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They’re not so happy with this Halloweave. A Halloween hairpiece poking fun at “Karen” — the heavily memed term for entitled white women who call the cops on black people and defy mask mandates — is being slammed as tone deaf and racist on social media. The Karen costume came to light after a Twitter user named Helen Shivers shared a snap of the inflammatory accessory, dubbed a “Karen Wig,” that she came across at a costume shop last week. She captioned the pic: “and the scariest costume goes to…” The packaging for the wig, which is sold online by...

Iowa is expecting approximately 700 refugees among the three resettlement agencies. Beth Gibbins with Catholic Charities said she believes the agencies are all preparing in similar ways.

Democrats can’t win unless they cheat. Virginia Democrats are now asking Governor Ralph Northam to waive absentee ballot witness signature requirements ahead of the gubernatorial race, citing Covid dangers.

First, last month still saw sales of some 2.2 million units in total, exceeding every year prior to 2020. Moreover, for the first three quarters of 2021, firearms sales reached nearly 30.5 million – compared to 28.6 million for the same period a year earlier. Clearly, that was the result of the pandemic, followed by a wave of violent protests across the country that occurred following the killing of George Floyd over Memorial Day weekend 2020. It is true as well that last year’s fourth-quarter sales were strong, driven in no small part to the election of President Joe Biden,...

I am writing in response to the article in the Iowa Standard where it mentions that Speaker Pat Grassley “expects only redistricting to be done during the special session”. Together with many Iowans, I am left with questions and grave concerns. Blanket policies and cookie-cutter health mandates are sweeping the state without concern for our individual bodily autonomy or beliefs. As a member of leadership and Speaker of the house, Pat Grassley, has turned a blind eye to the needs of the people he was elected to represent. As thousands of Iowans are concerned about retaining their jobs (many of...

Over the past couple of months, Allison, a wife and mother of a toddler and teenager in Chicago, says she’s been spending about $50 more each week on groceries to feed her family — and that’s at a discount supermarket chain, Aldi’s. “I used to spend $70 a week, but all of sudden this summer, I noticed that I couldn’t leave the store without spending at least $120,” said Allison, who works in education. Like millions of Americans whose income has not kept pace with inflation — up 5.3 percent in August compared with a year ago — Allison and...

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that they had submitted an emergency request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for authorization of the companies' two-dose Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. An FDA advisory committee plans to meet to discuss authorization on Oct. 26.

Tether recently settled a $1 trillion lawsuit revolving around the unbacked issuance of the stablecoin. Senator Cynthia Lummis has stated that any regulatory framework for stablecoins will require full cash-backing, similar to money market mutual funds. Tether loaned $1 billion to Celsius Network, a crypto lending firm that has come under the ire of financial regulators several times. Tether's $69 billion reserves raise questions from regulators Tether was under investigation for issuing stablecoins backed without cash reserves. Tether's $69 billion worth of stablecoins (issued, authorized or both) are supposed to be backed by USD. However, no entity can validate the...

The S&P 500 rose 1.4% as of 1:13 p.m. Eastern. Roughly 90% of stocks within the benchmark index gained ground. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 496 points, or 1.4%, to 34,913 and the Nasdaq rose 1.6%. Markets in Europe and Asia were also broadly higher. The market was already in the midst of a days-long bout of volatility when Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell made an offer Wednesday that would allow an emergency extension of the debt ceiling. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday an agreement has been reached with Republicans to extend the government’s borrowing authority into...

The civic integrity department in October 2020 had Frances Haugen — a left-leaning activist who declared her own war against "misinformation."The Facebook civic integrity team that leftist activist whistleblower Frances Haugen was a member of, worked to counter misinformation about the 2020 election.Which in October of last year meant making the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post’s reporting on it.Project Veritas whistleblowers haven’t gotten the same mainstream media attention and praise as Frances Haugen has, after coming out publicly to 60 Minutes earlier this week.Just spoke with James O’Keefe on War RoomHe confirmed...

CNN's Jake Tapper is one of the most well-known television journalists in the US. Tapper values truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness, according to interviews. He's naturally skeptical and, to remain neutral, he doesn't vote. Politico says he could be the best current television interviewer in the US. He grew up in a Philadelphia "hippy" household, but one focused on what was right and wrong. After three years he left Washington City Paper to become the Washington Correspondent for Salon. His editor at the time Joan Walsh said it was clear that he wasn't ideologically driven. Tapper's wife says her husband...

CORRUPTION WATCH : Maricopa County admits they DELETED and moved the election data to hide it from auditors AFTER they got a subpoena.https://twitter.com/WhiteRabbitNN/status/1446167394976739335

Credit: Janosov and Borsi. In recent years, numerous computer scientists and artists worldwide have worked on projects that merge digital art and computer science. For instance, some introduced computational models that can create original artworks, while others used data analysis tools to examine literary works or paintings. Milan Janosov Ph.D., chief data scientist at Datapolis and research affiliate at the Central European University, and Flora Borsi, distinguished digital artist, have recently carried out a study that merges data science and digital art in an innovative and intriguing way. Their paper, pre-published on arXiv, was aimed at analyzing Isaac Asimov's science...

Small units of Taiwan's military ground forces have been trained by a U.S. special operations unit and a contingent of Marines, who have been secretly operating in that country, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Some two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops have been conducting the training in an effort to strengthen Taiwan's defenses in light of concerns about potential aggression by China. Officials tell the paper that American forces have been conducting the training for at least a year.

Merck would turn their back on their creation with three lies about Ivermectin before they would accept the payoff from the United States government. On February 4, 2021, Merck, the corporation behind the monumental Mectizan Program, which rescued the world from River Blindness, told three untruths about Ivermectin. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Lie #1: No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from preclinical studies; FALSE: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011 Lie #2: No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease. FALSE: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FLCCC-Alliance-Response-to-the-NIH-Guideline-Committee-Recommendation-on-Ivermectin-use-in-COVID19-2021-01-18.pdf https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/One-Page-Summary-of-the-Clinical-Trials-Evidence-for-Ivermectin-in-COVID-19.pdf Lie #3: A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies. FALSE: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/36858/pdf/

If you follow Roman history interest groups on various social media platforms, you are guaranteed to encounter posts bemoaning the supposed destruction of Classical Greco-Roman civilization by Christians. These posts are normally as sensationalistic as they are lacking in any kind of historical context. They nearly always feature shout-outs to journalist Catherine Nixey’s 2017 polemic entitled The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. The comments following such posts are predictable—semi-literate laments about the vast unknown knowledge lost when Christians [sic] burned the Library at Alexandria; bitter tears for all the wonderful art that was destroyed by barbaric...

A NASCAR crowd at Talladega Superspeedway broke into a “F–k Joe Biden” chant on Saturday — but an NBC reporter claims she heard something more benign. NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast was in the middle of interviewing driver Brandon Brown after he won his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the famed Alabama racetrack when the crowd behind them broke into a chant, Fox News said. “As you can hear the chants from the crowd,” Stavast said to Brown, according to a Twitter post after the race. “Let’s go Brandon.” The clip shows that the crowd was actually sharing their...

V⍺ccine opposers in a Guatemalan village captured two medical teams that arrived with C0VID-19 v⍺ccines. The wheels were lowered to cars, the exit road was blocked, refrigerators with v⍺ccines were destroyed, and doctors were locked up and threatened to burn. https://twitter.com/The_AlphaX2/status/1445902727255445514/retweets

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been rated the least popular leader in Congress, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found. Voters were asked to rate their impressions of the top leaders in Congress, including House Speaker Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

In interviews with The Federalist, pro-abortion protesters in Downtown Los Angeles admitted that they have no interest in whether or not a fetus is a life. (Language may be unsuitable for children.)