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Things got pretty weird, pretty quickly in the wake of Elon Musk’s trial balloon about buying Twitter, a deal that went through Monday, much to the chagrin of the progressive chattering class who were super duper certain the Tesla and SpaceX boy genius was just foolin’ for fun. Poor NPR, for example, forced to aggregate what Musk might actually do with his new toy (and, to be fair, they pulled from his own public statements), characterizes the sale this way: “[T]he world’s richest person who has a penchant for theatrics and erratic behavior is about to have the power to...

So without algorithmic manipulation or corporate capitulation it’s pretty obvious that nobody likes The Woke…— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 27, 2022

ABERRATION INDOCTRINATION Heads up—The hair color and facial piercings are a dead give away, signaling aberrant pathology. Unfortunately, these ideological weirdos “teach” small children. As you listen to them rage-it’s evident that the radical left is engaging in a woke struggle session with children. It’s no longer clandestine-they’ve pulled back the curtain.They are coming for your toddlers.They are coming for your toddlers-not to teach basic ABCs, but to preach the curriculum of perversion, LGBTQIA+.The radical LGBTQIA++++etc. lobby has infiltrated pre-school and elementary schools for the sole purpose of indoctrinating and sexually grooming very young children. There is no other...

A state audit of five law enforcement agencies in California found bias among officers toward people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ people, as well as a smattering of support for far-right extremist organizations such as the Proud Boys and Three Percenters.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed legislation on Thursday that will make it easier to export military equipment to Ukraine, reviving the "Lend-Lease Act" that helped defeat Hitler during World War Two. The House passed the "Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022" by 417 to 10, three weeks after it sailed through the Senate with unanimous support. It next goes to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law. The measure revives a World War Two-era program that allowed Washington to lend or lease military equipment to U.S. allies. In this case, it will help...

The Macallan keeps its streak alive as the most coveted Scotch brand on the planet.If you forget about a $20 bill in your coat pocket and find it 30 years laters, it's still worth $20. But the same cannot be said for rare whisky. If you forget about a cask of Scotch you bought for $6,275 in 1988, three decades later, it may be worth nearly $1.3 million. A cask of The Macallan distilled in 1988 is laying claim to the record for most expensive whisky cask ever sold at auction after fetching $1,295,500 on Sunday from an unnamed American...

The Kenosha Parks Committee will vote on whether to honor career criminal Anthony Huber with a plaque and memorial tree in Anderson Park. Huber was killed when he attacked Kyle Rittenhouse with a skateboard during the violent BLM-Antifa rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the summer of 2021. He was a violent career criminal. Kenosha County Eye reported: The career violent criminal and felon, Anthony Huber might have a memorial tree planted and plaque installed at Kenosha’s Anderson Park. That is, if the all-democrat parks committee approves the request with at least 3 votes.. The request was made on April 5,...

Former President Trump joined his own TRUTH Social on Thursday, posting on a social media platform for the first time in more than a year with a throwback to his now-infamous 2017 typo "covfefe." "I’M BACK! #COVFEFE," Trump posted on TRUTH Social Thursday afternoon with a photo of himself in front of his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. The hashtag "covfefe" was referring to one of his deleted tweets in 2017 in which he decried the media’s coverage of his administration.

It may have a new name, but everything inside the bottle is remaining the same.Bottles of Snapple peach iced tea and Diet Snapple peach iced tea on a store shelf As a teenager, I remember traveling to Italy and seeing that, instead of Diet Coke, grocery stores sold Coca-Cola Light. It's the first time I really thought about this use of "diet" and how, yeah, it's a bit odd. According to CNN, "diet" drinks were born out of the success of Diet Rite which launched in 1958 as an option for people who needed to limit their sugar intake. But...

California chef Michael Jones admitted to Googling guests before they arrive to screen for potential red flags — like a history of leaving negative reviews or being rude to restaurant workers. He then documented and blacklisted wannabe patrons at his establishment. The Carmel Valley-based vineyard chef’s controversial habit emerged after a tweet by Adam Reiner of Restaurant Manifesto on March 30 that read: “Hospitality isn’t Googling your guests before they arrive.” SNIP “Disagree. We check TripAdvisor and [Yelp for] possible problems, then cancel,” Jones tweeted, defending his social media “background check,” adding, “[Facebook] sometimes gives clues to make their visit...

WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Lt. Col. Addison E. Baker, 36, of Chicago, killed during World War II and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was accounted for April 8, 2022.In the summer of 1943, Baker was the commander of the 328th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, Baker was piloting a B-24 Liberator bomber during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest World War II bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. During its bombing run,...

Luis Medina, 30, was taken into custody Saturday for allegedly stabbing a 41-year-old woman during a domestic dispute in The Bronx Medina was taken to a Bronx hospital to be treated for minor injuries and handcuffed to a hospital bed He was caught on bodycam video taking a pair of scissors and hitting a nurse The nurse was not seriously inured and fled the room Medina then attempted to lunge at a cop while handcuffed to the bed He faces multiple assault charges and criminal possession of a weapon

New Hampshire took another step closer to becoming the second state to make human-grade ivermectin available without a prescription. By a late night 3-2 vote on April 26, the Senate Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee, voted that HB1022 “ought to pass” with an amendment that it would expire in two years. On April 27, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a similar bill into law. The New Hampshire bill still faces a full vote from the Republican-controlled Senate and final approval from Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. Tom Sherman, a doctor, and one of the two Democrats that voted against...

No you can't see the long form certificate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) overestimated the number of Republican senators he thought would vote to convict former President Trump during his second impeachment trial in the upper chamber, according to a new book. In the book, “This Will Not Pass,” New York Times journalists Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin report that McConnell thought there would be 17 GOP votes to convict Trump the weeekend after Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The ratio of heterosexual to homosexual pedophiles was calculated to be approximately 11:1.

A California doctor was sentenced today to 93 months in prison for defrauding Medicare, re-packaging single-use catheters for re-use on patients, and submitting false declarations in a bankruptcy proceeding. According to court documents, Donald Woo Lee, 55, of Temecula, recruited Medicare beneficiaries to his clinics, falsely diagnosed the beneficiaries, and provided the beneficiaries with medically unnecessary procedures. Lee billed these unnecessary procedures to Medicare using an inappropriate code in order to obtain a higher reimbursement, a practice known as “upcoding.” In addition, the evidence showed that Lee re-packaged used, contaminated catheters for re-use on patients. These catheters had been cleared...

Ten red states, led by Louisiana, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block a Biden administration rule for figuring the costs of greenhouse gas pollution when the government makes decisions affecting the environment. A January 2021 White House executive order directs an interagency working group to generate estimates for the societal costs of increased emissions of carbon, methane and nitrous oxide. The estimates are to be used to figure the monetary value of changes in these emissions resulting from government actions. The states said the federal formulas inflate the estimated costs of oil and gas leasing and a host...

CNN’s Matt Egan spun himself into a whirlpool of insanity trying to downplay bad economic growth. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that Gross Domestic Product contracted 1.4 percent in Q1, which was the complete opposite of economists who estimated a 1 percent increase, a 2.4 percentage point miss. U.S. GDP taking a nosedive was worsened by the 40-year-high inflation currently plaguing the economy and drilling holes in Americans’ wallets. Janney Chief Fixed Income Strategist Guy LeBas summed up the significance of the GDP falling into the negative against expectations of growth: “Nasty miss.” Egan tried to minimize the...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the use of the antiviral therapy, remdesivir, to treat COVID-19 in infants 4 weeks and older, despite having no evidence the treatment is effective or even safe for young children.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the use of the antiviral therapy, remdesivir, to treat COVID-19 in infants four weeks and older. Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a press release: “As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option,...