Another Biden fuck up harming the American people. What a shitty president.
>https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/federal-reserve-payment-system-crashes.amp
>https://finance.yahoo.com/video/nationwide-outage-hits-fed-banking-205046440.html
>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-fedwire-idUSKBN2AO2I1
>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/fed-outage-shuts-down-us-payment-systems-for-more-than-an-hour/
>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/24/the-feds-system-that-allows-banks-to-send-money-back-and-forth-is-down.html
>https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/federal-reserve-outage-fedwire/index.html

Jasper Swartz recently realized that nearly all of their friends are "queer in some way."

They were eight years old when same-sex marriage became legal in Maryland, about 12 when they realized they were attracted to girls, and 14 when they came out as nonbinary, using they/them pronouns. Jasper grew up scrolling through gay memes on Instagram and following transgender influencers on YouTube. They attended a diverse public middle school in Montgomery County, Md., that taught lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity in health class.

"But at that point," Jasper said, "I was already familiar with the stuff they were teaching."

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/1-in-6-Gen-Z-adults-are-LGBT-And-this-number-15975197.php

Pretty based, jailing those criminal scumbags. Bars on the windows and everything
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigrant-children-camp-texas-biden/2021/02/22/05dfd58c-7533-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-media-google/australia-to-introduce-landmark-google-facebook-legislation-to-parliament-next-week-idUSKBN2AC0BF?il=0

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will introduce landmark legislation to force Alphabet’s Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content next week, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Friday.

Australia is on course to become the first country to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content, legislation that is being closely watched around the world.

“The bill will now be considered by the parliament from the week commencing 15 February 2021,” Frydenberg said in an emailed statement.

With bipartisan support, the legislation - which Google says is “unworkable” and will force it to pull out of the country altogether - could come into law this month.

The acceleration of the bill came as a senate committee examining the proposals recommended no amendments.

Representatives for Google and Facebook did not immediately comment when contacted by Reuters.

The U.S. search and social media giants have pressed Australia to soften the legislation, with senior executives from both companies holding talks with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Frydenberg.

Google last week launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show the proposed legislation is unnecessary.

Last month Reuters said it had signed a deal with Google to be the first global news provider to Google News Showcase. Reuters is owned by news and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp.

Google and a French publishers’ lobby also agreed in January to a copyright framework for the tech firm to pay news publishers for content online, a first for Europe.

>https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2021/02/21/gun-rights-advocates-gather-second-amendment-rally-arizona-capitol/4502281001/
Remember, we can't let the party that put Americans in slave camps based on race, deny Americans their constitutionally protected, basic human rights.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/24/usps-dejoy-congress-471362

Louis DeJoy, the embattled postmaster general, said on Wednesday he is not going anywhere as he faces withering criticism of his leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and calls for President Joe Biden to move to oust him.

Testifying at a House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting, DeJoy said he intended to be around “a long time.”

“Get used to me,” he said.

However, DeJoy's resolve may be put to the test soon, as Biden nominated three people — Ron Stroman, Anton Hajjar and Amber McReynolds — to fill open seats on the board that determines the postmaster‘s fate, the White House announced on Wednesday afternoon. If confirmed, Democratic appointees would have a majority of the USPS Board of Governors’ nine-seat panel, potentially giving them the opportunity to get rid of DeJoy.

Stroman is a recently retired former deputy postmaster general, Hajjar is the former general counsel for the American Postal Workers Union, and McReynolds is chief operating officer at the nonprofit Vote at Home Institute.

The trio would also be a major step toward diversifying the board, as Stroman is Black, McReynolds is a woman and Hajjar is a legal adviser to the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee. All six of those serving on the panel now are men, five of them white.

This week, the Biden administration did the unthinkable. It reopened a Trump-era detention site for migrant children. The detention center, a reconverted camp for oil field workers in Carrizo Springs, Texas, is expected to hold 700 children between the ages of 13 and 17, and dozens of kids have already arrived there.

This is an awful development, reminding me of some of the worst abuses of the Trump years. And while we obviously don’t know how this ominous development will play out in the long run, what we do know is this: unaccompanied migrant children deserve compassion, not detention. But rather than seeking out new and better solutions, the Biden administration is instead trying to sell us an image of a kinder, gentler imprisonment.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/24/biden-is-locking-up-migrant-children-will-the-world-still-care-with-trump-gone

Dramatic bodycam footage shows cops in Utah shoot and kill a gun-toting man after he led police on a high-speed chase.

Dino Raul Morales, 28, eluded cops during the chase but was later tracked down and found hiding in the back of a pickup truck inside a garage in a residential neighborhood in Ogden, according to a report by KSTU-TV.

https://youtu.be/V_5VT1Lj-oA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/24/ron-johnson-capitol-riot-disinformation/

As senators on Tuesday worked to unpack the security failures that allowed a pro-Trump mob to storm the Capitol last month, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) offered a wholly different take on what had happened: that “agent provocateurs” and “fake Trump protesters” were to blame.

Critics, including some within his party, promptly slammed Johnson over his unfounded suggestions that the Jan. 6 insurrection had been a “jovial” protest and that rioters who stormed the Capitol were not supporters of Donald Trump

“It’s disgraceful for a sitting Senator to spread disinformation so blatantly,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who has been an outspoken critic of Trump and his role in the insurrection, said Tuesday evening on Twitter. “It’s a disservice to the people he serves to continue lying to them like this. It’s dangerous and it must stop.”

As security officials testified about the intelligence lapses that allowed an armed group of insurrectionists to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, Johnson repeated unfounded claims about the riot that have become a familiar refrain from those who want to minimize the event’s seriousness and distance the worst participants from Trump.

Quoting an article published on a far-right website, Johnson claimed the “great majority” of protesters had a “jovial, friendly, earnest demeanor” and blamed the violence that turned deadly on “plainclothes militants, agent provocateurs, fake Trump protesters, and disciplined uniformed column of attackers.”

TMZ Sports obtained the first video of Tiger driving Tuesday morning on Hawthorne Blvd, minutes before the crash.

This surveillance video shows 2 vehicles heading uphill -- Tiger's Genesis GV80 SUV is trailing behind a minivan at just past 7:05 AM PT. You can see the logo on the door for the Genesis Invitational golf tournament, for which Tiger was in town. He didn't appear to be driving exceptionally fast at this point.

Remember, cops say they got the call about Tiger's accident at 7:12 AM, and where this video was shot is roughly 5 miles south of where he wrecked. You can see there's a big curve in the road -- not unlike the spot where he crashed, except that was downhill where he'd likely be carrying more speed into the turns.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/23/tiger-woods-car-crash-golf-tournament/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71GAtahs79I