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Blue and orange hair. Facial piercings. Ink enough to qualify as cartography. Political buttons, tote bags, and protest signs everywhere. It was the sort of gathering where the certainty of the attendees seemed inversely proportional to their experience with the consequences of their ideas. No, this was not the premiere of a Japanese manga film; this was Chicago, where the Democratic Socialists of America gathered for its 2026 Democratic Socialists Summit and National Organizing Conference. The organization invited members to spend four days on political education, organizer development, skills training, and social activities. There were five principal tracks: Palestine Solidarity...

🚨 WOW! A liberal Miami-Dade judge who tried BLOCKING Donald Trump's Presidential Library was just UNSEATED by conservative Destiny Alvarez, 30, in last night's election Florida FAFO 🔥🔥 Sitting Judge Mavel Ruiz STONEWALLED the land transfer for Trump's library construction from Miami Dade College. She was eventually forced to lift it. Now she's going to be replaced by Destiny Alvarez LFG 👏🏻

Spanish police and residents report widespread sexual violence by illegal migrants in Ceuta, as local authorities struggle to address safety and humanitarian concerns. PULSE POINTS ❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Spanish police officers are raising concerns about reported sexual assaults involving migrant in Ceuta, saying some victims have been targeted near the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants and dragged to surrounding settlements in the hills and mountains and gang raped. Police and residents have alleged that groups of women and minors avoid straying from areas around police vehicles because they fear being attacked in isolated terrain. 📺 DETAIL: Spanish Civil Guard sources...

An unhinged Long Island man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to travel to Washington, DC, to “put a bullet” in US Attorney Jeanine Pirro‘s head. Daniel Kretsinger, of Hauppauge, New York, posted two vile and menacing videos to X on June 30, threatening violence against Pirro and further suggesting he may also attempt to assassinate President Trump, according to a criminal complaint filed earlier this month in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. “Because you’re such a lying despicable piece of s–t,” Kretsinger allegedly said in a terrifying video replying to an X post...

Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico once delivered a sermon titled “God is not a Christian” as part of a fiery rebuke of conservatives whom the Democrat accused of trying to transform America into a theocracy. Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and Texas state rep., admitted in his 2023 sermon that he is sometimes reluctant to share his faith, while warning, “There is a cancer on our religion.” “God is so much bigger than our human categories. God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb. God is not a...

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The US is at a heightened risk of a catastrophic blackout that could last up to 18 months due to aging power grid infrastructure that takes agonizingly long to update and is potentially vulnerable to a precision weapon strike. The alarming vulnerability was brought to light in 2013 by Jon Wellinghoff, former chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), after a coordinated attack on a California electrical substation in April 2013. The gunmen fired 120 shots, taking out an alarming 17 transformers at a Pacific Gas and Electric’s Metcalf electrical substation just outside San Jose, New York Times Magazine...

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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 - 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. The Harvest is past, the Summer is ended, and we are not saved. (Jer. 8:20)

"[Love] is not provoked" (1 Cor. 13:5). Self-centered anger cannot coexist with love. The great eighteenth-century preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards had a daughter with an uncontrollable temper. When a young man asked Dr. Edwards for his daughter's hand in marriage, he said no. The young man was crushed. "But I love her and she loves me," he pleaded. "That makes no difference," Edwards replied, "she isn't worthy of you." "But she is a Christian, isn't she," the young man argued. "Yes," said Edwards, "but the grace of God can live with some people with whom no one else could...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the ChurchBut when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:11–14Among the many layers in today’s...

"I visited Piddington in Oxfordshire, a village that is planning a referendum on becoming independent from the United Kingdom and could potentially then ask to join the United States. The move is in response to a British government proposal to house 1,200 asylum seekers at a former military base on the outskirts of the village of 350 people. I spoke to parish council chair Tim McNally and other villagers about their plans and how joining the USA could change Piddington. If you're American please let me know what you think in the comments!"

Ossoff said, “It’s been amazing to watch this White House meltdown over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayers, with immense power in positions of public trust. And whether it’s Natalie Harp printing out Donald Trump’s daily dose of delusion and flattery, or Peter Navarro steering taxpayer funded loans to Trump family investments, or Pete Hegseth deluding the president daily into deepening this quagmire in the Middle East, no one cares about their feelings.”

Imagine if a magazine staffer had walked into the offices of Vanity Fair these days wearing a MAGA hat. It is not is not hard to envision the enraged reaction that would be directed towards that staffer. Most likely he (or she) would be subjected to demands to resign. Perhaps even therapy sessions to help those subjected to a view of such a hat in their "safe spaces" to treat those being subjected to such a sight. Indeed, it is also not hard to imagine similar similar reactions from leftists in other situations upon seeing the dreaded MAGA hats. This...

In Islam, there is no separation between mosque and state. The goal is to use the state to make everyone submit to Islam. If you want to see what this looks like, just check out almost any country in the Middle East that has a Muslim majority. They don’t believe in freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Do you want to know how many churches there are in Saudi Arabia? The answer is zero, because churches are banned in Saudi Arabia. Now this same ideology is spreading in America, and that should deeply alarm all of us.Today, Islam is...

President Donald Trump will give an interview to his former attorney, Michael Cohen. Yeah, I couldn’t believe it either: the attorney who became a turncoat and slammed his former boss before Congress will do an interview with Trump. Details about the sit-down were leaked, and Cohen confirmed the interview when asked (via MS Now): Michael Cohen's long and winding relationship with his former boss, President Trump, is poised to take another unexpected turn Thursday when the man he testified against in two separate trials calls into his radio show. https://t.co/whVqoMTnQq— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 19, 2026I remember when some guy...

California Democrats on Wednesday passed AB 2624, dubbed the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' by Republicans. The bill, introduced by Democrat Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, restricts the release of investigative videos exposing immigration support service providers. Mia Bonta is married to California's radical far-left Attorney General Rob Bonta. The California Democrats got to work on AB 2624 earlier this year after investigative journalist Nick Shirley exposed rampant hospice and daycare fraud. The bill will fine journalists (and regular citizens) a minimum of $4,000 for exposing potential fraud inside certain immigration support service providers. The bill passed the California Senate on Tuesday and...

Last Friday, Candace Owens and Andrew Wilson held a much hyped debate over the death of Charlie Kirk. As you probably know, Owens has been on a months-long campaign to smear everyone who was close to Kirk and insinuate some or all of them were somehow complicit in his assassination. Andrew Wilson has basically made his name online as a debater and his goal was to press Owens to offer some evidence to back up her claims. I was out of town last Friday so I didn't see any of it and, as I think everyone expected, it doesn't seem...

It feels like it's not very often that the NY Times says something positive about an operation taking place under the direction of President Trump. But today they did just that with a story that notes an ongoing operation to help ships full of oil clear the Strait of Hormuz which is working, though obviously the total number of ships is still down compared to the situation prior to the war. Only a few oil tankers braved Iran’s attacks to go through the Strait of Hormuz for much of the war, leading to a drastic reduction in how much crude...

Moderna stock more than doubled Wednesday after the biotechnology company and Merck announced that their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine significantly delayed the return and spread of melanoma in a late-stage clinical trial. The breakthrough could give Moderna its most important commercial opportunity since COVID-19, strengthen Merck’s dominant Keytruda franchise and open the door to an entirely new class of individualized cancer treatments. However, investors should recognize that the companies have released only topline results, while detailed efficacy data, regulatory decisions, manufacturing economics and overall-survival results remain outstanding.Moderna’s long-promised second act may finally be coming into focus.Shares of Moderna jumped approximately...