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Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger had numerous reasons to invalidate the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. The top reason was his office knowing 460,000 ballots were missing legally required chain of custody documentation. This was unconscionable. Only 56 of Georgia’s 159 counties have provided ballot transfer form data to The Georgia Star News. The number of absentee by mail ballots delivered to registrars in those 56 counties total only 195,309, or 32.5 percent, of the estimated 600,000 absentee vote by mail ballots deposited in drop boxes and delivered to county registrars and counted in Georgia’s 2020...

President Biden plans to nominate former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (D) to serve as administrator of NASA, the White House said Friday. If confirmed, Nelson, who served in the Senate for 18 years, will helm NASA as it carries out its Artemis program by working with private companies to establish a presence on the moon with the ambitious goal of reaching Mars in the coming years. Biden’s plans to nominate Nelson were first reported by The Verge and other news outlets on Thursday and confirmed by the White House on Friday. Nelson, who is 78, served three terms representing Florida...

'It's disgusting': Everett residents protest controversial new restaurant name.

Television pundit Ana Navarro is being accused of racism after she posted a tweet on Friday that included a joke considered derogatory toward Asians. ‘Me so vaccinated!’ Navarro wrote in a tweet that was deleted soon afterwards. Last week, Navarro expressed glee that Piers Morgan left his morning show Good Morning Britain after he was accused of racism for his views on Meghan Markle. -snip- The comment was apparently an attempt at humor by using a play on words of the phrase ‘Me so horny.’ The phrase was uttered in a famous scene from the 1987 war film Full Metal...

Barron Trump turns 15 today. Son of President Donald Trump and Melania Trump, the teenager has spent the past few years growing up in front of the nation’s eyes — literally. He now towers over his 6-foot-3 father and 5-foot-11 mother. Since Barron was just an infant, he’s been subjected to a life in the spotlight. Now that Donald Trump is no longer president, though, the teen has been able to avoid the public eye much more than in the previous four years of his life. Before that, though, we were able to see just how much he’s grown into...

D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman penned a scathing dissent Friday on a defamation case The Reagan-appointed judge slammed the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan landmark decision requiring plaintiffs to prove 'actual malice' by defendantsSilberman claimed the ruling has only increased the power of the press, which is almost completely controlled by the Democratic Party 'Two of the three most influential papers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, are virtually Democratic Party broadsheets,' he wroteHe named Fox News, The New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal as the 'few notable exceptions to Democratic Party ideological control'

The massacres at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area this week, leaving eight human beings dead, others injured, and their families scarred, were horrifying. Read this deeply moving story about the son of one of the women killed to remind yourself of this. It’s brutal. The grief will spread and resonate some more. But this story has also been deeply instructive about our national discourse and the state of the American mainstream and elite media. This story’s coverage is proof, it seems to me, that American journalists have officially abandoned the habit of attempting any kind of “objectivity” in...

Bitcoin Depot Expects to Grow by 200% in 2021 According to the company, almost 115 BTC ATMs will be installed, doubling its current count in the last six months. Globally, the ATM network has surpassed 2,000 kiosks, boosted with launching the new ATMs in the United States. Per the distribution, 14 new kiosks will be deployed by the Atlanta-based company across Alabama, 13 in Minnesota, 12 will be installed in Florida, and the last 12 across California. Brandon Mintz, Bitcoin Depot President and CEO, commented on the expansion:

President Trump issued a statement Saturday afternoon responding to a New York Times article on Republican and conservative groups fundraising on the issue of election reform in the wake of the contested 2020 presidential election. Trump defended the fundraising, standing by his claim the election was “Illegitimate” and criticizing the Supreme Court for refusing to hear cases challenging illegal election law changes in several swing states that Trump and many of his supporters believe effectively stole the election from him. Trump’s statement was released by his Save America PAC. Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States...

Putin agrees to continue conversation live. "It should prove interesting." Biden thinks he hears his mother calling. Gotta run. 'bye.

The delayed Tokyo Olympics will be held without foreign fans and volunteers, the organising committee has decided. The games, which were postponed from last year due to coronavirus, are scheduled to open on 23 July to 8 August, with the Paralympics due to follow from 25 August to 5 September. The decision was made by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organising Committee following talks with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), local organisers, the Japanese government, the Tokyo metropolitan government and the International Paralympic Committee.

Legends Diner in Denton rolled out a $50 surcharge if they have to explain why masks are mandatory in the restaurant and $75 if they have to listen to you disagree. While the surcharge is primarily tongue-in-cheek, it highlights the toll COVID-19 can take on smaller businesses if an outbreak occurs.

Carlson: They want you to know that defiance is the real crime.. Tucker Carlson updated viewers Friday on the status of Michigan restaurant owner Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, who appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" earlier in the week to discuss how authorities were trying to have her arrested for operating her business during the coronavirus pandemic. CARLSON: Marlena Pavlos-Hackney is in jail. She was arrested very early this morning, before 6 a.m. by police, taken away in ankle shackles and wrist cuffs. One of the few people in this country who gets up really early to go to work because she really...

On Friday, we had fun at Joe Biden's expense. We've been having a lot of fun at Biden's expense lately. Friday was extra special watching the president forget how to walk upstairs. Critics point to his age and obvious diminishing mental faculties for him forgetting it goes left, then right. The White House blamed the wind. The media said, "sure, why not." It was one of those moments where you regret not having the former president on Twitter. He would have totally been like, "HAVE A GOOD TRIP, SLEEPY JOE! SEE YOU NEXT FALL! MAGA!"The good news is that Big...

The Michigan Attorney General's Office said Marlena Pavlos-Hackney had untl the end of the day to turn herself in. She didn't budge, and now they are prepared to have police step in.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 156,734,555 (4,253,900 J&J) Administered: 121,441,497 (2,163,681 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 79,367,225 Fully Vaccinated: 43,036,818

There was quite a bit of focus on a comment by Patrisse Cullors, a BLM co-founder, when she said she and the other co-founders were trained Marxists. It appears that most focused on the claim that they were Marxists. Well, anybody who studied their website for more than five minutes would have figured that out. What should have been focused on was that she said the founders were trained Marxists. By this, she meant they have been trained in Marxist-Leninist strategy and tactics. This is the big disclosure. It tells you an awful lot as to what the current opposition...

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, in her first public remarks since she was sworn in, called China’s military increasingly capable, saying its “aggressive” actions posed a threat to regional peace, stability in the Pacific and the “rules-based international order.“ In a virtual speech to National War College students Friday, Hicks said the Defense Department under President Joe Biden would be focused on ensuring the U.S. military was able to meet the challenge represented by China. The United States will need “to demonstrate the will and capability to credibly deter PRC aggression,” Hicks said, and confronting the challenge posed by China...

Could it possibly be that anointed Dem leaders are being administered some kind of drug to make them appear hale and healthy when they’re out in public? What is it about high-profile Democrats that their most peculiar form of acrobatics is falling both UP and DOWN the stairs? Yesterday it was media-installed President Joe Biden taking a tumble, twice falling UP a railed stairway when attempting to negotiate boarding Air Force One.

A woman has described how she "begged" in vain to see her husband before he died in hospital. David Howells, 57, spent two weeks on wards at Nottingham City Hospital after being admitted with complications relating to a heart condition. Exemptions to Covid restrictions allow for some compassionate visits, but Mr Howells' wife Sharon and daughter Kim's requests were refused. The hospital trust said it believed its policies were applied correctly. Mrs Howells, 58, said: "What we can never forget, understand or forgive is the fact he was denied any contact even in his darkest, scariest moments of life." Mr...