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Skip to Comments By SAMUEL ALLEGRI Youtube, the video hosting platform owned by Google, announced on March 29 that they are going to test making the “dislike” count on videos invisible. The tech giant says that it’s being done in response to “targeted dislike campaigns” and “creator feedback around well-being.” “In response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we’re testing a few new designs that don’t show the public dislike count,”  YouTube  announced on Twitter. “If you’re part of this small experiment, you might spot one of these designs in the coming weeks.” It further  states  on a Google support page: “Viewer feedback has always been, and will continue to be, an important part of YouTube. But we’ve heard from creators that the public dislike counts can impact their wellbeing, and may motivate a targeted campaign of dislikes on a creator’s video. So, we’re testing designs that don’t include the visible like or dislik...

By  Charlie McCarthy Progressive lawmakers and environmentalists have reportedly urged President Joe Biden to use the coming infrastructure package to finance parts of their radical Green New Deal. The Green New Deal Network – a group of 15 national climate organizations – is pressuring Biden to "incorporate the entirety of the THRIVE Agenda" into his infrastructure package,  The Washington Free Beacon reported  on Wednesday. THRIVE was introduced in February by Sen. Ed Markey, D.-Mass., who called on Biden to include the proposal in any future economic plan. THRIVE contains idealistic climate goals, including a carbon-free electric grid by 2035. Markey’s proposal — the full name of which is the Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy Agenda — calls for $10 trillion in public spending to achieve "real full employment" and "reshape our society" through government jobs. Biden's entire infrastructure bill reportedly will cost $2.25 tr...

By Reagan McCarthy Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) is on the receiving end of hysterical outrage from Democrats about a  common-sense voting reform bill  that he recently signed into law. Lawmakers and activists on the Left, including Kemp’s 2018 opponent Stacey Abrams, who has yet to formally concede her loss, deem the bill representative of “voter suppression” and a return to “Jim Crow laws.” Kemp and Republicans argue that the bill expands voting access, including adding weekend voting options, while also promoting free and fair election practices by ramping up voter identification requirements. The governor said that Democrats’ outrage-driven narrative is not reflective of the bill itself. “They [Democrats] just want to drive that one narrative regardless of what’s in the bill, because it definitely expands voting access--especially on the weekends. It replaces the arbitrary process of signature matching with a voter ID requirement, which we’ve had in Georgia for in...

By Larry Johnson I know that our media is a pathetic lot of sycophants with no interest in reporting real news, but the attacks on U.S. logistical convoys in Iraq surely should have merited some comment. So far Crickets. According to Southfront.org, six separate convoys have been hit with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)  in the last two days : On March 30th, the Iraqi resistance groups targeted three US logistical convoys in center and south of Iraq.  The IED attacks were carried out for the second day in a row. IED attack US logistic convoy in Naseriyah governorate, when the convoy was heading from Basra to Erbil. IED attack US logistic convoy in Babil governorate . IED attack US logistic convoy in Salah Aldeen governorate . The attack was in the Dujail area, and the International Resistance faction group claimed responsibility for the operation. On March 29th, improvised explosive device (IED) targeted three logistical convoys of the US-led inter...

By JOHN NOLTE If you live in a city run by Democrats, you need to prepare yourself for the possible aftermath of the Derek Chauvin verdict. If Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer on trial for the death of George Floyd (P.S. Minneapolis has been run exclusively by Democrats for decades), is found not guilty, America’s left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter will almost certainly make last year’s riots look like a dress rehearsal. Last summer, after that awful video of Floyd’s death hit the Internet, where did the worst of the violence hit? In these Democrat-run cities: Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Fayetteville; Atlanta; New York; Nashville; Seattle; Portland; Philadelphia; Chicago; Milwaukee; Salt Lake; Washington, DC; Detroit; Indianapolis; San Francisco; Kansas City; Houston; Charlotte; Cleveland; Pittsburgh; Denver; Dallas; Phoenix; Tampa; Baltimore; Oakland; Louisville, and even a little place called Kenosha. Does anyone doubt the terrorists in Black Lives Matter a...

By NATE CHURCH Americans struggling to survive on federal benefits have waited weeks for word on their share of the $1.9 trillion stimulus. Some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens have been  waiting  weeks for the next round of promised financial aid from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “ American Rescue Plan ” coronavirus relief package, with no indication of when it would come. Chief among those are the millions of elderly Americans who depend on federal assistance to survive. As of March 24, nearly 30 million had yet to  receive  their portion, largely because the Social Security Administration had “not sent the necessary payment files” to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Despite a March 12  assurance  the money would be  delivered  “shortly,” weeks passed before the IRS had access to the necessary information to follow through. “To me, ‘shortly’ is two to three days, not two weeks,” 65-year-old Floridian retiree Mark Stevens...

By WENDELL HUSEBO Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Republicans “gun worshipers,” who are “shameless” because of their “huge advantage” due to the filibuster. “You know, democracy is the balancing of interests and rights, and unfortunately at this time, the gun worshipers have a huge advantage because of the filibuster and because of their shameless exploitation of people’s unwarranted fears,” Hillary Clinton said. “The opportunists on the other side, like Cruz and his ilk,” she continued, “they know better and they are in the position of trying to keep people really riled up and scared that sensible gun legislation like we had in the ‘90s for 10 years will somehow undermine their rights.” “Well, what about the rights of all the rest of us? The rights of us to go to work, go shopping, go on dates to the movie theater, go to school, for heaven’s sake — what about the rest of us?” she asked. We talk so much about the right to bear arms in America. @HillaryClinton wa...

By Joe Hoft There are more US deaths related to vaccines in 2021 in less than 3 months than there were the entire past decade.  The number of deaths related to vaccines this year has absolutely skyrocketed.  According to the CDC’s own data, in 2021 in less than 3 months, we have already seen over 1,750 deaths due to vaccines in the US. This data comes from the CDC’s VAERS database: “The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. Reports are accepted from anyone and can be submitted electronically at  www.vaers.hhs.gov .” The ages of those who have died plies with the elderly: The two primary vaccine manufacturers who have the most deaths related to their vaccines are Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech: Based on a report from the  CDC through February 16, 2021 , there were over 55 million individuals who h...

By Graham Piro President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting. Biden signed an  executive order  in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce "relevant information" on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice "a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation" within 200 days under the terms of the order. "Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process," the order states. "The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with appl...

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Skip to Comments By JACK PHILLIPS A pregnant Catholic woman said she was escorted from the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Dallas,  Texas , for not wearing a mask and was later issued a trespass warning. “I mean, you’re going to arrest a 28-year-old nursing mom who’s already socially distanced? I mean it proves that it’s not really about the health. It’s just about control,” Deirdre Hairston told  Church Militant . According to  video footage  of the incident, Hairston appeared to be holding a crying baby. “Am I getting arrested?” Hairston asks the officer in the video. “No, not right now. But if you don’t listen you will be arrested,” the officer says. “What’s the crime?” Hairston asks. “The church does not want y’all here,” the officer responds. A Facebook post from the Catholic Diocese of Dallas responded to the woman’s claims, saying she was not arrested or ticketed. “The young woman involved in this incident that occurred two weeks ago ...

By JEFF POOR Monday on Fox Business Network’s “The Evening Edit,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) slammed the Biden administration’s efforts to suppress news from the southern U.S. border, especially images they could sway public opinion. Johnson also attacked the media for not pushing back against the Biden administration. He likened the tactics the Biden administration used to “minders” to what one might see in Communist China. “Well, the mainstream media is basically in their back pocket,” he replied. “Let’s face it. They picked their candidate and did everything they could, suppressed the report on Hunter Biden to make sure that Joe Biden won. And so the last thing they want to do is prove themselves wrong in picking the wrong horse. But one of the things we revealed in a 2018 hearing is that they actually sell children to people who want to come across, so they can come across as a family unit and exploit our laws. Again, we have known this for years. And this is exactly what President B...