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This is what a massive lawsuit looks like pic.twitter.com/eKYDnny6Hb — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) December 14, 2022 h/t dr0id

More than half of U.S. adults say it’s harder to afford the holiday gifts they want to give this year. Sixty-nine percent of them say they have seen higher prices for holiday gifts in recent months, up from 58% last year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. … Read more

Seventy-seven percent of likely voters believe social media giants censor news and commentary because of their own political bias, including 52 percent who say it’s “very likely,” according to new survey data from Rasmussen Reports. The poll was conducted days after journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss published internal documents from Twitter, along with damning reports confirming the U.S. … Read more

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Azealia Banks has canceled another Australian show and said she won’t return because the country makes her “utterly miserable.” Banks was due to perform in Brisbane at The Tivoli on Tuesday night but took to Instagram to unleash on Australia before the promoter confirmed in a statement that the show was canceled and all ticketholders … Read more

Did you know this?? ♻️🤯 pic.twitter.com/xWGT1qj7Lp — PragerU (@prageru) December 13, 2022 https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled My city took away recycle bins and told everyone it's ending up in the dump anyways 🤗 — Client Global Resource Network – Hotspot Nautilus (@clntgrnhstn) December 13, 2022   Our city was the same. After years of "recycling" they finally admitted … Read more

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) says that the terms "groomer and pedophile allege that a person is criminal somehow merely because of their sexual orientation and gender identity" and laments that Twitter allowed groomer "to reach 72 million users." pic.twitter.com/hi6tuAPm4F — Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 14, 2022 During a Congressional hearing on ‘anti-LGBTQ violence,’ a Democratic … Read more

by Player896 Morning economic data: November retail sales (m/m) -0.6% vs -0.2% expected; October retail sales were +1.3% m/m Empire Fed manufacturing survey -11.2 vs -1.0 expected Philly Fed manufacturing survey -13.8 vs -12.0 expected Weekly jobless claims down 20k from last week; 211k vs 234k expected November US industrial production -0.2% vs +0.1% expected Manufacturing activity … Read more

A Texas nurse has filed a lawsuit to stop Joe Biden from turning VA hospitals into abortion clinics. Leading pro-life groups ar concerned that a $71 million increase in taxpayer funding to the Office of Women’s Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs will be used illegally to fund abortions. Since 1992, the Department of Veterans … Read more

The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well. pic.twitter.com/hOoeyI70jj — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 14, 2022 The Washington Post is the latest media company to announce layoffs as the industry grapples with a softening ad market. Publisher Fred … Read more

A surge in trading activity in the 60 seconds before the release of critical November inflation data this week has sparked speculation that the closely watched report was prematurely leaked. Stock futures surged more than 1% just before the November edition of the Consumer Price Index was due for release Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m. … Read more

A Disney investor has filed a lawsuit against the company for pushing its “woke” agenda, arguing that meddling in Florida’s politics created sudden financial losses when shares prices plunged in response. The complaint was unsealed after it was filed in Delaware Chancery Court. The lawsuit alleges that Disney’s response to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education act fostered … Read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of its final acts of the year, the House passed bipartisan legislation late Wednesday that would empower law enforcement agencies across the country to adopt de-escalation training when encountering individuals with mental health issues as part of an effort to reduce the number of officer-involved fatalities. The bill passed 264-162 with Republican … Read more

Once again, Congress has blown past the end of the fiscal year without passing appropriations bills, thus setting up a government spending fight just before Christmas. The defeated outgoing Democratic House majority is hoping some Hollywood-style flair will hide their true aim; namely, to stuff trillions of dollars in new spending down the throats of the American public. There … Read more

President Joe Biden hosted a meeting for African leaders that began on Tuesday, during which the White House promised more details of the massive benefits package would be divulged. “Working closely with Congress, the U.S. will commit $55 billion to Africa over the course of the next three years across a wide range of sectors … Read more

Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-228 The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against Lawrence Billimek, an employee of a major asset management firm with securities portfolios worth billions of dollars, and Alan Williams, who previously worked at several financial industry firms, for perpetrating a multi-year front-running scheme that generated at least $47 million in illegal trading profits. … Read more

‘24 November 2022 The United States Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a new treatment for a rare blood clotting disease, one with a hefty price tag. Per dose, it’ll cost US$3.5 million, making it the most expensive drug anywhere in the world. The medicine, called Hemgenix, is a gene therapy treatment for hemophilia … Read more

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