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California will require state employees and all healthcare workers to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or get tested weekly. Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed that California will have the "strongest vaccine verification system in the US." "Too many people have chosen to live with this virus," Newsom said Monday as he announced the new mandate. "We're at a point in this epidemic, this pandemic, where individuals' choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us in a profound and devastating and deadly way." There are 246,000 state employees in California who will be impacted by the order. Additionally,...

Seventy percent of Wyoming Republican primary voters have a negative view of controversial Never Trump Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), according to a poll exclusively obtained by Breitbart News on Monday. Club for Growth Action released a poll, which found that 70 percent of Wyoming GOP primary voters view her negatively, only 26 percent viewing her in a positive light. This marks a five percent increase in Wyoming primary voters’ negative view of the Never Trump Republican. Cheney has a 44 percent net negative favorability among Wyoming Republicans. David McIntosh, the president of Club for Growth Action, said Cheney’s constituents...

A federal appeals court has concluded that a church in Washington state has the right to sue over a state law requiring health insurers to cover abortions, partially overturning a lower court decision dismissing the case. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a unanimous decision last Thursday reviving the Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland's lawsuit against Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington Insurance Commissioner Myron Kreidler over a healthcare law known as Senate Bill 6219. All three judges were appointed by former President George W. Bush. The panel opinion concluded that...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that all government employees and healthcare workers will have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or be tested at least weekly as infections due to the delta variant climb. California “will have the strongest state vaccine verification system in the U.S.,” Newsom said on Monday. “We’re experiencing a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Everyone that can get vaccinated —should.” The policy doesn’t quite equal a mandate in that workers will be able to keep their jobs without having to get the vaccine as long as they submit to testing. Government employees may be required to comply...

Want to make $200 a day in New York City? Rush to the scene of a murder, a three-alarm fire or a traffic accident — then pull out your phone and start filming. That’s the pitch from Citizen, a controversial neighborhood watch app that’s quietly hiring New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes and other public emergencies in an apparent effort to encourage more ordinary citizens to do the same, The Post has learned. Citizen has raised $133 million from high-profile backers like Peter Thiel, as well as the Silicon Valley venture firms Sequoia Capital and Greycroft, by promising real-time safety...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki wouldn’t definitively say whether President Joe Biden favors implementing restrictions for unvaccinated Americans during Monday’s press briefing. The Delta variant – believed to be the most transmissible variant to date – makes up 83% of new COVID-19 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky said last week. The spike in infections are worrying officials, and the Biden administration has declared it to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. (RELATED: ‘The Only Pandemic We Have Is Among The Unvaccinated’: Biden Says Facebook Misinformation Is ‘Killing People’) Amid new cases, journalists...

As was very clearly demonstrated under the government of former President Donald Trump – but pertains to all U.S. presidencies of recent years – the top person in the White House does not, in general, want oil prices on the higher side. The economic reason for this is that for every US$0.01 that the U.S.’s national average price of gasoline rises, more than US$1 billion per year in discretionary additional consumer spending is estimated to be lost.

CDCs greatest hits including: Hells Bells Palsy You shook me all night long Quarantine for just 2 weeks. CDC will tell you lies Pfizer struck He was the chief of medicine (Fauci), it was a rushed vaccine He was the worst damn man that I ever seen He had those black eyes, telling nothing but lies Shocked me when I found out about his Pfizer ties He pretended to care Had me fighting for air He told me to mask up but I was already there Cause the arms start shaking Was the earth quaking? My shoulder was aching And...

Imagine walking through the woods and seeing this. Howard Martin posted this photo on Facebook and now many are doing their best to identify this very strange animal. The photo was reportedly taken near St. Francisville, north of Baton Rogue, in Louisiana and it shows a four-legged animal, with no fur, hopping over a branch. Some on social media have suggested that this animal may be a coyote with mange, while others say that it may be another breed of animal that is sick. Now, because this is on the internet, like you, we too will approach this photo with...

Israeli-American Council flies banner reading 'Serve Ice Cream, Not Hate' over Vermont headquarters of Ben & Jerry's.Israeli-American Council (IAC).The Israeli-American Council (IAC) flew a banner over Ben & Jerry’s factory and global headquarters in South Burlington, VT reading “Serve Ice Cream, Not Hate,” the social media hashtag #BDSisHATE, and the American and Israeli flags as part of a campaign the IAC launched today demanding Ben & Jerry’s stop their boycott of part of the Israeli population.

A class of fourth graders in Minnesota were told not to repeat the questions of their 'equity survey' to their parents Hayley Yasgar, a fourth-grader was 'very nervous and uncomfortable' when she was told not to tell her parents about the survey Many students reportedly did not understand some of the questions even after they were explained by the teacher The survey was conducted at Riverview Intermediate School in the Sartell-St. Stephen School District in Minnesota by the Equity Alliance of Minnesota Teachers were informed by the Equity Alliance of Minnesota to instruct students not to share the questions with...

Officials with battery maker Form Energy have announced the development of the Iron-Air 100-hour storage battery—a battery meant to store electricity created from renewable sources such as solar and wind. As part of their announcement, they note that their new battery is based on iron, not lithium, and thus is much less expensive to produce. The team at Form Energy describe their new battery as a multi-day energy storage system—one that can feed electricity to the grid for approximately 100 hours at a cost that is significantly lower than lithium-ion batteries. The basic idea behind the iron-air battery is that...

I’m just in one of those moods that I can’t seem to shake or wrap my head around. For that, there’s music, speaking eloquently a feeling not quite processed: We were born before the wind Also, younger than the sun 'Ere the bonnie boat was won As we sailed into the mysticHark now, hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly Into the mysticYou know I will be coming home Yeah, when that fog horn whistle blows I gotta hear it I don't have to fear itAnd I wanna rock your...

We got the diagnosis today. Hodgkins lymphoma It has 98% recovery rate so it was the best Dx we could have hoped for short of a miracle and the cancer being gone. The literature does caution that the Chemo can cause heart problems later on in life. Please keep praying for my granddaughter and her husband Eric.

The grandson of late evangelist Billy Graham is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19, relatives said. Jonathan Lotz, who reportedly worked with his grandfather from 1994 through 2002, was in an ICU at an undisclosed hospital Sunday, according to a Facebook post by his mother. “Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator, that his oxygen levels would increase, that his lungs will be strengthened, healed and that his health will be fully restored — with no long-term complications,” wrote Anne Graham Lotz, one of the Rev. Billy Graham’s five children. “My heart is filled with gratitude for...

Why is this man still in charge and not charged?You truly cannot trust a single word this man says. His statements today are completely contradicted by his statements tomorrow. He continues to rewrite science on a whim and not based on anything but the words from his mouth.Fauci is now blaming unvaccinated Americans for the next new variant.Dr. Rand Paul filed a criminal referral against Fauci this past weekend.Dr. Tony Fauci: If you allow the virus to freely circulate because so many people are unvaccinated you give it yet again an opportunity to mutate more and you may wind up...

A 28-year-old man in Alabama who believed COVID-19 was a “hoax” has died from the virus — and now his family is urging people to get the vaccine. Curt Carpenter lost his battle with the bug after spending 51 days in the intensive care unit at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. “I know that if Curt had survived, he would have made sure everyone knew how serious this disease is, and how important the vaccine is,” his mom, Christy Carpenter, told the newspaper. Christy said her son did not take the threat of the pandemic seriously...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A 15-center study of 175 patients with poorly-controlled type 2 diabetes in JAMA found that continuous glucose monitoring, compared to blood glucose meter monitoring, or finger pricking, significantly decreased their hemoglobin A1C over eight months (-1.1% versus -0.16%, respectively.) Although the benefits of continuous glucose monitoring for patients with diabetes has been demonstrated before, the benefits have only been well studied in patients with type 1 diabetes or patients with type 2 treated with multiple daily insulin injections, referred to as prandial insulin. Study author Rodica Busui, M.D., Ph.D., also the vice chair of clinical research...

oe Biden launched into a bizarre speech this week where he apparently forgot the name of a Member of Congress before asking about the location of a guest’s mother. “Congressman Scott, Congressman, … where is he? There you are… You understand this better than anybody does. I want to thank you Congressman for all your work,” said Biden. “I want to thank you all for being here… By the way, where’s mom? Is she here? She’s watching, oh okay. I thought they looked and said mom was out there. I was going to ask her to stand up. But mom,...

At Davidson College, the frog finally realized that it’s being slowly cooked alive. As the theory goes, if you put a frog into boiling water, it will immediately jump out, but if you put it in lukewarm water and gradually raise the heat, it will not realize what is happening until it’s too late. The parable is often used to describe a social phenomenon by which an initially unpopular agenda can be made successful through gradual and subtle manipulation of opinions and language, without the populace being aware of what is happening. It appears that the Davidson College administration cranked...