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The Biden administration has been steadily ratcheting up its abuse of power to attack political enemies and criminalize dissent. The egregious overcharging and heinous treatment of January 6 detainees in the DC gulag is one painful example. But it’s making even more dangerous moves toward creating thought police. And they are bold enough to announce it publicly.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has shown no signs of lifting its indoor mask requirements, despite several blue states and areas lifting their restrictions in recent days. Philadelphia currently requires businesses, such as grocery stores, pharmacies, and doctors’ offices, to require masks, regardless of vaccination status. Originally, the city’s indoor mask mandate only applied to Philadelphia businesses that did not have a vaccine passport system in place. That changed in August after the Philadelphia Board of Health approved a regulation requiring such businesses to require masks, regardless. According to the update, the change was “intended to support parents of children too young to...

Daily New Cases: As of February 9, 2022, the current 7-day moving average (215,418) decreased 42.8% compared with the previous weekly report. Variants: CDC estimates the national proportion of Omicron to be approximately 100%. The BA.2 lineage (sub-variant of Omicron) is projected to be 3.6%. New Hospitalizations: The 7-day daily average for February 2–February 8, 2022, was 12,099. This is a 25.4% decrease from the prior. Deaths: The 7-day moving average (2,313) has decreased 5.9% compared with the previous weekly report. Test Positivity Rate: The 7-day average (from NAATs) is down to 12.7% (down 21.0% from the prior). Vaccination: 75.9%...

The following is a statement from former President Trump: Can you imagine that, what should be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC. This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world. Just like they wouldn’t talk about the many Biden corruption scandals...

Ontario will end its vaccine passport requirements on March 1, 2022, the province announced Monday in a press release. Claiming “key public health and health system indicators” are “continuing to improve,” the province announced it will ease the next set of restrictions this week, on February 17, increasing social gathering limits at a variety of places. Indoor social gathering spaces will see a capacity increase to 50, and indoor public settings where proof of vaccination is required will have capacity limits removed completely. That includes restaurants, bars, cinemas, casinos, and fitness facilities. However, the major changes will begin on March...

With the stroke of a pen from the unelected County Administrator Verdenia Baker and Palm Beach County still at a “high” transmission rate for COVID-19, the “Mask Requirement” policy was repealed on Friday, February 11, 2022, with an effective date beginning February 14, 2022. This latest “Mask Requirement” policy has been in effect for 42 days and has applied to “employees and the public while in all county-owned and leased buildings.” With the latest trend of Democrat-run jurisdictions across the nation repealing their mask mandates in the last week, one has to wonder what influence that has had on the...

A face mask may be one of the most debilitating learning barriers for young children. We have dedicated much of our careers to fighting and overturning heavy-handed government mandates. One thing we’ve learned over the years is that when Democrats have power in Washington, they typically use it to impose freedom-restricting rules, whether it be on small businesses, family farmers or innovators. But we’ve never seen Democrats try to regulate the behavior of toddlers – until now. As parents ourselves, we are outraged that the federal government is using taxpayer money to make children as young as 2 years old...

President Joe Biden on Sunday said it is “probably premature” to remove coronavirus mask mandates, despite originally pitching “just” 100 days of masking prior to taking office. During his lengthy interview, part of which aired on Super Bowl Sunday, Biden remarked about blue state governors who recently decided to lift mask restrictions in their states, calling it “probably premature” and a “tough call” to make.

(CNN) — We may be witnessing a critical turning point in Latino politics in the United States. Contrary to their monolithic treatment by many Americans, Latinos have always been very diverse -- economically, culturally and in their ethnic and national origins. But, politically speaking, they were reliably Democratic. That may no longer be true..... a number of new polls show Latino voters growing more Republican. But this trend may be less about how Latinos see America's political parties and more about how new generations of Latinos see themselves. "The idea of unidad -- Latin unity -- not all Latinos buy...

Ottawa – On the ground in Ottawa the trucker protest in the shadow of the nation’s Parliament building looks like no other protest witnessed in recent memory. The large powerful machines of commerce and the highways of North America are lined up along with Canadians and their Maple Leaf flags demanding the right to work under their own conditions. If it doesn’t look much like a protest, that’s because in many ways it isn’t, it's more like a strike. Protest almost always implies a threat. The threat of Occupy Wall Street or Seattle’s CHOP zone was that people will ignore...

Dan Bongino, author of Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump, lists reasons why the Mueller probe is the cleanup operation for what he called the “biggest scam in American history.” Bongino presents the evidence at the David Horowitz Freedom Center Restoration Weekend, held Nov. 15th-18th at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.DAN BONGINO: Some of you may have seen me on Fox this morning, and in fact one of the ladies I was just talking to said well, where did you do that from? I said, I just live about 20 miles north, I have a studio...

1. The DoD medical database (DMED) showed significantly elevated rates for a large number of symptoms after the vaccines rolled out. However, once this was brought to the DoD’s attention, they discovered that a data corruption caused numbers from 2016-2020 to be significantly under-reported as mentioned in my Substack article. The mystery is “why did the data corruption only appear to affect symptoms that are elevated by the COVID vaccines?” Also, the correct numbers would indicate that the military has been extremely unhealthy for five years prior to 2021. How could that not have been discovered? 2. OneAmerica, a $100...

Another day, another contradictory economic data point.Just one business day after the latest UMichigan report showed consumer sentiment in January tumbled to the lowest level since 2011, driven in large part by the continued surge in inflation expectations which hit a whopping 5.0% for the 1-year window, the highest since 2008 and a remarkable 3.1% for the 5-10 year period, the highest since 2011 and following a relentless increase over the past two years… … moments ago the NY Fed published its own contradicting view on the critical issue of consumer inflation expectations – critical because the higher it rises,...

New York Times economist Paul Krugman must be a glutton for punishment. He’s gone from spending months downplaying the surging inflation threat, to admitting he was wrong on inflation, to now dismissing it altogether as a crisis. Krugman appeared on the Feb. 11 edition of Bloomberg TV’s Balance of Power to discuss how the Federal Reserve shouldn’t use “shock therapy” when it comes to finally raising interest rates from zero. After conceding that there was “underlying overheating” in the economy that demands the Fed consistently raise rates to fight off inflation, Krugman then spiraled into spewing utter nonsense: “It’s not...

I am convinced that your visit to Kyiv in the coming days... would be a powerful signal and help stabilise the situation," the presidency quoted Zelensky as telling Biden in a phone call earlier Sunday.Kyiv, Ukraine: Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday invited US President Joe Biden to visit Kyiv to show Washington's support in the face of a feared Russian invasion."I am convinced that your visit to Kyiv in the coming days... would be a powerful signal and help stabilise the situation," the presidency quoted Zelensky as telling Biden in a phone call earlier Sunday.Washington made no mention of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo — American Airlines flight 1775 had to make an emergency landing at MCI this afternoon. The flight was headed from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. when an unruly passenger tried to cause chaos mid-flight. According to another passenger on the plane, Mouaz Moustafa, some aboard weren’t initially aware of what was going on. “A flight attendant comes to the middle of the plane where I am, yells to another flight attendant in the back to turn on the lights. At this time, the plane starts descending very rapidly, I think we reached 5,000 feet per minute,” Moustafa...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti forwent covering his face at Sunday’s Super Bowl, breaking his own mask mandate again after claiming earlier in February he held his breath while taking a maskless photo with former NBA star Magic Johnson. While fans attending sporting events in Los Angeles County are required to wear masks at so-called “mega events,” Garcetti was noticed and subsequently hammered on Twitter for not wearing one.

OAN Newsroom UPDATED 9:45 AM PT – Monday, February 14, 2022 Donald Trump said Special Counsel John Durham has revealed top Democrats actually spied on the President of the United States. In a series of statements on Sunday, the 45th president said Hillary Clinton and Democrats committed a far bigger crime than Watergate, which is an insult to the American people. Trump pointed out, it will be interesting to see what the media and RINOs like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will do about it. His comments come as Durham has found Clinton paid hackers to breach Trump Tower servers to...

(Posting as VANITY as not a traditional news source.) Brainwashed white high school students at North Allegheny Senior High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania throw hundreds of library books written by white authors into a dumpster in order to "decolonize" their school library.

Truck anti-mandate protest in Israel, click to watch 1 min video.