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Democrats have started to face backlash online after photographs emerged Thursday of National Guardsmen being forced to sleep in parking garages while also having minimal access to restrooms and other essential items. “Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer—why are American troops who are tasked with keeping security at the Capitol being forced to sleep in […]
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President Joe Biden’s first day in office may have been historic in more ways than one: he may have set a single-day record for the number of jobs killed by an American president.
Biden revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, as promised. In so doing, he killed some 11,000 direct jobs that the pipeline’s construction was to have created, and an estimated 60,000 indirect jobs in secondary, related industries.
Over 1,000 workers already on the job — mostly union workers — will be laid off as a result of the decision, even if it is litigated, as many expect it will be, in the courts.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) confronted Secretary of Transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg over the Keystone XL decision on Thursday morning, during Buttigieg’s confirmation hearing. If the administration was serious about infrastructure, Cruz asked, why was it killing an infrastructure project with “good, paying union jobs”?
When Buttigieg said the idea was that “net” jobs created in more climate-friendly industries would be positive, Cruz retorted that that was little comfort to the Keystone XL workers who were being laid off: “So for those workers, the answer is somebody else will get a job?”
The Association of Oil Pipe Lines complained, as did the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters — though the union may only have itself to blame: it endorsed Biden in August, after he had promised to kill the pipeline in May.
Biden also halted the construction of the border wall on the U.S.-Mexico boundary on Wednesday. While the projections for jobs there are somewhat unclear, one analysis (by an opponent of the wall) in 2017 estimated that the wall, if fully constructed, would create 10,500 jobs.
Moreover, on Thursday, the Biden Administration announced that it had suspended oil and gas permits on federal land Wednesday. It is unclear how many jobs that will cost — but the outlook is not good.
Most presidents promise to create jobs. Biden killed up to 70,000 jobs in his first 24 hours — and the true total may be even higher.
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Once again, Twitter has demonstrated its perplexing propensity for inconsistent and/or biased policies regarding its guidance around policing and censoring its users. This time the consequences of their apparent guidance profoundly affected the life of a minor, as detailed in a civil lawsuit brought to Federal Court by the boy and his mother in Northern California on Wednesday.
Despite my repeated written requests @Twitter has refused to disclose what process, if any, they follow in reviewing tweets
Maybe this lawsuit over a horrifying case will finally reveal how they review tweets & why it failed to protect these victimshttps://t.co/BrxM7aNNL2
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 21, 2021
The complaint states the following:
The civil lawsuit, Doe v Twitter, filed Jan. 20 against the tech giant alleges that, under the Trafficking Victims’ Protection Reauthorization Act (“TVPRA”), Twitter “failed to report sexual abuse material, promoted the receipt and distribution of child pornography” and, in contravention to state laws, “knowingly hosted sexual exploitation material, including child sex abuse material (referred to in some instances as child pornography), and allowed human trafficking and the dissemination of child sexual abuse material to continue on its platform, therefore profiting from the harmful and exploitive material and the traffic it draws.
13-year-old plaintiff John Doe was solicited and recruited for sex trafficking as a minor. After Doe escaped from the manipulation, explicit videos depicting John were later distributed on Twitter. Despite attempts to get it removed through abuse reports and other means, Twitter refused to take the material down.
The boy met his traffickers through the Snapchat app. He and his traffickers had exchanged photos there, and, over time, the boy was coerced to share more sexually graphic content or, as the suit states, the material he had already posted would “be shared with parents, coach, and pastor.” The child eventually broke ties with the traffickers, but the material resurfaced in 2019 on Twitter. Starting in December 2019, the content was reported at least three times, but it wasn’t until Jan. 30, 2020, when federal law enforcement became involved, that the explicit material was removed.
However, “a March 2019 policy also asserts that it will usually permanently suspend accounts with child sexual abuse material, and report any such material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.” The keyword here is “usually”.
The boy, now 16, became aware of the tweets in early 2020 when classmates began to bully him. He never once authorized the posting of the content on Twitter.
Court records show that “teasing, harassment, vicious bullying” had led him to become “suicidal.” Doe filed complaints with Twitter, and on Jan. 21, a support agent asked for ID to prove he was a minor, but, according to the parents, the responses were either delayed or denied. His mother followed up with two more complaints. Eventually, on Jan. 28, 2020, Twitter told the family that the content did not violate their policies and stated, “no action would be taken at this time.”
TWITTER’S DECISION
JOHN DOE’S RESPONSE
John Doe’s response published in the complaint:
A Department of Homeland Federal Agent finally contacted the family on Jan. 30 to say that the content had been successfully removed.
Section 230 should not protect Twitter from liability in cases like this one either. The law was “never intended to protect websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex-trafficking victims.
Sex Trafficking is a multimillion-dollar industry. The U.S. has the largest commercial sex trafficking industry in the world. South African filmmaker and activist Jaco Booyens discusses the sex trafficking industry in his Tedx Talks video from February of 2020. He produced a film called “8 Days” that documents the descent of a young girl into the world of sex trafficking. His sister was trafficked by a media mogul for 6 years when she entered a South Africa singing competition. He says that anyone can be manipulated by exploiting one’s vulnerabilities. The average age of a trafficked child in the U.S. is 12-years-old. The U.S. leads the world in commercial trafficking, and our country has the youngest average age of children exploited in the world. “Over a half a million children are trafficked in the U.S. every day,” says Booyens. A pimp draws $200k-$250k a year in salary, tax-free, from one child. Child trafficking exists, in part, he says, “because good people do nothing.”
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‘We’re going to have to reset our entire intelligence approach to these White Supremacist militias’
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A Maryland man accused of beating police officers during the Capitol riot that took place on January 6 previously confessed that he was not at the protest for former President Trump.
Emanuel Jackson turned himself in to authorities on January 18, identifying himself as one of the rioters at the January 6 Capitol protest. He has been accused of participating in violent mob events, beating police officers with a baseball bat.
According to CBS Baltimore, video surveillance apparently shows Jackson beating a Capitol Police officer as he attempted to storm the building:
Several hours later, Jackson was again spotted among the aggressive crowd assaulting police officers, He was seen striking a group of Metropolitan and U.S. Capitol police officers with a metal baseball bat, according to the warrant.
“I had a bat. They were pepper-spraying people. Then, they got me in the eye,” Jackson said in a video posted to social media, revealing his motives for participating in the mob and claiming that he was “fighting for America.”
“We’ve been taken over by globalists, by the Chinese. Fighting for America. I’m not here for Trump. I’m here for America,” he said, noting that he did not vote in the 2020 presidential election because he “thought my vote didn’t count.”
“But I learned a lesson, and I will vote next in the midterms and in other elections,” he added.
The revelation of his admission — that he did not participate in the riot for or under the direction of Trump — comes as Democrats continue to blame the former president, as well as a handful of GOP lawmakers, for inciting the lawless breach of the U.S. Capitol as Congress gathered to certify the electoral vote.
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have since impeached now-former President Trump for the second time, with an impeachment trial continuing to loom in the Democrat-led Senate.
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Amazon will not be required to immediately restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing social media app. U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said she wasn’t dismissing Parler’s “substantive underlying claims” against Amazon, but said it had fallen short in demonstrating the need…
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Thursday that any city in his state that takes measures to defund law enforcement agencies will find itself denied state dollars. In essence, Abbott intends to defund the defunders. It isn’t clear how far Democrats, who now control the White House, in addition to the Senate and the…
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The social media platform Parler lost a bid for a court order to force Amazon to reinstate their website services.
Amazon banned Parler from their web host servers on Jan. 9 over what they claimed was a "steady increase" in "violent content" that was against their terms of service. Parler’s CEO John Matze accused the tech industry of colluding in order to squeeze competition out of the marketplace, and filed a lawsuit against Amazon days later.
Attorneys for Parler requested a preliminary injunction from the court and argued in part that Amazon was violating laws against monopoly in favor of Twitter, Parler’s competitor.
U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein said in her decision on Thursday that Parler had not proven that it was likely to succeed against Amazon, and was not entitled to an injunction that would return the website services to the platform.
"The likelihood of Parler prevailing on its claims is not a close call. Parler’s allegations at this time are both inaccurate and unsupported, and are disputed by evidence submitted by [Amazon]," said Rothstein.
Rothstein found the connection between Parler’s suspension and Twitter tenuous since Amazon doesn’t have the same relationship with Twitter as it does with Parler.
"Parler has failed to do more than raise the specter of preferential treatment of Twitter by [Amazon]," said Rothstein. "Parler and Twitter are not similarly situated, because [Amazon] does not provide online hosting services to Twitter."
Rothstein also rejected the argument from Parler that reinstating their social media platform was in the public interest.
"The Court explicitly rejects any suggestion that the balance of equities or the public interest favors obligating [Amazon] to host the kind of abusive, violent content at issue in this case, particularly in light of the recent riots at the U.S. Capitol," said Rothstein.
"That event was a tragic reminder that inflammatory rhetoric can — more swiftly and easily than many of us would have hoped — turn a lawful protest into a violent insurrection," she added. "The Court rejects any suggestion that the public interest favors requiring [Amazon] to host the incendiary speech that the record shows some of Parler’s users have engaged in."
Rothstein was nominated to the court by former President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
The ruling leaves the future of the social media platform in question, though Matze has promised that the service will return.
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Lou Dobbs on Thursday night to discuss the radical moves by Joe Biden and the persecution of the middle class.
During their discussion, Lou turned his focus to the leadership of the Republican Party. The popular pro-Trump host blasted the GOP leadership for spitting on the Trump voters who delivered a landslide 74 million votes to the Republican Party this year and saved the House and Senate races.
Lou Dobbs warned the Republican Party that they are about to lose their base!
He’s right!
Lou Dobbs: The fact of the matter is, working men and women and their families right now have no representation. This president has made clear who has his priority, his attention, his interest. President Trump, as you say, stood up for the working – men and women and their families. And, it’s stunning to me that the Republican party right now doesn’t understand the threat that he poses. Because, I think of those 74 million Americans, if they continue to be insulted by the leadership of both political parties they are going to say, “The hell with you.” And the Patriot Party will be born and it will be born with extraordinary strength and power.
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