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My latest song. NOTE: This song was originally going to be my Friday release for December 4th, 2020; I'm releasing it early for...reasons. Accordingly, its appearance in online stores (except Bandcamp) may be delayed.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo appears to have broken health protocols in celebrating Thanksgiving with family members outside of his own household. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned Liccardo celebrated with his elderly parents at their Saratoga home with an unknown number of other guests. While the mayor’s staff did confirm the dinner took place, they have not disclosed how many other people attended, how many different households were present, and whether any of those in attendance wore masks while not eating. “This is a private event – not public,” said Jim Reed, Liccardo’s Chief of Staff. “We...

A judge in Nevada has ordered Clark County officials to allow an inspection of the elections equipment and sealed containers used in the 2020 election by 1:00 P.M. tomorrow.

Engineers are racing to fix a failed piece of equipment on NASA’s future deep-space crew capsule Orion ahead of its first flight to space. It may require months of work to replace and fix. Right now, engineers at NASA and Orion’s primary contractor, Lockheed Martin, are trying to figure out the best way to fix the component and how much time the repairs are going to take. In early November, engineers at Lockheed Martin working on Orion noticed that a power component inside the vehicle had failed, according to an internal email and an internal PowerPoint presentation seen by The...

...Years of controversial claims about the Trump-Russia controversy, particularly about the dossier funded in part by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, presents one of several obstacles for Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic operative, to achieve Senate confirmation next year.... ...Tanden launched the “Moscow Project” in 2017, and after Buzzfeed published Steele’s dossier in January 2017...She tweeted on Oct. 31, 2016, that President Trump was a Russian “puppet” in part because there was a “Trump server connected to Russian bank" ...

Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell He will be served. And he will have to answer questions under oath. He threw out an entire County Commisioner’s race because he didn’t have confidence in his own elections. Biden-Trump was on the same ballot. Quote Tweet Victor Joecks @VictorJoecks · 3h .@realDonaldTrump's campaign tells me they've been trying to serve Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria with a subpoena since Wednesday. County workers locked the building to keep them out and then Gloria hid in his house all weekend. What are Gloria and Clark County hiding?

To go by the post-election commentary, we libertarians are a powerful group holding sway over American politics and policy. Yet Team Blue and Team Red still enthusiastically embrace authoritarianism and scorn our insistence on letting people run their own lives. Despite growing recognition that libertarians matter, Democrats and Republicans show little sign of extending an olive branch to people who oppose efforts to make government more abusive and intrusive. They know we exist, but they keep us in opposition. How long a shadow do we throw over American politics? "According to the latest figures, the Libertarian candidate for president, Jo...

Hydroxychloroquine really works says Professor of Medicine Dr Peter McCullough, describing the treatment as “the most widely used therapeutic” to treat COVID-19 in the world. Dr. McCulloagh is vice chair of Internal Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine. “The chances that it doesn’t work are calculated to be one in 17 billion,” he told Sky News. “There’s no controversy over whether or not hydroxychloroquine works. The controversy is on the public health approach to COVID-19." Dr McCullough said “the virus invades inside cells, so we have to use drugs...

Rudy W. Giuliani @RudyGiuliani It may be that the corruption is not all on the Democrat side? I've always believed there is an equal distribution of virtue and vice for both Republicans and Democrats.

President Donald Trump's arsenal for overturning the election will soon be down to one final, desperate maneuver: pressing his Republican allies on Capitol Hill to step in and derail Joe Biden’s presidency. Although the Electoral College casts the official vote for president on Dec. 14, it’s up to Congress to certify the results a few weeks later. And federal law gives individual members of the House and Senate the power to challenge the results from the floor — a rarely used mechanism meant to be the last of all last resorts to safeguard an election... Here’s how Trump’s defenders in...

The Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives announced late Saturday that they will not be returning to session this year, a move that would appear to preclude any possibility of lawmakers interceding in the 2020 election. House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Quarryville, and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, R-Bellefonte, released a joint statement saying that they would not be calling their chamber to Harrisburg on Monday, the final possible day for the 2019-20 session of the Legislature to meet. “We are physically unable to consider any new legislation before the end of session,” they wrote in the statement. “A simple...

Governor Ducey of Arizona refuses to meet with me. He doesn't want to explain that he selected a foreign corrupt Voting Machine company to count the vote. I understand his reluctance,but just call a special session. Let's find out how crooked your election really was?

The Arizona State Legislature has approved a Special Session under U.S. Constitution Article II §1.2 to choose and appoint Electors due to extensive corruption of law in the State.

Former government officials Tony Blinken, Michele Flournoy & Lloyd Austin may run Biden’s national security agencies — their firm is telling investors it expects to profit off ties to those officials. Two former government officials who may now run President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team have been partners at a private equity firm now promising investors big profits off government business because of its ties to those officials, according to government documents reviewed by The Daily Poster. Pine Island Capital Partners lists former Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy and retired General Lloyd Austin as a partner in the firm,...

This is for anyone that missed it today. Good interview! https://twitter.com/CRRJA5/status/1333566134952599558

On this date in 1958, Angyal Istvan was hanged for the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. A working-class Jew who survived Auschwitz as a boy — his mother and sister were not so fortunate — Angyal was a convinced leftist who became disaffected with the Hungarian regime not because of its Communism but because of its failure to realize the democratic and egalitarian aspirations of that ideology....

President Trump’s political operation has raised more than $150 million since Election Day, using a blizzard of misleading appeals about the election to shatter fundraising records set during the campaign, according to people with knowledge of the contributions.The surge of donations is largely from small-dollar donors, campaign officials say, tapping into the president’s base of loyal and fervent donors who tend to contribute the most when they feel the president is under siege or facing unfair political attacks. The campaign has sent about 500 post-election fundraising pitches to donors, often with hyperbolic language about voter fraud and the like.The donations...

The actual numbers are these: The total of enrolled foreign students decreased from 903,127 to 851,957 between the two academic periods, but the number of recent alien graduates in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) foreign-worker program rose from 175,695 to 223,539.

A mother and her female partner have been jailed for a total of 129 years for stabbing, dismembering, skinning, and barbecuing the latter’s own nine-year-old son. Rosana Auri da Silva Candido, 27, and lover Kacyla Pryscila Santiago Damasceno Pessoa, 28, were sentenced in the Brazilian administrative region of Samambaia on November 25 to 65 and 64 years in prison respectively. The pair was charged with the murder of Rosana’s nine-year-old son Rhuan Maycon da Silva Castro on the night of May 31 this year. Rhuan was knifed 11 times in total in the chest and eyes while he was sleeping,...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a stark message for the governors gathered in Washington this weekend: The Chinese government is watching them, and other state government officials, more closely than they think. Pompeo told some 44 governors at the National Governors Association winter meeting that they are being individually analyzed by at least one Chinese government-backed think-tank on how malleable they are, and how prone to cooperate with China. And he warned governors to be cautious on everything from business deals to pension funds to the D.C. Metro system. “They’ve labeled each of you friendly, hardline or ambiguous,” he...