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#10 Federal Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s $475B Student Loan Bailout - Josh Christenson for The New York Post, and Dave Asman on X
A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Biden’s administration from continuing to implement a revamped student debt bailout — more than a year after the Supreme Court struck down his $430 billion forgiveness push. The St. Louis-based 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven Republican-led states to put on hold parts of Biden’s $475 billion student debt cancellation plan, following an earlier ruling by federal judges in Kansas and Missouri...
#9 Largest Housing Provider for Migrant Children Engaged in Pervasive Sexual Abuse, US Says - Paul J. Weber and Valerie Gonzalez for AP New,s and Prodigal on X
Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. repeatedly sexually abused and harassed children in their care for at least eight years, the Justice Department said Thursday, alleging a shocking litany of offenses that took place as the company amassed billions of dollars in government contracts. Southwest Key Programs Inc. employees, including supervisors, raped, touched or solicited sex and nude images of children beginning in 2015 and possibly earlier, the Justice Department said in a lawsuit filed this week. At least two employees have been indicted on criminal charges related to the allegations since 2020...
#8 Oklahoma’s War of Independence From Blackrock - Thomas Jones for Blaze Media, Oklahoma Digest, Jerry Bowyer, and American Accountability Foundation on X
Patriots in Oklahoma are engaged in an epic struggle for their independence, facing off against a modern empire and its mercenaries — a struggle with striking similarities to the American War of Independence. Today, the empire is BlackRock. This gargantuan corporation’s tentacles spread across the world, with 89 offices in 38 countries, including the United States, Japan, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and South Africa. BlackRock is no ordinary corporation. It produces nothing useful. Instead, the firm gets rich by managing other people’s money — lots of it. BlackRock now has effective control of $10.5 trillion worth of other people’s assets. And with that control comes enormous power, which BlackRock uses to push environmental, social, and governance standards — the leftist framework for imposing its agenda on the American people via economic coercion...
#7 American Auto Giant Pivots Plans To Build Electric Vehicles At Major Plant To Produce Heavy-Duty Pickups Instead - Nick Pope for The Daily Caller, and Dwberkley on X
Ford is reversing course on plans to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) at a major plant and instead will produce gas-powered, heavy-duty pickup trucks at the facility, Reuters reported Thursday. The company initially planned to build three-row electric SUVs at its facility in Oakville, Canada, between 2025 and 2027, but the plant will now add capacity to produce 100,000 F-Series Super Duty trucks at the plant, according to Reuters. Ford said that it is still committed to producing those EVs on that timeline, though it is unclear which of its plants will handle that production...
#6 Queen of the Globalists: Ursula von der Leyen Re-Elected as European Commission President - Kurt Zindulka for Breitbart, and Adam Moczar, Christine Anderson, and Dr. Simon Goddek on X
Arch-globalist Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as the President of the European Commission for a second five-year term by a comfortable margin in the European Parliament on Thursday. German politician Ursula von der Leyen will continue on as the top woman in Brussels, securing 401 votes for her re-election in the 720-seat European Parliament on Thursday compared to 284 against, Euronews reports...
#5 Tennessee Boutique Owner Says Giant Biden Campaign Sign Above Store Caused Sales to Plunge, Sparked ‘Nasty’ Threats - Natalie O'Neill for The New York Post, and MRS. MASSACRE, and MSM is Pravada on X
It’s a sign of the times. A Tennessee boutique owner wants landlords to remove a giant Joe Biden campaign banner from above her shop — saying it caused sales to plunge and forced her to bring a gun to work for protection against folks fired up about politics. Angie Monahan, who owns Honey Blossom Boutique in Lenior City, was gobsmacked when she arrived at work Saturday and spotted the roughly 20-foot-by-10-foot sign hanging from the upper floor of the building where she rents her shop, she told The Post...
#4 Read Donald Trump’s Full RNC Speech Accepting GOP Nomination - Gerardo Pons for NBC NY, and Kyle Becker, Proud Elephant, Wall Street Journal, and CBS News on X
Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for president during the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention. This marks Trump's first speech since he survived an assassination attempt over the weekend during a rally in Pennsylvania...
#3 Trump’s Team Wasn’t Told About Reports of Suspicious Person Before Rally Shooting, Sources Say - CNN, and Bret Weingart, Sara InItaly and Judy Morris on X
When former President Donald Trump ascended the stage at last weekend’s Pennsylvania rally to thunderous cheers, the campaign staffers present expected to hear a typical stump speech. What they didn’t know: Law enforcement had spotted a suspicious person at the rally nearly an hour earlier and had been trying to find him. Just minutes after Trump started speaking, that same suspicious person – 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks – opened fire at the former president, coming inches away from assassinating him. Members of Trump’s team weren’t told that law enforcement was trying to locate Crooks in the minutes before he took the stage, and there was no conversation over whether Trump should have delayed his entrance, sources who were at the rally with the former president told CNN...
#2 Biden’s Family Starts Discussing His Possible Exit Plan From the 2024 Race - NBC News, and Karli Bonne, SANTINO, and Brian Doherty on X
Members of President Joe Biden’s family have discussed what an exit from his campaign might look like, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The overall tone of the conversations has been that any exit plan — should Biden decide to take that step, as some of his closest allies increasingly believe he will — should put the party in the best position to beat former President Donald Trump while also being worthy of the more than five decades he has served the country in elected office, these people said. Biden’s family members have specifically discussed how he would want to end his re-election bid on his own timing and with a carefully calculated plan in place. Considerations about the impact of the campaign on his health, his family and the stability of the country are among those at the forefront of the discussions, the people familiar with the discussions said...
#1 Global Microsoft Outage Hits Airlines, Banks, and Businesses - CNN, and Open Chats, Disclose TV, Billy Yang, and Ali Woods on X
Global outages: Tech disruptions worldwide have hit airlines, banks, businesses, and even emergency services. Critical services affected: 911 services are down in several states in the US. Major US airlines, including Delta, United, and American Airlines, have had flights grounded, and airlines in Europe and Asia are also seeing disruptions. Banks in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain have been impacted, as have health services in Israel, Germany and the UK. What’s behind this? The outages appear to stem at least partly from a software update for Microsoft Windows operating systems issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts tell CNN. Fix deployed, but impacts remain: CrowdStrike’s CEO said that a fix has been deployed. And Microsoft said the “underlying cause” has been fixed, but that the outages are still affecting some services...
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Glitter Hats, Golden Sneakers, and Bandaged Ears: The Weird and Wonderful Fashions of the RNC - Michelle Del Rey for Independent and ABC27 News, NFT ERC404 Official, and EuroNews Culture on X
Sporting political-branded fashion has been a long-standing tradition at the Republican National Convention, and this year was no exception. While MAGA hats have now become a common sight at the event, another popular accessory has emerged this year: the ear bandage. Delegates are covering their ears in solidarity with Former President Donald Trump, who showed up at the convention this week with a bandage on his right ear, the spot where he was wounded on Saturday in an assassination attempt. Joe Neglia, a Republican delegate from Arizona, told The Washington Post that he was the first to spark the fashion trend...
