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Dear Fellow Virginians, At the direction of the Virginia General Assembly, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) was instructed to develop model policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools. As you read through a small sampling of the proposed policies listed below my signature line, keep in mind that there are no religious exceptions or accommodations for those in the faith community. The model policies are far-reaching and will have untold impact on our children and grandchildren. Parental authority and religious freedom are under attack. Now is the time to make your opinion heard....

PALMETTO BAY (CBSMiami) – Residents of the usually quiet South Florida community of Palmetto Bay are buzzing after spotting one of their neighbors riding his military style tank down residential roads. Many were confused by the sight and wondered if it’s even allowed and apparently it is. The tanks belong to the person who lives on a gated property off Old Cutler Road. Despite the fact that the tank is legal, it’s too close for comfort for some neighbors. “For the most part it’s unusual to say the very least and with the present state of politics, it’s concerning,” said...

Uganda shut down all social media in the country Tuesday after the country’s longtime leader accused Facebook of taking sides in the upcoming presidential election on Thursday. President Yoweri Museveni, 76, apologized for the inconvenience caused by the ban, but said Uganda had no choice after Facebook removed several accounts tied to his re-election campaign. […] The social networking giant didn’t immediately respond to the president’s comments on Tuesday but Twitter, which also appeared to be affected ban, blasted the move. “We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the...

Several Antifa "agitators" were among the rioters during the siege of the U.S. Capitol building, and the same far-left activists "provoked" the fatal shooting that killed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, expert analysis has concluded. Investigators have been analyzing video footage from inside the Capitol to retrace the steps that led to the violent events that unfolded on January 6.

At least 40 people attended a party Saturday at the home in the 800 block of North Curson Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers arrived at the home at 11 p.m. after receiving a complaint of a gathering at a “social media influencer residence” and cleared the party, an LAPD spokesman said Police previously responded to party violations on Sept. 12-13 and Oct. 17 and issued warning notices. Garcetti spokesman Alex Comisar said in a statement that each time they went to the home, officers informed the residents that large gatherings were in violation of the mayor’s...

Aurora pastor says home was vandalized with racist message, police now investigating Pastor Oshaine Wynter moved to Colorado less than a year ago to join a ministry. Now, he's having to explain to his young daughters why racist messaging was spray painted on his garage door. By: CB CottonJan 12, 2021 AURORA, Colo. — Pastor Oshaine Wynter moved to Colorado less than a year ago to join a ministry. Now, he's having to explain to his young daughters why racist messaging was spray painted on his garage door. "This happened on Saturday night right when I came back from church,"...

<p>WASHINGTON (KDVR) — Rep. Lauren Boebert was briefly refused entry to the U.S. Capitol Tuesday evening.</p><p>Boebert, who has announced her intention to carry a gun on Capitol grounds, set off a metal detector. It wasn’t clear if she had a cellphone or other metal object in her purse.</p>

Simmons, Broncos teammates call on Polis to release medically-vulnerable inmates By: Ryan OsborneJan 12, 2021 DENVER — Broncos All-Pro safety Justin Simmons is calling on Gov. Jared Polis to release more medically-vulnerable inmates from Colorado prisons amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Broncos linebacker Alexander Johnson and cornerback De'Vante Bausby joined Simmons in an ad with the American Civil Liberties Union to push Polis "to intervene in order to save lives and undo decades of massive and ineffective carceral growth in our state," according to an ACLU Colorado news release. “Today a Black person has a one-in-three chance of ending up in...

Philadelphia will lift its ban on indoor dining, theaters and in-person college instruction on Jan. 16 as Covid-19 cases continue to drop in the city. Restaurants will be allowed to have indoor dining at 25% of seating capacity. Colleges and universities will be allowed to resume in-person instruction, as well. City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley had said he would wait until after the holidays to evaluate the easing of restrictions. The city reported 637 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the citywide total of 98,215 since March. Theaters will also be allowed to reopen, with a cap of 5%...

WYOMING—It was a blistering 7 below zero this morning at Yellowstone National Park, but that didn’t seem to faze Buffalo Guy Jake Angeli, who was grazing on the vegetation. FBI agents were made aware earlier this week that Yellowstone is Angeli’s natural habitat, so they arrived on the scene this morning with a warrant for his arrest and their weapons drawn. “HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!” shouted FBI agent Patrick Henderson as Angeli’s head emerged from the tall grass. “HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!” “You talking to me?” asked the Buffalo Guy with his mouth full. “Because these are clearly hooves, not...

The basic questions about exactly what caused the major voting irregularities in the six battleground states on Election Day have been answered, according to a government watchdog nonprofit and a former CIA officer. Not only that, but President Trump has been personally briefed on the smoking-gun proof, according to Maria Zack, chairman of Nations in Action, a government watchdog nonprofit. In a phone call with volunteers and contributors on Tuesday, Nations in Action chairman Maria Zack explained how she came upon irrefutable proof that the 2020 election fraud originated in Italy, involving a veteran foreign services officer and Italian defense...

Roadkill moose fed Alaska families for years. Then COVID-19 came. (Can't be posted)

I did it my way. https://ugetube.com/embed/JdRltTmjE961iIh

A manatee was found with the word “TRUMP” scrawled on its back in a Florida swimming hole, prompting an investigation from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, reports said Monday. The defenseless animal was spotted with the political inscription over the weekend in the Blue Hole headwaters of the Homosassa River in Citrus County — about 80 miles northwest of Orlando, the Citrus County Chronicle reported. SNIP “It’s been my experience that this is very out of character for this community,” Craig Cavanna, a senior federal wildlife officer in charge of the investigation, told the outlet.

BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers last week took a step toward potentially replacing the official state seal and motto, a victory for activists who have argued for decades that the current versions disparage Native Americans. A legislative resolve creating a commission to recommend a new seal and motto (S 2848) emerged in the final hours of the 2020-2021 lawmaking session, earning support from both branches and landing on Gov. Charlie Baker's desk just after 4 a.m.

The former head of Italian aerospace company Leonardo S.p.A’s information technology department Arturo D’Elia has been charged in Naples for his interference in the 2020 United States presidential election. The official charges issued in December of 2020 are “technology/data manipulation and implantation of viruses in the main computers of Leonardo S.p.A.” Investigative journalist Lara Logan posted a photo of an affidavit singed by lawyer Alfio D’Urso detailing D’Elia’s sworn testimony. “On 4 November 2020, under instruction and direction of US persons working from the US Embassy in Rome, [D’Elia] undertook the operation to switch data from the US elections of...

Had the Houston Texans stayed the course and followed the recommendation of the search firm Korn Ferry, they likely would have hired Pittsburgh Steelers vice president of football and business administration Omar Khan as their next general manager, league sources told ESPN. Khan and ESPN Monday Night Football analyst Louis Riddick, who are both minority candidates, were the two finalists before Texans owner Cal McNair changed his mind, ignored the recommendation of the search firm he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do weeks of work and hired former New England Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio, sources...

A woman who was held hostage during a shooting spree Saturday that stretched from Chicago to Evanston, Ill., reportedly died early Sunday, potentially bringing the death toll from the rampage to five – including the suspect – according to reports. At least two other people, and possibly a third, were critically wounded, reports said. The shooting of a 15-year-old girl was still being investigated, according to police. "But for the brave conduct of Evanston police officers, many more people would have been injured," Chicago police Supt. David Brown told the Chicago Sun-Times.

CARACAS -- The Maduro-controlled National Assembly will legislate to expropriate houses and farms from Venezuelans that have emigrated as well as to incarcerate opposition lawmakers, the Assembly’s Vice President, Iris Valera, reiterated Wednesday. Venezuela sat two National Assemblies January 5th, one answering to Maduro and backed by the military but rejected by the international community, and another led by Juan Guaido and elected in 2015, but which functions clandestinely, with an expired mandate and that can’t meet in public, even if it controls vast assets outside the country. Valera has been talking up the measures even as Maduro’s Assembly President,...

Today Italian Judge, professor and lawyer Alfio D’Urso gave testimony on defense contractor Leonardo SpA’s involvement in the alleged switching of votes from Trump to Biden via military satellite download and uplink from CIA-protected Dominion servers in Frankfurt. It’s the second whistleblower to give a signed and sworn affidavit this week after Arturo D’Ella, an IT expert contracted to Leonardo, came forward to say he was the one who actually “pushed the button” to get the deed done. D’Ella, as pointed out in D’Urso’s affidavit, is also charged with implanting viruses in Leonard’s servers — a frame job according to...