Gateway Pundit

Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced on Wednesday that he has launched an investigation into five Big Tech companies.

The investigation targets Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter and will look to see if these companies “have potentially harmed Indiana consumers through business practices that are abusive, deceptive and/or unfair.”

The answer is of course they have. But what remedies can a single state apply that would make a difference to their behavior? Financial penalties are essentially meaningless.

Conservative Treehouse

New York is reportedly going to spend $2.1 Billion on a fund to give illegal aliens COVID relief payments up to $15,600 per person. Beyond all the initial reactions to illegal aliens gaining seven times as much covid relief as citizen taxpayers, or even getting them at all, one little aspect remains undiscussed.

The only reason New York can afford to do this is because they received a massive amount of bailout support from within the Pelosi-Biden blue state relief effort.

In essence, U.S. taxpayers are subsiding New York’s ability to pay illegal aliens $15,000 each. Let that sink in…

They are also offering paid leave to federal workers who want to "volunteer" to help illegals.

Meaning In History

I got a range of responses regarding the Michael Yeadon interview that I republished yesterday. Overall it was well received, but there were some commenters who reflected the response that Yeadon himself describes having received--people who say, I can't believe my rulers would lie to me. That, despite the fact that throughout history our rulers--including rulers of the American people--have repeatedly lied to us about fundamentally important matters.

Right up front I'll state the conclusion to this post: Yes, reverse transcription (RT) looks to be one among several factors that should give everyone pause to question the current rush to vax the whole world.

I'm not interested in being a guinea pig for a new vaccination technique against a relatively harmless (at my age and health) disease. Not even if millions of people are doing it and governments are insisting on it. Especially if governments are insisting on it.

Gateway Pundit

Last week we reported that Georgia’s creepy Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had petitioned the court to request that the state of Georgia not have to provide paper ballots in an audit requested and awarded by the court. Yesterday, creative destruction media, listed seven instances in Raffensperger’s letter that are just plain false

What is Raffensperger trying so hard to hide?

Gateway Pundit

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer was on “The Professor’s Record” with professor David K. Clements from New Mexico State University. During his interview, Pulitzer said he was recently offered $10 million to walk away from his efforts to scan the ballots and determine the number of valid votes in the 2020 election in various states.

The claim is right at the beginning of the interview as a teaser. At least the first 20 minutes of the interview is basically Pulitzer bragging about his history. If you're just looking for election information, I don't know how much more is in there. (The election topic comes up about 35-40 minutes into the video).

For me, I'd love to know who made that offer, and who was behind the person making the offer.

Gateway Pundit

The FBI is again requesting delays in their lawfully required efforts to produce all documents in the Seth Rich case. This has gone on for years with no penalty to the FBI or DOJ. They get to it when they can.

Today the legal team, including Ty Clevenger, received a document from the FBI and DOJ where they again make excuses and request additional time to produce documents it has related to Seth Rich. They now are saying they have at least 1,563 pages of potentially responsive information that they need more time to get through:

I'm assuming this information and delay request is related to the recent claim from the same attorney that Durham may need to delete some information he has concerning Seth Rich. Is the FBI delaying in the hopes that Durham will delete it?

Gateway Pundit

A Boston hospital is set to offer preferential care to patients based on race. The proposed “pilot initiative” uses a “reparations framework” that focuses on “Black and Latinx patients and community members” and prioritizes their care.

The authors of the program insist that the Boston initiative be a “replicable pilot program” to be launched in hospitals across the country.

Disgusting.

Gateway Pundit

The La Soufrière volcano erupted Friday morning on the island of St. Vincent in the eastern Caribbean, prompting evacuations–but only for those who can prove they have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 China virus, CBS News and other outlets reported.

This is a level of evil that even I did not expect.

Gateway Pundit

A voting machine audit is coming! On April 8th, the New Hampshire Senate passed a bill to mandate an audit of the Windham, New Hampshire election results. All that remains for the audit to take place is a signature from the Governor. At a press conference, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) says he will sign the bill.

They've had a long time to hide the evidence by now, but it's possible there is still something to be found.

Legal Insurrection

Biden Appoints Court-Packing Commission – Puts Conservative Supreme Court Justices In His Sights

Chuck Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, and other Democrats have been threatening the high court for years, this Commission is laying the foundation.

Not even FDR could manage that, but Biden is hoping that the threat will result in favorable rulings. And that could work.

Even just the attempt should clue Americans into exactly how tyrannical Biden is preparing to get.

Summit

According to a report in the London Telegraph, anyone wishing to drink in a pub garden in Britain from Monday (only the outside areas will open) will be forced to hand over their phone to venue staff who must check the individual is registered on the government’s tracking app.

Venues will face fines of £1000 if they are found to be admitting people who have not registered on the NHS Test and Trace app with all their personal details and then scanned a QR code on entry to the outdoor portion of the venue.

"Forced to hand over their (unlocked, obviously) phone to staff". That's a hard no from anyone with any sense of privacy. And it's a slippery slope to requiring the same to police.

Gateway Pundit

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signed a constitutional carry bill, also known as the permitless carry bill, into law on Thursday.

The law goes into effect on July 1.

“I signed constitutional carry today because it shouldn’t be hard for law-abiding Tennesseans to exercise their #2A rights. Thank you members of the General Assembly and NRA for helping get this done,” Governor Lee said.

What's taking Texas so long?

Just The News

An attempt by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to block physical inspection of ballots cast in Fulton County, Ga. in the November presidential election is part of an election fraud "coverup," voting integrity activist Garland Favorito charged Tuesday in an interview with Just the News.

Certainly Raffensperger's consistent opposition to audits raises the prospect of a coverup.

Conservative Treehouse

(1) The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of “ghost guns.”
(2) The Justice Department, within 60 days, will issue a proposed rule to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act.
(3) The Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model “red flag” legislation for states.
(4) The Administration is investing in evidence-based community violence interventions. Community violence interventions are proven strategies for reducing gun violence in urban communities through tools other than incarceration.
(5) The Justice Department will issue an annual report on firearms trafficking.
(6) The President will nominate David Chipman to serve as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

David Chipman was involved in Waco and Ruby Ridge, which should be disqualifying in and of itself. He also served as a lobbyist for gun control firms after leaving government, which should also be disqualifying for different reasons. Together, they send a rather threatening message.

Gateway Pundit

The corruption from the Obama years is not over. It’s just beginning. The so-called “Non-For-Profit” group, the Protect Democracy Project, is now involving itself in the Arizona Senate’s audit of Maricopa County. They are connected to Obama, Soros, China, and Biden’s DOJ, and are fighting to prevent an accurate count of the valid votes in the county.

Yesterday we reported that some legal firms joined the Not-For-Profit Protect Democracy Project in threatening the auditors selected in Arizona by the Senate to audit the 2020 Election results of Maricopa County.

Why are they so afraid of an accurate count?

PJMedia

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has claimed that the sexual misconduct allegations made against him were part of an extortion scheme, and Bob Kent, one of the men allegedly involved in the scheme, all but confirmed in an interview on “The Michael Smerconish Program” on SiriusXM radio on Monday that he had asked Gaetz’s father for $25 million—but insists it was not extortion.

Kent says he needed the money to help find FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in March 2007 and is presumed to be dead by his family, but Kent claims he’s seen video evidence that Levinson is alive in Iran.

This appears to confirm Gaetz's story. And really... that's a pathetic and transparent excuse. It shouldn't fool anyone.

Gateway Pundit

Michigan’s Secretary of State is refusing to attend and testify in front of a Michigan Senate hearing regarding the state’s election audit process.

What is she afraid of, exactly? What questions doesn't she want to answer?

Well, to start with, she ordered election clerks to ignore signature matching laws, and then ordered clerks to delete election data. But answering questions about that would be awkward, and expose the election fraud.

Gateway Pundit

EXCLUSIVE: Durham Is Planning on Destroying All Russia Collusion Material on April 28 – Attorney Ty Clevenger Involved in Seth Rich Case Sends Letter Requesting All Evidence Be Preserved

What kind of protective order would force Durham to destroy evidence of a coverup?

Gateway Pundit

The circus never ends in Arizona as now law firms are threatening suits against the auditors selected by the Arizona Senate to audit the questionable results in Maricopa County from the 2020 Election.

There really must be some bad stuff lingering in the results of the 2020 Election in Maricopa County because the Democrats and the county’s Board of Supervisors are doing everything they can to prevent an adequate audit of the results in the county.

And it looks like the law firm handling the case is Perkins Coie, the same one that was involved in SpyGate and many other Democratic dirty tricks and cover ups.

If Perkins Coie is involved in trying to block this audit, that's practically an admission that foul play was involved with links back to high powered Democrats. Given that the county and state are predominantly Republican, there is likely bipartisan corruption too.

When you're taking fire, it means you're over the target.

Daily Wire

CBS’s “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an exchange that reporter Sharyn Alfonsi had with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) two weeks ago about the way the Sunshine State has rolled out its vaccination program.CBS edited the interaction between DeSantis and Alfonsi when she showed up to a press conference a few weeks ago and repeatedly confronted the governor. The network cut out a lengthy portion of DeSantis’ response in which he explains what happened and how decisions were made.

They've been pulling this crap all along. They just can't process that they don't have the power to prevent the truth getting out anymore.

Gateway Pundit

“Today’s digital platforms provide avenues for historically unprecedented amounts of speech, including speech by government actors. Also unprecedented, however, is control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties,” Thomas wrote. “We will soon have no choice but to address how our legal doctrines apply to highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructure such as digital platforms.”

Justice Thomas noted that Trump had 89 million followers when he was banned in January, and said that the owners of the platforms have too much power.

“Although both companies are public, one person controls Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), and just two control Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin),” Thomas wrote.

Politico reports that “Thomas’ opinion amounts to an invitation to Congress to declare Twitter, Facebook and similar companies ‘common carriers,’ essentially requiring them to host all customers regardless of their views. At the moment, the companies have sweeping authority to take down any post and to suspend or terminate any account.”

Justice Thomas sees clearly.

How many other justices share that vision?

Gateway Pundit

Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent a request to the courts yesterday requesting that ballot images taken from the voting machines in Georgia be the only source of evidence to be used in an upcoming audit in Fulton County Georgia. Raffensperger doesn’t want the paper ballots reviewed.

The motion cited claims that Georgia law doesn't allow for public release of actual paper ballots, only ballot images. He may be right on that point, if you consider an audit to be a public release. But auditing only images makes it difficult to note actual problems with actual physical ballots that may not show up on scanned images -- like a lack of fold marks.

This is one of those things that could be completely above board, but Raffensperger has already violated whatever trust he was due via his earlier efforts at obstruction.

I'm betting if we get to look at the paper ballots, we find something interesting. Remember, we already have several sworn affidavits indicating at least some batches of those ballots appeared suspicious.

Gateway Pundit

Cornell University is now mandating Covid-19 vaccines for staff and students returning to Ithaca, Geneva and Tech campuses for the Fall semester.

This is a dangerous trend and more universities will follow suit.

Last week Rutgers University in New Jersey mandated Covid-19 vaccines for students and staffers and other colleges are expected to jump on the train.

Universities and similar institutions providing close-quarters living space do have an interest in ensuring the health of their student bodies through vaccinations, which they can make mandatory for attendance or employment should they so choose. However, the COVID vaccines are substantially different than the much safer vaccines against the many more dangerous diseases we suffered from in the past. Further, the intent by those in power is clearly to make use of the COVID vaccination as a tool of social control rather than as an individual choice. The danger is that a wide array of nominally private social institutions will take up the call to require COVID vaccinations for everything. And that slides rapidly into totalitarianism. Indeed, if you judge by the masking campaigns and lockdowns, we are already there.

We should reject demands for vaccination against a relatively low-risk disease because liberty must not become conditional on vaccination status.

Epoch Times

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law on Friday lifting some restrictions to buy or carry a handgun in the state for law-abiding citizens.

The NRA-backed legislation named “House File 756” will take effect on July 1 and eliminates the requirement for law-abiding Iowans to obtain a permit to purchase a handgun from private non-licensed sources. Additionally, to carry a weapon, people will no longer need to have a permit as well.

Congratulations.

What's taking Texas so long to get on this bandwagon?