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• Trump distances himself from the best thing he did: Operation Warp Speed, which cut through bureaucratic red tape.
• Nikki Haley is about to announce her presidential run.
• Covid emergency era ends in May.
• House GOP to investigate Biden and his family, gain-of-function research, and various China-related issues.
• Chinese spy balloon seen over Billings, Montana.
• Paul Pelosi attacked at home by a lunatic.
• Gawker shuts down for the second time.
• Massachusetts offering prisoners reduced sentences for donating organs.
• Hispanic Democrats want to ban Latinx from state documents.
• AP test in African American History has been the center of the latest education skirmish.
• President of Heritage calling to cut military spending.
• French had a funny response to being told their name is racist.
• Hamilton 68 dashboard for tracking “Russian disinformation” turns out to be a total fraud.
• George Santos (Brazilian drag queen and serial fabulist Kitara Ravanche) resigns from House committees.
• Washington Post publishes an essay about how objectivity in newsgathering is bad.
• Newsroom leaders across the country agree that objectivity has to go.
• The Free Press is offering a sweepstakes prize of a one-on-one Zoom with the editor-in-chief.
• The Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, where the baker refused to make a same-sex wedding cake, was recently revisited.
• The baker lost the case again, and the article suggests that other bakers should be sought out instead.

Published February 3, 2023
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• Kevin McCarthy is struggling to get enough votes to become the next House Speaker, as the right flank of the party is resistant to him.
• Amazon is laying off 18,000 employees due to the current economic stagflation.
• Cardi B is calling out the high prices of groceries due to the Biden administration’s Covid stimulus.
• The Twitter Files continue to show how the U.S. government sought to silence its critics.
• Colorado is busing migrants to New York City, and New Jersey is requiring K-12 students to undergo “media literacy” training.
• Kay LeClaire, a major leader in the Indigenous movement, is a white girl with a spray tan pretending to be Native American.
• The College of Psychologists of Ontario is trying to take Jordan Peterson’s psychology license.
• California is passing a law that could lead to doctors losing their license for “dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.”
• Vaccine skeptics are speculating that Damar Hamlin’s injury was caused by the vaccine, despite no evidence.
• Damar Hamlin is stable and making a recovery.
• Thousands of people have filed sexual abuse suits in California before the statute of limitations window closed.
• Louisiana has passed a law requiring proof of age to watch porn online.
• Fashion choices of the 118th Congress were discussed.
• ADHD prescriptions are out of control and screens are the disease.
• The Food Compass rating system is flawed and suggests unhealthy foods are healthier than healthy ones.
• A young Jihadi from Maine attacked three police officers in New York City.
• Zadie Smith’s essay discussed the differences between Gen X and Millennial sensibilities.

Published January 6, 2023. Visit The Free Press to read Nellie Bowles’s original post.

• The Biden administration ended the year flush, signing a $1.7 trillion spending bill, including $50 billion in aid to Ukraine and half a million in funding toward artificial intelligence that will detect microaggressions online.
• The border crisis continues to escalate, with November seeing the highest number of border crossings yet.
• Stacey Abrams raised $100 million through her PAC this most recent time, yet she owes vendors at least $1 million.
• George Santos, a New York Republican congressman-elect, admitted to “embellishing” almost all of his compelling story.
• America’s graduate schools are hellbent on making thousands of unemployed people fated to wander the country reminding us that they have PhDs.
• The faculty of MIT have signed a pledge asserting that they value free expression and debate.
• Stanford University has released a list of verboten words so crazed, so long, so thorough, that it would truly take a four-year $250,000 degree to learn it.
• Stanford president is under investigation for faking his past research and one of his professors has had to pay more than $29 million for
• Our latest Twitter Files: Internal documents at Twitter showed the company rigged the public debate about Covid.
• Meanwhile at our friend TikTok: Nice, quirky TikTok, which would never do anything bad, has been tracking Forbes reporters.
• The fall of Roe has created nightmare scenarios.
• McConnell negs Trump: In another sign that Republicans are really ready to ditch Trump, Mitch McConnell was brutal on the former president in a recent interview with NBC News.
• A Roomba’s-eye-view on the toilet: New smart Roombas, exploring your house and documenting its various nooks and crannies as it cleans, can share those images back to Roomba headquarters.
• The New York Times declares Louisa May Alcott a man.
• Remember Wi Spa? End of the year, end of a mystery.
• Life expectancy in the U.S. keeps falling.
• Fun startup going rogue to blot out the sun.
• The end of 2022 we deserve: Because we live in a Clown World, it is only right that the end of this year saw a showdown between Andrew Tate.

Published December 30, 2022.

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