Monthly Archives: April 2022

Philadelphia Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate [VIDEO]

Philadelphia’s NBC News affiliate reports: With COVID-19 cases slowly rising, Philadelphia is bringing back its indoor mask mandate for public places, schools and day cares. Philadelphia announced Monday that, on April 18, masks must be worn again indoors. Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said businesses can choose to be mask-free if they require all employees and visitors to prove they have …

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Judge Bars Iowa Dem From US Senate Primary Ballot

The Des Moines Register reports: U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer will appeal a judge’s ruling saying she cannot appear on Iowa’s June 7 Democratic primary ballot. The ruling late Sunday night, which reverses a state panel’s decision, is a major setback for Finkenauer, who is competing for the Democratic nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican. A pair …

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NC Paper: Trump’s Rally Drew Fewer Than 2000 People

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Former President Donald Trump took the stage at The Farm in Selma in front of what appeared to be roughly 1,000 to 2,000 people — substantially fewer than the 15,000 who attended his rally at the same venue in the days before 2016’s presidential election. All of the speakers who had been announced prior …

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Trio Who Stole Pelosi’s Nameplate Get Prison Time

Law & Crime reports: Emily Hernandez, 22, became one of the most well-known faces of the Capitol attack after pictures and videos of her went viral, including one in which she is seen standing just a few feet from Robert Keith Packer—memorably wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt—and grinning widely while appearing to hold the purloined piece of Pelosi’s nameplate. Also …

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Hannity Lies That He Never Promoted Horse Paste

Media Matters reports: Fox News host Sean Hannity is now pretending that he consistently warned his audience against the use of ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that a constellation of right-wing personalities and grifters promoted as a COVID-19 treatment that a major study now shows is ineffective. “People wrote this story, by the way, that I had been telling people [to …

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POLL: Sarah Palin +5 In Alaska US House Race

Must Read Alaska reports: A poll commissioned by Must Read Alaska over the weekend shows that Sarah Palin has both a chance of winning the race for Congress, but also has a high negative factor and could hand the race to the leading candidate supported by Alaska Democrats — Al Gross. The survey asked questions of 955 likely 2022 primary …

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David Mamet: “Teachers Are Inclined To Pedophilia”

“People have gone nuts and people are frightened because there’s huge changes in society, that are brought about by the people in power. The people in power, as always, are to a large extent, parasites who are feeding off of the decaying flesh. “If there is no community control over the schools, what w have is kids being — not …

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Kmart Soon Down To Only Three Physical Stores

USA Today reports: Soon there will be only three open Kmart stores in the U.S. The Kmart store in Avenel, New Jersey, 15 miles south of New York City, is the latest store scheduled to permanently close on April 16. Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. – once well over 2,000 – will be down to …

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Anti-Vax NBA Star Ineligible For Toronto Playoff Games

“I made this choice, and I thought I could keep it to myself, I can keep it private, but people are always gonna wonder why. I was raised in a holistic household where anti-vax is not like a term that was ever used. “It’s a weird term that’s kind of been thrown around just to label people. We grew up …

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Manhole Explosion Sparks Times Square Panic [VIDEO]

The New York Daily News reports: Large swaths of Times Square were cleared out after a manhole explosion rocked Midtown Manhattan Sunday, police said. The blast erupted in a manhole on W. 43rd St. near Seventh Ave. just after 6:45 p.m., FDNY and Con Edison officials said. After the explosion — caused by a cable failure — a second and …

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CDC May Extend Mask Mandate For Public Transport

The Hill reports: A top White House COVID-19 adviser on Monday said that extending the federal mask mandate for all transportation networks, which is set to expire next week, is “absolutely” under consideration. “This is a CDC decision and I think it is absolutely on the table,” White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said on NBC’s “Today” show, referring …

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Orlando’s Airport Now Among World’s Ten Busiest

Reuters reports: Orlando cracked a list of the world’s top 10 busiest airports by passengers for the first time last year, as the home of the Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida theme parks joined mostly American hubs as soaring leisure travel underpins a recovery in traffic. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport topped the rankings by passenger traffic published Monday …

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Catholic League: Hollywood Must Cast More Catholics

From Bill Donahue’s letter to the Academy: In 2024, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will institute inclusion standards for Oscar eligibility. Those standards are based on race, ethnicity, sex, those with disabilities, sexual orientation and gender identity. Noticeably absent is any mention of religion. The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, …

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S&P Reports Russia Has Defaulted On Its Foreign Debt

ABC News reports: Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt because it offered bondholders payments in rubles, not dollars, credit ratings agency S&P has said. Russia attempted to pay in rubles for two dollar-denominated bonds that matured on April 4, S&P said in a note on Friday. The agency said this amounted to a “selective default” because investors are unlikely …

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Trump Records Video Message For Kid Rock Concert

Mediaite reports: Kid Rock started his concert on Wednesday night with a video greeting from former President Donald Trump saying “all of you in attendance are the true backbone of our great country, hard-working, God-fearing, rock-and-roll patriots.” “I know you’re having a great time at the Kid Rock concert tonight. Quite frankly, he’s amazing,” Trump said to the crowd at …

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NY Cops Cleared In 2020 Assault Of Elderly Protester

The Associated Press reports: An arbitrator has ruled that two Buffalo police officers didn’t violate the department’s use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020 during racial injustice protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The episode drew national attention when a news crew captured video of Martin Gugino being shoved by …

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Graham: Pray For Alabama’s Anti-LGBT Politicians

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Alabama is making sense! Governor Kay Ivey signed two bills yesterday to protect the state’s children. One makes it a felony to provide gender transition-related treatments to children, and the other—which she calls a “no-brainer”—prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-5 and also keeps transgender youth from using bathrooms …

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Finland And Sweden Could Join NATO By This Summer

CNN reports: Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, moves that would likely infuriate Moscow and that officials say would further underscore Russia’s strategic error in invading Ukraine. NATO officials told CNN that discussions about Sweden and Finland joining the bloc have gotten extremely serious since Russia’s invasion, and US senior State Department officials said the matter came up at …

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Saudi Prince Directed $2B Investment In Kushner Firm

The New York Times reports: Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal. A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited …

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Musk Won’t Join Twitter’s Board Of Directors After All

CNBC reports: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has abandoned his plans to join the board of Twitter, his social network of choice. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced publicly on Sunday that Musk remains the largest shareholder of Twitter, and the company will remain open to his input. Musk informed Twitter on Saturday morning that he would not, in fact, …

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