‘Stop talking, get out and do something’: Expert offers tips for shaking post-election blues
November 11, 2016
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Marjorie Taylor Greene gets defensive over Kevin McCarthy's criticism: 'I didn't take any bait'
February 08, 2023
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) earned a mild rebuke from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday when he chided her and other Republicans for letting themselves get "baited" by President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address.
During Biden's speech, Greene could be seen repeatedly heckling the president and shouting the word "liar" at him.
During an appearance on Fox News, McCarthy urged Republicans to resist the urge to yell at Biden during the State of the Union.
"We need to be smart, don’t take the bait, stay with the American public about what we want to do," he said.
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CNN's Manu Raju caught up with Greene, who grew defensive when informed of McCarthy's criticisms.
"I did not take any bait," she insisted. "I am a representative of the people, that is what I did last night. I got so many messages from people in my district and it was like I won my election again! People are pissed off! For the president of the United States to come into the people's house and lie about the economy, the border, and act like he is terrified of China and unwilling to talk about the fact that they spied on us!"
Greene then emphasized that she felt not remorse for her behavior.
"He got what he deserved and I'm not sorry one bit!"
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) lambasted Republican investigation into Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal as the House Oversight Committee hauled former Twitter executives before it Tuesday.
The hearing focused on a decision in October 2020 to restrict a link to a New York Post article on the laptop, which appeared to have violated platform prohibitions against sharing hacked materials. The social media company's ex-CEO Jack Dorsey has already expressed regret for the decision, and Raskin questioned the need for a congressional probe.
The New York Post had reported contents it said were found on the president's son's laptop by a computer repairman.
"This morning we return not to focus on advancing this robust agenda of progress but instead to take up an authentically trivial pursuit all based on the obsessive victimology of right-wing politics in America," said Raskin, the panel's ranking Democrat.
"The majority has called him to revisit a two-year-old story about a private editorial decision by Twitter not to allow links to a single New York Post article made for a two-day period that had no discernible influence on anyone or anything. The New York Post published an article in its own pages and it was carried by lots of other media outlets."
"It was widely discussed, including on Twitter itself, and even during the brief moment in time when links were not provided, and it was a fixture in right-wing media for the next three weeks before the election," Raskin continued. "I think even the chairman and other members of this committee were out on TV and social media talking about it. But instead of letting this trivial pursuit to go, my colleagues have tried to whip up a faux scandal about this two-day lapse in their ability to spread Hunter Biden propaganda on a private media platform. Silly does not begin to capture this obsession."
"What's more, Twitter's decision is has been analyzed and debated ad nauseam," he added. "Some people think was the right decision, some people think of the wrong decision, but the key is it was Twitter's decision. Twitter is a private media company. In America, private media companies can decide what to publish or how to curate content however they want. If Twitter wants to have nothing but tweets commenting on New York Post articles run all day, it can do that. If that makes such tweets mentioning New York Post never see the light of day, they can do that. That's what the First Amendment means."
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Black woman says credit union had her arrested for complaining about missing cash: lawsuit
February 08, 2023
MidFlorida Credit Union in Lakeland is accused of having cops arrest a Black woman who was asking for assistance after a cash deposit that wasn't going through, according to a lawsuit reported by Banking Dive this week.
Linda Stephens, 70, a retired teacher who says she has PTSD, said in her lawsuit that she sought help from the credit union on three separate occasions after a $600 ATM deposit, which she needed to make her mortgage payment, failed to show up in her account.
After the third occasion, the lawsuit alleges that “the branch manager then came into the office and demanded that Ms. Stephens calm down. Ms. Stephens again pleaded with MidFlorida employees, requesting access to the money she deposited. Instead of assisting her with the transaction, the branch manager called the police on Ms. Stephens.”
The lawsuit then states the responding officers came in with hands on their weapons, saying they "thought somebody on the phone said somebody had a gun." She was then arrested, as "none of the MidFlorida employees said a word in Ms. Stephens’ defense or tried to explain the situation to the police officers." The lawsuit then says officers broke her nose while violently throwing her into the back of the car, and she was forced to spend the night "completely nude on a cement floor of a jail annex cell."
A police report describes the incident differently, according to the Banking Dive. “[Stephens] was advised by the employees that they did not want to have to trespass her, but that she needed to leave. They made multiple requests to get her to leave. The defendant raised her voice and began screaming about a gun. I advised her that we were in a bank and that she had to stop screaming about a gun. She immediately raised her voice (became louder) and began to repeatedly scream ‘gun, gun, gun …’ over and over.”
MidFlorida released a statement saying, "Police were contacted to calm an escalating situation with an irate customer because we have an obligation to provide a secure environment for all members in the branch conducting financial transactions." Stephens, however, says in her lawsuit that a regional manager met her privately at her home after the arrest, apologized, and gave her a partial credit toward her mortgage payment.
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