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#10 Is The Proposed TikTok Ban Really About National Security? - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The Highwire
Unequivocably, all Americans who use TikTok should feel safe that their user data, such as browsing history, location, and biometric identifiers, isn’t being tracked by China’s authoritarian government. We are repeatedly warned that the app, which has dominated social media since 2018, is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. Yet, notably, according to U.S. Senator…
#9 Prosecutors Recommend Up to 50-Year Prison Sentence and $11,000,000,000 Money Judgment for Sam Bankman-Fried - Mehron Rokhy the Daily Hodl and Axios on X
Prosecutors are recommending that disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried serve decades behind bars as well as be ordered to pay a staggering $11 billion money judgment. In a new court filing, the prosecutors in the case say that while the guidelines recommend a sentence of up to 100 years – which is effectively a life sentence for the 32-year-old former chief executive – they are only going to advocate for a sentence of 40-50 years instead... Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to keep lab-grown meat out of Florida. Over the last several months, Florida legislators have been quietly working to ban — and criminalize — the production and sale of cell-cultivated meat across the state via the introduction of two bills, HB 1071 and SB 1084. On February 6, the state's House of Representatives passed SB 1084, which now sits on DeSantis' desk awaiting a signature. And if his previous comments are any indication, he will be pulling out his pen soon. "I know the Legislature is doing a bill to try to protect our meat," DeSantis said in February while visiting the South Florida State College Hardee Campus, according to CBS. "You need meat, OK? And we're going to have meat in Florida." DeSantis added, "We're not going to have fake meat. Like that doesn't work." Former US Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday blasted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for calling for an election to replace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the New York Democrat’s remarks as “outrageous.” "I thought the statement he made this week … was a mistake. I can’t ever remember anything like it,” Lieberman told host John Catsimatidis on the “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. Lieberman, 82, a former Democratic senator from Connecticut who later became an independent before his 2013 retirement, was the first Jewish American to appear on a presidential ticket when then-Vice President Al Gore tapped him as his running mate in 2000. “For a US senator — let alone the majority leader, let alone the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington — to tell Israel that it’s time to get rid of Netanyahu, that’s outrageous,” Lieberman said of Schumer... The troubled Massachusetts high school where parents and community members wanted the National Guard to help restore order was labeled “exemplary” by a Harvard University study just 15 years ago — but now families are fleeing in droves. Parents are opting to homeschool their kids or are moving to other districts rather than let their children face the violence plaguing the campus. Brockton High School was profiled in “How High Schools Become Exemplary,” a 2009 study that examined how teachers banded together in their free time to reshape the curriculum and turn things around at the school 25 miles south of Boston... An illegal migrant who was busted while attempting to sneak across the border reportedly admitted to being a member of Hezbollah and having the intent to "make a bomb." Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a 22-year-old Lebanese migrant, was caught sneaking across the border near El Paso, Texas, last week, telling agents who questioned him that his ultimate destination was New York and that he intended to "try to make a bomb" once safely at his destination, according to a New York Post report that was confirmed by Fox News Digital. Further interviews of Ebbadi revealed that he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and also served as an active member tasked with guarding weapons for another four years, according to the report. His training with the group was focused on "jihad" and "killing people that were not Muslim," he reportedly told investigators... Idaho lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a bill that would ban the use of any public funds for gender-affirming care, including for state employees using work health insurance and for adults covered by Medicaid. The legislation already passed the House and only needs to clear the majority Republican Senate before it is sent to Gov. Brad Little’s desk, where it would likely be signed into law. The Republican governor has said repeatedly he does not believe public funds should be used for gender-affirming care. If the legislation is enacted, Idaho would become at least the 10th state to ban Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for people of all ages, according to the advocacy and information organization Movement Advancement Project. The laws are part of an ongoing national battle over the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. Is it unreasonable to believe that the current border crisis has everything to do with Democrats’ efforts to shape redistricting after 2030? Since the American founding, debates have raged among the political class over control of the halls of Congress. During the constitutional convention 237 years ago, the most heated exchanges revolved around the allocation of seats to each state in the House of Representatives. Pro-slavery state representatives demanded that the census count their slaves to gain more representation for their states. Abolitionists countered, demanding the count include only citizens and insisting on addressing the slavery issue instead of using it as a tool for power manipulation. The Supreme Court on Monday is hearing arguments in a case that tests how far the federal government can go in pressuring social media companies to remove content it believes spreads misinformation before it crosses a constitutional line. The case, known as Murthy v. Missouri, arose out of efforts during the early months of the Biden administration to push social media platforms to take down posts that officials said spread falsehoods about the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. A U.S. district court judge said White House officials, as well as some federal agencies and their employees, violated the First Amendment's right to free speech by "coercing" or "significantly encouraging" social media sites' content-moderation decisions. Pennsylvania couple has adopted an animal shelter's longest resident after falling in love at first sight. Up until recently, Milton the dog hadn't ever really had a place to call home. "He bounced from a few shelters throughout his life, so we aren't sure about his past," Hannah Vance, from Philadelphia, told Newsweek. "He's about two and a half years old and has been in his most recent shelter for about eight months."
#8 Florida Is on Its Way to Banning — and Criminalizing — Alternative Meat - Stacey Leasca for Food and Wine
#7 Joe Lieberman Slams Schumer for Anti-Netanyahu Speech: ‘Can’ Ever Remember Anything Like It’ - The New York Post and CNN and Rep. Byron Donalds on X
#6 How a School that Was Once Called ‘Exemplary’ Crumbled Into One of the Most Troubled in America - Alex Oliviera for the New York Post
#5 Migrant Caught at Border Admitted Terrorist Plans to 'Make a Bomb' in US - Michael Lee for Fox News
#4 US Supreme Court to Weigh NRA Free Speech Fight With New York Official - John Kruzel for Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is set to hear arguments over whether a New York state official can be sued for violating the National Rifle Association's constitutional free speech rights by allegedly pressuring banks and insurers to avoid doing business with the influential group due to its gun rights advocacy. The NRA is seeking to revive its 2018 lawsuit accusing Maria Vullo, a former superintendent of New York's Department of Financial Services, of unlawfully retaliating against it following a mass shooting in which 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland, Florida...
#3 Idaho Considers a Ban on Using Public Funds or Facilities For Gender-Affirming Care - Rebecca Boone for AP News#2 The illegal Immigration Surge Revives a Centuries-Old Census Spat - David M. Rich for Blaze Media
#1 Supreme Court Hears Free Speech Case on Government's Ability to Press for Removal of Online Content - Melissa Quinn for CBS News and Tracy Beanz, UncoverDC
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Couple Take a 'Chance' and Adopt Dog Who Was Shelter's Longest Resident - Jack Beresford for Newsweek
