The Hill,
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Lexi Lonas
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Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, stopped Trump from joining fringe social media platforms Parler and Gab after he was banned from Twitter, according to a report from CNN.
Kushner and deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino are said to have gone against other aides, such as personnel chief Johnny McEntee, to get Trump not to join other social media platforms, an outside adviser and an administration official told CNN. (Snip) Parler and Gab are platforms that have attracted some far-right users due to the companies’ lack of speech restrictions on their platforms.
WBEZ [Chicago],
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Patrick Smith
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Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday used the final hours of the general assembly’s lame duck session to pass a sweeping and controversial criminal justice reform bill that would eliminate cash bail, make it easier to ban officers from working at police departments across the state and allow for anonymous complaints against cops.
The legislation, passed Wednesday morning after hours of late night bargaining, was a legislative priority of the Black legislative caucus. (Snip) A coalition of Illinois police groups said the bill had been “rammed through” the legislature “in the dark of night.”
Nearly 20,000 people signed on as opponents to a previous version of the bill, compared to about 4,000 proponents.
Daily Wire,
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Joseph Curl
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says to stem the spread of COVID-19, all Americans should wear a mask. The New York Times says if one mask works, maybe two will be twice as nice.
“Football coaches do it. President-elects do it. Even science-savvy senators do it. As cases of the coronavirus continue to surge on a global scale, some of the nation’s most prominent people have begun to double up on masks — a move that researchers say is increasingly being backed up by data,” the paper writes. (Snip) Of course, there’s a drawback: “We run the risk of making it too hard to breathe.”
NBC5-TV (Chicago),
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Staff
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A Chicago alderman said he wants the Trump Tower sign removed from the city's skyline and has announced plans to bring the issue to City Council following the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas, who serves as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's floor leader in City Council, said Tuesday that he plans to introduce an ordinance aimed at forcing the removal of the tower's Trump lettering.
Under the proposed ordinance, if someone is found guilty of treason, sedition, or subversive activities, their permit will be either denied or revoked in Chicago. (Snip) “The skyline has a stain on it and we want to remove that," Villegas told NBC 5
PJ Media,
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Mark Tapscott
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Focus on the Family (FOTF) President Jim Daly is heard by nearly seven million listeners on more than 1,000 radio stations in the U.S. every week, and, since taking the reins of the Colorado Springs-based ministry in 2005, he has become a prominent voice in American politics.Daly has a message for Christians who voted for Joe Biden for president (Snip) This is not a single-issue problem that Daly is raising concerning Christians who refused to support Trump’s re-election. Elections have consequences and not just on abortion. Becerra has argued that the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religious faith and practice applies only to individuals, not to institutions like churches
Bleacher Report,
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Adam Wells
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The 2022 PGA Championship will no longer be held at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
PGA of America President Jim Richerson issued a statement Sunday about the board of directors voting to move the event.
"The PGA of America Board of Directors voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster," he said. In a phone interview with Doug Ferguson of the Associated Press, PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh said the vote to terminate was made as a result of the events Wednesday when a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol
Washington Examiner,
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Tyler Van Dyke
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In the wake of the violent attack on Capitol Hill last week, at least three corporations have announced that they would suspend contributions to the campaigns of lawmakers who objected to the certification of Electoral College votes.(Snip)Now, Marriott International, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Commerce Bancshares, who donated to at least one of the nearly 150 lawmakers who objected, all said they are suspending their donations "to those lawmakers who voted to undermine our democracy," according to Popular Information, a political newsletter that polled more than 140 companies which made contributions in the 2020 election cycle.
Deadline,
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Bruce Haring
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Parler CEO John Matze said today that his social media company has been dropped by virtually all of its business alliances after Amazon, Apple and Google ended their agreements with the social media service.
“Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day,” Matze said today on Fox News.
Matze conceded that the bans could put the company out of business while raising free speech issues, calling it “an assault on everybody.” (Snip) And it’s not just these three companies. Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day.”
NBC5-TV (Chicago),
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A security guard and four other people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting rampage that began in Chicago and ended when police in Evanston fatally shot the suspect during a shootout, authorities confirmed. (Snip) When officers arrived, the suspect ran into an IHOP and took a woman hostage.
The woman was then shot by the suspect, police said, and has since been taken into surgery at a local hospital. The suspect then became involved in a shootout with officers, according to Evanston Police Chief Demitrous Cook.
The suspect was shot by police and taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
New York Post,
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Keith J. Kelly
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The media industry was racked by a record 30,711 job cuts in 2020 — a stunning increase of 201 percent from the year earlier when 10,201 jobs were lost.
The figures, which were rolled out Thursday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, included jobs data from the news industry, advertising, television and movie production.
Last year’s dismal results topped the previous all-time record of 28,802 jobs lost in 2008 at the height of the Great Recession. And cutbacks in newsrooms, whether broadcast, digital or print, accounted for more than half the losses, or some 16,180 cuts.
New York Post,
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Noah Manskar
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Amazon on Wednesday pledged to spend more than $2 billion on affordable housing efforts in three regions where big chunks of its workforce live.
The e-commerce colossus said it will use the money to create and preserve more than 20,000 affordable homes in and around its home base of Seattle and its hubs in Arlington, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee.
Amazon plans to distribute the funds in the form of low-cost loans, lines of credit and grants to finance housing for low- and moderate-income families. The company expects to have at least 5,000 employees in each of the three areas in the coming years.
The so-called Housing Equity Fund
Chicago Sun-Times,
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David Roeder
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Fran Spielman
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Macy’s said Tuesday it will close its store in Water Tower Place as it trims its roster of department stores across the country to adjust to online shopping.
“The decision to close a store is always a difficult one, and Macy’s Water Tower Place has been honored to serve its customers on the Magnificent Mile for 45 years,” said Andrea Schwartz, senior director of media relations. The store was damaged during looting sprees last summer.
Schwartz said the decision stems from a store review Macy’s began in early 2020, which she noted was before COVID-19 and civil unrest disrupted retail operations.