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”
Rumble has also provided sanctuary for Alex Jones and Infowars
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“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…
Donald Trump’s 2016 Georgia Campaign finance chair, Parker “Pete” Petit, was convicted of securities fraud by a jury in a federal court in New York on Thursday. ajc.com/ajcjobs/parker…
Petit also was a powerful top contributor to Health and Human Services secretary, and former Representative, Tom Price khn.org/news/the-trump…
In 2017, Petit tried to sue short sellers of his company’s stock to discover the authors of an anonymous blog that accused his company of "channel stuffing" — in this case, the practice of using distributors to artificially inflate sales businessinsider.com/mimedx-ceo-pet…