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The cable guy just fixed the internet. I disconnected the cable box to see what cutting the cord was like. Commenters recommended Pluto TV, which was available as an app through my PS4. It's free. It took about 60 to 90 seconds to download and install. I found it in about one minute scrolling through all the apps listed on the PS4. You can go to Pluto.tv to view their website, and see how to connect, whether by smart tv, a streaming device like Amazon Fire stick or Roku or the PS4, or even on your phone. There are more...

Okay. Here's what I need you to do. If you are registered to vote and have had a legal name change, check the states you have been registered to vote in under your old name and check the registration and vote status. This is so super important.

If Dominion Systems makes a tax return program this would be helpful with the Biden Administration. Asking for a friend......

A recently revealed email from a business associate of Hunter Biden's reveals plans of a potential deal between the two of them and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...The email in question is from well-known Hunter business associate Devon Archer to a certain Jason Galanis...."This is great. I will have some edits shortly. One big [edit] is that Zuckerberg is investing in the Veterans vertical. We'll own 50% of the business at BTC Global holdco we're investing in but he's going to own 50% of the vertical PTSD in his and his partners for profit foundation."...Galanis responds, "Facebook zuckerberg [sic]???" Archer emails...

In testimony before a Senate hearing this week Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg both admitted that they had no evidence that the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop computer was Russian disinformation. "Why then did you censor the story and block the Post's account?" Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc) wanted to know. "I think we were hacked by a Russian agent," Dorsey replied. "Let me remind everyone that the Post hasn't been the only account that has been censored by our platform. Numerous conservative voices have been silenced or muted on Twitter for many years...

MADISON, WI — Does Gov. Tony Evers have a plan in case Election Day gets rough? It doesn’t appear so. Here’s your first indication: The Wisconsin Homeland Security Council, responsible for advising the governor on emergency preparedness, hadn’t met since December 2019. The council finally met Tuesday afternoon. And after a 10-month hiatus, bureaucratic members seemed more concerned about health care “equity” and climate change than they were about the potential for intimidation at the polls — or rioting in Wisconsin’s city streets following the election. The question of the National Guard’s involvement did come up. Council members were told...

Everyone expects a ****show [ed] from a Senate hearing, but who could have guessed that Jack Dorsey wouldn’t come prepared to answer the most basic questions about why some dubious information gets banned and other dubious information remains free as a bird? It’s only the core critique of Twitter’s attempt to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, after all. And it’s *been* the core critique of the platform ever since they began their policy of appending advisories to propaganda pushed by certain world leaders (Trump) but not others (literally everyone else). If Trump tweets nonsense about the fraudulence of mail-in...

A majority of likely voters – including a near-majority of Democrats – say social media companies will censor information harmful to the Biden campaign in the lead-up to next week's election, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. A total of 57% likely voters say that scenario will likely occur, while 29% disagree. The remaining 14% was unsure....

Key quote:But it's even worse than all of that. The time-frame of particular interest overlaps the Obama-Biden administration and early Trump administration, which also overlaps the origins and early phases of the anti-Trump conspiracy and rolling coup d'etat against the Trump presidency. In other words, while the FBI and CIA turned blind eyes to the Bidens and their corruption by and with America's enemies & rivals, the FBI and CIA were simultaneously staging, fabricating and investigating the Trump family and political team in order to drive the president from office and overturn an election. -- It is a special corruption...

Click through to the North Carolina map. It is a different flavor than the Florida map - this one is not for live updating so much, it's for browsing and playing with demographic data. Note that the 'database' is entirely client side (compressed from 5GB to 4MB). It seems to work OK on my cell phone but a little lag is expected in the initial load and again on the queries.

Anew social media platform launched this week is touting its commitment to refrain from censoring users' content while allowing them the chance to engage in meaningful political and social discourse. Clouthub, which operates out of Irvine, California, will offer users "a purpose-driven, multi-functional platform that moves beyond the self-serving 'look at me' nature of social networking," the company said in a news release this week. Criticizing what it called "the most extraordinary examples of censorship and free speech suppression by the giant social media platforms" that have occurred in recent weeks, the company said it will "empowe[r] users to address...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden expressed his regret that "the muting of the microphones at the debate didn't go as I thought it would. Before the debate I thought it was a good idea. Giving the moderator the opportunity to cut off my mic when I started to wander off topic could save me from embarrassing myself. It was only later that I realized that Kristen wasn't doing this. She was focused on muting Trump's mic. This saved him from making a fool of himself, but left me dangling in the wind." "My people are now telling me that I...

Are there any other US government employees having issues connecting to their Google email (.gmail.com) account since the DoJ announced the anti-trust lawsuit on 20 October?

John Paul Mac Isaac, computer repair store owner receives laptop in April 2019, contacted someone who contacted the FBI in September 2019 who confiscated the laptop after a few weeks. When he stopped hearing from the FBI, he contacted several members of congress who did not respond, and his intermediary reached out to Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-emails-computer-repair-store-owner-john-paul-mac-isaacDate?Senate report: Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concernshttps://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf9/24Mr. Johnson said that on Sept. 24, the day after his committee issued a report on how Hunter Biden profited from his father, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, “a...

These are the faces on the other end of Jeffrey Toobin’s zoom call

Facebook is demonetizing the Christian, political satire page “The Babylon Bee” after they published an article satirizing Sen. Mazie Hirono’s comments during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings in a fictional depiction. The Bee’s CEO Seth Dillon announced the demonetization on Tuesday in a tweet, claiming that the big tech company pulled down the article based on a “regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie.” “So after a manual review, Facebook says they stand by their decision to pull down this article and demonetize our page. I’m not kidding,” he wrote. “They say this article ‘incites violence.’ It’s literally a regurgitated...

Google’s video platform, YouTube, doesn’t want people to know the Michigan kidnapping plot’s alleged ringleader considered President Trump an “enemy.” The man, now in federal custody, is named Brandon Caserta, and he made a series of videos while preparing his kidnapping plot against Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In one such video, Caserta expounds on his anarchist philosophy, calling President Trump an enemy. “Trump is not your friend, dude,” Caserta says. “And it amazes me that people actually, like, believe that, when he’s shown over and over and over again that he’s a tyrant. Every single person that works for government...

Hunter Biden's hard drive. The biggest news story of last week (and perhaps the whole year!) and the gift that keeps on a-giving. Late Thursday (10/16/2020) evening, Rudy Giuliani granted an exclusive interview to the Daily Caller. Here's what we learned. The journey of Hunter's hard drive data did not run smoothly. It also took more time than one would assume and has been vetted more thoroughly than the Left wants you to know. According the Left, the data came from a computer hack. Not even remotely true. But even if it did, the data is still sound. If it...

T.J. L’Heureux, Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly’s deputy press secretary, called police “worthless f–ing pigs” in a tweet posting. This week, under pressure from the campaign, he apologized saying “I deeply regret my comment and apologize for what I wrote. My comment does not reflect who I am or what I believe. I have deleted the tweet.” Afterward L’Heureux lamented what he called “the disturbing trend in our society that forces a person to have to apologize for his personal opinions. It’s not as if I was tweeting something that any loyal Democrat would disagree with, but the climate...

....The tech companies' actions are an outrageous example of open censorship and bias. It shows how private companies effectively can become state media working for one party. This, of course, was more serious than deleting coughs, but it was based on the same excuse of "protecting" the public from distractions or distortions. Indeed, it was the realization of political and academic calls that have been building for years. Democratic leaders from Hillary Clinton to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) have long demanded such private censorship from social media companies, despite objections from some of us in the free speech community; Joe...