“Everyone is just sort of standing around,” said one Facebook employee to NBC News. Facebook did not say how many users were affected, but the applications serve billions of users worldwide. The outage took a toll on Facebook’s stock, which fell from $335.50 a share at the opening bell to $326.23 a share at the
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Y: The Last Man continued its weekly descent into left-wing hell with a scene in which a biology-denying scientist tries to feed Holy Communion to a monkey. In the dystopian trans show’s latest FX on Hulu episode, “Weird Al Is Dead,” released on Monday October 4, the sole biological male who survived a man-killing plague, is with a secret agent
The ancient treatise The Education of Children, which may or may not be by Plutarch, contains a number of sensible precepts that would, for that reason, grant it pariah status with today’s Therapeutic Industrial Complex and its servants in government, corporate human resources, and schools. Plutarch (I refer to him as the author for convenience)
Last year’s heroes are today’s villains. New York’s largest healthcare provider, Northwell Health, fired 1,400 workers for refusing to get the Covid jab on Monday. We’re in the middle of a ‘historic pandemic’ and the Marxists are firing healthcare workers in record numbers. “Our goal was not to terminate employees,” Northwell Health spox Joe Kemp
United States Capitol Building ( rarrarorro/Getty Images) If you listen to the president, not only will $3.5 trillion cost nothing, but Republicans are obligated to raise the debt limit even though they don’t control Congress and don’t support new spending. Two new graphics went up today on the president’s Twitter account. One shows the debt
Noncitizens will be able to vote in two Vermont cities as part of a growing national trend, unless lawsuits prevent new laws from taking effect. The cities of Montpelier, with about 7,375 residents, and Winooski, with about 7,335, both will allow noncitizens to vote in local elections for offices such as mayor, city council, and
In this article PFE Safeway pharmacist Ashley McGee fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccination at a vaccination booster shot clinic on October 01, 2021 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The effectiveness of Pfizer and BioNTech‘s Covid-19 vaccine against infection tumbles over several months, falling from a peak of
Even on a Monday morning, the beaches would usually be bustling in the place that calls itself “Surf City USA”. But the sands in Huntington Beach in California are deserted. So too, the beaches that stretch for miles south. The closures are part of a massive response to the spill of thousands of gallons of
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is calling on the government to regulate social media–and the Left is following suit. In an interview with “60 Minutes,” Haugen, a data scientist and former Facebook employee who worked to combat “misinformation,” said the platform bears some responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot. “Facebook, over and over again, has shown
Would-be launch giant Blue Origin just can’t catch a break lately. Despite a two-year head start on arch-rival SpaceX and the deep pockets of founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin has only made only suborbital launches like last summer’s tourism flight with Bezos himself. The company has yet to launch a single gram of mass into
Female students won’t return to Kabul University until “a real Islamic environment” is provided for all, the Taliban-appointed chancellor said this week, dealing another blow to women’s rights in Afghanistan since the group came to power last month. The militant group has said that women will be allowed to work and study within the bounds
National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) On the first day of NR’s Fall Webathon, readers like you donated more than $21,000 to the cause of National Review’s conservative journalism. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For 65 years, the Left has sneeringly claimed that this magazine is on its way
Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “I am saddened to report that Florida’s esteemed First Lady and my beloved wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement. “As the mother of three young children, Casey is the centerpiece of our family and has made
Evan McMullin, the anti-Trump former presidential candidate, is reportedly running to challenge Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) for his Senate seat next year. In a strange twist of irony, Lee revealed days after the 2016 election that he had voted for McMullin as a protest vote against then-candidate Donald Trump. McMullin made waves when he
Fox News Channel debuted on October 7, 1996, so they’re celebrating their 25-year anniversary, and conservatives across America can celebrate the arrival of a network that broke up the monopoly and the monotony of the liberal TV “news” shows. But CNN host Brian Stelter trashed Fox as a network full of “darkness,” the badly clogged
As controversy swirls about her, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is trying to prevent her presidential aspirations from being flushed down the drain by touting her anti-lockdown approach to Covid-19. But Noem’s pandemic response isn’t what she and her defenders make it out to be. Noem stepped into the political limelight because of her
Thanks to Joe Biden, oil prices today reached their highest prices since 2014. KFOR out of Oklahoma reports: Advertisement – story continues below Stocks fell sharply in afternoon trading Monday as Wall Street comes off its worst week since winter. The price of oil hit a seven-year high as OPEC and allied oil producers stuck
Pro-choice activists at a “Stop Abortion Bans Day of Action” rally hosted by the Tennessee chapter of Planned Parenthood in Memphis, Tenn., May 21, 2019. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Reuters) The Biden administration has revoked a rule that barred health-care clinics that receive federal funding from providing referrals for abortions. The Trump administration had previously barred federally
For more than a decade, Texas native Don Kirchoff has used Facebook to share news and information with fellow conservatives. The longtime Heritage Foundation supporter and Heritage Action Sentinel frequently posts articles from The Daily Signal as well as content from other conservative organizations and media outlets. But is anyone seeing them? Many of Kirchoff’s
A plane lands on the southern runway at London Heathrow Airport. US and EU travellers who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus will be allowed to enter England and Scotland without the need to quarantine from Monday. Steve Parsons | PA Images | Getty Images The global airline industry is expected to lose close to $12
A high performance electric car has gone into production in the US with a certified range of 520 miles – the longest currently on the open market. The Air Dream model by Tesla rival Lucid received good reviews from American media over the weekend, after it went into mass manufacture at its Arizona factory last
Andrew Torba, CEO of the Gab social media platform, slammed Silicon Valley for its “erosion of free speech and Christian values” while explaining his motivations for founding Gab. Torba spoke in a blog post of his negative experience as a Christian entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He described the “nihilistic hellhole of a post-truth, post-morality, and
Both Kevin and I were committed to talking some politics in this episode but our subconscious minds apparently were not interested. via GIPHY As we discuss early on in the episode, all political news these days is just a variation on the “What did Biden screw up today?” theme and it’s going to be that
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They are saturated with “progressive” activists who are using school to indoctrinate students into their CRT/BLM beliefs. Anyone who opposes them will be subjected to harassment. If you doubt that, read this Legal Insurrection article by Ramona Bessinger, a teacher in Rhode Island. Here’s a key paragraph: “Everything in school now is about race. During
The NYPD said its Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident, the station added. Police said the man is wanted for criminal mischief, and there is a $3,500 reward for information about the culprit. Authorities described the male suspect as having a medium build and wearing a black hat, dark green jacket, a neon
The obituary explained that Wilson was opposed to the vaccine and blamed “heavy-handed vaccine mandates” — she lived in Seattle — for causing her untimely death. The obituary explained: During the last weeks of her life, however, the world turned dark with heavy-handed vaccine mandates. Local and state governments were determined to strip away her
The Lost Angeles Times on October 3 asked the question that’s been on nobody’s mind: “Can the future of comedy be socialism?” Then, before writer Todd Martens could even begin to address the question, the Times answered for him with a correction at the top of the article: 1:49 p.m. Oct. 3, 2021: An earlier
The 46th president must assess the path forward after a tumultuous month-and-a-half for both his domestic and foreign policy agendas. To say Joe Biden is at a crossroads is to batter his predicament into cliche and rob him of the unique standing afforded the president of the United States. As we enter what is now
Taiwan says it’s preparing for war as China sends a record number of airplanes over the island country. China is escalating pressure on Taiwan: Just two days after its last record-breaking set of military flights around the island of Taiwan, China sent its largest-ever single wave of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ)