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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have introduced a bipartisan bill that would strip legal immunities from tech companies that censor users without their consent. The Break Up Big Tech Act would remove Section 230 protections — critical to the business model of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe — from platforms that “moderate or censor content without an opt-in from users.” According to a press release on Rep. Gabbard’s website, the bill would also remove 230 immunities from companies that engage in the following practices: Selling and displaying personalized as well as contextual advertising without...

Virginia will be under a nightly curfew from midnight until 5 a.m., and social gatherings will be limited to 10 people under new public restrictions meant to stem the surge of COVID-19 expected to go into effect Monday. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the new restrictions Thursday afternoon, citing an untamed spike of COVID-19 cases in the state in the middle of the busy holiday season.

While promising to crack down on election misinformation on its platform and labeling a large number of President Donald Trump’s posts, Twitter allowed misinformation about Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) to spread virally across its platform freely. Social media giant Twitter has promised to make many efforts to prevent the spread of misinformation on its platform. In recent months the site has blocked users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit relating to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, announcing plans to send users warnings if they attempt to “like” tweets that Twitter determines constitute misinformation, and repeatedly...

Radical Islamists have killed at least 30 Christians, raped 10 young women and girls, and kidnapped fifteen others in a spate of recent attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Christian Post reported Wednesday. Between November 20 and December 3, jihadis carried out violent raids on five villages in North Kivu province, northeastern DRC. Armed with guns, machetes, clubs, swords, and axes, the Islamists surrounded churches in each of the five villages and proceeded to assault the Christians inside. “There was a throng of Christians flooding the streets in a helpless situation, as well as radical Muslim extremists...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted her Republican counterpart, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, for calling for Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to be removed from the Intelligence Committee in the wake of reporting that he had a years-long friendship with an alleged Chinese spy.

Pennsylvania officials on Thursday filed a blistering brief at the Supreme Court rebuking the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's defeat in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, casting the move as using a "cacophony of bogus claims" to support a "seditious abuse of the judicial process." "Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees. Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas's preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an affront to principles of constitutional democracy," wrote Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The...

There were a number of new filings today including the defendants response, motions in support, and motions in opposition. Instead of posting them in individual threads, I thought it better to offer the following in a table format. This is the updated list of SCOTUS motions in Texas vs PA, GA, MI, and WI. Towards the bottom is the Response of Commonwealth. Filed ByDescriptionDocumentTexas v PA, et alMotion for leave to file a bill of complaint filed.sourcePresident TrumpTo IntervenesourceMissouri +16 statesIn support of TexassourceCarter Phillips etc alIn Support of DefendantssourceConstitutional AttorneysIn Support of PlaintiffsourceArizonaIn Support of PlaintiffsourceMissouri et alTo IntervenesourceOhioIn...

Tom Kirsch is President Trump’s nominee to fill the seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated by Justice Barrett. Kirsch is well qualified for the judgeship, and her nomination has received approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, some Senate Democrats are opposing Kirsch because he is White. For example, Sen. Blumenthal says the Seventh Circuit lacks “diversity,” and that if Kirsch is confirmed, the court will continue to be all-White. The NAACP, in opposing Kirsch, goes so far as to call the Seventh Circuit “a segregated court.” The charge is absurd. There are nine judges on the...

Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun. It’s not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, with Chinese troops storming the beaches. Instead, the People’s Liberation Army, China’s two-million-strong military, has launched a form of “gray zone” warfare. In this irregular type of conflict, which stops short of an actual shooting war, the aim is to subdue the foe through exhaustion. Beijing is...

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Biden's staff is saying Kamala's staff are leaking negative information against Biden. So it begins!

The Pennsylvania, responses are filed and can be downloaded Pennsylvania ResponseThey assert that:Texas’s Claims Do Not Meet the Exacting Standard Necessary for the Court to Exercise its Original JurisdictionTexas’s Claims Do Not Meet the Exacting Standard Necessary for the Court to Exercise its Original Jurisdiction because Texas lacks standing and its actions are untimely.Texas’s Claims Do Not Meet the Exacting Standard Necessary for the Court to Exercise its Original JurisdictionTexas’s Claims Do Not Meet the Exacting Standard Necessary for the Court to Exercise its Original JurisdictionMichigan's ResponseGeorgia's ResponseWisconsin's Response

In a wide-ranging interview in the New York Times, Melinda Gates made the following remarkable statement: “What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.” A cynic might observe that one is disinclined to think much about matters than do not affect one personally. It’s a maddening statement, to be sure, as if “economics” is somehow a peripheral concern to the rest of human life and public health. The larger context of the interview reveals the statement to be even more confused. She is somehow under the impression that it is the pandemic and not the...

What a difference a day makes, huh? And when I say "day" I mean Election Day, of course. Since the big steal occurred, the media and the bishops have done a complete 180 on a few things. The media finally reporting on Hunter Biden reminds me of the bishops publicly worrying about Joe Biden's abortion stance. Both, after the election. We are not fooled. Treachery or cowardice? There really isn't another choice.

Rand is using his procedural powers to block swift passage of the legislation. "The (Cheney) amendment alone is enough to make me object to it, as well as the amount of spending,” he said.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the 2020 presidential election was “not close” and concluded there is “no evidence of fraud,” while chastising the Republicans backing President Trump’s efforts to ensure election integrity. “The election was not close. There was no evidence of fraud. The states have certified the results. Yet Trump continues to try to overturn the election at the expense of our democracy,” the failed Trump challenger said.

There have been two latest reports that paint Apple in a damning light when it arrives to caring about the well being and perfectly-remaining of the personnel that create its goods. One fears the extended-term employing practices of Apple’s manufacturing facility associates (partly driven by Apple’s have needs), whilst the other touches on China’s abuse of the million or so Uyghurs at present held in internment camps. First, a new report dependent on interviews with four Apple workforce paperwork how the enterprise was alarmed by a 2014 Chinese monthly bill strengthening employee protections, and demanding that no much more than...

Americans have a 1-in-1,000 chance of dying of COVID-19 in the next six months, a Stanford University health expert said Thursday at a Food and Drug Administration hearing. Dr. Steven Goodman, an associate dean at Stanford’s School of Medicine, based that probability off recent statistics showing roughly 285,000 deaths in the country over the last seven months and about 1,000 deaths a day. “A randomly chosen US citizen has an average risk of dying from COVID in the next 6 months, that is by the end of May, of roughly 1 in 1,000 and the risk of hospitalization of roughly...

Quantitatively describing the time course of the SARS-CoV-2 infection within an infected individual is important for understanding the current global pandemic and possible ways to combat it. Here we integrate the best current knowledge about the abundance of potential SARS-CoV-2 host cells and typical concentrations of virions in bodily fluids to estimate the total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions in an infected person. We estimate that each infected person carries 109-1011 virions during peak infection, with a total mass of about 1 - 100 μg, which curiously implies that all SARS-CoV-2 virions currently in the world have a mass...

Modest and Benevolent Leaders or Maniacs Drunk on Power?Do Americans still have the spirit and character necessary for free and ordered government, or not? It is not surprising that the political class tried to cancel Thanksgiving and wants to jettison Christmas this year. Americans have been made to live with all kinds of impositions in 2020, putatively for our protection, with no sign they’re going away anytime soon. Instead, the rules have increased relentlessly in number and severity. These encroachments have been presented to the public as modest demands made by benevolent leaders. “Just wear a mask,” they say. But...