Recently, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) faced a bank run and collapsed, leading to the discovery that the bank donated $100,000 to a nonprofit founded by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, according to auditors at Open the Books, a nonprofit dedicated to transparency in government spending. SVB contributed the money in 2021 in the form of a “behested” corporate gift to California Partners Project (CPP), indicating that the donation was given “at the request, suggestion, or solicitation of, or made in cooperation, consultation, coordination or concert with the public official” – in this case, Newsom himself.…
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Rep. Mike Turner, a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” that after the “Twitter Files” released by CEO Elon Musk made clear that the bureau was coordinating with the social media company, the FBI is facing subpoenas. This is what the Ohio Republican said during the show: “We are definitely pursuing the Department of Justice and also the FBI.” “Luckily, the January 6 committee has established some great legal precedent that shows the Congress has full access,” added Turner. In the recently released “Twitter Files,” a part of the revelations show that members…
Bill Gates said that Elon Musk has adopted a “seat-of-the-pants” style of decision-making at Twitter. During a recent interview with the Financial Times, Gates said that Twitter was making digital polarization worse. The co-founder of Microsoft said that it was unclear whether the challenge of tackling digital polarization was down to human judgment or engineering. No matter what Bill Gates says of Elon Musk, Elon already roasted the geek last year and it was too easy for him to do. WATCH ELON DESTROY BILL GATES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SabMHPiMP4 This is what Gates told the Financial Times: “I think, certainly, the Twitter situation…
Former President Donald Trump has finally broken his silence after the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee announced this week that it would send three criminal referrals to the Justice Department following hearings and an alleged investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. Reminder: Trump called for a smooth transition of power in this video… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlL-Uru-cM Trump said that the move makes him “stronger,” after the Jan. 6 committee made a decision to urge the Justice Department to prosecute him and some of his associates over their involvement in the Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according…
The bounds of her free speech rights are being tested by a so-called literacy coach near Chicago, as she creates several videos in which she rails against concerned parents and other “right-wing conspiracy theorist nut jobs” and then posts the condescending videos to TikTok. UPDATE 12/21: The teacher deleted the video at question and later posted this one: “Achievement unlocked: I’ve been targeted by the network that shall not be named.” WATCH the ‘liberal teacher’ on video: Under the handle @thatliberaleducator (now appears to use the handle @teach4tomorrow/), Heather Marie Godbout has posted a series of education-related videos on TikTok,…
Touting new funding for Democratic priorities and citing an urgency to get the package to President Biden’s desk before a potential shutdown, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is urging her troops to get behind a massive bill to fund the government through most of next year. The outgoing Speaker sent a letter to her fellow Democrats, where she cited a number of Democratic victories in the package, including provisions to hike nutrition funding for low-income children, provide a huge increase in money for veteran health care, and lend assistance to the victims of natural disasters around the country. This is…
According to internal emails, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Secret Service coordinated with the FBI secretly in order to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, use, or even buy firearms. The firearms rights group Gun Owners of America were the first to obtain the email, amid its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI. A more widespread effort than was previously known by the federal government to use the forms is being demonstrated by them, which the Daily Caller revealed in September had been presented between 2016 and 2019 by FBI agents to people at…
Newly independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema may have found a trendy new way to raise campaign cash. And if you are looking for secondhand high-heels or maybe a used bike frame, Sinema might be able to give you a deal. The senator is not-so-secretly hawking several items on Facebook Marketplace, ranging from a $25 trucker hat to a $500 bicycle travel case, as per a reporter who confirmed a recent story first reported in Slate. A Facebook account purported to be that of the senator’s has offloaded a treadmill for $600 and a road-bike frame for $3,500, among other items, Slate…
The finale of the Disney+ series ‘The Santa Clauses’ was released recently, and Tim Allen said that he is pleased with the way it turned out, specifically noting the way Christmas was honored, despite saying that the format of a streaming series took some time to get used to. WATCH the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex09pE_fUf4 “We honor the Christian tradition without heralding it. It’s not — it is what it is. It’s a Christian holiday. So, we don’t belabor it, but we don’t ignore it,” said Allen. “I love the way we deal with it,” added the actor, according to the Washington…
A ‘woke’ liberal arts college in Ohio is in a lot of financial hot water. After Oberlin College falsely accused a family-run Ohio bakery of racism, the shop was awarded $36 million in damages, and the owner called the payout “bittersweet.” After the liberal arts school finally forked over the settlement this month for the November 2016 incident, Lorna Gibson, of Gibson’s Bakery, appeared on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “It is definitely bittersweet,” said Gibson on the Fox News show. “It took a tremendous toll. A lot of stress, a lot of financial toll. It definitely hit us hard,” said…
Two-time failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ campaign owes a lot of money, according to the ranking official who ran it. Lauren Groh-Wargo, who served as Abrams’ campaign manager, says that Abrams’ campaign owes more than $1 million to vendors. Abrams also ran out of money during her 2018 campaign, so this issue has obviously become a pattern for Abrams. Now, the Abrams campaign is facing large debts and had to suddenly cut off employee pay towards the end of the election, despite raising more than $100 million. Chris Huttman, who is a Georgia Democratic operative, told the outlet…
CNN has dropped a show, reportedly an inside favorite, after just two seasons amid their restructuring, purge, and whatever you want to call it. The victim here is Stanley Tucci who has confirmed that his hit food and travel show, ‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,’ has been canceled. In his recent appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ the 62-year-old actor said that “unfortunately, CNN has canceled all of their original programming.” “So hopefully we’ll end up on another streamer, network – we don’t know,” said Tucci. “But yes, I have plans to do season 3 and more,” he…
In a recent interview, Chelsea Handler said that she misses hosting late-night shows, and that she is ready to return, but that it has to be joyful, as everything is “white and old and boring.” As Handler is not interested in a traditional format for her show, she said that she is eying the Bill Maher model as a possibility. “It doesn’t have to be five nights a week. Ideally, it would be once a week. But it depends. Nobody gives a shit about watching celebrities be interviewed over and over again every night. They care about the monologue,” said…
The New York premiere for the new season of Yellowstone went very well, except for the fact that Kevin Costner skipped the whole event, and not only that, but he is keeping everyone guessing about whether he’ll return to the show at all, which is causing chaos behind the scenes of the hit show. The 67-year-old Costner was the main reason Yellowstone has turned into a mega-hit, and Paramount+ execs are very aware of that, sources revealed. The show’s future could potentially be jeopardized if Costner is really leaving, and the execs are aware of that also. Indications are that…
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has completely disrupted the Democratic Party and delivered a jolt to Washington. She is leaving the Democrats in the dust and changing her party affiliation to independent. Sinema said in a 45-minute interview that she will not caucus with Republicans. The first-term senator also suggested that she intends to vote the same way she has for four years in the Senate, saying: “Nothing will change about my values or my behavior.” Though it will not precisely be the neat and tidy 51 seats Democrats assumed, they will still have a workable Senate majority in the next…
In order to rescind the Veterans Affairs’ (VA) new rule that permits the VA health care system to provide abortion services to its beneficiaries, Republican Texas Rep. Michael Cloud and Republican Illinois Rep. Michael Bost introduced a bicameral Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution. Bost is the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced the CRA in the Senate, which focuses on a rule the VA announced in early September, saying it will begin providing abortion counseling and, in some cases, abortions to Americans who qualify for VA services, reported Daily Caller. VA…
The 2022 general election was finally certified by the Colorado secretary of state. This is a part of a news release from the Secretary of State’s Office: “The certification was conducted after each county’s bipartisan canvass boards submitted their official abstract of votes to the Secretary of State’s Office, as well as the conclusion of a mandatory recount in the race for Colorado’s U.S. Congressional District 3 and permissive recount of the Colorado House District 43 race.” Because the race for U.S. Congressional District 3 was very close, it went to an automatic recount. The final results showed that Incumbent…
For the alleged incident that led to the arrest of the University of Texas Men’s Basketball Head Coach Chris Beard, new details have emerged recently. WATCH: https://youtu.be/DYkVt6IrOVI After the Austin Police Department reportedly responded to a “disturbance hot shot,” which the department says are incidents that “are in progress and are an immediate threat to life and/or public safety (i.e. shootings, stabbings, rapes, riots),” the 49-year-old Beard was arrested, the Daily Wire reported. Beard and his fiancée were having relationship issues, the arrest affidavit said, and according to Beard’s fiancée, he “snapped” during a heated conversation and “became super violent.”…
After the school board voted in favor of the removal last month, Dr. Ben Carson’s name will be scrubbed from a Detroit public high school. WSET noted that the move came after 1,500 people were surveyed, and 80% of them said they supported the change. Carson said that he is not surprised: “Cancel culture is alive and well. It’s infiltrating. Political correctness, wokeness, cancel culture, this is going to destroy us as a nation if we don’t get a grip on it.” Although Carson never considers himself a victim, he said that the cancel culture had targeted him already. Before…