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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasts zero COVID deaths after early reopening

Natalie O'Neill
New York Post
Mon, 17 May 2021 20:15 UTC
El gobernador Greg Abbott emite una orden ejecutiva. 29 de marzo de 2020
© Twitter/@GregAbbott_TX
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — whose controversial early coronavirus reopening plan was slammed by President Biden as "Neanderthal thinking" — boasted that the state had zero daily COVID-19 deaths on Sunday.

"Today Texas reported: 0 Covid related deaths-the only time that's happened since data was tracked in March, 2020," the Republican governor said on Twitter.

He added that the state also had the "lowest 7-day Covid positivity rate ever" and "the fewest Covid cases in over 13 months."

But while the Lone Star State tallied zero fatalities that day, officials in the highly populated Dallas County no longer report new coronavirus data on Sundays — and the CDC's tracker shows that Texas had 305 coronavirus deaths overall last week.
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Opportunist Democrat Cori Bush compares BLM movement to Gaza, praises BLM activist who wished 'death' on police officers


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Tue, 18 May 2021 17:08 UTC
Cori Bush
Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush praised the Black Lives Matter activist who advocated "death" for police officers in 2014 and tweeted the BLM chant "pigs in a blanket fry 'em like bacon."

Bush, a newly minted member of the "squad," compared the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza with the Black Lives Matter movement during a speech on the House floor Thursday, reflecting on the life of Bassem Masri, who died in 2018.

Bush described Masri as a "St. Louis Palestinian," noting how he garnered national attention for live streaming heated exchanges between himself and Ferguson police officers following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown Jr.

Masri was among those arrested on a variety of charges following demonstrations outside the Ferguson Police Department in November 2014. Just one month later, Masri tweeted what became a notorious BLM phrase: "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon."
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Supreme Court restricts police authority to enter a home without a warrant

Nina Totenberg
NPR
Mon, 17 May 2021 01:31 UTC
US Supreme Court
© AP/Scott Applewhite/fileU.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against warrantless searches by police and seizures in the home in a case brought by a man whose guns officers confiscated after a domestic dispute.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court:
"The very core of the Fourth Amendment's guarantee is the right of a person to retreat into his or her home and 'there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.' "
The case involved a heated argument between a long-married couple, Edward and Kim Caniglia. He brought out a gun and told her to shoot him to put him out of his "misery." Then after he left the house in a huff, she hid the gun and spent the night in a motel. The next morning, unable to reach her husband, she asked police to escort her home because she was afraid he might have harmed himself.

Police found the husband on the front porch and sent him for a psychological evaluation. Later that day, doctors concluded he was not a threat to himself or others and released him. In the meantime, police had confiscated his guns and ammunition. So he sued, alleging an illegal search and seizure of his home.
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Eric Clapton blames 'propaganda' for 'disastrous' Covid vaccine experience

Daniel Kreps
Rolling Stone
Sun, 16 May 2021 16:23 UTC
Eric Clapton
© Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesEric Clapton
"My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks," guitarist writes of reaction to vaccine. "I feared I would never play again"

Eric Clapton detailed his "disastrous" health experience after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine and blamed "the propaganda" for overstating the safety of the vaccine in a letter the guitarist shared with an architect/anti-lockdown activist.

Clapton previously shared his thoughts on the Covid-19 shutdown when he appeared on Van Morrison's anti-lockdown song "Stand and Deliver" in December 2020; two months later, in February, Clapton received his first of two AstraZeneca vaccinations, he wrote in his letter to Robin Monotti Graziadei, who shared the letter on his Telegram with the guitarist's permission. (Rolling Stone has confirmed the authenticity of the letter. A rep for Clapton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

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Vaccine passports, voter ID and anti-protest laws are marching the UK into authoritarianism, but why should I bother resisting?

Andrew Dickens
RT
Wed, 19 May 2021 18:35 UTC
covid passport britain smart phone
© AFP / Justin Tallisa smartphone screen displaying a Covid-19 vaccine record on the NHS app.
2021 will see the UK become a nation of vaccine passports, compulsory voter ID and the suppression of peaceful protest. But these things only affect minorities, so why resist? As long as pubs are open, I'm alright, Jack.

We're all feeling a bit jaded, aren't we, after the year we've had? Bless us. We barely have the motivation to start wearing jeans again, let alone summon the energy to resist a nation's slow and subtle march towards authoritarianism.

Perhaps that's why the people of my country, the much-less-United Kingdom, are sitting by listlessly while laws and measures are introduced to erode our civil liberties and human rights. We're too tired. Leave us alone. We're binge-watching old episodes of Bake Off.
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Nice frame by the Hill: Firm behind Arizona audit claims no data was 'destroyed' (but it still needed to be recovered)

Tal Axelrod
The HIll
Tue, 18 May 2021 17:16 UTC
maricopa election audit site
© CNN/YouTubeThe floor of the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Maricopa County, where the audit is being live-streamed.
A firm that is conducting a controversial election audit in Arizona confirmed Tuesday that no data has been destroyed, contradicting some Republicans' claims that officials had deleted information regarding the vote tally in Maricopa County.


Comment: Notice how right off the bat, The Hill skates over the fact that the files had been deleted and required recovery. Which implies that there was something to hide.


Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR LLC, which is working on the audit, said he had retrieved all the data he needs from Arizona's most populous county, which President Biden won in November. The remark came a day after county officials said auditors could not find the information because they did not know where it was located.

"I have the information I need from the recovery efforts of the data," Cotton told state senators at a livestreamed hearing.

Comment: Non-establishment reporting from The Gateway Pundit on Maricopa County Audit Team admitting files were deleted:
Last week, the Gateway Pundit reported about the emergency meeting that was called by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, after the County was reportedly unable to provide passwords to the auditors performing an audit of the county's 2020 Election results. They also did not provide access to the routers which were requested in the audit as well.

On Wednesday afternoon, it was discovered that "the entire database" showing the "Results Tally and Reporting" for the 2020 election had been deleted from the Maricopa County voting machines.
Also, discrepancies were found between the number of ballots and the batch reports:
The auditors have been reporting 5-15 percent discrepancies across many boxes, with the number consistently growing. Joe Biden supposedly won the county by only 2.2 percent, according to the official results.

Political strategist Boris Epshteyn said on an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room show that the discrepancies may actually be as high as 17.5 percent — making it likely that "Biden did not win Arizona."
AZ State Senate questions Maricopa County about deleted election data bases

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Florida 4th grader slams school board over masking policy: 'It makes me feel scared'

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Tue, 18 May 2021 16:59 UTC
school boy mask board meeting
© Martin County School DistrictFelix A. Williams addresses the Martin County School board over their frightening mask policies for students.
Upon seeing his teacher outside of school she didn't even recognize him "because she's never seen my face before," he said.

A student in the Martin County School District in Florida attended a school board meeting on May 12 to give his account of wearing face masks during school. It struck a chord with me, as the mom to a fifth grader who, this year, has also been forced to wear masks during school, even in gym class, where the kids work up a sweat playing intensive games of castle ball.

"I just turned 10-years-old and I am a fourth grader at Felix A. Williams," the student told the school board at an emergency meeting. "I was expecting school to be a little bit different, in the beginning, but I didn't think it would stay this way all year long."

Comment: Some parents are starting to stand up.

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Defunding police has turned 'progressive' San Francisco into a haven for shoplifters, thieves and drug addicts

Micah Curtis
RT
Wed, 19 May 2021 16:39 UTC
defund police protest san francisco
© AFP / Viivian LinProtesters march with a banner mocking a dollar bill that reads ‘Defund police, Fund black youth’ during a rally to mark Juneteenth in San Francisco, California.
When it comes to defunding the police, you need only look at this city to see how it ends up. Pharmacy chains and other stores are shutting up shop, all because the law enforcement there is so anemic and the criminals so brazen.

I often wonder what people who ask for police defunding are expecting a city with less policing to look like. It seems that we don't have to go far to find the answer. In fact, we can look at current speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's congressional district of San Francisco. Specifically, the rampant crime and shoplifting problems that have caused several pharmacies to close.

Comment: No one could see this coming? The real question is why establishment institutions support such a lunatic idea. What is the larger agenda? It's certainly not what ordinary citizens want.

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Texas governor bans local governments, public schools from enforcing mask mandates

Brittany Bernstein
National Review
Tue, 18 May 2021 15:43 UTC
Greg Abbott
© Brendan McDermid/ReutersTexas governor Greg Abbott
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed an executive order prohibiting local governments and public schools from requiring face masks.

The order directs local governments to drop their mask mandates by May 21 and schools to do so by June 4.

"The Lone Star state continues to defeat COVID-19 through the use of widely-available vaccines, antibody therapeutic drugs, and safe practices utilized by Texans in our communities," Abbott said in a press release. "Texans, not government, should decide their best health practices, which is why masks will not be mandated by public school districts or government entities."

Local governments that disobey the order and keep their mask mandates in place after May 21 may be subject to a fine of up to $1,000.
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NY attorney general says Trump Org probe is now criminal


mynorthwest.com
Tue, 18 May 2021 15:39 UTC
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© AP Photo/Alex Brandon
The New York attorney general's office said Tuesday that it is conducting a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's business empire, expanding what had previously been a civil probe.

"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the company is no longer purely civil in nature," Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for Attorney General Letitia James, said in a statement.

"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA," Levy said.

James' investigators are working with the Manhattan district attorney's office, which has been conducting a criminal investigation into Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, for two years. James and District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. are both Democrats.
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