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VIDEOMY MASK! MY MASK! I NEED MY MASK! AND I ALSO NEED FOR EVERYBODY ELSE TO WEAR A MASK! I MUST CLING TO THE MASK MANDATE FOREVER!!! GOD HELP US! PLEASE DON'T MAKE US GIVE UP OUR BELOVED MASKS! THAT IS JUST TOO MUCH TO BEAR! Unfortunately for the Fairfax County School Board they have now been required by new legislation signed into Virginia state law on February 16 to drop their mask mandate on March 1. Watch a highly emotional Fairfax School Board Chair Stella Pekarsky make the announcement on behalf of the board. At first it sounded like...

Is there a good source for which RINO candidates participated in the coup by supporting (or not opposing) the impeachments, the rigged election, the January 6 commission, etc.? Many of them could be reelected because people will forget about their treachery and skip the primary or just vote a familiar name. There should be a wall of shame.

Over 6,500 Russian citizens have been arrested over the past week after protesting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Demonstrations have expanded in recent days to 100 cities across Russia, with tens of thousands of protesters carrying signs and reading slogans against the war, while others laid wreaths near the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow. The Kremlin disapproved of the protests and had many of the demonstrators arrested. Videos released in recent days show mothers trying to explain to their frightened little children who have been arrested why they are behind bars. Most of the children were arrested when they went with...

Bill Gates’ ex-wife Melinda is breaking her silence on her divorce from the Microsoft founder, revealing that child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein played a key role in their separation. Melinda Gates has admitted Bill’s relationship with Epstein was one of the reasons they divorced, describing the disgraced pedophile as “evil personified.” Now going by the name Melinda French Gates, she opened up to CBS Mornings’ Gayle King, revealing that Bill’s “relationship” with Epstein gave her “nightmares.” “It was many things,” she said of the divorce with Bill. “But I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. “I...

Sacramento City Council Howard Chan raised an alarm this week about funding for the city’s existing homeless shelters even as the City Council pushes to open more large sites to address the community’s growing homelessness crisis. Chan this week told the council the city can’t count on having the $33 million it needs to provide the roughly 1,000 spaces it currently offers past July 1. Sacramento County has an estimated 10,000 unhoused individuals, and all shelter beds and spaces are full on any given night.

Hundreds of people have been arrested around the world as part of a two-year investigation of international child pornography networks, according to European authorities. Law enforcement discovered files including “imagery depicting sadistic acts of sexual abuse of infants and children” after an online service provider reported in 2019 that their services were being use to share images of child sexual abuse, according to a press release from Europol, a European law enforcement organization. A huge investigation led by the New Zealand authorities has resulted in the arrests of hundreds of people around the world for possessing and sharing child sexual...

President Joe Biden wants Congress to send him $10 billion to help Ukraine fight Russia, according to a letter from his administration seen Thursday. “[W]e are requesting $10 billion to deliver additional humanitarian, security, and economic assistance in Ukraine and the neighboring region in the coming days and weeks,” Biden’s acting budget director Shalanda Young wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is seeking $32.5 billion in additional funding from Congress to aid Ukraine and bolster the U.S. COVID response, U.S. media reports said on Thursday. The White House is seeking $10 billion to help train Ukraine's military, protect its electrical grid, boost its cyberdefenses and enforce sanctions, the Washington Post reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Another $22.5 billion would go toward shoring up the nations pandemic response as part of the nation's shift toward managing COVID-19 long-term and preparing for any potential new variants and spikes in cases,...

Dubai (AFP) – Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sent energy prices surging, but the oil-rich Gulf monarchies have so far resisted Western pressure to raise output, prioritising their own strategic and economic interests. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+), led by Riyadh and Moscow, failed Wednesday to respond to a call to produce more and faster, despite pressure on the Gulf states in particular. The group argued that the "current volatility is not caused by changes in market fundamentals but by current geopolitical developments," according to a press release. "Gulf countries are testing their ability to...

Athletes from the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) and the Paralympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus will not be allowed to compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing, following further sanctions from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Both nations were previously to compete under a neutral banner at the Games in light of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, although Russian athletes were already competing neutrally under the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport following the nation's doping scandal. Initially the IPC allowed athletes from the countries to be represented under the Paralympic flag, but quickly performed...

Don’t ask questions, just give them their citizenship.. Biden’s evacuation brought tens of thousands of Afghans to America. The majority of them were not interpreters, had no visas, and no basis for entering the country. Despite that, they were rapidly brought here with virtually no vetting, dropped off at military bases, and then put through the resettlement process across the United States. There’s no one problem. At last count around 36,000 Afghans or 40% of the “refugees” had no legal basis for being evacuated even after the Biden administration and its congressional allies, both Democrat and Republican, watered down standards...

Benefits of the blood pressure medication verapamil include delayed disease progression, lowered insulin requirements, and preservation of some beta cell function. Use of the drug verapamil to treat Type 1 diabetes continues to show benefits lasting at least two years, researchers report in the journal Nature Communications. Patients taking the oral blood pressure medication not only required less daily insulin two years after first diagnosis of the disease, but also showed evidence of surprising immunomodulatory benefits. Continuing medication was necessary. In the two-year study, subjects who stopped daily doses of verapamil at one year saw their disease at two years...

French President Emmanuel Macron believes “the worst is yet to come” in Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed an “uncompromising fight” during a 90-minute phone call on Thursday, according to a French presidential aide. On the frontlines, Russian forces increased pressure on Mariupol and Kharkiv after Kherson became the first Ukrainian city to fall. Follow our live blog for the latest developments.

Vladimir Putin wants to seize all of Ukraine and "worse is to come" during the conflict, the French president has warned. Emmanuel Macron held talks with Mr Putin over the phone this afternoon in a bid to ease tensions between Russia and the West. According to French officials, Mr Macron told the Russian leader that he was making a "major mistake" in Ukraine, adding: "You are lying to yourself". Following the call, Mr Macron believes "worse is to come" in the unfolding humanitarian crisis and that Mr Putin wants to seize the entire country, according to an aide.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the U.S. government in a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking what the government said is secret information. Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, was once thought to be a high-ranking member of the terrorist group al-Qaida. Zubaydah was seeking to get the testimony of two former CIA contractors as part of an Polish investigation into his treatment. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in an opinion joined by six of his colleagues that the government had argued “Zubaydah’s discovery request could force former CIA contractors to confirm...

It’s open-line Throwback Thursday: time to recycle one of the best squirrels of all time.It’s a useful ruse in many variants and applicable to multiple situations: from undermining a sitting president to diverting attention from corruption, inflation, Covid-fatigue, plunging approval ratings – so many things! Just toss it out there and wait awhile.P.S. The ‘sanctions’ aren’t working Joe, maybe you should consider including the U.S. purchase/import of Russian oil to the mix. Just a thought.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy returned from a congressional junket to Israel this week and immediately surrendered to the woke corporate media and leftist smear merchants. Is this the kind of America Last "leadership" grassroots conservatives want if Republicans take back Congress in November? McCarthy told a CNN reporter on Monday that it was "appalling and wrong" for Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., to speak to the annual America First Political Action Conference, or AFPAC. I have personally addressed and supported AFPAC since its inception in 2019. It is the authentic alternative to the...

Lent began this week. In the Christian tradition, the Lenten period is a time of fasting and prayer, preparation and reflection in anticipation of Easter, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus. Historically, Lent has been a time to provide instruction to new converts and young Christians as a way to strengthen their faith, as well as a period for believers to spend in reflection in order to become closer to God. Lent allows Christian believers to focus on God rather than on the world. Through prayer and fasting, believers can change the patterns of their everyday lives to...

During the segment, Jones discussed nominating President Trump for Speaker of the House after the red wave that is going to occur in the midterms this year. Vernon Jones: “When we take Congress in 2022 I will be nominating and voting for Donald Trump to be the Speaker. And once the Senate confirms impeachment and throws out Kamala Harris and Joe Biden then President Trump will be the President of the United States.” Once Trump is Speaker, he will introduce articles of impeachment for Joe Biden AND Kamala Harris which, if passed, would make DJT the President of the United...

Campaigning politicians have always inflated their own importance and the benefits of the policies they espouse -- and exaggerated the perils of electing the other guy. It used to be the case that these self-aggrandizing stump speeches were tempered by a (mostly) diligent press that went out of its way to poke holes in those exaggerations and deflate egos with some sharply pointed facts. And Americans have historically trusted their elected leaders to tell the truth in matters of grave national importance. No more. We are swimming in a cesspool of lies so fetid that it’s almost impossible to know...