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In an announcement on Tuesday, America’s telecoms watchdog said it had written to cellular network operators asking them to detail the free robocall blocking tools they provide to consumers. It also released two cease-and-desist letters against two robocalling hosts and said it would track the agency’s actions in implementing a new anti-robocall law.

Just as with an announcement yesterday pushing an internet speed measuring app, the measures taken are soft, rather than strong enforcement, but indicate a clear shift in priorities under the FCC’s new chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.

NoMoRobo is your friend.

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The Florida House took the unusual step of denouncing democratic socialism Tuesday with the sponsor of a non-binding resolution invoking the name of the country’s most prominent champion of the ideology, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, in calling it a threat to American democracy.

Though the resolution has little legal significance, Democrats disavowed the bill as political theater in a state where the specter of socialism and communism has become a potent political talking point, particularly among Florida’s sizable Hispanic electorate with relatives who have fled political turmoil of Cuba, Venezuela and other Latin American countries.

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In a comment to the video, an Instagram user asked: “Actual KKK in California in 2021?” to which Ortiz responded: “Yeah it’s called a democratic party.”

Another comment under his video asked “Why didn’t you mention BLM and antifa? We know it’s most likely set up by one of those.” In response, Tito said: “I should just say the Democratic party.”

Governor Blocks Biden Administration From Bringing Unaccompanied Migrant Kids To South Carolina

WashPost ‘Reporter’ Aaron Blake Falls On His Face Over Biden Hiding from Media

How Joe Biden Created The Border Crisis

When It Comes To Inflation, What One Does And Doesn’t See Is All Political

Report: Biden Infrastructure Plan Now Includes $300 Million To Bail Out Essential Looters  Babylon Bee.

Texas, Missouri Sue Biden Administration Over Policies Allowing Immigrants To Stay In US

FLASHBACK: Biden Says US Troops Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2014

WashPost Submerges Kamala’s Border Duties, Promotes Her ‘Mark’ on the ‘Crochet Scene’

Biden Admin Gives Valuable Defense Contract to China Collaborator

Daunte Wright shooting: Brooklyn Center city manager fired after call for due process for police officer

‘It’s Not Justice’: St. Paul Mayor Says Cops ‘Landing In Jail’ For George Floyd And Daunte Wright Is Just The Start

Private Conversations at Home ‘Stirring up Hatred’ Are Now a Criminal Offence in Scotland

OOPS: Tucker Carlson Reveals The ADL Is Guilty Of The Same Supposed Sin Over Which They Called For His Firing

Tucker’s Overton Window-Smashing Broadside

Steak-Umm Brand Sandwich Meat Takes Aim At Neil deGrasse Tyson On Twitter

CNN’s John Berman Loves to Hate ‘Flip-Flopping’ Nikki Haley…As He Flip-Flops

Hack John Oliver Back to Protecting ‘A*sshole’ Cuomo After Brief Show of Backbone

The Boycott Wave Has Only Just Begun

‘Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out Of Office’: Project Veritas Video Appears To Show CNN Tech Director Discussing Network’s ‘Propaganda’

‘We Were Creating A Story — Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out’: CNN Director Busted By Undercover Veritas Operative

NBA Coach Likens Cancel Culture to Germany Stamping out Nazism

Facebook’s Oversight Board Will Remove Posts Flagged By Users  The Karens are now officially in charge.

Boston hospital set to offer ‘preferential care based on race’

Netflix Family Sitcom Lectures Teen Girl About ‘White Privilege’

BLM = Buy Large Mansion

BLM Co-Founder’s Consulting Firm Goes Offline As Reports Expose Her Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Buying Spree

MSNBC Lamely Tries to Blame ‘White Supremacy’ for Black-on-Asian Violence

Footlocker Looted Again Despite $200 Million In Donations To BLM Causes  I imagine Louis Vuitton and Gucci have the same problem.

I Refuse to Stand by While My Students Are Indoctrinated

Riot? What Riot?

Current climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise

Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling ‘Climate Change’ a ‘Climate Emergency’

Energy Charade Update

Caught: CNN Staffer Admits Network Reported ‘Propaganda’ to ‘Get Trump Out of Office’

Here’s the biggest myth in the Republican Party today (CNN) Chris Cilizza lectures you on people he doesn’t know and wouldn’t understand if he did.

‘No More Policing’: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Claims Daunte Wright Shooting Was ‘Government Funded Murder’

Big Government Rides To The Rescue Of Labor Unions

Labor Union That Failed To Organize Amazon Workers Declares Moral Victory, Promises To Challenge Election Results. Here’s What Happens Next

Sen. Warnock Admits To Signing Email With Fake Info About Georgia Voting Law

‘Evolving Science’: NCAA Will Pull Championships Out Of States That Ban Trans Athletes

Man at Riot Curses Out CNN LIVE: Press ‘Twisting Up’ Story, ‘Makes This Worse’

How Far Left Infiltrated Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It

The Prince of the Wokes Joins the American One-Party State

Woke-a-Cola: How To Destroy A World-Leading Brand In 60 Seconds

Chinese Propagandists Tout NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman’s Comments

Portlanders Join Nationwide Riots After Cops Kill Minnesota Man; Hurl Bottles, Rocks, & Fireworks  Any excuse to riot will do.

More Than 35 Conservative Organizations Sign Pledge to Reject Big Tech Money

Google Shadow-Bans Searches For “Riots Today” Following Violent Unrest In Minnesota

GM and Ford CEOs Lead Michigan Group Opposing Voter Restrictions

Colbert Balks at Boehner, ‘Crazy’ Left Doesn’t Have Media on Their Side!

School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

Crime and no punishment in Minneapolis

They ‘Make Me Sick’: Kaiser Health News Editor-In-Chief Demands ‘Assault-Style Weapons’ Ban

Watch Protesters Take To The Streets Of DC For Daunte Wright  Any excuse for a riot will do.

Big Corporations Now Deploying Woke Ideology the Way Intelligence Agencies Do: As a Disguise  Glenn Greenwald.

MSNBC host, top House Dem peddle misleading info about waiting periods to legally purchase guns

Minneapolis City Council To Offer Looting Passports  Babylon Bee.

NCAA “Unequivocally Supports” Transgender Biological Male Participation In College Women’s Sports

CNN’s Stelter mocked for complaining Fox News journalists haven’t shared enough ‘vaccine selfies’

‘Cause It’s None Of Your F*cking Business’: Greg Gutfeld Torches Brian Stelter On Vaccination-Selfie Criticism

Fauci Fallacies at All-Time High 

‘Faucian Bargain’ Does What Media Failed to Do by Examining Influence of Anthony Fauci

Pentagon Researchers Develop Microchip Detecting COVID-19 Under Skin  You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

The Latest Coronamadness From Germany

Study: COVID-19 Variant From UK Not Linked To More ‘Severe Disease Or Death’

Beijing Plans To Mix Chinese COVID Jabs To Boost Efficacy As ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’ Falters

China Blasts US Handling of COVID-19 as ‘Total Failure’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

US Halts Use Of J&J COVID Vaccine After 6 Cases Of Deadly Rare Blood Clots Identified

Biden Admin Puts Use Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine On Pause As Six Of 7 Million Develop Blood Clots

The End of Hygiene Theater

Trump Blames “FDA’s Love For Pfizer” For Biden Admin Decision To Halt J&J Jabs

President Biden, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lopez, Faith Hill And Others Team Up For NBC Vaccine Special

Sanjay Gupta Breaks With CNN, Backs COVID Lab Escape Theory As ‘Simplest Explanation’

Here Are The Biden Administration’s 10 Great Ideas To Get Dumb Conservative Rednecks To Take The Vaccine  Babylon Bee.

A vaccination pause that seems senseless and harmful

Newsom Backs Down on Church Crackdown Following Supreme Court Smackdown

Andrea Mitchell Tries to Blame Michigan GOP for Whitmer’s COVID Failures

The perpetual pandemic

Gloomy NY Times Spreads Teachers Union-Backed COVID Pessimism

Canada Confirms First Case Of Deadly Blood Clots Tied To AstraZeneca Jab

You Can Take Your Dictatorship and Shove It!

Don’t go down to the pub today, because the Covid teddy bears may be there.

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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

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Without Trump, they’re really scrambling.

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Facebook’s Oversight Board just moved to OK even greater censorship, despite years of criticism of the site’s attacks against conservatives. The Board announced its intention to expand its ability to censor content by accepting appeals from users who have reported content that they disagree with.

The Oversight Board announced the decision to allow users to appeal complaints to its platform April 13 amidst an already tumultuous year for free speech. “Now, users can also appeal content to the Board which they think should be removed from Facebook or Instagram,” the Oversight Board said. “The Board will use its independent judgment to decide what to leave up and what to take down. Our decisions will be binding on Facebook.” It added that the option to appeal content would “be available to all users over the coming weeks.”

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It would certainly be appropriate for somebody to shoot Chelsea Handler. Not that I would ever advocate that, of course. Just sayin’.

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Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced Tuesday that the Ever Given, a cargo ship that wedged itself in the canal late March, had been impounded pending $900 million in compensation.

The figure covers the costs of dislodging and maintaining the ship, along with the losses Egypt bore as a result of the six-day blockage, chairman of the SCA Osama Rabie told local outlet Al-Ahram.

Not unexpected.

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Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke into the printing facility of an anti-government newspaper to destroy its equipment, the latest example of what the paper says is the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on press freedom in the city state.

The Epoch Times, a paper founded by Chinese dissidents in 2000, said four intruders forced their way into the paper’s Hong Kong printing plant during the early hours of April 12. The intrusion marks the fifth time vandals attacked the printing facility since it was established in 2006.

Surveillance footage shows masked attackers, one of them armed with a knife, wielding sledge hammers to destroy printing equipment. The intruders scuttled away after two minutes, stealing a computer in the process.

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Apparently GQ is now officially a gay magazine. No surprises here.

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Just days after Baltimore’s progressive mayor announced a task force aimed at slashing the notoriously violent city’s police budget, Maryland Democrats killed a bill that would enhance penalties for those who use guns to commit violent crimes.

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Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Police Officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright, 20, in a struggle after a traffic stop, has resigned along with the police chief.

Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said the resignations came after the city council passed a resolution to dismiss both the Potter and her chief, Tim Gannon.

Potter, a 26-year veteran officer made the move “in the best interest of the community.”

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Over the years, I have asked many Israeli officials about ‘operations’ ranging from individual hits to strikes against nuclear reactors. In every case, the response was the same: silence — and a smile. The duration and size of each was entirely dependent on the ego of the person I was asking.

 

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“Imagine you work at a chemical research part of a base. Its location is secret. But you have a smart car. Through other espionage activities, I found out you work there. I hack your phone or your car’s online account,” Keatron Evans said. “I track your location as you go to work every day. Now I know the specific GPS location of your work facility. It goes downhill quickly from there.”

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French tacos are tacos like chicken fingers are fingers. Which is to say, they are not tacos at all. First of all, through some mistranslation or misapprehension of its Mexican namesake, the French tacos is always plural, even when there’s only one, pronounced with a voiced “S.” Technically, the French tacos is a sandwich: a flour tortilla, slathered with condiments, piled with meat (usually halal) and other things (usually French fries), doused in cheese sauce, folded into a rectangular packet, and then toasted on a grill. “In short, a rather successful marriage between panini, kebab, and burrito,” according to the municipal newsletter of Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon in which the French tacos may or may not have been born.

Surely there is a Geneva Convention regarding Crimes Against Food.

ZMan looks around.

In theory, the difference between mob rule and liberal democracy is that the former operates outside of authority, while the latter is limited by a set of principles. The former is operating in the moment while the latter is deliberative. Instead of just doing what feels right in the moment, like exacting revenge, liberal democracy has processes and limits, forcing people to think about what they are doing before they act. It is majority rule slowed to a crawl by the ideals of western liberalism.

The problem is that liberal democracy is an industrial age political philosophy that is unsuited for the technological age. Fifty years ago, information flowed primarily by words on a page, carried around by men. Television and radio sped up the flow of information, but the information still got into those networks by foot. Before it could be on television, someone had to go out to the scene, make video, carry it back to the studio and then edit it. It was still a slow world.

Today, information flows at the speed of light. A conspiracy theory can be hatched and promoted to millions on-line in a matter of minutes. As the old expression goes, a lie is around the world before the truth is out of bed. It is why the race hoax has become a phenomenon of this age. By the time the truth of the incident has been revealed, we are onto the third or fourth race hoax. These stories collectively build up in the system to the point where they cumulatively become a truth of their own.

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On a sweltering day in July 2018, German police pulled over a scarlet Ford S-Max hire car that was traveling at speed towards Austria. The driver, Assadollah Assadi, the third secretary to the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was arrested at gunpoint and taken into custody.

Although unusual, there was a good reason for detaining the diplomat: Assadi had used his immunity to smuggle a bomb on a commercial airliner from Tehran to Austria, intending to carry out what would have been one of Europe’s worst atrocities in recent years.

Once in Vienna, he had handed the device — codenamed the ‘Playstation’ — to two married Belgian-Iranian agents, Amir Saadouni and Nasimeh Naami, and instructed them to blow up an anti-regime event in Paris, which was to be attended by dignitaries including Rudy Giuliani and former environment secretary Theresa Villiers

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Cash-hungry union executives forged an Oregon worker’s signature in order to deduct money from her paychecks, according to a new lawsuit.

The suit, filed in late March, accuses a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of forging Staci Trees’s signature on a membership card authorizing the continued withholding of union dues from Trees’s paycheck. The Oregon woman is turning to the courts to intervene and curtail labor union influence.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Researchers interested in nuclear power’s capacity to help transition the world’s energy supply toward carbon neutrality suggested extracting uranium from a source other than raw ore, opting instead to use a new hydrogel capable of effectively “straining” uranium from seawater, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability.

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“If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats,” Senior Biden Adviser Anita Dunn told the Washington Post on Monday. “It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.”

Indeed, they could be on the payroll of the New York Times.

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The left’s Orwellian redefining of words took a dangerous step Monday as all three of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) started to refer to the riots of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota as “protests,” effectively dropping the “mostly peaceful” label they were mocked for using in the summer of 2020. All of this followed an apparently accidental shooting where a police officer seemingly went to use her Taser but discharged her duty pistol instead.

The first showing of the media’s dangerous rebranding of riots came earlier in the day when an activist journalist screamed at Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, saying “there was no riot” as he described how his officers were attacked with projectiles. “The officers that were putting themselves in harm’s way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks,” he told the press.

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Riots and protests broke out across the city of Minneapolis on Sunday following the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Several local businesses have been “completely destroyed” by looters, according to the Star Tribune, and police were forced to use tear gas to disperse protesters who were throwing rocks at law enforcement.

When police chief Tim Gannon described the unrest as a “riot” during a press conference on Monday, several reporters responded that “there was no riot.”

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The “revolving door” has been around for hundreds of years.

I’m not talking about the literal one used to enter a fancy hotel – that came later – but rather, the migration of workers from the private sector to public sector and back, for the purpose of using government-made connections to serve personal financial interests. This migration traditionally happens en masse during presidential transitions, as public servants from each party trade places.

Scientists Warn 4°C World Would Unleash ‘Unimaginable Amounts of Water’ as Ice Shelves Collapse (EcoWatch) Except that they never do.

France declares ‘calamité agricole’ after record cold

A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime

Mann, Rudd, Turnbull: Climate Denying Murdoch Media is a Threat to Democracy

Media Never Holds Climate Alarmists Accountable for Dire Predictions

Shelby Steele: Biden, Democrats prioritize virtue signaling rather than ‘actual racial reform’

Former Louisiana police dispatcher arrested after refusing to return $1.2 million accidentally put into account

Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real-estate buying binge

KKK Graffiti in Michigan College Dorm Was Written by Black Student, Officials Find

17-Year-Old Wyoming Football Recruit From Lancaster Dies in Shooting at Dallas Hotel

Watch Live: Protest And Looting Continue Into Night Over Police-Killing Of Man In Minnesota

“Total Chaos” – Unlawful Assembly Declared In Huntington Beach When “White Lives Matter” Clashed With Counter-Protesters 

More Mostly Peaceful Protests in Minnesota

Hope and Fear: Can We Avoid a Racial Apocalypse?

Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police

Top BLM Activist Demands Investigation Following Co-Founder’s Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Buying Spree

Media Relieved To Be Covering The Good Kind Of Riots Again  Babylon Bee.

MAGA ‘Idiot’: Potential Senate Candidate Walker Maligned By Deadspin

‘Endangers Black People’: College Faculty Removes Race From Crime Alerts

The Rise and Rise of Amanda Gorman

More than 100 corporate executives hold call to discuss halting donations and investments to fight controversial voting bills

Jeff Bezos endorsed higher corporate tax rates. But it won’t cost him much  Indeed it won’t, and that’s why he’s so ready to do it.

Showtime’s ‘Shameless’ Series Finale Trashes ‘Stop the Steal’ Trump Voter

The Flagship of a Terrorist Organization

Deviating definitions

April Ryan Upset About Election Security: ‘Cheating’ GOP Is the ‘Anti-Browning Party’

PATHETIC: Defiant CBS Ends ‘60 Minutes’ Unapologetic Over DeSantis Hit Piece

100 Top CEOs Plot To Punish States Which Pass ‘Restrictive’ Voting Laws

Now They Love Him: CBS Hacks Hype Boehner’s Slashing at GOP ‘Political Terrorists’

CBS News Parent Co. Joins 100-Plus Businesses in Coordinated Effort to Block Voter ID Laws

Green Bay Residents File Complaint, Saying City Allowed ‘Activist Groups to Control’ 2020 Election

Good Samaritan Sees Man Being Oppressed By Police, Rushes Over To Loot A Target

Babylon Bee.

Minnesota Republicans Say Gov. Waltz’s Response To Shooting Of Daunte Wright ‘Fuels The Fire’

Obama NASA Deputy Slams Biden for Picking Man To Lead Agency

‘Can’t Be Anti-Racist If You’re Anti-Student Debt Cancellation’: Ayanna Pressley Delivers Ultimatum On College Loan Forgiveness

Absurd: Twitter Censors Users Calling Out HILARIOUS BLM Leadership Hypocrisy: Report

NY Parent Sues To Be Allowed To Marry Their Own Child

After Zuckerberg Money, Wisconsin Lawmakers Eyes Election Changes

France bans air travel that could be done by train in under 2.5 hours

Gleeful MSNBC Touts Corporate Collusion Between CEOs and Dem Donors

Virginia Shuts Down Elections Site Ahead of Key Republican Deadline

Chris Wallace grills Buttigieg on false jobs claim: ‘Why mislead people?’ Well, that’s what Democrats do.

MSNBC Twists Meaning to Defend Biden’s Everything But Infrastructure Bill

Biden’s Latest Scheme To Fix Border Crisis: Paying Would-Be Illegals To Stay Home  With YOUR money.

Biden: Anything Men Can Do, Women Can Do Better

Arizona Suing Administration: Immigration Policy Violates Environmental Laws

Minnesota Riots Are Back On — What Will Biden Say?

Biden Is On Track To Accept Fewer Refugees Than Trump Despite Promises For Expansion

Is Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Packed To Fail?

Biden Nominates Top Immigration Officials As Migrants Continue To Arrive At Southern Border

Buttigieg Proposes Separate Highway Lanes For Each Race Babylon Bee.

‘Is He Really In Charge?’: Sen. Cornyn Questions Biden’s ‘Limited’ Tweets And Public Appearances

White supremacists still on the march (The Hill)

Distinguished pol of the week: One Republican opposes cruelty (Washington Post)

Anti-Defamation League CEO: Fox needs to rethink its entire primetime lineup (CNN)

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, White Supremacist Manifestos ‘Eerily’ Similar, ‘Daily Show’ Mash-Up Suggests (Newsweek)

Florida hit-run kills NY federal judge, suspect claimed to be ‘Harry Potter’: police

The Racial Reckoning Gets Weirder

Hilarious! Leftist SPLC President Claims She Supports Efforts to Agree on ‘Truth’

Hate Crime? Los Angeles Times Sees ‘Casual Racism’ In Mispronouncing Asian Name

On MSNBC, Roland Martin Trashes ‘Gutless’ Black Republican ‘Cowards’

Back Off! Arizona Governor Warns NFL Not To Mess With His State’s Election Bills, Super Bowl

Nadine Strossen and Hannah Wolfman-Jones Rebut Accusations Against Stallman

Nearly 40% of Marines decline COVID-19 vaccine, prompting some Democrats to urge Biden to set mandate for military And Democrats are all about making things mandatory.

CA teacher caught berating students in leaked Zoom over push for in-person learning, ‘Come at me’

Michigan vs. Texas on COVID-19

German Government Pitches Plan To Reimpose Harsh Lockdown Measures

French Police Tell Airbnb To Report Customers Who Violate Lockdown Rules

Another COVID Myth Dies The Death

NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google’s rules

Chilly Weather Doesn’t Dampen UK Joy at Lockdown Easing

Pubs, Gyms Reopen As England Eases COVID Lockdowns

China’s ‘Failure’ To Share Info About Virus Led To ‘Much More Egregious Results’

Anti COVID Riot In Montreal

Stimulus And COVID-19 Attitudes Reflect Poor Math Skills

‘It’s Still Not OK’: Fauci Warns Vaccinated Americans Not To Dine Indoors

Pope Announces Vaccine Selfies Can Now Be Turned In To Spring A Relative Out Of Purgatory  Babylon Bee.

CDC Tells Michigan To Lock Down Again Instead Of Sending Them More Vaccines

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When we look out on the world scene and how the Biden Administration is positioning itself, everyone should keep in mind the summary statement of former Defense Secretary and CIA director Robert Gates (no one’s idea of a partisan firebrand, as he’s been serving presidents of both parties since the Carter Administration): Joe Biden, Gates said, “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

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Fantastical elements of the ‘cyberattack’ on Iran do nothing but delay the inevitable: a bomb is still coming — just not quite yet.

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Take whatever action you consider appropriate.

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A California city erected a chain-link fence on Saturday around a local restaurant that refuses to obey COVID-19 restrictions, according to reports.

Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill in Burbank was barricaded off from the public to prevent the owners from operating after a court ordered the electricity to be shut off, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff issued a preliminary injunction Friday which allowed the city to prevent the restaurant from opening without a county health permit and a city conditional use permit, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Many of whom are Persons of Color. What are the odds?

It is oftentimes hard to tell the difference between YouTube conspiracy theory channels and the alleged journalists in the liberal media. On Sunday morning’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, host Jonathan Capehart brought on FiveThirtyEight.com senior political editor Perry Bacon Jr. to spin wild conspiracy theories about the Republican Party. Bacon went on a rant where he declared that the Republican Party “is pretty organized and actually has some policies which are basically, how do we maintain the existing racial and economic status quo?”

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With so much focus on the App Store at the moment, Apple’s leading argument is that its App Store review policies offer security and safety for users. However, unscrupulous apps continue to slip through the net and rake in millions from Apple customers before being caught.

One of the biggest drivers of these scams is the use of fake reviews to prop up apps that otherwise wouldn’t get a second look. A common pattern for such an App Store scam is to make a very simple app targeting popular search keywords, attach aggressive subscription pricing to it, and make it rise high in search results by faking hundreds of 5-star App Store reviews …

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The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation showing how Facebook handled more than 30 cases across 25 countries of politically manipulative behavior that was proactively detected by company staff.

The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the US and other wealthy countries. The company acted quickly to address political manipulation affecting countries such as the US, Taiwan, South Korea and Poland, while moving slowly or not at all on cases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Mexico, and much of Latin America.

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The rapidly growing trend of veganism is likely to become another major contributor to hidden hunger in the developed world. According to the Vegan Society, the number of people switching to a vegan diet in the UK has risen more than fourfold in the last decade. A study commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group revealed that nearly 5% of the US population are vegetarian and about half of these are vegan.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

The Trump campaign filed lawsuits in several jurisdictions, arguing that last-minute changes to voting procedures by Democratic Secretaries of State loyal to the Biden campaign were illegal. Those cases are now wending their way through the courts. In Michigan, Trump won a victory at the trial court level last month, when a state court judge held that the Secretary’s “guidance” on counting of unverified mail-in ballots was issued in violation of Michigan’s Administrative Procedure Act. In other words, the Secretary of State needed to follow the statutorialy-required legal process, not just issue an order to help her party by encouraging cheating.

Glenn Greenwald.

That Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is a pedophile, a sex trafficker, and an abuser of women who forces them to prostitute themselves and use drugs with him is a widespread assumption in many media and political circles. That is true despite the rather significant fact that not only has he never been charged with (let alone convicted of) such crimes, but also no evidence has been publicly presented that any of it is true. He has also vehemently denied all of it. All or some of these accusations very well may be true and, one day — perhaps imminently — there will be ample publicly available evidence demonstrating this.

In Witch-Hunt Culture, all you need is an accusation.

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The family of a 20-year-old Minnesota man told a crowd that he was shot by police Sunday before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing the vehicle several blocks away. The family of Daunte Wright said he was later pronounced dead.

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According to a statement from Brooklyn Center Police, officers stopped an individual shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday after determining the driver had an outstanding warrant. Police said when they tried to arrest the driver, the driver reentered the vehicle and drove away. An officer fired at the vehicle, striking the driver. Police said the vehicle traveled several blocks before striking another vehicle.

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Public mourners included Wright’s family and friends who gathered, wept and consoled each other alongside protesters who carried “Black Lives Matter” flags, jumped atop police cars, confronted officers and walked peacefully in columns with their hands held up. On one street, written in multi-colored chalk: “Justice for Duante Wright.”