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NYC Mayoral Front-Runner, Embracing Climate Activists Demands, Vows To Ban Fossil Fuels
Scott Stringer is leaning into the Green New Deal to consolidate support among the Big Apple’s political left.
Scott Stringer, an early front-runner for New York City mayor, pledged to completely phase out fossil fuels, drive private utility companies out of the nation’s largest metropolis, and “electrify everything” in a near total embrace of climate activists’ demands ahead of this year’s election.
The 34-page proposal Stringer laid out Sunday would transform the five boroughs, glazing the rooftops with solar panels and battery units, prioritizing bike lanes and pedestrian walkways over highways, and providing new programs to make electricity cheaper and green jobs more plentiful for the city’s squeezed working class.
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In Major Blow, Amazon s Web-Hosting Service Boots Right-Wing Parler Off The Internet
Amazon joined the growing list of companies cracking down on incitement to violence in the wake of the Capitol attack by Trump supporters.
In a stunning crackdown on Parler, Amazon jettisoned the right-wing social network from its web-hosting service just after midnight Pacific time early Monday, the Associated Press reported.
That means Parler, a favorite of extremist Donald Trump supporters, will be off the internet unless or until it can find another host.
Amazon took the action because of Parler’s lack of restrictions over users’ calls for violence, which violate the company’s terms of service, in the wake of the lethal attack on the Capitol Wednesday that left five people dead, including a police officer.
Five people, including a police officer, died related to the attack.
The chance of a Trump pardon including for himself is particularly jarring in this case because the president been accused of inciting the violence.
If he pardons people who directly attacked the democratic process, committing crimes while they were doing it, “how much more egregious, unjust, unfair, inappropriate does a presidential pardon get?” former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Friday on NBC 4 in Washington.
“It doesn’t get any more democracy-damaging than not being able to hold those folks accountable,” added Kirschner, who spent 30 years prosecuting crimes in the District of Columbia.
Sasse told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt that he learned of the president’s upbeat attitude when he talked to White House aides. Five people died during the attack, including Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick.
As the attack Wednesday was “unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as . rioters [pushed] against Capitol police, trying to get into the building,” Sasse said. “That was happening. He was delighted.”
CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins also reported Wednesday that sources inside the White House told her that Trump was “borderline enthusiastic” because the attack was interfering with the certification of electoral votes.