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Defiant members of the media and other liberals have responded to the recent lifting of the travel mask mandate by taking selfies of themselves wearing masks on their recent travels and insisting to social media users that they feel safer from COVID-19 this way. After U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle voided the Biden administration’s travel mask mandate on Monday, there was some fear online from liberal media figures who didn’t feel safe enough going bare-faced on an airplane or Uber ride. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross posted a photo of herself on a flight wearing her black mask. Her...

Yesterday, the Palm Beach County PBA withdrew its endorsement of Angelique Contreras, a Palm Beach School Board, District 4 candidate. Monday, I was sent the following graphic taken from the PBC PBA website. The PBA revoked its endorsement by noon the next day because Contreras used a single word in headlining a video a year ago. In a Facebook discussion, Contreras was joking around with some friends when someone said people should dump garbage on a county commissioner’s lawn. Contreras said something like, maybe it should be the masks.

More communities are encouraging residents to put away their lawnmowers for next month to help pollinator populations grow Two years ago, Appleton became the first city in the U.S. to adopt "No-Mow May," an initiative designed to boost the population of bees and other pollinators. The idea is to give homeowners the option of letting their lawns get a bit overgrown for a few weeks to ensure that bees that are coming out of hibernation have plenty of options for the nectar and pollen they need. The initiative, which is optional everywhere it's been implemented, requires cities to temporarily waive...

A free download 22 page PDF report at the link. For subscribers, a Wall St Journal article. Along with "The Science", age and metabolic adjusted Covid death rate, all cause excess deaths, and mortality average the study included unemployment rate, GDP, economic average and in person school. An interesting read, but the graphic from the WSH tells a lot of the story.

... and fall under the category of characters who could require a disclaimer on the Disney+ streaming service, the report indicates. Disney's wokeness continues as they recently labeled iconic characters Tinker Bell and Captain Hook of the classic 1953 animated film Peter Pan as "potentially problematic" in a new report, according to The New York Times. Tinker Bell and Captain Hook are reportedly seen as perpetuating negative stereotypes and fall under the category of characters who could require a disclaimer on the Disney+ streaming service, the report indicates. Disney sees Tinker Bell as problematic because there are moments in the...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has not announced his official support for GOP Rep. Nancy Mace as she tries to hold onto her South Carolina congressional seat, but her fundraising shows that the influential California Republican is still behind Mace even as McCarthy has shown a willingness to purge his party of members who have been vocal critics of former President Donald Trump. And McCarthy is not the only member of Republican leadership who has been quietly funneling campaign cash to Mace this election cycle. A review of the latest quarterly fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show...

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney celebrated a major fundraising haul last week when this year’s first-quarter filing eclipsed $10 million raised for the endangered lawmaker in a competitive primary. After Cheney raised more than $2.3 million this year alone, her campaign war chest with $6.8 million in cash on hand four months before the GOP contest headlined the swamp-focused Politico’s Playbook. “In previous cycles, it was common for Cheney to raise a few hundred thousand dollars in a quarter, mostly from Wyoming residents,” the Playbook authors wrote on Monday last week, adding, “with the national attention her race has received,...

"They may have exposed her, but they'll never stop her. Long live @libsoftiktok." In the wake of the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz doxing the creator of the @libsoftiktok Twitter account in a hit piece, supporters of the account’s work have rallied around her in protest of this attack by establishment media forces. Some have even taken to replacing their Twitter names and profile pictures with Libs of TikTok branding. But ultimately the organized protest has advocates spreading the message that the account deserves to hit the one million followers milestone. Within five minutes of watching a real-time graph on SocialBlade,...

The Republican-led Florida Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would eliminate a special tax district that has allowed Walt Disney Co. to govern the land where its theme parks sit, as lawmakers target the company for opposing legislation restricting classroom instruction on gender and sexuality. The measure still needs to pass the GOP-led House, which is expected to approve it. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who called for lawmakers to consider such a bill in a special session he convened this week, has made clear he would sign it. The measure potentially delivers a blow to the company’s operations in the...

Antidepressants are no better at making people feel happier than taking no medication at all, a study claimed today. Patients on the drugs did not have a significantly better quality of life compared to depressed people who were not on the pills, the analysis found. Researchers looked 17.5million US adults with depression over 10 years, with around half on medication and half not. Results showed a slight improvement in mental health in both groups, regardless of whether they were on antidepressants. The researchers from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, called for more long-term studies on patients on antidepressants to evaluate...

Two election handicappers are collectively moving more than a dozen House races in the GOP’s favor, in the latest sign that Democrats are facing an increasingly bleak outlook in their bid to maintain control of the lower chamber in November’s midterms.

Gang member accused of shooting cop 6 times released on bail in Atlanta.. ... Christian Eppinger, a gang member accused of shooting an Atlanta policeman six times, has been released on bond. Eppinger, 22, reportedly shot an officer six times in an altercation outside Colonial Square Apartments in Atlanta, Georgia, as the police were serving an arrest warrant. The suspect was denied bond immediately after the shooting, but a new ruling on Tuesday reversed that decision. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hosted a press conference Wednesday with Police Chief Rodney Bryant to address the bond agreement. Willis stated that...

Daszak’s research in collaboration with the Chinese lab considered by many of being responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic has went through continuous examination. Yet, the Wuhan collaborator Peter Daszak is demanding nearly $1 trillion to fund the ‘pandemic prevention’ efforts.President of the EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology using research grants sponsored by Anthony Fauci, has asked that President Joe Biden devote roughly $1 trillion in “pandemic prevention” at taxpayer expense.Daszak, who was born and schooled in the United Kingdom, is most known for his work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with Chinese...

In a cross-border ground assault supported by artillery, aircraft, helicopters, and drones, Turkey has launched an invasion of Iraq in order to take out the insurgent group in the northern part.According to the Defense Ministry in Ankara, Turkey has launched a large cross-border military attack against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgents in northern Iraq.Defense Minister Hulusi Akar declared the operation in a video speech on Monday morning, saying it will include a comprehensive airstrike campaign involving jets, helicopters, and drones, as well as a land incursion by commando troops.Ankara asserts it eliminated many PKK bunkers, tunnels, and ammo depots, and...

The World Catastrophe Wrought by Covid LockdownsThe latest index of world food prices was released by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on April 8th. The FAO’s Food Price Index climbed to 159.3 in March, which in real terms is roughly double its level in 2000, about 80% above its 2019 level, and the highest since records began in 1961.This graph indicates that civil war and famine in poor countries are now inevitable. World food prices were already 40% above pre-lockdown levels at the start of 2022 due to supply chain disruptions, caused largely by covid containment measures instigated...

Newly released CIA memoranda suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump’s movements to devise another collusion conspiracy theory. Newly released CIA memoranda suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump’s movements to devise another collusion conspiracy theory. While smaller in scale than other aspects of Spygate, the Yotaphone hoax represents an equally serious scandal because it involved both the mining of proprietary information and sensitive data from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and the apparent surveillance of Trump’s physical movements. When Special Counsel John Durham charged former...

DeSantis threatens Disney special status UPDATE Florida Senate votes 23-16 to end Disney’s special tax privilege 🚨BREAKING: Florida Senate, on a 23-16 vote, just passed legislation ENDING Disney’s tax privilege, self-governing power & special exemption status. — Tim Swain (@SwainForSenate) April 20, 2022 Senate also approved the new election map… It goes to the Florida House tomorrow. — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 20, 2022 DeSantis threatens Disney’s special status in Florida Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said that the state’s legislature will consider terminating the special status of a municipal district operated by Walt Disney Co., the Wall Street Journal reports....

After being doxxed by leftist sleazebag and professional victim Taylor Lorenz of The Washington Post, Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok,” appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel to give an update on how she’s doing. After a monologue in which Tucker Carlson accurately told viewers that @libsoftiktok has more followers than most CNN primetime shows, and detailed how the videos the account posts are a great public service to parents who need to know what psychopaths are teaching their children, he brought in Raichik. Carlson’s first question for her was...

Peter Schweizer details how China has captured American elites including politicians and heads of IT firms, and is using them to do their bidding.EXCLUSIVE: How The Atlantic Council Pulled Over The COVID-19 Matrix On The WorldThe Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) entry into the WTO changed the global economic structure in large part because it unleashed the regime’s strategy of gaining control of America’s elite class so they would do Beijing’s bidding, according to Peter Schweizer, author of “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China.”The CCP’s objective was to target the higher echelons of big tech, entertainment, education, Wall Street,...

The official, Kazem Gharibabadi, who is Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, said religious intolerance is spreading across Europe. “Sacrilege to religious sanctities is under no circumstances whatsoever acceptable. Religious intolerance is raging across Europe; and now, Sweden is morphing into a prison for Muslims with the support of the government,” Gharibabadi said on Twitter.The tweet came after a Danish-Swedish extremist burned the Holy Quran which enraged Muslims all over the world. “Seems they’ve missed Medieval Inquisition!” Gharibabadi quipped. On Wednesday afternoon, a number of Iranian university students gathered...