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Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces Antitrust Bill to ‘Bust Up’ Big Tech Like Google, Amazon

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced an antitrust bill that would ban Amazon and Google from running an online marketplace and selling goods on that marketplace at the same time.

“Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon have been coddled by Washington politicians for years. This treatment has allowed them to amass colossal amounts of power that they use to censor political opinions that they don’t agree with and shut out competitors who offer consumers an alternative to the status quo,” Hawley said in a statement to news outlets. “It’s past time to bust up Big Tech companies, restore competition, and give power back the American consumers.”

The so-called Bust Up Big Tech Act bars firms such as Amazon from selling Amazon-branded products on Amazon’s market, where competitors also do business.

In a separate tweet, Hawley said the practice allows Amazon to destroy its competitors.

“No one company should be able to control e-commerce AND privilege its own products on the same platform AND control the cloud,” he wrote. “[Amazon] should be broken up.”

The Missouri Republican’s tweet referenced a Wall Street Journal article saying the Seattle-based firm “strong arms partners using its power across multiple businesses.”

According to a statement from his office, the Bust Up Big Tech Act would also bar Amazon from simultaneously owning a large amount of cloud computing services that other companies use while running its retail business.

Amazon runs Amazon Web Services (AWS), which courted controversy earlier this year after deplatforming “free speech” social media website Parler while still hosting Parler competitor Twitter on AWS.

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AOC Spotted At Park Without Mask – Digging Through Trash

  • Another Dem embodying the “Rules for thee, not for me” mantra

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was spotted at a DC park not wearing a mask, a hypocritical move considering her past promotion of facial coverings.

In footage originating on social media, Ocasio-Cortez is seen sitting at a picnic table at Garfield Park enjoying a sporting event without a mask, despite her previously criticizing Texas for lifting the mask mandate last month.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Ocasio-Cortez is later filmed rummaging through a bag on a trash bin.

In a photo taken at the park, a maskless Ocasio-Cortez smiles at the camera as two masked park-goers are seen standing behind her with their hands on their hips.

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True National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer

America’s national debt now exceeds $123 trillion, according to a new report, or more than four times the official figure of $28 trillion, as calculated by the U.S. Treasury Department at the end of March.

Federal spending related to the CCP virus pandemic and economic lockdown added nearly $10 trillion to the total in 2020, according to the latest edition of the “Financial State of the Union 2021” report, compiled and published annually by Chicago-based nonprofit Truth in Accounting (TIA).

But spending amid the pandemic represents only a small portion of the total difference between the official government figure and TIA’s calculation.

“Our measure of the government’s financial condition includes reported federal assets and liabilities, as well as promised, but not funded, Social Security and Medicare benefits,” the report stated.

“Elected and non-elected officials have made repeated financial decisions that have left the federal government with a debt burden of $123.11 trillion, including unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises.”

The TIA report includes in its total debt calculation $55.12 trillion in unfunded Medicare benefits and $41.20 trillion in unfunded Social Security benefits.

Treasury officials don’t include unfunded benefits because they claim recipients have no right to future payments, only to those under current entitlement laws.

The total debt, according to the report, “equates to a $796,000 burden for every federal taxpayer. Because the federal government would need such a vast amount of money from taxpayers to cover this debt, it received an ‘F’ grade for its financial condition.”

Unlike many state governments, the federal government doesn’t maintain a cash reserve to deal with spending necessitated by unexpected crises such as a virus pandemic.

“The coronavirus pandemic and related stimulus packages have caused some of the deterioration because the government had to borrow money to weather the pandemic. If the federal government was properly prepared for a crisis with a true rainy-day fund, it would not have had to borrow money,” TIA stated.

Defense and veterans’ benefits accounted for the largest share of federal spending in 2020 at 23 percent, followed by health and human services with 19 percent, Social Security with 16 percent, interest on the debt at 5 percent, and 2 percent on education. Fully a third (35 percent) of the spending went to what TIA described as “Other.”

Responses

Spokesmen for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), respectively the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, didn’t respond to The Epoch Times request for comment.

Similarly, a spokesman for House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), didn’t respond.

Mondays are typically “travel days” for senators returning from their states and representatives from the districts.

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Facebook Removes Post By Breonna Taylor’s Mother Criticizing Black Lives Matter

  • Tells you everything you need to know about the left’s priorities — it’s not about black lives, it’s about controlling the narrative.
  • “I’ve watched [BLM] raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us…talk about fraud,” Tamika Palmer had posted

Facebook appears to have removed a post by Breonna Taylor’s mother over the weekend criticizing the radical Black Lives Matter organization.

Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a botched no-knock police raid last year and used to further galvanize BLM, slammed the organization for exploiting her daughter’s death to raise money.

“’I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud, (state Rep.) Attica Scott another fraud,” Palmer wrote on Facebook last Wednesday.

“I’ve watched ya’ll raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us…talk about fraud,” Palmer wrote. “I could walk into a room full of people who claim to be here for Breonna’s family who don’t even know who I am…I’m so sick of some of y’all…I’m done with this s##t enough is enough.”

But as of this writing, that searing post is no longer available on Palmer’s Facebook page.

Black lives are so important to Facebook that it decided to suppress the speech of a black mother voicing her opinion about an openly radical far-left group.

This comes just days after Facebook censored the New York Post’s story about BLM founder and “trained Marxist” Patrisse Khan-Cullors purchasing several large homes in majority-white neighborhoods with BLM donation money.

For Big Tech, it’s not about justice, it’s about controlling the narrative.

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MRC STUDY: Once Top Trump-Bashers, TV News Now Loves Joe Biden

(SaraCarter) For four years, the liberal media led the Left’s fierce resistance to the Trump administration, slamming the President night after night after night. Now, a new study by the Media Research Center finds the broadcast evening newscasts have executed a full flip-flop, as they aid and abet liberal President Joe Biden’s administration with mostly positive coverage.

During his first three months in office, the broadcast evening newscasts have showered Biden with 59% positive press. Four years ago, those same programs were hammering Trump with 89% negative press — a stunning contrast.

For this study, MRC analysts reviewed all ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage of Biden and his new administration from January 20 through April 9. Total coverage amounted to a hefty 726 minutes — 18 percent of all evening news airtime — but that’s still just a small fraction of the 1,900 minutes those broadcasts spent deploring Trump and his team when we studied the same newscasts during the same time period in 2017.

The shift in tone is even more dramatic. Four years ago, Trump faced hellishly negative coverage right from the beginning. Our study at the time showed 89% negative coverage of the new President on the three evening newscasts, an unprecedented hostility that would characterize the media’s approach for the next four years.

Today, President Biden faces a far friendlier media landscape. Overall, we found 59% positive coverage of his administration during those first weeks, a continuation of the positive coverage that the networks treated him to during last year’s presidential campaign. (There’s a fuller description of our methodology at the end of this article.)

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Introducing Resolution to Expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that she will soon introduce a resolution to expel Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress.

On Sunday afternoon, Greene tweeted, “Very soon I’ll be introducing a resolution to expel @RepMaxineWaters from Congress for her continual incitement of violence on innocent American people.”

“Rep Waters is a danger to our society,” she added.

In a statement emailed to Newsweek, Greene’s office said she announced plans to expel Waters “after the California Congresswoman invited Black Live [sic] Matter domestic terrorists to fire gun shots at National Guardsmen in Minnesota.”

“As a sitting United States Congresswoman, Rep. Maxine Waters threatened a jury demanding a guilty verdict and threatened violence if Chauvin is found not guilty. This is also an abuse of power,” Greene added.

Greene’s remarks on Sunday came hours after Waters joined hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters around the 11 p.m. curfew on Saturday night to demonstrate outside the police department in the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

The crowds were gathered for a seventh night of protests, after the police killing of Daunte Wright, to rally against police brutality and systemic racism. They repeatedly called for heavy charges against Kimberly Potter, the officer involved in the shooting.

Waters spoke to the crowd, telling them that she backed murder charges against Potter and advised the city against settling for manslaughter charges.

Nearby in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin‘s murder trial has disrupted the city. Protesters across America have called for a guilty verdict to be passed onto the police officer accused of killing George Floyd.

Asked about the Chauvin trial by reporters, Waters said that she was “hopeful” the cop would be convicted.

Marjorie Taylor Greene at presser
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated Sunday she’ll introduce a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress, after Waters urged protestors to “get more confrontational” if Derek Chauvin is found not guilty of murdering George Floyd. Here Greene attends a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on March 17. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES

If Chauvin isn’t found guilty, “we’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” she added.

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Trump tells Sean Hannity he’s ‘beyond seriously’ looking at a 2024 run as he slams Biden on border crisis, saying ‘all he had to do was leave it alone’

  • Trump gave his first televised interview as a former president on Monday
  • The 74-year-old spoke to Fox News’ Sean Hannity from his Mar-a-Lago resort
  • Trump said he was looking ‘very seriously’ at running for president in 2024
  • He attacked Joe Biden for his policies on the U.S.-Mexico border
  • Trump reprised his 2016 campaign warning of ‘rapists’ crossing the border
  • He promised to stump for 2022 candidates wherever he was needed
  • The former president also claimed the J&J vaccine pause was a deliberate ploy
  • Trump alleged Pfizer convinced the FDA to restrict J&J to boost their own drug

Donald Trump is looking ‘very seriously’ at running for president again in 2024, he announced on Monday night, as he attacked Joe Biden for his handling of the southern border and returned to his 2016 campaign warning that Latin America was ‘sending rapists’ into the United States.

In his first televised interview since leaving the White House, Trump told Fox News‘ Sean Hannity that he was definitely weighing up a bid to retake the presidency.

In his first televised interview since leaving the White House, Trump told Fox News‘ Sean Hannity that he was definitely weighing up a bid to retake the presidency.

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Minnesota lawmaker proposes law to strip convicted protesters of food stamps, unemployment benefits, and other gov’t programs

Bill also includes college loan grants, rent or mortgage assistance, and business grants

A Minnesota state lawmaker wants to strip convicted protesters of their access to government programs, including food stamps, student loans, and health care.

Republican state Sen. David Osmek authored the legislation as the nation awaits a decision in the jury trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was charged in the death of George Floyd.

After a long day of closing arguments, the jurors deliberated about four hours before retiring for the night to the hotel where they are being sequestered for this final phase of the trial, the Associated Press reported. They were slated to resume Tuesday morning.

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Amy Coney Barrett receives $2 million advance for book deal

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has reportedly sold a book, receiving an advance of $2 million.

Three industry sources close to the matter told Politico that Barrett’s book will deal with how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into their rulings.

One industry source told Politico that the “eye-raising amount” is likely the most a justice has received since Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O’Connor sold their own books.

The Hill has reached out to the Supreme Court for comment.

Barrett was pressed by Democratic lawmakers during her confirmation hearing on how she would rule on certain cases having to do with Roe v. Wade, the Second Amendment and the Affordable Care Act. Barrett avoided answering such questions, saying that, like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she would not offer “previews” on specific cases.

And during her hearing to be confirmed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in 2017, Barrett commented on her personal beliefs when asked if she considered herself an “orthodox Catholic.”

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Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters Demanded Special Police Motorcade And Escort Before Calling For Violence At Anti-Police Event

Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters of California requested an armed police escort to an anti-police protest in a Minneapolis suburb this weekend, reported Townhall. While at the event, Waters called for riots if former police officer Derek Chauvin is not found guilty for the murder of George Floyd.

U.S. Capitol police reportedly put in the request for police to accompany Waters on her trip to Minnesota to rile up demonstrators and urge them to “get more confrontational.”

Waters, who plans to stay in Minnesota through when the jury delivers a verdict, also encouraged rioters to “stay on the street” and “get more active.”

“We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” the representative from California said.

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