Wealthy business tycoon Elon Musk, who recently bought Twitter, tweeted on Tuesday that the platform’s present system for determining who gets a verification checkmark badge is “bulls**t” and that he plans to offer it to everyone for $8 per month. “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark
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Two American college students were outraged the other day when school officials forcibly removed the patriotic flags that they had hung outside their dorm room, even as pride flags outside other dorm rooms were left unmolested. On Monday, the Twitter account Libs of TikTok shared a video, filmed by one of the unnamed students, showing
ABC’s Good Morning America did its best Tuesday to earn brownie points from its friends in the Biden White House as they touted their hapless attempt to trash oil companies and threaten them with new taxes if they don’t (artificially) lower prices and surrender their profit margins. As we’ve repeatedly covered (see here, here, here,
Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney is rushing to the defense of Paul Pelosi, of course. On Tuesday, Cheney said that Republicans mocking the Pelosi attack are “disgraceful.” The nepotism baby and primary loser made the remarks while speaking at an event in Ohio at the City Club in conversation with Judy Woodruff, Anchor at PBS NewsHour.
Congress has repeatedly rejected radical climate change policies that would increase the price of energy. Now, President Joe Biden is circumventing the legislative branch by moving to force people into using electric vehicles. This plan would impose the costliest regulatory burden ever inflicted on the public. The vast majority of people don’t support phasing out and eventually banning
Taylor Swift performs on the stage in concert at Mercedes-Benz Arena on May 30, 2014 in Shanghai, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Taylor Swift said Tuesday she’s heading back out on tour, as she occupies all of the top 10 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 with songs from her new
Rapper Takeoff has been shot dead at a party in Houston, Texas, his representative has confirmed. The 28-year-old Migos star was fatally shot at the private event, which was held at a bowling alley. Image: Takeoff performs on stage with Migos in 2018 PIC:AP Takeoff – whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball – was
Don Lemon will be starting his totally-not-a-demotion stint on CNN’s revamped morning show CNN This Morning this morning. So we at NewsBusters thought it would be nice to take a stroll down memory lane and look back at Lemon’s heinous remarks that the network would prefer were memory-holed. One of Lemon’s earliest remarks that got people talking
In my younger days, I sold advertising over the phone to make ends meet. We had a very good training program, dissecting the elements of a sale from beginning to end. Especially the end. At the end of a sales pitch, the salesman was supposed to “close” the sale by asking for a decision from
The administration has no problem pushing Karine Jean-Pierre out on the Sunday talk show loop to blatantly lie about the reality of the economy. Karine is very comfortable with mistruths as she is guilty of spreading them daily. She validated her claim with only one fact. She stated the unemployment rate in January 2021 was
Three black men are suing Washington, D.C., alleging discrimination after district police refused to give them concealed-carry licenses, the Washington Post reported. The suit — filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in September — claims D.C. not only wrongly said the plaintiffs have violent histories but also that it misjudged their
Steven Crowder says Big Tech is continuing to try to censor his show out of fear. He breaks down why YouTube kicked him out. Also, Crowder goes into the Paul Pelosi story, and Kari Lake joins the show. That and more on today’s episode of “Louder with Crowder.” Want more from Steven Crowder? To enjoy
The last time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she compared herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians fighting for their freedom. Now with only eight days until Election Day, she returned to join the show’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” attacks against her while spreading
David DePape, an alleged illegal alien who reportedly broke into the home of Nancy and Paul Pelosi and stands accused of trying to kill Paul Pelosi with a hammer has quite a resume: He is described by his ex-wife as mentally ill. He is an illegal alien. He reportedly is a frequent user of hallucinogenic
“Strictly speaking, race does not exist,” Fe Bencosme says. Bencosme, author of the new book “You Are Not Your Race: Embracing Our Shared Humanity in a Chaotic Age,” says she knows her writings on race will offend people, but the reality is “there’s no black race, there’s no white race, there’s no yellow or red
In this article LMT LLAP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The company’s banner above the New York Stock Exchange on March 28, 2022. Terran Orbital Shares of spacecraft manufacturer Terran Orbital rose Monday after the company added $100 million via an investment from existing shareholder Lockheed Martin. Lockheed purchased both debt and stock, and
The man accused of attacking the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told police he wanted to hold her hostage and “break her kneecaps”, according to court papers. The US Justice Department has charged David DePape, 42, with assault and attempted kidnapping. The two counts carry up to 50 years in prison, the department
Social-media networks are a hot topic going into the midterms. Leftists are losing their minds over Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. On MSNBC, Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer called Musk a “child,” said he’s “Immature,” he has “daddy issues.” She can’t imagine why a single advertiser would stay. Alleged free-speech advocate Suzanne Nossel of PEN America told
Critics of the online communities that live stream and comment on popular televised trials complain that putting cameras in courtrooms leads to circuses and grifters raking in cash on YouTube and other platforms. The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz and Rolling Stone went after live streamers during the Johnny Depp trial and tried to scandalize the
Schedule Summary: President Joe Biden will travel to Florida where he will engage in a range of election year political activities. There is nothing else on his schedule for Tuesday. Please check back with CDN often as the White House frequently updates the president’s schedule and live streams come online later in the day. Live stream
Many reporters have taken to Twitter to vent their outrage against Elon Musk’s plan to reportedly charge them a monthly fee in order to keep their blue checkmark verification. Twitter verification is one of the platform’s strategies to keep fake accounts from spreading false information. When an account is verified, it receives a blue checkmark
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in October, took a course of Paxlovid, tested negative, and then tested positive again, according to the CDC. “CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky experienced mild symptoms from her recent COVID-19 infection, completed a course of Paxlovid, and, after
On Monday night, MSNBC’s Joy Reid went full-blown conspiracy kook during her show The ReidOut. She was apparently wearing her tin foil hat so tight that it was cutting off her circulation because she claimed with a straight face that over half of the midterm election polls published over the last few weeks are Republican
Guest post by Jason Grossman People living near the coastal village of Kusiong in the Philippines were met with devastation on Saturday when flash floods caused by tropical storm Nalgae turned into a mudslide burying villagers. At least 20 bodies, including children, were removed by rescuers during recovery efforts. Kusiong, in the Southern Maguindanao Province, is
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and the Left is melting down. On Thursday, Musk officially completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant. He immediately began to shake up the company and fired four key members of upper management. The firings included Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Legal Officer Vijaya