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https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/abortion/abortion-support-highest-since-1970s/

(NewsNation) — Abortion has garnered some of the highest levels of support among Americans since nonpartisan researchers began tracking it in the 1970s, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll.

The poll, conducted by the Journal of NORC at the University of Chicago, surveyed 1,163 voters from Oct. 24-29. It found that 55% of respondents said pregnant women should be able to obtain a legal abortion, if they want, for any reason.

Following the Republican Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to the procedure, abortion rights groups have achieved seven consecutive victories in state ballot initiatives. Among them is an Ohio measure this month aimed at safeguarding abortion rights under the state constitution, according to the poll.

About 77% of Democrats said they support access to abortion for any reason — up from 52% in 2016, according to the poll. That share is one-third among Republicans.

However, the poll revealed some GOP voters, typically against abortion rights, oppose allowing state lawmakers to modify rules, a stance they view as consistent with conservative principles advocating for limited government intervention.

Numerous voters hold nuanced views, including supporting restrictions in later pregnancy and expressing considerations for challenging circumstances not adequately addressed by current legislative proposals.

Nearly 9 in 10 poll respondents support abortion access in cases of rape, incest or when a women’s health is seriously endangered by the pregnancy.

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https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/niagara-county/niagara-falls/rainbow-bridge-between-u-s-canada-closed-after-incident/

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – All four international border crossings between the United States and Canada in Western New York were closed Wednesday due to a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge.

Thick smoke could be seen in a viewer video from the scene. CBS News reports two people were killed in the incident. Citing a senior U.S. official, CBS added a car traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into a pylon at the bridge crossing, which was followed by the explosion.

The City of Niagara Falls said the incident involved a vehicle attempting to enter the U.S. The city and the FBI’s Buffalo Field Office termed the incident an explosion.

The Rainbow Bridge connects the cities of Niagara Falls, USA and Niagara Falls, Canada. The bridge is located less than a mile from the world-renowned waterfalls and offers views of the natural wonder.

The Peace Bridge, Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, Whirlpool Bridge, and Rainbow Bridge are all closed in both directions, according to the general manager of the Peace Bridge, Ron Reinas.

The City of Niagara Falls said federal authorities are investigating the situation. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and New York State Police are monitoring all points of entry to New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said, adding that she is heading to Western New York. President Joe Biden has been briefed on the incident and is closely following developments.

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The White House issued a brutal response Monday to what it said was the "inappropriate" nickname President Biden has been given by critics of his support for Israel amid its war with Hamas terrorists.

Dubbed "Genocide Joe," Biden has increasingly become the target of far-left protests across the country, including by some in his own party accusing him of supporting an effort to wipe out Gaza and the Palestinian people.

"We're not worried about nicknames and bumper stickers. I mean, it's First Amendment free speech. The president's focused on … making sure that we can continue to support Israel as they fight a terrible terrorist group, Hamas," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby initially told New York Post reporter Steven Nelson, who asked him for a response to the nickname during the White House press briefing.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-issues-brutal-response-inappropriate-nickname-anti-israel-critics

https://www.mediaite.com/news/john-kirby-pushes-back-after-genocide-joe-question-during-briefing-israel-is-not-trying-to-wipe-gaza-off-the-map/

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https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-israel-hamas-war-hostage-qatar-0126c6443a9b3b32fe97032b81eaa515

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Banksy Revealed? Artist Confirms Name in Lost BBC Interview

> in the summer of 2003 (Banksy, who was in his 20s) is asked by Wrench if his name is “Robert Banks”, and the artist replies, “It’s Robbie.”

To throw a spanner in the works...

>In 2008, The Daily Mail claimed that a Bristol-based man named Robin Gunningham was Banksy. [...] The Mail reports that Gunningham started going by the name Robin Banks, which went on to become Banksy. In October, The Sunday Times reported that Gunningham may be forced to reveal his identity due to a defamation claim to settle whether he is behind famous murals.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/banksy-name-reveal-lost-bbc-interview-1235667808/

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The AI startup behind Stable Diffusion is now testing generative video

https://www.engadget.com/the-ai-startup-behind-stable-diffusion-is-now-testing-generative-video-105519658.html

Stable Diffusion's generative art can now be animated, developer Stability AI announced. The company has released a new product called Stable Video Diffusion into a research preview, allowing users to create video from a single image. "This state-of-the-art generative AI video model represents a significant step in our journey toward creating models for everyone of every type," the company wrote.

The new tool has been released in the form of two image-to-video models, each capable of generating 14 to 25 frames long at speeds between 3 and 30 frames per second at 576 × 1024 resolution. It's capable of multi-view synthesis from a single frame with fine-tuning on multi-view datasets. "At the time of release in their foundational form, through external evaluation, we have found these models surpass the leading closed models in user preference studies," the company said, comparing it to text-to-video platforms Runway and Pika Labs.

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Free speech for the right wing and no one else in anti Semite Elon Musk's 'free speech' world

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-x-sues-media-matters_n_655c1eaae4b0c91d82783a46

Elon Musk’s Twitter sued the watchdog group Media Matters for America for defamation on Monday after the nonprofit published a report about ads for major brands appearing alongside posts touting Nazism.

Media Matters first published details Thursday about the spread of Nazi-related content on the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, saying Twitter had been placing ads for major brands, including Apple, IBM and Comcast’s Xfinity, next to offending content. The research group published screenshots of posts praising Hitler that ran adjacent to the ads shortly after Musk seemed to endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the site.

The report prompted a fresh wave of criticism for Twitter, and many advertisers suspended their ad buys.

But Twitter claimed in the suit — filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — that Media Matters “knowingly and maliciously manufactured” an account that manipulated the company’s algorithm to see offending content.

“Undeterred by the truth, Media Matters has opted for new tactics in its campaign to drive advertisers from Twitter,” the suit says. “Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on Twitter to bypass safeguards and create images of Twitter’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare.”

Media Matters rejected the lawsuit’s claims.

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Trump co-defendant says Georgia prosecutors are retaliating against him for rejecting a plea deal

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 5:52 PM EST, Mon November 20, 2023

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/harrison-floyd-georgia-fulton-county/index.html


Harrison Floyd, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the election subversion case in Georgia, claimed in a court filing Monday that prosecutors are seeking to revoke his bond as retaliation after he rejected a plea deal.

Prosecutors say Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump, made social media posts against witnesses in the case that “demonstrate that he poses a significant threat of intimidating witnesses.”

A hearing on the motion to revoke Floyd’s bond agreement and potentially send him to jail is set for Tuesday afternoon before Judge Scott McAfee.


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https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

Nov 22 (Reuters) - Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The previously unreported letter and AI algorithm were key developments before the board's ouster of Altman, the poster child of generative AI, the two sources said. Prior to his triumphant return late Tuesday, more than 700 employees had threatened to quit and join backer Microsoft (MSFT.O) in solidarity with their fired leader.

The sources cited the letter as one factor among a longer list of grievances by the board leading to Altman's firing, among which were concerns over commercializing advances before understanding the consequences. Reuters was unable to review a copy of the letter. The staff who wrote the letter did not respond to requests for comment.

After being contacted by Reuters, OpenAI, which declined to comment, acknowledged in an internal message to staffers a project called Q* and a letter to the board before the weekend's events, one of the people said. An OpenAI spokesperson said that the message, sent by long-time executive Mira Murati, alerted staff to certain media stories without commenting on their accuracy.

Some at OpenAI believe Q* (pronounced Q-Star) could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for what's known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks.

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‘If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,’ says former diplomat Stuart Seldowitz to a halal cart vendor in one video.

Stuart Seldowitz, who previously served as deputy director of the United States Department of State’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, was captured on video taunting and threatening the vendor in Manhattan. Amid the apparent argument over the ongoing Gaza war, he told his adversary that more Palestinian children should di


In other exchanges, he’s heard casting slurs against Prophet Muhammad. Asking if the vendor raped his daughter like Mohamed did.

He also threatens to use his government connections to mobilise Egypt’s secret police against the vendor, who he accuses of being a “terrorist”.

“The Mukhabarat in Egypt will get your parents. Does your father like his fingernails? They’ll take them out one by one,” Seldowitz says smiling.

The vendor is heard repeatedly asking him to leave.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/22/ex-us-diplomat-goes-on-islamophobic-rant-wishes-more-dead-palestinian-kids



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While liberals bitch about useless nothings like carbon taxes, Texas is the nations largest producer of green energy.
DNC shills left seething as their regressive policies continue to destroy the country.
https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-green-power-energy-america-economy-wind-oil-solar-prices-2023-11
America's greenest state is deep deep red
Highway 83, running between North Dakota and Texas, cuts America in half. The road runs mostly through isolated parts of the country, which has earned it the nickname the "Road to Nowhere."

John Davis, a rancher in Menard, Texas, is trying to make his little slice of US-83 a "somewhere" for road trippers. Menard Station opened in September and is gaining a fan base.
On Saturdays, Davis' family heads down to the Station to serve customers Wagyu steak burgers from their ranch outside of town, where seven white wind turbines tower over the cattle, sheep, and goats that graze in the grassland. The giant turbines are also the reason that Davis was able to open up the Station: In 2018, he signed a deal with RES Americas, which was developing 43 wind turbines in central Texas. The Davis' 1,300 acres of windy prairie were an attractive site for some of the turbines, which now crank out 24 megawatts of power.

"Everybody else struck oil. I struck wind," Davis told me.

Deals like Davis' have made Texas — America's oil capital for more than a century — the top producer of renewable energy in the US. The state has long generated the most wind power and is second only to California as a solar-energy producer. While fossil fuel still reigns supreme in the state's energy mix, wind and solar account for a growing share of the total. As of October, wind and solar met between 25% and 41% of Texas' energy demand, depending on the month, according to data from the state's grid operator ERCOT. Add in nuclear power, which doesn't produce greenhouse-gas emissions, and green energy met upward of 50% of the state's demand in some months.

Hey, hey, hey
What ya got to say?
Hey, hey, hey
What ya got to say?
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging

I remember not too long ago
I went to the theater
And I saw the Kool in the gang show
I always wanted to fit a band, yes I did
To sing my songs, sing my songs
And become a bad piano playing man

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For a guy who claims the piss tape isn't real, he sure takes a lot of energy denying it when no one brings it up.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-iowa-voters-hes-just-not-into-golden-showers

Donald Trump felt the need to make his kink preferences very clear to an Iowa audience on Saturday, describing how he denied to his wife Melania the claim he had sex workers urinate on him.

“‘He was with four hookers,’” Trump summarized to a Fort Dodge, Iowa, crowd. “You think that was good that night they go up and tell my wife, ‘It’s not true, darling. I love you very much. It’s not true.’”

The claim was one of the most incendiary in a 2016 dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele, a document that alleged the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. It claimed that Trump, during a 2013 stay at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, hired sex workers to perform a “golden showers” show on the hotel bed to defile it, as he had heard the Obamas had stayed in the same bed.

But Trump said on Saturday that it didn’t take much to disprove that claim to his wife.

“Actually that one she didn’t believe because she said, ‘He’s a germaphobe, he’s not into that,’” Trump said. “‘He’s not into golden showers,’ as they say they called it. I don’t like that idea. No, I didn’t. I thought that would be a big problem, I was going to have a rough night, but that one she was very good on.”

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Trump is no longer just 'leading the Republican party as their nominee' but is crushing Briben Biden in every national poll as well for a few months straight. Biden's administration is officially the most hated Administration in American history. We did it Joe!

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Trump beats Biden among YOUNG voters in new NBC poll - just three years after Dem president held 26 point lead over MAGA rival ahead of the 2020 election
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12768879/Trump-leads-Biden-poll-young-voters.html

Donald Trump is beating Joe Biden with voters under the age of 35, another disastrous poll for the president shows.

The new survey, conducted by NBC News, shows Trump leading Biden by two points - 46 to 44 percent - overall.

It is the latest in a series that have shown Trump pulling into the lead. He leads Biden among every age group except for senior citizens, who favor the current president.

Biden had a four point lead in the same survey when it was conducted in July, while the pair were in a dead hit when NBC polled voters in September.

But it is among voters ages 18 to 34 that are the biggest shock in this survey, as Trump leads Biden with that demographic 46 to 42.

Biden won younger voters by about 26 points in 2020 over Trump, according to the New York Post.


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