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Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday raising concerns about “harms to free speech” resulting from centralized control of social media and signaling potential future antitrust action against Threads. Instagram’s Threads app, a Meta-owned Twitter competitor launched July 6, “has all the appearances of a copy-paste project
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It’s bad enough when broadcast media outlets like ABC and NPR refuse to cover a congressional oversight hearing on the Biden family business. But a national newspaper putting nothing in the paper? Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing “died in darkness” in The Washington Post. The Post had no story anywhere in the paper. Two Biden-defensive
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) called out the anti-free speech efforts of the FBI and President Joe Biden’s administration during a Thursday Congressional hearing. The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing July 20 at which two targets of government censorship efforts, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and
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Scientists who wrote a controversial paper refuting the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory privately wrote that the theory was highly likely after the paper was published, according to messages released on Tuesday. Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry were among the authors of the “Proximal Origins” paper published in March 2020, which argued
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The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would restrict new portable gas generators in the U.S., an escalation in the administration’s regulatory assault on appliances. The proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule would impose tight carbon monoxide emissions standards on new portable gas generators of all sizes and a requirement that generators turn
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On Tuesday afternoon, the White House press briefing with the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had it all with some tense exchanges (Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich over anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party), softballs (the AP and USA Today on alleged treatment of illegal immigrants), and the delusional (a far-left blogger asking about potential violence from Trump supporters).
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On Monday night, Jesse Watters took the plum spot of 8 pm on the Fox News Channel – the Bill O’Reilly/Tucker Carlson hour – so it’s not surprising that NPR’s professional Fox-hater David Folkenflik tried to ruin the moment on Monday’s Morning Edition. The media reporter’s story was headlined “Fox’s newest star Jesse Watters boasts a
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A federal appeals court blocked efforts by environmentalists and Native Americans to end construction on a Biden administration-backed Nevada lithium mine Monday. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to approve the $2.2 billion project, a key part of President Joe Biden’s efforts to move away from
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CNN This Morning host Phil Mattingly had Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Tuesday morning’s program to discuss several different issues, notably the recent anti-Semitic statements from Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). Together they lamented Republicans calling out Democrats and tried to tie the anti-Semitic comments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to House Republicans despite him running
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Never Back Down, the super political action committee (PAC) supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid, released a video advertisement Tuesday using artificial intelligence (AI) to imitate former President Donald Trump attacking Iowa’s Republican governor. Trump slammed Gov. Kim Reynolds on July 10 for not endorsing him in the GOP primaries via a Truth Social
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The corporate state media, academia, the Public Health™ bureaucracy, et al. have for several years now presented a highly distorted, self-serving view of what “scientific consensus” is and its relative merit as a basis for forming policy. The alleged “scientific consensus” around contentious, highly debatable topics such as COVID-19 origins is what underpins the corporate
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On MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid hosted the network’s pseudo-historian Michael Beschloss to concoct yet another one of his conspiracy theories about how former President Donald Trump is a wannabe fascist dictator and will start jailing people if he gets elected again in 2024. According to Beschloss, Trump isn’t keeping his fascist dictator desires
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The Left has panicked since America’s top tribunal decided last month, 6-3, that racial preferences in college admissions are unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court ruling has put a giant roadblock in our country’s march toward racial justice,” complained Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York. Michelle Obama moaned: “Today, my heart breaks for any young person
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Monday’s Morning Joe opened with fill-in host Jonathan Lemire and his panel weighing in on the controversy surrounding Republican amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act. They argued that the military should pay for travel expenses for women in the military looking to travel out of state to circumvent state laws prohibiting abortion. Lemire discussed
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