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  • Nine platforms controlled by the Big Tech Masters of the Universe have blacklisted or restricted President Donald Trump.
  • Twitter, Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, Shopify, Reddit, TikTok, Twitch, and Discord have all either banned or restricted President Trump from their platforms. The severity of action taken against Trump varies by platform.
  • On Friday, Twitter permanently banned the account of the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Additional bannings include his campaign account and the campaign’s digital director.
  • On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that “we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”
  • Snapchat suspended President Trump’s account indefinitely on Wednesday.“We can confirm that earlier on Wednesday we locked President Trump’s Snapchat account,” a Snapchat spokesperson told The Hill.
  • While President Trump does not have a Pinterest account, the company has nonetheless been limiting hashtags related to pro-Trump topics, such as #StopTheSteal.
  • E-commerce store provider Shopify has banned two stores affiliated with President Trump — one run by the Trump campaign and another belonging to the Trump organization, TrumpStore.com — on Thursday, claiming they violate the platform’s policies on supporting violence.
  • The self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” Reddit, joined the unprecedented wave of censorship by has banning an unofficial Donald Trump forum.
  • While the President does not have a TikTok account, the Chinese-owned platform is nonetheless banning videos of Trump’s speeches to his supporters, claiming that the content on the grounds that they violate the company’s misinformation policy.
  • Amazon-owned Twitch has also locked President Trump’s account indefinitely.“In light of yesterday’s shocking attack on the Capitol, we have disabled President Trump’s Twitch channel,” said a Twitch spokesperson in a statement.

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  • Apple suspended Parler from its App Store Saturday after the “unbiased social media” app surged to the No. 1 spot in the free apps section earlier in the day.
  • “We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business.
  • The App Reviews Board sent a letter to Parler executives explaining that their app would be “removed from the App Store until we receive an update that is compliant with the App Store Review Guidelines and you have demonstrated your ability to effectively moderate and filter the dangerous and harmful content on your service.”
  • Google previously suspended Parler from its app store Friday.
  • Sean Davis, co-founder of conservative outlet The Federalist, tweeted Friday that Apple was asking Parler to engage in “censorship policies” or face de-listing, citing two people familiar with the situation.
  • Apple and Google’s suspension of Parler comes after Twitter’s Friday decision to ban President Trump’s personal account after a mob of his loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol, resulting in bloodshed. The tech company accused Trump of inciting the violence.
  • Data analytics company App Figures estimated that on Saturday, Parler downloads would surpass 1.5 million on the App Store, driven in large part by pro-Trump conservatives leaving Twitter in protest.
  • On Friday, App FIgures estimated that “downloads grew to more than 340,000, up from about 12,000 in the prior week” based on company data. The total number of downloads “between Wednesday and Friday are estimated to have added more than 450,000 new downloads.”
  • Parler’s “mission is to create a social platform in the spirit of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” according to its Community Guidelines, which states that the platform does not allow “child sexual abuse material, content posted by or on behalf of terrorist organizations [and] intellectual property theft.”
  • The website may also flag material promoting “criminal solicitation, fraud and nuisance,” even if it is not illegal.

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Apple suspended Parler from its App Store Saturday

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  • A breakdown in Pakistan’s national power grid plunged the country into darkness officials said.
  • A sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system happened on Saturday night.
  • “A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,” Pakistan’s Power Minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter.
  • He said efforts were underway to determine the reasons behind the situation.
  • He asked people across the country to remain calm.

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A breakdown in Pakistan’s national power grid

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  • Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said he was lifting restrictions on contacts between U.S. officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, a move likely to anger China and increase tensions between Beijing and Washington in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s presidency.
  • China claims democratic and separately ruled Taiwan as its own territory, and regularly describes Taiwan as the most sensitive issue in its ties with the United States.
  • While the United States, like most countries, has no official relations with Taiwan, the Trump administration has ramped up backing for the island country, with arms sales and laws to help Taiwan deal with pressure from China.
  • In a statement, Pompeo said that for several decades the State Department had created complex internal restrictions on interactions with Taiwanese counterparts by American diplomats, service members and other officials.
  • “The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing,” Pompeo said in a statement.
  • The move appeared to be another part of an effort by Pompeo and Trump’s Republican administration to lock in a tough approach to China before Democratic President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
  • Bonnie Glaser, an Asia expert at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said examples of the restrictions included Taiwanese officials not being able to enter the State Department, but instead having to meet at hotels.
  • “The Biden administration will rightly be unhappy that a policy decision like this was made in the final days of the Trump administration,” Glaser said.
  • An official with Biden’s transition said that once Biden was in office he would continue to support “a peaceful resolution of cross-strait issues consistent with the wishes and best interests of the people of Taiwan.”
  • Chinese fighter jets approached the island in August and September during the last two visits: by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach, respectively.
  • The United States is Taiwan’s strongest international backer and arms supplier, and is obliged to help provide it with the means to defend itself under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.
  • “The United States government maintains relationships with unofficial partners around the world, and Taiwan is no exception. … Today’s statement recognizes that the U.S.-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy,” Pompeo said.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday

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  • A former Senior Policy Analyst at the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health repeatedly tweeted that Senator Josh Hawley deserved to be “skinned alive and rolled in salt” for challenging the integrity of the 202 election.
  • The violent threats come in response to Hawley leading efforts to object to the certification of the Electoral College and mainstream media smearing him as inciting the small amount of violence that occurred at the Capitol.
  • On January 7th, one day after the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” march, Gitlin tweeted “once again” that “Hawley deserves to be skinned alive and rolled in salt.”
  • Gitlin, a former Adjunct Professor at the University of Kentucky and current Automotive Editor for Ars Technica, worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for over six years.
  • From 2009 to 2015, he served as a Senior Policy Analyst at NIH – the parent organization for high profile doctors like Anthony Fauci.
  • NIH, which employs 6,000 research scientists and has a multi-billion dollar budget, is taxpayer-funded as it operates under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Fauci, a mainstream media favorite who helped shape President Trump’s COVID-19 response, has led the NIH’s Institue of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIIAD) since 1984.
  • Therefore, Fauci was at the helm of one NIH’s leading bodies at the time of Gitlin’s hiring and, perhaps, a recipient of his advice, given Gitin’s senior role at the institute.


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A former Senior Policy Analyst at the

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  • A veteran US Capitol Police officer has died by suicide, authorities and sources said Sunday, days after he responded to the riot that killed five people including another member of his department.
  • Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, died on Saturday while off-duty.
  • The department announced in a statement,“He was assigned to the Senate Division, and has been with the Department since April 2005,” the statement read. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, and colleagues.
  • “We ask that his family, and other USCP officers’ and their families’ privacy be respected during this profoundly difficult time.”
  • The department did not disclose the circumstances of Liebengood’s death, but sources characterized it as an apparent suicide.
  • Liebengood’s death came as the department was still mourning Officer Brian Sicknick, who was pepper-sprayed and fatally bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher when supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday in a futile attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
  • The department itself is under intense scrutiny for the ease with which the mob overwhelmed Capitol Police and forced their way into the seat of American democracy.

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A veteran US Capitol Police officer has

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  • Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the U.S. saw 22 disasters last year, each costing more than $1 billion each.
  • This shattered the previous annual record of 16 disasters, which was reached in both 2011 and 2017.
  • California’s record-breaking wildfires and the nation’s 10 major storms garnered the attention of Americans throughout the course of the year. These disasters also took the lives of 262 Americans.
  • “So for the 22 events, we had a record number seven tropical cyclone events, we had 13 severe storm events, one major drought and one wildfire event,” Applied Climatologist Adam Smith said. “Really most of the country was impacted by some of these extremes.”
  • The disasters reportedly cost emergency services at least $95 billion, marking 2020 as the fourth highest costly year since 1980.
  • According to the NOAA, 2020 is the sixth consecutive year in which the United States has been impacted with ten or more billion dollar weather and climate disasters.
  • “Typically of the seven types of billion dollar disasters, we usually see three or four types per year,” Smith explained. “But it’s just the sheer number of events this year that really catches your eye.”
  • The United States has had $285 billion in weather and climate disasters since 1980.

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Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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  • Members of the Michigan legislature will continue their inquiry into reported irregularities in the 2020 election, a state lawmaker revealed this week, despite growing pressure to abandon further scrutiny of the 2020 presidential election results amid fallout from the recent Capitol riot.
  • The riot at the U.S. Capitol came amid a pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
  • Earlier in the month, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro claimed a Texas lawsuit challenging the election results was itself “seditious.”
  • YouTube shortly after the Capitol chaos, announced enhanced penalties for anyone who posts what the company deems “false claims” about the U.S. election results.
  • In Wisconsin, one teacher was recently suspended reportedly for directing his students to watch a video questioning the 2020 results.
  • And on Jan. 3, “all 10 living former defense secretaries” claimed that “the time for questioning the results has passed,” citing the “unbroken record of such transitions since 1789.” 
  • Daire Rendon, who represents Michigan’s District 103 in the state House, confirmed to Just the News that the investigations teed up by the Michigan legislature last month will continue after state lawmakers convene on Wednesday. 
  • Rendon noted that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has placed “a lot of restrictions” on how lawmakers can meet in the state capitol.
  • She said. “I think the hearings better serve the public when we can have people come into the hearings. It has a lot more impact than just doing it by Zoom.”Still, she said, House members are working to arrange the hearings ahead of the legislature’s convening. 
  • “There are a lot of things going on behind the scenes,” she said, “to line up the kind of evidence and witnesses they want to have going forward.”

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Members of the Michigan legislature will continue

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  • Clarence Thomas is trending on Twitter. The cancel culture Left wants to get rid of him and his wife.
  • It seems his wife, Ginni Thomas, endorsed the protest before the riot, calling for debate and a delay in the certification process to allow an investigation into voter integrity.
  • No one in the courts would look at the evidence and the DoJ has not come forward with the results of their investigation. People don’t trust the DoJ. They dragged out the probe of the coup for years, but they sure rounded up the rioters quickly and they’re talking about it.
  • If you’ll notice, we don’t talk about voter integrity any longer. We just talk bout the rally at the Capitol during which some lunatics rioted.
  • Ginni Thomas obviously didn’t support rioting. The hate mob of the Left doesn’t care. They want her and their favorite pinata, Justice Clarence Thomas, gone.
  • Ginni Thomas praised the rally-goers as they walked to the Capitol, said she loved Magas, and added, “God bless each of you standing up or praying.”
  • Author Greg Olear wrote on Twitter: There is no reality in which it is appropriate for the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, already a rightwing PAC political player, to endorse sedition.
  • Scientist Zornio called her a fascist and said she must fall, along with her husband.

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Clarence Thomas is trending on Twitter. The