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Instagram Knows It Makes Users ‘Feel Worse About Themselves,’ but Does ‘Nothing’ About It, Tech Expert Says
Instagram is harmful for users, especially young women, according to research conducted by Facebook. Facebook owns Instagram and recently conducted studies to determine how the platform affects its users. The data reveals that 32% of teen girls who reported feeling bad about their bodies only felt worse after looking at Instagram. What is Instagram doing… -
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5 Questions Congress Must Ask Austin, Milley, McKenzie About Afghanistan Pullout Debacle
Despite 20 years of U.S. operations in Afghanistan and close collaboration with the Afghan government and security forces, the Taliban recaptured the country—including the capital, Kabul—after the U.S. withdrew its forces. That prompted a similarly hurried withdrawal by international partners. Among the many tragic consequences that resulted were tens of thousands of civilians left behind,… -
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Twitter Censors Daily Signal Video About Border Patrol on Horseback
Twitter suppressed a 2017 video by The Daily Signal about Border Patrol horses amid continuing false news reports that mounted agents whipped Haitian refugees in Del Rio, Texas. Twitter did not allow users to see the 4-minute video sometime after The Daily Signal and its audience began promoting the story again Thursday evening in response… -
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Biden Administration Maligns Border Patrol
Since he took office, President Joe Biden has had a series of flubs that have called into question the basic competence of his administration. Now, he’s punishing his employees who are actually doing their jobs. Biden’s policies have utterly failed at the border, leading to a historic surge in border crossings since he took office… -
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5 Supreme Court Cases to Watch in the 2021-22 Term
The Supreme Court has already agreed to review several important cases in its upcoming term, and it will likely add more soon. Here’s a preview of five of the most important cases the Supreme Court will hear in its 2021-2022 term. 1. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization This is the most important abortion case… -
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Too Big to Pass? Democrats Divided Over $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Behemoth
Banks have been considered “too big to fail” in the past, but liberal Democrats’ hugely consequential and transformative $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend monstrosity might be “too big to pass,” as support falters even among some Democrats. The ultraliberal Congressional Progressive Caucus, with nearly 100 votes, is threatening to block passage of the $1 trillion-plus infrastructure bill… -
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Teacher Forced to Remove Pro-Police Flag While BLM, Pride Flags Allowed
A middle school teacher in Washington state was told to remove a pro-police flag she had hanging in her classroom, while Black Lives Matter messages and pride flags are still permitted at the school, according to documents obtained by "The Jason Rantz Show" and 770 KTTH. A Marysville Middle School teacher had a Thin Blue… -
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5 Things You Need to Know About Paid Family Leave Program in Progressives’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Package
We all want to have the ability to take leave from work when major or even minor life circumstances necessitate it. Having access to paid leave is incredibly important because without a paycheck, many workers cannot afford to take the leave they need. Fortunately, there’s been a huge upswing in access to employer-provided paid family… -
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Biden’s Promise to Unite Us Was False. He Hasn’t Even Tried.
President Joe Biden’s administration is now defined by soaring COVID-19 numbers, a botched Afghanistan retreat, and millions of Americans who are not simply unemployed, but are unwilling to work. Biden campaigned on the promise of increasing America’s morale, enhancing our international standing, and doing a better job controlling COVID-19 than his predecessor. But the exact… -
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Biden Flouts Federalism, Undermines Florida Law on Masks for Schoolchildren
The Biden administration has made it clear that abiding by our federal, constitutional system of government is a mere trifle in the way of its political priorities, one to be swept aside. The latest example finds the Department of Education now sending grants to school board members in Florida who violate the governor’s mask-mandate ban… -
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Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Socialist Dream Is Tax-and-Spend Nightmare
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans a vote soon to push Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion socialist dream budget one step closer to law. The news gets worse from there. Every other detail about this onerous legislation merits scorn, revulsion, and rejection. The so-called Build Back Better budget resolution boasts a $3.5 trillion price tag. Taxpayers should be… -
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Biden’s Del Rio Bridge Crisis: Far More Than Just Optics Problem
The Biden administration views the sudden gathering of 15,000 illegal immigrants under the Del Rio, Texas, international bridge over the past week to 10 days as an “optics problem.” In reality, Del Rio was a mere time-lapse photo of the open-border crisis happening along the southern border for the past eight months. The administration has… -
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Even RBG Can’t Escape Censorship From New Leftists
The American Civil Liberties Union tweeted a botched quote on Sept. 18 that the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg supposedly told the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearings in 1993. On the one-year anniversary of Ginsburg’s death, the American Civil Liberties Union attributed the following quote to her: “The decision whether or not to… -
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Biden Struggles to Corral His Party Over Trillions in Spending
President Joe Biden expressed confidence Friday that Congress will pass both a $3.5 trillion spending bill and a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, although the more expensive measure is backed only by his fellow Democrats. Biden is facing a divided party as more centrist Democrats from purple and red states express concern about the price tag… -
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6 Takeaways From Findings of Arizona Election Audit
The Arizona Senate’s audit of election results in the state’s most populous county has affirmed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump last November to win Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. However, the election audit in Maricopa County did find procedural problems such as duplication of ballots and potential for fraud. Auditors recommended that the state address… -
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Biden Talks Tough on Nicaragua, but Caves to Vicious Regime
In recent months, Nicaragua’s brutal and longtime dictator-president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, have plunged the Central American nation into an unprecedented human rights and political crisis—just hours south of the U.S. border. So far, the Biden administration’s response has been weak. Elected with just 38% of the vote in… -
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Twitter and the ‘Fact-Checkers’ Line Up for Biden
Twitter makes it easy to realize that the purpose of “fact-checkers” is most commonly rushing to defend President Joe Biden from misinterpretation … and mockery. On Sept. 20, Twitter warned, “A video of President Biden discussing hurricane preparedness has been edited out of context, according to fact-checkers.” Tweets aired this clip of Biden from Aug…. -
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The Hunter Biden Cover-Up Is a Scandal
The Hunter Biden email cover-up may not be the most contemptible example of the modern political media’s corruption, but it is probably the most demonstrable. Politico reports that Ben Schreckinger’s new book, “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” corroborates much of the New York Post’s pre-election reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails…. -
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House Democrats Pass Bill Aiming to Codify Roe v. Wade, Massively Expand Abortion
House Democrats passed a bill Friday that would codify Roe v. Wade and massively expand abortions in the United States. The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, first introduced in 2013, passed the House by a vote of 218 to 211. The 2021 House version was sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., while the 2021 Senate version was sponsored… -
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Is Biden Bringing Terrorists From Afghanistan to America?
Is President Joe Biden bringing terrorists from Afghanistan to the United States? The answer: Even Biden himself cannot know for sure. The Biden administration is bringing two distinct types of evacuees into the U.S. from Afghanistan. Some hold Special Immigrant Visas. Others are so-called parolees. In June, the Congressional Research Service published a report explaining…