Verification of a union vote by employees of Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea in Ann Arbor is being held up after some ballots were challenged.
"...It was organized by a group called Sweetwaters Baristas United (SBU), which seeks representation through Teamsters Local 243, the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Of the 84 eligible voters, only 44 cast ballots, with employees voting 25 to 19 for union representation, according to records with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). However, there were 11 challenged ballots...
When Joe Biden took the podium in Nevada over the weekend, he was supposed to be giving voters a reason to believe he deserved another term.
Instead, the first octogenarian president gave yet another reason he has no business being in the White House, garbling out a story about meeting with foreign leaders soon after taking office that included one who’s been dead for nearly three decades.
"...Under Track F, the federal government is funneling tens of millions of dollars to elite universities for the study of AI-related misinformation and the development of potential solutions.
The NSF provided $38 million in misinformation-related funding from the start of Joe Biden’s presidency through to the end of 2022...
However, the details of the program should ring alarm bells.
For example, according to the House Judiciary report, those with “vulnerabilities to disinformation methods” just happen to consist of core parts of the voting base of Biden’s political adversaries, including conservatives and veterans...
A grand jury in Florida that reviewed the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which killed millions around the globe after it emerged from a Chinese lab experimenting on bat viruses, found it was all about "control."
"This first report from the grand jury only confirms what we knew from the beginning of the COVID crisis," explained Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver, whose organization has battled the unconstitutional actions taken by the government against private and religious individuals and organizations because of COVID.
"...This is very foolish, because the Russians are very serious about fighting a nuclear war if they are pushed too far.
This week, Newsweek is reporting that high school students in Russia will be trained what to do if a nuclear war breaks out “as part of the national curriculum”…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in September 2022 that Moscow was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend its “territorial integrity” and the topic is regularly discussed on Russian state TV.
In September, all 15 players on the Dartmouth men's basketball team signed a petition seeking to join Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union
A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled that Dartmouth College basketball players are considered employees, which cleared the path for a vote to establish a union...
President Joe Biden says a bill from Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is merely a precursor to ramming amnesty for millions of illegal aliens through Congress.
"A Democrat operative and former Atlantic City council president was arrested last Thursday, February 1st, after being the alleged mastermind of a mail-in ballot fraud operation in the New Jersey city...
The former Democrat-turned-Republican in 2020 denied any knowledge of the operation. From the New Jersey Monitor:
U.S. Attorneys accused Callaway and other unnamed subordinates of paying Atlantic City residents between $30 and $50 to act as authorized messengers and request mail-in ballots for voters whom they had never met. Prosecutors allege that those ballots were later cast without the actual voters’ knowledge...
Rep. Van Drew reportedly paid Callaway’s consulting firm $65,500 for “strategic consulting”...Drew had previously paid Callaway’s firm $110,000 in his 2020 re-election campaign as well...
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, the number of southwest land border encounters has increased significantly since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. The figure, which spiked to 101,099 during Biden's first full month in office in February 2021, came in at a staggering 302,034 in December 2023. "In December 2023, the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 249,785 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border," according to CBP. "CBP's total encounters along the southwest border in December were 302,034."
Mayorkas was sworn in as DHS secretary on February 2, 2021.
"Electric bikes, seen as a solution for tackling climate change, have caused a record number of fires in New York City.
According to figures released by the New York Fire Department to Fox News, e-bikes – powered by lithium-ion batteries – were responsible for 267 fires in the city.
They claimed 18 lives and caused 150 injuries, with fatalities increasing 200 per cent in 2023...
Treasury Department allegedly flagged terms such as 'MAGA' and 'Trump,' as well as religious texts such as the Bible
"...Yellen was asked Tuesday during a hearing whether the Treasury Department instructed financial institutions to monitor legal purchases for signs of "extremism," as claimed in a House Judiciary Committee letter last month.
"Has Treasury — including FinCEN or federal banking agencies like the Fed, FDIC, OCC — instructed financial institutions to search Americans' legal transactions in attempts to surveil their purchases?" Republican Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner asked Yellen.
"Well, we received the letter from you, I believe, on this topic, and we intend to investigate and to respond," Yellen responded...
Canadian government used disinformation to invoke the “Emergencies Act” in 2022, and then shared it with other “Five Eyes” nations
"...These abuses of power have included censorship efforts by the US Department of Homeland Security and British military; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) entrapment schemes; and FBI and Secret Service involvement in January 6, 2021 pipe bomb disinformation.
Now, a months-long Public investigation reveals that the Canadian government used disinformation to crack down on the “Freedom Convoy” protest, led by truckers demanding an end to Covid-19 vaccine mandates, in February 2022.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada’s national police force, then promoted this false information to other “Five Eyes” English-speaking nations. This discovery is significant because it contributes to a pattern of intelligence agencies from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, which have collaborated on surveillance since World War II, being caught abusing their powers to investigate and persecute the political enemies of elected officials...