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Whatever you read about the Freedom Convoy, whatever your stance on vaccine mandates and passports, know this: the narrative being spun that the convoy is a fascist, white supremacist movement is a bald-faced political lie.

HIGHLAND, Ind. (CBS) — Police in Highland, Indiana on Wednesday released photos of a man and woman being sought after three small fires were set as a distraction for shoplifting at a Meijer store.(snip) Shoppers roaming the aisles of the Meijer in Highland, Indiana were forced to evacuate Monday night – for those not one, but three fires that appeared to have been intentionally set throughout the grocery store.(snip) As store employees and customers rushed to the toy aisle with the Nerf toys and other parts of the store to put out the fires, Highland police said the flames were...

On Thursday, schools in Douglas County, Colorado closed after hundreds of teachers called in sick to protest against several actions carried out by the newly-elected school board, which became majority conservative in November. According to local outlet CPR News, by mid-day Wednesday, there were around 1,500 unfilled teacher absences for the following day. In total, there are about 3,300 licensed teachers in the school district. The district then canceled preschool through high school classes because “the number of absences has impacted our ability to provide a safe and supervised learning environment for students,” according to a tweet posted by the...

A recent article from Vice titled “Scientists Find Putting Pantyhose on Your Head Makes Your Mask Safer” is promoting exactly what the title suggests – advising people of the benefits of putting pantyhose over their heads while wearing a mask to stay safe from COVID. n the ever evolving bevy of absurd suggestions coming from the “experts” on how to navigate the virus floating around over the past two years, apparently scientists are claiming that pantyhose is the latest tool to curb exposure to COVID

On the MSNBC program "Deadline," Morgan State University Professor Jason Johnson argued that "Trump has to be jailed. He's such a direct danger American democracy that there is no other effective remedy than immediate incarceration." The Professor explained "it's too risky for us to be concerned with his constitutional right to a fair trial. The man has such sway over a substantial percentage of the population that I don't think we could empanel a jury that would convict him no matter how solid our evidence is. There is an international precedent for what I propose. It's called 'protective arrest.' It...

Galloping through forest atop a white horse, Kim Jong Un stars in a new North Korean propaganda video that touts his economic leadership but ignores a recent spate of sanctions-busting missile launches. Pyongyang started the year by conducting a record seven weapons tests, including firing its most powerful missile since 2017, raising fears Kim could restart long-range or nuclear testing. But the government-produced documentary released this week highlights Kim's struggle to right the country's battered economy, which is reeling from a years-long blockade due to the coronavirus and international sanctions. "The overriding theme of the documentary is Kim's devotion to...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called today for Olympians to refrain from criticizing concentration camps and slavery, citing how embarrassing it was when Jesse Owens made a scene in front of Adolf Hitler. “We can all learn something from the example of Jesse Owens—which is that if you don't have something nice to say about a murderous dictator, then don't say anything at all," said Speaker Pelosi. “So yes, China has literal concentration camps and is actively committing genocide, exactly like the Nazis. Some day, history will look back on millions of Uyghurs being murdered by the Chinese...

Dear Marylanders, It has now been seven years since you first granted me the honor of serving as Maryland’s governor, and there has not been a single day—good or bad—when I was not grateful for the privilege. Our mission was to change Maryland for the better, and I’m proud to report that we have done exactly what we said we would do, and because of that, the state of our state is strong—by any measure, stronger and better than it was when we began our mission. We have changed Maryland for the better by: Facing our fiscal challenges head-on, easing...

Florida Republicans have advanced a voting law package that would establish a police unit for election crimes, embracing a proposal pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. A Senate committee approved the bill Tuesday after hours of debate. Democrats questioned the need for an election police force, saying the bill makes it harder to vote by mail. Sen. Travis Hutson, a Republican sponsoring the bill, said it was meant to safeguard elections. The bill would create an Office of Election Crimes and Security to investigate election fraud and let the governor appoint special law agents to pursue cases, a proposal DeSantis tied...

A Canadian elected official in Ottawa allegedly deleted a tweet appearing to outline a plan to legally target the millions of dollars raised in support of the "Freedom Convoy" of truckers protesting a vaccine mandate. "This morning, I have asked the city manager and city solicitor to immediately launch court proceedings targeting the millions of dollars in funds frozen by @GoFundMe so Ottawa taxpayers are not left holding the bag for these protests," Ottawa City Councilor of Rideau-Vanier Ward Mathieu Fleury allegedly tweeted Monday, according to screen shots posted to Twitter. The tweet was deleted before noon on Monday. Fox...

JUST IN - GoFundMe has deleted Canada's Freedom Convoy fundraiser for violating its terms, stating the "peaceful demonstration has become an occupation" now. $9 million funds to be sent to "credible charities."

Despite the Ottawa Police briefly raising the possibility of a military intervention to clear a stubborn holdout of Freedom Convoy truckers blockading their downtown, the Canadian Armed Forces have been quick to say they will be doing no such thing . A spokesperson for the Minister of Defence told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, “The Canadian Armed Forces are not involved in law enforcement in this situation, and there are no plans for such CAF involvement.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said

Grapefruits contain a compound that leads to significantly increased levels of medication in your bloodstream. While most medications are safe to use with grapefruit, there are a few that can have serious side effects when absorbed at higher than usual levels. Several studies have shown that CBD is similar to furanocoumarin (grapefruit) in its ability to inhibit or decrease the activity, of CYPs. While there haven’t been enough studies to determine what the implications of CBD’s CYP-inhibiting effects are, it’s clear that CBD interacts with CYPs in a significant way. If you’ve never had to worry about grapefruit intake, then...

A video of New York City Mayor Eric Adams surfaced online showing him deride white New York City Police officers as “crackers.” The 2019 clip, which was recently posted on YouTube, showed Mr. Adams giving a speech in a small auditorium and saying, “I mean every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers’ ass.” Thomas Lopez-Pierre, who posted the video, said Mr. Adams was speaking at an event was hosted by the Harlem Business Alliance. Mr. Adams, who was preparing to run for mayor at the time, was talking to supporters about his time as a law enforcement...

An MSNBC guest claimed Thursday on "The ReidOut" that supporters of the political slogan "Make America Great Again," a phrase coined by former President Donald Trump, want to "lynch or murder" Black People in the United States. Brittany Packnett Cunningham, a Missouri-based progressive political activist and host of the "Undistracted" podcast, joined Joy Reid’s show to discuss a new bill, SB666, which would revamp the state’s self-defense laws. Critics of the bill have dubbed it the "Make Murder Legal Act" and have argued that it will make criminal or civil prosecution of individuals who use deadly force difficult. An excerpt...

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President Biden on Friday said he was “proud” of the January jobs report while just one percent of Americans say the economy is in excellent shape. “This morning’s report caps off my first year as president, and over that period, our economy created 6.6 million jobs,” Biden proudly stated in the White House. “If you can’t remember any year when so many people went to work in this country, there’s a reason: it never happened.”

Even in death, the John McAfee saga grows stranger. More than seven months after he died in a Spanish jail, McAfee’s body remains in a prison morgue freezer somewhere in or near Barcelona. His daughter and ex-wife waged a legal fight over the body and a Spanish judge is continuing to conduct an investigation over the cause of his death. At the same time, the first of what is expected to be several attempts to detail the hard-to-believe exploits of the antivirus-software pioneer has arrived, a book whose contents are vigorously denied by McAfee’s family. It is unclear to those...

The White House on Friday claimed that President Joe Biden never supported coronavirus lockdowns, despite his endorsement of a national lockdown strategy during the 2020 campaign. “We’ve not been pro-lockdown; that has not been his agenda — most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing.

Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the Republican National Committee’s censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) shows the “Stalinesque” Republican Party has become an autocratic movement with the sole purpose of grabbing political power “at the cost of ending the American experiment.” Schmidt said, “This is a moment of, another moment of revelation of the Republican Party as an institution through its elected leaders revealing what it’s become. What it has become is an autocratic vehicle to advance an autocratic agenda that is controlled by Donald Trump in this country. There’s...