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President-elect Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he would cancel a permit critical to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The move marks the second time that a Democratic administration has effectively killed the $8 billion project. While environmental and conservation groups praised the move, TC Energy, the company behind the pipeline’s construction, argued in an earlier Supreme Court brief that scrapping the project would strip 1,500 construction workers and 300 inspection and management workers of their jobs.
Biden’s executive order, which he is expected to sign Wednesday, would revoke “permits signed over the past four years that do not serve the U.S. national interest, including revoking the Presidential permit granted to the Keystone XL pipeline,” the administration said.
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Twitter’s recent wave of mass suspensions hurt Republicans while the vast majority of Democrats gained followers, an analysis of the data showed.
Out of all 45 Democrats in the Senate, only two lost followers in January while the rest gained thousands. The majority of Republicans, however, lost followers during the same period, according to data from the social media analytics website SocialBlade. The discrepancy was first reported by the New York Post.
Overall, 68% of Republican Senators lost followers in January compared to 0.04% of Democratic Senators. Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham lost the most followers out of the group, dropping 117,569 followers in January. Other Republican Senators lost tens of thousands of followers, including Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who lost 56,237 followers; Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who lost 85,818 followers; and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who lost 77,238 followers.
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Seventeen Republican freshman reps wrote a letter congratulating President Joe Biden hours before he was sworn in, according to NPR.
“[W]e trust that the next four years will present your administration and the 117th Congress with numerous challenges and successes, and we are hopeful that – despite our ideological differences – we may work together,” the letter said, according to NPR.
The letter referred to the Capitol riot, calling it “horrific” and urged bipartisanship to pass legislation.
“Americans are tired of the partisan gridlock and simply want to see leaders from both sides of the aisle work on issues important to American families, workers, and businesses.”
Since then, she’s locked her Twitter account.
You can’t hide, Maggie. We all see your dirty hands. pic.twitter.com/GgXFtjD8Wb
The second tweet targeted Event Strategies and its founder Tim Unes, saying that the event management company “was paid $1.3M from the Trump Campaign for audio and visual services.”
“Their founder, Tim Unes, was ‘stage manager’ for last week’s insurrection event,” the tweet said. It also offers a phone number and email address. “Here’s his company’s number and email address. Let them know what we think of insurrectionists.”
A Twitter spokesperson told the DCNF that the two Lincoln Project tweets “are currently not in violation of the Twitter Rules.” He did not elaborate on why the tweets did not violate Twitter’s guidelines on abusive behavior.
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A French citizen transferred over $500,000 in Bitcoin, before committing suicide, to various far-right groups that were seen at the Capitol riot.
On Dec. 8, a computer programmer from France named Laurent Bachelier sent $250,000 in Bitcoin to Nick Fuentes, a far-right political commentator and Holocaust denier, according to the Wall Street Journal. The other $270,000 was split among various right-wing groups, according to a Chainalysis report.
Other far right figures who received Bitcoin in the donation include Patrick Casey, Vincent Reynouard, and Ethan Ralph, as well as platforms and websites like the Daily Stormer, VDARE, and Gab. https://t.co/LznOztFphHpic.twitter.com/tgTjbvVlnQ