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Democratic strategist James Carville expanded his critique of left-wing streamer Hasan Piker on Tuesday, branding him an “idiot” and saying he cannot answer for Piker’s band of “left-wing idiots.” Piker, a self-described socialist streamer who campaigned with Democratic Michigan U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, has emerged as a leading voice on the left as democratic socialists continue to gain influence. “There’s two things that I know about Hasan Piker. One, he’s an idiot, and two, he’s not a Democrat. So, I don’t answer for idiots, and I don’t answer for people who are not Democrats,” Carville said on “The Story.”...

Telling the internet world not to do something is the surest way that they will end up doing something.

Former Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is no longer set to speak at a Labor Day rally when he makes his first major public appearance since ending his campaign against Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Platner, who won the nomination in June but dropped out in July after Politico reported that a former girlfriend said he sexually assaulted her, had been scheduled to speak Monday at the rally in Ellsworth, near his hometown of Sullivan. He has denied the allegations. Platner was expected to speak about labor history and the importance of unions in the US Event organizers were...

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. A Light of Revelation to the Gentiles, and the Glory of Thy People Israel. (Luke 2:32)

President Trump laid out his plan Wednesday to help Republicans win 35 key midterm races in the final stretch before the fall elections. Beginning in October, a month before the critical Nov. 3 contests, the president plans to hit the campaign trail and host several tele-rallies as part of his push to keep the House and Senate in Republican hands, he explained in remarks to GOP lawmakers and administration officials at a White House Rose Garden dinner. “I’m going to take the final 30 days, maybe a little bit more than that, because it’s all about 35 races,” Trump said....

BREAKING Minneapolis Police have positively identified the corpse of the suspected shooter as 31 year old Samantha Hyde. Social media posts indicate Samantha was a trans woman who previously went by the name Samuel.

Even after being caught red-handed wasting donor funds on cookies (including $675 on cookies for a single event), my opponent can’t help herself but still waste donor money on cookies. What in the world is going on?

Senator John Fetterman may be a Democrat, but he has also been one of the most vocal critics of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). During a recent appearance on FOX News, Fetterman dropped some serious truths about the DSA, saying that they are anti-American, but buried in his comments was a huge truth about these people that doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough. Fetterman says, ‘they want to impoverish middle class whites’ and that is absolutely correct. Listen to any one of them talk long enough and they will eventually link capitalism to white supremacy. It’s not true, but it...

A police officer who shot and killed a New Jersey college student in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, faces criminal charges, officials announced. Upper Pottsgrove Police Corporal Sean Farrell, 58, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection to the deadly shooting of 22-year-old Glenwood Earl Pysher IV. The shooting occurred on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, around 12:30 a.m. when Cpl. Farrell responded to a report of a man in the back of a home on Snyder Road. According to footage from his body worn camera, Cpl. Farrell walked down the driveway with his department-issued firearm drawn. Farrell positioned himself...

There was a hate crime in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday. Two gay men at a bar were gunned down; the suspect had a list of other gay establishments around the city, so this has become a hate crime investigation. Two things will ensure this story is suffocated with a pillow. The first is the most obvious: there are a lot of national stories dropping, including the new Venezuela oil deal, Canada freaking out over Lake Ontario’s name change, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Lindsay Clancy, and the upcoming GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. The second reason is...

Suffering from an acute, and possibly terminal, case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the Democrats have been assiduous in shredding their credibility since the 2024 election.So how is it going? In the Republic, I mean. Pretty well, I’d say. President Trump just announced the Mother of All Oil Deals with Venezuela, the country he liberated from its narco Chinese puppet Nicolás Maduro at the beginning of 2026. (Was it only at the beginning of January 2026 that President Trump extracted Maduro and his wife from their heavily guarded palace? Yes. Time flies when you are having a good time.) “BREAKING NEWS,”...

The 19th is sharing the story of Tina (no last name given), a married mother of one daughter who "desperately" wanted another baby. But shockingly, when she finally became pregnant with a "healthy" child, she chose to have an abortion almost immediately. Key Takeaways: * Tina desperately wanted a baby and turned to IVF and surrogacy. * While her sister-in-law was carrying Tina's baby as a surrogate, Tina was surprised to learn that she, too, was pregnant. The babies would be eight months apart. * The day after Tina took the positive test, she ordered the abortion pill. * She...

BOISE (CN) — Reproductive health advocates sparred with Idaho before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday in an effort to change an abortion access proposition’s ballot language ahead of the November election. The dispute concerns language used to describe the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, an initiative from Idahoans United for Women and Families. The group accuses Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane and Attorney General Raul Labrador of mischaracterizing the initiative in the section of the ballot that explains the effect of a yes or no vote. “These statements must be clear and concise; the proposed statements are neither,”...

An unruly mob of 500 teenagers swarmed a Colorado Burger King and supermarket in a chaotic “takeover” on Sunday. Video footage shared on social media shows the out-of-control miscreants shouting in a Burger King, standing on tables, and then breaking into fisticuffs amongst each other. Watch Below: VIDEO AT LINK.................... The uncontrollable mob — many of whom were between 14 and 17 years old — took over the Hoffman Heights Shopping Center in Aurora, Colorado, at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Aurora Police Department said. “The gathering appears to have been organized through social media around an unpermitted sporting event,”...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s executive order ending birth tourism. The other order bans birthright tourism, the practice by which people travel to the United States solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child on our soil. President Trump, earlier this month, signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship and birth tourism, following the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump Administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. During the Oval Office signing, Trump decried the “very, very unfortunate” Supreme Court decision, adding, “So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.” “This was done right after the...

Jelly Roll can’t say he didn’t ask for it. After the rotund, country-rooted rapper drew fire from fans for using his guest-starring stint on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for consecutive nights of bashing President Donald Trump with all the sneering condescension of the modern left, he responded to critics by essentially telling them to stop listening to him. He might not have been expecting too many to take his advice. In a podcast Monday and a post on the social media platform X, conservative social media personality Johnson reported that he’d run the numbers on Jelly Roll’s social media accounts and...

FIRST TIME listening to THE TEMPTATIONS - "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" REACTION Yes, I know I'm a couple of hours early, but I have a couple of things on the schedule bright and early in the morning. I saw this "first reaction" video and I thought it was entertaining to watch someone young enough to be my granddaughter experience the song for the first time. Listened to it a couple of times earlier with headphones and the separation of the horns and bass guitar were still amazing! I'm sure we geezers will enjoy hearing this song from our youths...

Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. Why it matters: The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems — and it appears Chinese propaganda has infiltrated American circles with the hope of slowing the U.S. down. Driving the news: The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy,"...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) - Officials in Florida say a couple were arrested for abusing four children whom they allegedly held captive in a tractor-trailer for six years. Keisha Epps, 51, and Tamra Stewart, 37, are facing multiple felony charges relating to the battering, molestation and neglect of four children, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday. The children were held captive in the sleeper cab of a tractor-trailer for six years, he said. “This was a rolling prison,” Uthmeier said. The victims in the case – two girls and two boys – ranged in age from 5 to 9...

The School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL). At UNC, students hear this name in one of a few ways. One is “eww, that uber-conservative program that’s a waste of money and is trying to indoctrinate everyone.” A rare few respond with, “I haven’t heard of that.” But the vast majority just say, “oh…nice,” and immediately assume you’re a complete nerd. In all fairness, the last one might not be completely off. Yet none of these opinions completely describe the SCiLL program. SCiLL itself is intended to help students learn how to critically engage in civil discourse with people on...