Vicky Xiuzhong Xu is a 26-year-old reporter and researcher living in Australia. She was born in China and came to Australia to study abroad. While there she came across a documentary about Tiananmen Square, something she’d never heard about at school in China. She applied to transfer her studies to an Australian university. At first,
Let’s face it, we live in a plastic society. Nearly everything we buy is wrapped or packaged in some form of plastic. When we eat fast food, order take-out meals, or even stop for an iced coffee, we’ll be handed plastic cups, forks, spoons, and straws. We’ll use them once and then throw them away.
Motorists cross the Second Street bridge during a winter storm in Louisville, Ky., February 15, 2021. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) I see that the pernicious everything-is-everything-and-words-have-no-meaning mentality that leads groups such as Planned Parenthood to tweet things like “Good forest management is reproductive justice” has now reached the word “infrastructure”: Paid leave is infrastructure.Child care is infrastructure.Caregiving
Chinese officials are detaining Christians in windowless “transformation” facilities and using “brainwashing” to get them to renounce their faith, Radio Free Asia reported. What are the details? RFA said it spoke to a member of a Christian house church who asked to be identified by a pseudonym — and “Li Yuese” told the outlet he
Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson went on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday evening to defend his veto of a bill that would ban sex-change hormone prescriptions or mutilating surgery for minors. During the contentious interview with a confrontational Tucker Carlson on Fox News, the governor attempted to portray his position as principled limited-government conservatism, arguing that
Well would you look at that? Two Hollywood actresses hate Texans’ desire to have safe and fair elections. Both Piper Perabo and Debra Messing are now threatening a boycott of Southwest Airlines if it doesn’t condemn a new bill signed by the state’s senate that would “make it easy to vote, and hard to cheat.”
Andres Guilarte is a university student who lived in Venezuela under a democratically elected socialist regime. Guilarte says food shortages were a daily occurrence. Venezuelans also endure massive blackouts, political persecution, and a lack of access to health care due to the socialist government. Guilarte joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his experiences of
Alliance for Free Citizens is a new states-based conservative grassroots organization. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, conservatives, nationalists, and populists have found themselves in the political wilderness. With Democrats holding slim majorities in both chambers of Congress and an aging Joe Biden relegating his priorities to his progressive staff, supporters of President Trump
Hunter Biden attends an event in New Castle, Del., January 19, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Hunter Biden portrays his work on the board of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings as an asset in U.S. efforts to pressure Russia, in his memoir Beautiful Things released on Tuesday. Biden writes that Burisma served as a “bulwark” against Russian
Governor Greg Gianforte received his first coronavirus vaccine on Friday. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday.Governor Gianforte made the announcement on the governor’s webpage. Governor Gianforte received his first coronavirus vaccine last week. Via Montana Free Press: TRENDING: Biden Says Americans Who Get Vaccinated Can Celebrate the
In this article T “Godzilla vs. Kong” shattered expectations both in theaters and on the HBO Max streaming service, offering some hope for the hard-hit film industry that audiences will return to theaters. “I think people really miss going out and having fun,” said Joshua Grode, CEO of film production company Legendary Entertainment on CNBC’s
Amazon’s founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has endorsed Joe Biden’s plan to raise corporate taxes after the US president singled out the company over its contributions to federal coffers. Mr Bezos, the world’s richest man who is due to take more of a back seat at the company later in the year, issued a
Unsurprisingly, two episodes on the reaction to the death of George Floyd weren’t enough for BLM activist filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) drama Queen Sugar. The series following a family of black sugar plantation owners in Louisiana is now on its third straight episode recounting the days following Floyd’s death that, as they
This is your occasional friendly reminder that no, you are not insane. You are not insane to think it’s absurd that Major League Baseball pulled out of Atlanta to protest an election integrity law that is far more permissive than election laws in MLB’s home state, New York, or in Joe Biden’s home state, Delaware. You
I said this weeks ago and it’s still true. Under the Biden administration we have migrant children intentionally separated from the parents, the only difference is that now it happens on the other side of the border. Today there’s a legitimately heartbreaking video of a young boy, maybe 10 or 11 years old and wearing
It is difficult to swallow the change the United States has witnessed from the time I was a boy. Oh, how American pie, baseball, Chevrolet and so much more have faltered as they fall to bad ideas from the left. Starting with the most recent of travesties, Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr.
1. A young man in Cuba commits suicide after being fined 5,000 pesos by the Communist regime for the crime of selling plantains. #Cuba is close to the edge, no matter the well-practiced repression of the state. https://t.co/uVjY10BtQj — Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) April 6, 2021 2. Chinese Christians Held in Secretive Brainwashing Camps A
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona signed a bill on Tuesday that would ban local governments and employees from enforcing or aiding any infringement on gun rights imposed by the federal government. House Bill 2111 was passed by the Arizona House and Senate in an attempt to preempt any new regulation of guns by the
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) has accused his primary rival in the race for governor of treating him “like George Floyd,” for joining calls for Fairfax to resign after allegations of sexual assault surfaced against him. What are the details? During a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Fairfax and the other candidates on the stage
On Tuesday, NBC’s This Is Us showed two 13-year-old girls, played by 15-year-old actors, kissing on a bed as a mother walks in on them. This Is Us has been pushing the “L” part of the LGBT agenda for a number of years now, with the prepubescent character Tess (Eris Baker) “coming out” privately to her family at age 10 and
The Senate’s parliamentarian has ruled that Democrats can use budget reconciliation for a second time in the same fiscal year, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. Senate Democrats’ ability to use the legislative tool means that, hypothetically, they could pass President Joe Biden’s disputed infrastructure bill with a simple majority vote instead
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 26: Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to be the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Senate confirmed Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court today by a vote
President Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 29, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden acknowledged that boycotts of states by large corporations could hurt lower-income workers, in comments at a White House press conference on Tuesday. Biden was asked at the conference if he thinks the Masters Tournament, a major golf competition,
Former Olympic champion and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly actively exploring a run for governor of California. Current Governor Gavin Newsom will face a runoff election in the future and Jenner is mulling the idea of a run. SFGate reported: Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic athlete and reality television star, is reportedly “actively
In this article GM The new 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 makes its official debut at the 2018 North American International Auto Show January 13, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Bill Pugliano | Getty Images DETROIT – Shares of General Motors reached a new record during intraday trading Tuesday after the automaker confirmed plans to produce an
Minneapolis police officers are advised to “stay away from the neck when possible” when restraining combative suspects, the murder trial of the ex-cop accused of murdering George Floyd has heard. Testimony from Derek Chauvin‘s former colleagues at the city’s police department continued on Tuesday, after the force’s chief yesterday said his actions against Mr Floyd
A new economic report lambasting President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure agenda was shoved under the rug by the ABC, CBS and NBC evening networks. The Tax Foundation released a new analysis March 31 on Biden’s plan headlined “President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Raises Taxes on U.S. Production.” The report summarized that “[t]he proposal’s tax increases on corporations are among the
The Bloomberging of America My friend and colleague Cam Edwards makes his second appearance on the podcast today. Cam is the editor of our sister site Bearing Arms, which means he is the Mothership’s resident expert on all things 2nd Amendment. It’s no secret that the Democrats have a radical anti-gun agenda and that they
A little palate cleanser of a story at the end of a long day. On Monday Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers began a two-week stint as guest host on Jeopardy!. A little fun was had at his expense during the Final round question. The two-day returning champ, Scott Shewfelt, took a not-subtle-at-all jab at
Hunter Biden’s tell-all, released Tuesday, is anything but. The president’s son glosses over several controversial topics in the book, including a Justice Department investigation against him, his work for a Chinese energy company linked to the communist party, and a laptop he allegedly dropped off at a repair shop in 2019 and never retrieved. Biden