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Party of science?
This is legit Johns Hopkins study.

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

An analysis of each of these three groups support
the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More
specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only
reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing
COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence
of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.
While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,
they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In
consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy
instrument.

That ignorant, racist bitch should be canceled just like she likes to do to everybody else. That whole show should be canceled. 

If you're talking about random pro, then you can bet you're ass he did.  

No. randompro actually didn't support BLM.

I am shocked the so called community would not be transparent.
Signed,
Nobody

Interesting story from a former Olympian

Michael Arceneaux, a best-selling author who often writes about race and power, questioned how these comments made it to the Senate floor.

“How do you forget Thurgood Marshall during Black history month,” he asked. “Especially if you are not just a Democrat, but Senate Majority Leader.”

“And who wrote this speech,” Arceneaux wondered.

LMAO

This tells you everything you need to know about the Jan 6 committee:

Four members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot are “devastated for our democracy” after CNN president Jeff Zucker announced his resignation earlier this week, according to a CNN correspondent.
Brittany Bernstein
Fri, February 4, 2022, 9:08 AM

Four members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot are “devastated for our democracy” after CNN president Jeff Zucker announced his resignation earlier this week, according to a CNN correspondent.

Zucker stepped down on Wednesday after acknowledging that he had failed to disclose a romantic relationship with CNN executive vice president and chief marketing officer Allison Gollust.

“As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker wrote in a memo to staff. “I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong.”

During a 90-minute meeting with Jason Kilar, chief executive of CNN’s parent firm, WarnerMedia, staffers from the cable news channel’s Washington bureau went to bat for Zucker and expressed concern over the future of the company, according to an audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

“I think we’ve heard a lot of corporate double talk,” said Washington correspondent Jamie Gangel. “I think the company has made a terrible mistake by doing this.”

Gangel, who has worked with Zucker since her early days as an up-and-coming producer at NBC, said she received calls from four members of the nine-person congressional panel investigating the Capitol riot “who felt devastated for our democracy” now that Zucker has left CNN.

“I do not think you have any appreciation for what you’ve done to this organization,” she said.

The committee is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans: Representatives Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.), Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif.), Elaine Luria (D., Va.), Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), Pete Aguilar (D., Calif.), Stephanie Murphy (D., Fla.), Jamie Raskin (D., Md.), Liz Cheney (R., Wy.) and Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.)

During Wednesday’s meeting with Kilar, CNN Washington correspondent Jim Acosta claimed that without Zucker’s leadership during the Trump administration “we would have probably been taken out and you would have something like Fox News lite on the air right now,” according to the report.

“It’s a rather delicate time, not just for this country but this business,” he added.

Interesting read. I drove a truck (semi) for 25 years and honestly the industry is in the shitter. This might explain the situation to you if you've ever wondered why the days of the California trucker is slowly dieing

Inflation is Related to Over Regulation and Logistics -We Warned This Was Coming

In 2018 we wrote an article titled, “ELD Mandate Can Undo Trump’s Work to Reinvigorate U.S. Economy.” In that article we outlined the issues impacting the trucking and logistics industries as a result of “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century,” also known as MAPS 21. At the time we warned that the result would be inflation. Now, just a few years later, here we are in the midst of the worst inflation in recent history—7% to be exact, which is the highest since 1982. This is largely being driven by cumbersome regulations at the federal and state level.

In addition to the federally enacted ELD mandate, several California state trucking laws are also impacting the trucking industry nationwide.

The Real Factors Impacting Our Supply Chain: Egregious Regulations which Make Truck Driving Unappealing
Statistics show that only 16% of truck/passenger vehicle accidents are the fault of the truck driver. Nevertheless, the requirement for electronic logging devices (ELDs) was implemented in December 2017, largely under the premise of safety, with a focus on reducing driver fatigue.

The devices replaced handwritten paper logbooks that had been used by the trucking industry for over 80 years. In addition to tracking hours of driving, ELDs collect data on vehicle speed, routes, and mandated rest periods.

The ELD mandate has created a variety of complications within the industry that have made careers in trucking much less appealing overall. The freedom and earning potential that once drew people to be truck drivers have been greatly stifled by the Hours of Service (HOS) restrictions. There is a limit of 11 hours of driving and 14 hours of work per day, with requirements for breaks every 8 hours.

Some drivers say that instead of improving safety by limiting fatigue, the limits and requirements actually put them in a race against the clock to make it to their destination. In addition, since an ELD is synchronized with the truck, it does not allow for differentiation in labor allocation or timing—for example, things like team drivers that take turns at the wheel, or drivers who are able to rest while their truck is being unloaded, which would be time included within a 14-hour work day.

This onerous overreach of regulation and resulting inflexibility has driven numerous truckers to seek employment elsewhere or retire early, further stressing an essential industry that has already been challenged with driver shortages. The average age of a trucker is 48, and replenishing a predominantly middle-aged workforce was difficult even prior to the recent changes in regulation.

It should be noted that, due to the nature of hauling live cargo, the livestock industry was thankfully given a reprieve regarding the hours-of-service requirements. Livestock haulers are allowed travel an additional 300 miles while exempt from the restrictive Hours-of-Service (HoS) regulations to ensure animal welfare.
California State Laws Impact the Entire Trucking Industry

The state of California recently passed several laws governing trucking, adding more regulations to drivers and trucks in the state. These regulations have far-reaching effects throughout the nationwide trucking industry due to the sheer number of loads that originate in California from the state’s sea ports and massive agriculture industry.

The AB5 Independent Contractor law requires that truckers hauling for a company be actual employees of the company. While intended to improve worker rights and allow them access to the benefits afforded to full-time employees, it has instead dealt a devastating blow to independent truckers who contract per load with various companies. Independent truckers have historically been a majority in the industry. In fact, in 2019, the Los Angeles Times reported that out of the approximately 13,000 truckers who serve the ports at Los Angeles and Long Beach, only a few hundred were classified as employees.

Citing a need to reduce exhaust emissions, California also has outlawed trucks with engines that were made before 2010. The law took effect in January 2020 and has been enforced through the California Department of Motor Vehicles by denying registrations to trucks that don’t meet the new standards. By 2023 nearly all trucks and buses will be required to have 2010 or newer engines.

Trucking Industry Matters to Everyone

The trucking industry accounts for 70% of all freight transported in the United States. Combined with high fuel prices and various lingering effects of the covid-19 pandemic, the consequences of these multi-level, heavy-handed regulations have created a perfect storm that affects the lives of literally every consumer through supply shortages and drastic price increases in groceries and other goods. Unfortunately, the resulting increased financial strain on American families is not likely to be alleviated any time soon.

Read more about the ELD mandates here: protecttheharvest.com/initiatives/eld-mandate/

Read our warning from 2018 here: protecttheharvest.com/.../eld-mandate-can-undo.../

The so called media exposed:

The former top editor of the New York Times's opinion division apologized in testimony Thursday for mistakes that led to a defamation lawsuit brought against the publication.

"This is my fault," former Times editorial page editor James Bennet testified in court Tuesday afternoon. "I wrote those sentences and I'm not looking to shift the blame for anyone else. I want that for the record."

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin filed the lawsuit in 2017 over an editorial published by the Times that June titled "America's Lethal Politics." The piece followed a shooting of several Republican members of Congress by a man with a history of opposing their political positions.

The Times article, published in its opinion section, drew a link between the shooting and an earlier one, in 2011, where another man shot then-Democratic Rep. Gabriel Giffords in Arizona, wounding her and killing six others. According to the version of the editorial that was initially published, Palin incited that shooting because her political action committee posted an image on Facebook that put Giffords's district under crosshairs.

The Times corrected the article the next day, admitting that there was no established link between Palin's committee's post and the Giffords shooting. Palin sued anyway.

Elizabeth Williamson, a reporter at the Times who was a member of its editorial board in 2017, wrote the first draft of "America's Lethal Politics," which did not draw a direct link between the former Republican vice presidential candidate and the shooting. Bennet, while revising the piece, inserted the phrases Palin claimed were defamatory.

Bennet knew something was wrong when Twitter blew up
The trial, which began last week in federal court in Manhattan, has illuminated some parts of the Times's editorial writing process.

Grilled by Palin's attorney Shane Vogt on the stand Thursday, Bennet testified he did not "conduct any fact research" or search the Times's own coverage regarding Palin or the Giffords shooting, instead asking an assistant to supply research for his work.

Bennet took the blame for the erroneous phrases he inserted into the story. He said he wanted to make sure the editorial was published by a deadline around 8 p.m., when it could make it into the next day's print edition, he testified.

Bennet said, and court documents show, that he was alerted to an issue with the editorial by an email from Ross Douthat, a fellow New York Times Opinion staffer, later that evening after the piece was published online. In his email, Douthat said the use of "incitement" in the published editorial didn't have a sufficient basis. Bennet said he checked Twitter, where other people were expressing the same sentiment.

"The gist of what Ross was saying was being echoed by those tweets that I saw," he said.

The next morning, after around 5 a.m., Bennet tasked other members of his team with checking the "incitement" line he added into the article.

As inquiries from Insider (then known as Business Insider), Axios, and CNN poured in, Danielle Rhoades Ha, the Times's vice president of communications, got in touch with Bennet. By then, Bennet understood the Times needed to issue a correction.

Vogt walked Bennet through emails that were entered as exhibits in the case. Bennett and other Times staffers exchanged emails proposing different languages for corrections to append to the piece, as well as tweets addressing the issue.

Vogt also entered into evidence documents from Bennet's annual review, where he noted the editor did not suffer any consequences for his error in the editorial.

"There was no disciplinary action," Bennet said.

Bennet did note that he apologized in a later meeting with the Times's board of directors.

"I don't know if that qualifies as a reprimand, but it felt like one," he said.

Vogt asked if he ever apologized to Palin for the mistake. Bennet noted that he initially did in a statement meant for CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, but that Rhoades Ha edited it out because the Times had "a policy of not apologizing for corrections" in stories.

"My hope is that as a consequence of this process, now I have" apologized, Bennet said.

Bennet, who had also served as the editor-in-chief at The Atlantic for a decade before joining The Times, ultimately resigned from the Times in June 2020 after running an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton calling for the deployment of US military troops to quell American civilian protests. He's scheduled to continue testifying on Wednesday morning.

The trial was originally scheduled to begin on January 24, but was delayed after Palin, who opposes using safe coronavirus vaccines, tested positive for COVID-19. Palin dined out in restaurants at least twice following her positive test, prompting New York City officials to encourage everyone who came across her to get tested.

Palin plans to testify in the trial, which is expected to last up to two weeks.

A Chicago woman who was enjoying a cup of coffee inside her parked car on Saturday was the victim of an armed carjacking for the second time in the city, according to a report.

The city, like other large municipalities in the U.S., has been trying to get a grip on the rising trend.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said last week that there is a "very real and pervasive fear of carjacking across our city, our region and our state."

The Economist magazine reported that Lightfoot announced the city’s carjacking task force—which was unveiled in 2020—will extend hours from 16 to 24 hours a day. Cook County has seen a 40% jump in carjackings this year.

CBS Chicago reported that the situation has gotten so bad, the Cook County Sheriff’s office attended the city’s auto show and urged people to consider buying cars that come with tracking technology.

The 19-year-old woman was targeted in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood, police told CBS Chicago. The woman was sitting in a parked car with a 29-year-old man and an armed stranger began banging on their window and demanded that they give up the car. They both got out and the suspect took off, they said.

Her sibling told the station that the two were having coffee in the car at the time.

"You need to be on the lookout," the sister said. "It’s not safe no more."

Fox 32 Chicago reported last month that Chicago police have received 70 reports of carjackings year-to-date as of late January, and have made more than 56 carjacking-related arrests.

A New York City landlord blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg after a homeless man with multiple open criminal offenses allegedly killed a woman inside her apartment on Sunday.

Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was stabbed to death early Sunday morning inside her apartment in the 100 block of Chrystie Street in the Chinatown neighborhood on the Lower East Side, police said. The blood-soaked suspect, identified as 25-year-old Assamad Nash, was taken into custody and evaluated at a local hospital.

NYPD detectives announced Monday that Nash had been officially charged with murder and burglary. He was expected to be arraigned in Manhattan on Monday afternoon.

"This is about the community and our elected officials need to do something much different because this was all avoidable," Brian Chin, Lee’s landlord, told reporters outside the building, according to Fox 5 N.Y.

Chin specifically criticized Bragg's policies, arguing Lee's murder could have been prevented.

"From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re terrified of this, his policies and what not. Armed robbery of a store is now a petty larceny? What insanity is this?" he said. "This guy, his rap sheet is a mile long, he should have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? This is outrageous."