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— Dollywood Parks & Resorts (@Dollywood) February 9, 2022

Via The Star News Network:

Herschend Enterprises, the nation’s largest privately-owned themed attractions corporation, announced Tuesday it will cover 100% of tuition, fees, and books for any of its 11,000 employees who choose to pursue further education.
The investment in employee education will be made through Herschend’s GROW U, according to the company. The program aims to make it “exponentially easier for employees at all levels to pursue their personal and professional dreams through education” from “day one on the job.”

“Herschend’s GROW U is not only a significant and transformational investment in our employees’ growth but also our love culture in action,” Andrew Wexler, CEO of Herschend Enterprises said in a statement. “Herschend is rooted in love – it’s evident at every Herschend property, every day – in the way we treat and support each other, how we Create Memories Worth Repeating for guests, and most importantly, how we care for our employees.”

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Via Business Insider:

Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday criticized his Republican colleagues who have called the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot an “insurrection,” a day after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell described the attack as a “violent insurrection.”

“I think it is a mistake for Republicans to repeat the political propaganda of Democrats and the corporate media,” the Texas Republican told CNN’s Ted Barrett.

The senator also pushed back on the phrase “armed insurrection” being used by Republican leadership to describe the attack, CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane said.

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Too late, everyone hates you. Mid-terms are coming. Suffer the consequences idiots.

Via Essence:

Liberal-leaning states, from New York to California, are ending indoor mask mandates.

As the New York Times reports, “the cascade of recent mask announcements seemed to stem from conversations that took place within the National Governors Association, and a recent meeting with the White House.”

At the same time, the COVID-19 death rate had grown from December 2021 through the end of January at a rate far higher than other wealthy nations. Based on data through January 31, 2022, the U.S. death rate is 63% worse than the average of these countries, including Belgium, Britain, France, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan, and Australia.

Likewise, the share of the population that is fully vaccinated lags all of these countries.

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BIDEN: “I’m gonna work like the devil to bring gas prices down.” pic.twitter.com/pvf5ttdz0c

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 10, 2022

That’ll fix America Joe.

Via NBC:

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday flagged concerns about consolidation in the $250 billion annual U.S. alcohol market and outlined reforms it said could boost competition and save consumers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

New merger and acquisition scrutiny, different tax rates and lifting regulatory burdens to new entrants in the wine, beer and spirits market would make the market fairer for new brewers and cheaper for consumers, Treasury said in a 63-page paper.

The long-awaited report is part of a July executive order on competitiveness. Its focus on the beer industry, in particular, marks the latest push by the Biden administration to fight what it calls excess consolidation in industries from meatpacking to shipping.

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So dumb.

Hmmm…

UPDATE – Dr. Fauci: "There may be the need for yet again another boost, in this case a fourth dose," for some.pic.twitter.com/tW53pVx3bG

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 9, 2022

Via NBC:

Connecticut’s own Lindsey Jacobellis has won Team USA its first gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics in the snowboard cross.

The 36-year-old clutched the first spot in what is her fifth Olympic games, defeating Chloe Trespeuch of France and becoming the oldest medalist in the sport. Jacobellis is now a two-time Olympic medalist. She won her first medal, a silver, in 2006.

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China doesn’t allow dual citizenship. So the only way she competed was by becoming a Chinese citizen. We should rescind her student loans, aid and anything else she’s getting.

Via The Sun:

She has ALREADY represented fashion houses including Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co, Gucci and Fendi in striking ad campaigns.

It’s meant her star has risen before she has even competed in a Winter Olympics, and can reportedly charge around £2million-per-endorsement.

Incredibly, it was claimed she made £12million last year from sponsors.

Californian-born Gu, who caused controversy when she switched allegiances from Team USA to represent China at Beijing 2022, is also proving she has more than beauty on her side.

When she finishes at the Games, she will head straight to top US university Stanford.

Here’s why experts are predicting she could be the ‘Tony Hawk of winter sports in China’.

And she’s still the baby of the skiing world.

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Via Yahoo:

WASHINGTON — Caught seemingly off guard by the rapidity with which Democratic elected officials in states on both coasts have rolled back pandemic restrictions in recent days, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky urged continued caution on Wednesday, even as she acknowledged that approach is falling out of favor.

“We’re not there yet,” Walensky said at a briefing of the White House pandemic response team during which she and others faced a series of questions about how long mask mandates — the most potent symbol of pandemic life — would remain in place. The CDC said last May that vaccinated people no longer had to mask indoors, then reversed itself as the Delta wave arrived that summer. It also said that students should wear masks in schools, a point of increasing contention of late.

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Via Foreign Desk News:

American truckers are looking to follow the lead of Canada’s Freedom Convoy by organizing a protest against vaccine and pandemic-related mandates.

The truckers in the United States have claimed they are eyeing March 1 as their protest date, according to a “Freedom Convoy to DC 2022” GoFundMe page, with a plan to travel from California to Washington D.C. in protest of vaccine rules nationwide. The group hopes to end vaccine mandates through peaceful protests.

The movement is “a long time coming,” said Mike Landis, a trucker involved in the D.C. freedom convoy. Americans are tired of “government overreach” in the form of pandemic-related mandates.

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Via NY Post:

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Steve Daines are teaming up on the first bipartisan Senate bill to prohibit stock trading by members of Congress and their spouses — adding to growing momentum on both sides of the aisle for a ban on the practice.

The bill from Warren (D-Mass.) and Daines (R-Mont.) would ban lawmakers and their spouses from owning or trading individual stocks, Senate sources told The Post. They would only be allowed to own stocks through broad exchange-traded funds and mutual funds under the bill, which has not yet been introduced.

“Sen. Daines is working to introduce the first bipartisan bill in the Senate to ban Members of Congress and their spouses from owning and trading individual stocks and commodities,” Daines’ press secretary Rachel Dumke told The Post.

The Warren-Daines bill — which was first reported by Axios late Tuesday — would be more stringent than another proposal by Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).

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Via Just The News:

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called on the U.S. to stand up to the “generational threat” posed by China while unveiling a major report on Beijing’s “malign behavior” at the same time her husband’s law firm was working on behalf of companies linked to China’s military, intelligence, and security services.

As Cheney stood at the podium, her husband Philip Perry’s law firm was cashing in on legal and lobbying work that his employer — Latham & Watkins (LW), one of the largest law firms in the world — was doing for a host of Chinese companies, some of which were involved in the kind of activity that Cheney was warning had to be stopped.

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Via DailyWire:

More than three dozen Republican lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden, 79, to undergo a cognitive test, just as former President Donald Trump did while in the White House.

Biden, 79, is the oldest man ever to hold the office, and the Republicans say they want to make sure he’s fit for office.

Thirty-seven GOP lawmakers joined Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) in signing a letter, including Republican leadership members House Republican Conference chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, GOP conference vice chairman Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Republican Study Committee chairman Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, and several members of the GOP Doctors Caucus.

In their letter, they express “concern” with Biden’s “current cognitive state.”

Jackson has long questioned Biden’s mental acuity.

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