District of Columbia | November 10, 2021
Biden admin. to rescind Trump-era religious exemptions for federal contractors
District of Columbia | November 10, 2021
The Biden administration has proposed narrowing the religious exemptions to federal discrimination law given to entities that contract with the federal government, which currently allows them to uphold religious convictions in certain hiring decisions.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a U.S. Department of Labor division, has proposed rescinding a federal contractor rule adopted under President Donald Trump in 2020.
In the proposed rule change, published in the Federal Register Tuesday, the OFCCP argued that the Trump administration rule was too broad compared to previous administrations and ran afoul of discrimination measures governing federal contractors…. (Excerpts from the Christian Post)
District of Columbia | November 1, 2021
Southwest launches probe into pilot who allegedly said ‘Let’s go, Brandon’
District of Columbia | November 1, 2021
Southwest Airlines has launched an internal investigation into an Associated Press reporter’s claim that a pilot said the anti-Biden slogan “Let’s go, Brandon” over the loudspeaker, spurring calls on the left for his firing.
In a Sunday statement, the airline said that it “does not tolerate any behavior that encourages divisiveness” in response to AP reporter Colleen Long, who tweeted that she asked the crew to unlock the cockpit door after hearing the pilot use the phrase.
“TFW [That Feeling When] you’re trying to go on vacation and then the pilot says the very thing you’re working on over the loud speaker and you have to try to get [his] comment but then almost get removed from plane,” she said in a Saturday tweet… (Excerpts from Washington Times)
District of Columbia | October 19, 2021
Was the January 6 Riot an Armed Insurrection?
District of Columbia | October 19, 2021
District of Columbia | October 19, 2021
New video from Jan. 6 shows officers allowing people to enter Capitol
District of Columbia | October 19, 2021
A pair of lengthy videos showcasing a different perspective of what happened on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol have finally been released to the public, despite objections from the Biden administration. According to BuzzFeed News, the surveillance videos show Capitol police officers allowing hundreds of people to enter the government, after being vastly outnumbered…. (Excerpts from the Just the News)
District of Columbia | October 8, 2021
Political science convention deplatforms conservative group for featuring Trump’s lawyer
District of Columbia | October 8, 2021
The nation’s largest gathering of social scientists deplatformed a conservative group because a lawyer for former President Donald Trump was participating in its events. The American Political Science Association forced the Claremont Institute to make its “related group” discussions virtual at the annual convention in Seattle, a day after hundreds of APSA members demanded the association eject both Claremont and John Eastman. Back in July, organizers had only demanded the two panels with Eastman be made virtual in the interest of “safety,” Claremont president Ryan Williams wrote in an opinion essay. The group decided to cancel all 10 panels and its reception in protest of APSA’s new across-the-board demand…. (Excerpts from Just the News)
District of Columbia | October 5, 2021
‘War of weaponized influence’: U.S. spending millions to hunt down foreign tweets, memes
District of Columbia | October 5, 2021
The U.S. government is building expensive tools to fight enemies that use tweets and memes instead of bullets and bombs. Instead of the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan, the battleground is on technological platforms such as Twitter, where the Defense Department’s research and development arm says America is fighting an “asymmetric, continual, war of weaponized influence narratives.”
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said it plans to spend $59.5 million in the next four years on researchers making algorithms and gathering content including tweets, memes, political ads and blog posts for the government’s Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) program…. (Excerpts from the Washington Times)