Laid-off Twitter Employees Reveal Their Fates: ‘8 Months Pregnant’

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Elon Musk-led Twitter began a long-dreaded and drastic round of layoffs on Friday — and numerous workers took to the social media site to confirm they were caught in the bloodbath.

Company officials began informing laid-off employees about their fate via an email message on Friday morning as Musk scrambles to cut costs at the struggling firm.

Roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees were expected to lose their jobs during the culling — with some workers claiming they had lost access to systems overnight.

“Looks like I’m unemployed y’all. Just got remotely logged out of my work laptop and removed from Slack,” tweeted Simon Balmain, a former senior community manager at Twitter. “#OneTeam forever. Loved you all so much. So sad it had to end this way.”

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Coast Guard Offering ‘Unheard Of’ Signing Perks as Recruitment Plummets

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The U.S. Coast Guard is offering up to $50,000 signing bonuses in an effort to bolster recruitment, after the number of guardsmen has plummeted, in large part due to the military’s strict COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

According to internal USCG documents obtained by Fox News Digital from October detailing fiscal year 2023 workforce planning, “Culinary Specialist,” or “CS,” level recruits could receive bonuses up to $50,000 each.

Active-duty Coast Guard Lt. Chad Coppin called the $50,000 CS-level bonuses, which would involve positions such as cooks, “absolutely unheard of.”

Coppin, who is stationed in Juneau, Alaska, and is seeking religious accommodation to the vaccine mandate, told Fox News Digital that the military is suffering from low recruitment and retainment, in large part due to its own restrictive policies, including the vax requirement.

“This means the USCG response to future disasters like Hurricane Ian will suffer, and lives will be lost due to lack of personnel, a readiness issue that the USCG is voluntarily compounding… overall, the USCG is short over 2,700 members,” Coppin said. (Read more from “Coast Guard Offering ‘Unheard Of’ Signing Perks as Recruitment Plummets” HERE)

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Krazy Kat Denies Crime’s a Problem in NY — But Hillary Clinton Lets the Truth Slip

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Hillary Clinton and Krazy Kat Hochul need to get on the same page concerning crime.

Is it real, as Clinton seems to believe? Or is it, as Hochul has contended, an overblown campaign distraction — promoted by “master manipulators” and “data deniers” to derail her bid to become New York’s first elected female governor?

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It was one of those late-campaign events where the hype is thick, where the rhetoric is hyperbolic and where the facts don’t really matter. How very odd, then, that Hillary let the truth peek through.

“They don’t care about keeping you safe,” she said — they being GOP candidate Lee Zeldin and his party mates. “They want to keep you scared.”

But safe from what? Frightened of whom? Crime? And criminals? Seems so. (Read more from “Krazy Kat Denies Crime’s a Problem in NY — But Hillary Clinton Lets the Truth Slip” HERE)

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More Lies: Biden Claims Trump Sees Paul Pelosi Attacker as a ‘Patriot’

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President Joe Biden made a bold claim about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi’s attacker.

On Thursday, Biden told a crowd that former President Trump sees Pelosi’s violent attacker as “patriots.”

“You saw what happened to Paul Pelosi, in the effort to get to Nancy. Well, guess what. What do Trump and all his Trumpies call them? He said they’re ‘patriots,’” Biden said.

Additionally, Biden put the horrific attacker and the January 6 protestors in the same category, because well, the Democrats just won’t let them go.

“How can you call yourself a democracy when you have a group of 1,000 people who storm the United States Capitol, break the windows and doors down … break through the House and Senate doors and chambers, have people cowering on the floor, threatening to kill people?” Biden continued. (Read more from “More Lies: Biden Claims Trump Sees Paul Pelosi Attacker as a ‘Patriot’” HERE)

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Two Dem Strongholds Report Huge Early Vote Numbers…for Republicans

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. . .[W]ith Election Day less than a week away, some liberals will try and use early voting to demonstrate how things might not be so bad. What I’m about to say is meant as an exercise in crushing their hopes and dreams into dust. It’s to smother with a pillow their hope that no red tsunami is coming.

In two liberal strongholds, Clark County, Nevada, and Miami-Dade, Florida, Republicans are winning the early vote—and it has some Democrats in complete panic mode.

First, let’s head to Florida (via ABC News):

Not great, Bob! Registered Republicans are outpacing Democrats in the breakdown of the more than 3.5 million Florida voters who had cast ballots as of Thursday morning, according to data posted on the state Division of Elections website — an unusual pivot in early-vote trends for the traditionally purple state.

In what may be an ominous sign for Florida Democrats with less than a week until Election Day, Republicans across the state lead with 216,302 more votes than the Democrats, mostly cast in-person. Democrats have a 128,660 count edge in vote-by-mail numbers.

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Disgusting: Major Christian Leaders Asked Jan. 6 Committee to Investigate Christian Nationalism

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By Religion News Service. A group of prominent Christian leaders, including the heads of major denominations, say they submitted a letter earlier this year to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, urging members to examine Christian nationalism and arguing the ideology played a crucial role in the insurrection.

Organizers of the letter, which has not previously been disclosed, told Religion News Service they were approached by a committee investigator on the topic. The resulting statement, dated June 2, was facilitated by Christians Against Christian Nationalism, an effort orchestrated by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

“The ideology of Christian nationalism helped motivate and intensify the insurrection,” the letter reads in part. “We ask the Committee to thoroughly investigate the role that Christian nationalism played in the attack. This investigation into Christian nationalism is important so that history does not repeat itself and so that we understand this threat to our country’s historic commitment to religious liberty and the importance of defeating it.”

Representatives for the House committee did not immediately respond to requests to confirm the faith leaders’ account of why the letter was drafted, or to clarify whether the committee pursued their request and investigated Christian nationalism specifically.

The letter notes the Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign began at least 18 months before the insurrection took place. That is why, signatories argued, they “recognized the presence of Christian nationalism at the Capitol on that fateful day.” The letter also referenced a report published in February by the BJC and the Freedom From Religion Foundation detailing the role Christian nationalism played in the attack. (Read more from “Disgusting: Major Christian Leaders Asked Jan. 6 Committee to Investigate Christian Nationalism” HERE)

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Man Charged in Capitol Riot Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison

By ABC 3 Wear-TV. A Pensacola man charged in relation to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was sentenced to 8 months in prison Thursday.

Jesus Rivera, the first of four Northwest Florida men to be charged in the U.S. Capitol riot, was found guilty of Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building; Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building, and Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building; and Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building back in June.

In addition to serving his sentence, Rivera was ordered to serve one year of supervised release and pay $500 in restitution. (Read more from “Man Charged in Capitol Riot Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison” HERE)

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CNN: Democrats Have to Run on Abortion and Jan 6 Because They ‘Can’t Fight on the Economy’

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A CNN reporter admitted that Democrats are being forced to run on the issues of abortion and the Jan. 6 rioting at the U.S. Capitol because the economy is so bad.

The CNN panel was discussing Democrats’ chances in the midterm elections when reporter Kasie Hunt made a blunt assessment on the only messaging available to candidates on the left.

“The one thing I will say is that if you talk to and you listen to what vulnerable Democrats, especially in House seats, are starting to say … is that they don’t feel that the party has really come up with a good economic message from the top,” said Kasie Hunt.

“And there also isn’t much of an acknowledgement that the policies of the Biden administration, including, you know, massive spending, first on their COVID-related package and then again on, you know, what they call the inflation reduction act,” she added. “A lot of Republicans are trying to convince— they’re spending a lot of money trying to convince voters that that’s why inflation is there, and Democrats haven’t really come up with a great answer for it.” (Read more from “CNN: Democrats Have to Run on Abortion and Jan 6 Because They ‘Can’t Fight on the Economy’” HERE)

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Shots Fired at Family Home of Republican Congressional Candidate While His Children Were Inside: Report

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Federal law enforcement officials have launched a criminal investigation into gunshots that were fired late last month at the family home of North Carolina congressional candidate Pat Harrigan (R), a former Green Beret.

News of the shots that hit Harrigan’s parent’s home in Hickory, North Carolina, broke Thursday afternoon after the family disclosed the incident in an interview with The Associated Press.

Harrigan’s campaign said that Harrigan’s children were inside the home when the shooting happened and that a shot hit the home within a few feet of where the children were sleeping.

WBT News reported that the FBI was involved in the investigation and that other agencies may be involved.

Harrigan is running in the state’s new 14th Congressional District against state Sen. Jeff Jackson (D). (Read more from “Shots Fired at Family Home of Republican Congressional Candidate While His Children Were Inside: Report” HERE)

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Ben Carson Sounds Alarm Over CDC Recommending COVID Vaccine for Children

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Dr. Ben Carson told the Daily Caller on Thursday that the decision to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule was “disappointing” and that “we have no idea what the long term implications are.”

A panel of vaccine experts working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously on Oct. 20 to recommend that children between the ages of six months and 18 should receive two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Although the vote did not establish a mandate, several states follow the CDC’s recommendations.

“So many of the states decide on their mandates based on those recommendations, and it would be a good thing to follow the science,” the former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate told the Caller. “The science tells us that the risk of death or severe complications from COVID for children is 0.025%. That’s approaching zero.”

“Those spike proteins that are produced … we have no idea what their longevity and their spread will be over the course of time, and how that may affect the other organs in the body,” Carson added. (Read more from “Ben Carson Sounds Alarm Over CDC Recommending COVID Vaccine for Children” HERE)

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Elon Musk Cancels ‘Days of Rest’ for Twitter Employees as Layoffs Loom: Report

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Twitter’s “days of rest” for employee are now a thing of the past under new owner Elon Musk, according to a report Thursday.

Twitter began offering one companywide paid rest day per month, in addition to normal paid time off, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy was meant to help reduce burnout among staffers.

But Musk has eliminated future “days of rest” from Twitter’s calendar this week, sources familiar with the situation told Bloomberg. The move came as Musk swiftly overhauls Twitter’s workplace culture after completing his $44 billion deal to buy the firm last week.

The Post has reached out to Twitter for comment on the change.

Musk interrupted one of Twitter’s “days of rest” even before he became the company’s owner and CEO. In April, employees reportedly learned that Musk had rejected an offer to take a seat on Twitter’s board of directors just before a scheduled day off — a development that left workers stressed out instead of relaxed. (Read more from “Elon Musk Cancels ‘Days of Rest’ for Twitter Employees as Layoffs Loom: Report” HERE)

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