Author: Freedom Watch
Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council Washington Post December 13, 2022 Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and his family were forced from their home after Elon Musk’s tweets misrepresented Roth’s academic writing about sexual activity and children. The online mob also sent threats to people Roth had replied to on Twitter, forcing some of Roth’s family and friends to delete their Twitter accounts, according to a person familiar with Roth’s situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to concerns about Roth’s safety. Musk’s followers also directed harassment at professors who reviewed the…
Kyrsten Sinema’s potential 2024 run creates anxiety in Senate Democratic ranks | CNN Politics By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Ted Barrett CNN December 13, 2022 Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s surprise decision to become an independent has Democratic leaders struggling to answer a basic question: How should they deal with her if she runs for reelection in Arizona? In interviews with top party leaders and rank-and-file members on Monday, Democrats were sidestepping the sensitive question and handling the politically fraught situation delicately, knowing that a misstep could backfire and have serious ramifications for their party. Continue Reading…..
(Palm Beach, Florida, December 12, 2022) Larry Klayman, the lead plaintiff on behalf of his public interest foundation, Freedom Watch — formerly known as the International Center for Economic Justice — has defeated the motion to dismiss filed by the defendants, the PGA Tour and its commissioner Jay Monahan, in the consumer class action complaint filed in Palm Beach County, Florida. Freedom Watch’s mission, in addition to pursuing justice, is to promote free and fair economic competition. The Second Amended Complaint at issue in the case styled (Klayman v. PGA Tour et. al 50-2022-CA-006587, 15th Jud. Cir., Palm Beach…
Elon Musk booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show | CNN Business By Jordan Valinsky CNN December 12, 2022 Elon Musk joined Dave Chappelle on stage Sunday in San Francisco, home of Twitter’s headquarters where the world’s richest person recently laid off many of its employees. It went about as well as you’d expect. The crowd at the Chase Center loudly booed Musk, who had spent much of the weekend wading into the culture wars, making transphobic statements and seemingly echoing QAnon tropes. Continue Reading…..
By ZACHARY ROGERS, The National Desk WPDE December 12, 2022 WASHINGTON (TND) — The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating whether professional golf giant PGA Tour engaged in anti-competitive behavior in its fight to retain players and combat the newly sprouted rival, Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit. PGA confirmed the investigation to The Wall Street Journal, reporters Louise Radnofsky and Andrew Beaton wrote in their article. Continue Reading…..
January 6 committee ends meeting on criminal referrals | CNN Politics By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen, Pamela Brown, Paul LeBlanc CNN December 12, 2022 The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection concluded its meeting on Sunday where members discussed criminal referrals, multiple sources told CNN. The subcommittee tasked with investigating criminal referrals presented its recommendations to the full panel at a 1 p.m. ET virtual meeting, but it is unclear if those recommendations were officially adopted. A source described the meeting as “successful” but did not elaborate. “We are as a subcommittee, several of us…
Lawmakers react to Elon Musk’s call to prosecute Anthony Fauci By Ivana Saric Axios December 12, 2022 “Could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention?” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) tweeted Sunday. “Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. Elon is no champion of free speech,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) tweeted. “It’s America. You can select any pronouns you damn well please. But Anthony Fauci has likely saved more human lives than any living person in the world. Shame on you,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) tweeted. Continue…
MSN December 11, 2022 The Justice Department is seeking a 31-months behind bars for a man charged with single-count superseding information during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Mathew Capsel came to a plea deal for the charge in September, with the guideline range being 27-33 months in prison. “The government recommends that the Court impose a sentence of imprisonment of 31 months, which is a near mid-range sentence as calculated by the government and as agreed upon by the parties in the plea agreement, restitution of $2,000, and the mandatory $100 special assessment for each count of conviction,” the…
CBS News December 11, 2022 As Dr. Anthony Fauci prepares to step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of the year, the leading immunologist faced derision on social media over the weekend from tech billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted on Sunday. The jibe, shared largely without context, drew support from prominent conservatives such as right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — whose account was reinstated with Musk’s decision to end the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy last month, and who has been criticized in the…
Armed Forces of Ukraine name Iranian kamikaze drones’ weak spot ukrinform.net December 11, 2022 The functioning of Iranian-made kamikaze drones directly depends on weather conditions and can be disrupted in cold weather. Natalia Humeniuk, Head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Southern Defense Forces, said this during the nationwide telethon. According to her, there is a pause in the use of Iranian-made drones as the Russians tried to adjust them to the weather conditions. Continue Reading…..