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Friday, March 29, 2024

Washington CNN " A Republican state representative in Michigan, Rep. Matt Maddock, claimed on social media on Wednesday night that he had photo evidence of "illegal invaders" arriving at Detroit Metro Airport. One of the two photos Maddock posted on the platform called X, formerly known as Twitter, showed an Allegiant Air plane. The other photo showed three buses. Maddock wrote: "Happening right now. Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they're headed with their police escort?"


Addressing video footage on social media purporting to show Palestinians being killed by Israeli bombs, Joe Rogan told the millions who listen to his podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" on Tuesday that Israel was committing genocide. "If you can't talk about that, if you can't say that's real, then you're saying that genocide is okay as long as we're doing it," he said. Then he brought the Holocaust into the discussion. "You're saying that from the perspective of someone who literally went through the Holocaust or your people, your tribe. You went through the Holocaust and now you're willing to do it?" he said, apparently directing his statement at Israel. Democratic Majority for Israel called the prominent podcaster's statement "wholly false and dangerous."


Thursday, March 28, 2024

A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion.


AI Trump wants his supporters to know that supporting him comes with serious consequences. Very large consequences. Huge, throbbing consequences...


They came to the United States for a chance at a better life. They found work filling pot holes on a bridge in the middle of the night, and they ended up dead in the Baltimore harbor. The six victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse were all immigrants from Mexico and Central America, doing the kind of grueling work that many immigrants take on and sent them plunging into the icy Patapsco River. Read more


For the first time ever, Trump is listed on Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, an exclusive club consisting of the 500 wealthiest people on Planet Earth. If you think Trump is too important to care about being one of the 500 wealthiest people, you haven't been paying attention. Read more


Speaker Mike Johnson has named Marjorie Taylor Greene as one of the House managers for the possible impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. This comes after Ms Greene filed a motion to vacate after Mr Johnson made a deal with Democrats to fund the government until late September. Read more


Introducing "good bacteria" into your home may help prevent your children from developing childhood illnesses like asthma, a researcher said. Homes have become exceptionally clean these days, thanks to modern cleaning, which may leave children bereft of exposure to bacteria and other germs that are important in the development of a healthy immune system.


Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock this week drew derision when he falsely accused the Gonzaga men's basketball team of being immigrant "invaders." Writing on Twitter Wednesday night, Maddock posted a photo of a plane landing at the Detroit Metro Airport and then baselessly speculated it was filled with migrants who had been shipped from the southern border up to his state. "Happening right now," he wrote. "Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they're headed with their police escort?" Maddock seemed particularly annoyed that the "invaders" in question were getting a special police escort. But Maxwell White of local Detroit-based news station WXYZ did some basic homework on the photos and confirmed that it was the Gonzaga basketball team, which had flown into town to compete in the Sweet 16 basketball tournament being held in Michigan over the weekend.


Georgia Republican Party's first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, committed voter fraud by casting a ballot while serving probation for felony check forgery. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs of the State Board of Elections ordered Pritchard to pay a $5,000 fine and receive a public reprimand. Pritchard is a conservative talk show host who has claimed there was voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the report said. He argued that he was unaware that he had not completed his probation before voting. "The court does not find the respondent's explanations credible or convincing," Boggs' ruling said. "At the very least, even if the court accepts he did not know about his felony sentences, the record before this court demonstrates that he should have known." Pritchard was said to have voted in nine elections while still on probation. He first registered to vote in Georgia in 2008.


Kellyanne Conway, the former Trump campaign manager-turned-spokesperson who made the phrase "alternative facts" famous, is considering a return to Trumpworld.


In the video, the man can be seen strangling his sister, Maria, to death. The man did so in front of their family members. Afterwards, the father hands over a bottle of water to the man. Maria's honour killing bore resemblance to the murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch in 2016. Dubbed as Pakistan's Kim Kardashian, 26-year-old Baloch's brother Muhammad Waseem murdered her for "bringing dishonour" to the family. The case caught the attention of the country and was said to be the most high-profile honour killing in Pakistan in recent times. Waseem, who admitted of having no remorse of killing his sister, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019. However, he was released in 2022 after Baloch's mother pardoned him of the crime. A legal technicality in Pakistan allows a victim's mother to forgive the offender of the crime. Read more


Democrats and their supporters in the media are leaning into an election-year fear-mongering campaign about Republican "bans" on reproductive rights. In their redefinition, any limitation on abortion throughout pregnancy, even in the third trimester, is a "ban." Even more disingenuous, Democrats have also accused Republicans of threatening birth control and, most recently, IVF. Welcome to the political silly season. Both parties have people on their fringes who take extreme positions, but that doesn't make it the party's position or long-term objective. And both parties have political consultants who know how to misconstrue the intention behind certain pieces of legislation When the Left claims that Republicans threaten access to contraception, it points to Republican opposition to mandates and bills that force some people (employers, taxpayers) to pay for other people's contraception.


Northwest Arkansas, Louisville and New Orleans are emerging as America's new innovation hotspots, as measured by the change in utility patents granted over time per 100,000 residents.


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that Pennsylvania may enforce state law requiring envelopes for mail-in ballots to be dated and include the voter's signature. In Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman, the plaintiff sued the then-acting secretary of the commonwealth in 2022 regarding Pennsylvania's decision to void mail-in ballots that are either missing a date on the outer return envelopes or have an incorrect date. Pennsylvania counties were ordered by a lower court following a Republican lawsuit in 2022 to reject undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots. The issue was then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Read more


"The need to increase the debt limit1 has focused attention on the size and trajectory of the federal debt. Long-term projections show2 that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely, with increased noninterest spending due to demographic changes such as increasing life expectancy, declining fertility, and decreased immigration and rising health care costs permanently outstripping revenues under projections based on current law. House Republican leaders have used this fact to call for spending cuts,3 but it does not address the true cause of rising debt: Tax cuts initially enacted during Republican trifectas in the past 25 years slashed taxes."


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