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Louisiana is going to lift the statewide indoor mask mandate, except for schools that allow parents to decide whether to quarantine their kids after a COVID-19 exposure in the classroom, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday. “I stand here today optimistic, relieved that the worst of the fourth surge is very clearly behind us now,” said Edwards, who reinstated the mask mandate in August as the state faced an increase in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant of the virus. He said the improved situation was a “direct result” of the people who chose to get vaccinated and follow...

Wendy Martinez is also the star of Project Veritas’ second video that was just released. This time, she exposed how the governor has secretly given tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to illegal aliens in New Jersey. By her estimates, the total that the governor has given to date is somewhere around “$40 million” and he has plans to shell out a lot more… Yep, you guessed it. AFTER he is able to secure re-election. Martinez: “It [money] was for the excluded workers – for the undocumented workers. I think it’s $40 million, something like that, and to designate that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed two prominent anti-Trump Republicans to serve in the Biden administration on Tuesday with former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona approved to serve as the ambassador to Turkey and Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain, approved to serve as the ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. The Senate also voted to confirm former Democratic Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico to serve as ambassador to New Zealand and Victoria Reggie Kennedy of Massachusetts, the widow of former Sen. Ted Kennedy, to serve as ambassador to Austria. The...

The man then goes on a racist rant about being black, seemingly referring to punching the woman for speaking out while being white. The woman's boyfriend was standing beside her but seemed shell-shocked over the incident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities will no longer make routine arrests at schools, hospitals or a range of other “protected” areas, under new guidelines released Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. As part of a further effort to make immigration more targeted, agents and officers are being directed to consider the impact of enforcement actions on communities as well as “broader societal interests,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in announcing the new guidelines. “We can accomplish our law enforcement mission without denying individuals access to needed medical care, children access to their schools, the displaced access to food...

A surgeon in Minnesota who told the local school board that parents should be the ones to decide whether their children wear masks has been fired from his job. Dr. Jeffrey Horak appeared before the Fergus Falls school board on October 11, where he told officials that masks should not be ordered, but rather voluntary. “You mandate this across the road — that’s a tough place to go,” Horak told the board, according to Fox News. “Who does God put in charge of these kids? Their parents. God gave each one of these kids… to their parents and they speak...

... A new study says that putting a high-paid diversity bureaucrat on the school payroll may actually make things worse for black and Latino students. No, that sound you’re hearing is not a nationwide cicada infestation: That’s just 10,000 heads being scratched in school administrators’ offices. You mean, all those diversity hucksters who said we could close racial gaps by hiring lavishly paid diversity hucksters were just in it for themselves? Yeah, and you should think about feeding the shredder with all of those Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo books about how you should blow $15,000 or so to...

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Dominion (Utility) has been funneling piles of cash to a Democrat dark money group that’s posing as a conservative outlet upset by Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin’s supposed squishiness on the Second Amendment. The political news outlet Axios reported in late September that the Accountability Virginia operation has ties to Democratic activists and is funding an ad campaign in which the Democrats pose as conservatives “to drive a wedge between the Republican candidate for Virginia governor and his core voters.” The ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google and Snapchat target rural areas of the state that support Youngkin, and the ads question...

People genetically predisposed to mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and anorexia nervosa prefer to live in urban areas as adults, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry found. Those with higher genetic risk for these disorders were 5% to 10% more likely to "preferentially move" from rural to urban areas as adults, the data showed. This means that people with more genetic mutations who increase their risk for mental health problems are drawn to urban environments, which is significant, given that city-living long has been associated with increased risk for schizophrenia, the researchers said. "This study adds...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, said he won't support ending the Senate filibuster that has enabled the Republican minority to block key portions of President Joe Biden's agenda, further complicating Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's drive to pass voting rights and other measures.

It's buried somewhere in the wilds of the CDC website, I haven't been able to find the original source. Need the CDC source URL to post a vaccine related reply on nextdoor. *sigh*

A black Harvard premedical student quit school in what she called a "great act of resistance" spurred by her professors' refusal to discuss the Breonna Taylor case before an exam. Kyla Golding, who was a Harvard Crimson editorial editor, left the university due to the "silence and avoidance between myself and my educators when it comes to black women’s lives," she wrote in an opinion article Friday. "I took an inorganic chemistry exam the same day that a grand jury failed to charge two police officers with the murder of Breonna Taylor. That day, my body inhaled molecules of white...

When asked if police in Chicago should be fired if they did not vaccinate he responded with, "That should be taken care of at the STATE level". I read that as the "mandate" proposed by Biden has no authority yes?

The energy shortage is severe enough that it could cause a lot of unhappiness and social unrest, said Blackstone CEO, Stephen Schwarzman. Benchmark US oil futures are around $85 a barrel after surging about 75% year-to-date. Oil could rise to $100 a barrel, said BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. The global energy crisis is severe enough that it could fuel social unrest, said the CEO of asset management company Blackstone on Monday. Stephen Schwarzman was speaking at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia. Schwarzman, who is also co-founder of the investment firm, said: "We're going to end up with...

A young Bradenton mother says she was in fear when she looked at her Ring App and saw armed men at her door. Kada Staples says the men had their weapons pointed at her door and when she said hello, they ordered her to come out and said “we know he’s in there”. The armed men were U.S. Marshals. Staples believes they were looking for a murder suspect, but they had the wrong apartment. At the time she opened her door and still didn’t understand what was going on. Florida elementary school principal arrested after driving BMW at neighbor, flipping...

[Catholic Caucus] VERY IMPORTANT NEWS AND REVELATIONS ON TRADITIONIS CUSTODES IN POLAND.Cardinal Nycz comments on Traditionis Custodes: it was acknowledged in the Congregation that the issue was dealt with too harshly. Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz’s statement on the discussions held recently on “Traditionis Custodes” at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The Metropolitan of Warsaw said that “It was acknowledged in Congregation that the question had been dealt with too harshly and instead of serving unity, in individual cases, it may well make some leave the Church.” Upon his return to Poland after the ad limina...

HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — A growing migrant caravan set out early Wednesday after a day of rest on its trek across southern Mexico. About 2,000 migrants had walked out of the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border on Saturday. While the multitude is challenging to count, it appeared significantly larger Wednesday and its leaders estimated its size at 4,000. “The caravan is like a magnet, it goes sucking up people, migrants who had been in the towns (of coastal Chiapas) are joining,” said Irineo Mújica, an immigration activist with the organization People without Borders. One of them was...

The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-President Donald Trump sent a warning on social media that looters in Minneapolis would be shot. It had been three days since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd … […] But it wasn’t until after Trump posted about Floyd’s death that the reports of violence and hate speech increased “rapidly” on Facebook across the country, an internal company analysis of the ex-president’s social media post reveals. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory...

China successfully launched a military satellite to test "space debris mitigation technology," according to state media reports. he satellite, riding on board a Long March 3B rocket, lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 9:27 p.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 23 (0127 GMT or 9:27 a.m. local time Sunday, Oct. 24.) Footage from China Central Television shows the rocket, backdropped by hills, lifting off amid cloudy conditions at the launch site. The satellite on board is called Shijian-21 and will be "used for the verification of space debris mitigation technology", China state media provider CCTV said...