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Another day, another round of right-wing pundits trying to dunk on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this time, her supporters are fighting back with cuteness. The outspoken member of Congress from New York has frequently been a target for Republicans, and this time it's with the hashtag #AOClied, which was trending on Twitter Thursday morning.

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Yesterday, we reported that 27-year-old country music star Morgan Wallen had been banned from the second biggest radio chain in the country after he was caught saying the N-word on camera. Now, things have gotten even worse for Wallen, as he has been disqualified from the 2021 American Country Music Awards.

Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a Florida supermarket is sparking outrage online after video surfaced of customers and employees going about their business without masks. The 15-second clip was shared Wednesday by NBC's Sam Brock, who was astonished when he walked into the popular Naples, Florida grocery store only to see people both young and old flouting the rules for mask-wearing. Brock in his tweet wrote that a sign outside the store cited "medical exemptions," preventing Brock from asking any questions. The video has since been viewed more than 2 million times, raking in over 9,000 retweets and sparking even...

When Centrism Becomes Extremism In today’s upside-down political culture, moderate centrism has become stigmatized as extremism.Joseph Overton died before his time in 2003, when the 43-year-old was involved in an ultralight plane crash. But he achieved immortality when the political concept he first described as the “window of discourse” became known posthumously as the Overton Window.What Overton refers to is the spectrum of political discourse that ranges from unthinkable ideas to those that are generally accepted and popular. Political commentator Joshua Treviño characterizes the milestones in this spectrum as starting with unthinkable, moving to radical, then acceptable, then sensible, then...

If you thought it was hard to travel in 2020 and hoped the new year would bring about simpler times, you’re about to be disappointed. The new administration’s focus on bringing the pandemic under control, combined with newer highly contagious strains of COVID-19, are complicating reopening plans in countries around the world. In fact, in many places (like Israel), the new strains of coronavirus have prompted the shutdown of air travel entirely. The Biden administration has imposed additional restrictions on international travel with new testing and quarantine requirements. There’s even active consideration for a testing requirement for flights within the...

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is resigning from the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists after they threatened to expel his membership from the union after the Capitol riot -- to which he said, "Who cares!" The former president's letter of resignation Wednesday comes after the SAG-AFTRA board voted "overwhelmingly" that Trump violated the union's membership guidelines in the wake of the Capitol riot. Fox News exclusively obtained the letter sent to SAG President Gabrielle Carteris, slamming the union, the media and news organizations. "I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at...

Hospital emergency rooms in the United States saw an increase in patients requiring treatment for drug overdoses and suicide attempts in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, according to an analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry... ERs treated 14% more drug overdose patients on a weekly basis last year and treated 6% more patients after a suicide attempt compared to prior years, the data showed. The findings highlight the need to account for the mental health effects on the pandemic as part of the overall public health response, the researchers, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote...

Bribe Senator Joe Manchin?Atlantic magazine writer Annie Lowrey doesn't even try to be very subtle about it. The headline of her story on Wednesday flat out makes it clear what she wants, "Give Joe Manchin Whatever He Wants." And if you can't figure out what she is getting at in the title, the subtitle goes into even more detail, "Why shouldn’t Democrats bring back earmarks and curry his favor with a few sky bridges and concert halls?" Lowrey makes the case that Democrats should, essentially, bribe Manchin in order to make him more supportive of legislation being pushed by the...

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." - Henry Kissinger (1974) From : www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/committees/cac/about/en/ "Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) The Codex Alimentarius Commission or CAC is the body responsible for all matters regarding the implementation of the Joint FAO/WHO … "

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Australia mining behemoth Lynas $30.4 million on Monday to finance the construction of a rare earth metal processing plant in Hondo. The funding comes as the nation attempts to solidify its domestic supply of rare earth metals-, which are vital for making wind turbines, consumer technology, batteries and missiles. Lynas Rare Earths Ltd, the largest rare earth element mining and processing company outside of China, was awarded a Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III technology investment agreement to establish domestic processing capabilities for light rare earth elements (LREE).

"Celebrating what he's done while turning a blind eye to what he has not is a privilege Brady does not deserve." ============================================================ A USA Today sports columnist says NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady eluded criticism over his support for former President Donald Trump because of “white privilege.” In a piece published Tuesday headlined, “Tom Brady has gotten an undeserved pass for his past support of Donald Trump,” Nancy Armour said the Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB shouldn’t get a pass just because he’s a star. And she blasted Brady for recently refusing to talk about politics, saying he was “happy to...

This study was conducted from January 28th to 30th, 2021, among a sample of 2,413 respondents who are eligible voters in Canada and part of Maru/Blue’s research panel. The study was conducted through online surveys. A probabilistic sample of a similar size would have a margin of error of plus or minus 2%, 19 times out of 20. Where and how is the study conducted? The study included respondents from an online panel of Canadians,18 years of age or older. The sample is weighted to regional, age and gender demographics, as per Statistics Canada. (Please see link for actual survey...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reiterated on Wednesday that schools can safely reopen even if teachers are not vaccinated against COVID-19. Last week the CDC weighed into the ongoing debate over whether to reopen schools for in-person instruction, noting that schools that are currently welcoming students into classrooms with certain safety precautions in place have had only “scant transmission” of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density work sites where rapid spread has...

A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its top hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump — Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the U.S. presidential election. The 285-page complaint filed Thursday in New York state court by Florida-based Smartmatic USA is one of the largest libel suits ever undertaken. On Jan. 25, a rival election-technology company — Dominion Voting Systems, which was also ensnared in Trump’s baseless effort to overturn the election — sued Guiliani and...

Joe Scarborough has made himself the ass in assassination. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough was discussing the decisive 145-61 vote of the House Republican caucus to keep Liz Cheney in her leadership position, despite her vote to impeach President Trump and her very strong criticism of him regarding the events of January 6th. The squalid Scarborough thought it was funny to joke that Republicans only voted that way because Cheney might have had them killed if they voted against her. Said Scarborough: "They just didn't have the nerve. I mean, they saw what happened to Osama Bin Laden when you...

In a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually,” he replies. “Then all at once.”Such a framing could also describe the raw power of Big Tech, which has been evolving over the last two decades into what can accurately be described as an oligopoly (when a market is dominated entirely by a handful of firms). That power was fully unleashed last month. After playing footsie for the last decade with their massive market and narrative control over America, Big Tech finally shed any pretext of restraint or deference...

During a press conference on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky’s comments earlier in the day that teachers do not need to be vaccinated in order for schools to safely reopen by stating that the CDC hasn’t “released their official guidance” on “what would be needed to ensure the safe reopening of school

Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A leopard that spent a night and most of a day locked in a bathroom with a dog at a home in India escaped through the ceiling without harming the canine. The owner of the home in Bilinele village, Dakshina Kannada, said the leopard likely chased the dog into the house Tuesday night, and the big cat's tail was seen through the ajar bathroom door Wednesday morning. A family member closed the door and villagers looked in through the window to see the leopard and the dog occupying opposite corners of the room. Forest Department officials...

VIDEOA troika of the Reality Czars which have been recommended by the New York Times to provide the official truth on controversial matters have definitively disproven the allegations that the presidential election was stolen. Remember, the Reality Czars have spoken and anyone contradicting their official truth that the election was completely legitimate will face the prospect of social media bans, loss of employment, and an impeachment trial in the Senate even though they might be private citizens.