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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres encouraged world governments on Tuesday to “rein in hate speech and disinformation spreading online” through a global censorship framework. Guterres suggested that “unchecked digital platforms” were amplifying the “worst impulses of humanity” and threatening global stability and peace, requiring world governments to buy into U.N. programs such as the “Global Digital Compact” to silence speech the world body considers threatening. He made his remarks on the same day that the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared global intervention to “educate” online social influencers in how to avoid “misinformation” was an “urgent” priority. UNESCO...

Donald Trump Jr. suggested that his father, President-elect Donald Trump, would boot legacy media out of the White House briefing room in favor of podcasters. “We had the conversation,” he said, “about opening up the press room to a lot of these independent journalists. … Why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships, stronger followings?” He said the idea of switching out mainstream media outlets for podcasters like Joe Rogan “may be in the works.”

Washington Commanders managing partner Josh Harris and the NFL Commanders ownership group have agreed to un-cancel the Redskins (the iconic Blackfoot chief logo) history. In a post on Facebook by Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the Congressman wrote that “The censorship of the former Commanders logo was a classic case of woke gone wrong. I applaud the Commanders & the NFL for their commitment to never censor the logo again.”

Governor Kathy Hochul signs bill removing outdated adultery statute from state law New York has officially closed the chapter on one of its most outdated laws—adultery, which had been criminalized since 1907 and punishable by up to three months of jail time. On November 22, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the bill repealing this archaic statute, recognizing its growing irrelevance over the decades.

27 November 2024 Wednesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Pfarrkirche Sankt Virgil, Rattenberg, Austria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingApocalypse 15:1-4The victors sang the hymn of Moses and of the LambWhat I, John, saw in heaven was a great and wonderful sign: seven angels were bringing the seven plagues that are the last of all, because they exhaust the anger of God. I seemed to see a glass lake suffused with fire, and standing by the lake of glass, those who had fought against the beast and won, and against his statue and the number which...

The Biden regime is trying to further entrench the deep state, while the Democrat Party pushes further to the left. After their major election loss, Democrats are doubling down on their worldview by trying to save the monstrous deep state they have been building for decades and making sure their own ranks still fall in line with radical social policies. As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, he and his party are scrambling to undermine one of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises: cull the odious deep state. Biden is reportedly being pushed by his party to bolster the federal...

@TimothyDSnyderUkrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts

The President Trump transition team has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start the process of transferring control of the federal government. The landing teams from each of the cabinets will now begin to engage with their exiting counterparts.There were many articles written about the delays in signing the agreements. However, President Trump waited until he has his cabinet fully assembled before signing the first part that permits the landing teams to engage. The second part with government provided offices and technology is NOT being accepted.

"The police report said that the intoxicated official also made crude comments about a male officer by repeatedly asking him, "Is your penis that small?" during her arrest."

On Friday, The War Zone broke the news about a multi-drone incursion of the U.S. Air Force’s master fighter base in the United Kingdon, RAF Lakenheath. Since then, we have received information that the incursions were more widespread, occurring around multiple bases. Now we have confirmed that the drones are back near RAF Lakenheath as well as RAF Mildenhall, which is a very concerning development to say the least. A U.S. defense official confirmed to us this morning that the drone flights have resumed near both installations. While RAF Lakenheath houses primarily squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle and F-35A Joint...

Weeks after the devastating election, a top Harris-Walz campaign adviser admitted a stunning fact about the internal polls the campaign had seen ahead of the election.David Plouffe said that internal polls never had Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of President-elect Donald Trump any time before Election Day, according to the Huffington Post.(Snip) “I think the freakout is because there were a bunch of polls, I’d say in the last month, that showed a lead for Kamala Harris that was not real," he added. "It’s not what we were seeing — we’ve seen this thing basically be tied let’s say since...

JK Rowling claims the BBC is 'spitting in women's faces' by naming Barbra Banda as Women's Footballer of the Year despite failing to meet gender eligibility rules. Zambia and Orlando Pride striker Banda won the title as she received the most votes from BBC Sport website readers after being included on a five-player shortlist. But Banda's place in the running for the annual prize was criticised by women's rights groups because she was previously left out of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in 2022 by team bosses over allegedly having high testosterone levels.

A Netflix reality star has avoided jail after she was caught trying to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs into the UK on a flight back from Thailand. Olga Bednarska, 27, was arrested in October after being stopped by customs officers at Manchester Airport with two large suitcases containing 40kg of cannabis. According to The Manchester Evening News, the Too Hot to Handle star claimed she was given the bags by a friend called 'Tex'. The influencer, who appeared in series three of the hit Netflix show, claimed this person paid for her flights and wanted her to bring back designer...

The actress Sharon Stone (who, in my opinion, Looks Like Death Warmed Over) has blamed Donald Trump’s stunning election victory on “uneducated” Americans who cannot afford to travel abroad. Speaking at a press conference at the Torino Film Festival in Italy, Stone went on a rant about how America would soon become like Italy under fascism because of “uneducated” people who voted for Trump.

As is well-known, politics is the art of influencing behavior. As is also well-known, America’s institutions of higher education uniformly behave with a political orientation that renders them exponents of leftism, socialism, communism, and antisemitism. President-Elect Donald Trump is determined to extinguish that behavior. He’s identified a vehicle for doing so, too: The role played by educational accreditation agencies for colleges and universities under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-329). Under the HEA, the Department of Education approves accrediting agencies that the Secretary of Education determines to be reliable authorities regarding the quality of education or training...

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DOGE cannot come soon enough! RFK Jr cannot come soon enough! Health and Human Services, which has been led by Xavier Becerra under the Biden Administration, has reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in university grants to interview trans Indians.

Jeffrey Epstein Island visitors tracked directly to their homes WIRED “Investigation that uncovered the data of almost 200 mobile phones belonging to visitors to his infamous pedophile island. The data was so precise, we were able to map the paths of these visitors to within centimeters, including their neighborhoods, buildings of origin, and the paths they took to get to the island. These digital trails document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender.” (SEE VIDEO) “This is Little St. James, AKA Epstein Island. These red dots on the map...

The 2020 Presidential election shared a problem with the 1998 MLB home run race: the winning candidate did too well. In 1998, steroid juicer Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris’s home run record by nine home runs or roughly 15 percent. In 2020, Joe Biden’s 81 million votes broke Barack Obama’s 2008 record 69 million votes by 12 million votes or roughly 17 percent. Obama’s 2008 numbers were anomalous. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 numbers were closer to the norm, and Biden got nearly 25 percent more votes than she did, a cool 16 million additional votes when finally counted. Campaigning from his...

Audit results reveal that the City of Denver, Colorado, lost track of nearly $150 MILLION they spent between January 2022 and March 2024 on homeless shelters And they wonder why we voted for @DOGE ? By the way, it's now clear & obvious that Democrats use homelessness to launder money back to themselves. This is why the crisis will never be cured. You don't write checks totaling $150 million without knowing exactly where it'll end up. Not only should Mayor Mike Johnston get arrested for planning to harbor illegals, but he should now get arrested for laundering money. ... They...