Author: Freedom Watch

UNC Basketball: Coach K throws Mark Williams under the bus after loss Keeping It Heel April 4, 2022 Following a loss to the UNC basketball program in the Final Four, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski threw ACC Defensive Player of the Year Mark Williams under the bus. The North Carolina Tar Heels outlasted the Duke Blue Devils in Saturday night’s Final Four showdown, sending head coach Mike Krzyzewski into retirement a little earlier than he’d have liked. The game was officiated pretty evenly. Both teams had players in foul trouble. North Carolina’s Armando Bacot fouled out in the…

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Live updates: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote in Senate committee CNN April 4, 2022 The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote today on whether to advance the nomination of President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. The committee is currently in a recess and will reconvene later today to vote due to a senator’s delayed return to Washington, DC. An 11-11 tie is expected as no GOP members appear poised to vote for her. Senate Democrats will need to vote to advance the deadlocked nomination to the Senate floor. If confirmed, Jackson will fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s…

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Roger Stone says he was ‘censored’ on Trump’s Truth Social app By Hannah Getahun Business Insider April 4, 2022 Trump ally Roger Stone complained about his posts being censored on Trump’s own Truth Social app. Stone had complained about “radical Islam” in a post. The app, meant to be a free speech app for conservatives, flagged the post as “Sensitive Content.” Roger Stone, a long-time ally of former President Donald Trump, complained Saturday night about censored content on Trump’s own Truth Social app after being slapped with a content warning label following one of his posts. Continue Reading…..

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Duke Falls To UNC In Final Four, 81-77 By Jim Sumner Duke Basketball Report April 3, 2022 If you don’t have a rooting interest North Carolina’s 81-77 win over Duke was an instant classic. But if you don’t have a Duke rooting interest, you’re probably not reading this. Instead words like “devastating” probably come closer to what you’re thinking. “Tonight was a battle,” Mike Krzyzewski said. “It was a game that the winner was going to be joyous and the loser was going to be in agony. That’s the type of game we expected. We would like to…

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By Jason Lemon Newsweek April 3, 2022 MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, said that he’s now spent some $35 million of his own money attempting to prove that President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win was fraudulent. Trump and his allies, such as Lindell, continue to claim that Biden only won the last presidential election due to “widespread fraud” or “hacking” of election machines. Although many supporters believe the conspiracy theory, no evidence has emerged corroborating the allegations. Lindell has been one of the key promoters of the false claims—traveling around the country…

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The US and its allies are weighing security guarantees for Ukraine, but they’re unlikely to give Kyiv what it wants By Natasha Bertrand CNN April 3, 2022 (CNN)The US and its allies have been weighing how the West could provide Ukraine with alternative security guarantees should it forgo its NATO membership bid as a concession to Russia to end the war, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The discussions, which have included the Ukrainians directly, are in very early phases because it is not clear to US, Western and Ukrainian officials that the Russian negotiations are…

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Washington Examiner April 3, 2022 Russia issued personal sanctions to several top U.S. figures, including Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, in a retaliatory move against the United States. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and others were among the 13 people added to Russia’s “stop list” as the U.S. continues sanctioning Russia and some individual Russians over the country’s decision to invade Ukraine, TASS, a Russian news agency, reported Tuesday. Clinton, who has been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, celebrated the rebuke. Continue Reading…..

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Russian jets reportedly entered Swedish airspace with nukes Aerotime April 2, 2022 Swedish media report that two Russian aircraft that violated Sweden’s airspace in early March 2022 were carrying nuclear weapons. On March 2, 2022, four Russian combat aircraft, including two Su-27 Flanker fighters and two Su-24 Fencer tactical bombers briefly violated the airspace over the Swedish island of Gotland. The incident took place while the Finnish and Swedish forces were engaged in a joint exercise in the Baltic Sea. The Russian flight group took off from the nearby enclave of Kaliningrad. Continue Reading…..

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790 KGMI April 2, 2022 BELLINGHAM, Wash. — The Bellingham City Council has ok’d the purchase of land around a long-time nesting site for Great Blue Herons in the Edgemoor neighborhood. The council voted at its meeting on Monday, March 28th, to add almost 1.5 acres to property the city bought next to the Post Point water treatment facility last fall. Mayor Seth Fleetwood read from a report about the colony prepared by the city’s wildlife biologist, who found it to be “a vital contributor to the Great Blue Heron population of the region. Continue Reading…..

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