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The Babylon Bee's editor-in-chief Kyle Mann is in 'twitter jail', locked out of his account for suggesting that Twitter might lift its original suspension "if we throw a few thousand Uighurs in a concentration camp."
The comment was likely a reference to Twitter allowing Communist Chinese Party PR people and apologists to operate freely on the platform.
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Why it matters: The bill, which would incentivize private citizens to sue anyone suspected of helping a person get an abortion, would surpass Texas' six-week abortion ban to become the most restrictive in the nation.
- The bill now heads to the state Senate. If signed into law, it would take effect immediately but would likely face legal challenges.
Comment: As the number of abortions continue to rise each year we're seeing a shift in public sentiment, from the US to Russia, over the use of abortion to deal with unwanted pregnancies:
- Horrifying New York late-term abortion law at forefront of big Democrat push in US
- Russia to increase psychological, social & medical help available to pregnant women as country seeks to reduce abortions by 50%
- China seeks to "reduce non-medical abortion"
Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020 (MCA) "targets religious parents."
"States and the District are free to encourage individuals — including children — to get vaccines," McFadden wrote in his ruling. "But they cannot transgress on the [National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act] Congress created. And they cannot trample on the Constitution."
Trans*sexworks, based in Berlin, posted peer-counseling services on their Instagram page last week targeting Ukrainian women who "need support/info on how to begin sex work in Germany," according to Reduxx.
The organization, which described itself as "a peer-to-peer support structure and network for and made up of trans and non-binary sexworkers," wrote in the post that "we are now offering peer-counceling and support in Ukrainian, Russian and English for all sex-workers fleeing the war in Ukraine."
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The digital ID includes all the data found on a normal state ID or driver's license, plus detailed facial recognition scans, fingerprints and an unspecified list of other information "requested by the TSA." All the user needs to do, according to Apple, is consent to provide whatever information the TSA requests using their device's Face ID or Touch ID function.
While the company touts the convenience of being able to whip out one's device and move through airline security with "just a tap," its built-in biometric features already offer up more data than even the most advanced non-computerized driver's license, and Apple admits that the TSA nabs a photo of the user above and beyond what is needed to travel - just "for verification purposes."
It's the Current Thing:
Well, now we have a way to describe it. All of those were, at some point, "The Current Thing."
We can't expect liberals to give up their mindless devotion to the Current Thing. Sometimes it may even make sense to care about the Current Thing. But at the very least, this meme forces you to ask the question: why? Why do you care about the Current Thing? Is it just because you've been told to care about it? Is it because everyone else has suddenly started caring about it? Are there other things — perhaps even more important things, that you aren't paying attention to, because the Current Thing is all anyone is talking about?
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Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a jump in the government's preferred measure of the cost of living from 5.5% in January, fuelled by the rising cost of petrol and diesel and a wide range of goods from food to toys and games.
The February inflation figure for the consumer prices index was higher than the 5.9% predicted by a Reuters poll of economists, illustrating the scale of the squeeze on UK households from soaring living costs.
According to the latest snapshot, soaring inflationary pressure was fuelled by rising costs for gas and electricity, as well as average petrol and diesel prices hitting record highs in a blow to motorists.
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The world economy is still set to expand in 2022, though by less than the 4.4% previously anticipated, Georgieva said in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine broadcast Tuesday. The IMF is set to update its projections in April when the fund holds its annual spring meetings.
"Some economies that have been fast to recover from Covid are in a stronger position" to cope with the reverberations from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Georgieva said. The U.S. in particular has "fairly strong fundamentals," she said.
Comment: Claiming the US has 'strong fundamentals' reflects just how deluded (or deceptive) those at the IMF are.
"But those that were not yet coming out of the Covid crisis, that were falling further behind, they're going to be hit even harder," with the "possible risk of recessions."
Tighter financial conditions, as the Federal Reserve and other developed-world central banks raise interest rates, will be a "big shock" for many countries, according to Georgieva. About 60% of low-income countries are in "debt distress' or close to it, double the number that the IMF was worried about back in 2015, she said.
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki insisted on Monday that the US government had no part in the decision of a large number of Western companies to pull out of the Russian market amid Russia's conflict with Ukraine.
Upon being asked by a reporter whether Western companies still operating in Russia "should stay," Psaki claimed:
"The US government had not asked any company specifically to take steps to pull out. We have applauded those who have made that decision, and they are going to have to make decisions of their own regard."Many American companies have withdrawn from the Russian market amid the conflict with Ukraine. While certain major brands, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and McDonald's, were initially not among the departing companies, they too have since left.
Comment: Companies running from a lucrative market to a failing one is financial suicide.
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