Mea Culpa: Oregon’s Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket

Senate Parliamentarian Sets Dangerous Precedent, Grants Schumer Permission For Second Reconciliation Vote

Spending Free For All: Paid Family And Medical Leave Is Infrastructure According To House Democrats

MLB All-Star Game Reportedly Moved To Colorado, A State With Voter ID Laws Similar To Georgia  But it’s a safely Blue state, so that’s all right then.

In The Name Of Social Justice, MLB Moved All-Star Game From Mostly Black City To Mostly White City

Leaked Docs Show UK Government Has Planned For Vaccine Passports All Along

Portland, Oregon Police to City: We Quit

The IMF And World Bank, Who Pay No Taxes, Are About To Talk About Tax Hikes And Inequality

CBS WHORES Out for Crony Capitalism, Backs Biden Billions to Electric Cars in ‘Infrastructure’

North Las Vegas Mayor, Lifelong Democrat, Switches Parties, Citing ‘Socialist Takeover’ In Nevada

Biden Administration Told Senator To ‘Delete The Pictures’ From Border Visit

Key Democratic Vendors Still Doing Business with Lincoln Project After Sex Scandal

j‘Double mutant’ coronavirus variant surfaces in Bay Area. Here’s what we know

Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection

New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with Australia

Why are we continuing to imprison our population at the say so of virological water diviners ?

‘I’m Not Really Quite Sure’: Fauci Can’t Explain Why Texas COVID Cases Are Dropping Despite The State Lifting All Restrictions

Dr. Fauci Predicts At Least 3 More COVID Variants May Be Required To Completely Break America’s Spirit  Babylon Bee.

Carnival: “We May Have No Choice” But To Move Cruise Ships Outside US To Resume Operations

Democrats Come to Defense of Gov. Rick DeSantis After ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on COVID-19 Vaccine

Fact check: Biden administration officials falsely describe infrastructure jobs estimate (CNN) Yeah, surprised me too.

Wall Street will leave NY if tax and spend continues: Steve Moore

Biden Said He Would ‘Strongly Support’ The MLB Boycott Of Georgia, What Is He Going To Do About The Beijing Olympics?

March Border Crossings Surge to 15-Year High: Report

Biden Admin Massively Overstated How Many Jobs His Infrastructure Plan Will Create — By Roughly 600%

Iran Claims Victory Over United States as New Nuke Talks Begin

2 Men on Terror Watchlist Caught Crossing Southern Border

Hunter Biden Admits His Name Was ‘Gold’ to Burisma

Nets Cheered ‘Important New Job’ for Kamala at Border, Crickets as She’s MIA Now

Biden Disapproval Soars As Over 170,000 Illegal Immigrants Flood The US In March, Most In A Decade

NY Times Laments Liberal BBC’s ‘War on Woke,’ Lets Far-Left Host Cry Racism

San Francisco School Board Set To Walk Back On Efforts To Change ‘Racist’ School Names

Google Removes Entire State Of Georgia From Google Maps  Babylon Bee.

‘What The Hell?’ New ‘Capt America’ Nazi Villain Modeled On Dr. Jordan Peterson?

Uh-Oh! Does New Platform’s Partnership with Left-Wing Stripe Signal Future Censorship?

MSNBC Hate Sermon: ReidOut Rages Against ‘Racist’ ‘Selfish’ Christian Right

Japan just recorded its earliest cherry blossom bloom in 1,200 years. Scientists warn it’s a symptom of the larger climate crisis (CNN)

Belong To The Climate Club Or Get Penalized: The EU’s New Trade Protectionism

Reforestation Is Great! But We’re Running Out of Seeds  Wired ‘Science’.

Dangerously Stupid Science: Solar Geoengineering Hey, a nuclear war would cool everything down. Guaranteed.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

If you have a Wall Street Journal subscription, don’t miss today’s Gerard Baker column, “The C-Suite Converts to the New Political Religion.” If you don’t have a subscription, here’s the key part:

The modern secularists who deride the hagridden mysticism of traditional religion are now the most devoted congregants in the First Church of Antiracism. Penitents line up to be shriven for their white privilege, bending the knee before the altar of justice and equity. They present pendants of the martyred St. George of Minneapolis for blessing from Hollywood prelates and Ivy League divines, solemnly chanting canticles from the Black Lives Matter breviary.

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Dr. Eleanor Adams made multiple trips to the homes of various Cuomo family members, including Cuomo’s brother CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s Hamptons home and his mother, Matilda Cuomo’s personal residence, according to the Post.

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Father P.J. Hughes is the parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Mullahoran, a township in rural County Cavan, Ireland. He recently earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first Irish priest for centuries to find himself on the wrong side of the law for saying Mass in public.

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Elections have consequences, and one consequence of the 2020 election will be a return to the foreign policy of the Obama era that seeks to punish Israel, isolate the Arabs, elevate Iran as a regional power, and assure friend and foe alike that tough talk from American leaders is just that: talk.

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A life-sized likeness of the Swedish climate-rescue maiden Greta Thunberg is coming to the University of Winchester in England. Despite severe economic hardship, a bronze simulacrum of Greta the Great that cost about $31,000 (£24,000) will be erected in front of the “climate-smart” West Downs Centre at the University.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Wokery burst onto the scene much like covid or, more appropriately, the Black Death. Or World War II. Has so much stupidity been promulgated so quickly and so broadly at any time in human history? Maybe not. Previous stupid phenomena like the witchcraft scare and phrenology took longer to take root.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

It is remarkable that, nearly 17 years after Rathergate, 60 Minutes still exists and apparently has an audience. 60 Minutes has never been truthful or reliable. Not long before Rathergate, we wrote about another instance of blatant misuse of documents by that program to support a false narrative. It hasn’t gotten any better since then.

Last night, 60 Minutes contributed to the Democratic Party’s smear campaign against Governor Ron DeSantis by airing a heavily edited exchange between CBS “reporter” Sharyn Alfonsi and DeSantis. Alfonsi accused DeSantis of rewarding Publix, a contributor to his campaign, by giving Publix a role in covid vaccine distribution in Florida. DeSantis thoroughly rebutted Alfonsi’s accusation, so 60 Minutes simply deleted almost everything he said to make it look as though he had no real answer to Alfonsi.

Watched it once back in the day. Wasn’t impressed.

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A candidate in the special election for Texas’ 6th Congressional District filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against a local newspaper.

Sery Kim, an official in both the Donald Trump and George W. Bush administrations, filed a lawsuit against the Texas Tribune over its characterization of comments she made at a March 31 candidate forum as “racist.” Kim, a Republican, is running to replace Republican Rep. Ron Wright, who died on Feb. 7 after battles with lung cancer and COVID-19.

The Texas Tribune is the Texas equivalent of The Guardian in Britain, a dependably left-wing publication that does it’s best attempting to turn Texas into California.

The New Pause lengthens by three months to 5 years 10 months

Evidence of Antarctic glacier’s tipping point confirmed for first time  Except that the article doesn’t say that, it says that it ‘could’ reach a tipping point.

Buccaneers Player Carlton Davis Tweets Racial Slur, Says ‘Gotta Stop Letting G**ks In Miami’

Police Data Shows Chicago Shootings For March At Highest Level In 4 Years

Black-Owned Businesses Bound To Take Major Hit From Biden’s MLB Pressure Campaign

30 Shots Fired At Park On Easter Leaves 1 Dead, 4 Injured

Prosecutors Ask Jurors To Dismiss George Floyd Autopsy Findings

DC Carjack Killers May Be Back On The Streets Within Years

Doesn’t Fit the Narrative: Morning Shows Omit Capitol Attacker Was a Farrakhan Follower

REPORT: Girls Accused Of Killing Uber Eats Driver Reach Plea Deal To Not Be Held Past 21 Years Old

Parents Outraged After Teacher Reportedly Instructed Students At Texas School To Watch Video Of George Floyd’s Death And Keep It Secret

Permanent Racism

You Knew We’d Get There! WashPost Hits Racist Appropriation of Phrase ‘Cancel Culture’

Charles Barkley To Undergo Racial Sensitivity Training To Be Less White  Babylon Bee.

‘Like Making El Chapo The Drug Czar’: Sen. John Kennedy Questions Choice Of Kamala Harris As Illegal Immigration Head

ANALYSIS: The Least Important Thing About Biden’s Federal Judges Is Apparently Their Most Important Quality

March Border Crossings Jump to 15-Year High

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Boon for Unions

Leaked Numbers on Illegal Immigration Called ‘Undeniable’ Proof That Biden Policies Sparked Border Crisis

The Swamp Desperately Fights For A Piece Of Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

Celebs Rant Against ‘Lying, Cheating,’ Vote-Suppressing GOP ‘Bullies’

Twitter Again Suspends Rep. Taylor Greene’s Account ‘In Error’

Sen. Warnock Deletes Easter Tweet Amid Cries of ‘Heresy’

Big Tech Exodus: Lara Trump Moves Show to CloutHub After Facebook Censors Interview

NASA Ends Mars Mission After Finding Out Planet Has No Early Voting  Babylon Bee.

CBS Teams Up With Atlanta Mayor to Blame GOP for Economic Damage of Left-Wing Georgia Boycotts

“It Was Intentionally False”: 60 Minutes Slammed For Fabricating “Pay-For-Play” Narrative Against Gov. DeSantis

Democratic Florida Mayor: 60 Minutes Hit On DeSantis ‘Not Just Based On Bad Information — It Was Intentionally False’

When Hyperbole Becomes Reality

US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says

Texas COVID Cases, Deaths Plummet After Gov. Abbott Repeals Mask Mandate  Isn’t that amazing.

Fauci Blames Coronavirus on Our Failure to Live in ‘Harmony With Nature’

A Bus Driver’s Life Is Worth $16,200

DeSantis: ’60 Minutes’ Report on Vaccine Rollout a ‘Fake Narrative’

‘Get Out! Get Out!’: Diners Heckle Health Inspectors Out Of Restaurant, City Vows Revenge

‘I’m Sorry If Politicians Are Scared Of Teacher’s Unions’: Joe Scarborough Goes Off On School Re-Opening Pushback

’60 Minutes’ Flamed Over ‘Hit Job’ Against Gov. DeSantis, Publix On Vaccine Distribution

CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Now Punch Unvaccinated People In The Face  Babylon Bee.

Candace Owens: Twitter ‘Sticking Bulls**t Labels on Tweets’ Won’t Make Me Get Vaccinated

‘We Have Lost Our Ever-Loving Minds’: Megyn Kelly Tweets About Family Kicked Off Plane Over Child Not Wearing Mask

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Portland Public Schools’ Board of Education delayed a vote to approve an evergreen mascot over concerns that the symbol is connected to lynching and could be misperceived as “a tree of death.”

Students and faculty at Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School overwhelmingly selected an evergreen tree to replace its former Trojans mascot in a recent survey. Board director Michelle DePass delayed the board’s approval vote on the mascot over concerns that evergreens could evoke ties to lynchings, the Portland Tribune reported.

Uh, guys? Nobody was ever lynched from an evergreen tree. The branches aren’t strong enough.

You’d think that somebody in Portland would know that.

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A recent poll made public Monday reveals that Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is facing a significant threat from a new Republican challenger.

The new Cygnal poll shows Murkowski trailing Republican Commissioner of Administration Kelly Tshibaka by 15 points in the 2022 all-party Alaska Senate primary. The poll found Murkowski to have just a 33% favorability rating among all Alaskans, compared to 63% unfavorable.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving RINO.

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If you want to keep your job as a politically conservative public school teacher, you learn to keep your mouth shut, a Chicago area teacher told The Daily Signal.

Morgan Foster has taught English in middle school and, later, high school in Cook County, Illinois, for about 10 years.

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The headline of this Washington Post article is “How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now.” The authors show, in essence, that Biden tamed the left by giving leftists what they want. One might say the left tamed Biden.

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When you think about Hunter Biden, what is the first thing that comes to mind? And please don’t crack any jokes. Come on, pipe up. What do you associate Hunter Biden with? Laptops? Perhaps but it could be another L-word, namely locomotives.

Yes, did you now that Hunter Biden is a noted locomotive expert? You don’t believe me? Well, that is how Politico’s “Transition Playbook” described him on Friday in “How high speed trains got railroaded in Biden’s infrastructure plan.”

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The following article from the Netherlands is a lucid and succinct summary of the problems caused by the importation of Muslims into the West.

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Perhaps you are amazed at the millions of people who have bought into the idea that the gradually increasing level of a trace atmospheric gas (CO2, currently about 0.04% of the atmosphere) is going to bring about world climate doom a hundred or so years from now. You may be even more amazed at the similarly large numbers of people who seem to think that the salvation from this doom is to be found in bringing lawsuits against various companies that produce fossil fuels and getting some court somewhere to order that the companies do . . . what exactly? And that is going to avert the climate doom . . . how exactly?

I can’t answer those questions. But the posing of the questions has led me, as a service to readers, to try to follow some of these ridiculous lawsuits, which I have dubbed the “stupidest litigations” in the country.

So MLB Is Fine With Games In Cuba & Training In China, But Georgia Has A Human-Rights Problem?

‘We’re All Dealing With Post Trump Stress Disorder’: Jim Acosta Weighs In On Media Coverage After Trump

CBS News Deletes Tweet Linking To Article That Gave Companies Advice On Fighting ‘Georgia’s Restrictive New Voting Law’

Here are 7 necessary ways to tax the rich (Salon)

Trump’s Campaign Bilked His Fans Out of Millions Because of Course It Did (New York Magazine)

Do the Rich Support the Tax the Rich Campaign? (The New Yorker)

Shock: This CNN Host Exposes Liberal Lies Against Georgia Voting Law

CBS Yanks ‘Straight-News’ Article Advising Companies “How To Beat” Georgia Election-Integrity Laws

Charlotte Man Arrested After Trashing Asian-Owned Store With Signpost, Yelling Racial Slurs

Charles Barkley Says The ‘System’ And Politicians Want Black And White People To Hate Each Other

The Sewell report on racial disparity is an attempt to erase progress and sow division (The Guardian)

More suspects arrested for murdering Dallas woman on vacation, police say

Is Racism Making People Sick? (Vox)

Life in Vermont

Ahmaud Arbery: the Holiness of the Long Distance Jogger

The Black Muslim Capitol Cop Killer

Russia’s Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US

George Floyd and ‘The Riot Ideology’

PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor: Georgia Law and Chauvin Trial ‘Definitely Connected’ (by Racism)

“YPCCC Helps Facebook Debunk Climate Change Myths”

Environmental Justice campaign to replace New York City peaking power plants

Will John Kerry Sell Out Chinese Human Rights to Win a Global Climate Agreement?  I bet Yes.

Biden admits tax hike could hit people earning $200K

Who Is the Phoniest of Them All?

Biden Administration And Iran: Secret Deals And Appeasement Back On The Table?

Sen. John Barrasso: ‘The Easiest Way To Get Into The United States Today Is To Do It Illegally’

‘He Is Lying To Cause Racial Divisions’: Chris Christie Unloads On Joe Biden

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One of the most commonly heard debater’s challenges, online and in real life, is: “Are YOU an expert in (X)?” The obvious if generally unspoken corollary is: “If not, then shut up.” However, very often, you don’t need to. There is little evidence that a smart normal citizen, capable of effective analysis of empirical data, cannot criticize the work of academic or journalistic “experts” in most fields—or any reason that he or she should be intimidated by these title-holders.

Obviously, some professional background in a topic that one is discussing or researching is a good thing. However, no credential can substitute for a relatively unbiased and non-partisan approach to data, or for what can bluntly be called intelligence. Whether due to political motivation or plain incorrect statistical assumptions, credentialed experts have a long and entertaining history of wildly false predictions—like the recent predictions of between 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States before the end of 2020.1, 2 This sort of thing is likely to become even more common in the politicized academy of today, where essentially no statistical support appears to exist for theories of “white fragility” and univariate white privilege. When debating such questions as “How many human sexes are there?” a taxpayer who finds the experts arrayed against her need not feel a fool.

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I don’t know why anyone would want to drink that crap in the first place, since Pepsi is available.

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I attended a small Episcopal church for more than thirty years until COVID closed it down last year. Or, to be more precise, the bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia closed it down. After Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam allowed places of worship to reopen (with capacity restrictions), the bishop, in her infinite wisdom, decided that Episcopal congregations would not be safe if people attended services in churches, so she issued a ukase insisting that they remain closed.

St. Paul tells us that “Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow — not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” (Romans 8:38) But he didn’t know about COVID, which is more powerful than all those things he mentioned. It not only separates Episcopalians from God’s love, it obviously deprives them of their ability to reason.

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Biden is dishonest. His memory is shot. He’s an influence-peddler pretending to be a victim, a lifelong exploiter of his public position who hides behind the lowest forms of sentimentality.

Hunter Biden, of course. You’d have to be on the wrong end of a three-day crack binge to confuse Hunter Biden with the impeccably honest, mentally agile and profoundly principled multimillionaire career politician Joe Biden.

‘Come On, Let’s Get Serious’: Anthony Fauci Says He Was ‘Taken Totally Out Of Context’ On Wearing Masks Into 2022

UK Bans Travel From 4 More Countries; 39 in All

More Deaths in Germany Attributed to the Experimental AstraZeneca Treatment

Sen. Lindsey Graham Tells Fauci to Witness Super Spreader Event at Border

Argentine president positive for coronavirus after vaccination early this year

Netherlands Latest To Halt AstraZeneca Jab As Australia Admits “Likely” Blood-Clot Link

Students At Florida High School Warned They Will Be “Re-Educated” If Caught Not Wearing A Mask

Aussie Government: Blood Clotting Case Likely Linked to Astra-Zeneca Covid Vaccine

Entire Plane Claps After Anti-Maskers Get Thrown off Flight

Health Care Workers Bragging About Forged Vax Cards As Fake “Passports” Hit The Street

Reports: Capitol Attack Suspect Identified Self as Farrakhan Follower

Nation of Islam’s Long History of Antisemitism, Bigotry

Dems: ‘We Will Not Legitimize Georgia’s Racist Election Law By Reading It To See What It Says’

California, New York localities push reparations through Universal Basic Income  Plenty of room in Texas, y’all.

Biden Said ‘Nobody’ Making Under 400k A Year Would Have Their Taxes Raised. He Misled

Biden Infrastructure Bill Includes $20 Billion To Destroy Highways For Being Racist

Leaked Illegal Immigration Stats Are ‘Undeniable’ Proof Biden’s Policies Caused Border Crisis, Immigration Experts Say

Buttigieg CAUGHT Faking Green Lifestyle, Rides Bike to Work After Car Drops Him Off Near Destination

Guatemala Declares Emergency As New Migrant Caravan Bound To US May Be Forming

Mohammed removed from new Dutch translation of Dante’s Inferno (French)

Why Don’t We Remind Stephen Colbert of His ‘Racist’ Asian Jokes?

MLB’s Chinese Media Partner Has Targeted An NBA Exec For Supporting Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Protesters

Delta Airlines Now Requiring Republicans To Ride In The Overhead Bin  Babylon Bee.

‘White Sheet’ Time: Baseball Writing Legend Likens Georgia Gov To KKK Member

Inside the Church of Climate

UAH Global Temperature Update for March 2021: -0.01 deg. C

Once climate change deniers, the agriculture industry positions itself as part of the solution  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

CNN Lets Guest Smear GOP as a ‘Cult’ Over Voting Laws

MSNBC Hypes Biden’s Jim Crow Lies, Pushes Fake ‘Nonpartisan’ Experts

PolitiFact Boasts ‘Fact-Checking Festival’ in May Starring…Brian Stelter!?

MSNBC Guest: Sorry I’m Not ‘Woke’ Enough To Approve Attacking Cops

Why Lester Holt’s Declaration That ‘Fairness Is Overrated’ Is So Dangerous

Running a Factory Under Soviet Socialism

Egalitarians are more aware of inequality  Perhaps because they obsess over it.

Report: Facebook, Twitter Employees Donated Almost Exclusively to Dems  My, what a surprise.

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StemExpress, a Sacramento-based biotech company, and PayCertify, a financial tech services company in the San Jose area, are expected to combine to create more than 200 jobs in Reno over the next few years, the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada said Wednesday.

“Northern Nevada’s tech ecosystem is thriving and high-growth companies, like Stem Express and PayCertify, are increasingly vital to our region’s economic recovery and future,” EDAWN CEO Mike Kazmierski said.

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Apparently one kind are assholes, and the other kind are insecure assholes.

Now you know.

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Chinese submarine, identified as the Type-100 Class is reportedly contesting Russian Navy’s mighty Pr.941 Typhoon Class submarine as the largest ever built.

he new submarine is reportedly armed with 48 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs). It can also carry massive nuclear-powered nuclear-armed autonomous torpedoes.

I like big subs, and I cannot lie….

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Dr. Matthew Sullivan and his colleagues from Griffith University found that guaA, a specialized gene that encodes guanosine monophosphate synthetase, allows it to exploit natural chemicals found in urine as a way to produce new DNA.

So watch it.

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When travelers go online to find out whether it is legal to fly with cash, the government tells them that there are no restrictions on traveling with any amount of money on domestic flights. What it does not tell flyers is that, upon seeing cash, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners will detain them and turn them over to law enforcement, who will take their money without any cause for suspicion and without filing any criminal charges. Now, a Fourth Amendment, class action lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice (IJ) to end these unconstitutional practices by the TSA and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will move forward in federal court after a judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss.

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For decades, the EPA relied on unreviewable studies to impose draconian restrictions on businesses and industries, and thus on the U.S. economy. Trump wanted to bring true transparency to the process. Opponents claimed the Trump secret science” rule would block the use of critical public health studies kept secret supposedly to protect the identities of trial participants – which of course was not the case.

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