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The chief executive of MyPillow Inc., one of Fox News’s big advertisers, said he is pulling his ads from the network after a disagreement over a proposed commercial. Mike Lindell said he made the decision after Fox News declined to run a commercial linked to his efforts to promote his claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Security and election officials have said there is no proof of widespread election fraud. “It’s unfortunate Mr. Lindell has chosen to pause his commercial time on FOX News given the level of success he’s experienced in building his brand through advertising...

Were you aware that cigarette butts are the category of waste that is least disposed of? Every year, no fewer than 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are found in the wilds, even they can take up to 14 years to decompose... It’s enough to make you see red. To fight against this plague, Dutch engineers working with Delft University of Technology have invented the BeachBot, an autonomous robot capable of picking up cigarette butts from the ground. Tired of seeing their children find cigarette butts on beaches, Edwin Bos and Martijn Lukaart, Dutch engineers from TechTics, set out to create the...

secretive political action committee with distant ties to former President Donald Trump appears to be supporting state Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, in the race to defeat U.S. Congresswoman Liz Cheney in next year’s Republican primary. The organization, “Protect Wyoming Values PAC,” officially filed with the Federal Elections Commission earlier this month. It has since launched a Facebook and text message campaign that thus far has offered support only for Gray in his campaign against the third-term congresswoman. Seven candidates have announced their bids to challenge Cheney. “Wyoming has been the topic of discussion in national politics, but not for good...

Only 26 letters in the English alphabet. Consider this: If you put one million monkeys in a large room with a million typewriters (and an infinite supply of paper) for one hundred trillion (100,000,000,000,000) years, they would never be able to randomly type out Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Not even Jack London's "Call Of The Wild." Now that's amazing. Just 26 letters and yet every day, humans are typing out unique sentences that have never been typed before and never will be repeated. Below is one of those unique sentences that have never been typed before in the history of human civilizaton:...

Vaccinated Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Wearing a Face Mask AND a Shield as he arrives in the Philippines.

Tiziana Di Costanzo makes pizza dough from scratch, mixing together flour, yeast, a pinch of salt, a dash of olive oil and something a bit more unusual — ground acheta domesticus, better known as cricket powder. Di Costanzo is an edible insect entrepreneur who holds cricket and mealworm cooking classes at her West London home, where she also raises the critters in a backyard shed with her husband, Tom Mohan. Her startup, Horizon Insects, is part of Europe's nascent edible insect scene, which features dozens of bug-based businesses offering cricket chips in the Czech Republic, bug burgers in Germany and...

Mike Lindell stated tonight that he canceled all ads on Fox.

House Democrats passed a massive legislative budget this week that allows for members of Congress to hire illegal immigrants to work for them on Capitol Hill. The legislative funding bill "includes language to permit DACA recipients, Dreamers, to be able to work for Congress and other legislative branch agencies," Democratic Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan noted on the House floor Wednesday. In the U.S., there are an estimated 800,000 "Dreamers" – children brought to the U.S. illegally who were protected from deportation under an Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). A federal judge earlier this month ruled that DACA...

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten on Wednesday said it is necessary to enforce that all K-12 students and staff wear masks in order to keep schools safely open, and that her organization wouldn’t rule out striking over states that ban mask mandates. During an interview with MSNBC, Weingarten was asked about the AFT’s position on states like Texas, where public schools can no longer require that masks have to be worn on their campuses under Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order. Abbott has made it clear he will not rescind the order. “Texas isn’t the only state that...

Triton: Cost of newbuild container hits ‘unprecedented’ $3,800 per TEUWhen will the container capacity crunch finally ease? For an early indicator, keep an eye on production of the humble 40-foot dry cargo box. If the volume and cost of new containers pull back, supply chain pressures are abating. Unfortunately for beleaguered cargo shippers, these bellwethers now imply the opposite: that the scramble for container capacity is growing even more intense. New container prices still risingOn Tuesday, the world’s largest container-equipment leasing company, Triton International (NYSE: TRTN), announced record results and provided the latest intel on box production.Price per TEU for...

The Arizona Audit officially completed the third paper recount that was being conducted by the Senate on Wednesday. The process was extremely thorough with multiple counts of the same ballots to eliminate any doubt about the numbers when the final results are released. Earlier this morning, pallets of votes were loaded into trucks and hauled back to the custody of Maricopa County. The paper ballots, notably, included very detailed chain of custody documentation, something the state failed to provide. ..... Snip..... Audit spokesman Randy Pullen said that they are on to the next phase of the process, putting together the...

Ron Popeil dead at 86, May he RIP

The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch’s worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory. The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days. Left with extensive structural, electrical and mechanical damage, the ship was later scrapped. Estimates to replace it ran up to $4 billion. The sailor was a member of the crew at the time, Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesperson, said in a statement. The sailor was charged with aggravated arson and the...

All Albuquerque Public Schools students in kindergarten through grade 12, as well as APS staff, faculty and school visitors, will have to wear a mask while indoors on school properties. APS Superintendent Scott Elder made that recommendation, and the school board approved it, during a board meeting Wednesday afternoon. Elder said he made his recommendation in anticipation of the Public Education Department revising its mask mandates to conform with revised guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommended indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students and visitors at schools nationwide, regardless of vaccination status. “We’ve said all...

A Thursday poll reveals Republican House candidate Chuck Gray is drubbing incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) in a hypothetical Republican primary match up. Cheney trails Gray by 40 points in a head to head match up, according to the Mclaughlin & Associates poll. The poll also hands a 72 percent unfavorability rating to Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) is asking his state legislature to allow public schools to make their own decisions regarding a mask mandate for students. “This is not a debate about mask mandates for those that can make their own decisions and have the means to get vaccinated,” Hutchinson said a news conference Thursday, The Associated Press reported. “This is a discussion about the school environment where schools can make decisions about the public health for their school environment and the children they have responsibility to protect,” he added. Hutchinson will call state lawmakers back into session in an attempt...

Biden Mandates All Federal Workers Must Be Vaccinated… Except Postal Workers Earlier in the week Biden suggested that those who are yet to be vaccinated are “sowing enormous confusion.” “We have a pandemic because of the unvaccinated, and they’re sowing enormous confusion,” Biden said. “And there’s only one thing we know for sure, if those other 100 million people got vaccinated, we’d be in a very different world. So get vaccinated. If you haven’t, you’re not nearly as smart as I said you were.” And now he has gone to ’11’ on the ‘your body, no choice’ amplifier, saying tonight...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said New Mexico will require state employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face regular testing as the state endures a spike in cases driven by the more-contagious delta variant of the disease. She signed an executive order on Thursday. The governor said in a news release that she is also evaluating whether to mandate vaccinations as a condition of employment in certain high-risk settings. “Right now, it’s very simple: Get a vaccine, or else you will be tested,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “There will be no quarter for this virus...

The White House is calling on Congress to extend the moratorium on evictions that is set to expire on Saturday. Last month, a Supreme Court order permitted the moratorium to continue until the end of July. In his opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its existing statutory authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium.” “Because the CDC plans to end the moratorium in only a few weeks, on July 31, and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution of the congressionally appropriated rental assistance funds, I vote...