Month: September 2022

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was dumbfounded when asked about the Biden administration’s alleged collusion with big tech. High-ranking officials in the Biden administration worked hand in hand with influential social media companies to censor content that was deemed “misinformation,” according to emails revealed this week. The government identified “examples of problematic content,” and
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A branch of COVID-19 fundamentalists has managed to get an extremist bill through the California Legislature that would put doctors’ free speech at risk. The legislation would require the state’s Osteopathic Medical Board to “take action” against doctors deemed to have “disseminate[d] misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the
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The Department of Defense (DOD) has stepped up efforts to eliminate red tape in making arms sales, a policy that could require overhauling defense production, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. In August, the Pentagon created a task force, dubbed the “Tiger Team,” that aims to identify bureaucratic inefficiencies that hamstring weapons sales to allies as U.S.
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The White House responded to a tsunami of criticism of the politicization of the military during President Joe Biden’s speech Thursday excoriating Republican supporters of President Donald Trump. Biden gave a scathing speech warning that the pro-Tump elements of the Republican Party were threatening to undermine Democracy in the U.S., but it was the dark
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CNN’s S.E. Cupp traveled over to CNN International’s Amanpour and Company on Friday, which is broadcast in the United States on PBS, to discuss President Biden’s “semi-fascist” remarks. The allegedly conservative Cupp proclaimed the label to be “correctly” applied and it was “courageous” of Biden to do so. Guest host Sara Sidner played a clip
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When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID-19. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well over 1 million. Amid the tragedy, there initially was some hope that the pernicious effects of the disease would all disappear upon recovery
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New York Times education reporter Sarah Mervosh made Thursday’s front page with a summary of a damning federal report on learning loss during the Covid pandemic: “The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading.” A more accurate headline would have read: “An anti-scientific response to the pandemic fueled by partisan teachers’ unions
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General Motors will offer a buyout to any Buick dealer that isn’t willing to invest in the brand’s all-electric shift, The Wall Street Journal reported. Buick’s plan to transition to exclusively selling electric vehicles could cost franchisees as much as $300,000 in renovations including new charging stations, piping and equipment to service EVs, the WSJ reported.
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A leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation is being accused in a lawsuit of stealing $10 million from the group and using it for his “personal piggy bank.” The lawsuit from former colleagues called Shalomyah Bowers a “rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper,” according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to loan $1.4 billion to preserve the state’s last nuclear energy plant on Friday despite objections by environmentalists. The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo has been the subject of contentious protests by environmentalists but the energy crisis in California has forced Newsom to delay
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President Biden gave a nasty primetime speech on Thursday night on how ‘MAGA Republicans’ are a threat to American democracy, and the media celebrated it as “reclaiming patriotism.” He explicitly called out the entire Republican Party as threatening the future of democracy in America.  Meanwhile, Geoffrey Dickens joins the show to discuss his latest chronicle
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After being barred from Google Playstore in the wake of the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the conservative social media app Parler has finally made its way back to the app store, Reuters reported. Parler is a popular alternative American microblogging and social networking service popular with conservatives and Trump supporters. The app
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Hulu Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The future of Hulu continues to be an open question as Comcast and Disney still haven’t agreed on terms that will settle the company’s future ownership. But Comcast executives are planning on Disney buying them out — even if they’d prefer otherwise. related investing
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FBI agents found empty folders marked with classified banners among more than 11,000 government documents and photographs when they searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last month, according to the US Justice Department. The details were revealed in a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the department. It describes in general terms
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