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  • Trump says he’ll decide whether to support a national abortion ban ‘pretty soon’

    03/17/2024 3:10:44 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 134 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/17/2024 | Nick Robertson
    Former President Trump said Sunday that he will decide “pretty soon” whether to back a national abortion ban. Trump’s comments come after reports surfaced last month that he is considering embracing a 16-week federal abortion ban for his campaign platform. “We’re going to find out,” Trump told Fox News host Howard Kurtz on whether he would back the policy. “Pretty soon, I’m gonna be making a decision. I would like to see if we could make both sides happy.” The Trump campaign pushed back on reports of the policy last month but did not deny that Trump was considering it,...
  • Schumer noncommittal on House-passed TikTok ban

    03/13/2024 9:44:12 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/13/2024 | ALEXANDER BOLTON
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday the Senate “will review” the House-passed bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app or see it banned in the U.S., but he stayed firmly noncommittal about bringing the legislation to the floor. The legislation passed the House with an overwhelming margin, 352-65, earlier Wednesday and seemed to have strong momentum heading over to the upper chamber. But Schumer made it clear he does not plan to rush it to the Senate floor, despite President Biden’s Friday statement saying he would sign a TikTok ban if it passes Congress....
  • Greene cites her Twitter ban in opposing TikTok bill

    03/13/2024 8:29:12 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/13/2024 | JULIA SHAPERO
    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) cited her previous ban on Twitter, the platform now known as X, in opposing legislation that could ban TikTok on Wednesday. “I rise today as the only member of Congress that has ever been banned by social media,” Greene said on the House floor, as the lower chamber prepared to vote on the bill. “Twitter banned me, banned my personal account on which I was campaigning for Congress, raising money and using my free speech to inform the voters in my district they can vote for me,” she continued. “This was not by a company...
  • House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Ban TikTok in U.S.

    03/13/2024 7:51:37 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 38 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/13/2024 | SEAN MORAN
    The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would ban TikTok if they do not sell the company from its Chinese parent company. The House voted 352-61-1 H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill featured 15 Republicans against the bill, 50 Democrats against it, showing that there is strong bipartisan interest in curbing TikTok’s apparent national security threat.
  • Nolte: RuPaul’s Anti-Censorship Bookstore Already Banning Books

    03/08/2024 1:35:50 PM PST · by lowbridge · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 8, 2024 | JOHN NOLTE
    Aging drag queen RuPaul gave the corporate media joy spasms after opening an “anti-censorship” bookstore in Florida. But… RuPaul’s bookstore is already banning books. “Drag superstar RuPaul co-founds new bookstore, sends Rainbow Book Bus to bring banned books to Florida,” cheered the far-left USA Today. “RuPaul Is Sending a Rainbow Bus to Give Away Books Targeted by Bans,” hailed the far-left New York Times. Two things… First, no books are banned. That’s a lie. Claiming Florida or any place is banning books is like saying movies are being banned because porn isn’t allowed in schools. -snip Second, the fascist RuPaul...
  • Huntington Beach voters pass ban on Pride, other flags

    03/07/2024 7:49:38 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 18 replies
    KTLA ^ | Mar 7, 2024 | Tony Kurzweil
    Voters in Huntington Beach approved a measure this week that limits what flags can fly on city property. Measure B passed with more than 58% of the vote following Tuesday’s polling, according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters election results. Part of the measure states that only the United States flag, the State of California flag, the County of Orange flag, the City of Huntington Beach flag, the POW-MIA flag, the six Armed Forces flags and the Olympic flag during the Summer Olympic Games be displayed on City property.
  • Cast Of 'The View' Unanimously Overturns SCOTUS Decision

    03/05/2024 8:21:59 AM PST · by servo1969 · 9 replies
    BabylonBee.com ^ | 3-4-2024 | Bee Staff
    U.S. — In a landmark decision, the entire cast of The View has voted to overturn the Supreme Court's overturning of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove Trump from the ballot. "These Supreme Court justices are schmucks!" exclaimed beloved TV personality and law expert Joy Behar after receiving word of the ruling. "Everyone knows the Constitution, or the Declaration of Freedom — or whatever that piece of paper is called — clearly states that Trump should never be on the ballot. Because he's clearly a fascist. Duh! Everyone knows that!" Sources say that hosts Behar, along with entertainer Whoopi...
  • Democrats Eye New Way to Get Trump Off Ballot After Supreme Court Loss: Rep. Jamie Raskin plans to revive legislation barring Trump from office via 14th amendment

    03/04/2024 9:48:06 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 100 replies
    Newsweek via MSN ^ | 03/04/2024 | Jon Jackson
    Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, on Monday said he's working with colleagues on legislation that could bar someone who committed insurrection from holding office. Raskin made the announcement after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that former President Donald Trump should appear on the primary ballot in states that have challenged his presidential candidacy. "I'm working with a number of my colleagues—including [Democratic Representatives] Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell—to revive legislation...to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th amendment," Raskin said during an appearance...
  • Newsom: GOP Wants National Abortion Ban, It’s a ‘War on Women’

    02/25/2024 8:36:22 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 84 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/25/2024 | Pam Key
    Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that the Republican Party wanted a national abortion ban as part of their “war on women.” Newsom said, “They are not only restricting the rights of self-determination to bear a child for a young woman, and they’re determining their fate as it relates their future in life by saying they can’t even travel and they are modeled after a version that passed in Idaho is now being proposed in Tennessee and Oklahoma and Mississippi. The AG himself of Alabama wants to criminalize travel not just for children but for...
  • NYC may ban detergent pods, some laundry sheets in latest ‘green’ crackdown — with fines up to $1,200 for selling them

    02/12/2024 11:11:39 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02/12/2024 | Craig McCarthy
    New York City could soon ban detergent pods across the five boroughs in the latest “green” push from lawmakers. The “Pods are Plastic Bill,” introduced by City Councilman James Gennaro last week, would make it illegal to sell any pods and laundry sheets if they’re made with polyvinyl alcohol. Fines for selling the pods would start at $400, double for a second violation and top off at $1,200 for flouting the rules more than twice, if the bill becomes law. The bill would also require education and outreach to businesses on the ban for the first year. The law wouldn’t...
  • UPDATE: We Now Know Which Book the Biden Admin Tried to Get Amazon to Ban

    02/06/2024 4:57:21 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 45 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 02/06/2024 | Matt Margolis
    Update: The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil has identified the book the Biden administration wanted to ban as "Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective Is Lying," by Dr. Vernon Coleman. The book's description, which is currently available on Amazon, reads: "The facts about vaccination - so that you can make up your own mind. Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc FRSA has been researching and writing about vaccines for 50 years. He has lectured doctors and nurses on the subject. He used to debate vaccination on TV and radio but won every public debate and these days vaccine...
  • Blue state’s bag ban meant to protect environment backfires at staggering rate: study

    01/24/2024 6:48:33 AM PST · by lowbridge · 44 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 24, 2024 | Emma Colton
    Plastic consumption in New Jersey spiked by nearly three times following the state’s implementation of a strict ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, a study found. "Following New Jersey’s ban of single-use bags, the shift from plastic film to alternative bags resulted in a nearly 3x increase in plastic consumption for bags," Freedonia Custom Research (FCR), a business research division for MarketResearch.com, reported in a study published this month. New Jersey implemented a ban on single-use plastic bags in 2022, the strictest ban on bags in the nation at the time, billing it as an effort to cut back on...
  • State Senate committee approves ban on ranked-choice voting [Georgia]

    01/24/2024 11:18:56 AM PST · by CFW · 16 replies
    Capitol Beat ^ | 1/24/24 | Dave Williams
    ATLANTA – A Georgia Senate committee has approved legislation that would ban ranked-choice voting in Georgia. A well-funded campaign is afoot across the nation to allow ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference, Senate Majority Whip Randy Robertson, R-Cataula, told members of the Senate Ethics Committee late Tuesday. Ranked-choice voting is allowed statewide only in Maine and Alaska, while Georgia permits it only for members of the military and other Georgians living overseas. But cities including San Francisco and New York City have been using ranked-choice voting, Robertson said. In New York, it took 15 days to...
  • Germany: Over a Million Leftists Protest Amid Push to Ban Surging Populist AfD Party

    01/22/2024 8:39:37 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/22/2024 | KURT ZINDULKA
    More than a million leftist activists took to the streets of Germany in protest over the weekend amid growing calls to ban the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as it surges in the polls. In a welcome distraction for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government — which has become deeply unpopular over economic stagnation, mass migration and most recently a farmer uprising against its globalist agenda — the legacy media, political elites and activist networks have rallied around a common target, the AfD. According to organisers, over 1.4 million people took to the streets in protest against the populist Alternative...
  • Pennsylvania House Democrats Advance ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban, Other Gun Controls

    01/17/2024 5:55:29 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/17/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    Pennsylvania House Democrats advanced an “assault weapons” ban and a ban on the purchase, possession, and sale of non-serialized gun parts on Wednesday. The Democrats also advanced legislation to “prohibit accelerated trigger activators, which increase the rate of gunfire,” and a bill to “subject 3D-printed firearms to the same regulations as standard firearms,” the Associated Press reported.
  • Virginia Dems’ Wish List: ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban, Gun Locks, Expanded Gun-Free Zones for Concealed Carry

    01/16/2024 6:29:50 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/16/2024
    Virginia Democrats are expected to push numerous gun controls this legislative session, including an “assault weapons” ban, expanded gun-free zones for concealed carry, and gun lock requirements. WTKR noted the Democrats will push for an “assault weapons” ban and for a requirement that a locking device be provided with every gun sold. Democrats are also expected to pass legislation “[creating] liability for the owner of a gun if a minor uses it in a crime.”
  • Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban

    01/15/2024 10:26:27 AM PST · by packagingguy · 138 replies
    ABC Health via MSN ^ | January 15,2024 | Alison Branley
    Researchers are calling for new wood heaters to be banned from urban areas and existing ones to be phased out after their study showed wood heaters could be killing up to 63 people a year in the ACT alone. The study published on Monday in the Medical Journal of Australia found there were a similar number of deaths attributed to domestic wood heaters in the ACT each year as they estimated died prematurely in the territory due to the extreme smoke from the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires... "Some very big recent studies from the United States found higher rates of...
  • New Hampshire House passes ban on gender-affirming surgery for minors

    01/04/2024 1:43:00 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/04/2024 | BROOKE MIGDON
    The Republican-controlled New Hampshire state House voted Thursday to approve a bill barring physicians from performing gender-affirming genital surgeries on transgender minors, sending the controversial measure to the Senate, where it is also expected to pass. House Bill 619 had initially sought to ban all gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers and hormones, for transgender minors but was later amended to prohibit only genital surgeries, which are already exceedingly rare for minors.
  • Appeals court delivers fatal blow to California city pushing natural gas ban

    01/02/2024 10:28:15 PM PST · by KingofZion · 20 replies
    msn.com ^ | January 2, 2024 | Thomas Catenacci
    A federal appeals court rejected a petition Tuesday to rehear a case related to a natural gas ban proposed by the City of Berkeley, California, which the panel ruled was illegal last year. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately denied Berkeley's petition for rehearing en banc — a motion that received support from the Biden administration, Democratic-led states and environmentalists — after it failed to receive majority support from the court's non-recused active judges. Berkeley filed the motion last year after the court in April that a Berkeley law banning natural gas pipes in new construction...
  • Wood burning temporarily banned in these Southern California counties

    12/28/2023 12:46:10 PM PST · by Libloather · 22 replies
    KTLA ^ | 12/27/23 | Iman Palm
    The South Coast Air Quality Management District has extended its residential No-Burn alert, the agency announced Wednesday. The alert is now set to expire on Dec. 28 at 11:59 p.m. **SNIP** The alert also prohibits using manufactured fire logs, such as those made from wax or paper, from burning on No-Burn days. The notice doesn’t apply to communities above 3,000 feet in elevation, the Coachella Valley, High Desert, homes that rely on wood as the main source of heat, or low-income households without natural gas services. “Smoke from wood burning can cause health problems. Particles in wood smoke — also...