“Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) official Regina Bratton is an unabashed anti-Trumper, pro-masker and Obama and Biden fan, NATIONAL FILE has learned. Bratton’s anti-Trump activism highlights the plague of pro-Democrat subversion in the conservative movement. CPAC’s Regina Bratton said during the 2020 election that Joe Biden was ‘our last hope’ but was disappointed in his choice of Kamala Harris as running mate. Bratton, a black woman, disparaged Kamala Harris because ‘she’s married to a white dude’ and thus ‘she is not one of us.'”

“NATIONAL FILE has archived Bratton’s disturbing anti-conservative tweets on her Twitter account, where she has posted retweets of Alyssa Milano, the Lincoln Project, Liz Cheney, Meghan McCain, Mitt Romney marching for Black Lives Matter, The Daily Show, Joy Reid, Amy Klobuchar, and various other figures of the globalist establishment” reports National File.

The article goes on and on with examples of Bratton’s Twitter activity “exposing” her as a traitor to the cause, and to be honest it’s a pretty impressive effort insofar as such exhaustive, paranoid, Adderall-nighter rocket-fueled compilations go. There’s a whole bunch of hard to follow shit about Bratton and Matt Gaetz not getting along and what her exact title is and they make the mistake of assuming anyone actually gives a shit about such petty internal turf wars, but altogether it’s a solid case they build. We’d be lying if we weren’t slightly jealous National File put this together and National Zero didn’t. The good news too is that they also use Disqus as their commenting engine – with memes and GIFs allowed too – so feel free to go annoy the shit out of their readers.

“The Taliban have some unlikely cheerleaders: the far right in Europe and the United States. White supremacists, QAnon followers and others in extremist online communities praised the group for their overthrowing of liberal values in the days following their victory across Afghanistan, according to a review of encrypted Telegram channels, online message boards and posts within more mainstream social networks like Twitter by Digital Bridge, POLITICO’s transatlantic newsletter. While far-right groups have typically railed against the Islamification of the West, they were quick to piggyback on the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan to promote their own anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women and anti-liberal agenda – one that shares many tenets with that of Afghan militants.”

“On Twitter, supporters of the Capitol Hill riots in Washington posted pictures of American rioters next to images of Taliban fighters inside the presidential palace in Kabul. On Telegram, white supremacists openly debated if the Taliban should be considered good guys because of their homophobic views. On 4Chan, a message board frequented by the far right, the Taliban’s military success was promoted as evidence that Western governments would similarly soon be toppled. ‘The extreme far right-Taliban nexus is particularly worrying and probably surprising to many,’ said Adam Hadley, director of Tech Against Terrorism, a nonprofit combating extremist content online. ‘I suppose it makes sense given their share bigotry'” – Politico EU.

“We write to alert you to the Board’s claims against the Arizona Senate as a result of its election equipment being rendered unusable for Arizona elections because it was compromised by the Senate’s vendors, and also as a result of costs the County incurred complying with the Senate’s subpoenas… In accordance with ARS. § 12-821.01, the County is wiling to settle all its claims against the Senate for a sum certain of two million, eight hundred thirty-three thousand, two hundred twenty dollars ($2,833,220.00), which is the cost to the County’s taxpayers to replace the equipment that was compromised and rendered useless while in the Senate’s custody and control This offer shall remain open for sixty days following the service of this Notice of Claim” writes Maricopa County Attorney Alister Adel to Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann. Included in the exhibits of the notice PDF are the cost schedule for replacing the equipment, hence invoice.

That “sixty days” part is key because Arizona state law stipulates that any plaintiff with a tortious claim against a public entity must first file the notice of claim and allow the party to answer or settle before filing a civil complaint, per KNPX political reporter Braham Reznik. So expect Maricopa to sue their asses bright and early on day 61 if Karen and her buddies don’t pay up.

Dakota News Now: “The dust has settled on Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium in Sioux Falls, but the fallout continues for many Cyber Security Experts who attended. Some of those experts are pursuing the $5 Million dollars offered by the MyPillow CEO, if anyone could disprove his claims that the 2020 Presidential election was contained in the data he’d release at the symposium, in the form of packet captures. One of those Cyber experts is Bill Alderson, of Security Institute located in Texas. He paid his own travel costs to attend the event. Alderson worked with the Pentagon after 9/11, served with Cyber Security infrastructure for the US military in Afghanistan, and teaches students as part of the institute. ‘Every time a packet is collected the date is in it. Every single one,’ said Alderson. He says he’s followed the specific rules that were agreed to when he registered for the challenge. His proof that Lindell is wrong, is arriving at Lindell’s attorney’s office today.”

“‘With all of my exhibits, proving what my belief was about the packets and why they were not packets and why they did not contain IP headers, why they did not contain Ethernet addresses, why they did not contain congruent, you know, request-response packets, while they were not in P-PCAP format, and they didn’t contain any dating or anything of that nature,’ said Alderson. Lindell claimed that the data was in the form of packet captures, or P-CAPS, and contained every vote cast in the 2020 Presidential election. Many experts say they disproved Lindell’s claim. Another attendee at the Symposium was Finnish programmer and white-hat hacker Harri Hursti. He was told conflicting confirmation about the $5 million dollar offer. ‘While in Sioux Falls we were firmly told that $5M ‘offer’ has been withdrawn and off the table. I am more than interested to demand my share if there is a way to do that. The challenge document seems to attempt to force disputes to arbitration and tries to block class action,’ said Hursti.”

The Taliban can tweet. But President Trump can’t.

Our Section 230 bill could help fix that. But Democrats in Congress won’t bring it up for a vote.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 18, 2021

“Taliban militants attacked protesters Wednesday in Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country’s flag, killing at least one person and fueling fears about how the insurgents would govern this fractious nation. In an early sign of protest to the Taliban’s rule, dozens gathered in the eastern city of Jalalabad and a nearby market town to raise the tricolor national flag. They lowered the Taliban flag – a white banner with an Islamic inscription – that the militants have raised in the areas they captured. Video footage later showed the Taliban firing into the air and attacking people with batons to disperse the crowd” the AP reports.

These so-called protestors are nothing but seditious leftist scum, un-Afghan socialists trying to overturn the result of the 2021 Taliban offensive. The hateful AntiSha/MLM mob cannot be allowed to turn Afghan cities into war zones that will make Mogadishu, Baghdad, and Kabul look like child’s play. They want to cancel the Taliban, cancel religious liberty, cancel the very idea of Afghanistan itself. There’s no comparing them with the mostly peaceful group of Taliban tourists taking selfies in the presidential palace. Those people love their country and respect Sharia law enforcement. They were nothing like the radical, violent THUGS who need to know that when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Taliban troops will not hesitate to restore SHARIA LAW AND ORDER!

CREW press release: “A federal judge ruled last night that the US Postal Service must give Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents about potential conflicts of interest by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Over the past seven years, the USPS has reportedly paid approximately $286 million to XPO Logistics, DeJoy’s ex-employer, and has ‘ramped up its business’ with the company since DeJoy’s appointment as Postmaster General.”

“After his appointment, DeJoy continued to hold financial interests in XPO totaling between $30 and $75 million. DeJoy also held a significant amount of stock in Amazon, a major USPS competitor. Following the USPS’s failure to turn over documents relating to DeJoy’s potential conflicts of interest in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, CREW sued the agency. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted CREW summary judgment in full and ‘order[ed] USPS to produce the recusal documents as well as any non-exempt portions of the certificate of divestiture documents in a timely manner.’ The judge cited a ‘strong public interest’ in information relating to DeJoy’s potential conflicts, which have been the focus of intense scrutiny by Congress and the press.”

“The Biden administration will require that nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. Biden will announce the move Wednesday afternoon in a White House address as the administration continues to look for ways to use mandates to encourage vaccine holdouts to get shots. A senior administration official confirmed the announcement on condition of anonymity to preview the news before Biden’s remarks. The new mandate, in the form of a forthcoming regulation to be issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, could take effect as soon as next month.”

“Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers are not vaccinated, according to federal data, despite those facilities bearing the brunt of the early COVID-19 outbreak and their workers being among the first in the country to be eligible for shots. It comes as the Biden administration seeks to raise the costs for those who have yet to get vaccinated, after months of incentives and giveaways proved to be insufficient to drive tens of millions of Americans to roll up their sleeves” – AP.

CNBC: “Federal officials are pressing Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., for answers on the apparent personal use of thousands of dollars in campaign funds. A letter from the Federal Election Commission to the treasurer of Boebert’s 2022 reelection campaign inquired about four Venmo payments totaling more than $6,000. FEC filings show the payments came between May and June for what’s described on the forms as ‘personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to campaign account in error.’ The filings then note that the ‘expense has been reimbursed.’ A spokesman for Boebert told CNBC that the personal expenses were already reimbursed but did not say what the payments were for. ‘The Venmo charges were personal expenses that were billed to the campaign account in error. The reimbursement has already happened and will appear in the Q3 filing,’ Ben Stout, Boebert’s deputy chief of staff and communications director, told CNBC in an email on Wednesday. The FEC letter also notes that ‘if it is determined that the disbursement(s) constitutes the personal use of campaign funds, the Commission may consider taking further legal action.'”

In Florida’s seventh largest school district, more than 8,400 students and 300 staff members are in quarantine or isolating less than one week after schools opened for in-person classes, prompting the school board to hold an emergency session Wednesday, ABC News reports.

Hillsborough County Public Schools, with 206,000 students and 15,000 staff and faculty, started in-person education on August 10th.  Now, about 4% of students and 2% of faculty are staying at home after being exposed to people who were coronavirus-positive.

Because Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order barring schools from requiring face masks in schools for children, more than 26,000 parents have signed off on allowing their children to go without masks. 

Beyond the more obvious violations of the spirit and letter of the law, there aren’t a lot of examples in my experience with the notoriously capricious and arbitrary moderation of the comments on The Hill of discernible patterns emerging in which comments they do and don’t delete. Today, however there’s definitely one showing up. Three of my comments in the last ten days overtly or implicitly critical of Ron DeSantis have been deleted by the moderators:

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“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issues executive order banning counties from declaring pandemic states of emergency” – Tomorrow’s headline.
Wed, 8/18/2021 10:37 AM on Florida county declares pandemic state of emergency amid hospital resources shortage

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So when does DeSantis ban Canadian flights from landing in Florida?
Fri, 8/13/2021 2:31 PM on Canada to require all air travelers to be vaccinated

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Why do Conservatives hate the free market?
Mon, 8/9/2021 8:23 AM on ‘Judge rules Florida can’t ban Norwegian Cruise Line ‘vaccine passport’

Now as you can see there’s no profanity, vulgarity, or otherwise inappropriate content in them, and this also sure doesn’t look like the old “Most upvoted comment gets automatically deleted because MAGA assholes flagged it X amount of times”, because I looked in the Disqus API and found that each of them were only flagged once or twice. My comments on The Hill get flagged all the time and they don’t get deleted unless the 25 minimum flag threshold is crossed. The moderator deliberately removed these and the only reasonable conclusion we can make is that they’re getting overly cunty and sensitive when someone badmouths their precious Ronnie Boy.

Leveraging power granted to it by new state laws, the Georgia state board of elections took the first step in taking over responsibility for elections in Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold in the state’s most populous county, the Associated Press reports.

The Republican-dominated five member board, with a new chair  who replaced Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in April, voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a bipartisan, three-person review panel to review the practices of Fulton County officials in the 2020 and 2021 runoff elections.  The board had earlier announced that it found no irregularities in the management of the elections or the way in which ballots were counted.

Raffensperger has been the target of ire from Donald Trump and far right Republicans for failing to undermine local election officials who verified the counts of their precincts, which showed Joe Biden won the state and two Democrats won the state’s two Senate seats.

Whew. This could’ve gotten ugly if Lindell had continued claiming Wiles’s propaganda outfit is a front for Antifa and Media Matters with the same vigor he’s claiming the 2020 election was stolen. Wiles would be outmanned and outgunned, like he was bringing a blanket to a pillow fight.

AP: “Helaina Alati was browsing the spice aisle of an Australian supermarket when she came face-to-face with a huge snake. The head of the 3-meter-long (10-foot-long) non-venomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store. ‘I was in the spice aisle just looking for something to put on my chicken that night so I didn’t initially see it because it was curled up way back behind the little jars of spices,’ Alati said Wednesday. ‘I kind of turned to my right and it poked its head out.’ Alati, who coincidently is a trained snake catcher, said the snake’s head came to within 20 centimeters (8 inches) of her own.”

“‘Thankfully, I have a background in snakes so I was pretty calm about it. It definitely shocked me a little bit because I wasn’t expecting it,’ she added. Supermarket chain Woolworths confirmed in a statement that a ‘slippery and rare customer was spotted in the spice aisle’ on Monday morning at its store in the suburb of Glenorie on Sydney’s northwest outskirts.”

https://youtu.be/RUdXw3yDdO8
Jenna Ryan’s soulful sound mixed with a soothing piano backing create something we haven’t seen since Eve Plumb. Hope, grace, and warmth are all present here in “My Falling Heart”. Currently unsigned with a major label (though that could change literally any minute through God’s grace!), this Texas native’s talent is soon to be come America’s worst kept secret. Keep your eye on Jenna Ryan, as we are excited to see what she brings to the future of Christian Music…

Axios: “The Biden administration’s top health officials announced Wednesday that beginning the week of Sept. 20, Americans who received a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine will be offered a booster shot eight months after their second dose. The decision reflects a desire by the administration to get ahead of declining vaccine effectiveness, as the highly contagious Delta variant drives a new surge in infections across the country. Officials said they expect to recommend booster shots for people who received the single-dose J&J vaccine, but are waiting for more data in the next few weeks before laying out a plan. The plan is still subject to approval by the FDA and a CDC advisory committee. The new round of inoculations will prioritize individuals vaccinated earliest in the pandemic, including health care workers and seniors.”

Rashida Tlaib received thousands in rent during pandemic, despite enthusiasm for rent cancelation | Just The News https://t.co/EiHlBJ4KgK

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) August 18, 2021

Wow! That’s something sort of resembling hypocrisy right? Isn’t it? A landed woman received rent from her tenants during an economic crisis at the same time that, in her capacity as an elected federal legislator, she also advocated for rent cancelation and eviction moratoriums, two positions, one personal and one political, that are theoretically in conflict with each other.

Theoretically, as from all available evidence, it appears Tlaib’s tenants are not in arrears on their rent payments as she reported those payments on a disclosure form. But it’s still kind of hypocritical-ish, as if Tlaib is saying “Okay, I don’t care if this ends up fucking me out of tens of thousand of dollars personally, renters in the United States should be given a break due to economic circumstances beyond their control.” That’s a form of rhetorical inconsistency right?

“A scion of the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma, vowed in court on Tuesday that the family would walk away from a $4.5 billion pledge to help communities nationwide that have been devastated by the opioid epidemic, unless a judge grants it immunity from all current and future civil claims associated with the company. Absent that broad release from liability, said David Sackler, 41, a former board member and grandson of one of the founders, the family would no longer support the deal that the parties have painstakingly negotiated over two years to settle thousands of opioids lawsuits brought by states, cities, tribes and other plaintiffs.”

“‘We need a release that is sufficient to get our goals accomplished, and if the release fails to do that, then we will not support it,” Mr. Sackler declared during the fourth day of fractious testimony in the confirmation hearing for the bankruptcy plan of Purdue Pharma, whose misleading marketing of the prescription painkiller OxyContin is widely seen as igniting the opioid epidemic. Instead, he said he believed the Sacklers would resume fighting all the cases ‘to their final outcomes’ – a process that would be inordinately costly and protracted for everyone involved. The Sacklers’ $4.5 billion pledge is the centerpiece of the settlement plan and, without it, the deal will almost certainly collapse. The money is to be paid over nine or ten years, to begin to cover the extraordinary costs of an addiction crisis that has contributed to the deaths of more than a half-million Americans since the late 1990s. Under the plan’s other major terms, Purdue would be remade into a new public benefit company, whose profits would almost all go to the settlement, and the Sacklers would renounce all involvement” – New York Times.