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Minnesota students ditched high school today to attend anti-ICE protest.
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- Minnesota students ditched high school today to attend anti-ICE protest.
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- 0:45
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- 5 months ago
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- Why is the UK allowing a convicted terrorist to run for local office?
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- 1:37
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- 5 months ago
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- What Minneapolis Gun Owners Think of Alex Pretti
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- 3:17
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- 5 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
In the same VFW dining hall just north of Minneapolis, two gun owners are worlds apart on the topic of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse shot to death in a scuffle with border patrol agents on Saturday.
“I don’t understand why he had to have a weapon there that day,” said David Manley, an 85-year-old retired pipefitter and lifelong Republican, who said he owns five firearms.
Everything he knows about guns, Manley said, he learned from his father. Going to a protest with a loaded gun is not something his father ever would have advised.
Across the room, another gun owner named Jim Nordlocken, a 73-year-old former Teamster, told us he was so incensed at the killing of Pretti that he considered going downtown to protest for the first time.
“My wife would kill me,” he said, “but I thought about it—to stand up for freedom.”
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- Can comedy ever cross the line?
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- 1:10
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- 5 months ago
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- She Challenged Gender Orthodoxy—and New York Fired Her
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- 28:28
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- 5 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
Until last week, Glenna Goldis was an assistant attorney general for the state of New York in the Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau. Then, she was fired by New York attorney general Letitia James for opposing so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. In her piece for The Free Press this week, Glenna wrote about how she came to see childhood gender transition as a form of consumer fraud built on deceptive claims, and how sounding the alarm led to her firing.
I sat down with Glenna to discuss her investigation into pediatric gender medicine, the free-speech fight that followed, and her thoughts on why the Democratic establishment continues to support these interventions while ignoring medical evidence and public opinion.
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- Woke Activist & Incel: An Uncommon Romance
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- 0:41
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- 5 months ago
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- Fear Is Now Just Part of the Job for Politicians
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- 1:16
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- 5 months ago
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- In 2025 alone, Capitol Police investigated nearly 15,000 threats against members of Congress, their families, staff, and the Capitol complex.
For members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, fear for their physical safety is now a permanent part of the job.
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- Colin Quinn: Incels, Woke Activists, and Peaking at 14
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- 51:02
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- 5 months ago
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- In this episode, legendary comic Colin Quinn dives into a cult classic that still makes him cry with laughter: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.
The novel follows the misadventures of an overweight, pretentious misanthrope still living with his mother in 1960s New Orleans. It’s a book that turns fart jokes into high art. It’s also, somehow, a love story between a fat incel and a woke activist—a seemingly absurd pairing that just may be a prescient solution to our modern polarization problem.
Plus, Colin and Shilo dig into the parallels between great comic writing and great stand-up: Both give language to things audiences half-know but have never quite articulated, making the familiar suddenly, painfully funny.
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- Free Speech is Under Attack in the United Kingdom.
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- 2:02
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- 5 months ago
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- Free speech is under attack in the United Kingdom. Esther Krakue reports on the UK Employment Rights Act that criminalizes upsetting remarks and behavior.
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- MINNEAPOLIS: REALITY ON THE GROUND
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- 2:06
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- 5 months ago
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- "People Are Worn Out" in Minneapolis
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- 0:30
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- 5 months ago
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- The mood in Minneapolis has become “somber” over the last month, says anti-ICE demonstrator Julie Prokes.
“People are worn out—they’re just sick of it, and they want it all to stop.”
@AustynJeffs reports for The FP.
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- NYC's Climate Laws Could Lead to Dangerous Blackouts
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- 1:47
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- 5 months ago
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- When a major snowstorm hits New York City, reliable energy—and heat—can be the difference between life and death.
Yet a 2019 climate bill mandating the electrification of 57,000 buildings could overwhelm the grid, spark blackouts, and put lives at serious risk.
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- How Academia Ruined Literature for Students
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- 1:45
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- 5 months ago
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- Life After Devastating Loss.
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- 1:45
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- 5 months ago
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- How #MeToo Destroyed the Author of ‘13 Reasons Why’
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- 1:29
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- 5 months ago
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- Eight years later, the #MeToo frenzy has taken nearly everything from "13 Reasons Why" author Jay Asher—even though he has never been formally accused, in any forum, of harassing or harming a woman, nor investigated, let alone found guilty, of such an offense.
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- Dante: The Most Famous, Least Read Poet
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- 46:50
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- 5 months ago
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- Dante Alighieri is one of the most consequential poets in human history, and his Divine Comedy is essential to understanding Western civilization itself. And yet, though most of us have heard of Inferno, Dante remains one of the least read of all the greats. His masterpiece unfolds in three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—charting a journey from despair to redemption.
For literature professor Joseph Luzzi, this journey was not abstract. When his wife was tragically killed in a car accident while eight months pregnant, leaving him widowed and a father on the same day, the epic poem helped him overcome his grief and build a new life. In this episode, Shilo and Joseph sit down to discuss Dante’s genius.
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- Niall Ferguson LIVE From Davos: Greenland, Trump vs. Europe & More
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- 32:54
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- 5 months ago
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- As Donald Trump clashes spectacularly with European leaders at the World Economic Forum, are we witnessing the collapse of the old-world order—and the rise of something new?
Niall Ferguson is on the ground in Davos. He joins Rafaela Siewert to discuss the latest.
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- Popularity Won’t Make You Happy
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- 1:08
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- 5 months ago
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- Popularity won’t make you happy.
Arthur Brooks challenges the idea that if you’re beloved by millions, you’re doing something right.
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- When Wildfire Victims Pay
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- 1:54
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- 5 months ago
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- Imagine your house burned down in a California wildfire. The power company allegedly responsible for starting that fire could possibly make you pay. They’ve done it before.
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- The Iranian Regime Is Killing Protesters—She Made Sure the World Saw
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- 7:52
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- 5 months ago
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- For the past 23 days, thousands of Iranian protesters have flooded the streets in the largest anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic’s history. In response, the fundamentalist regime has unleashed a violent crackdown, reportedly killing more than 16,000 protesters.
The exact number of people killed and injured remains unknown, because Iran has made a great effort to keep its repressive response largely out of sight. Internet and phone service have been cut off by the government since January 8.
However, the outside world has been able to access images and videos showing the atrocities and their scale, through Elon Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink. For years, anticipating the possibility of a digital blackout, Iranian activists have worked to smuggle in Starlink terminals that could bypass a government internet shutdown.
To understand how Starlink gets into Iran, and what its presence means at this critical moment, we spoke...
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- Finance bros are back?
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- 0:45
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- 5 months ago
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- Finance bros are back?
Get Suzy's full column, Second Thought, at TheFP.com.
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- Why Wars Today Are So Dangerous
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- 1:10
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- 5 months ago
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- War Itself Is a Catch-22
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- 1:04
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- 5 months ago
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- Have You Kept Your New Year’s Resolution?
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- 1:26
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- 5 months ago
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- It’s the second week of 2026. Have you kept your New Year’s resolution?
Arthur Brooks explains the secret to making a resolution that actually sticks.
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- How Iran & Venezuela Chaos Put U.S. in a "Catch-22"
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- 53:49
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- 5 months ago
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- In Venezuela, a U.S. operation that captured President Nicolás Maduro has sent shock waves through the hemisphere. In Iran, a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests has Washington threatening the possibility of direct military action. Meanwhile, war rages on from Ukraine to Sudan. All this instability and conflict makes now a good time to revisit the most acclaimed anti-war novel in American history: Catch-22.
In this episode, Elliot Ackerman—a Marine Corps veteran and former CIA special operations officer—sits down with Shilo Brooks to unpack Joseph Heller’s classic satire, why it speaks so sharply to this moment, and how Americans have been shielded for the past few decades from the true costs of war.
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- Who Are The Minneapolis Residents Disrupting ICE?
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- 2:38
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- 5 months ago
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- Citizen activists in Minneapolis are confronting ICE with whistles and bullhorns. They’re organized, intentional, and coordinated.
So who are they? They call themselves ICE Watch.
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- San Francisco's Reparations Law Makes No Sense
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- 1:56
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- 5 months ago
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- San Francisco just voted to give millions of dollars to Black residents because of slavery. Esther Krakue explains why this is an “insanely stupid idea.”
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- EXCLUSIVE: Inside Iran’s Violent Crackdown on Anti-Regime Protesters
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- 2:36
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- 6 months ago
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- The camera pans across a large, brightly lit auditorium lined with dead bodies. Hundreds of them fill the room. Many more are being stacked outside, in the open air, because there is no space left in the hall.
This is one of many harrowing videos recently sent from Iran to Mehdi Parpanchi, executive editor of Iran International, a Persian-language television network based in London. Even under the near-total digital blackout that was imposed by the Iranian government a few days ago, footage and eyewitness reports have continued to reach his team through Starlink.
The protests began a little more than two weeks ago over the collapse of Iran’s currency, first spreading through Tehran’s Grand Bazaar before erupting nationwide. Last week, millions took to the streets across more than 400 cities, according to Parpanchi.
What followed, he said, was a coordinated and unprecedented violent crackdown: at least 12,000 killed nationwide in just two days...
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- Trump's Dangerous Attack on the Fed
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell is a pretext for controlling the central bank.
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- How Qatar Bought American Higher Education
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- 2:19
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- 6 months ago
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- Qatar outspends every other nation on U.S. higher education. @FrannieBlock shares her reporting on Qatar’s extensive influence campaign.
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- Did Trump Just Solve the Housing Crisis?
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- 1:55
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- 6 months ago
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- Trump announced on Truth Social that he would ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. But, argues Maggie Anders, that won’t solve the underlying problem of overregulation and low supply.
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- Will the Iranian Regime Fall?
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- 1:11:12
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- 6 months ago
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- Iran’s security forces have killed at least 2,000 protesters in a brutal crackdown. Can the protesters prevail—and will it take U.S. military intervention to tip the balance?
Experts on Iran—Michael Doran, Roya Hakakian, and Behnam Ben Taleblu—join Rafaela Siewert to break down everything you need to know.
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- Israeli Fans Wrongfully Banned From Football Match
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- 1:45
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- 6 months ago
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- Israeli football fans were wrongfully banned from attending an away match in England, a new report shows.
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- Climate Realist vs. Climate Alarmists
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
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- Catastrophe Doesn't Have to Define Your Life
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- 0:29
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- 6 months ago
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- “Catastrophe does not have to destroy your life,” says Father Jonah Teller.
“The resurrected Lord Jesus keeps his scars, which is a really profound thing: He just defeated death—why did he keep his scars? I think he keeps them as a real emblem of hope for us—that no matter what happens to you, it can be triumphed over.”
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- Understanding Iran’s Protests: Is the Regime Finished?
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- 33:46
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- 6 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
As protests sweep Iran amid economic collapse and a plunging currency, Iranian American journalist Roya Hakakian argues that this uprising may mark a decisive break with the Islamic Republic. Unlike past protest waves—from the 2009 Green Movement to the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” demonstrations—this moment is defined by a broad coalition that includes women, youth, ethnic minorities, working-class Iranians, and even longtime regime supporters such as bazaar merchants, all openly rejecting the system rather than seeking reform within it.
Hakakian explains that the regime’s loss of legitimacy has been accelerated by its failure to provide basic security, exposed during Iran’s humiliating confrontation with Israel, and by growing international pressure, including warnings from the United States. As the government responds with internet blackouts and threats of extreme vi...
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- Property is white supremacy now?
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- 2:19
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- 6 months ago
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- Catholic Priest: How to *Fix* Your Life
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- LA Fire Victims Are Fed Up
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- 1:22
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- 6 months ago
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- “They let us burn.”
One year later, Los Angeles fire victims are fed up.
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- CDC Reduces Childhood Vaccine Schedule
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- 1:36
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- 6 months ago
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- The CDC announced a new, reduced childhood vaccine schedule this week.
Previously, children were recommended to vaccinate against 18 diseases. Now, that number is 11.
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- Why "Middlemarch" Changed This Catholic Priest’s Life
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- 51:01
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- 6 months ago
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- Middlemarch is George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans)’s masterpiece. The 900-page Victorian novel is about the people living in a fictional English town in a time of enormous changes.
In this episode, Shilo Brooks sits down with Dominican friar Father Jonah Teller to discuss what makes the book worth reading. Their conversation tackles the novel’s major themes: marriage in all its mismatched forms, political upheaval around reform and the rise of liberalism, the promises and limits of scientific progress, and the facets of human nature revealed in ordinary domestic life. They highlight Eliot’s conviction that there are no truly insignificant lives—that quiet, “unhistoric” acts and small, private decisions are of great importance.
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- Venezuelan Refugee vs. Socialist Mamdani Voters
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- 4:10
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- 6 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
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- What Do Israelis Think Of The Iranian Uprising?
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Tim Walz Drops Out
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Tim Walz is proof that no matter how big you get, if you ignore politics at home, you will inevitably fail.
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- The American Detained For Two Years In Venezuela
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Matthew Heath knows better than most Americans what Nicolás Maduro’s regime looked like from the inside.
An honorably discharged U.S. Marine veteran, Heath was wrongfully detained by Venezuelan authorities while traveling through the country in September 2020. He spent over two years in Casa de los Sueños, an infamous detention facility and torture center run by the country’s military counterintelligence.
In the days following Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces, @TanyaLukyanova_ spoke to Heath about his experience in Venezuelan detention and his perspective about what will happen next in the country.
Find their conversation at the link in our bio.
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- Who Is Funding The "Hands Off Venezuela" Protests?
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- 2:17
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- 6 months ago
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- “Hands Off Venezuela” protests are being paid for and organized by The People’s Forum—the same group behind pro-Palestine campus protests.
The group is funded almost entirely by billionaire-turned-Marxist Neville Roy Singham, who has documented sympathies and ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Frannie Block has investigated his funding network for The Free Press.
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- Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel: What MAHA Gets Dead Wrong—and Right.
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- 1:17:23
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Oncologist and bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel joins Rafaela Siewert to cut through America’s wellness confusion and explain what actually drives health, longevity, and quality of life.
Drawing on decades of research and policy experience, Emanuel breaks down why Americans have become sicker—not because of individual moral failure, but because of ultra-processed food, sedentary living, poor sleep, and social isolation. He debunks popular health myths around seed oils, supplements, biohacking, protein obsession, and diet culture, explains when Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs are genuinely life-changing (and when they’re not), and offers a clear, practical framework for eating, exercising, sleeping, and aging well without perfectionism.
Emanuel argues that health is a means, not an end—and that living longer only matters if it helps us live better, more connected, and more useful lives.
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- Niall Ferguson: Trump Was Right to Overthrow Maduro
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- 42:46
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Historian and Free Press columnist Niall Ferguson joins Rafaela Siewert to break down President Trump’s decision to remove Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro—and why he believes the move was “long overdue.” Drawing on the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, Ferguson explains the logic behind what he calls the new “Trump Corollary,” responds to media claims that the operation was reckless or illegal, and assesses the risks of regime change, the role of covert force, and the global implications for China, Iran, and the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere.
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- The U.S. Captures Nicolas Maduro
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- 1:54
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- 6 months ago
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- Early this morning, the Trump administration carried out military strikes in Venezuela and captured dictator Nicollás Maduro and his wife.
Germania Rodriguez Poleo explains why Venezuelans around the world are celebrating and what must come next.
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- The U.S. Captured Maduro. What Comes Next for Venezuela?
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- 1:04:16
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- 6 months ago
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- In the early hours of Saturday morning, Venezuelans awoke to the sound of U.S. helicopters overhead. Per President Donald Trump, the U.S. conducted a “large-scale strike” on facilities in what he has dubbed the “narco state” of Venezuela.
The U.S. has arrested Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Hours after the swift operation, Attorney General Pam Bondi unsealed the U.S. government’s charges against the now-deposed Venezuelan leader: narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, drug trafficking, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
Then, in a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela “until such time that we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.”
Why did Trump decide to act in Venezuela? Are the administration’s actions legal? What will happen to Maduro when he reaches American soil? And what will come next—both for Venezuela and for U.S. foreign polic...
