Washington Examiner on Instagram: “Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a result of “negligence and misconduct” from guards that allowed him to commit suicide, a Justice Department watchdog determined. The Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to assign Epstein a cellmate and guards allowed too many bed linens to be left in his cell, which aided in his suicide, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. Epstein died by suicide in New York City in August 2019. LINK IN BIO #jeffreyepstein#doj”
The Wall Street Journal on Instagram: “Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs. Routine drug use in the corporate world has left boards and business leaders to wrestle with their responsibilities for a workforce that frequently uses. At the vanguard are tech executives and employees who see psychedelics and similar substances, among them psilocybin, ketamine and LSD, as gateways to business breakthroughs. Musk takes ketamine, while Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known for its investments in SpaceX and Facebook, have thrown parties that include psychedelics. The account of Musk’s drug use comes from people who witnessed him use ketamine and others with direct knowledge of his use. Details about Brin’s drug use and the Founders Fund parties come from people familiar with them. In a tweet following online publication of this article, Musk said he believed ketamine is a better way to deal with depression compared with more widely prescribed antidepressants that are “zombifying” people. The movement isn’t a medical experiment or a related investment opportunity, but a practice that has become for many a routine part of doing business. It comes with risks of dependence and abuse. Most of the drugs are illegal. Silicon Valley has long had a tolerance toward drug use—many companies don’t test employees regularly—but the phenomenon is worrying some companies and their boards, who fear they could be held liable for illegal activity, according to consultants and others close to the companies. Some start dabbling with psychedelics in search of mental clarity or to address health issues and end up using the drugs more frequently at Silicon Valley parties or raves, where they have taken a role similar to alcohol at a cocktail party. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷: @claramokriphoto for @wsjphotos”
The Wall Street Journal on Instagram: “The waves of migration that brought Black Americans to many northern cities are reversing. Departing residents are heading everywhere from nearby suburbs to high-growth areas in the southern U.S., according to demographers, real-estate agents and public officials. The latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates, released last week, indicate Black residents are continuing to leave many urban centers in the North and elsewhere, adding to decades of decline. These losses have hit many major cities with historically large Black populations, including Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Oakland, Calif. The outflow marks a reversal of the Great Migration that began in the early 20th century as millions of Black Americans left the South looking for more economic opportunities and to flee racial violence. Much of the current shift is driven by younger, college-educated Black people who are relocating from northern and western places to the South, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. The new census estimates show other cities included in the county-level data, like Philadelphia and Baltimore, saw the number of non-Hispanic Black residents decline more steeply than their overall population in the last measured year, which runs through mid-2022. This comes as many cities saw their numbers broadly shrink because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This new migration has implications large and small. The influx of Black voters—many of whom vote Democratic—has turned formerly GOP-dominated Georgia into a swing state in recent elections. Read more at the link in our bio. ”
The Federalist on Instagram: ”“The pride flag is not merely a symbol of sexual license. It is also a symbol for using identity politics to erase the original U.S. Constitution.” Tap the link in our story to keep reading from @fdrlst executive editor Joy Pullmann 🗞”
Tablet Magazine on Instagram: “Crimes Against Reason: The new criminal justice reform movement is destroying our ability to debate. “Virtue-preening is now de rigueur among the progressives behind the national criminal justice reform agenda. While claiming moral high ground by demonizing both the system itself and a previous generation of reformers, the results of the movement’s efforts so far are not encouraging. Snowballing reform policies and shrinking police departments and prosecutors’ offices have contributed to national homicide rates 34% higher last year than in 2019, auto theft rates up 59%, and organized retail crime so rampant that Walgreens closed 10 San Francisco stores in recent years. The larger trend, however, is a war against individual reasoning that is both enacting harmful policies in the name of ‘criminal justice reform’ while also crippling the ability of young people to think critically. How did this happen? It stems from the movement’s hostility toward not only fact-based dialogue but the very idea that individuals should use their critical faculties and reason to determine fairness.” Head to the link in bio to read more.”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “Rowan Scarborough: “Public opinion surveys show that Americans increasingly believe that there are two standards of justice, depending on how well connected one is or of which identity one is a member. The effects of government corruption go well beyond those directly involved. If you, as a business person, have the choice between investing in a jurisdiction that is known for being noncorrupt and enforcing the rule of law versus a jurisdiction that tolerates corrupt government officials and judges, other things being equal, you are likely to invest in the less corrupt jurisdiction.”″
The Washington Times on Instagram: “Republicans in both chambers are preparing to go after Attorney General Merrick Garland over allegations he obstructed and later lied about the investigation into President Biden‘s son Hunter Biden. “It is time. The Department of Justice needs to appoint a special counsel to investigate Merrick Garland for obstruction of justice and perjury,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, on his weekly podcast “The Verdict” to co-host Ben Ferguson. “At this point, the evidence that Merrick Garland personally committed multiple felonies is growing greater,” he said.”
Washington Examiner on Instagram: ”@ryanseacrest announced on social media Tuesday that he has been named the new host of the television game show @wheeloffortune once longtime host Pat Sajak retires after this season, which begins airing in September. “I’m truly humbled to be stepping into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak,” Seacrest tweeted. “I can’t wait to continue the tradition of spinning the wheel and working alongside the great Vanna White.” LINK IN BIO #ryanseacrest#wheeloffortune#patsajak#vannawhite”
Fox News on Instagram: “NOT ALWAYS SUNNY: Sen. Rick Scott, the former governor of Florida, angered liberals after he issued another warning about “socialists and communists” traveling to the Sunshine State. Link in bio.”
New York Post on Instagram: “And in the blue-check corner … #Twitter boss #ElonMusk on Tuesday accepted an offer by #UFC legend #GeorgesStPierre to train him for his cage fight with #Facebook rival #MarkZuckerberg. Click the link in bio for more. 📸: Getty Images, Shutterstock, YouTube”
Newsmax on Instagram: ”‘RESPECT’: Trump gave NEWSMAX his honest take on RFK Jr. as the Democrat candidate makes waves in the media, and gains in the gym. Link in bio.”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “More adults also favored Republicans than Democrats on the issues of crime, immigration, the budget deficit and foreign policy.”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “Public confidence in Mr. Biden’s handling of the economy remains low during a period of high inflation and a difficult housing market. An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released last month found that only 33% of adults approved of Mr. Biden’s economic performance and just 24% said national economic conditions were in good shape.”
Wall Street Journal Opinion on Instagram: “The Communist Party is preparing China for war. Xi Jinping has said it. America has to stop wasting time, writes @nikkihaley. Chinese investors have bought nearly 400,000 acres of American land, much of it near military bases. I’ll do everything in my power to prevent China from buying any more land and force it to sell what it already owns. Then there’s fentanyl. Chinese companies make nearly all the precursor chemicals that Mexican cartels turn into this deadly drug. I will push Congress to revoke permanent normal trade relations until the flow of fentanyl ends. If China wants normal trade, it has to stop killing Americans. American companies sell billions of dollars worth of goods in the Chinese market, much of it with military application. China also forces technology transfer and steals up to $600 billion of American intellectual property every year. I will push American businesses to leave China as completely as possible. The U.S. is at risk of falling behind. The Pentagon must cut through the bureaucracy and field new weapons faster than ever. We can’t wait 50 years, or even five years. China isn’t. China has spent decades preparing to fight. America is now in a dangerous situation against a powerful enemy. The hour is late, but it isn’t too late to wake up and take charge of our future. If we rally now, the Chinese Communist Party will end up on the ash-heap of history, like the Soviet Communist Party before it. Read more at the link in our bio. #WSJOpinion Photo: Yan Yan/Zuma Press”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “The fiscal year ends Sept. 30 and if 2024 spending bills are not signed into law by then, Congress will likely pass stopgap measures. Under the debt limit deal, if Congress fails to reach a bipartisan deal on spending by January 2024, all non-mandatory spending will be cut by 1%.”
Fox News on Instagram: “FIRST ON FOX: The new committee report stems from the panel’s ongoing investigation into government-induced censorship on social media. Link in bio.”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “For a Washington that is often burned by too-good-to-be-true stories such as the Steele dossier, the revelations about Hunter Biden by two IRS criminal investigators may seem, well, too good to be true. IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and another agent, known in congressional committee documents as “Mr. X,” testified for hours, under oath, that they had the goods to back up what they were saying. In some cases, they have already provided it to Congress, either in documents or by reading messages into the transcript of the testimony they delivered”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “Nationally, the USPS is rolling out 12,000 new, hardened blue boxes along with 49,000 electronic locks to replace the arrow keys that open those boxes, in the hopes of stemming the rise of mail theft.”
Reason Magazine on Instagram: “Last year, a police officer sicced his K-9 on Sean Davis as he slept in a wooded area in Covington, Kentucky, mauling his arm and causing severe injuries. Officers had mistaken Davis for a different individual who had allegedly violated a protection order and detained him even after he provided police with his ID. Last month, Davis filed a lawsuit against the officer responsible for Davis’ mauling, claiming that he was subject to unreasonable force, negligence, and battery. While Davis’ ordeal is disturbing, it’s unclear whether he will be able to succeed in his lawsuit, as police officers are protected by wide-ranging qualified immunity protections that make it extremely difficult to sue them over civil rights violations—no matter how obvious. Tap the link in bio to read why the city says the man’s injuries were “caused solely as a result of his own acts or omissions.” 🎨: Lex Villena #police#Kentucky#criminaljustice#policethepolice”
The Washington Times on Instagram: “Don Feder: ” Today’s corporate honchos aren’t men of vision but bureaucrats who climbed the corporate ladder rung by greasy rung. They are trained by the same academic leftists who indoctrinate journalists and teachers. That’s why CNN, the American Federation of Teachers and Disney all support cultural Marxism.”″
Campus Reform on Instagram: “On Tuesday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Dr. Virginia Foxx and Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Burgess Owens sent a letter to Department of Education (DOEd) Secretary Miguel Cardona, urging the Secretary to reconsider the DOEd’s latest proposed Gainful Employment (GE) rule. Link in bio. #highereducation#departmentofeducation#conservativepolitics”
The Babylon Bee on Instagram: ”“My chain-smoking Grandma raised me down the street from a pizzeria, and now my second cousin has asthma. The pizza is to blame.”″
June 27, 2023
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