Monthly Archives: January 2022

NOLA Health Official Quits Mardi Gras After Threats

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: New Orleans health director Dr. Jennifer Avegno decided not to ride as queen of Krewe du Vieux next month after unspecified threats that caused her to be concerned for her personal safety and the safety of krewe members, she wrote in a letter to the krewe. On Monday, Krewe du Vieux reported that Avegno, head …

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Candace Owens: “Biden Regime” Wants More Deaths

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens claimed the White House and President Joe Biden are hoping for mass deaths on Tuesday following a decision by the FDA to restrict the use of monoclonal antibody treatments amid the Omicron surge, citing their apparent lack of efficacy against the dominant variant. As a result of the FDA decision, the Florida Department of Health announced …

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Anti-Vax Man Says He’s Been Denied Kidney Transplant

Newsweek reports: A man seeking a kidney transplant has been denied a place on the active transplant list because he chose not to get vaccinated. Shamgar Connors, 42, is a patient at University of Virginia Hospital who is now listed as “inactive” on the list for a life-saving kidney transplant. Connors said his entire family had COVID-19 and doesn’t believe …

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Fox Host Claims Vaccine Boosters Were Never Studied

“What are we going to do, get boosters for the rest of our lives? You get boosters for the rest of your lives, I’m going to become an anti-vaxxer because there is a point at which this stuff is extremely dangerous to your immune system. And how many — how many trials have been run with endless boosters from any …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The New York Post reports: The long arm of the law doesn’t like bargain basement cocktail specials – even if they’re whipped up to help struggling restaurants drum up business during a slow January. Anton’s, the West Village eatery that drew crowds – and a column in last week’s Side Dish – with its 25 cent martinis and Manhattans – …

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Arizona Bill Allows Legislature To Reject Election Results

Democracy Docket reports: Since the 2022 Arizona legislative session began on Jan. 10, Republican lawmakers have introduced a slew of restrictive voting bills, including an omnibus bill that subverts nonpartisan election administration. House Bill 2596, introduced last Friday, would eliminate early voting, no-excuse mail-in voting (which the state has had since 1991) and emergency voting centers. H.B. 2596 would also …

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Kansas GOP Map Gerrymanders “Woke” University Town Into Pro-Trump District That Is Five Hours Away By Car

The Associated Press reports: The Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature are close to passing a congressional redistricting plan that marries an eastern Kansas community proud of its “woke” politics to Trump-loving small towns and farms five hours west by car on the expansive and stark plains. Democratic legislators and some local officials see the worst kind of gerrymandering in …

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Mike Lindell Loses Appeal To Dismiss Dominion Lawsuit

Law & Crime reports: Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and stalwart Donald Trump supporter who continues to push election conspiracy theories, has lost his appeal after a lower court refused to dismiss an election-related defamation case against him. Dominion Voting Systems sued Lindell for $1.3 billion in February of 2021, accusing Lindell of falsely accusing the company of rigging voting …

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Pelosi Announces Plan To Run For Reelection [VIDEO]

CNN reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that she plans to run for reelection, aiming to extend her more than 30-year run in Congress. “I am running for reelection to Congress and respectfully seek your support,” Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said in a video message posted on her political Twitter account. “I would be greatly honored by …

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Court Reinstates New York Mask Mandate For Now

The New York Times reports: New York State’s indoor mask mandate will remain in effect after an appeals court judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower-court ruling from a day before that had abruptly struck down the rule and created confusion across schools and businesses. The decision on Tuesday came after a ruling on Monday by Justice Thomas Rademaker, of …

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Dem Rep To Retire Due To GOP Shredding Of District

Politico reports: Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper, a 32-year veteran of Congress, will retire at the end of this year, after Tennessee Republicans shredded his Nashville-based seat into three pieces in redistricting. He is the 29th House Democrat to leave the chamber to retire or seek higher office during this Congress. “No one tried harder to keep our city whole,” Cooper …

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Pfizer Launches Trial Of Omicron-Specific Vaccine

Reuters reports: Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Tuesday they started a clinical trial to test a new version of their vaccine specifically designed to target the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has eluded some of the protection provided by the original two-dose vaccine regimen. Banking on volunteers in the United States, the companies plan to test the immune response …

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Federal Prosecutors Look Into Fake 2020 GOP Electors

CNN reports: Federal prosecutors are reviewing fake Electoral College certifications that declared former President Donald Trump the winner of states that he lost, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco told CNN on Tuesday. “We’ve received those referrals. Our prosecutors are looking at those and I can’t say anything more on ongoing investigations,” Monaco said in an exclusive interview. The fake certificates …

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Anti-Vax Nutbag Robert Kennedy Sorry For Anne Frank Comment After Backlash From Wife, Sister, And ADL

NBC News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday after critics, including members of his own family, blasted him for implying Anne Frank had more freedom in hiding from the Nazis than people have today under U.S. vaccine policies. “I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors,” he tweeted. “My intention was …

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Michael Avenatti Fires Lawyers, Will Represent Himself

The Guardian reports: The once-prominent attorney Michael Avenatti is now representing himself at his latest criminal trial, a move that sets the stage for a confrontation with his former client, the adult film-maker and actor Stormy Daniels, over her claim that he stole money she was owed for a book. In court in Manhattan on Tuesday, on the second day …

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WH Withdraws OSHA Mandate Due To SCOTUS Ruling

USA Today reports: The Biden administration is officially withdrawing its requirement that most workers be vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 – the controversial rule the Supreme Court blocked from enforcement earlier this month. The administration will also be asking the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the case. But the federal agency that regulates workplace safety said Tuesday …

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DeSantis Attacks FDA For Stopping Useless Treatment

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is condemning President Joe Biden’s administration for cutting off the federal supply of monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now revoked its emergency use authorization for monoclonal antibody therapies created by Regeneron and Eli Lilly, calling it unlikely the drugs could treat the omicron variant of COVID-19. “Without …

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Alex Jones Says He Pleaded The Fifth Nearly 100 Times

CNN reports: Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones met virtually on Monday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, he announced on his podcast. A source familiar with the investigation also confirmed the meeting to CNN. “I just had a very intense experience being interrogated by the January 6 committee,” Jones said on his podcast on Monday. “They …

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Shapiro Host Endorses Arranged Marriages [VIDEO]

“Now, on the complete opposite end of this spectrum are arranged marriages. Instead of a boundless never-ending buffet of options a young person in a culture that practices arranged marriages will be assigned just one, and they don’t even make the choice. “Their families just pair them up and say, ‘here you go.’ There’s far less freedom and far less …

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Stern: Anti-Vax Meat Loaf Was In “Weird Fucking Cult”

“Poor Meat Loaf got sucked into some weird fucking cult. And somehow really believed that — he made a statement, ‘I’d rather die a free man than take that vaccine.’ And now he’s dead! “I wish the family would come forward and say, ‘Ya know, when Meat Loaf was laying there in the hospital and he couldn’t breathe, he said, …

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