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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that former President Donald Trump would not have had the courage to go to the Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot. During footage taken on January 6, 2021 by her daughter Alexandra Pelosi, the speaker said she would happily go to jail for punching President Donald Trump if he came to the Capitol. During his speech on January 6, Trump said, “And after this, we’re going walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We’re going walk down to the Capitol.”

A new CNN report found that U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is more popular with Democratic candidates on the campaign trail than Vice President Kamala Harris, but what it really reveals are a set of gripes that Harris' allies have when it comes to her utilization on the stump. The report found that Buttigieg — the young, articulate military veteran who ran for president in 2020 following two terms as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana — has become the most requested surrogate on the campaign trail for Democratic candidates in the midterms apart from President Joe Biden. It's clear...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy expressed skepticism about sending more aid to Ukraine if Republicans take back the House in the upcoming midterm elections. "I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they're not going to write a blank check to Ukraine," the California Republican told Punchbowl News in a report published Tuesday. "They just won't do it," he continued. "It's not a free blank check." While "Ukraine is important," GOP concerns about the border and other domestic policies also carry weight, McCarthy added. The comments signal that bipartisan support for funding to Ukraine against Russia's invasion...

[H/T mewzilla]A CDC committee will convene this week and likely vote Thursday to deliver permanent legal indemnity to Pfizer and Moderna, through the process of adding the drug companies’ mRNA injections to the child and adolescent immunization schedules.By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), allowing for Pfizer and Moderna to finally bring an FDA approved shot to the market without opening itself up to lawsuits. Moreover, it will act as another windfall for companies that...

— Joe O’Dea, the Republican nominee for US Senate from Colorado, fired back at Donald Trump on Monday after the former President slammed him as a “RINO” and suggested Trump’s supporters wouldn’t vote for a “stupid” person like O’Dea. In a statement to CNN, O’Dea, the CEO of a Colorado construction company, didn’t walk away from the criticism he’s been leveling at Trump, including on Sunday when he told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that he would “actively” campaign against Trump and for other GOP candidates if the former President runs again. O’Dea also told Bash that...

U.S. military strength has hit a decade low, with The Heritage Foundation 2023 review considering the U.S. military "weak" for the first time in the history of its annual report and "at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America's vital national interests." Military readiness and strength has been a coming warning from former President Donald Trump aimed at his successor, President Joe Biden. "It is rated as weak relative to the force needed to defend national interests on a global stage against actual challenges in the world as it is rather than as we...

General Motors announced that its new $300,000 Cadillac Celestiq, an electric vehicle, will get just 300 miles of range per charge — or about one mile for every thousand dollars spent. As part of General Motors’s goal to sell only electric vehicles (EVs) by 2035, the car company’s new Cadillac Celestiq — starting at $300,000, before delivery fees and options — will be hand-built to customer preferences, according to a report by Business Insider. Production of the Cadillac EV is set to begin in December 2023.

On this date in 1862, Union Gen. John McNeil had ten Confederate soldiers shot in what history has recorded as the Palmyra Massacre. The Slave Power’s northern salient, Missouri was surrounded to the east, north, and west by free soil — which made it an antebellum flashpoint since the days of the Missouri Compromise.* In the 1850s, the Missouri conflict spilled into neighboring Kansas as the enemy sides of the slavery question fought to determine whether Kansas would enter the Union as slave state or free. The Missouri borderlands of Bleeding Kansas was where the radical abolitionist martyr John Brown...

LOS ANGELES — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. When Wong died in 1961, The New York Times called the actress, known for her large, expressive eyes and flapper-era styles, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.” Now Wong is gaining another coveted role — on the quarter. Part of a new effort that also put writer Maya Angelou and...

Numbers of gender-affirming chest surgeries among transgender adolescents jumped 389% from 2016 to 2019, researchers reported. Drawing on data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, an estimated 1,130 chest reconstructive surgeries were performed on transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) adolescents during these years, Rishub Karan Das, BA, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, and colleagues found. Nearly all were masculinizing, with only 1.4% feminizing, the group wrote in a research letter appearing in JAMA Pediatrics. Only about 100 of these surgeries were performed in 2016, after which they steadily became more popular, surpassing 200 surgeries in 2017 and 300...

[H/T CheshireTheCat]On October 19 and 20, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold an open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to review and possibly revise the use of immunizations—including the child/adolescent immunization schedule to include mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, among others. This could enable school COVID vaccine mandates for children, and give the pharmaceutical companies complete liability protection.The meeting will be held on October 19, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., EDT and October 20, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., EDT, and will be webcast live, the CDC announced.Matters To Be...

Supermarket chain Supersal has refused to raise prices in accordance with manufacturer specifications. Manufacturer Tera has threatened to end the supply of any products not under governmental...

... We are heading toward New Normal Winter No. 3. They are already cranking up the official propaganda, jacking up the fabricated “cases,” talking about reintroducing mask-mandates, fomenting mass hatred of “the Unvaccinated,” and so on. People’s gas bills and doubling and tripling. The global-capitalist ruling classes are openly embracing neo-Nazis. There is talk of “limited” nuclear war. Fanaticism, fear, and hatred abound. The gaslighting of the masses is not abating. It is increasing. The suppression of dissent is intensifying. The demonization of non-conformity is intensifying. Lines are being drawn in the sand. You see it and feel it just...

The historic New Jersey funeral home where mobsters wound up after getting whacked in “The Sopranos” is facing a hit job itself. The Irvine-Cozzarelli Memorial Home in Belleville — which was discussed and featured in numerous episodes of the HBO Mafia drama — could be demolished as part of a redevelopment plan recently approved by township officials, NJ.com reported. It’s a controversial move, as the building on Washington Avenue where the storied business is located dates back to 1885 — and the local historical society doesn’t want to see it fitted for cement overshoes. “The place has incredible potential,” Michael...

The US housing market remains in “free fall” after a survey showed a “disastrous” decline in homebuilder confidence, a prominent economist warned on Tuesday. Homebuilder confidence plunged for the 10th consecutive month in October, falling to its lowest level since 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders’ monthly survey. The latest downtick came as mortgage rates spiked to levels not seen since the Great Recession. The survey’s results were “disastrous” and indicated there is “no bottom yet” for the housing market’s current slump, according to Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. “The plunge in the NAHB index...

A police force has deleted a social media post encouraging trans people to report 'deadnaming' as a 'hate crime' after an intervention from the Home Secretary. Leicestershire Police took to Twitter to encourage people who are transgender to report when a person deliberately refers to someone by their pre-transition name. The force used a 'stock image' of a trans woman with 'fictitious' quotes which were made up by an 'experienced' officer. But the post, which was widely shared on social media, sparked a backlash from Home Secretary Suella Braverman. ... ...

Disturbing cellphone video captures a white man grabbing a black man by the throat in Milwaukee after an alleged theft of a bicycle — with the viral clip sparking outrage online and in the community. The incident occurred about 4:40 p.m. Oct. 10 along South 25th Street, where the 62-year-old white resident was recorded with his hand firmly around the 24-year-old’s neck, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. “This kid over here, one of his friends stole a bike right out of a friend of mine’s yard,” the man says in the video, which was captured by passerby Deangelo Wright. “Let...

Kennesaw State University business Professor David Bray recently changed his faculty signature to include his preferred pronouns — “hilarious/handsome/homosexual.” He knows they’re adjectives, but said: “Why do pronouns get to have all the fun?” In fact, his newly edited signature is a way to humorously poke holes in the trend that all people must announce on campus their preferred pronouns on everything from nametags and class rosters to in-person introductions and email signatures. “To me, it’s kind of like compelled speech,” Bray said. “They are trying to force you to say something you are either uncomfortable saying or not willing...

A group of violent Philadelphia ATV drivers was caught on video attacking police by throwing bricks and bottles at the officers before fleeing the scene, police said. The group unleashed its assault on police just one day after a Republican city councilman accused the administration of Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, of instructing officers "not to enforce the law." The Philadelphia Police Department shared video on Tuesday showing "a large group of people riding dirt bikes and ATV’s" around a gas station near Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street, police said. According to police, a dirt bike rider initially crashed...

I just saw it. STUNNING. "The Real Anthony Fauci" documentary now available FREE for the next 10 days. About 2 and a half hours long. You can see it at the link below. Just register and hit the button. Don't worry if you get some kind of error message because that happened to me but when I went back and hit the button again, the documentary became available.My reaction was extreme ANGER over Big Pharma and the government endangering the public in the name of profit and power. I already listened to the audio book but watching the documentary had...