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Evidently I have been suspended from X. I can look but not forward or comment. I don't know why; perhaps I was intemperate. They tell me that I can petition to be unsuspected. I wonder why I would bother. X is like yelling at the stars. Nothing is accomplished. Anyone else here have that experience?

MAGA MomMom 1776 ?????? @magagrandmom 11h I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone. You can't justify this insanity....

I've about had it with the Senate emotionalism. Judiciary is a MAJOR committee assignment. We need hard chargers, with good legal minds, not Sociology & Rehabilitation Counseling degrees. We see every day the results of Jeff Flake, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, and yes, Lindsey Graham. Vote for Ralph Norman to get Lindsey Graham's sister OUT of the US Senate and OFF the Judiciary Committee!

Just wondering why more people are not noticing or pointing out the following: NAZI translates to National Socialist German Workers' Party. Seems a lot like Democrat Socialists of America.

I went into Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey expecting a cinematic event. Instead, I saw one of the worst movies ever made. I made it to the 90-minute mark before walking out, but I really should have bailed a half-hour in. We have been utterly bamboozled. As someone who appreciates a script that actually works, I can tell you this screenplay is nonsensical. Combine that with unwatchable lighting and completely incomprehensible audio, and the whole production just falls apart on screen. Matt Damon is completely miscast and entirely too soft to play Odysseus. Honestly, the campy old Steve Reeves movies or Sinbad...

For almost four decades, I did expert witness testimony in wrongful death cases. The purpose of such testimony is often to place an affected party in a position of financial indifference between a "before" and "after" event. It's the same premise for black reparations. Most enslaved Africans brought to the United States came from Senegambia and west-central Africa, including present-day Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon. I did a calculation that compared wages in these countries today and compared them to current black wages in the US. I then did a present value...

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I had to sign up for a google account to view a document by a former employer(edu) well over a decade ago. I have received notifications over the years that my account is going to be canceled because of lack of use. I just got another termination notice for the 5th or 6th time. LOL

In Kentucky, August 3 is a critical deadline regarding U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's seat. Due to a 2024 state law, if a Senate vacancy happens after August 3—which is 56 days prior to the November general election—a special election cannot take place, meaning the seat could potentially remain vacant until a new senator is elected.

Sorry I thought I posted this in chat previously. What ideas and hints do you have to make life easier and even more fun? Share the wealth? I'll start. Store cat food cans upside-down and it will come out easier. Kill creepy crawlies with damp paper towel. Waggle your fingers on one side of the monster and grab it with the wet towel or tissues from the other side. It works.

When Billy Christal gave his tribute to his friend, Robin Williams, a clip that played shortly after was of him stating that Robin had been up since 1948. I was born in 1948 . . . . February 29th in particular, and as The Dead stated . . . "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been".My 31 year old son and I have become very close in the last couple of years and I find myself remembering little vignettes of my life I relate back to him, and he said; "Dad, you should sit down and youtube all these things"Great...

So Trump's speech landed like a tree in the forest with no one listening. What could have made it more viral? I was thinking he could have started it with: "As I am speaking, the FBI is currently arresting hundreds of people connected to voter fraud..."

Does anyone know who this guy is?? Dr. Mark Brauner? Any Freepers in the medical field who ever heard of him or watched his videos? I came across him tonight and spent quite a lot of time watching his videos, and I came to the conclusion the guy is - to put it blunt - utterly full of sh** although I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Every video is basically the same - Israel bashing, genocide accusations, Israelis are killing children, Israelis are mass murdering innocent people - always the children, the children - always Israel, yet...

Anyone notice Amazon delivery is getting unreliable lately? I mean the past two months or so? I just a run of bad luck for me?

What an improvement he will be! Conservative Review Liberty Score: Ralph Norman 92% Lindsey Graham 43%

I haven't been here in a long time because something changed with the front resolution or whatever and now it's super tiny and even though I have my settings on maximum font and display there is no way to comfortably browse this site anymore but I miss it so I'm reaching out to find out if anything can be done.

I clicked on my bookmark for Free Republic. The splash page came up. And then in dawned on me: Free Republic is 30 years old this year!

Several weeks ago I noticed that excerpts from articles no longer appear below the article's title, as they used to. I can't find any setting that would restore them. Is there such a setting at the personal level? Or was this a system-wide change? If it was system-wide, I would advocate for restoring the excerpts on the main forum page.

Seems like I might be looking at left hip replacement surgery in coming weeks. Has anyone had this done? If so, at what age? What were symptoms that led to the decision for the surgery? Experience with pain, hospitalization, PT, general recovery? Anything you wish you had done differently either before or after? Thank you. This is not something I ever really thought would be part of my future and am trying to prepare myself for whatever is to be expected.

A systematic dissection of the Vatican’s legal framework reveals what independent canonists and traditionalists view as a deep-seated crisis of consistency within modern Catholic governance. When the theological and legal arguments used against the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) are laid bare alongside the treatment of the Eastern Orthodox amd protestants, the structural defense provided by Rome (that it is merely maintaining public order and guarding the sacred nature of the sacramental contract) it effectively implodes under the weight of its own internal contradictions. What remains is a system that appears to onlookers not as a defense of immutable...