The snowballing situation surrounding Spotify and Joe Rogan was elevated on Sunday when the streaming behemoth unveiled sweeping new rules regarding “dangerous content” on the platform. Spotify rolled out new restrictions on content that the platform deems as “dangerous,” “deceptive,” sensitive,” and “illegal.” The rules will apply to musicians, podcasters, and other contributors. Spotify warned,
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The first signs of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, surfaced in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 12, 2019. By December 2020, COVID-19 had reached every continent on the planet after the first cases were detected on Antarctica. Through the entire COVID-19 endemic and pandemic, the remote island nation of Kiribati had managed to not have a single
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After being asked by MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski about the alleged misinformation spread by the popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast and Facebook users, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded with a homily about how “we” must “root out” misleading speech. “We” don’t have to do any such thing. Government officials have no role in dictating appropriate
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Sen. Susan Collins talks to reporters about the Supreme Court nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2018. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) on Sunday criticized President Biden’s handling of the Supreme Court vacancy that will be left by Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement as
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The East Coast is battling deep freeze conditions after a fierce storm barreled through several states on Saturday, flooding coastlines, dumping masses of snow and outing power for thousands. Officials in New York described conditions as “life-threatening“, five states declared an emergency and Rhode Island banned all non-emergency road travel as snow and high winds
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On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was angry enough at his fellow panelist David Brooks that he claimed that President Biden’s still-unknown Supreme Court nominee would probably be “more brilliant than the folks who have come in before her” because she had to overcome all the racism that defines
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In this installment of their weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative discuss six conclusions they can draw from the continuing crisis in Ukraine with Russia’s military buildup. #6: The Russia Hoax narrative that President Trump was somehow beholden to Putin due to some nefarious side deals has
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Empty patient beds are seen in a Maryland hospital as hospitals have limited visitors and cancelled elective surgery to make space for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, March 18, 2020. Picture taken March 18, 2020. (Rosem Morton/Reuters) In my first anti-euthanasia column, written for Newsweek in 1993, I warned that if assisted suicide/euthanasia became legal and
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A New York City actress was abruptly fired after she complained on social media about the inconvenience of road closures in Manhattan as the New York Police Department honored slain officer Jason Rivera. What happened? According to the New York Post, actress Jacqueline Guzman lost her acting job after posting a video online Friday ranting
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Truckers and protesters showed up in huge numbers as the Freedom Convoy descended upon Ottawa, Ontario. Despite subzero windchill temperatures on Saturday, Canadians mounted a large protest against vaccine mandates. Massive crowds peacefully protested against government overreach near Parliament Hill. Truckers were protesting an order that went into effect on Jan. 15, requiring unvaccinated Canadian
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Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience continues to respond to our reporting on the Biden administration’s tracking of federal employees who apply for an exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Here’s a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: We as Americans should all be disturbed by this trend reported by Sarah
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A federal judge has blocked a Texas law being enforced against a Palestinian-American contractor that prohibits government agencies from doing business with companies that participated in the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) efforts against Israel. The judge ruled that the law infringed on the contractor’s First Amendment rights. The lawsuit was filed by A&R Engineering
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2006—Senator Kerry’s Davos-led fili-bluster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito fails. The Senate respects its longstanding tradition of providing an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor to Supreme Court nominees who have been reported to the full Senate. 2014—By a vote of 5-1, the Maine supreme court, purporting to reconcile two statutes, rules that a public school
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Prosecutors said that officers obtained a ledger documenting profits in excess of $1.5 million from the alleged illegal activity. Office of the District Attorney County of Suffolk Two nurses on New York’s Long Island are being charged with forging Covid-19 vaccination cards and entering the fake jabs in the state’s database, a scam that allegedly
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Social media was abuzz on Saturday following a report that “conservative activists” on the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee had removed the award-winning graphic novel Maus from the 8th-grade curriculum. The usual suspects on social media called this “book banning” or even “book burning.” “Books on race, gender pulled from schools amid conservative push against
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Service members of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces take part in military drills in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, December 20, 2021. (Press Service of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade/Handout via Reuters) For reasons rooted in their countries’ long experience of Russian rule and Soviet occupation, when a politician from the Baltic
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