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Nearly 300 fully vaccinated residents in Massachusetts died of breakthrough COVID-19 over the past week even as case numbers have dropped statewide. Between Jan. 22 and 29, Massachusetts health officials reported 290 additional breakthrough COVID-19 deaths, bringing the state’s total death toll among the fully vaccinated to 1,789. The figure represents 0.03% of the state’s inoculated population. During the same period, health officials also recorded 27,530 new breakthrough infections and 555 additional hospitalizations. The state has now reported a total of 422,132 cases and 6,440 admissions among the fully vaccinated. The numbers represent 8.1% and 0.12% of the state’s inoculated...

Activists linked to a left-wing disinformation network are pressuring advertisers to cut ties with conservative news sites. Check My Ads, a group started by Sleeping Giants co-founder and activist Nandini Jammi and advertising consultant Claire Atkin, bills itself as “Adtech’s first watchdog” and claims to “cut disinformation off at the source.” The organization attempts to curb the spread of what it deems misleading or hateful content by pressuring advertisers and ad exchanges to sever business relationships with certain news and commentary sites. The targets, almost invariably, are conservative publications such as Human Events and The Post Millennial, and right-wing media...

Full title: A judge approved $100,000 in student-loan forgiveness for a 35-year-old man who filed for bankruptcy. Biden's education secretary just took the first step to block that decision. Editor's Note: On Friday, the Education Department announced it will be withdrawing its appeal of Wolfson's case and told Insider that "any borrower in an adversary bankruptcy proceeding can request and receive a stay on their proceedings." Two weeks ago, Ryan Wolfson achieved a rare feat in court — a successful elimination of his nearly $100,000 student-debt load through bankruptcy. But the Biden administration might be standing in the way of...

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday the United States has a moral duty to condemn China's rights abuses but she urged U.S. athletes not to risk angering the "ruthless" Chinese government, a day before the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Pelosi, speaking at a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing, said the International Olympic Committee "turns a blind eye" to Beijing's rights violations.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Doctors and hospital leaders are pushing back against a package of Republican bills that seek to bar health care providers from withholding unproven treatments for COVID-19. The three bills released this week would prevent health systems and medical credentialing boards from disciplining doctors for ordering or advocating for therapies or medicine for patients that go against medical opinions held by their employers or regulators. The legislation would force pharmacists to fill all prescriptions ordered by doctors except in rare circumstances, the Journal Sentinel reported. The bills, if passed, could be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers....

According to a Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of several studies, lockdowns during the first COVID wave in the spring of 2020 only reduced COVID mortality by .2% in the U.S. and Europe. "While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted," the researchers wrote. "In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument." However, the Johns Hopkins study received no mention on any of the five liberal networks this week. According to Grabien transcripts, CNN, MSNBC,...

VIDEOThe Virtual Russians Are Coming! The Virtual Russians Are Coming!Okay, technically the Russians are probably not coming for real but they are definitely coming in the Metaverse. Fortunately the State Department is now warning us about the Virtual Russians that are coming in the Metaverse.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made it even harder for cash-strapped watering holes and restaurants to churn back to life — by declaring that a bag of chips is no longer enough to comply with the requirement that they serve food with booze. His State Liquor Authority reversed course with that revised edict posted late Tuesday, which requires they sell more substantial food with alcoholic drinks to be in compliance with the recent executive order. Cuomo last Thursday issued that rule, as well as a statewide ban on walk-up bar service, as part of his crackdown on violations of social-distancing rules....

Warning: Billboard Paywall. Here is what the article says: "The artists are each giving up more than 10% of their annual revenue to take a stand against COVID-19 misinformation, Billboard estimates..... Neil Young and Joni Mitchell‘s decisions to pull their music from Spotify this week come at a real cost — hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for each of them that’s unlikely to be made up elsewhere".

Gun shows at the state fair could soon be a thing of the past in California. A proposed law would ban the sale of firearms or ammunition on state property, effectively barring gun shows from being held at any of California’s 73 state fairgrounds. Senate Bill 915, introduced by Sen. Dave Min, D-Costa Mesa, was unveiled Thursday. The bill has yet to be assigned to a committee, but Min said in an interview with The Sacramento Bee that he expects it to go before the Senate Public Safety Committee first. “County fairgrounds are supposed to be family-friendly venues and have...

@RepThomasMassie “Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway.” Congress should withhold funds from this immediately! When we have a President who will sign the bill, we should require that these records be deleted, and impose strict criminal penalties for any federal official who attempts to create a registry.

BEIJING (AP) — The ice rinks that play host to figure skating and speedskating competitions at the Beijing Olympics will also be putting a major environmental problem on the world stage — the potent greenhouse gases often lurking in refrigerators, air conditioners and other cooling systems. Four newly built rinks at the Games will use alternative carbon dioxide cooling systems with far less of an impact on global warming than the artificial refrigerants used in such appliances, though other rinks will still use such refrigerants. The change at select Olympic venues comes as athletes worry that global warming is endangering...

Dear Collette, For the past four days, I've been thinking about writing this letter. I couldn't write earlier because I was crying. Four days ago, I got the news about Robert. Tears washed away my ink. Friday? Saturday? My brain ping-ponged from one scheme to another – should I march? Should I fast? Should I paint a protest sign? Should I go to Robert's house and pray the rosary on my knees? Should I write a letter to my senator, Cory "Spartacus" Booker? I am as voiceless as a submerged sea sponge. Robert's life didn't matter. My life doesn't...

Credit: Rumble BOMBSHELL: Nurse testifies that none of the millions of covid patients died from covid, they died from medical mal-practice... hospitals were made to follow government orders that led to the deaths of millions of people... confirmed genocide... nuremberg 2.0 trials needed...

How bad is inflation in the USA? Try 18%, based on the Flexible Consumer Price Index. The Flexible Price Consumer Price Index (CPI) is calculated from a subset of goods and services included in the CPI that change price relatively frequently. Because flexible prices are quick to change, it assumes that when these prices are set, they incorporate less of an expectation about future inflation. Again, remember that Federal inflation numbers woefully undercount housing and rent inflation. For example, the Case-Shiller National Home Price index (as of November 2021) was growing at 18.8%. The sad part is that inflation-adjusted average...

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This report is reprinted from the Gatestone Institute . The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of December, 2021:Hate for Christmas; Violence against Christians The Islamic State: As always happens preceding the Christmas season, professional Islamic terrorists sought to rile and incite Muslims to launch lone wolf attacks on Christians during the festive season. On Dec. 20, the ISIS-operated Rocket.Chat communication platform posted a drawing of a veiled jihadist brandishing a bloody knife in one hand while holding the severed head of...

Speaking to CNBC Friday morning in separate interviews, John Stankey and David Zaslav push back on claims of John Malone's involvement. AT&T CEO John Stankey, who currently oversees WarnerMedia and CNN, and Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who will assume oversight of WarnerMedia and CNN in just a few months, on Friday were grilled about former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s exit. -snip- both Stankey and Zaslav were pressed on reporting from multiple outlets that said Discovery board member John Malone — who has been critical of Zucker’s programming strategy at CNN — pressed the company to take action. “None of us...

Playing chicken with United States Department of Defense isn’t a good idea, but that’s what the Animal Welfare League of Arlington said Henny Penny did. And the Rhode Island Red hen lived to tell. “Apparently, the answer to ‘why did the chicken cross the road’ is to get to the Pentagon?!” the AWLA wrote on its Twitter feed. “This chicken was caught sneaking around the security area at the Pentagon (we’re not kidding) and our officers picked her up.” The Virginia-based animal advocacy group opened the floor to the public to choose a name for the bird. The winning name...

Jedi @BitcoinJedi101 Barbara Streisand threatens to remove music from Spotify if it doesn't deplatform Joe Rogan immediately.

(Reuters) - U.S. supplies of fuels such as diesel and heating oil have dwindled and refiners are having trouble replenishing that supply, which could keep prices elevated for months. Demand for diesel, heating oil and other products has been running ahead of pre-pandemic levels for months. However, production has not kept up as some refineries have closed since the coronavirus pandemic began while others put off maintenance. As of Thursday, heating oil futures were priced at $2.83, the highest price in seven years. Higher fuel costs could become a recurrent feature of the energy markets as companies find it harder...