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Following research about college students from before COVID-19 with a survey at the pandemic's Year I mark, an international team of scientists detected no improvement in the students' mental well-being even after the introduction of vaccines and the easing of social distancing methods, let alone a return to campuses in many instances. In fact, the researchers in spring 2021 found marked declines in both physical and emotional health—students sustained a 35% decline in their number of daily steps and a 36% increase in the number at risk of clinical depression, or roughly half of the total students surveyed. The scientists,...

The link in the article that links to his involvement with the anti-gun movement “This is our lane” has been scrubbed to just re-direct to his campaign website, so I am funneling this link through here to show you his involvement…

CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett’s defense team unleashed a brutal cross-examination of the prosecution’s star witness Thursday, alleging the pair were dating, had masturbated together at a gay bathhouse and the attack was fueled by a desire to be the actor’s security guard. Abimbola Osundairo, 28, sat on the witness stand for a second day in a row at Chicago criminal court and was grilled for two hours by Smollett’s defense attorney Shay Allen on day four of the trial. Allen tried to paint Osundairo as a liar, drug dealer and opportunist who used his relationship with Smollett to further his...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) declined to say Thursday how he would vote on a GOP effort to defund President Biden’s vaccine requirement for larger businesses as part of the debate over a short-term bill to fund the government. Manchin, asked if he would vote for an amendment to block funding for the mandate, sidestepped the question by saying that he was still “working” through it. “I’ve been very supportive of a mandate for federal government, for military ... I’ve been less enthused about it in the private sector,” Manchin said. A small group of conservative senators are pushing for a...

A federal prosecutor working on the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, which is set to go to trial on Monday, is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey. https://www.newsweek.com/maurene-comey-lead-prosecutor-ghislaine-maxwell-case-trial-james-comey-daughter-1653836

Omicron has thrown the holiday season into chaos with confusion over whether or not people should be gathering en-masse that is forcing companies, local governments and even the White House to reconsider festive parties for staff. According to officials cited by The Hill, White House staffers - who ordinarily arrange over 100 parties per holiday season - are discussing having events outdoors on the South Lawn and asking people to provide proof of a negative test before they arrive. Nothing has been announced yet but an announcement on the roster of parties is expected in the next few days. The...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) criticized resident Joe Biden for contemplating stricter travel restrictions for U.S. citizens returning from abroad, despite their COVID-19 vaccinations status, as opposed to those same restrictions not applying to illegal immigrants. The Biden administration is considering forcing Americans returning from international travel to quarantine for seven days even if they have tested negative for COVID-19. In contrast, depending on the location and if they turn themselves in, illegal immigrants are sometimes not tested for the virus before being allowed to travel within the United States. The ongoing border crisis has lead to even some Democrats...

Alongside Poland, Hungary has formed a semi-alliance of conservative central European powers, and has been an example of sorts for Western conservatives. They all should do more.Entrenched leftists within the U.S. State Department are supporting the effort to demote Viktor Orban from prime minister of Hungary, if a report in Financial Times is correct. The Biden administration also left Hungary off its invitation list for a forthcoming international virtual Democracy Summit on Dec. 9 and 10 to which some 100 countries were invited.“Trump and his enablers and those who invaded and attacked our Capitol, they don’t like the world we’re...

CHICAGO, IL—In a bombshell statement during his court case today, Jussie Smollett declared he can no longer be tried as he was murdered by racists while walking home last night and is now dead. "I am now dead, so I can't stand trial," said Smollett, in tears. "While I was walking home last night, a gang of white Republicans surrounded me and said 'Let's go Brandon!' and then they shot me. It was terrifying." The defense team backed up Smollett's statement. "Our client has clearly been murdered by racists, your honor, as he so eloquently stated today. We request that...

Blowing Up The System SOURCE — DAILY BEAST Steve Bannon, who became the first person in nearly 40 years to be indicted on a charge of criminal contempt of Congress, now appears to be using his criminal case to go after the committee that went after him. Bannon is attempting to force investigators to expose who they’ve talked to and what they’ve said, peek into secret communications on the committee, and create a playbook for other resistant witnesses, according to several legal experts. “There’s no cost to opposing Congress if you can give Congress a black eye for even daring...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said in a statement on Thursday that residents should assume that the omicron variant of the coronavirus is in the city given that an identified case in Minnesota was “associated with travel to a conference" in the city. “We are aware of a case of the Omicron variant identified in Minnesota that is associated with travel to a conference in New York City, and we should assume there is community spread of the variant in our city,” de Blasio said. “We are working closely with the State and the [Centers for Disease...

CNN, Dec 2, 2021, campaigning for Biden Following Biden's speech, Dr Leana Wen criticized, on the rapid tests idea. That it would have been better to orivide it for free, like other countries do. In the UK for example, you can pick them up on a pharmacy. CNN anchors immediately shut her up and injected the words "we just font know the details yet" and turned to orher interviewees part of CNN team... Then came up with a message by someone from John Hopkin's finding about Red States with more infections.... Dec 2, 2021. 14:04 ET.

RUSSIA has warned war is 'highly likely' with Ukraine following orders to troops to remain 'combat ready' after speculation of a Ukrainian invasion. The Kremlin has said that Kiev's desire to retake Crimea is "direct threat", as the US vows to respond following growing reports of a Russian invasion. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia have been escalating over recent weeks, with Moscow having massed troops within striking distance of its neighbour’s borders. Vladimir Putin has also ordered US officials to leave Russia immediately amid fears he plans to order an invasion of Ukraine, before the end of January. Ukrainian President...

The mayor of Oroville, California has found a revolutionary way to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) vaccine mandate for school children.Mayor Scott Thomson led the charge, and “Oroville declared itself a constitutional republic,” the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.“Any executive orders issued by the State of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights will not be enforced by the City of Oroville against its citizens,” according to the declaration, which the City Council passed this month.Thomson, who is the father of two young boys, said what he really...

It looks like the Senate GOP have caved. They only need ONE senator to drag this out by denying consent on Friday. I suggest we start identifying likely senators. From The Hill: --- The opposition is significant in the 50-50 Senate, where the filibuster, combined with other arcane rules, empower members of the minority party to stretch a debate for days, if desired. In the case of the continuing resolution, that would push the debate into next week — and cause the government to close down in the meantime. There were signs on Thursday, however, that such a scenario will...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said on Thursday that everyone who attended a recent anime convention in Manhattan should get tested for the coronavirus, after an individual who tested positive for the Omicron variant in Minnesota recently traveled to the conference. Ms. Hochul said the individual, a Minnesota resident who was vaccinated and suffered mild symptoms, had attended the Anime NYC 2021 convention at the Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan. She urged people who attended the event, which was held from Nov. 19 to Nov. 21, to get tested and said that health officials would be in contact with...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ripped into the Republican lawmakers threatening a government shutdown over President Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate, accusing them of promoting a dual crisis of the economy and public health. "It is, yet again, a double sense of irresponsibility: First of all, they'd shut down government, and then they'd shut down science," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol. A spirited Pelosi then rejected the suggestion that Democrats share responsibility for the impasse, arguing that the burden should fall on Republicans to justify their blockade over the vaccine requirements. "How do they explain to...

Hunter Biden plotted an investment meeting with the Serbian president and “high net worth individuals” — and planned to hitch a ride with then-Vice President Joe Biden when he flew to Europe on an official visit, newly uncovered emails show. The emails — published by Fox News on Thursday — show that Hunter had been liaising with a registered Serbian foreign agent and the then-US Serbian ambassador in April 2010 to arrange the potential investment meeting. The emails show that Mark Doyle, who had previously served as a senior adviser to then-Sen. Joe Biden and as national finance director of...

At seventy years old, Willie Horton is serving multiple lifetime sentences in a Maryland prison. His case was once famous enough that we can be reasonably certain that this recidivist monster will never again be released to commit another crime. The nation is safe from Willie Horton. But the Democratic Party should not be. Thirty-three years ago, this generally unremarkable piece of detritus provided an important lesson to the American electorate....

EMBEDDED LINKS TO REPORTS AND SNAPSHOTS AT SITE: Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children. Though most of these cases were referred to US attorneys for prosecution, only one of the individuals was ever charged with a crime. Prosecutors sent the rest of the cases back to the CIA to handle internally, meaning few faced any consequences beyond the possible loss of their jobs and security clearances. That marks a striking deviation from how sex crimes involving children have...