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Question of the Day Migrants climb on to the back of a freight truck that slowed down to give them an opportunity to jump on in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. A new caravan of about 2,000 migrants set out from neighboring . more > By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, January 8, 2021
A mob of migrants chanting “Biden, Biden” tried to rush across a border bridge into Texas late last month, according to local news accounts that said they’d been told a false rumor that they’d be allowed to enter.
With the headline “Donald Trump’s Final Days,” The Journal excoriated the president for “an assault on the constitutional process of transferring power after an election.”
The page allegedly ran afoul of “hateful, threatening, or obscene” content.
“@SenTedCruz @tedcruz I need your help,” Mr. Straka added. “PLEASE CONTACT ME. The entire #WalkAway movement & every employee & volunteer from my organization was BANNED today from Facebook. This is only the beginning of a total conservative shutdown if we don’t get help. Patriots, PLZ retweet.”
Contacting Mr. Cruz, a long-time critic of censorship by social media giants, was a logical move on Mr. Straka’s part.
“These are the most powerful companies on the face of the earth and they feel zero accountability to any elected official,” Mr. Cruz said in December. “For all of us who care about free speech that should worry us greatly. YouTube’s latest policy [to delete content questioning election integrity] is ridiculous. … Simply exercising monopoly power to say ‘the views that I don’t like shall disappear and have never exist’ that should scare everyone.”
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By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times - Friday, January 8, 2021
President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Friday that Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont agreed that he should stay in the U.S. Senate rather than join Mr. Biden’s administration as labor secretary.
Mr. Biden said he gave “serious consideration” to nominating Mr. Sanders for the post before ultimately opting for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
“But after Tuesday’s results in Georgia, giving Democratic control of the United States Senate … Bernie and I agreed matter of fact, Bernie [said] we can’t put control of the Senate at risk on the outcome of a special election in Vermont,” Mr. Biden said. “And he agreed we couldn’t take that chance.”