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The “emergency” special session called by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ended this week with all five Democrat-sponsored bills passed, some on party-line votes. However, the real headline was the deep partisan divide and the governor’s furious reaction to Republicans for opposing her vaccine legislation. The two-day session, which cost taxpayers an estimated $250,000, was ostensibly meant to offset federal funding cuts. But much of the time was consumed by heated exchanges over decorum and the content of the Democrats’ agenda, which Republicans said was drafted in secret and offered little room for participation. House Minority Leader Gail Armstrong (R-Magdalena) told...

Though it didn’t work as well for the Democrats as it did for Hitler. Hitler was originally democratically elected — not by a majority, but rather by a plurality, as allowed by the Weimar Republic’s constitution. It was a turning point for all of world history. The Nazis, being ambitious tyrants, leapt at any possible opportunity to expand their grip on Germany. So, on February 27, 1933 — just four weeks after Hitler was sworn in as chancellor — the fire that struck the German parliament building was at least partially blamed on Bolshevik agitators. Sound familiar? Germany’s then-president, Paul...

Just in time for respiratory virus season, a highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US. The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up case numbers. Stratus’ ability to evade immune system defenses has propelled it past NB.1.8.1 (aka “Nimbus”) as the dominant Covid strain. The increased Covid activity comes as the US heads into fall respiratory illness season — which tends to bring a rise in cases of the common cold, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — and amid evolving guidance for Covid vaccines. The level of Covid viral activity...

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo apologized to Jewish New Yorkers for lockdowns he imposed during the COVID-19 outbreak five years ago that banned large gatherings, closed schools and disrupted religious traditions. The mea culpa comes just hours before the beginning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar when one is meant to atone for sins — and while Cuomo runs as an underdog in his political comeback bid for mayor. In the video, Cuomo said he made decisions to protect the health and safety of New Yorkers during the once-in-a-century pandemic that killed about 80,000 residents. “However, I recognize...

@SenRandPaul We were told to mask up between peanuts or be treated like we were taking down the plane. That kind of absurdity fed secret watchlists where spite or bias could brand us threats. We ended Quiet Skies, but we must stop government secrecy, over-classification, and surveillance of Americans.

Naomi Wolf's 1991 best-seller “The Beauty Myth” made her the most prominent face of so-called "third-wave feminism" and a darling of the liberal elite. The young Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar served as an adviser to both President Bill Clinton and — during his 2000 presidential run — Vice President Al Gore. But then the COVID pandemic hit. For voicing her concerns about vaccine mandates and draconian lockdowns, Wolf found herself deplatformed from Twitter, marginalized as a so-called conspiracy theorist, and rejected by the same powerful Democrats who had once made her a star. Wolf, in turn, has left the...

In his resignation-by-tweet from the CDC, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Monkeypox Czar and LGBTQ+ advocate Demetre Daskalakis, made a telling comment: “Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world.”His words paralleled the words of fictional scientist Dr. Mann from the film Interstellar who, just seconds before his own recklessness sent him into the vacuum of space, declared: “This isn’t about my life, or Cooper’s life, this is about all mankind.”And President Biden made an eerily similar statement...

Significant overlaps of interest in Philip Zelikow’s roles The overlap is glaring, and once you look past the media fog it becomes obvious that the same type of figure was installed in both cases to manage the narrative and pre-empt genuine investigation. Philip Zelikow was not just some neutral academic parachuted in to provide intellectual clarity. He was the manager of perception on 9/11, and two decades later he resurfaced to perform the exact same function during Covid. 1. Narrative Control as the Central Function9/11 Commission: Zelikow wasn’t merely the “executive director.” He effectively wrote the outline of the final...

The daughter of Hollywood bigwigs Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner delivered a speech to the United Nations about the importance of mask mandates in preventing the surge of COVID-19 — five years after the disease shut down the world. Violet Affleck, 19, made her emotional plea while wearing a KN95 mask as part of the “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday. The Yale University freshman, who contracted a post-viral condition in 2019, lectured world leaders about how the world is ignoring the “ongoing pandemic” and claimed mask mandates were...

Violet Affleck, the daughter of Hollywood A-listers Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, appeared before the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday. The 19-year-old activist spoke about the importance of masks and other preventative devices more than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic changed life on the planet for all. Violet was appearing as part of an event titled Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action.

Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, admitting that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company’s terms of service, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” a lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan. The letter would likely affect pro-Trump political commentators...

FIRST ON FOX: Google vowed on Tuesday to offer YouTube accounts that were permanently banned for political speech the ability to be reinstated, and the big tech giant admitted that it once faced pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about COVID-19. Google detailed its remarkable shift in a document, first obtained by Fox News Digital, that a lawyer for the company provided to the House Judiciary Committee. The new policy from Google, also known by its parent company Alphabet, could affect both average users and well-known figures like FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, White House counterterrorism chief Sebastian...

@ChildrensHD 🔥 Senator Rand Paul REFUSES to back down on prosecuting Dr. Fauci. “I sent two official letters to the Department of Justice under Biden.” “I’ve re-sent those under President Trump.” “Whether or not he is judged by a criminal court, he will be judged by history.” “I say NEVER AGAIN.” “Never again do we let them invade our churches, our schools, our businesses.”

Although the winter 2022 truckers’ protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s punitive vaccine mandates shook Canada down to its mukluks, it no longer dominates the headlines. Still, it remains in public consciousness. Prominent protest members were recently convicted or are still on trial. Its implications are still with us, and its long-term effects may well be seismic. The Freedom Convoy traversed the country from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to the nation’s capital in Ottawa to protest the biggest experiment ever in authoritarian rule over Canadians—COVID lockdowns and, particularly, the vaccines. The truckers and their fellow convoy travelers demanded the attention...

I'm not on social media. I'm angry. This is one of my only outlets. I wrote this after these thoughts occurred to me after reading breaking news yesterday afternoon: I've been watching the left's response to Charlie Kirk's assassination for over a full week. The irony is that this singular event has fully exposed the left - including political leadership - of qualifying violence against disagreeable debate ("fascist" / "racist" / "hitler" etc.) which has obviously made them directly culpable for his murder through incitement of hate among the most vulnerable, mentally unstable of the populace. The news has been...

A district court has ruled that Matthew Warman, a former student at Mount St. Joseph University, can sue campus police for violating his Fourth Amendment rights after he was detained for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. Warman alleged that he was subjected to harassment, including derogatory comments from police officers, when he was forcibly detained for an hour at the campus security office. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals supported Warman's claim of a plausible Fourth Amendment violation despite dismissing most of his other claims, including those related to religious discrimination. [snip] Warman, who is Catholic, objected to...

The Harris-Biden administration’s campaign to censor COVID-related content on Facebook during the height of the pandemic – as revealed by a remorseful Mark Zuckerberg this week – was so aggressive that it even cracked down on lighthearted memes, satirical posts and regular old jokes. On Monday, Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that “senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, “repeatedly pressured” Facebook parent Meta to “censor” pandemic-related content in 2021, as well as The Post’s exclusive reporting on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. The takedown requests included posts that Zuckerberg considered...

Massachusetts has released new state-specific recommendations saying people of all ages should be vaccinated against COVID-19, despite federal guidelines that would otherwise have made that difficult. “We are not going to let Donald Trump or Robert Kennedy take away your ability to make your own health care decisions,” Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement Wednesday. “Massachusetts will continue to lead with science and protect access to life-saving vaccines. We are taking this action today so the people of Massachusetts know that you will continue to be able to get the vaccines you want and need – no matter what...

On 12 September, a press conference was held at NIK headquarters where the results of three NIK’s audits on the COVID-19 pandemic were presented. The key issues included: preparation and operation of the state in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic, creation and functioning of temporary hospitals and payment of benefits to medical staff due to the COVID-19 prevention and control. In the beginning there was chaos When the first case of SARS-CoV-2 was identified in Poland in March 2020, responsible state authorities and institutions, medical entities and services were not prepared for the epidemic outbreak – the NIK audit...

BOSTON — Monica Cannon-Grant, the founder of the nonprofit Violence in Boston, plans to plead guilty to federal charges of defrauding people who donated to her organization. In a one-page document filed in federal court in Boston on Friday, Canon-Grant requested a change of plea hearing. Cannon-Grant faces a 27-count indictment on charges including wire fraud, mail fraud, making false statements, and filing false tax returns, among other offenses. Federal investigators have alleged that Cannon-Grant, and her husband, Clark Grant, “solicited and received over $1 million in donations and grants from individuals, charitable institutions and other entities.” The indictment alleged...