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The mainstream media reported that two Capitol “rioters” told the FBI that an officer told them, “It’s your house now,” as rioters stormed the Capitol building on January 6. According to a complaint by the DOJ filed Thursday, Bobby Bauer and Jenny Bauer were identified after an unknown caller tipped the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center. The anonymous caller knew that Bauer had posted photographs of the event to a Facebook account called “BobtheBauer,” the complaint said. According to the caller, one image showed Bauer “inside the U.S. Capitol building giving the middle finger to the camera.” On January 8,...

Sharon Smith has to plunge her toilet to get it to flush. On rainy days, wastewater spills into her yard from nearby drainage ditches. Twice in the last year her house has flooded, leaving behind the sickening smell of sewage, she said. Her carpets are ruined, the floorboards are buckling, the bathroom wall is pulling away from the tub, she said. In the laundry room, the worst-hit part of the house, the smell of mold lingers. “I want to move, because this flooding is ridiculous,” said Smith, 59. For decades, residents of Centreville, a nearly all-Black town of 5,000 in...

On this guest episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam Jacobs has Benjamin Braddock on the show. Benjamin Braddock is a prolific Twitter user and writer for online publications such as American Greatness. We had him on to discuss the Thunderdome style of politics, whether or not the GOP needs a celebrity candidate for 2024 and the power of raw eggs.

The US government has appealed a UK judge’s ruling against the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, according to a justice department official. The appeal made clear that Joe Biden intends to have Assange stand trial on espionage- and hacking-related charges over WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic documents.The justice department had until Friday to file an appeal against the ruling on 4 January that Assange suffered mental health problems that would raise the risk of suicide were he extradited to the US for trial.“Yes, we filed an appeal and we are continuing to...

As soon as his Senate impeachment trial ends, former President Donald Trump plans to get back in public, according to his team. With few social media avenues open to him, that will require Trump to get out personally. But he’s got a plan — and a "list." Early on, we’re told he's likely to make trips to the districts of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him, starting with House GOP leader Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. We’re also told that his support network, including his sons, will campaign against the 10 Republicans in the revenge campaign. One...

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The reaction was as sweeping as it was swift. In a moment of time, TV and movie star Gina Carano was fired by Disney from her role on The Mandalorian and dropped by her talent agency. What did she do to deserve such harsh treatment? In a social media post, she compared societal hatred in America today because of one’s political views with societal hatred of the Jews in Nazi Germany before the Nazis implemented their maniacal extermination plan. For that, she was canceled.This is what Carano posted (before deleting the tweets on Wednesday): “Jews were beaten in the streets,...

The covid recommendations from the brilliant sciency-people at the CDC have turned to a comedic level. From one mask to two.. to three, they are now recommending, and I swear I’m not making this up, that we wear panty hose on our faces. We’ve reached epic level stupid. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally recognized that the masks they’ve had everyone wearing for the better part of a year are largely ineffective because aerosols easily go around the top and sides.

As the cruise industry reaches the one year mark of being shutdown, Cozumel has proposed it transition from port of call to homeport. During a radio interview, the mayor of Cozumel proposed allowing cruise ships to sail from the island so that cruises could restart in the Caribbean more easily. Riviera Maya News posted the transcript of a radio interview by Pedro Joaquín Delbouis, where he said he has reached out to at least one cruise with the proposal. In his frustration that the cruise industry remains shutdown, Mayor Delbouis thinks cruises could sail from Cozumel to destinations in the...

Infamous race-faker Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who was outed for pretending to be black in 2015, still insists she’s African American and complained in a recent interview she’s been unable to secure a new job for six years. Dolezal, 43, who now goes by the Nigerian name Nkechi Amare Diallo, sat down for a talk on the “Tamron Hall” show to whine about how she wishes people could see her for who she is rather than “what” she is. “I started with applying for all of the things I was qualified for and after interviews and getting turned down,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Club for Growth PAC announced the endorsement of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who is up for reelection in November 2022. Senator Rand Paul has a 95% lifetime rating on the Club for Growth Foundation Economic Scorecard and was endorsed by the Club for Growth PAC back in 2010 when he first ran for the Senate and again when he ran for reelection in 2016. “All those who love liberty would agree that we need to keep Senator Rand Paul in the Senate,” said Club for Growth PAC President David McIntosh. “Senator Paul is unafraid to stand up...

Nancy Pelosi is the chief executive of Congress with her job as Speaker. She is in charge of the Capitol Hill police. Who do you think told the police to break the protocol of requiring everyone entering the Capitol Building to go thru the X-ray machine and that backpacks are forbidden? The only person who could have done that was Nancy. Another part of the protocol is the whole ticketing system that requires any visitors entering the Capitol Building, the White House and the Capitol Hill Museum to request tickets from their Congressman 2 to 3 months in advance of...

A Philadelphia elementary school recently forced fifth-grade students to celebrate “black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally in honor of political radical Angela Davis. According to whistleblower documents and a source within the school, a fifth-grade teacher at the inner-city William D. Kelley School designed a social studies curriculum to celebrate Davis, praising the “black communist” for her fight against “injustice and inequality.” As part of the lesson, the teacher asked students to “describe Davis’ early life,” reflect on her vision of social change, and “define communist”—presumably in favorable terms. At the conclusion of the unit, the teacher led...

Last year, the American Ornithological Society accepted a proposal to rename a bird linked to a racist figure. And there's more where that came from. ast summer, amid a national reckoning with systemic racism, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) accepted a proposal to rename McCown’s longspur, a grassland bird that was originally named after Confederate general John Porter McCown. The species is now called the thick-billed longspur. It marked the first time the organization agreed to change a bird’s name because it was racially offensive. That proposal, along with ongoing conversations about racial injustice, inspired Maryland-based ornithologists and birders Jordan...

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is the cunning and deceitful king of Corinth condemned in the afterlife to repeatedly roll a great stone up an incline, only to see it roll back to its starting place just before reaching the top. This classical picture of futility well describes government by executive order.The hallmark of the American republic is that we are a nation of laws—duly enacted by representatives of the people. We see this in the very configuration of our capital city, where the great dome of the U.S. Capitol Building—the seat of our law-making—occupies the geographic center of the city....

“That was such a glaring error."The U.S. Army has given the official go-ahead for a National Guard unit to bear a name its forebears earned in the trenches of World War I: the Harlem Hellfighters. The Army Center of Military History approved the “Harlem Hellfighters” as the official designation for the 369th Sustainment Brigade of the New York Army National Guard on Sept. 21, 2020, according to a Guard press release. The quest to make the moniker official began in 2019 at the New York State Military Museum, when Courtney Burns, the museum director, was looking through the Army’s list...

AWisconsin judge has ordered the state Department of Natural Resources to schedule a wolf hunting season this month rather than waiting until fall. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed gray wolves from the endangered species list on Jan. 4, returning management authority to the lower 48 states and tribes. A 2012 state law requires the DNR to allow wolf trapping and hunting from November through February if wolves are not listed as endangered. The DNR’s policy board voted 4-3 last month against opening the season in February amid concerns that the department had not consulted tribal nations as required...

It’s good to see allies take ownership of their own security, and of freedom of the sea. PLA commanders have predicated their access-denial strategy on disheartening their U.S. counterparts or convincing the U.S. administration the military effort cannot succeed at a cost the country is prepared to pay. Allies and partners should devise strategies and operations that hold down the price of access for U.S. forces—and thus make it thinkable if not easy for an American president to order them into combat. Last week the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center (USSC) set policy circles aflutter when it issued...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday that it is “crystal clear” to everyone involved that former President Donald Trump will not be convicted in his Senate impeachment trial. “I think the end result of this impeachment trial is crystal clear to everybody … Donald Trump will be acquitted,” Cruz predicted Thursday. “And every person in the senate chamber understands there are not the votes to convict him.”

Chinese state TV included dancers in blackface depicting Africans in a holiday gala for the second time in three years, prompting criticism online, as Asia welcomed the Year of the Ox with subdued festivities amid travel curbs to contain renewed coronavirus outbreaksChinese state TV included dancers in blackface portraying Africans in a holiday gala for the second time in three years, prompting criticism online, as Asia welcomed the Year of the Ox with muted festivities amid travel curbs to contain renewed coronavirus outbreaks. The “African Song and Dance” performance Thursday came at start of the Spring Festival Gala, one of...