While fracking is quite controversial, you'd think it shouldn't be controversial to want to get data and study the impact of fracking. After all, if there really isn't that much harm to it, then wouldn't that be good for the companies involved in fracking…
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Former Republican consultant Steve Schmidt, who co-founded The Lincoln Project, told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that state Republican Parties are officially being turned over to the conspiracy group QAnon.
The QAnon group created a number of failed conspiracies about former President Donald Trump somehow not leaving office and a series of disasters that would happen on Jan. 20 if President Joe Biden was sworn in. Some Q followers confessed that they've become a "joke" and that they felt lied to. But the Oregon Republican Party doubled down on the theories last week when they announced that the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was a "false flag" created by the so-called deep state government to justify impeaching Trump again.
A federal judge in Texas has just placed a temporary stay blocking President Joe Biden's 100 day moratorium on deportations.
U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton, a member of the right wing Federalist Society, sided with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Young "vaccine chasers" with sleeping bags, warm hoodies and folding chairs are lining up for hours outside Los Angeles inoculation centers in the hope of obtaining coronavirus jabs from leftover vials that would otherwise end up in the trash.
Los Angeles county, where Covid-19 cases have surged this winter, is currently only vaccinating frontline medical workers and people aged 65 and over.
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