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Southwest Airlines will conduct an internal investigation into a pilot who was captured on video saying “Let’s go Brandon” over the flight’s intercom, the airline said in a statement. “Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job serving our Customers, and one Employee’s individual perspective should not be interpreted as the viewpoint of Southwest and its collective 54,000 Employees,” the airline said in a statement Sunday. The phrase is a tongue-in-cheek reference to a “F–k Joe Biden” chant that erupted at a NASCAR race in Talladega earlier this year. The chant at the NASCAR...

On the eve of an election all the nation is watching, I took it on my own to post a 13 minute synopsis of a longer movie I think we should have fresh in our minds.THEY'VE been saturating our decent friends and neighbors with commie junk that has our towns in danger.Counterpunch

Kiss canceled their planned Las Vegas residency suddenly late last week, amid questions about their coronavirus safety protocols. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers were scheduled to play at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas as part of their long-running End of the Road World Tour. The decision came after some of the band's roadies blamed guitar tech Francis Stueber's death on negligent safety protocols in Rolling Stone. Kiss disputed many of the claims the tour staffers made. Kiss was scheduled to play at Zappos Theater from Dec. 29 to Feb. 5, but options to buy tickets...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The names of jurors in the Derek Chauvin murder trial have been released Monday after a petition by the media. In a CNN exclusive interview, seven jury members said their guilty verdict in the death of George Floyd was based solely on the evidence. READ MORE: Chauvin Trial Jurors: All Three Verdicts Were 'Based On The Evidence And The Facts, 100%' Now, six months after convicted Chauvin, the names of all twelve jurors and the two alternates have been made public, along with their jury questionnaires. According to the court documents, the identities of the sworn jurors...

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Democrats want to vote this week on a pair of epic tax and spending bills, yet they’re still playing hide-the-ball on their multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation bill. It’s clearer than ever that the Democrats and Republicans who want to vote for the $1 trillion Senate infrastructure bill are being taken for a ride. House progressives blocked a vote on the infrastructure bill for a second time last week, and again they did it with President Biden’s blessing. Multiple news reports say the White House gave Rep. Pramila Jayapal, head of the Progressive Caucus, the go-ahead to overrule Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desire to...

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Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal on Monday said her caucus is ready to move forward on two bills key to President Joe Biden's agenda "as soon as tomorrow," a significant concession after previously seeking direct assurances from Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislation. Speaking with CNN's Victor Blackwell on "CNN Newsroom," Jayapal said that after spending the weekend reviewing the legislative text and conferring with the progressive caucus, she is ready to pass the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as the $1.75 trillion social safety net expansion bill once a few details in...

Japan's health ministry is planning to provide COVID-19 vaccine booster shots from December and has asked local authorities to prepare venues and reservation systems. The shots will be offered to anyone who has received two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or AstraZeneca vaccines. The ministry says 65 percent of the population has now had two shots. But the duration of the vaccines' efficacy is still unclear and "breakthrough" infections, which occur two weeks or more after the second dose, are being reported in Japan and overseas. ... Pushback from experts The booster plan has generated controversy in Japan, where some...

Tucker Carlson interviewed the reporter Julie Kelly who knows most about what really happened to people in Jail for Jan 6. She said most have been completely abandoned. It's a big order to contribute to legal bills, but it could really mean a lot to them individually to get petty cash in jail. But I have no idea about how to go about it.

Are culture wars bad? Or are they necessary to shape the direction of the country? Last week, former President Barack Obama stumped for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia: “This fake outrage that right-wing media peddles to juice their ratings” and the fact that Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is “willing to go along with it instead of talking about serious problems that actually affect serious people — that’s a shame.” But what’s a shame is that people like Obama pretend wars over culture are irresponsible or “fake,” all the while engaging in that very same war. The issue propelling Youngkin is...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in two challenges to S.B. 8, the Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state. After nearly three hours of argument by four different lawyers, the justices appeared likely to allow the case brought by a group of Texas abortion providers to go forward, even if they did not necessarily appear to agree on the rationale for that lawsuit. The justices were more skeptical about the lawsuit filed by the Biden administration, and they did not give any hint as to whether the law will continue to remain in effect....Monday’s...

There is an old saying: to a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. This is truly the only point of view from which the administrations recommended “solution” to current port congestion makes any sense. Consider this: at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest containership ports in the United States, a massive influx of volume over the past year has caused perpetual congestion. With volumes consistently 30% to 40% above the norm over the past year or so, these ports simply cannot handle the volume. It has now become common for 50 to 100 ships to...

Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)--The COVID-19 vaccination rate in Japan has risen to 70.1 pct, the government announced Tuesday. Japan's vaccination rate is now the third highest among the Group of Seven countries, after 73.29 pct in Canada and 70.54 pct in Italy, having outpaced 56.47 pct in the United States and 66.69 pct in Britain, according to Oxford University's Our World in Data website as of Thursday. In Japan, vaccine rollouts have been progressing steadily since vaccinations for people other than medical workers and others with priority started in April, whereas some other countries are facing slow progress after...

**SNIP** Joe Manchin, the linchpin of the 50-50 deadlocked Senate, blew up the president's plans to pass both the "hard" infrastructure bill awaiting a House vote and the newly introduced reconciliation bill. While Biden struggles to stay awake at the COP26 climate conference, the West Virginia Democrat said in certain terms he's won't even consider the reconciliation bill without a CBO score. "To be clear, I will not support the reconciliation legislation without knowing how the bill would impact our debt and our economy and our country," Manchin said during a Monday press conference. "We won't know that until we...

In California, a Black college freshman from the South is telling a story about his Latino friends from home when he is interrupted by a white classmate. “We say ‘Latinx’ here,” he recalls her saying, using a term he had not heard before, “because we respect trans people.” In Philadelphia, Emma Blackson challenges her white neighbor’s assertion that Black children misbehave in school more than others. “It’s just my implicit bias,” the neighbor offers, saying that she had recently learned the phrase. In Chicago, Kelsey O’Donnell, 31, wonders why colleagues and friends have suddenly started saying “BIPOC,” an acronym that...

Former President Donald Trump mocked President Biden for appearing to fall asleep Monday before his speech at an international climate change conference in Scotland. Trump implied the snooze indicates Biden doesn’t truly believe global warming is a dire threat. “Even Biden couldn’t stand hearing so much about the Global Warming Hoax, the 7th biggest Hoax in America, followed closely behind by the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 and, of course, the ‘No Collusion’ finding of the Mueller Report,” Trump said in an email blast. “Biden went to Europe saying...

I have personally suffered from unfair feminist attacks by the police and the courts in the leftist police state of Victoria in southeastern Australia. I survived but suffered crippling suicidal ideation. What was done to Cardinal Pell was worse than what was done to me. He was imprisoned for conducting a mass. That is what he did on the day in question. 20 witnesses contradicted his accusers testimony but the corrupt Victorian legal system imprisoned him for over 400 days. In his mid seventies. He survived. In my way of thinking his survival was a miracle. His personal strength seems...

The ruling Monday is a major victory for the police unions which sued the city over vaccine requirements. A Cook County judge on Monday suspended the city of Chicago’s policy requiring that all of its police officers be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year. The ruling is a major victory for police unions, who have held that the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate violates their collective bargaining agreements. Judge Raymond Mitchell ruled Monday that the mandate should be halted for police officers until those complaints can be settled in arbitration. Mitchell’s ruling does not impact other city workers,...

Tuesday is what less evolved societies than Virginia still quaintly call "Election Day". The Democrat candidate, the unlovely Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, claims that "we are substantially leading on the early vote". In the fullness of time he will also be substantially leading on the late vote, if he isn't already. That leaves the votes on Voting Day up for grabs. The Republican candidate, Mr Youngkin, is a squish of no fixed beliefs who will govern as Mitt did in Massachusetts or Pataki did in New York. But he has been handed a winning issue that he would probably not...