Will the White House soon push Americans to mask up, regardless of whether or not they are fully vaccinated? Some sources indicate that officials are at least in discussions to determine whether this may be necessary.
Apparently, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are involved in these talks. The Biden administration has insisted that they are awaiting additional guidance from the CDC before they alter their messaging.
“At the White House, we follow the guidance and advice of health and medical experts,” said assistant press secretary Kevin Munoz. “Public health guidance is made by the CDC, and they continue to recommend that fully vaccinated individuals do not wear a mask. If you are not vaccinated, you should be wearing a mask.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is suspended from Twitter for 12 hours after sharing a series of pandemic posts that the social media giant condemned.
The suspension, which took effect yesterday, is set to expire sometime today, but it marks the second time the big tech tyrant has temporarily banned the Twitter user in recent months. The company said her first suspension was a mistake.
In a Sunday tweet, Greene said the government should not “force NON-FDA approved vaccines or masks. Instead [it should] help people protect their health by defeating obesity, which will protect them from [virus] complications and death, and many other health problems. We should invest in health, not human experimentation.”
If Greene continues to rack up “strikes” because of her Twitter content, she could ultimately be suspended for a week, or even face a permanent ban like the former president.
Apparently, a Trump supporter from New Jersey is facing a $250-a-day fine if she refuses to remove her anti-Biden signage that includes profanity, reports say.
Patricia Dilascio’s lawn is dotted with signs that illustrate her distaste for the current president, including a poster that reads: “F–k Biden.” She claims that her daughter, Andrea Dick, is the person responsible for the obscene language.
Dick claims that the signage is protected under the First Amendment, and she appeared alongside her mother for the hearing last week.
But Roselle Park Municipal Court Judge Gary Bundy didn’t see things from Dick’s perspective.
“This is not a case about politics,” Bundy said. “It is a case, pure and simple, about language. It is clear from state law and statutes that we cannot simply put up the umbrella of the First Amendment and say everything and anything is protected speech.”
According to federal prosecutors, 45-year-old Ian Benjamin Rogers and 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland had intended to carry out a series of violent attacks.
“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers had said, according to an indictment that was unsealed earlier this week.
“According to the indictment, the defendants planned to use incendiary devices to attack their targets and hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” said officials in a statement.
At the beginning of this year, authorities found between 45 and 50 guns, five pipe bombs, and tons of ammunition inside Rogers’s home.
President Joe Biden’s administration just publicly admitted to the fact that they are policing Facebook, “flagging problematic posts.”
Yesterday, the White House press secretary said that officials were collaborating with the big tech tyrants to manage “misinformation” on the internet.
The briefing provides further evidence that conservative voices are being silenced, and differing opinions are censored.
Virus information is of particular interest to the government, as they want to ensure they have total spin control over the vaccine and pandemic narratives.
“This includes claims such as: [the virus] is man-made or manufactured, vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease they are meant to protect against, it’s safer to get the disease than to get the vaccine, vaccines are toxic, dangerous or cause autism,” officials said.
If you were looking to take your distaste for Dr. Anthony Fauci to the next level, then you are in luck.
The governor of the sunshine state recently added some pretty hilarious items to his campaign store — merchandise that pokes fun at the so-called infectious disease expert and the disastrous rules he implemented over the course of the pandemic.
In the store, you’ll find items that say things like “Don’t Fauci My Florida,” “Keep Florida Free,” and (perhaps my favorite), a drink koozie with a slogan that reads: “How the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has seen his popularity soar over his handling of the pandemic in his state. He never closed the beaches or implemented sweeping mask mandates, and he lifted restrictions in May.
Earlier this week, he told reporters that the upcoming school year would be “normal,” and would not expect mask mandates.
“No mandates for anything,” he said. “I think it’s very unfair for some of the youngest kids who are the least susceptible, least likely to spread it, that they have the mitigation imposed on them more severely than a lot of adults do.”
In a recent episode of her podcast, the conservative journalist Megyn Kelly said that she believed that corporate media made the Jan. 6 riots out to be way worse than they really were. She suggested that the media ran with the behavior of a few bad apples instead of reporting the event for what it really was.
“We’ve all seen the video of people screaming in the face of cops, being totally disparaging, and defecating on the floor of the U.S. Capitol. And lawmakers were understandably afraid, not like [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying] ‘I need therapy for the rest of my life’ afraid, but I could understand it, and I didn’t like seeing it at all.”
She continued: “But that doesn’t mean that’s what the entire crowd was there for. So they got tarred by the actions of some losers who went a different way.”
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On this day in 1881, the 20th president of this country was shot. He passed away a few months later on September 9th. What was the name of this president?
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The first responders in Surfside, Florida have faced a slew of challenges in the nine days since the Champlain Towers South condominium partially collapsed, killing 18 people. That number will likely grow as the 145 missing people are eventually plucked from the rubble.
Officials have faced severe weather of all stripes — everything from lightning to heat and humidity. And hurricane season is only just beginning. Yesterday, the search and rescue mission was stopped altogether, because both the debris and the still-standing building segment began shifting.
The mayor of Miami-Dade County has said that structural engineers are planning the demolition of the remaining part of the condominium complex.
“Given our ongoing safety concerns about the integrity of the building, we’re continuing to restrict access to the collapse zone,” she said late yesterday.
The stock market was muted this morning as investors awaited the release of the Labor Department’s look at June payrolls. Analysts are anticipating the addition of 706,000 new jobs for the month, and unemployment is expected to dip to 5.6%.
Yesterday, each of the three major benchmarks finished in positive trading territory, with the S&P 500 up 0.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite climbing 0.13%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, meanwhile, rose 131 points.
And shares of Virgin Galactic soared 30% in the premarket, after the space tourism company announced that it would be sending its founder, Sir Richard Branson, to space on July 11. The date is important because it’s just before Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos is set for spaceflight on July 20 via his Blue Origin company.
Former President Donald Trump will not face charges related to reported “hush money” payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, his attorney says. He also will not be charged for supposedly changing property values, Ronald Fischetti reported.
The lawyer had contacted Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance last week to get a feel for what was on the horizon for his client. He was told that Trump Organization executives will deal with only minor potential charges related to taxes.
This news seems to contradict the much more severe claims made by Letitia James, the state’s attorney general. Last month, she announced that she would coordinate a criminal probe into the Trump Organization, alongside Vance.
“We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the Organization is no longer purely civil in nature,” she had said in a statement. “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.”
But after Fischetti spoke with Vance, he compared the investigation to “the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing.”
The stock market was relatively muted on Tuesday, following Facebook’s first-ever $1 trillion closing. The social media giant increased 4% yesterday after winning an antitrust case, and the surging market value buoyed other tech stocks.
This morning, United Airlines announced that it would buy nearly 300 new jets from Boeing and Airbus, the company’s largest order ever. The move will also support the addition of 25,000 new jobs.
Several banks also revealed that they would be increasing their dividends, with Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo doubling theirs.
And finally, the president hits the road with his new bipartisan infrastructure deal, hoping to sell the $973 billion package as a sign that America “can function, we can deliver… We can do significant things [and] show that America is back.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris got herself into trouble, recently, for literally laughing when asked about her plans to visit the site of the border crisis that President Joe Biden created.
After former President Donald Trump announced his own plans to visit the border, however, Harris quickly scrambled to get a trip on her calendar — exactly one week before his.
The “coincidental” nature of her arrival in El Paso on Friday is lost on no one, but her office is defending the lie.
“This administration does not take their cues from Republican criticism, nor from the former President of the United States of America,” a spokesperson said. “We have said, over a number of different occasions — and the vice president has said, over the course — over the last three months, that she would go to the border. She has been before. She would go again. She would go when it was appropriate (and) when it made sense.”
Investors received an important inflation indicator yesterday that included some pretty dramatic data. According to the Commerce Department, that report pointed to a 3.4% increase last month.
The core personal consumption expenditures price index has not logged such a drastic year-over-year increase since the beginning of the 1990s, experts say. The spike likely reflects the economic explosion as businesses reopen, especially when compared to the despair of last year.
The Federal Reserve typically uses this report as a way to justify changes in monetary policy, though officials continue to reassure investors that the inflation increase is a temporary feature of the healing economy.
