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July 17, 2021

Source? Hey look what was the 2nd link on google search - From May 2021

Search - 12 Facebook sources misinformation

Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows

Researchers have found just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of the misleading claims and outright lies about COVID-19 vaccines that proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

"The 'Disinformation Dozen' produce 65% of the shares of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," said Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which identified the accounts.

After this story published on Thursday, Facebook said it had taken down more of the accounts run by these 12 individuals.

These figures are well-known to both researchers and the social networks. They include anti-vaccine activists, alternative health entrepreneurs and physicians. Some of them run multiple accounts across the different platforms. They often promote "natural health." Some even sell supplements and books.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes

July 15, 2021

Va. Deputy gets felony charges on shooting suspect 10 times. Shooting victim is alive.

Spotsylvania VA

Spotsylvania deputy indicted on felony charge in shooting of Isiah Brown

https://fredericksburg.com/news/crime_courts/spotsylvania-deputy-indicted-on-felony-charge-in-shooting-of-isiah-brown/article_cf895905-0d8c-5c60-8c06-e0d1ab31d325.html

A Spotsylvania deputy was indicted on a felony charge Thursday in connection with the shooting of county resident Isiah Brown earlier this year.

David Turbyfill was charged by a special grand jury with felony reckless handling of a firearm, special prosecutor LaBravia Jenkins said. Reckless handling of a firearm is usually a misdemeanor, but Jenkins said it is a felony in this case largely because of the significant injuries suffered by 32-year-old Brown.

Turbyfill could be heard screaming at Brown to drop the gun and stop walking toward him before firing multiple shots. Brown’s attorney, David E. Haynes, said Brown was shot 10 times and that eight bullets were found in his body.

Brown was critically injured and was in the hospital until May 25. He is continuing his recovery at home.

Details on the injuries
https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/attorney-for-man-shot-by-spotsylvania-deputy-says-family-hopes-officer-will-be-charged/article_31ab9662-13d1-5e89-900a-7a9fab5b1853.html

July 15, 2021

People Magazine - Inside the WH Election night 2020. Baron had COVID?

Lots of good details here from Michael Benders book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election” too many for just 4 paragraphs. Baron got COVID? Did we know that?

Melania Trump Didn't Want Election Night Party at the White House, Which Turned into a 'S-------': Book

https://people.com/politics/melania-trump-didnt-want-an-election-night-party-at-the-white-house-book/

Her feelings were confirmed by Timothy Harleth, the White House's chief usher, and her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, who warned her about the potential length of the party, per the book. (A current spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this account.)

He, his wife and their teenage son, Barron, all got the disease in the fall of 2020.

"Win or lose, there are going to be protests that night," Mrs. Trump's spokeswoman told her, according to the book. "Are we going to end up with a 300-person slumber party at the White House if these people can't get out?"

Trump "repeatedly asked friends if they blamed him for the riots at the Capitol," Bender writes.

July 14, 2021

If candy isn't a hobby this thread is ill conceived 😆😁😳🤪







9 – Extreme ironing
Homework just got a little bit more risky. The hobby requires followers to iron out the creases of their clothes in weird and unusual ways. There is even a world championship for extreme ironing…

Polished dirt10 – Hikaru Dorodango
Or, polishing dirt. It sounds a little strange, we agree. Believe it because it is real. You take a ball of mud, draw the moisture out of it while coating it with finer and finer layers of soil after which you start to work the dirt by polishing it by hand into a sphere.
https://showme.co.za/hermanus/lifestyle/10-of-the-weirdest-hobbies-in-the-world/
July 14, 2021

Home confinement for Jan. 6th traitor (guy on stairs). Thought he was in the White House.

Trump rioter, QAnon supporter Douglas Austin Jensen thought he invaded White House, not Capitol, video shows

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/trump-rioter-douglas-austin-jensen-thought-he-invaded-white-house-not-capitol.html

One of the most notorious defendants charged in the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters thought that he and other rioters had invaded the White House, not the U.S. Capitol, newly released video reveals.

“This is me touching the f------ White House, this is why we’re here,” bragged Douglas Austin Jensen as he was on the Capitol grounds, according to a selfie video from his own cellphone that day.

Jensen’s lack of awareness about where he actually was played a role in the decision Tuesday by Washington federal court Judge Timothy Kelly to release Jensen after six months in jail into home confinement in Iowa.

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After pushing inside, he led an enraged mob that chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman through hallways in the Capitol complex as the cop lured them away from the Senate chamber.

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July 14, 2021

Hannity's "question" to Lara Trump. Yes this is what Fox viewers see. 🤪

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Now, when they backdoor mandating vaccines, Lara, isn't that really them supporting mandating vaccines?

LARA TRUMP (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, it certainly seems like it. Look, I mean, you've just laid out so much important information. This has never, Sean, been about following the science. It's never been about following the facts and the truth. It's been about control from day one. Remember, it was 14 days to slow the spread. That's how this started and now here we are mandating, apparently, that people get a vaccine.

Video at link.
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-contributor-lara-trump-says-covid-vaccine-has-been-about-controlling

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