Day: October 11, 2024

Democrats Pressure Big Tech to Censor Hurricane ‘Misinformation’ amid Public Scrutiny of Response

Tom Pappert
Hurricane Helene

Four Democrats in the U.S. House sent a letter to Big Tech executives on Friday demanding increased censorship and scrutiny on their platforms after Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, arguing they must censor posts to protect users from potential scams and “misinformation” about federal agencies.

Representatives Deborah Ross (D-NC-02), Kathy Castor (D-FL-14), Nikema Williams (D-GA-05), and Wiley Nickel (D-NC-13) urged tech executives to “do substantially more” to combat social media “misinformation” that purportedly began in the wake of Hurricane Helene, in a letter first reported by Axios.

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‘Frankly Disturbing’: Cheryl Fritze Unravels Michigan Governor’s Viral Doritos Video

Kaitlin Housler
Gretchen Whitmer

Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said the viral video posted on Thursday showing Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer feeding a Doritos chip to left-wing podcaster Liz Plank is “frankly disturbing” and “very offensive to an awful lot of people.”

The video shows Whitmer, wearing a Harris-Walz camo ball cap, hand-feeding a chip to Plank, kneeling in front of the governor.

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Migrants Are Overwhelming School Districts in Pennsylvania, Saddling Taxpayers with Hefty Price Tag

Daily Caller News Foundation
Students

A massive influx in non-English speaking students in Pennsylvania is overwhelming school districts across the state, and the logistical strain on administrators could be leaving other students behind.

The number of English Language Learners (ELL) in school districts in Pennsylvania has surged nearly 40% since 2021, forcing public schools to shell out more cash to try and meet the needs of these students, according to documents obtained via records requests and open-source information reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The surge for many schools began in the 2021-2022 academic school year, coinciding with the onset of the Biden-Harris administration and the subsequent border crisis.

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Democrats, Media Misrepresent Abortion Policies on Both Sides of Political Aisle

Just the News
Abortion Supporter

Democrats and the media have misrepresented the abortion policies of Republicans and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, claiming that the former are secretly much more strict than they are and arguing that the latter is not as liberal as he appears.

From Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s abortion policies as Minnesota governor to Republicans’ stance on a national abortion ban, Democrats have distorted both their own record and their opponents’ on abortion in the months leading up to the presidential election.

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Election Tilts Toward Trump as Suspicions Grow That Some Polls May Be Masking True Size of His Lead

Just the News
Donald Trump

A string of polls from legacy outfits has pointed to a shift toward former President Donald Trump in most of the major battleground states while Vice President Harris maintains a national lead, but some analysts see a critical disconnect between state and national polling that could suggest the Republican is on even stronger footing.

Harris currently leads Trump by 2.0% in the RealClearPolitics polling average, with 49.1% support to his 47.1%. That figure includes a Rasmussen Reports survey showing Trump with a two-point lead, a Reuters/Ipsos survey showing Harris up two, a Morning Consult poll with Harris up five, a Yahoo News poll with the race tied, and a number of other surveys. A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Harris up three points.

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Former DOJ Official Jeff Clark Demands Answers After Not Finding a Single Case Prosecuted by Kamala Harris

Kaitlin Housler
Kamala Harris

Jeff Clark, former acting assistant attorney general during the Trump administration, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been “radio silent” since he has challenged the campaign to release a single transcript of any case the vice president had allegedly argued while serving in her past prosecutorial roles in California.

Last month, Clark completed a comprehensive search into Harris’ background as a prosecutor, which failed to produce evidence that the vice president had ever led the prosecution of a single case at the local or state level.

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Tennessee Opens Up $100 Million in Immediate Funds to Assist Communities in Cleanup Process from Hurricane Helene

Kaitlin Housler
Hurricane Helene Damage

Governor Bill Lee’s Office announced Thursday that $100 million in state funds have been made available for 13 Tennessee counties impacted by Hurricane Helene.

Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties are eligible to request immediate financial assistance through the new Helene Emergency Assistance Loans (HEAL) Program.

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State Makes $100 Million Loans Available to Hurricane Counties

The Center Square
Hurricane Helene Damage

Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that $100 million in state-funded loans are available to help counties affected by Hurricane Helene.

The program, dubbed Helene Emergency Assistance Loans, or HEAL, is funded by TennCare Shared Savings, the governor said. Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington counties can opt-in to the no-interest loans.

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Mortgage Rates Rising Despite Rate Cut Last Month

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NBC Montana  If interest rates go down, so should mortgage rates. That’s what many people expected after the Federal Reserve lowered rates by 50 basis points last month, but that hasn’t been the case. The opposite has been happening with rates going up. According to data from Mortgage Daily News, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has jumped about 47 basis points since the Fed rate cut in September to right around 6.62%. READ THE FULL STORY                   

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Judge to Unseal Additional Filings from Jan. 6 Case as Trump Signals Challenge

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The Hill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed Thursday to unseal additional filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out his election interference case against former President Trump, something Trump’s attorneys signaled they plan to challenge. Chutkan agreed to a request from Smith to unseal exhibits that accompany his 180-page brief asserting that prosecutors can still bring much of their Jan. 6 case against Trump in the wake of a Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity.    Smith argues Trump’s efforts to thwart the transfer of power were the unlawful actions of a private citizen, not of a president. READ THE FULL STORY    

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The Baby Bust: Planetary Population Set to Decline for the First Time Since the Black Death in the 1300s

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Foreign Affairs Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline. But whereas the last implosion was caused by a deadly disease borne by fleas, the coming one will be entirely due to choices made by people. With birthrates plummeting, more and more societies are heading into an era of pervasive and indefinite depopulation, one that will eventually encompass the whole planet. What lies ahead is a world made up of shrinking and aging societies. Net mortality—when a society experiences more deaths than births—will likewise become the new norm. Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life. Human beings have no collective memory of depopulation. Overall global numbers last declined about 700 years ago, in the wake of the bubonic plague that tore through much of Eurasia. In the following seven centuries, the world’s population surged almost 20-fold. And just over the past century, the human population has quadrupled. READ THE FULL…

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Conservative UK Newspaper Telegraph Bidder Scrambles for Investors: Report

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Semafor The New York publisher who is now the lead bidder for the Telegraph, the British Conservative Party’s newspaper of record, is still working to assemble investors to back the $550 million deal. Dovid Efune, the bidder, has approached the group founded by the conservative American business figure Charles Koch, Stand Together, the organization confirmed. Efune, the publisher of the New York Sun, was reportedly poised to enter exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph Media Group from the Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund that acquired it from its owners, the Barclay Brothers, but was blocked by the British government from taking it over. A person familiar with the talks said the parties have still not entered the exclusivity period, which had been expected to begin Wednesday. READ THE FULL STORY    

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ESL Teacher Sounds Alarm over Number of Foreign Students as Taxpayers Spend Nearly $600 Million Educating Children of Illegal Immigrants

Tom Pappert
Illegal Immigrant Children

A teacher who educates students receiving English as a Second Language (ESL) lessons in Middle Tennessee told Fox 17 Nashville on Wednesday that the number of students who do not speak English is straining the state’s resources.

The outlet reported an anonymous teacher reported 1,000 ESL students in one district, with 120 in kindergarten alone, and that many of the foreign-born students are years behind their American counterparts. 

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Report: Arizona Households Paying Nearly $10K More a Year Due to Inflation

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Family Broker

The Common Sense Institute’s “Inflation Misery Index” said that inflation continues to have a stinging impact on Arizonans’ wallets.

According to the report, Arizonans spend $9,996 more each year compared to 2019. When adjusted for the usually expected 2% inflation yearly, it’s still a $6,276 difference. The report adds that 24% of the average Grand Canyon State’s household income was eaten up by inflation, or roughly $25,000.

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Second Survey Shows Dave McCormick Tied with Sen. Bob Casey After Senate Debate in Pennsylvania

Tom Pappert
Dave McCormick and Bob Casey

Dave McCormick is statistically tied with Senator Bob Casey among Pennsylvania voters, according to a Thursday poll released after their first debate on October 3, indicating the race may be tightening in the final weeks before Election Day.

The Emerson College survey of 1,000 likely Pennsylvania voters found the U.S. Senate race in a dead heat, with Casey leading at 47.7 percent and McCormick narrowly trailing at 46 percent.

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Gov. Josh Shapiro Confirms Elon Musk Considering Investment in Pennsylvania After Billionaire Spoke at Trump Rally in Butler

Tom Pappert
Shapiro and Musk

Governor Josh Shapiro confirmed on Thursday that he spoke with Elon Musk about potential investments in Pennsylvania after the billionaire executive spoke at the rally held by former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Shapiro explained to NBC News that Musk was attending a Pittsburgh Steelers game with entrepreneur Thomas Tull, who called the governor to connect him with the world’s richest man.

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Seminar Unpacks Democrats’ Role in Undermining Democracy: Experts Weigh In on 14th Amendment, Presidential Eligibility

Rachel Alexander
Kamala Harris

Davos in the Desert, a civic organization in Arizona, held a daylong virtual seminar last Friday addressing how Democrats are destroying democracy. The event, titled Defending Democracy, featured numerous national experts, including Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman. Eastman spoke about whether Kamala Harris is ineligible to be president due to the natural-born citizen requirement of the 14th Amendment, whether that amendment applies to illegal immigrants, and how the Democrats are scheming to invoke its Section 3 to prevent Trump from taking office if he wins the presidential election. 

Shawn Smith, who served more than 25 years in active duty for the United States Air Force, including as a colonel and now leads Cause of America, a nonpartisan nonprofit establishment to help grassroots American citizens restore integrity and trust in our elections, spoke about election laws the Democrats are violating.

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Commentary: Trump’s Toughest Foe Could Be Harris Lawyer Marc Elias

American Greatness

If Donald Trump gets past Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, he’ll likely face a fiercer opponent in court – her campaign attorney, Marc Elias, who has vowed to fight the election outcome in every close state she loses.

The longtime Democratic Party lawyer has already filed more than 60 preelection lawsuits to stop Trump from becoming president again by combatting what he calls Republican “voter suppression” efforts such as requiring voters to provide identification at the polls. Echoing a standard Democratic talking point, Elias maintains that such requirements are “racist” strategies designed to make it harder for minorities to vote.

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Jack Smith Should Not Disclose More Evidence Against Trump During Early Voting, Trump Attorneys Argue

Daily Caller News Foundation

Special counsel Jack Smith should not release more evidence in his case against former President Donald Trump during early voting, defense attorneys told the judge in a filing Thursday.

Allowing Smith to release the appendix attached to his motion on presidential immunity, which Judge Tanya Chutkan already allowed Smith to file on the public docket, would be a continuation of “overt and inappropriate election interference,” Trump’s attorneys argued.

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