Tag: Policies & Impacts

Concentration of Power in California Committee Chairs is Anti-Democratic: Lawmakers

May 9, 2023
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Rule changes made in 2019 giving the chair of California Assembly committees power to vet bills and prevent them from being heard by the legislature is a danger to the legislative process, according to state lawmakers. “It’s anti-democratic,” Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) told The Epoch Times. “If not all the bills are really getting…

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Harlan Crow Refuses to Answer Democrats’ Questions About Justice Thomas, Casts Probe as Illegitimate

May 9, 2023
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Texas billionaire Harlan Crow refused to answer questions from a Democratic senator who is examining whether gifts such as luxury vacations that Crow gave his friend Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated U.S. tax law. The relationship between Crow and Thomas has generated outrage on the left as well as calls for Thomas’s impeachment from…

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PREMIERING NOW: The Shocking Rewrite of COVID History; Trump to Appeal New York Verdict; Tucker to Host Show on Twitter

May 9, 2023
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A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for defamation and battery in a civil case filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll. Both are civil charges that do not result in jail time. Joseph Tacopina, Trump’s attorney, told The Epoch Times that the former president is planning to appeal the verdict. Also, former Fox News…

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The Shocking Rewrite of COVID History; Trump to Appeal New York Verdict; Tucker to Host Show on Twitter

May 9, 2023
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A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for defamation and battery in a civil case filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll. Both are civil charges that do not result in jail time. Joseph Tacopina, Trump’s attorney, told The Epoch Times that the former president is planning to appeal the verdict. Also, former Fox News…

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Global Internet Shutdowns Are at Record Levels—Here’s What to Do If It Happens to You

May 9, 2023
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In the digital era, the right to access information goes hand in hand with freedom and democratic values. However, authoritarian regimes and private sector actors in 35 countries have stepped up the use of internet blackouts as a method to control protests, free speech, and suppress information. Five nations enacted internet blackouts related to national…

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PREMIERING 7:00PM ET: The Shocking Rewrite of COVID History; Trump to Appeal New York Verdict; Tucker to Host Show on Twitter

May 9, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has come to an end. The federal vaccine mandates are over. The public health emergency was brought to a stop. The world is returning to normal, yet for many people, things aren’t over just yet. The next step may be to hold everyone accountable who violated the basic rights of people using…

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The Shocking Rewrite of COVID History

May 9, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has come to an end. The federal vaccine mandates are over. The public health emergency was brought to a stop. The world is returning to normal, yet for many people, things aren’t over just yet. The next step may be to hold everyone accountable who violated the basic rights of people using…

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Florida Will Lower Graduation Requirements—Again

May 9, 2023
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Despite having graduation requirements lowered two years ago, Florida superintendents are again pleading with the state’s Department of Education to delay a scheduled increase in graduation requirements. On April 20, 2021, then-Florida Department of Education (DOE) Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order (pdf), waiving required state assessments for graduation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years…

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Protesters Confront Doctors for Using Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones on Minors

May 9, 2023
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A crowd of more than 50 people protested outside the annual conference of the Pediatric Endocrine Society in San Diego this weekend over the organization’s “gender-affirming” policies and use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children. The demonstrators marched peacefully on the sidewalks bordering the Sheraton Hotel & Marina, carrying signs and shouting “biology…

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Homeland Security Portrays White Conservatives as Radical Threats in Training Documents

May 9, 2023
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America First Legal (AFL) has released documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showing that the agency has conducted programs that characterize white people and conservative values as tilting towards radicalism. An internal memo (pdf) dated Jan. 29, 2021—just nine days after Biden was sworn in as the president—talks about a “Choose…

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