May, 2020

Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, said Sunday that the U.S. should “give up on its wishful thinking of changing China” and avoid bringing the two countries to a “new Cold War.” “China has no intention to change, still replace, the United States,” he said, according to the Washington Post. “It is time for the United States to give up its wishful thinking of changing China and stopping 1.4 billion people in their historic march toward modernization.”

Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church... Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the church down.

“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis said...

The New York Times celebrates Memorial Day by equating the United States military to the Ku Klux Klan. Is anyone surprised anymore? https://t.co/xrLB4Ja29e

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 24, 2020

Notice how no author will claim credit for this writing. Instead it is attributed to an “Editorial Board” containing numerous individuals.

"Character is what you do when no one is looking."

Jair Bolsonaro goes off about Governors and Mayors having citizens arrested and says the obvious: A well armed people can't be enslaved by tyrants.

That just made us sure that we chose right. @BasedPoland pic.twitter.com/TNqZfksu5t

— Rafael Glau (de🏍️) (@RafsGlau) May 23, 2020

I am pleased to announce that the RNC, @NRCC & @CAGOP just sued Gavin Newsom over his illegal election power grab.

His radical plan is a recipe for disaster that would create more opportunities for fraud & destroy the confidence Californians deserve to have in their elections.

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) May 24, 2020

Make no mistake, Democrats are trying to use this pandemic to redesign our entire election system for political gain, and we will not let their brazen attempts go unchallenged.

Go to https://t.co/ImFKSGulau and help us fight back!

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) May 24, 2020

Beach-goers showed up in throngs to popular summer destinations throughout the US — forcing some areas to start turning people away... “I have never seen this many umbrellas,”...

“Unfortunately, Democrat Governor, @RoyCooperNC is still in Shutdown mood & unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed... full attendance in the Arena,” Trump tweeted Monday. He added that Republicans “must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied. If not, we will be reluctantly forced...to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site.”

Using app data, researchers have uncovered trips to sensitive places... The beer rating app Untappd has a big following in the U.S. and Europe, and is used by beer drinkers to discover new bars, breweries, and beers... Unfortunately, according to researchers, users sometimes share too much information, and the app shares too much about them...

Barr used the excuse that he is protecting our electoral integrity by making sure that politics stays out of criminal investigations... Barr, however, apparently thinks that the American people do not deserve to have the truth before they choose between Biden and Trump in November... The only chance to make sure that politics plays no role in the investigation is to appoint a special counsel, who would proceed without regard to the outcome of the upcoming election.

This is really the only hope for getting to the truth.

Images and videos provided by the Navy show the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland executing "the first system-level implementation of a high-energy class solid-state laser" to disable an aerial drone aircraft, the statement said.

BREAKING: US Post Office founds "three tubs" of absentee ballots for Wisconsin election in Chicago -- the day after the Election! 1,600 votes! https://t.co/g7qq6Ms2eW https://t.co/QRtPnRbsCq

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 24, 2020

Despite grisly predictions, New York on Saturday reported its lowest death toll since March.

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The government is recruiting unemployed citizens, especially those who receive social security or unemployment income, as an extension of its uniformed security services during the second phase of the coronavirus lockdown, Italian media reported.

With social media, people have become obsessed with their own visibility. Whether they're aware of it or not, influencers are constantly fighting to be seen and battling that "threat of invisibility," said Ciarán Mc Mahon, PhD, the author of "The Psychology of Social Media." hild stars often become addicted to fame, and thousands of influencers fighting for attention may be extremely disappointed when they are one day unable to keep it up...

They already wanted to monitor your vaccination records and tie that to your passport, introduce mandatory vaccinations and clampdown on “misinformation”. They just didn’t have a reason yet. This was a situation which required a crisis and, fortuitously, it got one...

They had to find a good scary picture to promote their ongoing “panic porn” on coronavirus.