Red State,
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Shipwreckedcrew
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6/17/2021 5:57:19 PM
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This issue has been lurking in the background for months. Where I live, there are almost no homes on the market for rent. The inventory of the number of homes for sale is at record lows, and when combined with historically low home mortgage rates, the prices at which homes are selling have gone through the roof.
There are no homes for rent because landlords have been unable to evict tenants for non-payment of rent for a year or more, depending on where you live. The federal government — based on dubious legal authority — imposed an eviction “moratorium” during the pandemic.
Fox News,
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Danielle Wallace
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6/17/2021 5:03:53 PM
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All 50 of Portland police’s highly trained rapid response unit voted unanimously to resign on Wednesday during a union meeting in response to the recent indictment of Officer Corey Budworth for allegedly assaulting a photographer with his baton during as an overnight riot broke out last August.
"Unfortunately, this decorated public servant has been caught in the crossfire of agenda-driven city leaders and a politicized criminal justice system," the Portland Police Association said in an initial statement Tuesday after a Multnomah County grand jury indicted Budworth on one count of fourth-degree assault related to an incident that occurred on Aug. 18, 2020.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Wills Robinson
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Harriet Alexander
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6/17/2021 2:39:53 PM
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Republicans have torn into President Biden's performance at his press conference in Geneva on Wednesday and criticized hearing more about his 'favorite ice cream flavors' than his inability to answer 'basic' questions, with aides stopping him from going off-script.
GOP House members also criticized his 'weak' performance at his summit with Vladimir Putin and insist the US needs to put 'our best leaders forward'.
Their condemnation follows comments from CNN Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny that Biden is the most 'protected' president he has seen, and aides were screaming at him to stop answering when he strayed from his pre-approved list of reporters at the end of the briefing.
NBC News,
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Julia Ainsley
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Adiel Kaplan
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6/17/2021 4:24:09 AM
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Attorney General Merrick Garland vacated two Trump-era immigration orders Wednesday that had made it difficult for many immigrants entering the U.S. to win their asylum cases. Garland said in a statement that immigration court judges should ignore both decisions until they undergo a rulemaking process with public comment. The first, known as the Matter of A-B, issued by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, made it nearly impossible for victims of domestic violence or gang violence to qualify for asylum. Sessions had said women unable to leave violent relationships did not count as a "particular social group" under the definition of asylum. CORRECTION*
Fox News,
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Evie Fordham
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6/17/2021 3:44:14 AM
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The conservative group representing Colorado baker Jack Phillips vowed to appeal after a judge sided with the plaintiff, a transgender woman, on Tuesday following Phillips' refusal to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
"In this case, an activist attorney demanded Jack create custom cakes in order to ‘test’ Jack and ‘correct the errors’ of his thinking, and the activist even threatened to sue Jack again if the case is dismissed for any reason," Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner said in a statement. "Radical activists and government officials are targeting artists like Jack because they won’t promote messages on marriage and sexuality that violate their core convictions."
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
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Associated Press
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6/17/2021 3:42:12 AM
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The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday expanded its interpretation of federal sex protections to include transgender and gay students, a move that reverses Trump-era policy and stands against proposals in many states to bar transgender girls from school sports.
In a new policy directive, the department said discrimination based on a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity will be treated as a violation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that protects against sex discrimination in education.
The decision is based on last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling protecting gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment, according to agency officials.
Bloomberg,
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Filipe Pacheco
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Julia Fioretti
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6/16/2021 3:16:24 AM
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Full Truck Alliance Co., an Uber-like trucking startup, is looking to raise as much as $1.57 billion in a initial public offering, which would make it one of the biggest U.S. listings by a Chinese company this year. The firm, backed by investors including SoftBank Group Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., is offering 82.5 million American depositary shares for $17 to $19 apiece, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There is a concurrent private placement in which the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Mubadala will each purchase $100 million worth of Class A ordinary shares.
FrontPageMag,
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Daniel Greenfield
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6/16/2021 12:01:39 AM
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This is an old problem with a critical new urgency in the age of critical race theory.
Jews may be the target of a disproportionate amount of hate crimes, but they're not an official minority. As critical race theory rolls out in organizations, people are pressured into joining segregated groupings. Official minorities go to minority Oppressed Victim caucuses, while designated white people go to the White People are Evil Oppressors and Must Apologize Every Day for Their Existence caucuses.
And that means the descendants of Holocaust survivors being told they're guilty of white supremacy.
That's how things went over at Stanford.
WKYC-TV (Cleveland),
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Mark Naymik
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6/15/2021 4:11:14 AM
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Dennis Kucinich is ready for another run at the job he last held nearly 42 years ago.
On Monday afternoon in Tremont, the 74-year-old Kucinich announced that he will run for Cleveland mayor. "I am ready from day one to take the city in a new, upbeat, can-do direction," he said during his remarks.
Kucinich mostly focused on crime in his announcement, pledging to add 400 new officers to the Cleveland Division of Police along with two new helicopters. "We must send a message loud and clear to violent felons: A strengthened Cleveland police force will pursue you. You cannot escape. You will be caught. You will face justice."
WPTV-TV (West Palm Beach, FL),
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Matt Papaycik
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6/14/2021 9:50:14 PM
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Students in every K-12 public school in Florida will soon be able to observe a moment of silence at the start of each school day, if they so choose.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed HB 529 into law, which requires teachers in first-period classrooms in all K-12 public schools to set aside at least one minute, but no more than two minutes every day "for a moment of silence."
During that time, "students may not interfere with other students' participation."
In addition, "a teacher may not make suggestions as to the nature of any reflection that a student may engage in during the moment of silence."
Daily Mail (UK),
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Stacy Liberatore
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6/14/2021 9:30:13 PM
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Pet food companies are swapping meat proteins for that of insects in a bid to reduce your cat or dog’s environmental impact or carbon pawprint.
Big name brands like Nestle Purina and Mars have recently joined the move by using dried black soldier fly larvae, while other companies, such as Jiminy’s, use cricket protein.
The shift aims to reduce the 64 million tons of carbon dioxide that is emitted each year from producing and the consumption of meat-based products.
Some companies say their insect farms only generate four percent of the current emissions released each year by farms that maintain cows, pigs and chickens.
FrontPageMag,
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Daniel Greenfield
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6/14/2021 3:40:17 PM
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Kamala Harris' problem isn't race or gender though those are the two excuses that she and her supporters have brought out to explain everything from her humiliating failure in the primaries to her humiliating failure on the world stage during her big international trip.
But aside from her self-inflicted problems, and there are many of those, Kamala has no constituency.
Joe Biden has black voters, but he picked Kamala as a sop to the party's minority base even though she wasn't able to woo black voters away from him during the primary. Strategically that's exactly why he picked her.