We arrested 33 year old Demarqeyun Cox this afternoon after he allegedly damaged multiple Tesla vehicles in separate incidents across the city today. The first report came from the Golden Palace restaurant on Summerhill Road, where surveillance...

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Joy: "You can't make Canada the 51st state without going to war with them. And let me explain how that worked out the last time we tried to go to war with Canada. They burned the White House to the ground in 1814! And won the war! Canada beat us in the War of 1812! They probably like their chances against us. We're not going to beat them in a war because we have never been able to do that."

VIDEOS AT LINK.................... This is really cool. After a 9-month stay in space, Crew 9 returned in SpaceX's Dragon capsule. But it gets even cooler. As the astronauts touched down, a pod of curious dolphins swam up to greet the returning astronauts. SERIOUSLY, HOW COOL IS THIS? What an incredible moment. The astronauts then emerged, feeling full Earth gravity for the first time in almost a year. One of the most inspiring and heartwarming moments of the year. Surely this is a bipartisan moment everyone can celebrate, right? Eh, probably not.

It's happening! Employees have until 6 p.m. to leave the building. I found the dumbest take about this news: Balloonhead. Reminder: We've covered just how awful the federal education department is: Biden's Department of Education spent $1 billion to promote DEI in schools Remember days of yore, I don't know, 2022 maybe, when we were told that Critical Race Theory isn't in schools? https://notthebee.com/article/bidens-department-of-education-spent-1-billion-to-promote-dei-in-schools The Department of Education is flying a Pride flag because of course it is I'm sorry, but what is this? https://notthebee.com/article/the-department-of-education-is-flying-a-pride-flag-and-please-tell-me-more-about-how-theyre-not-pushing-gay-stuff-on-our-kids The Department of Education decided to highlight a "non-binary" school librarian for National Library Week...

I regret to inform you the megachurch pastors are at it again. Rick Warren, the former pastor of Saddleback Church, just posted this gem on X: Ok, where to start with this one? Ok, so since Jesus was on the middle cross between two thieves, we should be ... politically centrist? That seems like ... a bit of a stretch?