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Federal grant recipients broke the law while spending an estimated $246 million in taxpayer dollars for cannabis and e-cigarette animal experiments, a new report by a group opposing publicly-funded animal testing finds. White Coat Waste Project’s report, published Wednesday, highlights 10 instances of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funneling money to researchers experimenting with getting animals high on THC or making them consume nicotine. “The blunt truth is that tens of millions of tax dollars are going up in smoke for half-baked marijuana and vaping experiments on animals and NIH-funded white coats are breaking federal law by not disclosing...

Despite all the talk about disney, Hollywood, media, war, biden, putin, Rihanna, slapping, masking etc Maybe we can have some fun today What is the worst movie you ever watched? I can agree some movies are so bad that they are funny, certainly you can include those too.

Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to shut down CNN+, the ballyhooed streaming service that had been intended to bring CNN into the digital future, just weeks after its splashy debut, according to two sources familiar with its plans. The service is set to cease operations on April 30, the sources said.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie blasted President Joe Biden over going forward with a Department of Justice appeal on the vacated public transportation face mask mandate, saying, “People are fed up with it.” The Republican told Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade on Thursday that Biden should focus on reestablishing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “nonexistent credibility instead of trying to litigate their nonexistent legal authority.” Kilmeade asked Massie about a new Associated Press poll that said 56% of people favor leaving the mask mandate in place, noting that the majority of those respondents were Democrats. “You know, you...

The newspaper owned by the second richest man in the world actually claimed that the Internal Revenue Service needs— wait for it — more money. The Washington Post Editorial Board published an extraordinarily tone-deaf piece the day before Tax Day 2022 headlined, “The IRS urgently needs more money and staff.” The Post fretted that “there’s a lot more at stake” than Americans scrambling to meet the tax filing deadline. The Post wrote that the IRS “is currently limping along without enough staff or funding. Congress, especially Republicans, needs to face up to reality.” The Post, of course, then made the...

Ukraine War Update: The Return of Lend Lease and What it Means, The Donbass and Moskva's Sinking It's a video outlining what the Lend Lease Program WAS in World War 2, and what it's looking like NOW in the USA. One difference is that this bill calls out Russian Aggression very definitively, whereas even in WW2 the parties were not identified. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Smattering of comments: Animarchy : The Military History & Anime Channel 47.3K subscribers Apologies for the lateness of this video, but the previous video took up the majority of work during the time this was announced. I have...

Establishment Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly lauded the Democrats for launching Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after January 6. Following the incident, McConnell was grateful to Democrats for taking action against his long-time political opponent, the New York Times reported. After it become certain that House Democrats would use January 6 as a potent political cudgel against conservatives, McConnell agreed with Democrats that Trump should be impeached.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is making his first trip to the Pacific Northwest since taking office on Thursday to tout progress he has made on his agenda, particularly on infrastructure, ahead of the November midterm elections. Biden's visits to the cities of Portland and Seattle - part of a growing travel schedule ahead of the elections - will also see him participate in a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. He will visit Portland's airport on Thursday to talk about investing in a runway that can withstand earthquakes and will spend Thursday night and Friday in Seattle, where...

An often-repeated story about W.C. Fields holds that as he approached the end of his life, a friend was surprised to find him reading a Bible. “Looking for loopholes, m’boy,” he reportedly explained. “Looking for loopholes.” That scene comes to mind these days as I hear the standard response given by the National Rifle Association, the Gun Owners of America and other gun rights groups to even the most modest attempts to inject a little sanity into our nation’s gun laws. The latest example of loophole-seeking has emerged in the recent pandemic of “ghost guns.” I’m not talking about the...

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new program for Ukrainian refugees seeking asylum in the United States that will also end entry for those trying to come in via the southern border with Mexico. -snip- Applicants for the 'Uniting for Ukraine' program can apply via an online portal that opens on April 25th. Applicants must have been a resident in Ukraine as of February, have a sponsor in the United States, and be vaccinated against covid.

Polar bears from the Arctic. Tigers from India. Giraffes from the Serengeti. The Romans brought animals thousands of miles for the beast hunts and shows staged in the Colosseum.How did the Romans Capture Animals for the Colosseum? | August 16, 2019 | toldinstone

President Joe Biden appeared clueless when asked about extending the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Title 42 measure on Thursday at the White House. Iinstead of talking about Title 42, the president began talking about the ongoing legal appeal from the Justice Department challenging a judicial order overruling the CDC’s mask mandate on airplanes.

President Biden said Thursday that the Justice Department will appeal the decision to repeal Title 42, the health measure that allows the United States to expel migrants and asylum-seekers on public health grounds, which expires next month. The president seemed to conflate Title 42 with the mask mandate for public transportation.

"What you've been projecting is blatantly false," responded Bennett. "I object to the symmetry you're trying to create here ... who's getting murdered? We're not seeing Israelis murdering Palestinians." Over Amanpour's protests, the Prime Minister continued: "I also object - these are not occupied territories... "Israel is peaceful," he said. "About a month ago, unfortunately, a new wave of terror was thrown upon the Israeli public. We lost 14 people in four terror attacks. In Tel Aviv center, Arab Muslim terrorists, some of them affiliated with ISIS, came with rifles and started shooting people on the street. This is unacceptable....

The U.S. has provided a total of $3.2 billion to Ukraine since the beginning of Biden's presidency, according to the White House.

The Supreme Court rules 8-1 that the government does not violate the equal protection clause by excluding Puerto Rico residents from Supplemental Security Income, a safety-net program for people who are blind, disabled, or at least 65. Sonia Sotomayor is the lone dissent.

Some lunatic MSNBC doctor wants everyone to carry around masks and badger others to wear them. This Dr. Patel also appears to advise mask bullies to use lies about elderly mothers and cancerous children as emotional blackmail. This is the latest “crazy” response (the doctor’s word, not mine) to a federal judge in Florida finally putting an end to the anti-science mask mandate demanded by the fascist, unelected bureaucrats at the CDC.

Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs, removing advanced courses and overhauling admissions processes to achieve equity across racial categories. “Gifted programs and advanced courses provide a mechanism for low-income households to achieve a stellar education for their children and serve as a ‘great equalizer’ to those families that opt for private education,” according to Harry Jackson, president of the Thomas Jefferson High School Parent Teacher Student Association. Activists and politicians have pressured school boards to eliminate merit-based admissions and advanced programs for bright students. Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs,...

A judge’s decision to let an effort to block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from running for office proceed could open a new avenue of attack against some of the GOP’s most controversial lawmakers. Experts say it remains to be seen what the result of the single decision will be, but it’s unlikely such an effort will knock Greene, or any other candidate, off the ballot. It could, however, give Democrats another opportunity to hit the GOP over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and force lawmakers to testify under oath. Meanwhile, Republicans are warning the effort...

President Joe Biden won the state by 11,779 votes over former President Donald Trump.A new complaint to the Georgia State Election Board alleges that more than 300,000 ballots were unreliably recorded on unverified early voting poll closing tapes in Fulton County, Georgia in the 2020 election."Fulton County's Advance Voting poll closing tapes are a fraudulent, un-certified, unsigned, and un-checked false representation of over 311,000 ballots that no court could legally accept," the complaint alleges.The December 2020 recount in Georgia determined that President Joe Biden won by just 11,779 votes over former President Donald Trump.The complaint was filed on March 28...