News & Politics

News cameras from WBBM-TV were rolling when trouble went down on a bike path near Chicago’s Oak Street Beach Monday morning, the station said. At least four people were kicked or punched along the path between North Avenue and Oak Street Beach around 6 a.m., WBBM noted. Now check out these three characters — two
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Newly obtained emails expose how social media platforms helped turn Arizona, once a reliable red state, into a hub of leftist politicians. The Arizona Capitol Oversight, a non-profit organization, unleashed on August 10 emails exposing how Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, as then-Arizona secretary of state, coerced Twitter and Facebook to censor her leading opponents ahead
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A female allegedly kicked an 84-year-old woman out of a bus in Los Angeles last week before spitting at the elderly grandmother while she was lying flat on a sidewalk. What’s more, a witness said a passerby pretended to help the victim but swiped her pocketbook instead. What are the details? Fox News said the
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Last week, the Alabama Republican Party moved to block “woke” state and national teachers’ unions from influencing school-related elections. The Alabama GOP voted to ban teachers’ unions from donating to school-related election campaigns to prevent the unions — specifically, the National Education Association and the Alabama Education Association — from influencing state policies. John Wahl,
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National “Public” Radio is staunchly taking sides in the debate over “book bans” of explicit sexual material in public libraries. On Saturday night’s horribly named show All Things Considered, Boston-based NPR reporter Tovia Smith filed a 12-and-a-half minute story warning “The battle over books comes at a cost.” Librarians have been smeared as evil people
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As the transhuman revolution marches onward, human social media “influencers” are increasingly being replaced by non-human, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated ones unhindered by imperfections, with no need for elaborate filters, and who don’t need a plane ticket to show up in Bali for a photoshoot. One of the more popular such AI influencers is a “24-year
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Singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony on Sunday afternoon played his first concert since blue-collar anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” launched him from obscurity into social media stardom in a matter of days last week. Fittingly it was a free show at the Morris Farm Market on the northeastern edge of North Carolina. He told the overflow
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The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve a temporary housing program as part of a nearly $2.7 billion border plan that would allow illegal immigrant families to stay in facilities separate from detention centers while they await processing. Axios reported that a recently proposed Biden plan would give illegal immigrant families who cross the
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We’ve all heard Joe Biden’s efforts to make “Bidenomics” a good thing. The way he tells it, his economic policies have ushered in historic job gains, lowering inflation, and fiscal responsibility. “My Administration has created more jobs in two years than any previous administration has created in the first four years,” Biden claimed in a
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A tiny police department in rural Kansas is defending itself after conducting a controversial raid on the office of a local newspaper as well as the home of the newspaper’s owner. Before 11 a.m. on Friday morning, members of law enforcement executed a search warrant on the office of the Marion County Record in Marion,
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Reporter Jennifer Medina’s Tuesday front-page New York Times story, “Rhetoric Raises Alarms About Lasting Harms,” hypocritically bashed Republicans for criticizing “the courts, the F.B.I., the military and schools” — things liberals and their journalist allies themselves relished denigrating until about 10 minutes ago. Ron DeSantis says the military is more interested in global warming and
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A recently released survey of 1,300 American teenage girls’ (ages 11-15) social media use has concluded, among other potentially troubling findings, that almost half of the girls surveyed who use TikTok self-report feeling “addicted” to the platform. Via Common Sense Media (emphasis added): Girls are using these platforms with striking frequency. On average, girls who
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CNN may finally have reached peak CNN. A Saturday article for cnn.com by Scottie Andrew now seeks to turn words like “leaf,” “sun,” and “star” into pronouns. This is not satire. Under a subheadline “An intro to nounself neoprouns”, Andrewwrites, “Leaf, sun, star — nounself pronouns are neopronouns that use nature and other inspirations as nonbinary or genderless descriptors. Linguist
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Several officials in the state capital of Lansing, Michigan, have scrambled to apologize after a black young man was placed in handcuffs and temporarily detained while he was reportedly taking out the trash. On Thursday, 12-year-old Tashawn Bernard was reportedly taking out the trash at a dumpster in his apartment complex when he was wrongfully
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The Saturday editions of NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CBS Saturday Morning all mentioned Republican objections to Friday’s announcement that David Weiss was named special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, but only CBS managed to remember the IRS whistleblowers that give GOP accusations that Weiss initially negotiated a “sweetheart deal” an added
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