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December 04, 2024
🇺🇸 Ypsilanti, Michigan City Council votes to remove Pledge of Allegience from their council agenda. One council member spoke out saying no.

🇺🇸 Ypsilanti, Michigan City Council votes to remove Pledge of Allegience from their council agenda. One council member spoke out saying no.

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Federal court of appeals just made a big ruling about TikTok

TikTok will be gone January 19 unless something changes

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December 01, 2024
In June of this year, President Biden said he would not pardon his son Hunter. Today, he announces a pardon.

In June of this year, President Biden said he would not pardon his son Hunter. Today, he announces a pardon.

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November 30, 2024
Snowstorm in Northern Michigan.
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7.0 magnitude earthquake just hit off the California coast and a Tsunami warning has been issued.

7.0 magnitude earthquake just hit off the California coast and a Tsunami warning has been issued.
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December 02, 2024
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US Orders National Milk Testing for Bird Flu Amid Dairy Herd Outbreaks
Michigan among the first states to be tested

WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mandated nationwide testing of the milk supply for bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday. The order comes as the virus rapidly spreads among dairy herds, raising concerns about the milk supply, public health, and economic impacts on farmers.

Since March, bird flu has infected over 500 dairy herds in California—America's leading milk-producing state—and more than 700 nationwide, according to the USDA. Nearly 60 people, primarily workers on infected poultry and dairy farms, have contracted the virus, though symptoms have been mild. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that the risk to the general public remains low.

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The USDA's testing program is set to begin on Dec. 16 and will initially focus on bulk milk tanks and dairy processors in California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. While bird flu has not yet been detected in dairy herds in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Oregon, the testing is designed to provide early detection of potential outbreaks.

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Details of the Federal Order

The USDA’s order requires farms and processors to make raw milk available for sampling. Additionally, farm owners with positive test results must disclose information about animal movements and other relevant data.

"This testing gives us an opportunity to get a heads-up about new virus activity, whether it's in areas already affected or in new states," Vilsack said.

The USDA previously required testing of lactating dairy cattle moving across state lines, a measure implemented in April. Both federal orders will remain in effect indefinitely.

Impact on California Dairies and Milk Safety

California, home to roughly 1,100 dairies, has seen nearly half of its farms affected by bird flu. This week, the state issued a recall of raw milk and cream products produced by Raw Farm after the virus was detected in both retail and bulk milk products.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises against consuming raw milk due to the risk of pathogens, including bird flu. However, the agency assures consumers that pasteurized dairy products are safe, as the pasteurization process eliminates these pathogens.

National Surveillance Effort

The testing initiative stems from calls by industry and veterinary groups for stronger surveillance of the virus. The program will include weekly or monthly sampling, depending on the severity of outbreaks in a given area.

By prioritizing high-risk states, USDA Chief Veterinarian Rosemary Sifford noted, the agency can more effectively monitor the spread and develop containment strategies. The pace of testing may be adjusted based on initial findings.

 

Broader Implications

The USDA aims to protect the national milk supply while mitigating economic losses for dairy farmers. The agency has collaborated with industry groups, state officials, and veterinarians to develop the testing plan, which Vilsack described as critical for maintaining public confidence in the milk supply.

"This effort underscores the importance of surveillance in managing emerging threats to agriculture and public health," Vilsack said.

The expanded testing program reflects the federal government’s commitment to curbing the impact of bird flu, which has posed a growing challenge to U.S. agriculture in recent years.

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Friday December 6, 2024

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban doctors from performing life-altering and irreversible transgender procedures on kids across the country.

Marshall put forth the “Safeguarding The Overall Protection of Minors Act’’ to block doctors from giving kids puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which can cause infertility, reduce bone density, and damage heart health. The legislation would also ban transgender surgeries for kids, including genital surgeries and removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys.

According to the text of the bill, doctors could be assessed a civil fine of up to $100,000 if they “knowingly perform, attempt to perform, conspire to perform, or provide a referral for any gender transition procedure on a minor.”

“Americans resoundingly rejected the Left’s dangerous transgender agenda. Let’s call it exactly what it is: child abuse,” Marshall, a doctor, said in a statement. “The days of demented doctors and activists getting rich off of mutilating, sterilizing, and castrating children are over.” Click here to read more.


 

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF - On the northern slope of Bernal Heights, amid bay windows adorned with rainbow Pride flags and leftover signs supporting Aaron Peskin for mayor, sits a 66-student school that weaves in lessons from the Bible with deep study of classical creeds and languages. Though it’s attended by kids whose families represent a cross-section of San Francisco, it was co-founded by a conservative Christian tech investor who has made no secret of his support for Donald Trump and his hard-right views on immigration, homosexuality, and abortion.

Donum Dei Classical Academy “exists to be a gift of God to the families and churches who call San Francisco home,” according to the school’s website. “We seek to impart a rich classical Christian curriculum full of Scriptural truth and life-giving experiences … in the hands of our godly, experienced teachers and education partners.”

Far from being a solitary conservative island in a roiling sea of secular progressivism, Donum Dei’s influence is expanding. The small school has grown by roughly 25 students since opening in 2019, and revenue from anonymous contributions increased from $45,692 that year to $773,319 in 2023. Click here to read more.

 

LANSING, Mich - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is fighting against porch pirates with Christmas lights and holiday music.

The top cop in the Great Lakes State offered advice to Michiganders on Wednesday to help them avoid package thefts in the leadup to Christmas, one element of a Holiday Scams Campaign run by her Consumer Protection Team that launched on Black Friday.

“Whether it’s a package or a piece of mail, unattended deliveries are easy targets for porch pirates,” Nessel said in a statement. “By planning ahead and taking security measures, you can make sure your sell-deserved gifts and packages reach you safely while keeping thieves from stealing your holiday cheer.”

Much of the advice from the AG includes obvious anti-theft measures, such as shipping packages to secure locations like Amazon Lockers, FedEx offices, and workplaces. Click here to read more.

 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Bruce Kitt is one of the Medicare Advantage industry’s most lucrative customers.

The federal government pays his private Medicare Advantage insurer thousands of dollars a year to cover the cost of doctor visits, hospitalizations and other medical care that the 74-year-old retired aircraft mechanic might need.

But Kitt, an Air Force veteran who served in Thailand during the Vietnam War, gets almost all of his healthcare outside the Medicare system, through the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. The taxpayer-funded Department of Veterans Affairs health system provides low-cost or free care to Kitt and about nine million other qualifying veterans.

Kitt’s Medicare Advantage insurer, an affiliate of CVS Health’s Aetna unit, pays for almost nothing other than a $100 monthly cash-like rebate to Kitt as an incentive to keep him on its rolls. The government paid the insurer at least $6,000 to cover him in 2022, the year he joined the plan.

“I don’t think I’ve used my Medicare in years,” said Kitt, who lives in Eden Prairie, Minn. When he needed some eye tests, the VA, not his Medicare Advantage plan, paid for him to go to an outside clinic. “I’m pretty happy with the VA,” he said. “I look at the Medicare plan as a backup.” Click here to read more.

 

Don’t say that debanking is back, because it never went away. But with close allies of the new administration focused on the issue, reform may finally be in the offing. Three basic steps are needed, the first two of which can be done in no time at all: (1) block regulators from pressuring financial providers to drop disfavored customers; (2) require government officials to report and publicly disclose actions targeting protected speech and association; and (3) dial back anti-money laundering law, “the world’s least effective policy experiment.”

Credit venture capitalist Marc Andreessen for putting debanking in the spotlight. If his aim was to raise awareness by bringing it up in a discussion with Joe Rogan and a series of X posts, then it worked. The minor backlash of doubters prompted a wave of start-up founders, crypto enthusiasts, and others with…interesting (but lawful!) financial situations to share their experiences.

It’s harrowing stuff: credit cards and ATM cards all going dead at once, losing access to one’s own money with no way to pay the bills, purposefully vague termination letters and refusal to explain, and the fear that speaking out will make one permanently unbankable. The experience is a bit like being “unpersoned” in a party-state or getting caught up in the “social credit” systems of science fiction or, as some have it, current-day China. Click here to read more.

 

 

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December 05, 2024
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Thursday December 5, 2024

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LANSING, Mich. – The Lansing Public Schools have seen its staffing increase by 30% while enrollment dropped by 5% as the district has seen spending on instruction and support services jump by $19 million since the pandemic.

But the district is far from alone. That’s a formula many school districts in Michigan have followed.

Overall, the K-12 public school districts in Michigan have seen staffing increase three years in a row and had 219,808 full-time employees in 2023-24 while statewide enrollment hit 1,429,895. Compare that to 2007-08, when the K-12 school districts employed 216,751 people to serve 1,645,742 students.

Lansing schools spent $164.3 million on instruction and support services in 2018-19 and that increased to $183.3 million in 2022-23. Enrollment went from 10,652 to 10,062 during that four-year span. Click here to read more.

 

All but one member of the Ypsilanti City Council thought it was a good idea on Tuesday to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from meetings.

“Really, our role is to our residents here in the community, here in the city of Ypsilanti,” said council member Desirae Simmons, who brought the resolution to do away with the pledge she said is redundant. “And so I guess that’s what I took my oath of office to, and I think that that’s sufficient.”

The proposal to remove the pledge first surfaced at the board’s organizational meeting last week, but members delayed a decision until Tuesday, WEMU reports.

Simmons told council members she believed the pledge was a waste of time.

“I know I don’t feel comfortable pledging allegiance to a flag,” she said. “And so, I don’t participate in that, so I wanted to bring it up as a formal change to our agenda.” Click here to read more.


 

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WASHINGTON D.C. - The Supreme Court seems poised to reject a challenge from the Biden administration and the ACLU to Tennessee’s law shielding minors from irreversible transgender procedures, according to comments made by justices during oral arguments on Wednesday.

Throughout oral arguments on Wednesday morning, the conservative justices were skeptical of arguments from U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and the ACLU, who argued that Tennessee’s law violated the 14th Amendment. The law prevents doctors from giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which come with a variety of long-term health risks.

Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito strongly pushed back against Prelogar and the ACLU, with Alito pointing to data contradicting claims that transgender procedures were necessary to keep kids from committing suicide. Alito also pointed to recent decisions in the United Kingdom to restrict transgender procedures for minors. Click here to read more.

 

KANSAS CITY, MO - A new policy from Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts, starting Jan. 1, will restrict coverage of monitored anesthesia care (MAC) for patients undergoing endoscopic procedures like colonoscopies.

Patients classified as American Society of Anesthesiologist class I or class II will no longer receive coverage. These patients usually do not have accompanying comorbidities. The coverage restriction also applies to bronchoscopy and certain pain procedures.

The decision has been decried by national groups — including the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American Gastroenterology Association —as they warn it will lead to less safe clinical conditions for patients and a lower overall quality of care. They said it will also worsen the state’s backlog of screenings. Their meetings with legislators and BCBSMA leaders have so far not persuaded the insurer to change its mind, which stands to save money should the changes take effect next month. Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGOTN D.C. - Aides of President Joe Biden are debating whether the outgoing Democratic president should issue preemptive pardons for figures President-elect Donald Trump has named as his political enemies.

Politico reported Wednesday that among those being discussed for blanket pardons are former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, Sen.-elect Adam Schiff and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Biden - who has been busy dealing with the fallout from his decision to pardon his son Hunter over gun and tax crimes - hasn't been brought into the discussions yet, the outlet said.

White House officials fear that doling out pardons to people who haven't been charged with a crime could suggest impropriety.

But there's also a worry that if Kash Patel is successfully elevated to head of the FBI, Trump could truly go after his critics, as Patel has suggested.

Cheney was one of only two Republican members of the House's select committee on the January 6 Capitol attack.

The daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, she became the face of the 'Country over Party' movement during the 2024 election cycle, campaigning alongside eventual Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump has pushed that Cheney 'should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!' Click here to read more.

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