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How Democrat Adam Schiff abused his power to demand I be kicked off Twitter simply due to a personal vendetta. Question to Freepers: The gubmint and some "elected" Reps abuse and deny our Constitutional Rights. Under Law, what is the remedy for We the Citizen? Do we simply ignore Deep State edicts? How do we get them off our backs?

My name has now been added to the long and depressing list of high-profile academic “cancellations.” I recently resigned my tenured position at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, due to an episode — sadly typical of American higher education — that has been widely documented in national media. Like so many recent academic debacles, the actions of the administrators who precipitated the affair were ridiculous and wholly unnecessary. But my ouster was perhaps unique in the speed with which it unfolded and the degree to which it perfectly tells the tale of why so many of our institutions are...

China has taken down more than 1,000 social media accounts - some with millions of followers - that criticised the government's Covid policies. Social media platform Weibo said it had suspended or banned accounts for what it described as personal attacks against Chinese Covid specialists. Weibo did not specify which posts had prompted the action. China scrapped its strict zero-Covid policy in December and has seen a rapid surge of infections and deaths. Online criticism has until recently largely focused on the strict enforcement of Covid regulations, including lockdowns that required people to stay at home in isolation for weeks....

An associate professor of psychology has revealed disturbing children's drawings from Covid lockdowns which show themes of death, loss, loneliness and restriction.

Don't kid yourselves folks, there were substantive changes that came out of the US House speaker "fight." This came across my feed before the final votes, so I can't vouch for it. But enough of it was leaked that I suspect its real, and any attempt to not follow through by McCarthy is likely to lead to an endless set of motions to vacate the chair, which is a privileged motion and stops all other activity in the chamber until disposed of. McCarthy really didn't want that threshold to be one Representative, but absent agreement he was not going to...

From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 6. The following particulars of the fight at Vicksburgh have been received: VICKSBURGH, Friday, Jan. 2, 1863. To the Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: The enemy, finding all his efforts unavailing to make any inroad upon our position here, has reembarked, leaving a considerable quantity of intrenching tools and other property, and apparently has relinquished his designs upon Vicksburgh. J.C. PEMBERTON, Lieutenant-General Commanding. CAIRO, Thursday, Jan. 8. The steamer from Memphis has arrived. There is nothing later from Vicksburgh. The reason assigned by the passengers for the non-arrival of the steamer from Vicksburgh...

A "marine hazard area" has been declared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of counties Kerry and Cork. The warning comes into effect at 22:00 local time on Monday. The Virgin Orbit mission is due to take off from Cornwall in England on Monday night. It is the first ever orbital space launch from British soil and if it is successful it will mark a major milestone for the UK space industry. The rocket is attached to a repurposed 747 jumbo jet owned by the British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, who also founded the US-based firm...

In other words: a machine with the ability to not only learn more and correct responsively, as machines do now, but a machine with the ability to imagine how it might be better, and evolving to suit that vision. It's a slight distinction, but an important one. Even so, considering that consciousness has no set definition, it's hard to cosign any particular one. It's also impossible to ignore the fact that humans really, really like to anthropomorphize just about anything we can, from toasters to pets to vegetables and more. Such a tendency is exceedingly present in the fields of...

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In 2022, the officials of Nahant, Massachusetts, started noticing they had a coyote problem. The coyotes had become so disdainful of people they had snatched, killed and eaten three pets directly from leashes. Numerous other pets were killed and eaten. No one knows precisely how many. From December 15, 2022, abcnews.go.com: Local officials said eight to 12 coyotes inhabit Nahant, a densely settled town of about 3,300 people on a peninsula about 15 miles north of Boston. The animals have killed pets, including three that were taken straight from leashes held by their owners, said Antonio Barletta, the town administrator.Coyote...

ALLEN, Texas — Two Allen ISD students, including a star high school quarterback, have left the district after an incident involving racist vandalism at their home. Police confirmed the incident happened at the home of now-former Allen High School quarterback Mike Hawkins Jr. and that an investigation is underway. Further details on the vandalism were not released.

Republican Sen. Keith Regier is proposing asking Congress to study alternatives to reservations... ...The draft resolution argues that reservations have “failed to positively enhance the lives and well-being” of Native Americans, led to substance abuse, domestic violence, welfare dependence, poverty and substandard education. It also argues tribal members who don’t own land have the highest poverty rate and lowest life expectancy of any ethnic group in America. It also argues reservations are “not in the best interests of either the Indians inside our borders or for our common Montana Citizens.”... ...Floyd Azure, chairman of the Fort Peck Tribe in northeastern...

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House Democrats are planning a "short and solemn" ceremony on the Hill to commemorate the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, but one West Virginia Republican says it should be a "day to celebrate." To do so, Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state delegate who served three months in prison for his role in the Capitol attack, announced his official candidacy for Congress on Friday.... ...Evans is running to challenge incumbent Representative Carol Miller, who won reelection in November, in the 2024 Republican primaries for West Virginia's 1st District. "Quite frankly, [Miller] does not represent the America...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday rebuffed calls from leading Republicans to step aside -- or risk impeachment -- and underscored the critical nature of managing migration challenges "gripping" the Western Hemisphere. In an interview with ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos, Mayorkas said he has no plans of resigning.... ...Mayorkas added that while he has no intention of stepping down, he is ready for the investigations promised by the House GOP,... ...The White House will seek to show El Paso as a model for what can be done with migration management in the face of intense challenges that...

OPINION The strange case of Rep.-elect George Santos highlights the tendency of politicians to “embellish their resumes” — otherwise known as lying. Among Mr. Santos’ falsehoods are the claims that he went to Yale, worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and has Jewish ancestry. Then there’s President Biden, who (among a long list of tall tales told over a 50-year career) lied about his undistinguished academic record, being arrested in South Africa during apartheid and being “sorta raised” in a Puerto Rican community. He did watch a lot of “West Side Story” and tried to copy Chita Rivera’s dance moves....

NEW YORK - The NYPD is searching for a trio of men who managed to steal $300,000 in cash from an armored truck outside of a bank in Brooklyn on Friday. The brazen robbery happened at around 1 p.m. in Sunset Park, in front of a Chase Bank....

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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called on the Biden administration and local authorities in Florida on Sunday to send back to Brazil its former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed the country’s Congress and Supreme Court. “[Bolsonaro] should be extradited to Brazil,” Castro said to CNN’s Jim Acosta. “In fact, it was reported that he was under investigation for corruption and fled Brazil to the United States. He’s a dangerous man, they should send him back to his home country, Brazil” Bolsonaro flew to Florida in late December as he faced multiple investigations from his time in office, according to...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is done being underestimated. Having vanquished both a Donald Trump-backed Republican challenger and Democratic star Stacey Abrams to win reelection, Kemp is looking to expand his influence in his second term, free from the caricature of the gun-toting, pickup-driving, migrant-catching country boy that emerged during his first campaign for governor. A new vision of Kemp steering his party toward a non-Trumpian conservatism made its debut in his November victory speech after it became clear that he had defeated Abrams by a much larger margin in their rematch than he had in their tight 2018 matchup. “This...