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• Musk Posts Another Cryptic 3-Word Tweet That Is Bound to Send Woke Twitter Employees Into a Meltdown

  20-04-2022 23:58
  
  As billionaire Elon Musk devises his apparent plan to buy Twitter, he has made cryptic tweets a part of his routine.
  In the latest example, Musk invoked the title of a classic novel to seemingly hint at his next move.
  “_______ is the Night,” Musk wrote on Tuesday._______ is the Night
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2022While there are multiple words that could fit in this blank, one of the first ones to come to mind is “tender.” After all, F. Scott Fitzgerald&rsqu
  
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• Apple Store employees in Atlanta file for union election

  20-04-2022 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  Workers at an Apple Store in Atlanta filed for a union election on Wednesday in a bid to become the first group of retail employees at the tech giant to unionize.
  
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• FL Senate Sets DeSantis Up for 3 Massive Victories at Same Time - Disney Crippled, New GOP Districts Created, Dem Gains Erased Across Country

  20-04-2022 23:28
  
  Wow! It’s a triple crown, a triple play, a triple threat, whatever you want to call it.
  Take heart, conservatives, Ron DeSantis is showing how it’s done. Three ways from Sunday, triple metaphor fans.
  In a short time, DeSantis has poked the big bad mouse, has had Florida’s Senate redistrict the state to create four new Republican-leaning Congressional districts and has helped set back national Democrat gains.
  Send this guy to Washington, some say. Or maybe he should stay in Flor
  
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• 'WJ Live': DeSantis and Musk Team Up to Take Over Twitter, Take On Dems

  20-04-2022 23:15
  
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• State agency asks for federal investigation into Grand Rapids Police Department

  20-04-2022 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  Michigan state officials have asked the US Department of Justice to launch a "pattern-or-practice" investigation into the Grand Rapids Police Department after an officer there fatally shot a man during a physical struggle following a traffic stop.
  
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• Top Sanders adviser tells supporters the senator has not ruled out 2024 run for president

  20-04-2022 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  The campaign manager of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 run for president sent a memo Wednesday addressed to "allies" of the Vermont independent, informing them that Sanders has "not ruled out" a presidential run in 2024.
  
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• Reporter Who Sicced the Entire Internet on 1 Woman Just Made the Most Cowardly Move Imaginable

  20-04-2022 22:58
  
  Only three weeks ago, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz became the darling of the left after literally crying on TV when she felt threatened by people attacking her on social media. But only days afterward, she led the internet in the most hypocritical act imaginable.
  Early this month, Lorenz went on Twitter to say MSNBC ‘f***ed up royally” in airing an interview with her that increased her problem of being targeted for online harassment.
  It’s mostly her own fault, granted
  
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• Netflix Stock Prices Plummet AGAIN After Musk Roasts 'Woke' Programming

  20-04-2022 22:58
  
  Netflix shares suffered massive losses on Wednesday, adding to the already significant drop of 27 percent the streaming service’s stock suffered on Tuesday night.
  After the company’s stock plummeted Tuesday following its announcement of a loss of subscribers, self-made billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk commented on the company’s failings, noting that “the woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.”
  Musk also answered affirmatively to someone who responded by sa
  
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• New Jersey man faces federal hate crimes charges for allegedly assaulting, stabbing, driving into Orthodox Jews

  20-04-2022 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  A New Jersey man is facing federal hate crime charges for "a spree of violent assaults" on members of an Orthodox Jewish community on a single day in April, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Denver is the latest city to apologize for its history of anti-Chinese racism

  20-04-2022 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  Denver has formally apologized to early Chinese immigrants and their descendants for its role in an 1880 riot that destroyed the city's Chinatown.
  
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• Judge orders US Bureau of Prisons to find surgeon for transgender inmate's gender affirming surgery

  20-04-2022 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in Illinois on Monday ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has to immediately find a qualified surgeon so that a transgender prisoner, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, can receive gender-affirming surgery, court documents show.
  
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• Musk Officially Sounds Like Trump: Declares 'Woke Mind Virus' the Greatest Threat to Civilization

  20-04-2022 22:21
  
  Elon Musk is checking all the right boxes to make the left hate him.
  He was an outspoken supporter of the Canadian truckers rebelling against their prime minister’s heavy-handed coronavirus crackdown. He’s a friend of Joe Rogan, the comedian and podcast host and a man loathed by liberals.
  In the past week, since making his bid to buy the increasingly leftist social media giant Twitter, the iconoclastic billionaire has turned into the left’s biggest public enemy since Donald Tru
  
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• Firefighter and Wife Save Elderly Woman Being Mauled by Dog Pack: 'The Dogs Would've Killed Her'

  20-04-2022 21:52
  
  On Monday, a 65-year-old woman in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was going out to get her mail when a pack of three loose dogs spotted her and closed in.
  Mabel Lackey yelled at them, but in the commotion she fell and the dogs started to tear her apart.
  “They [saw] her checking the mail. They just came running at her,” her son, Michael Lackey, later told KOTV-DT. “She tried to run, telling them to stop, to go away. She fell down.”
  “Once the two large ones started biting her
  
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• Entire Basset Hound Family Finds Forever Homes after Mom Is Found Emaciated with Mouth Zip-Tied Shut

  20-04-2022 21:45
  
  There are many people who love dogs, but even those who love dogs don’t love hearing them bark all the time. It’s a nuisance most of the time, and there are plenty of safe, compassionate ways to deal with it.
  Zip-tying a dog’s mouth shut is not one of those ways, but that’s what the Surprise Police Department in Arizona found in March after a report of animal cruelty.
  “A witness reported that a man had zip tied the mouth of a dog shut,” the police department s
  
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• Police Save Pair from Sinking Car After Driver Plows Through Fence and Into Lake

  20-04-2022 21:33
  
  April 15 was almost the last ride two people in Dartmouth, Mass., took after their car plunged into a lake that night.
  It was around 10:40 p.m. when the 2016 Ford Focus ran through a fence on #950 State Road and careened into Lake Noquochoke, quickly sinking into 6-7 feet of water.
  “I heard screeching, a long screeching sound,” Audrey Huggon, who lives nearby, told WJAR.
  “And then waiting for impact, it was a couple of seconds, and then we heard an impact.
  “There was a yo
  
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• Tensions run high as Biden administration gets earful from some panicked lawmakers over Title 42

  20-04-2022 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  Tensions remain very high within the Biden administration ahead of the expected repeal of a Trump-era pandemic restriction next month and the potential surge of migrants at the border that's expected to follow, according to a source familiar with ongoing discussions.
  
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• Wild Footage: Police Nab Illegal Immigrants Who Were Hauling Drugs for Cartel During High Speed Chase

  20-04-2022 20:22
  
  In the greater Detroit area in Michigan, police chased down an illegal immigrant who was carrying $350,000 worth of narcotics.
  Footage from an officer’s body cam showed the chase and arrest of the suspect.
  Officials said that the suspect was transporting 20,000 fentanyl pills from a Mexican drug cartel, WDIV reported.
  The drugs were disguised as OxyContin prescription pills and were found along with 500 grams of powder fentanyl in the car of the suspect. A woman, who was also in the countr
  
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• Trump says he has no records subpoenaed by New York AG

  20-04-2022 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump does not have any documents subpoenaed by the New York attorney general's office as part of its civil investigation into the Trump Organization's finances and shouldn't be held in contempt, he told a state court.
  
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• Teen Boys Save Driver Seconds Before Wreckage Erupts in Flames: 'Absolute Heroism at Its Finest'

  20-04-2022 19:54
  
  When a family was driving along Route 9 in Nelson, New Hampshire, over the Easter weekend, they were looking forward to seeing family in New Jersey and Maryland. They had no idea they were about to save someone’s life.
  In the early hours of the morning of April 15 as mom Melissa Heck drove, she noticed a truck in the oncoming lane that was spewing sparks. She told the Sentinel Source that she also saw what appeared to be flames coming from the undercarriage.
  Then the truck swerved, smashin
  
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• Elon Musk's Lawyer Warns Federal Judge's Gag Order Would Trample Constitutional Rights

  20-04-2022 19:36
  
  Elon Musk’s lawyer says a federal judge would trample on the Tesla CEO’s free speech rights if he ordered Musk to stop talking about 2018 tweets saying he had the funding to make Tesla a private company.
  In a court document filed Wednesday, lawyer Alex Spiro said a motion from a group of Tesla shareholders seeking a gag order doesn’t establish that Musk’s comments would prejudice the pool of jurors who might hear the case.
  Lawyers for the shareholders have argued that Mus
  
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• Mexican Woman Dies While Attempting to Scale Border Wall Built by Trump

  20-04-2022 19:26
  
  Border Patrol agents discovered a woman dead and ensnared in a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border last week.
  Agents called the local sheriff’s office around 11 p.m. on April 11 when they found the woman’s body near Douglas, Arizona.
  The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the woman “climbed onto the top of the International Border wall and when attempting to maneuver down on the US side via a harness similar to rappelling, her foot/leg became entangle
  
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• Tucker Carlson Reveals Troubling Backstory Behind Washington Post's Doxing of Libs of TikTok Creator

  20-04-2022 19:07
  
  The Washington Post’s doxing of the previously anonymous creator of Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” dominated the news cycle on Tuesday. And for good reason.
  The expose, written by a hypocrite named Taylor Lorenz, the newspaper’s internet culture reporter, who earlier this month sobbed during an MSNBC interview about being the target of an online harassment campaign herself, was an egregious example of the left’s increasingly desperate assault on the free
  
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• Musk Doubles Down on Netflix Criticism: Woke Green Haired Freaks Ruining Entertainment? 'True'

  20-04-2022 18:51
  
  For the past couple of weeks, notorious billionaire Elon Musk has been making headlines for his unprecedented attempt to purchase Twitter.
  On Tuesday, it was something he wrote on that very website that sent the internet into a frenzy.
  Musk was responding to a report about Netflix’s poor performance in the stock market. According to CNBC, the company lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, and that news subsequently caused its shares to fall by more than 25 percent.
  Technolo
  
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• Ginni Thomas also texted Meadows about another friend who shared election fraud conspiracy theories

  20-04-2022 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  A day before the 2020 presidential election, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas mugged for the camera wearing a Trump baseball cap with her friend Connie Hair, chief of staff to GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, at an event supporting the then-President in pictures posted on Facebook at the time.
  
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• Saudi Ruler Screamed at Top Biden Official, Told Him to 'Forget About' Boosted Oil Production: Report

  20-04-2022 18:33
  
  In another foreign policy faux pas, the Biden administration has angered Saudi Arabia and damaged the U.S. relationship with the powerful oil-rich Arab kingdom.
  While damaging foreign relationships is never a good idea, alienating and angering the Saudis at this particular moment is dangerous and costly to Americans, as the Ukraine-Russia war continues and the global oil market is in chaos, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  Before even becoming president, Joe Biden set himself in opposition
  
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• Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Hit with Maximum Punishment for Firearms Safety Failures

  20-04-2022 18:08
  
  New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October by actor and producer Alec Baldwin.
  New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau said Rust Movie Productions must pay $136,793 and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of standard industry protocols, includin
  
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• Psaki Fights Back Tears Over 'Outrageous' FL Anti-Grooming Bill That Protects 5-Year-Olds

  20-04-2022 18:01
  
  Leftists keep using the word “outrageous.” I do not think it means what they think it means.
  For example, most people believe adults initiating sexual conversations with other people’s young children is outrageous: dangerous, possibly even criminal, behavior.
  Yet what White House press secretary Jen Psaki described as “completely outrageous” in a podcast interview this week is Florida’s new parental rights law, which bans that type of sick behavior from school
  
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• Still Leading from Behind

  20-04-2022 17:49
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Still Leading from Behind appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Elderly Woman Grabs Stick, Beats Back Creepy COVID Tester - Video Seen 1.5 Million Times

  20-04-2022 17:43
  
  Not all heroes wear capes — and they don’t need to be young or strong, either.
  In a viral video that’s been watched over 1.5 million times as of Wednesday morning, an elderly woman being forced to take a COVID swab test by an individual in a hazmat suit fights the health worker off with a stick.
  While it’s unclear where and when the video was shot, the footage comes as a series of draconian lockdowns have been imposed in the Chinese city of Shanghai.
  (Here at The Western
  
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• 26 Republican Governors Launch 'Border Strike Force,' Declare Biden Has 'Failed to Secure the Border'

  20-04-2022 17:32
  
  Almost 250 years after a group of freedom-lovers refused to stand by as a remote government worked against their best interests, 26 Republican governors are launching a partnership to protect their citizens from the chaos at the southern border that has become a hallmark of the Biden administration.
  On Tuesday, the 247th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, Republican governors announced the formation of the American Governors’ Border Strike Force, which will respond to the
  
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• Backfire: Lorenz Just Accidentally Argued the Entire LGBT Crowd Is Perverted - How Did Nobody Catch This?

  20-04-2022 17:19
  
  Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz doxed the creator of the Libs of TikTok account in an article on Tuesday — and then spent the rest of the day defending herself.
  Most of the attacks on Lorenz focused her “journalism” and the ethics surrounding it, particularly since — as the Daily Caller noted — Lorenz has argued in the past against doxing and online harassment.
  However, if readers looked closely enough, they might have noticed Lorenz’s arguments made th
  
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• The do's and don't's of the modern resume

  20-04-2022 17:04 via cnn.com
  
  Your resume can be the first impression you make with a potential employer. So you want to put your best foot forward when crafting one.
  
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• Psaki, Dems Falsely Claim Republicans Have No Plan to Deal with Inflation

  20-04-2022 17:03
  
  Democrats have gone through various talking points to try to blame others for the nation’s skyrocketing inflation.
  The consumer price index surged 8.5 percent in March compared to a year ago, up from 7.9 percent in February, CNBC reported. The rate was the highest since December 1981.
  By way of comparison, the month former President Donald Trump left office, January 2021, the inflation rate was 1.4 percent.
  Democrats first blamed the inflation spike on transitory factors. Then they said it
  
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• An unqualified judge lifted the travel mask mandate. Local authorities must intervene.

  20-04-2022 16:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  After a federal judge in Florida lifted the CDC's mask mandate for travel, state or local transit authorities should step in to keep as many passengers safe as possible.
  
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• Elon Musk Diagnoses Netflix with a Fatal Disease as Stock Plummets on News of Subscriber Loss

  20-04-2022 16:48
  
  Gadfly Elon Musk on Tuesday waded into the troubled waters of Netflix as it appeared to be going down the drain.
  The company announced Tuesday that its streaming service had lost about 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, with the crepe-hanging prediction that 2 million more would flee in the second quarter, according to CNN.
  Netflix had been predicting it would gain 2.5 million subscribers in the first quarter.
  The news sent the company’s stock down 25 percent in after-hours
  
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• Thin-Skinned Obama Fans Furious After Noticing Problem with Michelle's Face in Obama TV Show

  20-04-2022 15:35
  
  Proving once again that today’s leftists are emotionally incontinent snowflakes who can dish it out but can’t take it, liberal Twitter users wigged out at a black actress because she accurately depicted former first lady Michelle Obama’s signature “trout pout.”
  The left-wing temper tantrum erupted after the cable network Showtime debuted the first installment of its 10-episode anthology series “The First Lady.”
  The first episode, which aired Sunday, feat
  
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• Tesla shareholders try to get Elon Musk to just stop

  20-04-2022 14:48 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk wants everyone to believe he really did have the money secured to take Tesla private back in 2018. But a group suing him over that claim say he didn't have it, and that the SEC and a federal judge agree.
  
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• Biden, Democrats Begin Student Loan Payoff, Announce Forgiveness of Thousands of Student Loan Payments

  20-04-2022 14:30
  
  On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced its plans for large-scale reforms to student loan forgiveness programs. As a result, the Department of Education estimated at least 40,000 people will receive immediate forgiveness for their loans.
  According to Forbes contributor Adam S. Minsky, an attorney who specializes in student loans, many students use income-driven repayment (IDR) plans to repay loans. Two of the most popular types of IDR plans are Income Based Repayment (IBR) and Revised Pay
  
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• BMW reveals its new $120,000 electric flagship

  20-04-2022 14:11 via cnn.com
  
  Electric vehicles, with their need for lots of expensive batteries, have often trended towards luxury. Electric cars from Porsche, Mercedes, and Audi have all hit the market in recent years. BMW has come out with its own electric cars like the iX and i4 and now the new i7, a battery-powered take on the brand's new most expensive sedan.
  
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• Lawyer Who Predicted Musk's Twitter Bid Makes New Prediction: Here's Elon's Cryptic 'Plan B'

  20-04-2022 13:31
  
  Three days before Elon Musk announced his offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter’s shares, Aron Solomon correctly predicted the self-made billionaire would make such a move “within days.”
  Solomon, the chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, did as much in an interview with The Western Journal in which Solomon laid out what a potential Musk “Twitter endgame” would look like.
  Now, Solomon has a new prediction — what Musk’s critical “Plan B” will
  
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• Rapidly moving wildfire in Arizona destroys dozens of structures and forces hundreds to evacuate

  20-04-2022 07:04 via cnn.com
  
  Hundreds of homes near Flagstaff, Arizona, have been evacuated as a fast-moving wildfire has already destroyed at least two dozen structures and threatens hundreds more, officials said Tuesday.
  
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• 'A Remarkable Servant of Christ': Pat Robertson Mourns as Wife Dede Dies at 94

  20-04-2022 03:17
  
  Dede Robertson, the wife of Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson and a founding board member of the Christian Broadcasting Network, died Tuesday at her home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the network said in a statement.
  Robertson was 94.
  CBN did not provide her cause of death, although the family thanked individuals from Seniorcorp and Trinity Hospice “for the wonderful care they provided to Dede during the past months.”
  Pat Robertson said in a statement that his wife “was a woma
  
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• Report: CNN Axes Senior Executive as 'Doomed' Streaming Service Unravels

  20-04-2022 02:37
  
  As CNN’s streaming service known as CNN+ flounders, changes are being made at the network’s top levels.
  Warner Bros. Discovery has laid off CNN chief financial officer Brad Ferrer, replacing him with Neil Chugani, Discovery’s CFO for streaming and international, according to an Axios report ominously entitled “CNN+ looks doomed.”
  The outlet said more high-level layoffs are in store as WarnerMedia reshapes its empire.
  Based on five sources it did not name, Axios repo
  
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• Abortion rights supporters try again to block enforcement of Texas' 6-week abortion ban

  20-04-2022 01:34 via cnn.com
  
  Supporters of abortion rights filed a new federal lawsuit Tuesday in the latest bid to prevent enforcement of Texas' six-week abortion ban, which has dramatically reduced access to the procedure in the country's second largest state.
  
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• Prager: Man Behind NYT Passover Hit Piece Should've Paid Attention in Yeshiva - He Missed 1 Important Lesson

  20-04-2022 01:06
  
  On the eve of Passover, Good Friday, The New York Times published an opinion piece on God, the Bible and Passover. This would not be noteworthy except for the fact that the piece mocked all three.
  The two titles of the piece (one for the print edition and one for the Times’ digital edition) will give you a good idea of the tenor of the piece: “Let’s pass over God” and “In this time of war, I propose we give up God.”
  The column was written by Shalom Auslander,
  
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• Biden Admin Will 'Likely' Appeal Court Decision Ending Mask Mandate on Public Transportation, HHS Sec Says

  20-04-2022 01:05
  
  Update: The Justice Department announced in a statement that it will appeal Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s ruling overturning the public transportation mask mandate if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary. DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said the order was a “valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC” and an “important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”
  Department of Health and
  
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• Video: Just Before Harassing 'Libs of Tik Tok' Owner, Taylor Lorenz Cried About Being Harassed Online

  20-04-2022 01:04
  
  On Tuesday morning, The Washington Post’s internet culture reporter, Taylor Lorenz, doxxed the anonymous owner of the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.” Doxxing refers to publishing personal identifying information about a private individual, typically on the internet.
  For those unfamiliar with Libs of TikTok, it is just what it says it is. The account searches TikTok for videos of liberals and shares them on Twitter to allow others to see how extreme and just plain ludi
  
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• Experienced Hiker Injures Leg on Treacherous Trail: Over 30 Rescuers Perform Skilled Night Rescue

  20-04-2022 00:50
  
  Even the most experienced adventurers can face disaster in nature — and the more experienced they are, often the more brushes with death they’ve had.
  For avid outdoorsman Michael LaChance from New Hampshire, a hike to summit Mt. Eisenhower on Friday proved to be problematic due to less-than-ideal conditions.
  “Chandlers Purchase — Fish & Game Conservation Officers were notified of an injured hiker on the Crawford Path between Mt. Pierce and Mt. Eisenhower at approximat
  
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• Netflix loses $45 billion in value as subscriber numbers drop

  20-04-2022 00:43 via cnn.com
  
  Netflix's bad 2022 just got much worse.
  
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• Netflix just lost $50 billion in market cap

  20-04-2022 00:43 via cnn.com
  
  Netflix's bad 2022 just got much worse.
  
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