RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday but made no mention of it in a Fox News appearance the next day businessinsider.com/republican-par…
Donald Trump will work from Walter Reed military hospital in the Washington, D.C. suburbs for the next few days after testing positive for the coronavirus “out of an abundance of caution” axios.com/trump-coronavi…
The Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble is suing Google over claims the tech giant is "unfairly rigging its search algorithm" to preference YouTube videos in its search results. businessinsider.com/rumble-sues-go…
“Rumble has become popular with conservatives in the past year or so, encouraged by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes and others. The company says it has more than 2 million creators using the site”
“But they could not find Mr. Schumer’s office. He said they asked a Capitol Police officer, who tried to direct them." nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/…
December 31st, 2020:
Capitol Police to enhance security at Jan. 6 session to certify election
Efforts come ahead of protests that could be violent rollcall.com/2020/12/31/cap…
Disgraced Republican lawmaker planted no-party candidate in key Senate race
Frank Artiles boasted that he planted a no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race. Artiles recruited Alexis (Alex) Rodriguez, a longtime acquaintance and Facebook friend. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
“The no-party candidate with the same surname as the incumbent Democrat had been a registered Republican until just before his qualifying papers were filed to make him a candidate for the Florida Senate. He received 6,382 votes in the election.”
“Artiles resigned from the Senate in disgrace in 2017” for “the hiring of a former Hooters “calendar girl” and a Playboy model with no political experience as “consultants” using funds from his political committee” & “called two Black lawmakers a racist slur in a Tallahassee bar”
US probing potential bribery, lobbying scheme for pardon
“Most of the information in the 18-page court order is redacted, including the identity of the people whom prosecutors are investigating and whom the proposed pardon might be intended for.” dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/file…
Covid-19 mink variants discovered in humans in seven countries
Denmark has already launched a nationwide cull of its farmed mink herd after concerns for vaccine efficacy theguardian.com/environment/20…
Dead minks infected with a mutated form of COVID-19 rise from graves after mass culling due to shallow mass graves usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen broke down on Thursday when visiting a mink farmer who lost his herd following the government's order this month to cull all 17 million mink in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus. de.reuters.com/article/us-hea…