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South Dakota vindicated: Least restrictive state in the Western world, yet Covid deaths have dropped to one per day:

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© Reuters / National Parks Service handout
Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota
As I noted back in March, South Dakota may have taken the least restrictive approach to COVID-19 of anywhere in the Western world. Its conservative governor, Kristi Noem, has been a stalwart opponent of lockdowns: when the state's epidemic burgeoned at the end of August, there were practically no restrictions in place. Despite this, case numbers fell rapidly after reaching a peak in mid November. And by late February, they were in the low triple digits.

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Bad Guys

5 year-old-boy 'ripped apart' by Ukraine drone attack outside his home in Donetsk region

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Relatives said the boy was just "torn apart"
A HEARTBROKEN family has claimed a five-year-old boy was "ripped apart" in a drone attack by Ukraine amid fears of renewed civil war as Vladimir Putin's troops mass on the border.

Vladik Shikhov was blown up outside his home in the Aleksandrovskoye village in the breakaway Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, which has been held by Russia-backed rebels since 2014.

Last week Russia sent 4,000 troops and convoys of tanks to the border, prompting experts to warn the conflict could trigger a new world war in just four weeks.

Comment: Backed by the West, Ukraine has been terrorizing the people of Donbass and Donetsk for years now, although the recent uptick in violence is particularly concerning:


Black Cat

Journalists attack the powerless, then self-victimize to bar criticisms of themselves

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An unidentified man walks through the lobby of the Gannett-USA Today headquarters building August 20, 2013 on a 30-acre site in McLean, Virginia.
Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault.

The daily newspaper USA Today is the second-most circulated print newspaper in the United States — more than The New York Times and more than double The Washington Post. Only The Wall Street Journal has higher circulation numbers.

On Sunday, the paper published and heavily promoted a repellent article complaining that "defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network of fundraising platforms, despite a crackdown by tech companies." It provided a road map for snitching on how these private citizens — who are charged with serious felonies by the U.S. Justice Department but as of yet convicted of nothing — are engaged in "a game of cat-and-mouse as they spring from one fundraising tool to another" in order to avoid bans on their ability to raise desperately needed funds to pay their criminal lawyers to mount a vigorous defense.

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Pumpkin 2

Senator who sponsored cash bail ban is furious: Driver who threatened him with gun only had to post $1,500 to get out of jail

Illinois state Sen. Elgie Sims
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Illinois State Sen. Elgie Sims
An Illinois state senator who sponsored recently-signed legislation that will eliminate cash bail in the state by 2023 is outraged that a man who allegedly flashed a gun at him while driving only had to post $1,500 to get out of jail.

"By him being released on bail, he's free to do this again," Sen. Elgie Sims of Chicago told the State-Journal Register.

Yet just last month Sims tweeted, "money bond doesn't guarantee public safety or someone's appearance in court, it supports a system where freedom is based on the size of someone's bank account. We've tried the failed tough on crime polices [sic] of the past."

Chart Bar

Half of Republicans believe false accounts of Capitol riot: Poll

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Approximately half of all Republicans have bought into false claims that have emerged following the Capitol riot, according to a new poll.

Fifty-one percent of Republicans surveyed believe the January siege was largely nonviolent, and 55% said it was the handiwork of left-wing activists "trying to make Trump look bad," a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, released on Monday, found. The poll also found that only 3 in 10 Republicans agreed that former President Donald Trump bears some responsibility for the riot at the Capitol, much lower than the 59% of the public who believe that.

Eight in 10 Republicans still view Trump favorably, as well.

Comment: To be more accurate, the headline of this article should be "Half of Republicans don't believe official narrative of Capitol riot". And given the widely disseminated narrative about January 6th, it's safe to say that 100% of Democrats believe false accounts.

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Arrow Up

Flight attendant kicked off flight after demanding that eating toddler must wear mask

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The family (pictured after getting back on the plane) and all of the passengers were let back onto the plane a short time later. 'Happy ending! We're back on,' the girl's father says in another video
Video captured the moment a male flight attendant was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight in Florida after forcing all of the passengers to deplane when a two-year-old girl refused to wear a mask.

The incident occurred onboard a plane that was trying to leave Orlando, Florida, to head to New York on Monday.

Several videos from the incident have been shared on social media. In one clip, the little girl is sitting on her mother's lap eating yogurt when a female flight attendant tells them they'll need to exit the plane.

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Handcuffs

D.C. police chief doesn't see the point in charging teens in Uber Eats carjacking as adults

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Mohammad Anwar, an Uber Eats delivery driver, was killed by two teenaged girls in Washington, D.C.
As we learned Friday, it doesn't seem that the two teenage girls who carjacked Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar will face harsh punishment for their crimes, even though the older girl could probably be charged as an adult and the younger girl is a suspect in a January 2021 carjacking. One would expect equivocation coming from Mayor Muriel Bowser, SJW city council members, or perhaps woke prosecutors — but not from the D.C. Chief of Police, whose officers filed charges of felony murder and armed carjacking with a taser against the girls.

Sadly, Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee III had some harsh and uncaring answers to questions posed to him by FOX's D.C. affiliate about the case. When asked about the 13-year-old's alleged involvement in another recent carjacking, Contee said:
That's one of many. We have one for that particular - one of the individuals involved, but there are several carjackings that we have had so far this year where we're seeing individuals that are involved in multiple, multiple cases. So clearly I think that speaks to us really examining, as a community, the accountability that's in place. You know, how is it that someone is charged with carjacking or is responsible for carjacking commits another carjacking and another carjacking? I think it's the larger issue than just this one particular case.

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Cell Phone

Russia backs down on threat to block Twitter over banned content

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Russia's communications watchdog said the speed restrictions will stay in place until May 15.
Russian officials are no longer threatening to cut off the country's access to Twitter after the social network ramped up its efforts to purge content banned by that nation.

Roskomnadzor, Russia's communications watchdog, backed down on the threat Monday but said it would continue throttling the speed of Twitter's website over an alleged proliferation of illegal posts.

The agency started slowing down Twitter's web traffic on March 10 and said it could block the social network entirely if the company did not remove the prohibited materials, including "child pornography, pro-narcotic and suicidal content."

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TV

'60 Minutes' Ignores Democrat Governors' Scandals, Invents One About DeSantis

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As with the pushing of anti-Bush forgeries, CBS News continues to push partisan propaganda at the expense of the truth.

Rather than cover actual scandals involving Democrat governors and their botched responses to COVID, CBS' "60 Minutes" tried to invent a scandal involving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' distribution of vaccines. To push the false narrative and protect its favored governors, "60 Minutes" refused to interview people who disputed its false narrative, selectively edited video to hide facts, and omitted data that debunked its thesis and accurately describe Florida's success.

It's not that "60 Minutes" couldn't have reported on real scandals involving governors and COVID, if it wanted to. New York's Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a media darling despite his many failures, sent COVID patients into long-term care facilities full of vulnerable people, and then covered it up. California's Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed draconian lockdown measures that have crushed his state's economy, its schools, and the entire population of the state. He's currently facing a recall attempt from citizens livid at his handling.

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If there was ever any doubt, 60 Minutes is absolute trash TV. Deceptive selective edits to create a conspiracy out of nothing is the lowest form of tabloid journalism.

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Attention

Andy Ngô reacts to becoming Antifa target, leaving US: 'Not safe anymore for me'

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Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in an unknown substance after unidentified Rose City Antifa members attacked him on June 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
Ngô left the US earlier this year amid threats of violence and 'an escalation of safety concerns,' he told Fox News

He might be the most hated man in the room depending on where he goes, but Andy Ngô has undoubtedly amassed a tremendous following for his experience covering the ins and outs of Antifa.

The born-and-raised Portlander and second-generation Vietnamese American, a conservative journalist who serves as the editor-at-large of The Post Millenial, is now a New York Times bestselling author thanks to his recently published tome, "Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy."

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