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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was mercilessly booed off a stage during a plumbers’ union fundraiser amid fallout over the city’s vaccine mandate for municipal workers, video shows. A 25-second clip posted to Twitter shows the moment the Democratic mayor was loudly jeered Sunday as she was introduced to Plumbers Union Local 130 — the Windy City’s first union to endorse her in the 2019 runoff election. “I knew that was going to happen,” one attendee said just as the crowd drowned out Lightfoot’s introduction. “That’s f–king brutal,” one man sitting at a table said. One person at the fundraiser told...

After seven weeks of measuring various candy attributes, we have finalized the ultimate 2021 Halloween Candy Power Rankings. Welcome back to The Takeout’s Official 2021 Halloween Candy Power Rankings. We’ve spent the entire Halloween season ranking the top 10 best-selling Halloween candies in America using increasingly esoteric frameworks, taking a madcap, holistic approach to determine the ultimate trick-or-treat crowd-pleaser. To recap, here’s how the candies have been ranked: This week, we’re revealing our ultimate Halloween candy power rankings. The rankings were determined using the above seven weeks of data—for, just like mankind, a candy’s worth goes far beyond its flavor....

Pope Francis and Biden meet in Vatican to discuss climate and COVID shots, not abortion‘There was laughter and clear rapport between President Biden and Pope Francis,’ according to the White House.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis on Friday as part of his itinerary for the upcoming G20 summit, conversing with the Pontiff on the “climate crisis” as well as the global rollout of the abortion-tainted COVID-19 shots. Abortion itself remained unmentioned, however, according to official press releases.The meeting between the world’s most powerful Catholic men lasted approximately 75 minutes, significantly longer than the Pope’s meetings...

LOWVILLE, New York (WWNY) - GOP candidate for governor Andrew Giuliani was back in the north country Thursday night. It was his fourth time visiting the north country in the last five months. Why does he keep coming back? Giuliani says he may be from downstate, but he wants New Yorkers to know he’s running a 62-county campaign. Giuliani stopped in at the Lewis County Republican Dinner in Lyons Falls Thursday to encourage residents to vote on election day and, more specifically, to vote “no” to propositions one, three, and four. When it comes to north country voters, Giuliani says...

Deputies in Florida found a live grenade in the truck of an “idiot” who was driving with a terrifying clown mannequin in the passenger seat, wild video shows. The footage released Monday by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office shows the moment a deputy stumbled upon the explosive find after Louis Branson, 65, was pulled over in Bunnell for expired tags on his Dodge pickup. “Oh shoot, is this for real?” a deputy asks her partners after discovering the grenade inside a sealed canister in the back of Branson’s ride, video shows. “Get out of the truck, it looked like a...

Attorney Leigh Dundas joins the MAGA Institute Podcast to share the seismic event that will rock this nation next month. As Leigh notes, this country runs on the backs of our blue-collar workers who manufacture, transport, and stock all the products in our stores, generate all our electricity, run our airports, etc. Axe the Vax Walkout Employees in the healthcare, education, telecom, and supply chain/transport industries, as well as public sector employees whose employers are mandating the genetic therapy injections are organizing a national strike from November 8th-11th to bring the economy to its knees, so people can see what...

After the government authorized the use of Ivermectin for COVID-19 patients and its population, the number of cases have significantly plummeted since July.he data above proves that Ivermectin played a role in the steep decline of COVID-19 cases. This is obvious despite the claim from fact-checker website below that there is “no evidence that the fall in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia is linked to the use of Ivermectin.”Here’s the excerpt from Health Feedback:Clinical trials didn’t show a clear benefit of ivermectin in reducing COVID-19 severity, hospitalization rate, or mortality. Epidemiological evidence also doesn’t indicate that ivermectin helped curb the number...

Citigroup told employees on Thursday that it would require vaccination against Covid-19 as a condition of employment in the United States, making it the first major bank to issue such a mandate. “It has become crystal clear that Covid-19 will not be going away anytime soon,” Sara Wechter, the company’s head of human resources, wrote in a LinkedIn post describing the new policy. Ms. Wechter cited two catalysts for the decision. First, because the bank does business with the federal government, it has an obligation to comply with President Biden’s executive order requiring vaccination for people working on government contracts....

@Liz_Cheney It appears that @FoxNews is giving @TuckerCarlson a platform to spread the same type of lies that provoked violence on January 6. As @FoxNews knows, the election wasn’t stolen and January 6 was not a “false flag” operation. @rupertmurdoch @jayawallace @Suzannescott @SpeakerRyan

The right to keep and bear arms is, at a last resort, our most important right, thus it’s one that should be exercised with the utmost care and attention to detail.The investigation into the fatal shooting of movie camerawoman Halyna Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin with a prop gun on the set of the latter’s movie, “Rust,” last Thursday is ongoing, with new information and speculations appearing daily, so prudent people will let the investigation run its course before reaching conclusions. The fact that Mr. Baldwin has been a hard-core leftist activist, particularly against the right to keep and bear...

The building is now tilting 25 inches to the northwest, towards the heavily-traveled corner of Mission and Fremont streets. In an exclusive interview, we spoke to one former condo owner who says he’s glad he got out. “What they said was, this was not a big problem,” said Faulk. Later, Faulk’s husband Frank Jernigan rolled a marble on the floor of their $4 million, 50th-floor condo that confirmed for them that the problem was all too real. “The marble turns around and picks up speed as it heads in the direction that the building was leaning. We were surprised, and...

Kermit Warren, an out-of-work shoeshine man from New Orleans, was carrying nearly $30,000 in cash through the airport in Columbus, Ohio, last November when federal drug agents stopped him and began asking questions. Warren was returning home with his life savings after the purchase of a truck fell through. He had a one-way plane ticket, no luggage and he gave some shaky answers about himself and the cash, leading the agents to suspect that it was drug money. Warren wasn’t charged with a crime, but the agents seized all of his cash. With his savings gone and the Covid pandemic...

The 46th president heads to the G20 and COP26 empty-handedBiden’s lack of a vote is also going to be a problem after he leaves Rome and travels to Glasgow to talk about “climate change.” He was supposed to have lots of money for that, too. Glasgow is a good place to hold a conference on climate change, because the weather there is always changing, though of course partisans of the green agenda don’t mean “weather” when they utter the word “climate.” What exactly do they mean, comrade? Shhh! Don’t be a spoil sport. Anyway, there is not much evidence in...

A federal judge for the district court in Washington, DC, issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday barring the Biden administration from firing both unvaccinated civilians and active-duty military members, Fox News reported.

@cameron_arcand INBOX: Fauci’s NIAID puppy experiments included “Female beagle puppies, only six months old, are injected with a lab-made “mutant” variant of a tick-transmitted bacteria at Kansas State” and are later killed. - White Coat Waste Project Docs...

Facebook's announcement that it is changing its name to Meta has caused quite the stir in Israel where the word sounds like the Hebrew word for "dead". To be precise, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word. Facebook isn't the only company to be ridiculed over translations of its branding. Here are a few examples of when things got lost in translation. When KFC arrived in China during the 80s, its motto "finger lickin' good" didn't exactly go down well with the locals. The motto's translation in Mandarin was "eat your fingers off". Rolls-Royce changed the...

POCATELLO — A 35-year-old Pocatello woman who caused a scene early Friday morning at Portneuf Medical Center was arrested for injury to a child, battery upon an officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, police said. Pocatello police said they responded to a home in the 600 block of North 14th Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Thursday based on a call about a disturbance involving Leah Louise Canales and her juvenile son. Police did not disclose the nature of the boy’s injury because he is a minor. Police said Canales was not home when they arrived at the residence, and the...

Today, the left is better at revolutionary ideas, in part because they’re willing to be revolutionary in their thinking and in their governing.The story of the past 100-plus years is the story of the rout of American conservatism — and the near complete and total takeover of the country and its Commanding Heights by a cadre of highly intelligent, determined, and ruthless individuals. How did the century begin? The left started from a humble base: a few people here and there, but certainly not dominating the levers of society. They were scattered about entertainment and Congress, and only truly formidable...

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are separated by one point among likely Virginia voters ahead of next week's gubernatorial election, according to a new poll released on Friday. Forty-nine percent of likely voters in the state backed McAuliffe, while 48 percent said they supported Youngkin, according to a Washington Post/Schar School survey. McAuliffe's lead over Youngkin falls well within the poll's four percentage point margin of error for likely voters. This result paints a slightly different picture compared to other recent polls that show Youngkin leading with likely voters. A Fox News poll released on Thursday found Youngkin...

Trans activists have condemned the BBC for publishing an article of testimonies by lesbian women who said they were pressured to date transwomen — i.e., biological males who identify as females — including those who still had intact male genitalia. The long-form piece written by BBC journalist Caroline Lowbridge and published on Tuesday titled ‘We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women’ detailed the anecdotal evidence of some lesbians being pressured to date and even have sex with biological males who identify as women, also quoting another survey that claimed dozens of lesbians had been coerced to have sexual...