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Woman Charged For Making Threats Towards Republican Official’s Family Over Election Results

23rd December 2020

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A woman was charged with making a threat of violence against a Republican election official in Michigan, federal authorities announced Wednesday.

Katelyn Jones, 23, allegedly sent threatening photos and messages to Monica Palmer of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, the FBI wrote in a court filing cited by the Associated Press (AP). Jones reportedly sent Palmer graphic photographs of a dead woman’s naked, bloody body and threatened the safety of Palmer’s family.

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22nd December 2020

DeBlasio Mocks Fox, Doubles Down On ‘Mission To Redistribute Wealth’

Tech Billionaire Who Bankrolled Numerous Disinformation Projects Linked To $620,000 Donation To Fusion GPS’s Legal Fund

CNN’s Stelter: Right-Wing Media Guilty of ‘Radicalization’

‘Blueprint for Positive Change’ Exposes the Left’s Plans for Conservatives

Spending Package That Included The Coronavirus Stimulus Increases Illegal Streaming Penalties  Because you can’t let a crisis go to waste (unless it’s taxpayer money, then it’s okay to waste).

Cartoons Are the Left’s New Weapon to Target Your Kids

Amazon’s surveillance drones violate FCC rules

Welfare for Journalists

China Using WeChat App to Suppress Dissidents, Justify Arrests

Twitter Refuses To Say Why It’s Promoting A Chinese Tech Group That Allegedly Tracks Uighers

 

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21st December 2020

Romney: GOP Has Strayed From Placing Importance on Character of Its Leaders  Fuck character if it means the guy can’t get anything good done. Like Mitt.

Joe Biden Appears To Outperform In Counties Using Dominion Or HART Voting Machines: Data Analyst

More Censorship! Abdul-Jabbar: Conservatives Deserve Backlash, Cancellation

Big Tech’s Stealth Push to Influence the Biden Administration  They have learned the Microsoft Lesson: You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

25 Times Big Tech Claimed They Censored Conservatives by Mistake

Rich Americans Who Fear Higher Taxes Hurry to Move Money Now

Affluent Families Ditch Public Schools, Widening US Inequality  That’s because public schools aren’t worth shit, and anybody who can avoid them does.

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 543 Times, But Never Biden

Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea

Report: Fishing Boat Captain Publicly Executed In North Korea For Listening To American Radio

Twitter Plans to Censor Posts on COVID-19 Vaccines It Deems Misinfo

How Chinese Honeypots Are Used In Spy Operations

 

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Texas Suit Challenges Legality of DACA

21st December 2020

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According to the Journal, Texas and 8 other GOP-led states will ask a federal court Tuesday to deem the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful.

The Trump administration tried to end the program back in 2017, but faced legal hurdles. This summer, the Supreme Court determined the Trump administration did not follow proper protocol to end the program.

Texas filed its legal suit against DACA in 2018. The Journal reports the case was put on hold as other lawsuits attempting to stop the Trump administration from ending the program made their way through the courts.

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Russian Agent Tricked Into Revealing Plot to Poison Navalny

21st December 2020

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One of the Russian agents who followed opposition leader Alexei Navalny before he was poisoned in August was tricked into revealing details of the operation in a phone conversation with Navalny himself, CNN reported on Monday.

Konstantin Kudryavtsev, the agent who belonged to an elite toxins team in Russia’s Federal Security Service, apparently thought he was speaking to an official in Russia’s National Security Council, but instead was talking to Navalny himself, who almost died in the operation.

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20th December 2020

Protect Election Integrity – Censor Anyone Who Questions the Election

CNN’s Tapper Fails to Press Buttigieg on Pothole Blunders as Mayor  They all focus on what he is rather than what he’s done.

WaPo Publishes Cartoon Depicting Republican Lawmakers As Rats Who Tried To ‘Subvert The Constitution’  As opposed to the Democrat rats who are already doing so.

Former Wisconsin Judge: ‘Our Court System Has Been Deeply Intimidated by the Left’

MSNBC Paints Georgia Runoff System as Racist, Ignores California

 

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19th December 2020

China Lies About Its Wrongdoing on COVID, Spying, Global Aggression, Pollution, and More

FLASHBACK: Remember When Celebs Rejected the 2016 Election and the Media Cheered?

What Debra Messing’s HATE Reveals About the Censor-Loving Left

California plan for a wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days/year in the state  Not content with shooting themselves in one foot, they are now starting on the other. (I doubt that this will pass constitutional muster.)

Facebook, Twitter Revert To Pre-Election News Feed Algos After Their Preferred Candidate Wins Election

Washington Post Reporter Admits Most Latinos Dislike the Term ‘Latinx’

The 12 Days of Wokeness

 

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Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular

19th December 2020

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Take what happened with spinal fusion, an operation that welds together adjacent vertebrae to relieve back pain from worn-out discs. Unlike most operations, it actually was tested in four clinical trials. The conclusion: Surgery was no better than alternative nonsurgical treatments, like supervised exercise and therapy to help patients deal with their fear of back pain. In both groups, the pain usually diminished or went away.

The studies were completed by the early 2000s and should have been enough to greatly limit or stop the surgery, says Dr. Richard Deyo, professor of evidence-based medicine at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. But that did not happen, according to a recent report. Instead, spinal fusion rates increased — the clinical trials had little effect.

This ought to break you of any impulse to trust what medical professionals say.

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The Long Shadow of the Identity Politics ‘Constitution’

18th December 2020

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Some governing areas fall neatly under easily recognized policy umbrellas. Relations with other countries come under the auspices of “foreign policy,” and when those relations break down and things end in a shooting war, then the “defense policy” folks come to the forefront.

Not so with one of the most important areas of life today: identity politics.

In this view, America is not a country where the individual is the main agent—one who, because of his very existence possesses individual rights derived from his creator and/or his human nature.

Instead, it’s one where membership in official categories (based on sex, race, etc.) is the identity that matters when it comes to rights, responsibilities, and everything else.

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17th December 2020

‘Squad’ Member Cori Bush Wants Biden To Grant Clemency To Everybody On Death Row

‘Inappropriate Content’: PA Attorney General Tells His Kids ‘To Avert Their Eyes’ When MyPillow’s Mike Lindell Is On TV

Paris Mayor Says It’s ‘Absurd’ City Has Been Fined For Hiring Almost Exclusively Women

BIZARRO WORLD: Journalism Award Named After Dan Rather?

And now, the Dan Rather Medals

Report: Zuckerberg Money Used in Violation of Federal Election Law

Biden Names As “Climate Czar” Former EPA Chief Blamed For Flint Water Crisis

Anti-Cop Climate Sparks NYPD Exodus 

Ninth Circuit to Nevada: You can’t treat churches worse than casinos

“The State Has Provided No Evidence”: San Diego Judge Nukes Newsom’s Lockdown For Strip Clubs And Restaurants

When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed

GAO Asks Court to Compel New Mexico AG to Stop Stonewalling in Discovery, Provide Answers to Questions About Work with Activists and Activist AGs

DC Mayor Backs Down Following Catholic Church Lawsuit, Eases Restrictions On Churches Ahead Of Christmas

Despite Being Closed, San Diego Schools Descend Into Wokeness

Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms

Transgender Ohio Residents Can Change Birth Certificates, Judge Rules

Vogue Fawns: NBC Anchors ‘Won the 2020 Election Coverage’

CNN Silent on Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Andrew Cuomo

Poll: Literally The Only Political Demographic That Mostly Does Not Take Pride In Being American Is ‘Progressive Activists’

 

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16th December 2020

Politicizing Business: From CSR to ESG

Speaker Pelosi Says Masks Required to Speak on House Floor

LGBT Activist Calls For All Children To Be Put On Puberty Blockers

Pelosi: House Members “Will Not Be Recognized Unless They Are Wearing A Mask”

Facebook Gives In, Allows Some Political Ads After Leftist Whining

Andrew Cuomo Continues His Assault on the First Amendment

Border Officials Fear Rush of Illegal Immigration

Biden’s Reported Pick For Energy Secretary Boosted ‘Pee Tape,’ Kavanaugh Gang Rape Conspiracy Theories

Ninth Circuit Rules Church Attendance Limit In Nevada Unconstitutional

 

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Cornell Student Government Removes 2 for Not Voting to Defund Police

16th December 2020

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The Student Assembly on Dec. 8 removed Annie Gleiberman for voting against a resolution to disarm the university’s police department, saying she condoned “acts of racism, physical aggression, and emotional violence” by voting against the resolution.

And when a fellow executive rep, Morgan Baker, said she wouldn’t vote for it either — becoming a procedural block because a unanimous vote was needed — members temporarily removed her to get to a unanimous tally, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

Training to be proper Inner Party apparatchiks.

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Google’s YouTube Shuts Down Dilbert Creator Scott Adams

16th December 2020

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Google-owned YouTube shut down Dilbert Comic strip creator Scott Adams on Friday, stripping a video off the platform from the podcaster’s channel without warning.

“Google (YouTube) just shut me down,” Adams wrote on Twitter featuring a screenshot of the message from YouTube. “The video they deleted is no different from all of my other content. I assume they’ll come for the other videos soon.”

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15th December 2020

Democrats Have a Problem. ‘Workers, Wages, Weed’ May Be the Answer.  (New York Magazine) I guess ‘Bread and Circuses’ doesn’t cut it any more.

Michigan AG Accuses Republicans Supporting Trump Lawsuits of Violating Their Oaths of Office Like being called ugly by a frog.

Doomsday bunker firm says Covid has fuelled 2,000% rise in interest with customers terrified of government

The Proud Boys really thought they could terrorize our city. As if. (Washington Post) It was really Antifa!

Forensic auditors find shocking 68% error rate in one Michigan county’s votes

Calls for Alex Jones to be Arrested after Speech about Removing Biden (Newsweek) Gee, nobody called for the arrest of people who wanted to remove Trump.

Police say civil asset forfeiture reduces crime – new study shows they’re wrong

Wall Street firms, demonized by Cuomo, de Blasio, ramp up NYC exodus plans

Recall Gov. Newsom Campaign Gains Traction In California

N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record

Where’s Hunter? Biden Scandal Still AWOL from Network News

NY Times HATES Half of America: Friedman Slams GOP as ‘Cancer,’ ‘at War With Democracy’  But you knew that.

MSNBC: You Know What We Need? More Andrew Cuomo Leadership!

Rogue US Attorneys Coming to a City Near You?

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Church, Bars State From Restricting Worship

AOC, Omar, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals

International Criminal Court Says It Won’t Investigate China For Detention Of Muslims

Chinese Spy Assigned To Date Eric Swalwell Begs To Be Sent To Labor Camp Instead  Babylon Bee.

Convicted Murderer Illegally In US Released Onto Streets Despite ICE Detainer

Vote Machine Company Threatens Legal Action Against Conservative Media

Facebook Unbans Political Ads In Georgia, But Only For ‘Authorized’ Advertisers

 

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14th December 2020

After 105 Years, Cleveland Will Drop ‘Indians’ From Baseball Team Name

Stacey Abrams Brags She Has 1.2 Million Absentee Ballots for Ga. Runoff

Human Rights Campaign Wants Christian Schools to Abandon Beliefs or Lose Accreditation

Portland Autonomous Zone Removing Barricades After Mayor, Police Chief Apologize

Pennsylvania Sheriff Switches Party Loyalty To GOP Over Democratic Lockdowns, ‘Socialist Agenda’

Crucial Logs Missing From Some Michigan Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report

More, Please! Facebook Staff Quit Over Lack of Censorship: Report

WSJ Editor Defends Op-Ed On Dr. Jill Biden After Receiving ‘Coordinated’ Backlash From Media, Democrats

CBS Analyst Jamelle Bouie: More Dems Should Compare GOP to Child-Killing King Herod

NBC Rushes to Defend Jill Biden, After Years of Cheap Shots at Melania

This Is How it Works on CBS: Democrat Interviews Democrat About Democrats Winning Senate

 

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Facebook Too Scared of Hindu Extremists to Remove Their Content?

14th December 2020

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The Wall Street Journal reported that “Facebook fears” violent retribution if it kicks Hindu extremist groups off the platform.

Facebook is famous for censoring peaceful conservatives, but has been slow to censor anti-Christian extremists. “Dozens of religious extremists burst into a Pentecostal church outside New Delhi in June, claiming it was built atop a Hindu temple,” The Wall Street Journal (The Journal) reported Dec 13. The group allegedly attacked the pastor and “installed a Hindu idol in protest,” an attack for which Hindu organization Bajrang Dal reportedly claimed responsibility. The Bajrang Dal video that summarized and took responsibility for the incident has been reportedly “viewed almost 250,000 times on Facebook.” The logic for why Facebook would allow such content to remain sadly gives extremist groups a clear message that violence will help them get their way.

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13th December 2020

1 Shot in Violent Protests in Washington State

 

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12th December 2020

DC Archbishop Sues Mayor Muriel Bowser For ‘Arbitrary, Unscientific And Discriminatory’ Restrictions Ahead Of Christmas

Cuomo Charges Up To $10,000 For Tickets To Celebrity-Packed ‘Virtual Birthday’ Party  Sometimes it is good to be of the Crust.

Ric Grenell to Newsmax TV: CMU Students, Faculty Tried to ‘Cancel Me’

Not Identifying Sex on Birth Certificates Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine

‘Unhinged’ Dem Rep. Urges Pelosi To Block 126 Republicans From Congress For Supporting “Insurrection Or Rebellion”

 

 

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RIP Charley Pride

12th December 2020

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One of the great voices in country music has been silenced.

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Thought for the Day

12th December 2020

Rubes® for Dec 12, 2020

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11th December 2020

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Imposes New Lockdowns, Bans Indoor Dining, Large Gatherings

Grassley Blasts MSM Over Hunter Biden Hypocrisy

“Free Speech Is Being Weaponized”: Columbia Dean And New Yorker Writer Urges More Censorship

ABC, CBS Wave GOOD-BYE to Corrupt Hunter Biden, Drop It After a Day; NBC Footnotes It

Party of Science: Celebs Back Native Rep. for Cabinet Position to ‘Honor Mother Earth’

NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandatory COVID Shot For All Kids Without Exemption

New York City to Ban Indoor Dining Again  Apparently the NY economy is not yet sufficiently destroyed.

New York Must Raise Taxes Regardless Of Whether It Receives Federal Relief, Gov. Cuomo Says  Time to leave.

YouTube Accidentally Deletes CNN Russiagate Coverage While Banning Outlandish Conspiracy Theories  Babylon Bee.

Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company in Departure Notes

New Hampshire Governor Blasts Defiant Maskless Republicans

Gavin Newsom Aides Privately Worry About Forced Special Election Possibility, Report Says

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database Tops 1,300 Cases

 

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10th December 2020

America has an authoritarian voter problem (Washington Post)

Media Largely Ignores Report Of Swalwell’s Involvement With Suspected Chinese Spy

Cover-Up: ABC, CBS Barely Cover Hunter Biden Probe, Ignore Business Deals in China

U.N. Commissioner Blames ‘America First’ For Human Rights ‘Setbacks’

Don’t Let COVID-19 Lockdowns Become a Permanent Power Grab  Ben Shapiro.

VIDEO: Media Done with ‘Unity,’ Want ‘Trump Apologists’ Jailed

MSNBC’s Tyler Accuses Georgia Governor, Secretary of State of Voter Suppression in Runoffs

Portland Autonomous Zone Is ‘Stockpiling Weapons,’ Has Armed Patrols, Police Say

Fox News Reporter Gets Shooed Away After Asking Jill Biden About Hunter News

Setting Up A Siege? Antifa Has Armed Guards, Stockpiled Weapons At Portland Autonomous Zone

‘We Are Not Crazy’: California Restaurant Defies Outdoor Dining Ban

 

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Face Mask-Wearing Florida Robbers Escape Detection by Blending In

10th December 2020

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South Florida is reportedly seeing a rise in robbers who’ve exploited the coronavirus pandemic by blending in — walking into banks wearing face masks just like everybody else and raising no red flags.

Five bank heists were done by the same mask-wearing robber, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

My, what a surprise.

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The Woke Managerial Revolution Goes to School

10th December 2020

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College campus safe spaces, speech codes, and woke witch hunts may be coming to a high school near you.

Charles Fain Lehman chronicled in The Washington Free Beacon how school districts and private schools around the country are adopting woke, “anti-racist” policies based on critical theory ideologies once ensconced in the ivory tower.

Schools are adding the Pulitzer Prize-winning but factually challenged 1619 Project, to their curriculum. The 1619 Project was aimed at reframing American history as being rooted in slavery rather than the ideas of liberty from 1776.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

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9th December 2020

What an Actual Socialist Makes of Republicans’ Anti-Socialism Hysteria  (New York Magazine)

‘They demolished my house for this?’ Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled (The Guardian)

The rank hypocrisy of the Texas AG’s election case (CNN)

Here’s a list of crimes on LA’s new DA’s do-not-prosecute list

New Los Angeles DA announces end to cash bail, the death penalty and trying children as adults

Noncitizens and illegal immigrants found in North Carolina voting and jury pools

‘Yellow Privilege’: College Residence Adviser Anonymously Distributes Document On Asians As Oppressors

Portland Police, Protesters Clash in Broad Daylight

YouTube To Delete Content That ‘Undermines’ 2020 US Election Results  Managerial fascism on the march!

Portland Mayor Authorizes ‘All Lawful Means’ To End Autonomous Zone After Banning Non-Lethal Munitions During Months-Long Unrest

Twitter’s Dorsey Donates $15M To Mayors’ Universal Income Program

Portland Police Attacked In Broad Daylight After Antifa Erects New ‘Autonomous Zone’

New EU legislation proposes 30% ‘European content’ minimum for Apple TV+, Netflix

New Yorker’s Steve Coll: Free Speech ‘Is Being Weaponized’ Against Journalism  Because ‘journalism’ is So Very Special.

Buying power: how China co-opts the UN

 

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Migrant Caravans Head to US Border

9th December 2020

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Some people understand the election results only too well.

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8th December 2020

Soros-Funded L.A. District Attorney Legalizes Trespassing and Resisting Arrest,

Judge in Michael Flynn Case Signals He Will Ignore Trump’s Pardon

CCP Insider: China Couldn’t Use Wall Street To Fix Trump, But It Can With Biden

Hong Kong Arrests 8 More Pro-Democracy Activists As Opposition Crackdown Intensifies

Whiny Morning Joe Bemoans Loss of Liberal Media Stranglehold on News

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Extends Partial Lockdown In Michigan

New York Sends “Mask Squads” To Enforce Social Distancing In Two Counties

NYC Synagogue Barred By State From Holding Wedding Hosts Around 5,000 For Funeral

 

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‘Right Stuff’ Pilot Legend Chuck Yeager Dies at 97

7th December 2020

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Gone but not forgotten.

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7th December 2020

Second Major California Sheriff Openly Rebels Against Newsom Lockdown

Chicago Teachers Union Walks Back Statement Blaming ‘Sexism, Racism And Misogyny’ For Fueling Push To Reopen Schools

UK Police Using License Plate Cameras To Track Down People Visiting Pubs In Neighboring Areas

Facebook sued for ‘denying opportunities to US workers’

6 States Where Mail-In Ballots Cost Trump the Election

The COVID response shows the left is losing its way

FLASHBACK: When the Media Cast Doubt on an Election Outcome

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 436 Times, Biden Still at 0

‘Rob, Replicate And Replace’: Inside China’s Meteoric Rise

US Designates 14 More Chinese Officials In Latest Hong Kong Sanctions

REPORT: Man Slapped With $3,500 Fine For Breaking Quarantine For 8 Seconds In Taiwan

Facebook Fact-Checker Censors Rep. Jordan for Questioning Election

 

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National Association of Realtors Imposes Cancel Culture on 1.4 Million People

7th December 2020

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The National Association of Realtors claims to have 1.4 million members. There will be fewer members before long as the association begins purging conservative real estate agents.

At the center of the storm was an addition to Article 10 which covers various forms of discrimination. But unlike all the previous sections which addressed how real estate professionals interacted with customers, Article 10-5 is catchall cancel culture that controls what real estate agents say on social media on their own private accounts and in their free time.

This goes far beyond being made to bake a cake. Even if you’re at home and you post something opposed to gay marriage or illegal migration, you can lose your business.

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Maybe the Answer is New Teachers

7th December 2020

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Why did teachers get into teaching if they didn’t like to actually teach? It appears more and more likely that many decided to become teachers just in order to have a guaranteed paycheck and shorter hours with summers off? I’m sorry to sound jaded, but the response to this pandemic by unions, who represent teachers, has been to exploit the situation to buy themselves a year and counting of working from home, to heck with the consequences for kids. One of the biggest unions in the country is straight-up gaslighting Americans about what game they’re playing, posting on Twitter yesterday.

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Breakdancing Becomes Official Olympic Sport Ahead of 2024 Summer Games In Paris

7th December 2020

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You can’t make this shit up. Really.

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6th December 2020

MSNBC Attacks Georgia’s Secretary of State: He Won’t Let the Dead Vote?

DECEITFUL: NBC Edits Video of Restaurant Owner Exposing NBC Comedy Catering  It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

‘No Vaccine, No Work’ – Employers Discuss Making COVID Immunity Mandatory For Workers

Another California Sheriff Refuses To Send Deputies To Enforce Masks, ‘Social Gatherings Or Stay-At-Home Orders’

Judge Allows Forensic Audit Of Dominion Voting Machines In Michigan

She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could

CNN: Republicans May Work With ‘Fundamentally Honest’ Biden Because He’s White, Unlike Obama  What planet do these people come from?

Kasie Hunt Mocked for Claiming Biden Doesn’t Lie After He Stonewalled a Question

 

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5th December 2020

Governor Urges Kids To Rat Out Their Parents’ COVID-Rule Violations  Be good Soviet citizens!

NY TImes Still Deeply Confused Over ‘Deep State,’ Smears Washington Times

‘You Are Upholding Racist Ideas’: Teachers Reportedly Required To Attend ‘White Privilege’ Training At Public School  Time to leave.

These Are The Hypocritical Government Officials Who Demand You Stay Home While They Party

‘Morning Joe’: Politician ‘Stealing Christmas’ Is ‘An Act of Love’

Chief Medical Officer Says Canadians Who Refuse Vaccine Won’t Have “Freedom To Move Around”

‘I’m Not An Asshole, The Governor Is’: Celebrity Chef Won’t Close Restaurants, Says Outdoor Dining Restrictions Are Unscientific

“Sounds Like 1984” – Mississippi Police Threaten To Squash Holiday Cheer

Paris Plunges Into Chaos As Protesters Denounce New Security Law 

Media Hide Carter Page Suing FBI Over Russia Probe

Video Shows LA Restaurant Owner Furious Over Outdoor Dining Ban As Movie Company Set Ups Tents Right Next Door

 

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Eliminating Nicotine From Tobacco Products Could Help Up to 5 Million Adult Smokers Quit Within a Year.

5th December 2020

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More to the point, it would create a HUGE black market for cigarettes with nicotine, which have the added virtue of being indistinguishable from cigarettes without. With marijuana on the brink of being legalized, the cartels need a new income stream, and this would serve very nicely.

Simple-minded Puritans need to learn the Prohibition Lesson every generation, it would seem.

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4th December 2020

Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine “Conspiracy Theories” As US Rollout Begins

Yes, This Makes Perfect Sense: Cities Across America Are Slashing Police Budgets As Crime Rates Soar

The Leftist Obsession With Parler Reveals Their Infatuation With Thought Control

400 International Lawmakers Sign Open Letter To Bezos Demanding Amazon Pay & Tax Hikes  Look for … the deepest pockets….

Editor Daily Rundown: China Using Blackmail, Bribery To Influence Members Of Congress, DNI Ratcliffe Says

Durham Seeks Jail Time For Ex-FBI Lawyer Who Altered CIA Email About Carter Page

REPORT: New York Activists Are Buying Ubers For Georgia Voters To Get To The Polls

Mika Brzezinski: ‘I’m Done With Being Polite’ to Republicans!  When did that happen? I must have missed it.

‘Like Having Xi Jinping Sitting In The White House’: Here’s Why Asian Pro-Democracy Activists Are Worried About Biden

California To Issue Democrat Politicians Special ID Cards Allowing Them To Break Lockdown Rules  Babylon Bee.

Mayor Garcetti Bans Walking As Latest LA Lockdown Begins

Supreme Court Sides Against Newsom on California Church Restrictions

Facebook Planning to Remove COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

Ohio County Closes Schools, Leaves Casino Open

 

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$300 Million a Mile for 8-mph Transit

4th December 2020

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The United States is not the only country where transit agencies are spending far too much money building obsolete infrastructure. TransportNSW (for New South Wales) has spent AU$3.1 billion (US$2.3 billion) building a 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) South East light-rail line in Sydney that’s slower than buses making the same journey. For those whoa are counting, that’s more than $300 million a mile in U.S. dollars, putting it well above the average U.S. light-rail project.

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Lawyer Under Investigation for Allegedly Attempting to Illegally Register to Vote in Georgia

4th December 2020

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But of course there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of vote fraud. None. Don’t even think about it.

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Facebook: White American Men Are Officially Whoms Not Whos

4th December 2020

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(For those not paying attention, the headline is a reference to Lenin’s ‘Who? Whom?’ comment.)

Quoting the Washington Post:

The company is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans.

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Geraldo Spars With Jesse Watters And Greg Gutfeld On Voter Fraud

4th December 2020

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“Bill Barr is the best lawyer in Washington, D.C. He’s a two-time attorney general. He is the most effective, high-functioning person in the Trump Administration. He had the president’s back more than anyone else in Washington.”

Rivera went on to say that it had been Attorney General William Barr who stood up before the American people and pushed back on the Russia narrative, adding that Barr had most recently said that he didn’t see evidence of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the election.

“You’re not addressing the testimony! You’re just pointing to Barr! You’re not answering what we are asking!”

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3rd December 2020

Here Are The Lawmakers Who Refused To Stay Home After Telling You To

Defunding Police Backfires In Minneapolis As Shootings, Homicides, And Carjackings Surge

Georgia sees Hollywood figures posing as Republicans, mockingly urging conservatives not to vote

Scary Music! Black and White Pictures! Insane PBS Doc Demonizes Mitch McConnell

Pope Francis Tweets Pro-Abortion Biden’s Campaign Slogan

San Francisco Votes To Make Smoking Tobacco In Apartments Illegal, Marijuana Allowed

MSNBC Hypocritically Demands Republicans Vote for Biden’s Cabinet  Republicans will give nominees the exact same treatment Democrats gave Republican nominees.

Biden Pledges To Hike Taxes To Bush Administration Levels  But I thought Bush was Hitler?

DOJ Sues Facebook For Discriminating Against US Workers, Reserving Jobs For H1-B Workers

Omar, Tlaib Among More Than 400 Lawmakers To Endorse ‘Make Amazon Pay’ Campaign

Ivy League Librarians Demand A “World Without Policing”

 

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Resisting the Mourner’s Veto

3rd December 2020

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Employees at Spotify threatened to strike if they were not given editorial control over the guests invited on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters was briefly removed from Target’s inventory following complaints, only to be quickly replaced following a backlash. And students at the University of Chicago have sought to have Professor Dorian Abbot publicly censured for criticizing the university’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and the censorious climate on campus. Numerous other examples abound in academia, publishing, news media, and elsewhere. Anxiety about this trend peaked over this summer and led a number of commentators to sign the Harper’s Letter in an effort to defend free speech and inquiry (an initiative that produced its own furious row).

These emotional attempts to suppress controversial or unpopular speech have increasingly made use of what I call the “Mourner’s Veto”—individuals will say that a speaker or a piece of writing has caused them to become distressed or sad or angry or frightened, and they will support these claims with allegations of “harm” or even threats to their “right to exist.” Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility. It is not healthy for the limits of permissible speech to be dictated by the most sensitive person in the room, nor to allow emotional appeals to supplant robust argument as the most effective strategy in a debate.

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Democrats Run America’s Rathole Cities

2nd December 2020

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And there’s a reason for that.

Last year, President Trump called Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”.

Speaker Pelosi responded by calling Trump’s comments “racist attacks”. Vox claimed that Trump was using “racist tropes” and US News conducted a fact check accusing him of racism.

Now the rat race numbers are in. Orkin, the past control company, ratted out the “rattiest cities” and Baltimore has broken through into the top 10 for the first time. Like a rat clambering after a piece of moldy cheese, Charm City leaped up four places to be America’s 8th rattiest city.

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Walter Williams, R.I.P.

2nd December 2020

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1st December 2020

Hours After Voting To Ban Outdoor Dining, LA County Supervisor Dined Outdoors

NASDAQ To Require One Woman And One Minority Or LGBTQ On Company Boards

Biden’s OMB Pick Has Spent The Last 4 Years Personally Attacking The Republicans Who Will Vote On Her Confirmation  Wonder who his second choice is?

Biden’s Pick For Budget Chief Scrubs Twitter History Ahead Of Contentious Confirmation  Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

“And Why Stop There?”: CNN Analyst Calls For Sweeping Regulation Of Free Speech On The Web

Government Prepares For Next Pandemic By Taking Away Everyone’s Rights Ahead Of Time  Babylon Bee.

Michael Eric Dyson Touts Defunding Police on ‘View:’ Abolishing Slavery Angered White Americans, Too But it was white Americans who abolished slavery, of which he seems unaware.

Hollywood’s Religious Hate and Ignorance in Three Celebrity Tweets The Usual Suspects are at it again.

Daily Beast Editor Calls For “Humiliation” And “Incarceration” For Trump Supporters

 

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The British-French Border Con

1st December 2020

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Over the weekend, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced a new border agreement with France – “a significant moment for our two countries.” In reality, once again Britain bribed France to promise the help it had promised before. Why does the British government keep handing over resources to a con artist? Because the British government gets to say, “We have a new agreement! Problem solved!” It relies on the public forgetting the previous agreements. Yes, the British government too is a con artist, and the British public is the patsy.

In January 2018, Theresa May agreed to accept more migrants from France and to pay France to improve its border at Calais. In other words, she paid France to do what it should have been doing all along. The new agreement was an unnecessary repeat of an almost identical arrangement from 2003, which was renegotiated repeatedly, as the French turned a blind eye to illegal migrants, as long as they were emigrating to Britain. May should have repudiated it, but she repeated it. Her unadmitted hope was French help in reconciling Brexit.

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30th November 2020

As NY politicians eye new taxes on the rich, high earners eye the exits

Norway Criminalizes Hate Speech Against Transgender People… In Private Homes Or Conversations

Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary’s 2016 Votes to Trump

WHO Urges Global Governments To “Manage” All Social Activity

‘Please Don’t Insult Me’: Meghan McCain Criticizes Bill Kristol Over His Support For Neera Tanden

Liberal Media Panicking Over Conservative Exodus to Parler

“High Degree Of Confidence”: Deep-Dive Data Analyst Says More Illegal Votes In AZ Than Biden Margin Of Victory

 

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The ‘diploma divide’ in American politics

30th November 2020

The Hill puts some shine on The Narrative.

The “diploma divide” is now a defining feature of American politics. You can see it in the network exit poll: Democrat Joe Biden carried college-educated white voters by 35 percentage points; non-college whites were virtually tied. Non-college white men — Trump’s “base” — voted 70 percent for Trump.

As a result, two conflicting patterns now define American politics. The wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. That has been true for nearly 100 years. At the same time, the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic. That trend has been building since 1980.

Students invariably ask, “What happens to people who are wealthy and well educated?” The answer is, they’re “cross-pressured” — pulled in different directions. If they vote their economic interests, they vote Republican. Those who give priority to their typically liberal cultural values vote Democratic. These differences created one of the most conspicuous features of the 2020 campaign: the battle for the suburbs, where a lot of educated, higher income white voters live.

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29th November 2020

“Washington Is Exhausted”: Swamp Gears Up For Post-Trump Power Orgy

CCP Imposes Tough New ‘Social Credit Score’ Rules

Cops Refuse to be the Thanksgiving Police

Police chief escapes from Washington D.C.

MSNBC’s Velshi and Nikole Hannah-Jones Say Biden Must Adopt Radical Leftist Policies

REPORT: Saints Fined $500,000 And Lose A 7th Round Draft Pick For Players Celebrating While Not Wearing Masks

Liberal Bias of Wikipedia Called Out in 5 Studies

 

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28th November 2020

Carter Page Sues Comey, DOJ And Others For $75 Million Over Crossfire Hurricane Abuse

Muslim Brotherhood Would Use a Biden Presidency to Advance “Congressional Jihad”

Art Critic: Republicanism Needs to ‘Isolated and Snuffed Out’

‘Historically strange’ spike in incomplete Nevada voter files, casinos as ‘home’ But remember: All allegations of vote fraud are Baseless!

Nevada district has 13K jump in voter files missing key info, more casinos as ‘home’ since 2016 But remember: All allegations of vote fraud are Baseless!

Can a CEO tax strike a blow to inequality? In Portland, the answer is elusive  I.e. no, but they can’t say that because it would go against The Narrative.

Sidney Powell’s Michigan complaint

Pennsylvania Judge Backs Trump Claims Over Mail-In Ballots, Says ‘Unlikely Constitutional’

 

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