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The Maryland General Assembly convened on December 6 for a special session. The main focus of the special session is the redistricting process that states must complete every decade after the census. However, in addition to redistricting, the legislature voted to override Governor Larry Hogan’s (R) veto of a bill that bans immigration detention and makes Maryland a sanctuary state, as well as one that restricts sharing information with immigration authorities. House Bill (HB) 16, the so-called “Dignity Not Detention Act,” sponsored by Delegate Vaughn Stewart (D-Montgomery County) was initially solely a ban on immigration detention contracts. However, on the...

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During an interview with Colorado Public Radio on Thursday released on Friday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) defended his refusal to reinstitute a state mask mandate by saying that the coronavirus “emergency is over” and state public health officials don’t “get to tell people what to wear.” Polis also argued that because vaccines have been available for a long time, “People who want to be protected are.” And that “If you haven’t been vaccinated, that’s your choice. I respect that. But it’s your fault when you’re in the hospital with COVID.”

ATTN Tennessee FReepers: I've read through the anti-mask mandate bill that Gov. Lee signed into law back in November. If a store/business breaks this law, what's the punishment? Is there one? The place I work in Shelby county is still mandating we wear masks. Thank you for your help.

Monterey Bay Aquarium team caught this barreleye fish on camera. According to the aquarium, they're an elusive species that lives 2,600 feet under the ocean. The deep-sea fish has a transparent head with tubular eyes. These fish usually grow to about six inches and can see through their forehead. The aquarium said the aquarist were on a deep sea collection trip with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. They were collecting jellies and comb jellies for an upcoming exhibition when they spotted the barreleye fish. The aquarist are preparing for a new exhibition called Into the Deep: Exploring our Undiscovered...

Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made. Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. ( 2 Kings 3:1-4)The next King of Israel, Jehoram, was also a Son of Ahab, having succeeded his brother. He was evil...

The 14-year-old son of a pizza shop employee shot one of three would-be robbers in the face after he started choking his mom in Philadelphia, police said Police arrived at the shop in the Spring Garden neighborhood shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday and noticed a trail of blood that began inside the restaurant and went on for three blocks into the subway station at Broad and Spring Garden streets. The employee told police three men had entered and demanded money from the cash register, which she told them she couldn’t open because she needed a code. Other employees said one...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and mask mandates rolled out by governments worldwide have caused an “exponential increase” in face mask pollution, comprehensive research based on data collected in 11 countries suggests.

Jana Duggar has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child in Arkansas - news that comes just one day after her brother Josh was found guilty of child porn charges. The reality TV star from 19 Kids and Counting, 31, has been charged with the misdemeanor, an Elms Springs District clerk confirmed to DailyMail.com on Friday. The local county clerk said Duggar was cited on September 9, 2021 but said she wasn't at liberty to say if the charge was connected to Josh. Jana has entered a plea deal and is expected to appear in the Washington County...

The Chicago police chief who arrested Jussie Smollett for staging a race-baiting attack on himself said Friday that he would have let the actor go free if he’d just apologized and admitted that he was lying early on. Eddie Johnson, head of the Chicago Police Department in 2019, wouldn’t have pursued charges against the “Empire” actor if he’d simply admitted he’d made it all up, he told “Morning in America.”

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The village of Ludowici, in the deep piney lowlands of southeast Georgia, got its name from a German fellow who came there in 1904 to manufacture clay roof tiles. But it was not his accomplishments that made the town famous. Rather, it took thousands of inhospitable acts toward thousands of out-of-town visitors to put Ludowici on the map—to give it a national reputation as one of the most venomous of a particular breed of Southern hamlet. In short: Ludowici was a classic speed trap. Yankee snowbirds were routinely nailed by, among other things, a twin set of rubber hoses laid...

In just one week, four federal courts have said no, and the US Senate voted the same way. The vaccine mandate is crumbling. Earlier this fall, Jabbin’ Joe Biden issued his commands in no uncertain terms: OSHA will mandate that all employers of over a hundred people must force their employees to accept these experimental Covid-19 vaccines. Every federal department must mandate that all their federal employees accept it too. All federal contractors and health care workers, all members of the military, must take it as well. There is no freedom anymore; the days of human rights are over. Uncle...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Friday on her show “Deadline” that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the vice-chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, knows her version of the Republican Party surviving relies on destroying Trumpism. Wallace said, “Liz Cheney is — and this is my experience of her, having been worked in the Bush administration with her — she is like a seek-and-destroy missile. When she identifies an enemy, nothing gets between her and the enemy. She identified Trumpism as the enemy. And Donald Trump as the match and the insurrection as...

Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that of the 43 cases attributed to the Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated.

ransomnote: Another article on FR contains a chemists theory about why athletes are impacted the way we are witnessing. I'll put the link to that article in Post #1.Nobody can explain that. Some poo-poo these events saying that they happen all the time. True, they do. But not at this rate. Something happened in 2021 that changed things by a lot. Can you guess?Steve Kirsch Nov 13 7480 First, take a look at this video posted by my friend Robert Malone:ransomnote: Tweet and video have been deleted.Twitter Now, in the comments of that tweet, you’ll see people say that “these...

Step off the New York City subway at 125th and Lexington, and you will find yourself in what can only be called an open-air drug market. The subway entrance is an easy place to score—the day I visited, one man stood yelling, “Drugs! Drugs! Drugs!” like a ballpark vendor. On every block, people slump where they stand, “nodding out” from opioid intoxication. ---SNIP--- The Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that the sites contravene the Controlled Substances Act’s so-called Crack House Statute, which prohibits opening a space with the express purpose of facilitating drug use. Four of the city’s five...

Many discrete supercell storms are trying to develop from S IL south into MS..many are starting to rotate another area back more NW in MO and yet a third from central AR to NE TX wide moist warm sector and cooling temps aloft will increase instability over night as storm dynamics and low levels winds increase models showed this happening and a moderate risk was issued however it now appears those models are correct at this early stage

Meet Rachel Rollins. I came across the video clip below in my Twitter feed yesterday. Brief as it is, the video tells you just about everything you need to know about her. She is a racist. She is a race hustler. She is vulgar. She is vile. She is a nut. A decent person wouldn’t want anything to do with her. And yet, as of Wednesday, she is the new United States Attorney for Massachusetts. FOX News has a good story on the video with background here. She is of course a Biden appointee. She was confirmed on a 50-50...