Monthly Archives: November 2021

FDNY Commissioner Condemns Sickout By Firefighters

The New York Daily News reports: Thousands of FDNY members have called out sick over the last few days in what city officials believe to be a protest over the looming mandated COVID-19 vaccination deadline for city employees, sources told the Daily News. Some 2,000 members of the department who took sick time are believed to be feigning illness due …

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Flynn Accused Of Blackmail Plot To Force “Audits”

Salon reports: A Republican Senate candidate alleged over the weekend that Michael Flynn, the retired general and former national security adviser, has sought damaging information on elected officials in a number of states, with the apparent goal of blackmailing them into supporting conspiratorial election audits meant to reinforce Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Everett Stern, …

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Britain Warns France In Brexit Trade Dispute [Video]

Reuters reports: Britain gave France 48 hours on Monday to back down in a fishing row that threatens to spiral into a wider trade dispute between two of Europe’s biggest economies or face tortuous legal action under the Brexit trade deal. Post-Brexit bickering over fish culminated last Wednesday in the French seizure of a British scallop dredger, the Cornelis Gert …

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Insiders Accuse Trump Organization Of Insurance Scam

Insurance Business reports: The Trump Organization filed a highly exaggerated claim of nearly $1.3 million for damages to a golf course that cost only a fraction of the payout, insiders familiar with the matter have claimed. Sources that asked not to be identified reached out to Rolling Stone, saying that when a flood occurred at Trump National Golf Club Westchester …

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Oxford Dictionary’s Word Of The Year For 2021: “Vax”

The New York Times reports: Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” That may seem like a no-brainer. But as with so much about public health, the power lies in the numbers. “Vaccine,” already a common-enough word in English, more than doubled in frequency over the past year, as vaccines against …

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Cultist Reps Want To Bomb Capitol Metal Detectors

Mediaite reports: While campaigning for a Republican congressional candidate in central Florida on Saturday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) complained about the metal detectors in the Capitol, lying about why they were installed and going so far as to joke about blowing them up with explosives. Boebert, said Gaetz during his remarks Saturday, was a “5 foot nothing woman” who “carries …

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Global COVID Death Toll Surpasses Five Million

NPR reports: Global deaths from COVID-19 have now surpassed 5 million, according to the data released Monday from Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus tracker. The U.S. continues to lead the world with the number of confirmed deaths from the virus — where more than 745,800 people have died from COVID-19. Brazil (with more than 607,000 deaths) and India (with more than …

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WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki Tests Positive For COVID

CNN reports: White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who dropped off President Joe Biden’s international trip shortly before he departed, has tested positive for coronavirus after members of her household did, she said in a statement Sunday. Psaki said she last saw Biden Tuesday outside while masked, before the President departed for Rome for the Group of 20 Summit, and …

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