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Leftism is a death cult. Abortion. Sterilization and mutilation of children. Euthanasia. Sterilizing yourself over politics. 😂 @lpohutsky19 oh boy.. pic.twitter.com/LHJj4ORINt— Al-droner (@alden_olms) February 6, 2025Back in the bad old days it was the fascists and communists who forced sterilization on women for eugenic reasons. Now, leftie women and men are protesting Donald Trump, whom they claim is a fascist, because they refuse to bring children into a world where he exists. No doubt Elon Musk's pronatalism plays a role, too. If Elon wants more kids, then they refuse to have them. Take that, Elon!Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky sterilized...

The Department of Justice, FBI, and USAID are posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a malignant federal bureaucracy.Amid the hundreds of substantive executive actions President Donald Trump has taken in his first two weeks back in the White House, perhaps none matter more than his efforts at bureaucracy-busting. That notably includes what Julie Kelly calls a “Friday night massacre” days ago of the Department of Justice’s January 6 prosecutorial staff, which erased 30-40 temporary positions Biden’s DOJ had attempted to make permanent.Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, “arguably, he has done more in two weeks...

There is something unique about the color purple: Our brain makes it up. So you might just call purple a pigment of our imagination. It’s also a fascinating example of how the brain creates something beautiful when faced with a systems error. To understand where purple comes from, we need to know how our eyes and brain work together to perceive color. And that all begins with light. Light is another term for electromagnetic radiation. Most comes from the sun and travels to Earth in waves. There are many different types of light, which scientists group based on the lengths...

The world has entered the third nuclear age, and nuclear weapons are increasingly seen as valuable—and even usable—weapons by a growing number of states. Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, China’s rapid nuclear buildup, the United States’s unprecedentedly expensive nuclear modernization, and ongoing nuclear work in North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Iran all make clear the 21st century will be defined by nuclear risks.The re-election of President Trump is likely to accelerate many of these trends as US allies increasingly question whether the United States will defend their security in a crisis, all while it doubles down on its nuclear...

so, this happened today: for all that pardoning fauci is horrific (and it is) pardoning the jan 6 committee members may well be worse. these people lied and buried evidence to support absurd and over-charged prosecutions for blatantly partisan purposes. biden has essentially pardoned his co-conspirators in a coup and a 4 year show trial of lawfare against political opponents and the suppression of the data, footage, and testimony that would have laid plain how outlandish and unjust this was and wrecked the “trump is a lawless fascist who tried to stage an insurrection” narrative to which so much of...

Why do we Have Trump as President Today? I think it is due to one person, His Wife Melania Trump. And that Hat she wore at the recent inauguration tells the whole story, in my mind. Imagine Trump and his wife leaving the White House after the election and the Biden's are on their way in.And the Misses says "I'm not just done, I'm totally burned out, please can we have a break and just live our lives now, just you and I"? "Can you go and conquer something else for me for a while?" And Him saying something like...

Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World (Polity) which won the 2024 LCSCA Book Prize Since the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, Diaspora Jews have found themselves under sustained assault on a variety of fronts, from much of the radical left, and its Islamist allies.[1] People who pose as guardians of equality and anti-racism are leading violent demonstrations praising mass murder attacks against Israelis. They are urging the exclusion of all Jews who do not endorse their views from the mainstream of the social order. How...

President Donald Trump took the globalist elites to task at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos, Switzerland, delivering a bold, unapologetic speech that championed his “America First” agenda.Speaking remotely, Trump minced no words in criticizing NATO allies for their lackluster defense spending, challenging multinational corporations to invest in the U.S., and calling out Bank of America’s discrimination against conservatives.Trump’s speech, which came just days after his historic re-election, was a full-throttle repudiation of the disastrous policies of the Biden regime.Trump boldly confronted the globalists, declaring that their agenda is coming to an end. He announced that foreign aid...

Have you ever looked at a bath and thought “Nah, not today!”? Well, you are not alone, as bathing has been a very up-and-down trend across history and from culture to culture. Ancient Rome’s public baths could be a grand affair, with all classes of Roman society taking frequent hot soaks. This contrasts with people in early-modern Europe who avoided clean water altogether for fear that it caused illnesses. Then there are more recent times, when having baths and showers in the house is basically considered essential. These different trends raise the important question: what happens when humans decide not...

The width and color of tree rings provides an extraordinary glimpse into a tree's history. (Dmitr1ch/Shutterstock) How extreme weather leaves a lasting mark on trees and shrubs POZNAŃ, Poland — In the Arctic’s harsh borderlands, where trees wage a constant battle for survival, an international research team has discovered that extreme cold leaves lasting fingerprints in wood. These “blue rings,” visible only under a microscope, reveal centuries-old stories of climate disasters that once brought summer temperatures plunging to near-freezing. The study, published in Frontiers in Plant Science, examined pine trees and juniper shrubs in the Arctic. The research team ventured...

Position Paper: A Fundamentally Reformed Tax System: Shifting Federal Revenue Generation to State-Collected Business Taxes Executive Summary: This paper proposes a fundamental reform of the United States tax system, shifting the responsibility for generating federal revenue entirely to businesses through taxes collected at the state level. Under this system, the federal government would determine each state's total business revenue and levy a flat percentage tax on that amount. States would then have complete autonomy in designing their own business tax systems to collect these funds, eliminating the need for federal corporate or individual income taxes. This proposal aims to simplify...

Signs that we were once a truly great nation are all around us. Previous generations of Americans handed us the keys to the most magnificent domestic infrastructure that the world had ever seen, but now it is literally falling apart all around us. Thousands of bridges are structurally deficient and there have already been some very high profile collapses. Hundreds of thousands of miles of highways and roads in the United States are in very poor shape. Aging sewer systems are leaking raw sewage all over the place, and children are being slowly poisoned by lead pipes that desperately need...

Trump was considered reckless for wanting to start a war at the end of his term. Now, Biden is doing the same.President Joe Biden has less than a month in office, but that might be enough time to leave a very big mess on President-elect Donald Trump's desk. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan presented Biden with plans to bomb Iranian nuclear sites before the end of his term "in a meeting several weeks ago," Axios reported on Thursday. A source told Axios that Biden's inner circle believes that he has both "an imperative and an opportunity to strike" now. The...

TFAs, harmful fats linked to heart disease, can form during home cooking with sulfur-rich vegetables like garlic and onions at high temperatures. A Japanese study found this effect is minor under normal conditions but emphasized awareness of TFA risks. A new study reveals that garlic and onions contain compounds that can convert into trans fats when exposed to high cooking temperatures. Trans-fatty acids (TFAs) are a significant contributor to cardiovascular diseases. These harmful fats can build up on the walls of arteries, narrowing them and increasing the risk of heart attacks. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that TFAs are...

What if a centuries-old Amazonian brew held the key to better mental health and well-being? Ayahuasca, a psychoactive tea traditionally used in spiritual ceremonies, is once again making headlines after the most extensive study of its kind reveals promising associations between its use and improved mental health outcomes. “Ayahuasca has been used for centuries by Indigenous communities for healing and spiritual purposes, but despite its growing global popularity, its effects on mental health in contemporary settings are not well understood,” study co-author and adjunct associate professor at Swinburne University in Australia, Daniel Perkins, told PsyPost. “With more people around the...

I've noticed, as of late, the quality of the arguments on Free Republic have declined. This is especially true as regards the H1B argument. I have no intention of rehashing this argument, nor the points therein. I am speaking only to the tone and tenor of our forum participants. Musk did us no favors by being so confrontational about this issue, and may have inadvertently sparked the furor. I fault him for that. I see he's trying to cool this down now, and that is to his credit. However, it is my belief that the Deep State saw an opening...

When I read the New York Post article proclaiming that President Trump supports the fraudulent system known as H1B visa hiring, I knew something was amiss because we previously looked at Trump’s various business hires and use of the visa process.Apparently, the NY Post called President Trump to get him to weigh in on the controversial subject that has been triggered by Elon Musk saying he would “go to war on this issue” to maintain the H1B visa system -and subsequent foreign employment for tech skilled workers- his various companies depend upon.Here’s the topline takeaway from the article that has...

America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a...

We live in a high crime society. Nobody can dispute that fact, and it has been this way for a long time. But the crime wave that we have witnessed in recent years has been truly breathtaking. Tens of thousands of gangs are running wild in our major urban areas, and the growth of those gangs has been supercharged during the past four years thanks to the reckless border policies of the Biden administration. Now we have rampant lawlessness in our streets, and it certainly isn’t going to be easy to clean up this mess. The following are 15 facts...

FESTIVUS Each year on December 23rd, Festivus commemorates a holiday episode of the television comedy, Seinfeld. In 1997, the popular television comedy brought Festivus to the masses when Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) explains he invented the holiday in response to the commercialism of Christmas. Its slogan is "A Festivus for the rest of us." #Festivus Sitcoms often combine holidays and family discord. However, one only has to look to our own families to find a little humor. This holiday reminds us how easily we take things too seriously at times. Politics, traditions, grudges and more lead us down...