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--SNIP-- Six people who guarded Roger Stone in Washington, DC, before the January 6 Capitol riot participated in the insurrection, according to an investigation by The New York Times. It was previously reported by Vice that several of the men who accompanied Stone, a friend and former adviser of former President Trump, were associated with the Oath Keepers, a militant anti-government extremist group. All six guards found by The Times to have breached the Capitol were part of the Oath Keepers. The Times said it "combed through hundreds of videos and photos, and drew on research from an online monitoring...

It’s just the flu, bro. Why is it that the most irrational mandates, kids wearing masks and social distancing in school, are possibly going to be the last Coronavirus mandates to be removed? Kids are almost never seriously harmed by Coronavirus. But the social stigma associated with getting is such that parents don’t want their kids to get it no matter what. So we all agree to this vast immunological experiment - kids wear masks and rebreathe whatever they rebreathe and, as a result of social distancing, get less exposure to all germs, not just Coronavirus. Even if parents come...

...a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99.9 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this data tranche, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed that the raw video files include GPS metadata pointing to exact locations of where the...

On Monday, the nation’s top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci received a $1 million Israeli prize established by the late Italian Israeli philanthropist Dan David. Fauci, a leading voice in President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, was honored with the Dan David Prize for his service in public health and “speaking truth to power” during pandemic, NPR reported Monday. “As the COVID-19 pandemic unraveled, (Fauci) leveraged his considerable communication skills to address people gripped by fear and anxiety and worked relentlessly to inform individuals in the United States and elsewhere about the public health measures essential for...

Alanna Smith’s dedication to her sport is profound. Just listening to the elite high school track star explain her training schedule is exhausting. Yet no matter how hard she trains, if she has to compete against biological males, she stands no chance of winning. “There is simply a biological advantage that males have over females,” explained the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lee Smith. “Here is a perfect example," Smith told me. "I have a twin brother who is an athlete but does not run competitively for his sports. We raced against each other recently, and he beat...

Jemele Hill, staff writer for The Atlantic and former ESPN commentator who sparked national controversy when she referred to President Donald Trump as a “white supremacist,” has called for an end to the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events, arguing that it has become a “weaponized” patriotic symbol. In another article for The Atlantic, Hill lamented the NBA’s recent decision to enforce its policy on the National Anthem, reversing Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s decision to forgo having the anthem played ahead of games. Playing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events has become an empty gesture of...

With Joe Biden as president, the days of the national minimum wage at its present $7.25 per hour may soon be gone. It will likely be raised to $15 or more and also indexed for inflation, whether it is stuck into a COVID bill or sent to Congress on its own. But this enactment would be a joblessness bill for “the least, the lost and the last” among us, the very people who suffer the most economic hardship. The unemployment created by this pernicious legislation always attacks the poor and the unskilled, precisely the people who can least afford it....

Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton included herself in a photo of presidents on Presidents Day but left out her own husband. Clinton posted a picture of herself in the Oval Office with former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden: “Happy Presidents Day!” the caption read as Clinton pointed at the camera in a laugh. Omitted: former President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband. Just one day prior, Bill Clinton posted a Valentine’s Day message and included a photo of himself with his arm around Hillary with the caption “My Valentine”: — Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) February 14, 2021 In 2017,...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s backing candidates who can win in the midterms. In a Politico interview Saturday, the Kentucky lawmaker said his goal in every way possible is to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win.His comments come as four Senate Republicans announced their plans to retire in 2022 instead of seeking reelection. McConnell went on to say the only thing he cares about is electability, regardless of whether the candidate is backed by President Trump.

This was in a Texas court hearing. Something to make y'all smile!! Enjoy!

A Democratic lawmaker in New York is demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) Emmy Award be rescinded following allegations that the governor covered up the true extent of nursing of home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic in an effort to avoid a federal investigation. Queens Councilman Robert Holden (D) urged the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to take back Cuomo’s award, saying that the governor’s actions “have been an insult to every New Yorker who lost a loved one” to the coronavirus. Cuomo received the Emmy in November in recognition of his daily televised press briefings during the...

Bianca Fortis was exiting a subway station in Brooklyn one evening in late December when a man came from behind and pummeled her. The next day, the detective assigned to the case told Ms. Fortis, 32, that she was the fourth woman assaulted since November at the Morgan Avenue L station in East Williamsburg. She was shocked, she said, because there were no police posters at the station or warnings on social media that something was afoot. “If there had been some kind of public awareness, people could have been on alert and a lot of these incidents could have...

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A few weeks before a redemptive star turn in Super Bowl 2021, Tampa Bay running back Leonard Fournette nearly was released by the Buccaneers. Bucs coach Bruce Arians said he met with the two-time 1,000-yard rusher following a Week 14 benching about his reduced role and asked Fournette if he wanted to remain with the team. “I said, ‘This is your situation. It can change at the drop of a hat,'” Arians told the Tampa Bay Times. “’Either embrace it, or you say, ‘Cut me.’ I said, ‘What do you want? Because this is a very special team that you’re...

Evangelical Christian author and pastor Max Lucado apologized Thursday for a past sermon on homosexuality he said “wounded people,” but it wasn’t enough for the liberal congregation that invited him. The “Begin Again” author and pastor of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, wrote a letter apologizing to the LGBTQ community after he preached a virtual sermon last weekend at the Washington National Cathedral. But it wasn’t Lucado’s guest sermon on the Holy Spirit that upset the cancel culture mob in D.C. It was comments he made 17 years ago. “In 2004 I preached a sermon on the topic...

Florida and California have taken dramatically different approaches to tackle the spread of coronavirus — but both states have seen key metrics improve in recent weeks. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed more stringent rules, most recently mandating a statewide stay-at-home order Dec. 3 that lasted through the holiday season. The order, which was lifted Jan. 25, went as far as to ban outdoor dining, beauty services and religious services. In the Sunshine State, on the other hand, steps were taken to ensure that businesses were kept open.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) tapped Dyjuan Tatro, the former “triggerman” for Albany’s Original Gangsta Killers, or OGK, street gang to help lead efforts in protecting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) slim majority in the House. The DCCC, led by chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), hired Tatro, a former New York gang member, to serve as a senior adviser for “diversity and inclusion.” He served time for “shooting two rival gang members in 2006” and was also convicted in 2011, serving six years for racketeering conspiracy, according to the New York Post. According to the outlet, Tatro “confessed to...

Vandals attacked the home of one of former President Donald Trump's impeachment defense lawyers Friday, according to police. Authorities said the vandalism happened around 8 p.m. Friday at the Philadelphia-area home of attorney Michael van der Veen, ABC News reported. The Philadelphia Inquirer said that vandals smashed windows and spray-painted "TRAITOR" and an arrow pointing to the house in red on van der Veen's driveway after he spent hours earlier that day presenting Trump's impeachment trial defense on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Van der Veen's wife discovered the vandalism and reported it to the police. Someone vandalized Mike...

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon told a group of Boston Republicans that former President Donald Trump will come roaring back in 2024, suggesting he may first be elected to Congress, displace Nancy Pelosi as speaker and launch impeachment proceedings against President Biden. “Going forward, we can transform the Republican Party into more of a MAGA movement … just immerse the (Make America Great Again) movement with the Republican Party, and we’re going to have massive victories in the future,” Bannon said in a Lincoln Day Breakfast speech. During his talk to the West Roxbury Ward 20 Republican Committee on...

Curtis Ellis, a former Trump 2016 campaign advisor and policy director with America First Policies, has passed away. After a bout with cancer, Ellis passed away on Sunday night. He is survived by his twin brothers Rick and Paul Ellis, as well as his beloved Maxine Albert. Mr. Ellis, born in 1954, worked throughout his life to guarantee fair treatment for American workers, specifically holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable in recent years for hollowing out American towns and cities by stripping manufacturing jobs away. Mr. Ellis was one of the most robust voices in opposing America’s membership of the...