China easing ‘zero-COVID’ policy after protests
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China easing ‘zero-COVID’ policy after protests

ByNews Polite

China is finally easing its brutal “zero-COVID” policies after nearly a week of the biggest uprising in decades. Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who oversees COVID efforts, signaled the change Wednesday — as numerous regions also started lifting lockdowns, which had forced people into state-run facilities and left whole cities effectively…

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted for dancing maskless around masked school kids
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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted for dancing maskless around masked school kids

ByNews Polite

Conservative critics of newly re-elected Governor Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., tore into her on Twitter after a recent video showed her happily dancing unmasked surrounded by dozens of masked kids in a Puerto Rican school. Only days after her victory over Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., in the New York governor’s race, Hochul…

Trio of ‘Wolverine Watchman’ convicted in Michigan gov kidnap plot
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Trio of ‘Wolverine Watchman’ convicted in Michigan gov kidnap plot

ByNews Polite

Three members of a fringe paramilitary group were convicted on Wednesday of aiding a plot to kidnap the Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over COVID-19 restrictions they viewed as oppressive.  The plotters – Paul Bellar, Joseph Morrison and Pete Musico – were convicted of trying to help Adam…

Chinese artist Siyuan Zhuji turns COVID-19 tests into art to represent pandemic in China
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Chinese artist Siyuan Zhuji turns COVID-19 tests into art to represent pandemic in China

ByNews Polite

For most of China’s 1.4 billion people, regular COVID-19 tests have become a way of life. Siyuan Zhuji is trying to turn them into a work of art. Since March, the 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his…

Team Biden’s shameless bid to dodge blame for school closure damage
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Team Biden’s shameless bid to dodge blame for school closure damage

ByNews Polite

Team Biden’s comment on news that school lockdowns cost America’s kids years of progress boils down to “Don’t blame us!” Seriously: President Joe Biden’s Education Department late last week issued this absurdity: “When President Biden took office, most schools in America remained closed. President Biden got to work. He put…

Biden screws the frugal, America’s real polarization and other commentary
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Biden screws the frugal, America’s real polarization and other commentary

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Libertarian: Biden Screws the Frugal The problem with President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness “runs far beyond finances,” fumes Fiona Harrigan at Reason: Consider the “many college graduates who made strategic choices to avoid taking on debt in the first place.” Her parents “convinced me that starting my adult life that far…