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https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2005049676886933967Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmeleBefore Your Heart Ever Beat Once, Thousands of Cells Made a Silent Decision That Still Controls You Today.Before a heart ever beats, life organizes itself in complete silence.Scientists have captured the exact moment when cardiac cells begin acting as one second before the very first heartbeat exists.No heart chamber.No pumping.No pulse.Instead, thousands of individual cells synchronize their electrical signals, creating a wave of energy that triggers the heart's first contraction - and sets a rhythm that can last a lifetime.Using fluorescent proteins and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, researchers watched this electrical chain reaction spread, transforming biological chaos into perfect coordination.This is...

A fringe white nationalist is generating millions of views of anti-Indian content. Research reveals 61% of his engagement comes from bot farms in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Russia. There is a particular moment in every demagogue’s career when rhetoric turns into a project. Not the early period of noisy adolescence, when insult functions merely as theatre, or even the intermediate stage when vitriol becomes an organising principle. No, the moment that matters is when hatred acquires a constituency, when contempt ceases to be performance and instead aspires to become politics. Nick Fuentes has arrived at that moment. For years, Fuentes existed...

When the people vote against democracy.The social media hashtag #NeverTrump first appeared in June 2015, days after Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy. For the balance of that year, social media derision attracted less attention than Trump himself, mostly due to the widespread belief that Trump’s campaign was self-extinguishing, which argued against pointless efforts to bring about an already inevitable defeat. In election cycles since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 landslide victory, unlikely protest candidates for the GOP presidential nomination—Pat Robertson, Ron Paul, Herman Cain—had briefly surged in the polls, only to give way to a conventional politician who ended up as...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) said that she hopes extremists will be deterred by the strikes in Nigeria, “But if they don’t, I do think that Congress needs to take the step of declaring, or at least taking the vote to declare, because we don’t want to see more unilateral action out of the administration, whether it’s Republican or Democrat.”Host Cheryl Casone asked, “Congresswoman, your reaction to these new strikes in Nigeria. The president had warned the Nigerian government ahead of time, and, apparently, that government agreed that these strikes...

SummaryThe video debunks five myths about socialism and seven myths about capitalism.Myths about Socialism:"That wasn't real socialism" – The Soviet Union and Venezuela closely matched socialist principles (abolishing private property, state control of production), yet both resulted in economic failure and hardship.Venezuela's collapse was due to poor governance or falling oil prices, not socialism – Socialism inherently prevents the decentralized adjustments markets make, leading to shortages and mismanagement regardless of external factors like oil prices or sanctions."Democratic socialism" works – Even democratically elected socialist leaders (e.g., Chávez, Maduro) centralize economic control, making it impossible to remove them democratically and leading...

From the island of Kekova, off the southern coast of Turkey, renowned underwater archaeologist Hakan Öniz takes viewers on a journey through the underwater wonders of Turkey. Turkey's Island of 400 Ancient Shipwrecks The SpeciaList | BBC | 4:04 BBC Global | 717K subscribers | 32,063 views | November 24, 2024

In 1988, if you had told anyone that the Soviet Union would cease to exist just four years later, you would have been dismissed as a crank. The institutions looked solid, the bureaucracy entrenched, and the power absolute. Yet by 1992, it was history. Today, European politicians in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris suffer from the same dangerous optimism. They believe they are so safely ensconced in their institutional frameworks that public anger can never truly throw them out of the saddle. But looking at the trajectory of the European Union, I believe we are closer to a revolutionary moment than...

RE: Fraud in Minnesota I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe. I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of...

For many Americans, charitable giving peaks in December. It is driven by holiday generosity, end-of-year reflection, and for some, last-minute tax planning. But a quiet change in the tax code is about to reshape how millions of taxpayers should think about charitable donations. Timing now matters more than ever. Starting in tax year 2026, Americans who do not itemize deductions will once again be able to deduct charitable donations. This time, the benefit is permanent and more generous than before. For the roughly 90 percent of filers who typically take the standard deduction, waiting until January instead of donating in...

Generation Z is taking over. In the rich world there are at least 250m people born between 1997 and 2012. About half are now in a job. In the average American workplace, the number of Gen Z-ers (sometimes also known as “Zoomers”) working full-time is about to surpass the number of full-time baby-boomers, those born from 1945 to 1964, whose careers are winding down (see chart 1). America now has more than 6,000 Zoomer chief executives and 1,000 Zoomer politicians. As the generation becomes more influential, companies, governments and investors need to understand it. Recent “research” from Frito-Lay, a crisp-maker,...

[Catholic Caucus] No Room at the Inn: A Christmas Music Video for the Latin MassA Tribute to Traditional Catholics in Charlotte, Tennessee, and DetroitNo Room at the Inn is a simple folk ballad written as a protest and a prayer in the wake of the quiet extinguishing of the Traditional Latin Mass across large swaths of the United States. It is for Catholics who have watched parish doors close, altar rails removed, and ancient worship pushed to the margins under the language of “unity,” “implementation,” and “pastoral care.”The title is not metaphorical flourish. It is descriptive. The Latin Mass has...

GIVING There is a story of two young men who were working their way through Stanford University. The day came when they were broke, and something had to be done. One of them had an idea. They would engage the great Paderewski for a piano recital and put their profits toward their board and tuition. All they had to do was guarantee two thousand dollars. The recital was held but only sixteen hundred dollars was raised. Following the performance, the two young men went to Paderewski, offered him the $1600 and added a promissory note for $400 which indicated...

THE WORDS “retirement community” summon up images of easy chairs, overcooked food and endless daytime TV. Latitude Margaritaville, a community being built near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, quickly disabuses these. “There was a toga party this past weekend,” says Lynette, a resident. “There was a live band, and it was a riot.” Barbie, another of the community’s “ambassadors” (residents employed by the developers to help sell it to potential newcomers), compares living there to “starting college all over again”. There are, she says, “drinks on the driveway, cocktails on the concrete”. If Margaritaville’s residents are representative of their...

Owens, Gaines and Fuentes, blinded by shared antisemitism, forget Hitler would have viewed them as Untermenschen, unworthy of life. They'd be statistics in the death camps, not allies. Adolf Hitler would be turning in his grave if he could see that loudest cheerleaders aren't the blond, blue-eyed Übermenschen he dreamed of, but a motley crew of Islamic extremists, Mexican nationalists, Black conservatives, and mixed-race provocateurs

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas officials are warning the public about a fraud scheme that could impact gift cards sold across parts of Texas. The Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center (FCIC) arrested three men, accusing them of stealing about $14 million from gift cards purchased at stores from Dallas-Fort Worth to Central Texas and across the Gulf Coast. In a press release, investigators with FCIC said the three men were arrested for the scheme, which was believed to have started back in May 2025. FCIC said the process they allegedly used to scam consumers is known as gift card cloning. It...

A potent winter storm brings blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes and dangerous icing to the Northeast Sunday through Monday. Simultaneously, an arctic front plunges southward to clash with record warmth across the South. Video is 10:19 minutes long

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

As Hillary Clinton closed in on the presidential nomination in the spring of 2016, FBI field officers advised colleagues at headquarters to press her on the foreign donations flowing to the Clinton Foundation while she steered American foreign policy and whether she had used the charity as a campaign piggy bank. But the FBI HQ in Washington — a city in which the former secretary of state and first lady wields enormous influence — let the trail go cold. FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez advised agents in Washington to ask Clinton several questions about the foundation,...

One Australian politician has said the quiet part out loud It’s not often the Premier of New South Wales says something that changes the political debate in the UK and elsewhere, but so it is this week. Following the awful carnage on Bondi Beach, NSW Premier Chris Minns gave a press conference about new legal restrictions on speech, and said this: “I acknowledge that we don’t have the same free speech rules that they have in the United States and I make no apologies for that, we have got a responsibility to knit together our community, that comes from different...

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