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White House Condemns Columbus Police Shooting Of Teenager With A Knife As Racist

The White House said, without evidence, that Tuesday’s police shooting of a black teenage girl who charged another black teen with a knife was motivated by racism.

Sixteen-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot by a police officer whose body camera footage, released Tuesday night, revealed Bryant was charging another girl with a deadly weapon.  Source

Mom of Ohio teen girl fatally shot by cop speaks out: ‘I want answers’

The mother of the 16-year-old Columbus, Ohio, girl who was shot by police said in a tearful interview that her “loving, peaceful” daughter called the cops “for protection — not to be a homicide.”

Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot after her family said she called police to report girls fighting about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, shortly before former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.

Video released by police shows an officer encountering the teen, who appears to be armed with a knife and chasing another girl, who falls in front of the cop.

The officer screams at the alleged suspect to “get down,” before the teen targets another girl, the video shows. As she swings the apparent weapon toward the second girl, the officer fires several shots at the alleged suspect, striking her.  Source: NY Post

The Remarkable Story Of An Abortion Survivor Who Became An Activist

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, author Claire Culwell joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss her new book “Survivor: An Abortion Survivor’s Surprising Story Of Choosing Forgiveness And Finding Redemption” and her journey to healing after discovering she survived an abortion her birth mother was forced to have.

“I thought the people who’ve been affected by abortion are people that, you know, don’t live in my neighborhood, aren’t in my family, don’t go to my school, whatever it was,” Culwell explained. “I thought that would never be me and yet here I was learning that I had survived something that was meant to take my life and it was meant to happen to my body. And then, and knowing that this happens every single day across the country across the world to unborn children like my twin and like me.”

Abortion, Culwell said, is something that “every American should care about” because it ultimately affects them. — Read More (Source)

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has been booted off of Twitter, says he’s suing for defamation

Project Veritas founder and president James O’Keefe’s Twitter account has been suspended the same week that the undercover organization has been releasing secretly recorded footage of remarks made by a CNN employee.

“I am suing Twitter for defamation because they said I, James O’Keefe, ‘operated fake accounts.’ This is false, this is defamatory, and they will pay. Section 230 may have protected them before, but it will not protect them from me. The complaint will be filed Monday,” O’Keefe said in a statement.

Project Veritas reported that a spokesperson for the social media company confirmed that O’Keefe is permanently barred “for violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam.” — Source: Just The News

Facebook, Instagram Censor New York Post Story On BLM Co-Founder Buying Million-Dollar Luxury Homes

Facebook and Instagram are censoring a New York Post report detailing how Black Lives Matter Co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has spent $3.2 million on luxury homes in predominantly white neighborhoods.

Published on Saturday, the Post reports that the self-espoused Marxist purchased four different homes, and also looked at purchasing a residence in the Bahamas at a lavish resort where both golfer Tiger Woods and artist Justin Timberlake have homes. The Post learned that apartments and townhouses in the resort run from $5 million to $20 million.

Last month, the BLM leader purchased a $1.4 million home in Los Angeles in a mostly white neighborhood. After journalist Jason Whitlock posted about the controversy last week, Twitter removed the post and claimed Whitlock’s account “violated the Twitter rules” for “posting private information,” when in fact, this information is publicly available.  Source: The Federalist

Google Earth can now show you how much the planet has changed in 37 years

Google Earth received its first big update since 2017 on Thursday. The highlight is a new time-lapse feature that lets you see how much the planet has changed in the past 37 years, and it’s pretty stunning what you can find.

With Google Earth Timelapse you can search anywhere on the system’s extensive worldwide map and, thanks to more than 24 million satellite photos, compare how that place looked in 1984 versus how it looks today. You can also see how the planet changed during any period in between, or watch a time-lapse video and see how global warming, deforestation and urban expansion affected a particular region. Google Earth also has a few highlight sections that show you some of the bigger changes.

You can check it out by visiting g.co/Timelapse and entering in any location or browsing some of the featured locations. — Source: CNBC

Human-monkey embryo created in bid to learn how cells communicate

Scientists have grown human cells in monkey embryos with the aim to understand more about how cells develop and communicate with each other.

Researchers from the Salk Institute in California have produced what is known as monkey-human chimeras, with human stem cells – special cells that have the ability to develop into many different cell types – inserted in macaque embryos in petri dishes in the lab.

However, some ethicists in the UK have raised concerns, saying this type of work “poses significant ethical and legal challenges” and “opens Pandora’s box to human-nonhuman chimeras”. — Source: UK Telegraph

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Poll: Most blame Biden for border crisis, spells 2022 doom for Democrats

Residents in key swing districts are angry about the historic border crisis, blame President Joe Biden for it, and stand ready to make the Democrats pay for it in the 2022 midterm elections, according to a broad new survey on the illegal immigration calamity.

In 16 battleground congressional districts in 15 states, 56% blame Biden’s dismantling of former President Donald Trump’s policies for the crisis, including a whopping 48% who strongly agree, according to the survey for Heritage Action for America.

And 50% in those districts said that they are “less likely to support Democrat candidates in the 2022 election for Congress” as a result of the surge over the border greenlighted by Biden, said the survey conducted by On Message Inc. of Virginia. — Read More …

New York Will Spend $2.1 Billion to Give $15,600 Checks to Illegal Immigrants

New York is set to spend $2.1 billion on direct payments of up to $15,600 to illegal immigrants who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.

Democrats in the state legislature approved the “excluded workers fund” as part of the state’s $212 billion budget on Tuesday. Roughly 92,000 illegal immigrants are eligible to receive a one-time payment of $15,600 through the program, while hundreds of thousands of others will receive $3,200, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute.

The fund has caused turmoil among state Democrats, as five Democrats voted against the budget in the state senate. Progressive lawmakers have since accused moderate Democrats of racism for expressing concern with the taxpayer-funded provision. Brooklyn state senator Jabari Brisport, a self-described socialist who has compared capitalism to slavery, said Monday that he would no longer work with Democratic legislators who “enable racists” by opposing the fund. — Source