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MyPillow’s Lindell to Relaunch ‘Frank’ Social Media Website at South Dakota Rally

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell reportedly plans to relaunch his social media platform at a South Dakota rally in less than two weeks.

Lindell released Frankspeech.com on April 19, though the website reportedly has had issues and its social media features have yet to be implemented, according to the Washington Examiner.

A staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, Lindell told the Examiner on Thursday he expects “10,000 people at least” at the May 10 rally in Mitchell, S.D., although Corn Palace reportedly only seats about 4,000.

Lindell, a vocal proponent of claims the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, said the rally will be viewable online via a live stream.

The MyPillow CEO and Minnesota native has called his social media website an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. It’s called Frank, which Lindell says allows freedom of speech, except for certain curse words and saying the Lord’s name in vain.

“You won’t be able to use four words: the c-word, the n-word, the f-word, and God’s name in vain,” Lindell told “The Ledger Report” podcast. “You won’t be able to type that in.”

When Lindell’s new venture — a combination somewhere between YouTube and Twitter — is fully launched, users can expect a platform with features “that no other platform has.”

“My whole goal is to get our voices out there again,” Lindell told Newsmax. “It’s a site like you haven’t seen.”

Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter banned certain content and suspended some accounts when they cracked down on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Lindell himself was been banned from several social media platforms for alleging the November 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

The Frank site also features Lindell’s 24-hour station, Lindell TV.

Lindell said about 50 hand-picked broadcasters and influencers — who had been silenced on other social media platforms — are uploading their content to Frank. Those videos will soon be available to users.

DeSantis Calls Systemic Racism ‘Horse Manure,’ Blasts ‘Very Harmful’ Critical Race Theory As ‘Race-Based’ Marxism

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday blasted accusations that the United States is systemically racist as “horse manure” and further said critical race theory is a race-based form of Marxism.

Asked to respond to the claim that America is “a systemically racist country,” DeSantis told Fox News host Laura Ingraham during a town hall that such a proposition is “a bunch of horse manure.”

“I mean, give me a break. This country has had more opportunity for more people than any country in the history of the world, and it doesn’t matter where you trace your ancestry from,” DeSantis said to applause from the audience. “We’ve had people that have been able to succeed.”

John Kerry Invested In Oil And Gas Stocks Before Joining White House, Filings Show

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry owned shares of multiple oil and gas corporations prior to joining the White House, ethics filings show.

John Kerry previously invested in Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Duke Energy, Cimarex, Dominion Energy, Xcel Energy, Exelon Corporation, Valero Energy Corporation and WEC Energy Group, according to Office of Government Ethics filings obtained by Axios. Kerry reportedly sold off his entire stock portfolio, which was worth between $4.2 and $15 million, prior to joining President Joe Biden’s administration.

The Texas-based Valero Energy Corporation was recently ranked the fifth-worst emitter of greenhouse gasses despite having just 14 facilities, the San Antonio Current reported in December. The company was ordered to pay $2.85 million in a civil penalty in October for Clean Air Act violations, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Idaho Becomes First State to Ban Discriminatory Critical Race Theory

When Idaho Governor Brad Little (R) signed HB 377 into law this week, he made Idaho the first state in the country to ban its public educators from forcing the damaging ideology that underlies critical race theory on students. 

The law’s objective is simple and should be noncontroversial, but the current state of education in America that begs action to prevent discrimination and protect intellectual freedom means Idaho’s anti-indoctrination measure is somewhat of a novel idea. 

As the law explains, the principles of critical race theory “exacerbate and inflame divisions on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or other criteria in ways contrary to the unity of the nation and the well-being of the state of Idaho and its citizens.” 

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Chinese authorities slap Catholic with hefty fine for providing chapel for ‘illegal’ mass

Authorities with the Chinese Communist Party are now punishing those who provide worship venues for believers as religious persecution continues to escalate in the country. 

According to Asia News, a Catholic in the town of Wangli in the Zhejiang province was fined last month for offering his private chapel to the bishop of Wenzhou diocese, Msgr. Peter Shao Zhumin.

Zhumin is only recognized by the Vatican, not by the Chinese Communist Party.

On March 16, Huang Ruixun, 56, offered his chapel to Shao and about 20 Catholics. Shortly after that, he was sentenced to a hefty fine of 200,000 yuan (the equivalent of about $30,000) under the charge of hosting the bishop for “illegal religious activities, also providing him with lunch, a rest room, etc.”

Huang was accused of violating the state-sanctioned church’s principle since Shao “was ordained by a foreign institution,” which “goes against the principle of independence, autonomy and self-administration of the Church in China.”

A 2018 China-Vatican Agreement, renewed last year, permits the Chinese government to propose new bishops to the Vatican through its state-approved Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, with the pope having veto power on the decision.

At the time of the signing, the Vatican said it hoped the deal would promote unity among China’s estimated 10 million to 12 million Catholics.

State Dept. Says Multiple U.S. Citizens Killed In Stampede In Israel

The State Department has said multiple U.S. citizens were killed in a stampede at a religious festival in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised an investigation into the incident, which left at least 45 dead and 100 injured. Despite warnings to maintain social distancing, large crowds gathered at the Jewish festival during the celebration Lag BaOmer at Mount Meron.