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When Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans for the state to pay off past-due rent for low tenants with federal relief money earlier this week, most state and national media outlets ran a headline along the lines of "Newsom says California will pay for past-due rent." "This cynical BS is why people hate politicians and maybe part of why our Governor faces recall," Preston tweeted Tuesday. "Rather than increase $ for back rent or issue a real eviction moratorium, Gov simply repackaged a prior announcement & went on a PR offensive. It has worked so far." Preston notes that Newsom first...

Joanne Linville, who was best known for playing a Romulan commander in “Star Trek,” died Sunday in Los Angeles, her agent confirmed to Variety. She was 93. Born in Bakersfield, Calif. as Beverly Joanne Linville, she was the first female actor to play a Romulan in the “Star Trek” franchise. Linville was a fixture on television from the 1950s to the ’80s, appearing in over 100 film and TV shows, including anthology series such as “Studio One,” “Kraft Theatre” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

San Francisco (USA), Jun 23 (EFE) .- The American software giant Microsoft will renew its popular operating system for Windows computers this Thursday with a version that will include "the biggest changes" of the last decade, which the media Specialists announced that it will be baptized as Windows 11. The Redmond company (Washington state, USA) will present the latest update of this historic software (Windows is 35 years old) at 11.00 a.m. on the east coast of the United States (15.00 GMT), at an event called "What's Next for Windows". The company's CEO, Satya Nadella, and the head of products,...

@TFASorg “Socialism doesn’t work. Now people will say, ‘No, we want kinder, gentler socialism.’ But the leaders of that system are moving away from it. Socialism doesn’t work.” - Rand Paul “If you want to help people, you have to believe in #capitalism. No other economic system helps people the way capitalism does. Capitalism allows excess money to flow back into the community.” - Rand Paul “The bigger your government, the less your liberty.” -Rand Paul

Happy Juneteenth! I hope you all had a lovely week celebrating the nation's newest federal holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery throughout the Confederacy. How could you not? The media was chock-a-block with commentators telling us what a fantastic, transformative event for our nation this was. But the media ignored the best part of all! What Juneteenth commemorates is not technically the abolition of slavery, but the notification thereof to a particular group of slaves. Although President Lincoln officially ended slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn't until two years later, on June 19, 1865,...

Educators around the US have come out to condemn the 'Dismantling Racism in Mathematics' programIt centers around a workbook which asserts that asking students to find the correct answer for math problems is inherently harmful for minoritiesSo far, the workbook is being used by school districts in Georgia, Ohio, California and OregonCritics say to it actually reinforces negative stereotypes and drives wedges between students according to their race'The workbook's ultimate message is clear: Black kids are bad at math, so why don't we just excuse them from really learning it,' one critic said The program was funded through a $1million...

As contractors widen Interstate 66 in Northern Virginia, they produce tons of excess dirt. So do excavators digging basements for homes or leveling land for commercial projects or schools. Some of that dirt – no one knows how much – ends up on Fauquier County properties. Some county officials think it is way too much. “Fauquier County is becoming, if not has already become, the dumping ground for Northern Virginia's fill dirt. And it's obviously a huge problem. And it's affecting people's lives,” county supervisor Rick Gerhardt (Cedar Run District) said at April’s Board of Supervisors meeting, as residents complained...

FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday pleaded with public companies and other hacking victims to avoid paying ransom, saying he fears it will only embolden cyber criminals to ramp up future attacks....The Justice Department has disclosed it managed to help the Colonial Pipeline Co recover some $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom it paid to hackers... The FBI was able to recover those funds because it had a private key that it was able to use to unlock a bitcoin wallet holding most of the money. It was unclear how the FBI managed to access the key.

The state of Indiana has committed $475 million for what it calls “transformational” road infrastructure projects throughout the state. Gov. Eric Holcomb announced the state would commit $75 million for improvements to 48 miles of U.S. 231, $200 million for a 25-mile extension of State Road 101 and $200 million to the Indiana approach to the Interstate 69 Ohio River Crossing. “Indiana’s location and extensive transportation network make our state one of the most attractive places in the country to do business and create jobs,” Holcomb said in a press release. “These projects will better connect our communities, enhance commerce...

HAZELTON — The West Virginia Department of Transportation has entered into a consent order with the state Department of Environmental Protection for violations of the water pollution control permit at the Interstate 68 Welcome Center near Hazelton. The order, signed March 10 by Division of Highways District 4 Engineer/Manager Michael Cronin, calls for the DOT to pay up to a total of $75,175 in civil administrative penalties and to hook onto the public sewer system, eliminating the treatment facility at the welcome center. Half the penalty, $37,587.50, is to be paid to the DEP within 30 days of the effective...

Amid mounting suspicion of a possible virus leak in a lab accident, Wuhan Institute of Virology has been nominated for China's top science award, according to a local media outlet Sina News. The Chinese Academy of Sciences reportedly nominated the Wuhan Institute of Virology for conducting "the most comprehensive and systematic identification research on the aetiology of Covid-19." "The project's results have laid an important foundation and platform for the follow-up research on the origin, epidemiology, and pathogenic mechanism of the Covid-19 virus," the Chinese Academy of Sciences was quoted as saying in multiple reports. Shi Zhengli, who directs the...

President Joe Biden suggested the Second Amendment has had limits from day one, during his Wednesday speech on crime and gun violence.“The Second Amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of people who own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” Biden said.

"ATF will initiate proceedings," he said, to revoke the licenses of dealers that do not comply with laws on background checks, those that falsify records, those that fail to respond to trace requests of get in the way of ATF inspectors, noting that more funding would go to ATF to control and investigate gun dealers "who post the greatest risk to public safety." Garland said ATF would get more funding for this.

The Denver Post is either straight up lying or the most incompetent media outlet that covered the Western Conservative Summit over the weekend and resulting protest by leftist whacktivists. Because according to the Denver Post, there was no protest: Compare that headline to The Washington Times’s coverage: Here’s the Denver Post’s “scene one,” Andy Ngo’s speech: As he spoke, several police officers stood sentry in front of the stage to protect him; they left when he left the stage. Ngo is often a target of protests, and Westword reported that a range of progressive groups, including the Denver Communists, would...

The Vatican will hold an Interreligious Climate Inquisition ahead of the UN Climate Change Summit. Comrade Pope Francis has invited the leaders of the worlds religions, sects and cults to participate in the Inquisition. Just like in the old inquisition days, Climate Change deniers will face the rack, trials by fire, water torture and the dunking stool and other means to determine their innocence or guilt. Nordic Tree Worshiper Greta "The Whiner" will start the proceedings by loosing the rack on the first "Galileo" of Climate Change denial nominated by St. Al Gore. Other Climate Change rock stars, including Drs...

Bill Troyanos was working his normal shift at the Army Navy Surplus Store in Olde Town Arvada on Monday when he heard a pop. Then another. And another. He moved to the door, peered outside, and saw a gunman across the town plaza. Then a customer, a 40-year-old man Troyanos had never met, put his hand on his hip, drew a pistol and quickly rushed toward the plaza.

Explanation: How do stars form? Most form in giant molecular clouds located in the central disk of a galaxy. The process is started, influenced, and limited by the stellar winds, jets, high energy starlight, and supernova explosions of previously existing stars. The featured video shows these complex interactions as computed by the STARFORGE simulation of a gas cloud 20,000 times the mass of our Sun. In the time-lapse visualization, lighter regions indicate denser gas, color encodes the gas speed (purple is slow, orange is fast), while dots indicate the positions of newly formed stars. As the video begins, a gas...

U.S.-MEXICO BORDER—At a migrant child facility near the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Arizona, children caught wind of Kamala Harris coming to visit them, hearing her cackle from thousands of miles away. "El diablo viene! El diablo viene! Dios mio!" cried hundreds of migrant children as they heard her approach. But quickly, a plan was hatched: the clever children decided to dress themselves up as "mostly peaceful protesters" in hopes that Kamala would raise their bail and free them from captivity. Children from Central and South America dyed their hair purple, donned Che Guevara T-shirts, and began brandishing bricks and Molotov...

It's increasingly clear that traditional school subjects are dripping with racism, white supremacy, and the patriarchy. We need to toss those problematic subjects and replace them with things that are woke, inclusive, and a whole lot more fun. Here are nine problematic school subjects and what we should replace them with: Replace Math with Advanced Oppression Score Calculation -- Instead of adding up racist numbers, add up intersectional numbers to see how oppressed you are. Much more inclusive! Replace Gym with Anti-Fatphobic Body-Positive Words of Affirmation Training - Everyone will just sit in a room and whisper words of positivity...

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (WMBB) — A man was arrested after grabbing a 4-year-old child in a store The mother was able to free her child while screaming at the man and immediately called 911, Defuniak Springs Police said. “The mother’s quick response is what kept this from becoming a potentially bad incident,” Chief James Hurley said. “We can’t stress enough to be aware of your surroundings and ready to take action in cases like this one. The mother did just what she was supposed to do.” The suspect, 26-year-old Otto Reginaldo Xol-Xol, fled the scene but was found almost immediately...