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In the hours after Cassidy Hutchinson delivered bombshell testimony to the Jan. 6 committee Tuesday, former President Trump and his allies rushed to attack the former White House staffer. Hutchinson, who served as an aide to Mark Meadows, said Trump was aware that some of his supporters were armed when he urged them to march to the Capitol. She also testified that Anthony Ornato, then the deputy White House chief of staff, told her the president was so “irate” that the Secret Service would not drive him to the Capitol that he reached for the steering wheel and lunged at...

“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion” (Proverbs 1:4).

Busy Philipps was one of 181 people arrested during an abortion rights protest outside the US Supreme Court. The Cougar Town star was seen wearing a shirt reading 'I will aid and abet abortion,' while being led away by a pair of police officers on Thursday, in a video posted by Vice News. Philipps, 43, was arrested for blocking traffic outside the court building alongside number of Planned Parenthood leaders. She told reporters that she was protesting ''For equality'. As she was cuffed and led away, members of the crowd could be heard cheering her on and saying 'Thank you...

Texas has appealed a judge’s temporary restraining order against its pre-Roe abortion ban so it can fully enforce the law and save babies from abortions. Texas was the first state to successfully ban abortions before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It’;s heartbeat law prohibited abortions after 6 weeks and included a private enforcement mechanism to avoid being overturned in court. Following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed that the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban has come into effect to ban aboritons starting at conception. However, four days after the Supreme...

A United Church of Christ pastor from Ohio boasted about driving women across state lines to abort their unborn babies last week after the state heartbeat law went into effect. The pastor claimed to be helping women, but mothers and their babies deserve better. Abortions do not heal or save; they harm and kill. Ohio began enforcing its pro-life law, which protects unborn babies by banning abortions once their heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. As a result, abortion facilities had to cancel numerous abortion appointments –...

The Supreme Court today told two different federal appeals courts to uphold state pro-life laws following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. With the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe, the nation’s highest court gave states the latitude to pass their own laws on abortion. And with that, the Supreme Court instructed two appeals courts to re-evaluate their decisions on state pro-life laws since their decisions are no longer proper under the Dobbs decision. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to vacate a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s in Rutledge v. Little...

Senate Homeland Security Committee Republicans want Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to preserve and provide documentation on the department's discussions and decision-making over the sharp spike in inflation. In a letter sent to Yellen led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), the Republican senators argued that the administration failed to heed the GOP’s warnings that large spending bills could lead to economic fallout that would be challenging to combat. “We have repeatedly warned of the inflation crisis caused by exorbitant government spending and urged the Biden administration to act. Skyrocketing inflation is a steadily rising and harmful tax which is devastating American...

North Korea's Covid outbreak began with citizens touching "alien things" that had fallen near its South Korea border, state media in Pyongyang has claimed. Citizens were urged to be vigilant around objects that may have blown across the border from the South. For years activists in the South have flown balloons across the border to send leaflets and humanitarian aid. In response, Seoul says there is "no possibility" Covid could have crossed the border in that way.

Congresswoman and January 6 committee Vice-Chair Liz Cheney earned sustained applause for a blistering chunk of her Reagan Library speech devoted to tearing former President Donald Trump to bits over the attack on the Capitol. On Wednesday night, Cheney delivered a speech entitled “A Time for Choosing with Liz Cheney” that was designed to celebrate the late former president who inspired that title, Ronald Reagan. As he introduced Cheney, who has been the public-facing ramrod of the January 6 hearings, The Reagan Institute’s Roger Zakheim warned “we received word that there may be folks here tonight who intend to disrupt...

Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, told CNN on Thursday she wants US officials to do whatever they have to do to bring the basketball legend home -- and she needs to see them do more. In the only interview she is giving on the eve of her wife's trial in Russia, Cherelle Griner sat in the Phoenix Mercury locker room and called for more action. "It's really, really difficult. This is not a situation where the rhetoric is matching the action," she said. "I do have to unfortunately push people to make sure that the things...

A Navy investigation released Thursday revealed that shoddy management and human error caused fuel to leak into Pearl Harbor's tap water last year, poisoning thousands of people and forcing military families to evacuate their homes for hotels. The investigation is the first detailed account of how jet fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, a massive World War II-era military-run tank farm in the hills above Pearl Harbor, leaked into a well that supplied water to housing and offices in and around the sprawling base. Some 6,000 people suffered nausea, headaches, rashes and other symptoms. SNIP The investigation...

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two so-called Republicans on the House’s January 6th Committee, has claimed the investigation is balanced and fair but many of the panel’s actions and some optics tell a different story. “If questioner (Cheney) wants to appear fair to jury (American people), it probably is not a good idea to get caught on camera hugging the witness,” tweeted Greta Van Susteren, citing Politico and sharing an image of Cheney hugging Cassidy Hutchinson after a special hearing on Tuesday. The telling photo of Cheney’s exchange with the former aide to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark...

CA GOP Congresswoman candidate Matt Jacobs happily being introduced to the crowd at Liz Cheney's speech at the Reagan Library. Video clip below. I'm still nauseated. https://m.youtube.com/clip/UgkxA_D3X587UeaumplFWxSkP_HyZCe5X_GT Yes, it's Matt Jacobs, our GOP nominee for the Congressional district that covers the Reagan Library. I'm so disappointed. His smiling presence here is a slap in the face to every single one of his hard-working volunteers and staff.

BIOLABS UPDATE☢️⚠️ Update from the Russian Parliamentary Commission investigation into US Biological activity in Ukraine! Russia compiling dossier against US for acts of bioterrorism! Final Report expected in Autumn! Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma, Irina Yarovaya, reported on the findings thus far. She confirmed that Putin’s Special Military Operation was necessary “to suspend the Pentagon's dangerous military-biological activities on the territory of Ukraine.” She goes into detail on Pentagon specialists training Ukrainians to create biological weapons. As well as an instance of bioterrorism where counterfeit bills were intentionally “infected with a very dangerous, highly pathogenic strain of Asian tuberculosis,”...

So much for decentralized finance. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., Coinbase, has been reportedly selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement tools to track and identify cryptocurrency users, a stunning new report from The Intercept revealed this week. The company "sold a single analytics software license to ICE for $29,000" back in August 2021, the report says. The next month, however, it sold software worth $1.36 million to the agency, the report says.A contract involving the sales revealed that ICE "now has access to a variety of forensic features provided through Coinbase Tracer", the company's internal intelligence tool. The tool...

Bill Gates has secured legal approval for the controversial purchase of thousands of acres of prime North Dakota farmland, after the deal drew fury from the state's residents. The state's Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley had inquired into the land sale, and on Wednesday issued a letter saying the transaction complied with an archaic anti-corporate farming law. The Depression-era law prohibits corporations or limited liability companies from owning farmland or ranchland, but allows individual trusts to own the land if it is leased to farmers, which Gates intends to do. Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in America...

You know what, let’s go ahead and entertain the idea that Joe is right, that soaring high gas prices and economic depression are due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and not due to the Biden admin’s failure. But NOBODY wants to address WHY Russia moved into Ukraine in the first place. According to Russia, it’s because JOE AND HUNTER BIDEN set up a massive black-site biological network in Ukraine. Nobody wants to admit that the reason Russia is in Ukraine, is largely due to Joe Biden and the ruling families of the DNC, allegedly creating biological weapons in Ukraine. So...

Disney can’t stop.I’m not entirely sure the exact moment it happened, but I remember back in 2013 I was browsing Tumblr to find the latest and greatest in absolute cringe from the leftist youth. It was the first time I had really ever seen the radical concepts that are mainstream today, be it transgenderism, personality disorders, fat acceptance, and more. It was a treasure trove of things to laugh at.One of the things that they really liked to do was complain about Disney movies and how they were horribly sexist, racist, and of course, homophobic. The movie they were up...

The Biden administration is celebrating a win at the Supreme Court in Biden v. Texas, which will allow him to proceed with getting rid of the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.The policy allowed officials at the U.S. border to make immigrants wait in Mexico rather than cross into the United States by citing a public health crisis – COVID-19 – as the reason they cannot allow more people in. The rule was decried as racist by Democrats, and upon entering office, Biden worked to undo it. He was initially blocked by a judge in Texas, but took it all the...