“I’m not going to talk about alleged materials on the laptop. It’s not happening,” Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in response to a question about the voicemail. “I refer you to his son’s representative.”

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis

Made some changes that should make mobile use a lot faster and easier. I think I heard someone in the other room say it’s about time. – David

"A Redditor sounded the alarm: Through a process that we will be not discussing, but is relatively easy and not even slightly hidden to do, you can access the names, addresses, and DOB’s of all CCW holders in the state of CA. That includes judges, reserve officers, and random people like you and me. They also released information on FSC stats which has DOB and ID/DL numbers, and a file that includes DROS information, which has DOB, race, gender, and which dealer a given gun was purchased at since at least 2012. As you can see, this is devastating to the privacy of gun owners. It’s fairly trivial to begin cross referencing data between these three documents to determine who owns what guns with decent accuracy, especially if they have a CCW that already says where they live."

"Joe Biden called his son Hunter in late 2018 to discuss a New York Times article detailing the younger Biden’s dealings with a Chinese oil tycoon accused of economic crimes — telling him, 'I think you’re clear,' according to a report Monday."

"Finland remains the country with the highest levels of overall trust (69%), while news trust in the USA has fallen by a further three percentage points and remains the lowest (26%) in our survey."

"In the city that frequently preaches 'hate is not welcome here, Seattle Pride has once again banned LGBTQ police officers from attending the annual celebration in uniform, even though the department is among the most progressive in the nation."

"Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has been unanimously approved by the Twitter board, a regulatory filing Tuesday shows. Shareholders still must vote on the proposed $44 billion deal."

"When asked to comment by MintPress, former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley said that she was 'not surprised at all' to see FBI agents now working for the very tech companies the agency polices, stating that there now exists a 'revolving door' between the FBI and the areas they are trying to regulate."

"Now, following last week’s arrest of Democratic Party activists disguised as staffers for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for unauthorized incursions into Capitol buildings, one must assume prosecutors are hastily preparing similar indictments against Colbert’s team to reflect a fair handling of the two incidents. Colbert’s employees, after all, were caught not once but twice unlawfully entering areas of the Capitol complex—in Justice Department parlance related to January 6, that is known as a “restricted area”—on June 16."

"The January 6 plot thickens. Police records obtained by The Epoch Times called “First Amendment Demonstrations” proves there were undercover “members” from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Dept. (MPD) embedded among the January 6 protestors. Special plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Units (ESUs) joined the protestors and shot video surveillance footage."

"Brookings notes that it 'regularly returned state-backed content across news searches, with at least one Chinese state-backed news outlet appearing in the top 10 results in 88% of searches (106 out of 120 days searched). On YouTube, state media appeared among the top 10 results in searches for 'Xinjiang' in 98% of searches (118 out of 120 days searched).' "

“Clicking the ‘Schedule Online Now’ button for a doctor on the website of Froedtert Hospital, in Wisconsin, prompted the Meta Pixel to send Facebook the text of the button, the doctor’s name, and the condition we selected from a dropdown menu: ‘Alzheimer’s,’” The Markup reported.

"To what extent will various "smart" products, whether apps or cars or Alexas or various Internet-of-Things devices, be mandated to monitor and report potentially dangerous behavior by their users (or even by their ostensible "owners")?"

"MSN – a news website launched by vaccine enthusiast Bill Gates’s Microsoft in 1995 –  covered the study, titling its article “Severe COVID-19 ‘Rare’ In Unvaccinated People,” but appears to have taken down the story since its publication. Archived versions of the article are still available, however.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells people infected with monkeypox not to have sex with others... But in cases where the urge arises it has issued a bizarre list of the dos and donts"

"SHANGHAI, June 16 (Reuters) - A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters."

"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time."

"Remember when the left and the media went off on Tulsi Gabbard because of concerns over the U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine? RUSSIAN ASSET. CHINESE SPY. DISINFORMATION. Oh, wait…"

"The request sought information on the two sitting US Senators who met with Jeffrey Epstein at a Wexner-owned residence in the UK, a meeting where Met Police officers had provided security."