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Immediately after the election, data maven Matthew Braynard began to determine how many fake ballots were cast in the disputed states. He now says he has absolute proof that Biden’s victory in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin came through election fraud. On Tuesday, Braynard appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room show to discuss his findings. Bannon opened the interview by asking Braynard if he’s certain that, without offering any esoteric evidence about voting machines or the like, he can support a Trump impeachment defense based on old-fashioned election fraud SNIP Braynard politely took issue with the “too late” concept. He pointed...

For all of you in the path of this week’s Nor’Easter and still digging out, allow me to offer an alternative to ongoing snow removal: Follow the panda’s lead and do your best to enjoy it.Let them give you a little boost and maybe we’ll all make it over hump-day. Just hang in there a bit longerand it will soon be spring. Maybe we’ll be able to get together with our friends and family again without social distancing, perhaps even go out for a meal as a group again.Which will of course still be dangerous, as this panda-emic is here...

Experts say Trump's rhetoric helped galvanize right-wing elements. Nearly a month after a pro-Trump mob violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, a clearer picture is emerging of the individuals and groups involved as federal authorities arrest and charge people who allegedly participated in the riot. Former President Donald Trump’s supporters -- 74 million of whom voted to give him a second term in 2020 -- are diverse in background and ideology and come from all corners of the United States, and those who stormed the Capitol represent just a fraction. But to some experts, the hundreds who took part in the...

Three weeks ago I processed the Capitol insurrection with my high school students. Rallying our inquiry skills, we analyzed the images of that historic day, images of white men storming through the Capitol, fearless and with no forces to stop them. “This,” I said, “is white supremacy, this is white privilege. It can be hard to pinpoint, but when we see, it, we know it.” Across our Zoom screen, they affirmed, with nods, thumbs-ups, and emojis of anger and frustration. Fast-forward two weeks as we analyzed images from the inauguration, asking again, “What do we see?” We saw diversity, creativity...

Two straight weeks of good news: COVID-19 cases are declining, hospitalizations are down and the daily pace of vaccinations is on the rise nationwide. What's not to celebrate? Yet, the nation's leading infectious disease experts are warning us that the situation is dire because new, more dangerous strains of the virus threaten the success of the U.S. vaccination effort. They caution we're in a race to vaccinate before the virus becomes vaccine-resistant. Message to the Biden administration: The public doesn't want to see any more presidential press conferences announcing Climate Day, racial Equity Day, Immigration Reform Day, or any other...

The impeachment managers from the Democrat House, along with co-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, seem convinced that a Senate “trial” will dispatch Donald Trump from the American scene. Not so fast…. The first three days of the “trial” will highlight House managers arguing that former president Trump “incited violence” at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Which was preceded for weeks when “he [Trump] reiterated false claims that ‘we won this election, and we won it by a landslide’… false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the...

Supporters of former President Donald Trump are building his impeachment trial into a battle for the soul of the Republican Party and the first shots in the 2024 White House race. His legal team outlined its strategy on Wednesday, arguing it is unconstitutional for the Senate to convict a former president and that his speech at a Jan. 6 rally in Washington did not directly cause the deadly assault on the United States Capitol later that day. But it also left open the possibility of revisiting Trump’s unfounded claims that he won the November election.

Two young men grow up in the same neighborhood and spend four years together at the same high school taking the same classes from the same teachers and playing on the same winning football team. Both are good students and dedicated, hardworking athletes. But one is a journeyman offensive lineman, while the other is an all-state quarterback. In their senior year, they both decide they want to attend the same prestigious private university that plays in the Football Bowl Subdivision -- and where the tuition and board and room exceed $60,000 per year. The university accepts them both. But the...

Gizmodo reported: If you have an Amazon Ring smart doorbell, there’s something you should know. A growing number of fire and police departments are interested in your doorbell — or to be frank, in its camera footage — especially if they feel it can help them in their investigations. In fact, there are now 2,014 departments in the program from every U.S. state except Montana and Wyoming.[snip]...The program allows law enforcement officials to contact Ring users in a certain area and ask them to provide footage from their cameras that might be relevant to local investigations.

When you think about it, there are some fundamental issues with a traditional pack of cards. Why does the male monarch automatically trump the female one? This was something that bugged 23-year-old forensic psychology graduate Indy Mellink, who was unsure why the king is given a higher value than a queen. So, she decided to go about switching things up, to challenge the sexual inequality in a playing card deck that ranks men above women. Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/20/woman-creates-genderless-pack-of-cards-without-the-royal-hierarchy-13933579/?ito=cbshare Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Revelation 7The Great Multitude in White Robes 9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four...

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House GOP lawmakers are seeking this week to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from her committee assignments as Democrats push for similar action against embattled Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Fox News has learned. The House is set to consider a measure this week that calls for Taylor Greene, a controversial first-term lawmaker known for her support of the QAnon conspiracy theory, from her assignment on the Education and Labor Committee. A proposed GOP-backed amendment to that measure calls for Omar, frequently identified as a member of the "Squad" of progressive Democrats, to be removed from...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3931195/posts Young athletes increasingly going to hospital due to mask wearing. You know that a state is run by idiots if that state has decided that kids who play sports must wear masks while they are training and competing. - https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2021/02/02/new-covid-rules-to-take-effect-friday-in-milwaukee.html Milwaukee is reducing its Coronavirus restrictions. We should see more of this as we leave the season that has always had the most upper respiratory infections (AKA flu season). But don’t worry...the bureaucrats will be vigilant about reinstating these restrictions at the first sign of more Coronavirus cases. They will be also be vigilant...

The Congressional Budget Office now projects that economic recovery in 2021 will be faster than it predicted last July. It projects that the economy will be back to its pre-pandemic levels by mid-2021. This very good news reflects the fact that the economic turndown was not as severe as the CBO had expected, and that the recovery was stronger than expected. Former President Donald Trump, recently rejected for reelection by American voters, can take full credit for this. These are the dividends of the strong economy that the Trump administration put in place through well-directed tax cuts and deregulation. Let's...

In order for a Mafia-like mob to operate effectively, it must keep its nefarious pursuits from public exposure. Hence, President Trump had to be destroyed! *snip* Once upon a time, if politicians were caught in a corruption probe, they would quickly resign their offices and attempt to hide from the embarrassing publicity, while praying that they would not go to jail. In addition, when public officials were exposed as incompetent, reckless, or negligent in the performance of duty, they'd step down amid a swirling tide of public outrage. Not anymore! These days, it takes a lot more than bribery, mismanagement,...

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in a penal colony after a Moscow court found him guilty of disobeying the terms of his probation over the 2014 money laundering case. In the Tuesday ruling, however, the court also took into account the time Navalny had spent under house arrest, meaning that the Kremlin critic would spend only two years and eight months behind bars. Navalny rejected the claims of violating parole and slammed the process as an attempt to silence him. During the hearing, Navalny said his trial was aimed at making people afraid. He blamed...

MATAMOROS, Mexico - Angelica Matos, who fled Venezuela, where her husband was tortured and jailed, has endured fears of violence and the spread of Covid-19, all in the hope that the United States would again open its doors to asylum-seekers after the Trump administration's restrictive policies. Others who had similar hopes gave up. But after a year and a half of waiting in Mexico, Matos is clinging to a kernel of possibility that the new president, Joe Biden, will once again give people like her the refuge and safety that could come if they are granted asylum. "I am very...

A group of NGOs backed by two million citizens had filed a complaint accusing the French state of failing to act to halt climate change, in what has been dubbed the "case of the century". In its ruling on Wednesday, the Paris court said the French state had failed to meet its obligations and ordered it to pay the symbolic sum of 1 euro in compensation for "moral prejudice". An international accord signed in Paris five years ago aims to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, and preferably to 1.5 degrees. But experts say...

Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) expressed outrage over state Republican lawmakers moving to end no-excuse absentee voting, automatic voter registration, and ballot drop boxes, calling the proposals “shameful.” “This is shameful,” the newly-elected senator said of the proposals. “We need to swiftly pass the For The People Act to strengthen access to the ballot and prevent voter suppression from silencing our voices”: Republican state senators in Georgia introduced bills Monday targeting a number of controversial voting issues, including no-excuse absentee voting. According to AJC, the measure would limit absentee voting to “those over 75 years old, voters with disabilities or...