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Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, confirmed today that the White House is flagging posts with supposed “COVID misinformation” and pushing social media firms like Facebook to remove them: "We are in regular touch with the social media platforms" about #COVID19-related misinformation, says @PressSec. "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook." ... I’m sure the media and the left will collectively shrug at this discovery, but picture Kayleigh McEnany disclosing that the Trump administration was reporting posts for removal from social media platforms. This would be a major scandal, and social media corporations would be forced to come forward and...

President Joe Biden’s administration is using the United States Armed Forces to help fly illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S., Fox News’s Tucker Carlson reveals. On Wednesday evening, Carlson unveiled internal emails in which Lt. Col. Matthew Burrows informs military personnel that commercial planes at Laughlin Air Force Base, east of Del Rio, Texas, will board and fly illegal aliens into the U.S. interior.

Two Polish patients co-infected with C difficile saw improvementsFecal microbiota transplant (FMT) was safe in two hospitalized patients who were co-infected with cases of COVID-19 that quickly resolved, raising questions about the procedure's effect on the virus. FMT was effective for the two patients, who were receiving the treatment for Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19, reported Jaroslaw Bilinski, MD, PhD, of the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland, and colleagues. "A further more speculative question is whether FMT may impact the clinical course of COVID-19," the authors wrote in Gut, noting that both patients...

Cleveland State University says it will require students living on campus to be fully vaccinated before they arrive this fall despite Gov. Mike DeWine’s signing of a new bill preventing Ohio public schools from mandating coronavirus vaccinations. DeWine signed into law House Bill 244 Wednesday prohibiting Ohio public schools and colleges from requiring students to be vaccinated without full approval of the vaccinations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Lawmakers said the bill was initially intended to help military children transition to school when they move to and from the state. The new state law doesn’t go into effect...

On this date in 1907, Chinese poet, intellectual and activist Qiu Jin (Ch’iu Chin) was beheaded for plotting an anti-Qing rising. The daughter of a well-to-do gentry family, Qiu was shunted into the arranged marriage that would have been usual for her milieu. It did not suit her. Hers had been an active mind from youth, and after several years of domestic misery, resolved to make her own way in the world, separated herself from her husband, and headed for Japan. She prepared herself for this journey by an act taxing symbolism as heavily as physique: painfully un-binding her feet....

WH Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, says Biden Administration is actively flagging post for Facebook they believe is misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church of Marietta, Georgia. In April 2021, the church voted to begin a profess of disaffiliation from the UMC A regional body of the United Methodist Church has seized control of the assets of a Georgia megachurch trying to leave the mainline Protestant denomination. The leadership of the UMC North Georgia Conference unanimously voted to approve the seizure of assets belonging to Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church, a Marietta-based congregation with approximately 10,000 members. In April, Mt. Bethel voted to begin a process of discernment for leaving the UMC due to the conference’s decision to...

With one foot out the door, Mayor Bill de Blasio is setting up a nightmare budget crunch for Gotham’s next mayor — and trying to hide the damage in the process. De Blasio’s latest financial plan, which went into effect July 1, projects a $4.1 billion cash shortfall next year — a huge chunk of change (even by New York standards) the next mayor must grapple with the moment he takes office Jan. 1. Yet the gap is actually $700 million higher, totaling $4.8 billion. On Tuesday, Citizens Budget Commission head Andrew Rein pegged the deficit at $5.4 billion, including...

France just became the most horrible place to live anywhere in the Western world. Nice work, President Emmanuel Macron! Happy Bastille Day! As Kurt Zindulka reported for Breitbart, the French president has just announced the most draconian Chinese coronavirus measures any vaguely civilised country has yet dared attempt: …citizens of France will either have to scan in via QR code or present a document proving that they have either been fully vaccinated or have recovered from the Wuhan virus to enter businesses such as restaurants, bars, cinemas, theatres, and shopping centres as well as to use public transport… Starting from...

MEMORIAL OF SAINT BONAVENTURE MATTHEW 11:28-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus is not offering us one more philosophy of God. He is offering us the view from the inside of the Trinity. And that is why we should respond to his compelling invitation: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest." What everyone wants is rest, but not in the sense of relaxation. Rest here means achievement of joy. The great illusion is that joy will come from filling up the ego with goods. In fact, it will come from emptying out,...

A Question. I first need to emphasize that I am NOT trying to scare anyone. With that said... Approximately 1:20 pm at a Western NY Carry Out (7/11) I sign on the glass entrance door reads: "Exact Change or CC Only - we have no coins!" While inside, I heard the cashier state to the customer ahead me "The banks are out of coins!" Has anyone heard anything similar in their area?

TRENTON, New Jersey -- New Jersey on Monday unveiled a phone app that lets people keep track of their COVID-19 vaccination card digitally. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy announced the app called Docket during a news conference in Trenton. He said it's not meant to serve as a passport, and instead will serve as a backup in case people lose their paper vaccination cards.

The American Booksellers Association apologized on Wednesday for including a book about the harms that come with allowing gender-confused children to “transition” in their July promotional box. ABA first labeled Abigail Shrier’s book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” as “anti-trans” after receiving backlash on social media. In response, the association apologized for committing the “inexcusable” crime of promoting literature offering an alternative perspective. “This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA’s ends policies, values, and everything we believe and support,” ABA tweeted. “We apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this...

Music and nightclub operators have said that they will not be following Boris Johnson’s advice to introduce the vaccine passport scheme, with one saying the move could be construed as an infringement on peoples’ personal rights. In Monday night’s announcement that the end of legal restrictions would come on Monday, July 19th, Prime Minister Johnson called on nightclubs and other venues catering to large crowds “to make use of the NHS Covid Pass – which shows proof of vaccination, a recent negative test or natural immunity – as a means of entry” — in other words, domestic vaccine passports. Tom...

Vladimir Putin personally authorized a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents. The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present. They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position. Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to...

WELLFLEET – Great white sharks don’t hang up their fins when lifeguards clock out for the day. Now a group devoted to safe ocean recreation says new — and inexpensive — technology could provide an added layer of protection for swimmers and surfers during unguarded hours. Cape Cod Ocean Community set up a demonstration of the warning system that uses flashing red and white lights and an audible alarm Thursday morning at Le-Count Hollow Beach. The warning system mounted on private property on a dune above the beach is designed by Moosh Systems to go off whenever it receives phone...

A DoorDash delivery driver is being sought by Brooklyn police after making a video of himself deliberately contaminating an order from Chipotle. The driver apparently targeted the order because it was for a Brooklyn police officer. [snip] The short video clip, posted to Facebook on Monday, shows the driver reaching into the open container of what appears to be a burrito bowl to bury the note under shredded cheese and lettuce. “Ya kno I’m bout to violate the s–t out this order 61st precient [sic],” the video, posted by a user with the handle “So Certified,” was captioned. The driver’s...

Berlin (CNN)At least 46 people have died due to severe flooding in western Europe, caused by what experts described as the heaviest rainfall in a century. Up to 70 people are missing in Germany after flash floods swept across western and southern parts of the country, causing buildings to collapse, police said Thursday. Germany is worst hit with 40 people killed, while six people died in Belgium. Luxembourg and the Netherlands are also affected.

Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris held a White House event Thursday marking the day the first round of child tax credit payments go out to some 39 million American families. 'This is a middle class tax cut,' Biden said. 'This is a tax cut for having children.' The tax credits were part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan which was passed by Congress in March with no Republican support. Republicans have argued that the child tax credit boost amounts to an expansion of the welfare state. 'We'll probably hear from our Republican friends all who voted against this,...

60-year-old Mark Herring was a tech guy. “He was so smart,” recalled Corinna Fitch, one of three daughters who says their father was always ahead of trends. “I think he joined Twitter the day or the week Twitter came about.” He grabbed a handle that reflected his love for the state where he was born and raised his family. “He just wanted to be @Tennessee because he loved the Vols,” said Fitch, with a slight smile. As Twitter grew, it was clear to all that Herring owned prime internet property. “He would just in passing say, I got another offer...