U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent, she said on Friday, just days after Democrats won a Senate race in Georgia and secured 51 seats in the 100-member chamber riven by deep political divisions.
“Like a lot of Arizonans, I have never fit perfectly in either national party,” Sinema said in an article for the Arizona Republic newspaper.
An aide would not say whether Sinema would continue to caucus with Democrats.
Leave it to leftist rags like Fortune magazine to target older Americans to insulate President Joe Biden’s disastrous economic policies from blame for the ongoing inflation struggle.
The magazine published a condescending Nov. 30 story with a ridiculous headline: “Aging boomers are making it harder to tame inflation—and there are no quick solutions in sight.” Fortune complained about “fewer older Americans handing over your fast food order or working part-time at the local grocery store” before dipping deeper in the toilet of brazen elitism. “
Those missing workers are not just causing the ‘help wanted’ signs to linger, but are actually making it harder to tame sky-high inflation levels,” Fortune spewed.
The Associated Press Stylebook sets the usage and grammatical format for hundreds of news agencies, laying out style and terms in an alphabetized book several hundred pages long.
So it matters when the stylebook makes a substantive change. This week, the journalist’s bible forbade the use of the phrase “late-term abortion,” which drew swift rebuke as politically motivated.
“Do not use the term ‘late-term abortion,’” the stylebook said in a post on Twitter. “The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [ACOG] defines late term as 41 weeks through 41 weeks and 6 days of gestation, and abortion does not happen in this period.”
Prosecutors in Los Angeles County will now have to weigh the effects charging decisions will have on the immigration status of suspects and are encouraged to seek diversion programs to help avoid deportations, according to a new directive.
The policy from District Attorney George Gascon is another in a long list of progressive measures to overhaul how justice is sought in the nation’s largest district attorney’s office.
According to the policy, which was obtained by Fox News, alternatives to criminal convictions should be considered, such as avoiding charging for criminal enhancements, which can significantly increase one’s prison sentence, “that would turn an otherwise immigration neutral offense into an immigration damaging one.”
Meet Brittney Griner & Marine Paul Whelan. Both Americans. Both were convicted in Russian courts on dubious charges. Both serving multi-year sentences in Russian prison. Brittney hates America Paul served America
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award in New York City Tuesday night for their work on exposing “structural racism” in the British royal family.
The couple attended the awards ceremony in Manhattan just ahead of their new docuseries, “Harry & Meghan” premiering on Netflix on December 8, and Harry’s upcoming memoir “Spare,” which is scheduled to be released in January. […]
“They went to the oldest institution in U.K. history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn’t have structural racism within the institution; that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health,” Kennedy said.
“Few would have the courage to question their colleagues, family and community about the power structure they maintained, and this is what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have done,” she continued.
KJP: "There was suppression that we saw throughout the Georgia election…but look, even with that, the American people came out." pic.twitter.com/QEmIjregab
This English teacher has solid anti-Western impulses. However, to truly decolonize her language and undermine white supremacy, she needs to stop speaking English and deliver this message exclusively with simian grunts, groans, and moans. https://t.co/m6AWiMOdke
OROVILLE, Calif. (CITC) — A California English teacher is facing criticism after she reportedly posted a video to social media claiming “white supremacy runs deep” in U.S. public schools, and cited “arbitrary” grammar and writing rules as examples of rules “created by Westerners.”
Oroville High School’s Marta Shaffer apparently runs a TikTok account named @ShafferLovesToRead with over 13,000 followers. One video from that account was singled out by the popular Twitter account @LibsofTikTok. The TikTok account has gone private following @LibsofTikTok’s posting.
“English teacher says that grammar and writing rules are based in white supremacy so she tries to undermine it in her classroom,” @LibsofTikTok wrote in its caption of the post, featuring a reupload of the offending video.
The House Ethics Committee is investigating Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the committee announced Wednesday in a press release.
“Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(A), and Committee Rules 17A(b)(1)(A), 17A(c)(1), and 17A(j), the Acting Chairwoman and Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics have jointly decided to extend the matter regarding Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which was transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on June 23, 2022,” it said in a statement.
The committee did not reveal what it is investigating Ocasio-Cortez for, in accordance with its rules.
Environmental activists Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duch and Duchess of Sussex, were seen this week disembarking from a private jet at a New York City-area airport.
The couple was photographed exiting the aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City before greeting several people awaiting their arrival and entering a nearby SUV. Prince Harry and Markle are outspoken climate activists and have implored people to alter their lifestyle choices to account for potential environmental impacts.
“There is a ticking clock to protect our planet — with climate change, the deterioration of our natural resources, endangerment of sacred wildlife, the impact of plastics and microplastics, and fossil fuel emissions, we are jeopardizing this beautiful place we call home — for ourselves and for future generations,” the pair said in joint social media post in 2019. “Let’s save it. Let’s do our part.”
