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By Mary Aultman San Francisco leaders voted to allow the city’s police department to use  lethal force  with robots in emergency situations. “Under this policy, SFPD is authorized to use these robots to carry out deadly force in extremely limited situations when risk to loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available,” City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman wrote on Twitter. On Tuesday, San Francisco leaders voted 8-3 in support of the new policy. According to a police department spokesperson, the San Francisco Police Department has 17 robots, but none are armed with guns, and the department has no plans to do so. The department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect.” “Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” SFPD spokesperson Alliso...

By The Heartland Institute Before the 2022 midterm election, most political pundits expected a “red wave” in which the GOP would emerge with a resounding majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and a narrow victory in the U.S. Senate. Of course, three weeks after the election, we know that the Republican-led red wave did not come to pass. However, there absolutely was a “red” wave in the 2022 midterm election because socialists, who long ago made red one of the principal symbols of their collectivist revolution, won the overwhelming majority of the state and federal offices they ran in. In fact, as a  new report  by The Heartland Institute’s Socialism Research Center (SRC) shows, socialist candidates won a whopping 120 of the 132 races in which they ran. In other words, socialist candidates were victorious in more than 90 percent of the elections they participated in last month. According to the  report , titled “Socialist Watch 2022: An Analysis of Sociali...

By Bill Pan Bob Iger, who recently returned to Walt Disney Co. as chief executive, said he feels “sorry” to see the entertainment giant getting dragged into a battle with  Florida  lawmakers over a ban on sex and gender discussions in early elementary classrooms. The Florida law, in response to parents’ complaints that children as young as five are being taught about homosexuality, transgenderism, and other matters related to sex and gender, prohibits public school teachers from discussing those topics with students in kindergarten through third grade. Disney didn’t immediately join other major corporations in condemning what progressive critics described as “‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill,” which became law in March. However, after a group of vocal activist employees criticized the company for not publicly taking a position, both Iger and his successor, Bob Chapek, spoke out in opposition of the measure. “To me, it wasn’t politics. It was what is right and what is wrong, and th...

By Sister Toldjah We haven’t seen Vice President Kamala Harris much in recent weeks. Though that’s not necessarily a bad thing considering her penchants for cringey  word salads  and embarrassing the United States on a  world stage , it doesn’t mean that she’s been completely off the grid. She’s spent some time here and there on the Twitter machine in November, posting videos and photos of herself, her family, and her visits to other countries and places here at home. But it was a tweet she posted Monday about vaccines that garnered a fair amount of attention, especially after Health and Human Secretary Xavier Becerra posted a related one the following day that seemed to contradict Harris’ message. “One shot, once a year—that’s all most people will need to stay protected from COVID year-long,” Harris’ tweet read while including a link to  vaccines.gov : One shot, once a year—that’s all most people will need to stay protected from COVID year-long. Make a plan to g...

By Nick R. Hamilton More than 2,000 employers across the country have signed an anti-woke pledge to promise that they will not discriminate against their workers’ free speech rights and personal beliefs. The initiative is led by RedBalloon, a conservative-leaning job services company. RedBalloon is promoting an “Employee Bill of Rights” that seeks to protect employees from “woke” ideology in the workplace. The company hosts a job board that connects like-minded employees to companies across the country. The firm aims to unite companies with workers that have a shared focus on productivity and innovation, rather than complying with the “correct” ideology of the moment. Across the country, thousands of conservative Americans have reported work discrimination because of their privately held beliefs. Some have even lost their jobs due to pressure from activist colleagues or politically correct employers. A few months ago, RedBalloon released what it calls  The Employ...

By Jim Hoft Washington DC jurors reached a verdict in the garbage “seditious conspiracy” charges against Stewart Rhodes in the Oath Keepers Trial. The jury announced they have reached a decision on Tuesday afternoon. The verdict, which came after three days of deliberations, is expected to be read Tuesday afternoon. The DC juries have found EVERY SINGLE Trump supporter guilty in their disgusting and unconstitutional criminal proceedings against honest Americans who were caught up in the violence on January 6. Stewart Rhodes NEVER went inside the US Capitol. He never instructed anyone to go inside the US Capitol. And he was unarmed as were all of his associates that day. The Oath Keepers were in DC to offer security for the several rallies planned on January 5th and 6th. This is such a horrible travesty of justice! As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the US government is hiding its informants — the only Oath Keepers or associates who called for violence on J...

Robert F. Smith is the richest black man in the US with a net worth of $8 billion, according to Forbes   By Tyler Durden You may also know him for his escapades with the US Treasury which accused him of hiding tens of millions in income from the IRS and then using the untaxed money to buy up expensive homes in California, Colorado and France as well as putting his girlfriend up in an expensive Manhattan pad. He is also the same philanthropist who previously donated some $34 million (in more untaxed income) to pay  off the student debt  of black students at Morehouse College. A French ski condo purchased by Smith, allegedly with untaxed funds This libertarian tax evader, however, never saw the inside of a jail: he escaped charges by agreeing to testify against his business partner, former Reynolds & Reynolds CEO Robert Brockman, who was accused of hiding $2 billion from the IRS in the  largest tax bust in US history  (Brockman died earlier this...