nivek
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Senate PASSES a bill to make daylight savings time permanent - meaning America will never have to change its clocks again if it passes the House
The new legislation called The Sunshine Protection Act means that Americans will stop having to change their clocks twice a year. The bill was led by Democratic Sheldon Whitehouse and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio. It's time for Congress to take up our bipartisan legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and brighten the coldest months with an extra hour of afternoon sun,' Whitehouse wrote on Twitter.
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The new legislation called The Sunshine Protection Act means that Americans will stop having to change their clocks twice a year. The bill was led by Democratic Sheldon Whitehouse and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio. It's time for Congress to take up our bipartisan legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and brighten the coldest months with an extra hour of afternoon sun,' Whitehouse wrote on Twitter.
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nivek
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This organization is full of fraud and should also be treated as a terrorist organization as should Antifa...
BLM activist named 'Bostonian of the year' whose nonprofit raised $1M is arrested alongside her husband and charged with blowing it on rent arrears, luxury hotels and meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. after being arrested at her $450,000 home
A BLM activist has been charged over a huge fraud which is said to have included blowing a grant intended for young men at risk of violence on trips to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Shake Shack.Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, is also said to have paid herself $2,700-a-week and treated herself to a $440,000 five-bed house in Taunton, Massachusetts, using much of the $1 million raised by her nonprofit Violence in Boston Inc for good causes. Her salary jumped from $25,000 in 2020 to $170,000 in 2021. Cannon-Grant - once named a Bostonian of the Year by the prestigious Boston Globe newspaper, was arrested last fall, and appeared in a federal court Monday alongside husband Clark Grant, 38, with the pair facing 18 separate criminal counts dating from 2017 to July 2021. She has denied all allegations made against her. They are said to have misappropriated grants intended for their charity, including a $6,000 check given to them by Suffolk District Attorney's office in June 2019, intended to be spent on a retreat for young men feared to be at risk of falling into crime. Instead, Cannon-Grant and Grant treated themselves to meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Shake Shack, and a three night break to Maryland that included a $1,200 hotel stay, it is claimed.
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BLM activist named 'Bostonian of the year' whose nonprofit raised $1M is arrested alongside her husband and charged with blowing it on rent arrears, luxury hotels and meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. after being arrested at her $450,000 home
A BLM activist has been charged over a huge fraud which is said to have included blowing a grant intended for young men at risk of violence on trips to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Shake Shack.Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, is also said to have paid herself $2,700-a-week and treated herself to a $440,000 five-bed house in Taunton, Massachusetts, using much of the $1 million raised by her nonprofit Violence in Boston Inc for good causes. Her salary jumped from $25,000 in 2020 to $170,000 in 2021. Cannon-Grant - once named a Bostonian of the Year by the prestigious Boston Globe newspaper, was arrested last fall, and appeared in a federal court Monday alongside husband Clark Grant, 38, with the pair facing 18 separate criminal counts dating from 2017 to July 2021. She has denied all allegations made against her. They are said to have misappropriated grants intended for their charity, including a $6,000 check given to them by Suffolk District Attorney's office in June 2019, intended to be spent on a retreat for young men feared to be at risk of falling into crime. Instead, Cannon-Grant and Grant treated themselves to meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Shake Shack, and a three night break to Maryland that included a $1,200 hotel stay, it is claimed.
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Rick Hunter
Celestial
Please, please, please let this happen. This is a slam dunk that both parties can take credit for.
nivek
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MEGHAN MCCAIN: The pathetic Biden White House has resorted to using teenage TikTok stars as political propagandists, who naively spout their spin and wrongly blame Putin for rising gas prices
Professional journalists are generally expected to work and train for years before they are qualified to question the president's representatives in the White House briefing room. Who knew that one could jump the line with a popular TikTok account featuring pranks, dancing and posing in trendy outfits? There is a reason that qualified journalists are used for this purpose - they are least likely to be spun by an administration more interested in positive press than the truth. While the TikTok influencers spewed the White House's talking points, specifically on rising gas prices and Putin's role, ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl debunked these very talking points on the Sunday program 'This Week.' 'If you look at the numbers, inflation really started to rise almost exactly when Biden came into the White House,' Karl said. But this White House wants their spin presented to audiences with zero context or criticism, so they dodge the tough questions and try to cut past the professionals to those who don't see the weakness of their arguments.
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Professional journalists are generally expected to work and train for years before they are qualified to question the president's representatives in the White House briefing room. Who knew that one could jump the line with a popular TikTok account featuring pranks, dancing and posing in trendy outfits? There is a reason that qualified journalists are used for this purpose - they are least likely to be spun by an administration more interested in positive press than the truth. While the TikTok influencers spewed the White House's talking points, specifically on rising gas prices and Putin's role, ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl debunked these very talking points on the Sunday program 'This Week.' 'If you look at the numbers, inflation really started to rise almost exactly when Biden came into the White House,' Karl said. But this White House wants their spin presented to audiences with zero context or criticism, so they dodge the tough questions and try to cut past the professionals to those who don't see the weakness of their arguments.
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wwkirk
Divine
Companies used to be savvy enough to remain aloof (overtly) from political stances. Why alienate any portion of one's customer base? (Naturally, they have always had many covert political dealings.)
Rick Hunter
Celestial
I went to Disney World last year. My kid loved it, of course. But what I observed as an adult was eerily similar to the company towns that used to exist in the coalfields here. Disney controls a very large part of Florida, some 48 square miles, which is more than twice the size of Manhattan. Most of that is rural fields and swamps, and it is rather strange to drive through it and see nothing save for a very few gas stations and fast food places that is not part of Disney. My wife has a friend who has worked on and off for them for years. He says Disney is a very demanding employer, with fairly average pay and benefits. He says that they have really cut back on giving employees free park admission, which used to be a huge perk of working there. He also said that Disney has expensive company housing available for those who don't want to commute through the company wilderness every day.
nivek
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The $10 billion pork fattening Congress' $1.5trillion spending bill: $3 million for a Ghandi museum in Texas, $1.6 million for Rhode Island shellfish 'equity', $800,000 for artist lofts and Schumer's $600,000 greenhouse
The 2022 government funding bill passed last week marked the first budget since the return of pork-barrel politics, and the $1.5 trillion spending bill was loaded up with more than $9.7 billion dedicated to 5,000 pet projects across the country. Earmarks have been a part of the federal budget for centuries but became more popular in the 1990s when a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the appropriations committees simplified the process to obtain them. They became a hotly contested campaign issue after horror stories of waste and corruption from lawmakers of both parties. Some were thrown in jail for taking bribes in exchange for earmarks. Republicans banned the practice in the House in 2011 at the height of the Tea Party movement and Democrats did the same in the Senate under President Obama shortly after.
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The 2022 government funding bill passed last week marked the first budget since the return of pork-barrel politics, and the $1.5 trillion spending bill was loaded up with more than $9.7 billion dedicated to 5,000 pet projects across the country. Earmarks have been a part of the federal budget for centuries but became more popular in the 1990s when a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the appropriations committees simplified the process to obtain them. They became a hotly contested campaign issue after horror stories of waste and corruption from lawmakers of both parties. Some were thrown in jail for taking bribes in exchange for earmarks. Republicans banned the practice in the House in 2011 at the height of the Tea Party movement and Democrats did the same in the Senate under President Obama shortly after.
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The shadow
The shadow knows!
Sounds like my 7 year old.
The shadow
The shadow knows!
wwkirk
Divine
nivek
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$6.6M on a golf course, $140M on a luxury hotel, $2M on a ski slope and cash for sports stadiums: How local governments wasted some of the $350 BILLION in COVID relief from Biden's American Rescue Plan
A shocking new report details just how much of the $350 billion given to states and localities to fight coronavirus went toward unrelated projects. Democrats pumped $1.9 trillion into the economy through the American Rescue Plan to bring back jobs lost during the pandemic, help those short on cash due to job loss, reopen schools and launch a nationwide vaccination campaign. Of that $350 billion in emergency funding was made available to states, local and tribal governments, with little restriction on how they put it to use. President Biden has already requested another $22.5 billion, his administration warning that without it they won't be able to keep up their supply of vaccines and coronavirus treatments. Republicans have already balked at the request for more funds, and the few who were open to the prospect could be turned off seeing hundreds of millions in funding were appropriated to projects unrelated to the virus.
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A shocking new report details just how much of the $350 billion given to states and localities to fight coronavirus went toward unrelated projects. Democrats pumped $1.9 trillion into the economy through the American Rescue Plan to bring back jobs lost during the pandemic, help those short on cash due to job loss, reopen schools and launch a nationwide vaccination campaign. Of that $350 billion in emergency funding was made available to states, local and tribal governments, with little restriction on how they put it to use. President Biden has already requested another $22.5 billion, his administration warning that without it they won't be able to keep up their supply of vaccines and coronavirus treatments. Republicans have already balked at the request for more funds, and the few who were open to the prospect could be turned off seeing hundreds of millions in funding were appropriated to projects unrelated to the virus.
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