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The Cookout alliance has made history on Big Brother 23 by having an all-Black Final 6 consisting of Azah Awasum, Derek Frazier, Hannah Chaddha, Kyland Young, Tiffany Mitchell, and Xavier Prather. For many years, fans clamored for Big Brother casting changes in order to better reflect the society that Americans live in. There was also a consensus that people of color on the show were largely excluded from joining strong alliances and were then targeted for being a minority within the game. The six Black contestants in the BB23 cast understood the importance of representing themselves not only within the...

As well as very many RINOs. Dems meet absolutely no resistance when they misbehave, so why should they ever stop? Republicans will do absolutely nothing. A Dem politician could assassinate someone on live TV and the Republicans would somehow self tie their hands in political knots and decide that there's nothing that can be done about it. Like all the rest of the corrupt left nothing will happen to him. There are no consequences anymore and no one is accountable. Our government, military leaders, media, politicians are all a part of this destructive path and as usual the people get...

Agencies’ growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Missouri and classified as a runaway by local police. Her phone had been wiped of data and left behind, leaving few clues about her whereabouts. Several hundred miles away in Fayetteville, Ark., a local prosecutor named Kevin Metcalf heard about the teenager through his professional network and suspected she might have been abducted or lured into leaving. Using widely available commercial data, he pursued that hunch in a way that is now in the sights...

Move follows hack inspired by Texas abortion ban. The hactivist collective Anonymous says that it has gained access to a massive trove of data from Epik, the web host and domain registrar for a variety of right-wing sites. Epik’s client list has reportedly ranged from more mainstream conservative groups like the Texas Republican Party to Gab and other far-right sites on the fringes of the internet. In a press release, Anonymous says that it has captured “a decade’s worth of data” from Epik. They say the data includes domain registrations, domain transfers, passwords, account credentials for all of Epik’s customers,...

Republican establishment figures in deep-blue Maryland are bewildered Michael Steele would seek the party’s nomination for governor after voting for President Joe Biden and spending the last six years bashing the party and its elected leaders. Between Steele’s oft-repeated suggestions his party is gripped by racism, misogyny, and white nationalism and his preferred venue for leveling those charges — MSNBC, the media outlet at which the former lieutenant governor was a paid contributor from 2003-2007 — some Maryland Republicans are having a hard time understanding why he would ask GOP voters for support. These questions are emphasized by the fact...

Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine could be authorized for use in children aged 5 to 11 by Halloween, according to top U.S. health officials. That timeline is based on the belief that Pfizer will have enough data from clinical trials to seek emergency use authorization for that age group from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration toward the end of September. The FDA could make a decision about whether the shot is safe and effective in young children within three weeks of the EUA submission, according to Reuters. Moderna will take about three weeks longer than Pfizer to collect and analyze data,...

The White House says a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that President Joe Biden plans to impose on private employers, which "will impact over 80 million workers," is all about "Vaccinating the Unvaccinated." But officially, that mandate is aimed at protecting workplace safety, and the difference between those two descriptions could make it vulnerable to the flood of litigation it will provoke. A month after he was elected, Biden called vaccination against COVID-19 a "patriotic duty," but said, "I don't think it should be mandatory." On July 23, White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated that position, saying it's "not the role...

A Virginia high school teacher has sparked outrage on social media after posting a TikTok video in which he argues that expecting students to behave, follow directions and sit quietly is 'the definition of white supremacy.' Josh Thompson, an English teacher at Blacksburg High School in Montgomery County, specifically referred to his district's use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a model educators use to keep students focused and respectful in school. It is not clear how parents or students at the school are reacting to Thompson’s video or if they’ve seen it, but many Twitter users are asking...

Taken from JRE #1397 w/S.C. Gwynne:Misconceptions About Native Americans w/S.C. Gwynne | Joe Rogan | December 10, 2019 | JRE Clips

The jabbed and the jabbed not. In another example of how privileged people aren’t having to follow the same rules as everyone else, the NBA won’t force elite athletes to take the COVID-19 vaccine despite staff being mandated to get it. Wealthy NBA stars have made themselves the latest exempted class after their union (the NBPA) “refused to budge on its demand that players not be required to take the vaccine.” Around 100 million Americans will be forced to get jabbed if they want to keep their jobs after Biden’s executive order, but the 15 per cent of NBA players...

Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Samuel Mangold-Lenett.Last month, the State Department announced that the federal government will soon begin prohibiting Americans from importing “ammunition manufactured or located in Russia.” This restriction comes as part of a new set of sanctions pushed by the Biden administration against the Russian Federation for its habit of poisoning political opposition. The Biden administration claims that it is pursuing these sanctions to punish Russia for its mistreatment of political dissidents. Don't be fooled. This policy is just a convenient cover for the White House’s anti-gun agenda. By making it illegal for American citizens...

If we did not already have enough reasons to believe that General Mark Milley has no business serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today’s blockbuster story in the Washington Post, excerpted from the Bob Woodward/Robert Costa book Peril, should confirm this. Any Congress worthy of the name in a democracy would open an investigation of General Milley and push for his removal; any president who took his oath seriously would fire him immediately. Here is what Woodward and Costa report, apparently from General Milley’s own mouth as one of their principal sources for the book: ... Now,...

Mark Milley is a traitor who has broken his oath and betrayed his country.And I don’t say that because I’m a Republican, I say it because I’m an American.Milley, a four-star general and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is reported to have, in the last months of the Donald Trump presidency, spoken with subordinate officers with the intent of convincing them to subvert the orders of the president of the United States. Further, he is reported to have contacted an officer of the Chinese army and promised to notify that officer of any looming American military action...

General Mark Milley should face an investigation, without delay, concerning the allegations contained in a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. And if the claims turn out to be true, Milley should be removed from his post as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff immediately, and perhaps face more stringent sanctions for going behind the president’s back to the Chinese military during the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency. [cut] Generals don’t get to have their own personal foreign policies. Period. They answer to the elected branches, and they must carry out every lawful directive and policy...

Credit Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, with posing the critical question during Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Sept. 14 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After declaring he was not speaking on a partisan basis and that "there is not enough lipstick in the world to put on this pig (the Afghanistan withdrawal)," Risch asked a nervous Blinken: "Who is responsible? Who made the decisions on this? Was it the president of the United States?" "Ultimately, the president makes the decisions," Blinken replied. He quickly added a string of qualifications. "Hundreds and thousands of decisions ... ," Blinken opined, "......

They came out with an important investigative report showing shockingly collapsed numbers of police responses to crime in Minneapolis. But they called the damning data "complicated." In the wake of the rabid left's demonization of police, the "Ferguson effect" has come onto Minneapolis with a vengeance since the death of petty criminal George Floyd while in police custody. That's news. But despite statistics like this: In the year after Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, the number of people approached on the street by officers who considered them suspicious dropped by 76%, Reuters found after analyzing more than 2.2 million...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Sept. 14. The following letter, from President LINCOLN to Major-Gen. FREMONT, was transmitted to the latter the 12th inst.: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 11, 1861, Major-Gen. John C. Fremont: SIR: Yours of the 8th, in answer to mine of 2d inst., was just received. Assuming that you upon the ground could better judge of the necessities of your position, than I could at this distance, on seeing your proclamation of Aug. 30, I perceived no general objection to it; the particular objectionable clause, however, in relation to the confiscation of property, and the liberation of slaves, appeared to me...

Nearly every nation is coming up short — most of them far short — in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to the internationally agreed-upon limit, according to a new scientific report. Only one nation — tiny The Gambia in Africa — is on track to cut emissions and undertake its share of actions to keep the world from exceeding the Paris agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times, the report said. Only one industrialized nation — the United Kingdom — is...

The basic path to financial success in this country has been revealed once again by the Census Bureau's annual report on income and poverty, which was released this week. What did it show? People who graduate from college, get a job, get married and have children generally earn more money than those who do not. People who drop out of high school, do not work and have children out of wedlock generally earn less and are more likely to be in poverty. One may have suspected this was the case simply by looking at the society around us. But the...

However, there are physicians who still believe in treating patients directly and they’ve got a plan. Maybe this is what Obamacare 2.0 is all about. It’s a brave new world in which the antiquated doctor-patient relationship is sacrificed in favor of diktats from healthcare bureaucrats. In this new paradigm, doctors no longer practice medicine as scientists. Instead, they are more like automatons, doing as they are ordered to do—including providing care that isn’t care. When I had Covid last fall I was baffled that my doctor didn’t want to see me. Thankfully, I’m not the only one troubled by doctors’...