AOC Defends TikTok, Doesn’t Support Nationwide Ban of CCP App

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AOC Defends TikTok, Doesn’t Support Nationwide Ban of CCP App

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., decided to defend TikTok after conservatives decided to ban the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] app all around the country.

On Saturday morning, AOC posted a video on TikTok, in which she pushed back against bipartisan support for a nationwide ban on the app, according to the Daily Wire. She minimized concerns about security and data privacy and added that TikTok was no different from other apps that harvest data. As a solution, she called for a broader data privacy law.

“Do I believe TikTok should be banned? No,” AOC said.

“First of all, I think it’s important to discuss how unprecedented of a move this would be. The United States has never before banned a social media company from existence, from operating in our borders and this is an app that has over 150 million Americans on it.”

Ocasio-Cortez also minimized the concerns of the people that TikTok is a tool that Chinese communists use to spy on Americans and steal their data.

“[Banning TikTok] doesn’t really address the core of the issue, which is the fact that major social media companies are allowed to collect troves of deeply personal data about you that you don’t know about, without really any significant regulation whatsoever,” she said.

“In fact, the United States is one of the only developed nations in the world that has no significant data or privacy protection laws on the books.”

She added that, instead of banning the app that 150 million people use, the United States government should “actually protect Americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no.”

“But frankly, I think a lot of this is putting the cart before the horse,” she said. “Our first priority should be in protecting your ability to exist without social media companies harvesting and commodifying every single piece of data about you without you and without your consent.”

Feds Find Mexican Fentanyl, Enough to Kill Everyone in Mich.

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Feds Find Mexican Fentanyl, Enough to Kill Everyone in Mich.

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] seized a massive Mexican shipment of fentanyl earlier this week in Michigan — over 1,500 miles north of the southern border.

The Detroit Free Press reported that the federal agents just outside of Detroit snagged 20 kilograms, over 40 pounds, of fentanyl as it was on its way from Grand Rapids to Detroit. Before being transported to Detroit, the fentanyl was produced in Mexico, the DEA said.

“Drug cartels like CJNG and Sinaloa attempt to flood our communities with illicit drugs,” Detroit’s DEA Chief Orville Greene said. “We will continue to work vigorously to identify other associates tied to the delivery of this fentanyl that would have caused untold suffering had it reached its intended destination.”

The Daily Wire reported that a mere 2 mg of fentanyl can be deadly, which means the 20 kilograms that were seized in Michigan would be able to kill 10 million people — almost the exact population of Michigan. Along with local authorities in Metro Detroit, federal agents arrested a woman from Ohio who was allegedly delivering the shipment of fentanyl in a powder form.

“Just because you’re not situated on the southern border doesn’t mean your community is not affected and doesn’t mean that people are not dying from it,” Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said.

Last month, the Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl at the southern California border to kill 50 million people. That shipment also came from Mexico and was likely either smuggled across the border through a vehicle or on foot by drug mules.

Despite all of that evidence, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently denied that fentanyl is produced in his country and went as far as to blame Americans themselves. Also, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA], Mexican transnational criminal organizations are “increasingly producing wholesale quantities of illicit fentanyl pills and smuggling them into the United States.” The DEA also said that the Sinaloa and the New Generation Jalisco — Mexico’s two largest cartels — “are likely the primary trafficking groups responsible for smuggling fentanyl into the United States from Mexico.”

Pentagon Pulls Anti-White DEI Official from Her Job, Still Not Fired

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Pentagon Pulls Anti-White DEI Official from Her Job, Still Not Fired
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A radical leftist activist who became infamous for her anti-white comments is no longer in charge of “diversity” at the schools that children of military members attend, even though she was not fired from the place she works.

Kelisa Wing, the former Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chief for the Department of Defense Education Activity [DoDEA] schools, has always been explicit about her hatred toward white people, according to the Daily Wire.

“I’m so exhausted at these white folx in these PD sessions this lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS,” she wrote in one of her tweets.

Aside from making racist statements on social media, she also does the same thing in her books which are filled with lines like “If you are White, you might feel bad about hurting others or you might feel afraid to lose this privilege” and “If another Karen tells me about her feelings … I might lose it.”

In September, 22 members of Congress called for an internal investigation, with Pentagon saying that it would soon launch an investigation. However, Pentagon didn’t follow up with a letter until three hours before the congressional hearing about the impact of DEI policies on the military started on Thursday, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., stated in a press release.

Even though the letter’s author, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert R. Cisneros, had six months to investigate the racist statements of the government employee, it seemed that he was unfamiliar with the topic that was discussed during the hearing and said that he, DoDEA and the Department of Defense do not condone the statements.

He also said that he was unaware that Wing’s books were in the libraries of the schools she oversaw.

Former Meta Employee Reveals She Was Paid $190K ‘To Do Nothing’

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Former Meta Employee Reveals She Was Paid $190K ‘To Do Nothing’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A former Meta recruiter revealed that the Big Tech company was “hoarding talent” to starve out their competitors.

According to Fox News, a career strategist Madelyn Machado posted a video, in which she responded to claims that Google and Meta had over-hired thousands of employees to do “fake work.”

Machado suggested she was hired by the company in the fall of 2021, which she “hated” before eventually getting fired.

“Getting paid $190k to do nothing at Meta,” she said in a TikTok video.

She also added that, instead of doing their jobs, new recruiters were explicitly told that they would not hire any new employees within their first six months to a year in the company. Machado then added that, in the beginning, she and other new recruiters were doing mostly onboarding, training and participating in team meetings.

She then guessed why Meta had hired so many tech workers without expecting them to do their main jobs.

“Every recruiter I knew had been reached out to by Meta, and they had been interviewed by Meta. I got my offer so quickly I thought it was a scam,” she said.

“They had the most recruiters out of everybody, and they were doing that, so they could hire all the talent, and if no other companies had great recruiters because they were all doing nothing, getting paid 200-400-500-thousand dollars at Meta to do nothing, they’re not going to your company. That’s true, it worked, it was a great strategy.”

“They wanted a recruiting army so they could get all the talent and hoard all the talent so one else can hire an engineer,” she repeated her claim.

“If you have no recruiters, how are you going to hire engineers? And they were offering these engineers so much money… they had a bunch of fake jobs, so they could hoard talent and no one else could get ahead.”

Mexican Charged with Possessing Over 1M Fentanyl Pills

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Mexican Charged with Possessing Over 1M Fentanyl Pills

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A Mexican Juan Alfonso Torres-Rodriguez was charged on March 8 for possessing more than one million fentanyl pills, intending to sell them across Arizona.

Officials witnessed Torres-Rodriguez participating in a drug transaction in early March. Authorities then searched his residency and vehicle to discover approximately 108 kilograms of fentanyl, according to a new report from the Arizona District Attorney’s office.

“A conviction for Possessing 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl for Distribution carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison with a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of up to $10,000,000 and five years up to a lifetime of supervised release,” the report stated.

According to the Gateway Pundit, Kari Lake, the actual Governor of Arizona whose election was stolen from Katie Hobbs, planned to secure the border by issuing a declaration of invasion under the 10th Amendment, finishing President Trump’s wall and deploying the Arizona National Guard and State Troopers to take back operational control of the border starting on “day one.”

Lake responded to the recent news in her Twitter post, correcting the headline of the Arizona Sun Times‘s article.

“Alternate headline: Mexican Resident Caught in Possession of Weapon of Mass Destruction with intent to Sell in Arizona,” she wrote.

“2 mg of fentanyl will kill you. We need to be doing everything possible to close the border and stop the spread of this poison.”

Last weekend, Arizona Border Patrol agents seized roughly 2.5 million fentanyl pills, likely enough to kill over one million people, at the Nogales Port of Entry alone.

“Arizona is ground zero for the smuggling of fentanyl, not only into Arizona but the rest of the country,” a former Texas ICE and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Victor Avila said, with Attorney General Kris Mayes confirming this information during a press conference last month, adding that half of the fentanyl seized nationwide last year was seized in Arizona.

The Gateway Pundit reported that while one million fentanyl pills could cause 420,000 lethal overdoses, 108 kilograms of pure fentanyl is possibly enough to kill 54 million people.

MURDOCK: Bragg’s Unprecedented Witch Hunt Set Up to Fail Spectacularly

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MURDOCK: Bragg’s Unprecedented Witch Hunt Set Up to Fail Spectacularly

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) If filed, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s highly anticipated hush-money indictment against President Donald J. Trump will be unprecedented. No sitting or former president of the United States has been indicted.

The U.S. House impeached Trump twice—and Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, once each. The Senate failed to convict all three after their respective House “indictments.”

If Trump is indicted and then arrested, it will confirm America’s final plunge into Third World status.

The U.S. justice system will be fully exposed as a tool to forgive Democrats and persecute Republicans, not least Joe Biden’s leading GOP rival. Equal Justice Under Law will become a dim memory rather than a national ideal.

Until then, Americans should marvel at Bragg’s reported case. Manhattan’s far-left, George-Soros-funded, thug-hugging DA might unseal an indictment with more holes in it than Trump’s Doral Golf Club.

• First, hush money is no crime, unless someone gets paid to stay silent among police, prosecutors, defense attorneys or judges. This is obstruction of justice.

Trump would be a criminal had he instructed his then-attorney Michael Cohen to wire $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford (nom de porn Stormy Daniels) to clam up if law enforcement asked about the adulterous affair that she alleges and Trump denies.

Alas for Bragg, Trump reputedly paid Daniels not to talk with journalists. This is perfectly legal. Anyone who has signed a non-disclosure agreement (as Daniels did) understands this.

So, no crime undergirds Bragg’s fetish.

• Second, the Federal Election Commission failed to judge any of this a crime. The FEC convened on Feb. 23, 2021. Its four voting members—two appointed by Democrats and two by Republicans—deadlocked. They could have criminalized this scenario, but they didn’t.

• Third, the statutes of limitations have lapsed on all but one charge against Trump. The FEC’s First General Counsel Report specified on Dec. 7, 2020 that Trump faced three Matters Under Review: The deadline for prosecution on MURs 7313 and 7319 was “Oct. 27, 2021 (earliest) – Dec. 8, 2021 (latest).”

MUR 7379’s limitation is “October 26, 2021 (earliest) – April 17, 2023 (latest).” While the expiration date on this accusation remains ahead (barely), Bragg has a huge problem. On page 6 of its report, FEC’s general counsel wrote: “ … [W]e recommend that the Commission dismiss the allegation that Cohen, Trump, and the Trump Committee violated 52 U.S.C. § 30114(b) by converting campaign funds to personal use.”

Oops.

• Fourth, with two-year, misdemeanor statutes of limitations hindering him, Bragg reportedly wants to file felony charges against Trump. These carry five-year deadlines and threaten stiffer penalties.

However, to make this a federal felony case (puzzling work for a local prosecutor), the alleged violation (filing false campaign-finance reports) must be tied to a second, separate underlying crime. Since the FEC failed to rule any of this criminal, Bragg’s felony indictment would be a hot-air balloon anchored to absolutely nothing.

• Fifth, beyond the FEC, Gotham’s U.S. Attorney and Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance, Jr., both declined to prosecute Trump for hush-money.

For his part, “Bragg appeared not to be focused on the case,” the Washington Post reported soon after he took office in January 2022. “Bragg didn’t seem keenly interested.”

That Feb. 23, Bragg’s Trump-related “inactivity,” as the Post described it, triggered the resignations of his deputies, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz.

“I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,” Pomerantz wrote Bragg as he quit. Pomerantz described the case against Trump as “suspended indefinitely.”

Pomerantz’s new book, People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, bashes Bragg’s decision. This pressure and relentless Democrat demands to “get Trump” apparently pushed Bragg to spurn the law and, instead, fashion fresh partisan gifts for his fellow leftists.

Armed with these facts, Trump’s attorneys should file a motion to dismiss and then watch Bragg’s untethered contraption go up, up, and away.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. Michael Malarkey contributed research to this opinion piece.

Transvestites Protest Banning Minors from Drag Shows

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Transvestites Protest Banning Minors from Drag Shows

(Headline USA) A bill that would criminalize exposing anyone 18 or younger to a drag show in Nebraska was met by protests from transvestites.

People who showed up to protest included more than a dozen men dressed in women’s clothing, including heavy makeup, wigs and evening gowns.

The bill’s main sponsor, conservative Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil, said the legislation is intended to protect children “from being exposed to overly-sexualized and inappropriate behavior far too early.”

The bill defines drag as a performance by someone presenting a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth. It would make exposing a minor to a drag show a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. The bill comes amidst a national push by conservatives to protect children from sexual deviancy.

“Those who allow this kind of perversion should be held accountable,” Murman said.

The crowd filled the Judiciary Committee hearing room and spilled out nearly 100 deep into the Capitol hallways.

Those supporting the bill expressed concern over woke culture and groomers targeting their children.

But many of those attending opposed the bill, including two who identify themselves as Polly Pocket and Baby Girl, who often read picture books to children at an Omaha church’s story hour, were transvestites.

They defended such events and drag shows as simple fun and read from the children’s book “Unicorns Are the Worst!” at a rally held before the hearing to protest the drag bill and another to ban gender-affirming care for minors.

“It’s just queer people showing queer art,” Polly Pocket said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Lawmaker Canceled for Protecting His District’s Kids from LGBT+ Propaganda

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Lawmaker Canceled for Protecting His District’s Kids from LGBT+ Propaganda

(Headline USA) The chair of a parade honoring a Native Hawaiian leader and prince said Friday a state lawmaker is banned from the event after he questioned a middle school principal’s display of a pride flag.

Kūhiō Lewis, the chairperson of the Prince Kūhiō Parade, said he notified Republican state Rep. Elijah Pierick of the decision in a letter.

The parade is scheduled to be held in Kapolei on Saturday. Lewis is also the CEO of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, which is organizing and financially supporting the parade. He said Pierick will be removed from the parade lineup.

Piereck responded, saying: “I appreciate the perspective of the private entity that leads the parade and I honor their decision in who they invite to be in the parade.”

Lewis’ statement comes after Pierick posted a video on Instagram relaying how he visited Ewa Makai Middle School and saw “a LGBTQ flag” outside of the principal’s office and other offices in the school.

“You might be thinking yourself, What does that flag actually represent? What is it conveying to our middle school students? This is what it means: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, plus,” he said.

“Are these the kinds of concepts and lifestyles we want to be conveying to our middle school students? Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all year round?,” he said.

He urged people with thoughts or concerns to contact the school principal, and he posted the school’s phone number and her work email address.

“I believe my constituents have the right to know what’s going on in the school. What kind of symbols are being promoted and what kind of messages are being conveyed to the students?” Pierick said.

Piereck is a first-term legislator representing Kunia and Honouliuli.

The Prince Kūhiō Parade honors Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, who was born in 1871.

He went into exile after the U.S.-backed overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. But he returned years later and in 1902 became a non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives in Congress, where he served for two decades.

He is credited with spearheading a law setting aside 200,000 acres of land to create homelands for Native Hawaiians.

March 26 is a state holiday in his honor, which will be observed on Monday.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden is Alienating Young Libs Ahead of 2024 Election

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(Headline USA) Joe Biden’s toleration of oil drilling, weak attempts to regulate TikTok, and failure to eliminate student loan debt threatens to alienate his young and spoiled ‘voter-base.’

Youth turnout ‘surged’ in the three elections since 2016. These young and impressionable voters helped Biden appear to eke out victories in swing states in 2020 and to pick up a Democratic Senate seat in the 2022 election.

But the 80-year-old president has never been the favorite candidate of young woke leftist. As Biden gears up for a potential re-election campaign, actually governing by banning TikTok, allowing drilling in Alaska, and failing to forgive student loan debt is weighing him down.

The risk for Biden is that young leftist will sit out the election altogether.

“I’m a Democrat, but I’m not voting for Biden,” said Mark Buehlmann, a 20-year-old Arizona State University student who said he likely would abstain if Biden is the Democratic nominee, as expected. “He’s maybe capable of doing a good job, but he’s not capable of gathering the troops, rallying the people. Especially the Democratic voter base. I don’t think he’s a strong candidate.”

Part of Biden’s Treasury Department, has threatened to ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake in the app, according to a Wall Street Journal report this month.

President Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020, but the move was blocked in court and later rescinded when Biden took office.

The Biden administration also irked environmentalists and young people by approving the Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope.

Young activists have been particularly active in pushing to drastically reduce oil drilling and move away from reliance fossil fuels. Before the president’s decision, a #StopWillow campaign garnered millions of views on TikTok and other social media sites.

Meanwhile, his plan to wipe out billions of dollars in student loan debt is in jeopardy at the Supreme Court. The effort, announced shortly before last year’s midterms, was an attempt by Biden to win more young voters over after defeating the old socialist, Bernie Sanders. in the 2020 election.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden’s EPA Chief Wants $375M for Brigade of ‘Environmental Justice’ Stormtroopers

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Biden’s EPA Chief Wants $375M for Brigade of ‘Environmental Justice’ Stormtroopers

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Fresh off mugging for the mainstream media with a piece of performative political theater in East Palestine, Ohio, and leaving its toxic train derailment in his wake, EPA Administrator Michael Regan was back in the D.C. Swamp this week looking to expand his army of bureaucrats.

Regan told the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works that the EPA needed a $375-million budget increase and 265 new full-time employees for his agency’s “environmental justice program.”

“The funding will help to expand support for community based organizations, indigenous organizations, tribes, states, local government and other territorial governments so that they can identify and develop solutions to their environmental justice concerns through multi-partner collaborations,” Regan spewed, channeling a Kamala-caliber word salad ramble.

The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights was spawned in September, when it landed $3 billion in so-called environmental justice grants as part of the Democrats’ $370-billion climate alarmist bill. The expansion was part and parcel of the Biden regime’s “aggressive approach to embed environmental justice, civil rights, and equity across the government,” according to the EPA.

“President Biden and I have been clear: we must ground our work to address the climate crisis and our greatest environmental challenges in justice and equity,” Vice President Kamala Harris said when the new branch was announced. “The establishment of a new office dedicated to advancing environmental justice and civil rights at EPA will ensure the lived experiences of underserved communities are central to our decision-making while supporting community-driven solutions.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., was quick to pounce on a chance to cater to the climate alarmist cult crossmatched with race radicals, gushing over the EPA’s latest addition.

“It is apparently clear that any bold action we take to address the climate crisis must be rooted in environmental justice,” Jayapal said. “Too many of our marginalized communities have suffered environmental injustice for far too long.”

The $375-million bump for environmental justice and its army of enforcement agents conjoins Biden’s $12 billion for the EPA, a 19% increase, in his tax-and-spend budget proposal.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said it was “mind-boggling” that the EPA couldn’t manage to scrape by with an infusion of nearly $41 billion from the climate bill.

“I think one of the issues here is the enormity of the dollars. The EPA received $41 billon and yet the president wants another 19% increase, 2,000 more people, when with the $41 billion — you’re allowed to hire people to move forward these programs,” Capito said.

“To me, it’s just mind-boggling that in this time of fiscal restraint, where people are really watching their dollars, this kind of overreach and overspending just seems so exorbitant to me.”

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