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#10 Moody Demands Answers From Online Retailer Temu, Question Chinese - Owen Girard for Florida Voice, Ashley Moody, and Iowa AG Brenna Bird
Attorney General Ashley Moody announced that she’s demanding answers from the online retailer Temu regarding its business practices and potential ties to the Chinese Community Party. Moody was joined by 20 other state attorneys general who are interested in finding out the truth surrounding the issues. “A congressional investigation uncovered that Temu may be illegally selling products made with forced labor in an area of China in which the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide,” Moody said in a statement. “Additionally, there are reports that Temu is gathering U.S. consumer information and passing it along to the CCP.”
#9 Ford Recalling 85,000 SUVs Over Fears Their Engines Could Catch Fire - Michelle Del Rey for Independent, Mark Baxter on X
Ford Motor Company is recalling more than 80,000 of its Explorer vehicles claiming that some of the models have engine problems that could lead to fires. According to a memo released by the US Department of Transportation, the issue specifically impacts 85,238 2020 to 2022 Explorers with the Police Interceptor Utility package, the company’s first-ever pursuit-rated...
#8 Musk’s X Shuts Down Brazil Operation After Judge Blasted for Censorship - Yash Roy for The Hill, Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, and Unique Things Around World on X
The social media platform X will close its office in Brazil amidst a legal battle with the South American nation’s Supreme Court over a purported secret order to remove some posts from the site in Brazil, according to a statement posted by the company on X. Users in Brazil will still be able to use the social media site. “The decision to close the 𝕏 office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed,” Musk wrote on X. X posted a screenshot of the order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has been investigating digital militias that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of far-right former President Jair Bolsanaro...
#7 Republican Support Dwindles in Wisconsin’s Historic GOP Strongholds - Annabella Rosciglione for Washington Examiner, Pedro L. Gonzalez, and Wisconsin's Conservative Sponge on X
Wisconsin’s WOW counties, the suburban counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington outside of Milwaukee, have been the Republican epicenters of the state for decades. Trends, however, suggest they may be moving more to the left than they historically have been. Waukesha is the state’s third most populous with nearly 400,000 residents, behind the two most populous counties Milwaukee and Dane, which are the Democratic strongholds of the state. With Wisconsin’s national political relevance being so grand in recent elections, Waukesha’s status as a Republican stronghold is important if Republicans want to keep winning statewide elections in Wisconsin...
#6 Kamala Harris’s Position on Fracking Sparks Distrust in Pennsylvania - Wendell Husebø for Breitbart, Dave McCormick, Johnny Maga, and Hugh Hewitt on X
Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2019 vow to ban fracking and her subsequent alleged flop-flop reminds many working-class Pennsylvanians why highfalutin politicians are generally distrusted and perhaps loathed. “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy,” as the character Frank Underwood in the Netflix show House of Cards neatly packaged it. Harris’s sudden reversal on fracking policy was enough to sow skepticism, mistrust, and cynicism about her candidacy among working-class voters, but the reversal appeared even more sinister. Harris deployed an anonymous campaign aide to issue the flip flop to Politico — a Washington, DC, insider publication — a tactic that shields her from far-left attacks and distances her from any statement on the record...
#5 Ron DeSantis Slams Amendment 4: We Can’t Allow Abortions Up to Birth in Florida - Steven Ertelt for Life News, Jo Thomas, Non-Bidenary, and Irene Doyle Sandler on X
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis led a rally today against Amendment 4, the radical ballot measure that would legalize abortion up to birth. In front of a packed auditorium crowd, he said every pro-life Florida resident needs to work overtime to defeat the measure. If Amendment 4 passes, that would kill efforts to save babies from abortion for the long term. “If you care about building a culture of life in this state or this country, them winning in Florida I think really represents the end of the pro-life movement,” DeSantis said...
#4 Republicans Mostly Shut out of 2024 Watchdog Poll Worker Positions in Detroit - Beth Brelje for The Federalist, Anti Commie, and AF Post on X
Election officials in Detroit, Michigan need more elephants in the room to get right with the law that calls election workers to equally represent both major parties. Currently, they are hiring mostly Democrats. Poll workers handle ballots and are well-placed to speak up if anything seems out of order. They are an important part of election integrity infrastructure. Many states have laws requiring counties to hire an even mix of election workers to create poll worker parity, with a goal of, as close as possible, 50 percent Democrat and 50 percent Republican poll workers. That’s the case in Michigan, where the law requires election commissioners to “appoint an equal number, as nearly as possible, of election inspectors (aka workers) in each election precinct from each major political party.”
#3 As US Coal Plants Shutter, A Renewed Focus On Nuclear Emerges - Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, Nick Adams on X
As the United States continues its rush to shutter the nation’s remaining coal plants, energy analysts are debating what should fill the gap to meet the growing need for electricity. Increasingly, many are pointing to nuclear energy as the solution. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), nearly one-third of existing U.S. coal plants are scheduled to be shut down by 2035. This is happening as demand from data centers, electric vehicles, electric home heating, and other products are pushing ever more consumption onto the grid...
#2 Feds Are Still Sending ‘Mad Scientist’ Millions to China — And Keeping It From Congress - Joni Ernst and Adam Andrzejewski for The New York Post
Washington should have learned an important lesson after COVID-19: Stop sending our tax dollars to China for risky, secretive research. Yet, the feds keep funneling untold millions to China and other adversarial countries, hiding the details about the suspicious projects being funded, and admitting they cannot offer a full accounting of the cash. For example, according to a recent report from the Department of Defense Inspector General, the Pentagon potentially paid up to $6.5 million to a Chinese biotech company for perilous research on deadly diseases. That’s despite concerns the pharmaceutical firm may be assisting with the genocide of ethnic minorities in China, and that its work could pose a threat to our own national security...
