Facebook is facing mounting criticism over its ban of news in Australia. The company instituted the ban after Australia tried to force Facebook to pay for news content shared on the platform. This only the most recent instance of Facebook in trouble over throttling news access. In the weeks preceding the 2020 election, the operators …

A Chinese warship harassed Japanese fishing vessels, leading Japan to lodge a formal complaint. China’s tensions with the rest of the world have gotten much more strained across the board. China has banned BBC World broadcasts for its reporting on the genocidal treatment of Uighurs and the coronavirus. Earliest this week, the UK expelled Chinese journalists …

A new video of the QAnon Shaman appears to support the claim that the rioters were following Trump’s orders. Multiple Capitol rioters specifically wrote that they believed Donald Trump instructed them to riot, specifically referencing Trump’s words, “fight like hell.” Together, this evidence will harm Trump’s impeachment defense. According to a Marist Poll, half of …

After House Republicans refused to take action on Marjorie Taylor Greene, House Democrats forced a vote to strip her of all committee standings. House Democrats singled yesterday that they would strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments as Mitch McConnell distances mainstream GOP from her. All of this comes as Salon released a 2019 video of Greene …

The rioter who posted a video to social media saying she wanted “to shoot [Nancy Pelosi] in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.” She also admits to breaking into the Capitol, using those very words: “we broke into the Capitol.” In other words, this ding-dong confessed to two crimes and then posted her …

Having grown tired of adding fuel to the bonfire that is American politics, Facebook has finally decided to do something useful and stop recommending political groups. The decision comes after an extremely tumultuous election, made worse by Facebook itself. In fact, things got so bad that Facebook  banned Trump from its platform for the final …

Garret Miller of Texas, one of the Capitol rioters, has been charged with threatening to assassinate progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The infamous “Zip Tie Guy,” meaning the guy who brought zip ties to the Capitol riots, had a stash of weapons at his home––including a sniper rifle. Among the other ding-dongs arrested:a 22-year-old Pennsylvania woman, …

The U.S. State Department has labeled China’s treatment of the Uighur people genocide, the harshest criticism of Beijing’s actions. Boris Johnson has announced that the British government will not call the Uighur situation in genocide. Last week, the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has concluded, finally, that “crimes against humanity – and possibly genocide – are …

The United States has banned the import of all cotton and tomato products because they involve slave labor. This past summer, a recent report out of Australia revealed a shocking number of global companies have been exploiting the Uighur forced labor camps set up by the Chinese government. Here are just some of those companies: Abercrombie …

The Confederate Flag man photographed at the Capitol has been arrested, as well as the man who threw a fire extinguisher at police. U.S. acting Attorney Michael Sherwin has said that 70 people have already been charged with the Capitol riots, and the FBI has opened 160 more (so far). Two Capitol police have been …

As shocking as it might sound, the nation is apparently lucky after the January 6 Capitol riots. Police found a variety of indications near by that could have been used to cause real mayhem, including an Alabama man with 11 molotov cocktails and a number of firearms. He has been arrested, along with a slew of rioters …

Following Trump’s rabble-rousing, which led to a group of out-of-control rioters storming the United States Capitol, Twitter suspended Trump’s account for 12-hours and forced him to delete several tweets. Twitter has promised to ban Trump if he continues to incite violence. Several weeks ago, President Trump angrily ranted about Twitter (on Twitter, as usual), implying …