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Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter, vowing to bring free speech back to the platform, the billionaire has warned that attacks against him will only increase. After a pathetic attempt at a hit piece by The New York Times over his childhood in South Africa, Business Insider is now running with a story about a sexual misconduct claim against Musk. Musk didn’t give Insider much in the way of a response, other than noting there is “a lot more to this story.” "If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in...

In January 2020, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mi) retweeted an unverified tweet by professional agitator and former Palestinian Authority diplomat Hanan Ashrawi, in which she claimed that Jews had kidnapped and killed a Palestinian boy by throwing him into a pond where he drowned. As it turns out, the boy’s death was accidental and Israeli rescue teams resorted to superhuman efforts to retrieve the boy from the pond’s cold, murky waters and revive him. Ashrawi deleted her tweet and surprisingly apologized for citing unverified sources. Tlaib on the other hand deleted the tweet but without apology. She was quick to accuse...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa say they are baffled by the disease’s recent spread in Europe and North America. Cases of the smallpox-related disease have previously been seen only among people with links to central and West Africa. But in the past week, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, U.S., Sweden and Canada all reported infections, mostly in young men who hadn’t previously traveled to Africa. France, Germany, Belgium and Australia confirmed their first cases of monkeypox on Friday. “I’m stunned by this. Every day I wake up and there are more countries infected,”...

In Thursday's installment of her MSNBC Show "Deadline: White House," Nicolle Wallace had what the mainstream media would likely consider a brilliant idea to reduce the number of shootings taking place in America: simply make illegal guns... more illegal. And Wallace is apparently peeved that Democrats haven't thought of taking such action before. "If the Supreme Court has green-lit vigilantism," Wallace claimed, "why hasn't the left come out with laws about illegal guns?" she questioned. Yes, really: First, how does she think a gun becomes illegal? Laws, of course. So the firearms she's speaking of have already had laws passed...

‘HB 1878 is the most comprehensive election integrity bill to come out of the [Missouri] General Assembly,’ said bill sponsor Rep. John Simmons.The Missouri General Assembly successfully passed legislation on Wednesday that restricts state and local election officials from receiving and using private funds to conduct elections. The bill now heads to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk for signature. Passed by the state House (97-47) and Senate (23-11), the measure (HB 1878) mandates that “neither the state of Missouri nor any political subdivision thereof that conducts elections shall receive or expend private moneys, excluding in-kind donations, for preparing, administering, or conducting...

This is not subtle. Incompetence or Nefarious Evil Intent? Hard to tell the difference.As the sitting POTUS and his entourage is about to head over to the UN and WHO for a little quality time and a vote on circumventing the constitution, this seems a good time to briefly review the current state of affairs. Ask yourself, have these people earned our trust? Do they have any right to set and police global health policies? Apparently Joe Biden (or whoever is his current puppet master) and Tony Fauci think so.A brief list of some of the COVID lies we have...

Whether lab or market origin, anyone trying to cover for China should remember both scenarios are humiliating for the Chinese government.<The only Covid narrative that doesn’t directly aim to control people has to do with determining the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Discovering the origin of the virus should have been a top priority, but it was not. Why? Perhaps, instead of controlling people, the goal in this case was to cover for complicit behavior. There are only two plausible competing virus origin hypotheses: “lab leak” and “wet market.” Instead of imploring scientists to work together and discover the truth, then-National Institutes...

A document that has now been deleted from the Internet shows Barack Obama meeting with Dr. Tedros of Ethiopia and terrorist leaders of that country. A few years later Dr. Tedros was elected to lead the World Health Organization (WHO). In March 2020 the China coronavirus was attacking and terrorizing the world. It was at this time that we learned about the WHO Director General’s past. TGP reported that Dr. Tedros was fourth in line of leadership in Ethiopia. We also learned that the leadership of Ethiopia was a terrorist regime. This regime and China were closely connected as well....

Twitter on Thursday announced it will put warning labels on tweets that contain so-called ‘misinformation’ in a time of war, natural disasters or pandemics. Yoel Roth, the woke, far-left hack behind the new policy to suppress conservatives, has a history of attacking Trump and he even blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story in an effort to influence the 2020 election. The Free Beacon reported: Twitter’s pick to stop the spread of misinformation in times of crisis has a history of pushing falsehoods. TRENDING: BIDEN'S AMERICA: Mother Caught Hoarding Baby Formula to Feed Her Infants (VIDEO) Yoel Roth, the head of...

How often do you give white supremacists a second thought? The answer is likely, until very recently, none at all. But if you listen to Joe Biden, or somebody in there administration, or somebody in their party, you would get the impression that America is crawling with white supremacists. They're under every bed – just look in the mirror, you racist! Is there any truth to it? None whatsoever. I hate 'em – just as I don't like anti-Semites. Just like most Americans don't. The reason we don't think about white supremacists is because they are politically, culturally and socially...

SitRep 5/20 as reported on The Saker It is visible! It is palpalable! Morale in the both the Armed Forces of the Ukraine as well as in the general society is dropping like a stone. Soldiers are laying down their weapons, surrendering or simply try to walk home after Azovstal, because the fairy tale, the fantasy of proud and committed nazi soldiers bravely resisting, has shattered. The will to resist from the Ukrainian side is crumbling fast. These are just a few and reports of Ukrainian forces surrendering are many and increasing...... RusVesna Reports: There is a mass surrender of...

Bentley's first EV is terrifyingly fast — 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds We're not even sure we believe the claims We already knew that Bentley is entering the electric car business, promising that an all-electric SUV would launch sometime in 2025. Now the company has revealed some of the first details about the car, and it sounds absolutely terrifying — but in a good way. During an interview with Automotive News Europe, Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark confirmed just how powerful the automaker's first EV will be. We’re looking at 1,400 horsepower (1,044 kW) with a 0-60 time of just...

After Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, the US and its allies slapped sanctions on Moscow while issuing calls to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources. The move exacerbated a situation where gas prices were already soaring, and prompted Russia to demand that “unfriendly countries” pay for its gas exports in rubles. Russia may receive a record $100Bln for gas supplies to Europe this year against the backdrop of surging prices for the fuel, claims a columnist for French newspaper Les Echos, citing data from Citi analysts. Despite “sanctions, aggressive statements and promises of an embargo,” Vincent Colin...

Voters appear to be rejecting mail-in ballots, with data from early primary states showing significant decreases in Americans relying on the voting method for the 2020 election. The figures come from a new Associated Press report, which noted that “voters in early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting this year.” In Georgia, which was a hotbed of voter fraud during the 2020 election season, roughly 85,000 voters had requested mail ballots for the May 24th primary. This was down from the nearly 1 million voters who used vote-by-mail in the state’s 2020 primary at the height of...

The Biden regime announced on Wednesday they hired Michael Chertoff, another Hunter Biden laptop truther to lead the government’s Disinformation Board. Chertoff has worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling. Chertoff is the co-author of the Patriot Act that allowed the federal government to spy on its citizens. Michael Chertoff was a board member of a website Alliance for Securing Democracy that claimed it was tracking Russian disinformation during the Trump years. Its real purpose is to smear websites supportive of Donald Trump and his accomplishments as Russian propaganda. In this venture, Chertoff and his colleagues labeled The Gateway...

Netflix's layoffs earlier this week, which saw 150 employees go, had targeted many 'social justice warriors' who were working on projects about anti-racism and marginalized communities in an apparent purge of 'wokeness' from the company. The struggling streaming service has pulled the plug on several projects that were aimed at discussing race to a young audience, Variety reported, and axed the diverse employees working on and promoting them.

On Wednesday, Republican Congressman Thomas Massie was the only member of the House to vote ‘no’ on a resolution that condemned rising antisemitism. His vote had nothing to do with tolerating hate. This didn’t stop many from instantly and eagerly jumping to this conclusion. The bill asks that social media “institute stronger and more significant efforts to measure and address online antisemitism while protecting free speech concerns.” Politicians dictating to social media and other platforms how to operate is a problem for anyone who still cares about free speech. But that’s not all. As Reason’s Christian Britschgi observed, the “resolution...

Kaylynn Davidson, 32, became South Bend's fourth homicide in the past six days alone Davidson's son Kyler was accidentally shot by his 9-year-old cousin on May 1 and buried May 14 On Tuesday night, just five days later, Kaylynn Davidson was outside a local restaurant when she got into an argument with another woman and was shot Davidson was pronounced dead shortly after she was brought to a local hospital for treatment Kimarie Wright, 26, was arrested and charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter in connection with Davidson's killing

A leading figure in the Biden administration has backed a recovery programme for Ukraine in the style of the Marshall plan, which helped rebuild Europe after the second world war.Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary, said there was plenty of political will at home and internationally towards cooperating in long-term reconstruction efforts including to buttress existing infrastructure in Ukraine.

The form has appealed to major poets for five centuries The University of Salford, a public university in Greater Manchester, England, removed sonnets and other “pre-established literary forms” from a creative writing course assessment, The Telegraph reported. Course leaders of a creative writing module titled “Writing Poetry in the Twenty-First Century,” removed an exam section that required students to write the traditional forms, including sestinas and sonnets, according to the newspaper. The sonnet, a poetic form that likely originated in Italy in the 13th century, has been taken up by writers such as Petrarch, Shakespeare and John Donne, according to...