New York Post,
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Mary Kay Linge
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White House chief of staff Ron Klain’s itchy Twitter finger helped derail the Biden administration’s latest vaccine mandate in court.
A Sept. 9 retweet from Klain was cited as a key piece of evidence in the blistering ruling issued Friday by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which paused President Biden’s “staggeringly overbroad” rule forcing COVID-19 vaccines on millions of American workers. In a footnote, the three-judge panel pointed to Klain’s retweet of a post from MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, who praised Biden’s mandate—enforced by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration—as “the ultimate work-around” to avoid sticky constitutional challenges.
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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A steel manufacturing company has been ordered to forfeit $6 million —a near-financial death sentence—after admitting it had run a pipeline for “dozens” illegal immigrants from Mexico to come and work for it, undercutting competitors. All Steel Carports Inc. told the court in a sentencing memo that owner Ignacio Chavez, who came to the U.S illegally himself before winning legal residency in 2009, didn’t consider hiring illegal immigrants to be a big deal. “In his culture laws are there but few respect them,” the company’s lawyers wrote. The Biden administration cut him a break, dropping human smuggling and money laundering charges the Trump administration had brought.
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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Jeremy Olson
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Public health experts are concerned that unverified reports to a federal vaccine injury database are being misunderstood by the public and exploited by skeptics in a way that is undermining immunization efforts against COVID-19. The raw data can be startling because the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) contains 299 reports of Minnesotans dying after COVID-19 vaccination, but most of the claims turn out to be coincidences or unrelated to the shots, said Dr. Gregory Poland, director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.(Snip)However, none of these confirmed incidents has tipped the scales against U.S. vaccine recommendations, with the risk of myocarditis being higher
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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David Chanen
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Last Monday, a 17-year-old had guns pointed at his chest and head in a carjacking at 6:30 p.m. in front of his house in south Minneapolis. The assailant ditched his car several blocks away.
Then on Friday, an armed hit-and-run suspect tried to carjack a woman in north Minneapolis as she was heading to the kickoff of the Twin Cities Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle Campaign, capping a week of more than 50 attempted or successful carjackings in the city. Residents in Minneapolis, St. Paul and increasingly some suburban communities are experiencing a record surge in armed carjackings, crimes that are terrorizing victims, baffling police
The Hill,
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Jordan Williams
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The newly appointed commander of the Oklahoma National Guard is refusing to enforce the Department of Defense’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for troops. Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino wrote in a memo that no member of the Oklahoma National Guard will be required to get vaccinated, according to The Oklahoman, which obtained the memo.
The memo further states “no negative administrative or legal action will be taken” against guardsmen who refuse to get vaccinated.
Lt. Col. Geoff Legler, a spokesman for the Oklahoma National Guard, told the newspaper that the memo is intended to allow guardsmen to serve in the state without fear of being punished.
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com,
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Spencer Kent
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Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, will separate into two publicly traded companies, creating an entirely new, rebranded consumer health business, the company announced Friday. It’s a major change for the 135-year-old institution based in New Brunswick. Johnson & Johnson, which has more than 136,000 employees, will split its consumer products arm—responsible for Band-Aids, Tylenol, Listerine and Neutrogena—from its pharmaceutical and medical device branches within 18 to 24 months, the company said. The decision was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
“Following a comprehensive review, the Board and management team believe that the planned separation of the Consumer Health business is the best way
Guardian [U.K.],
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Megan Mayhew Bergman
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One evening last summer, I was running through a damp field on my farm in Vermont with my 10-year-old and a passel of dogs. We were barefoot and laughing. Suddenly, my daughter turned to me with a serious look in her eyes. “I didn’t realize things were going to get so bad so soon,” she said. “What things?” I asked. Was she thinking about the heatwave in Vermont, forest fires in California or the pandemic? “Climate change,” she said, staring hard at me. “It’s bad, isn’t it?”(Snip)The Center for Biological Diversity notes on their population growth page: “Under current conditions, a child born in the US
Daily Mail (UK),
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Glen Owen
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The outgoing head of the UK Border Force has triggered a political row by describing ‘bloody borders’ as ‘just such a pain in the bloody a***’. Paul Lincoln’s incendiary remarks–made in a speech to mark his departure as director general of the Border Force – comes amid growing anger among Boris Johnson’s backbenchers over the migrant crisis. Last week, the number of asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats hit a new daily record of 1,185. More than 23,500 have made the crossing from France so far this year, a sharp rise on the 8,404 in 2020.(Snip)Mr Lincoln left his £135,000-a-year post last month
New York Post,
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Susan Edelman
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Melissa Klein
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COVID-19 vaccination fraud may be spreading faster than the deadly bug itself among New York City workers, The Post has learned.
At least two city agencies, the FDNY and Sanitation Department, are in the crosshairs of a probe into employees submitting phony proof of the COVID-19 vaccine—in some cases stealing blank vax cards—in order to comply with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s jab mandate, insiders said. At the FDNY, the scheme appears to involve the theft of the blank cards from the agency’s Brooklyn headquarters and other facilities where the department was offering jabs, according to a source.(Snip)“There’s a lot of people in trouble,” said an FDNY
Associated Press,
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Jonathan Mattise
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Nashville, Tenn.—Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a wide-reaching bill Friday strictly limiting what governments and businesses can require to address the COVID-19 pandemic, while industry groups push for changes, local officials ask a court what happens to school mask orders, and various entities look into exemptions. The Republican’s signature, which he promised earlier in the week, puts the new law into effect immediately, largely barring governments and businesses from requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccinations, and only letting public entities—including schools—require masks due to COVID-19 in rare, dire public health scenarios.(Snip)Even before the law was enacted, prominent business groups were calling for changes
Washington Examiner,
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Jeremiah Poff
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A sociology professor at a Virginia university said adults' sexual attraction toward minors isn’t immoral. Video of Allyn Walker, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University, argued that “there is no morality or immorality attached to attraction to anyone” while discussing pedophiles or “minor-attracted persons” in an online conversation Monday. “I want to be extremely clear that child sex abuse is never ever OK,” Walker said. “But having an attraction to minors doesn’t mean the person having those attractions is doing something wrong.” Walker recently published a book titled A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity that “takes readers
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emer Scully
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A Norwegian undersea surveillance network that is capable of detecting submarines has had its cables mysteriously cut. Police were called in to investigate amid suspicion Russia could have 'sabotaged' the undersea sensors, which predominantly monitor fish but can pick up the movement of submarines. The cables were cut and then disappeared, with the Institute of Marine Research describing 'extensive damage' to the outer area of the Lofoten-Vesterålen (LoVe) Ocean Observatory. LoVe consists of a network of underwater cables and sensors located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, an area of strategic interest for both Norway and Russia.(Snip)An unmanned submarine traced the cause to Node 2, a surveillance platform 820 feet
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