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A massive pro-Palestine protest that started at 12pm on October 21 saw the attendance of some 100,000 people, the Met Police said, with many groups pledging their support to Palestinians. Among them were representatives of the LGBTQ+ community. But a video widely shared on social media appears to show uneasiness and lack of unity among some of the factions attending the event. The clip, filmed in Trafalgar Square where the "March For Palestine" ended, initially shows a Progressive Pride Flag being waved. Shortly after, the flag representing the LGBTQ+ community can be seen falling to the ground. As people surrounded...

President Joe Biden said Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that he didn’t think Ukraine was ready for NATO membership. Biden said, “I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO. But here is the deal, I spent a great deal of time holding NATO together because I believe Putin has an overwhelming objective at the time that he launched 85,000 troops into Ukraine, and that was to break NATO. He was confident in my view that he could break NATO. So holding NATO together is really critical.”

A trend is emerging in which those who seemingly were Trump supporters are being uncovered as something else, in some cases they now appear to be “never-again Trumpers.” Laura Loomer reported on the late-night communications House Speaker McCarthy had, apparently in preparation to modify California’s Delegate laws in order to move some delegates away from the presumed frontrunner – Trump, and toward a runner-up such as DeSantis. Here in Georgia, Brian Kemp, Brad Raffensperger and others have made it quite clear that they will not support Trump. Raffenspergers office has said hey will not even confirm the election schedule until...

Metals magnate and Republican donor Andy Sabin said he has soured on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his stance on abortion and Ukraine, and is now planning to back Senator Tim Scott instead in the 2024 Republican White House race. Sabin had been considering donating to DeSantis, who is expected to officially announce a White House run in June, but changed his mind after the governor signed a new law banning abortions after six weeks and called the war in Ukraine a "territorial dispute." While Sabin is not a megadonor, his decision not to back DeSantis underscores concerns among some...

People who have received COVID-19 vaccines express discriminatory attitudes toward unvaccinated people, a new study of over 15,000 citizens of 21 countries across the world suggests. “Individuals who comply with the advice of health authorities morally condemn the unvaccinated for violating a social contract in the midst of a crisis,” two Denmark-based scientists wrote in their paper, published Thursday in Nature. “Those who refuse vaccines report that they feel discriminated and pressured against their will.” To measure COVID-19 vaccination status-based prejudice, researchers asked some 15,233 people how they feel if a close relatives of theirs are going to marry a...

The Trump Grill, located inside Trump Tower in New York City, refused to allow a group of vaccine mandate protesters to eat at the restaurant on Thursday after they failed to provide proof of vaccination. In response, the group slammed former President Donald Trump as a "fraud" and "a little hypocritical" for enforcing the city's indoor dining vaccine mandate, rather than paying the fines associated with defying the requirement, Newsweek reports. While Trump has come around on promoting the COVID-19 vaccines, he's maintained that "there can't be mandates and all those things." As he further put it to Fox News...

According to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index, President Joe Biden is losing support when it comes to those who think his administration can "ensure the economy recovers quickly after the COVID-19 pandemic." While 52 percent were confident in January, that number is now at 44 percent. What is particularly relevant is where the drop is coming from. In her Tuesday write-up for Axios, Margaret Talev warns that the confidence in Biden's Covid recovery is tumbling. She goes on to note that "It's Democrats and independents driving the declining economic confidence, from 52% of all U.S. adults at...

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) has introduced legislation that seeks to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools in Washington, D.C. Grothman, who announced the measure on Friday, is accompanied by four GOP co-sponsors, including Reps. Ralph Norman (SC), Pat Fallon (TX), Bob Gibbs (OH) and Ronny Jackson (TX). According to a press release from Grothman, the bill, dubbed the Ending Critical Race Theory in D.C. Public Schools Act, proposes that public and charter schools in D.C. be prohibited from requiring instruction on “ideas that promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating,” or that a person “bears responsibility...

"There's a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry," Jane Fonda said at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. "A story about which voices we respect and elevate and which we tune out, a story about who's offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where decisions are made." An actress, producer and documentarian — as well as an entrepreneur, activist and author — Fonda, 83, has spent six decades in Hollywood, winning two Oscars and seven Golden Globes, among countless other awards. She's has been arrested many...

This site is an aggregate site with many solid sources in the posts. However, some posts are off-the-wall, but I still find it an interesting read. This post re Lin Wood caught my attention big time. While much can be said in the negative re Lin Wood, I somehow feel that he has stumbled on to something that explains everything. This post is an aggregate of his Telegram posts. His charge is that the reason the Georgia State Bar is going after his license is to neutralize him in order to keep from exposing the business relationships tangled up in...

A group of more than 100 former Republican officials have discussed the possibility of forming a "center right" party due to their unhappiness with the direction of the GOP under former President Donald Trump and the likelihood he'll be acquitted at the end of his second impeachment trial, according to Republicans who participated in the conversation. Former Republican House Rep. Charlie Dent confirmed to CNN that he and about 120 Republicans held a conversation last Friday about whether to form a new party or a new faction within the Republican Party that would operate independently from the GOP.

During the second day of former President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, Democratic impeachment managers lavished praise on former Vice President Mike Pence for standing up to his then boss and certifying President Biden’s election victory.

This past Saturday during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Carbon County Republican Party in Wyoming, Joey Correnti IV, presented, and the Carbon County Republican Party Central Committee unanimously passed, the attached resolution of censure of Representative Cheney. To his knowledge, this is the first formal action taken anywhere in the nation, by any committee of the Republican Party, against any of the U.S. Representatives who supported the impeachment of President Trump. And on Wednesday Liz Cheney already has two primary opponents in her 2022 race. Let’s hope Liz does not flood the primary with candidates, a common...

President Trump reportedly discussed forming a new political party – the Patriot Party – after “feuding” with the Republican establishment. The Wall Street Journal reported the following in its January 19th piece entitled “Trump Has Discussed Starting a New Political Party”:President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House.Mr. Trump discussed the matter with several aides and other people close to him last week, the people said. The president said he would want to call...

President Donald Trump has discussed forming a new political party in recent days, hoping to continue his influence after leaving the White House, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night...he said he would want to call such a party the Patriot Party, the sources told the paper. The president reportedly discussed the idea with several aides and others last week.

The Republican party is vain. The current Republican party would have shunned George Washington for breaking the rules while fighting the British. Voters make excuses for supporting incompetence. Many despised Trump’s tweeting and rhetoric ignoring the battle we faced. Now Trump is gone, partially do to the people we voted for. We pretend we want to win but refuse to fight to win. Politicians know we won’t collectively punish them because of fear of the the Democratic party. The successes of the Trump administration had little to do with Republicans. Most was done by executive order. Here’s a list of...

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, a prominent NeoCon who became a harsh critic of President Trump after leaving his administration, has called on the GOP to purge the “taint” of Trumpism from the party. “There has to be a serious conversation in the Republican Party about how to remove the taint of what Trump has done, how to repair the damage,” he said during an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur. “And while I think the damage is considerable, I think it can be repaired, and it should be repaired. And it should be — from the purely limited perspective...

Pelosi and AOC will talk turkey next week in first meeting since feud as warring Democratic factions risk tearing the party apart Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will have a sit down Thursday It comes after a feud broke out between the speaker and 'the squad' amid rising tensions between the liberal and moderate wings of the Democratic Party No details have been released on where or what the topics of discussion will be There is plenty for the two women to talk about Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will have a face-to-face meeting next week after a feud broke...

“This president is the first president in the modern history of our country who is trying to divide our people up based on the color of their skin, the country they were born in, their sexual orientation, their gender, their religion. And that is an outrage.” That was Bernie Sanders, a Democrat candidate for president in 2020, at a CNN town hall event in late February. And as the Vermont Socialist explained, “our job is to bring our people together, not to divide them up.” This was not a new theme for Democrats. In September of 2018 at the University...

Nearly three-quarters of the country believes that the media is “dividing Americans” along political, racial, and gender lines, a stunning condemnation of the press, according to a new national survey. What’s more, the Zogby Analytics poll provided to Secrets said that the media bias is sparking hate and misunderstanding. And while Americans also blame President Trump for dividing voters, the survey analysis said the media is worse. Those surveyed, said Zogby Analytics, “felt the mainstream media spreads hate and misunderstanding, also felt that President Trump is responsible for the spread of hate and misunderstanding, but more voters overall, and in...