Joshua Young
Josh is an award winning playwright whose work now encompasses speechwriting and journalism. Hes a proud participant in the Big Sort leaving NYC after 20 years to live in rural North Carolina.
'I orchestrated it': Ray Epps texted his nephew on Jan 6: report
Epps was filmed on January 5 saying "We need to go in to the Capitol," and later added "I'm going to put it out there. I'm probably going to go to jail for it, okay. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol."
PA court considers tossing out articles of impeachment against woke DA Larry Krasner
"The problem is you’re asking the court to intervene and that is going to set another huge precedent for the people of this commonwealth if the court can usurp its separation of powers principle and stick its hand into a process that the Supreme Court says belongs to the General Assembly."
Greg Abbott builds shipping container wall along Texas border to stop illegal immigrants
"Texas is adding shipping containers to the US-Mexico border in El Paso. This is in addition to the razor wire and National Guard. Together, the strategies are causing illegal immigration at that location to plummet."
Massive spending bill flies to Caribbean for Biden's signature
"The omnibus — filled with wacko climate change initiatives — is being flown more than 1,000 miles to be signed because the President couldn’t be bothered to stick around and do his job."
Belarus shoots down rogue missile launched by Ukraine, lands on Belarusian territory
"Fragments were found in an agricultural field ... During the verification process, it was established that the wreckage belongs to an S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile fired from the territory of Ukraine."
Catholic archdiocese upholds biological sex as standard for pronouns, bathrooms in Omaha-area Catholic schools
All students shall conduct themselves in accord with their God-given biological sex as it relates to the use of personal pronouns, dress code, use of public bathrooms, and participation in school-sponsored activities."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution falsely claims Kwanzaa is 'older that Christmas and Hanukkah'
"Kwanzaa's model is older than Christmas and Hanukkah and thus does not borrow from them or seek to imitate them."
Major journalist org demands US drop all charges against Julian Assange
"The IFJ is gravely concerned about the impact of Assange’s continued detention on media freedom and the rights of all journalists globally. "
Biden's border crisis leads to record amounts of fentanyl smuggled into US in 2022
60 percent of fentanyl seizures in 2022 happened in Southern California ports of entry such as Imperial and San Diego counties.
Tech industry relies on cobalt mining in Congo using child labor under brutal conditions
"The cobalt that's being mined in the Congo is in every single lithium-ion rechargeable battery manufactured in the world today, every smartphone, every tablet, every laptop, and crucially, every electric vehicle."
HUNDREDS of felony cases dismissed in Portland from public defender shortage
300 cases have been dismissed in 2022 through December 9 because of the public defender shortage, two-thirds of which were felony cases.
BREAKING: 2 dead after shooting at Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in Colorado
"The investigation is still active, witnesses being interviewed, scene being examined. A suspicious device found at the scene is being evaluated by the Hazardous Materials Unit. Two adults are dead at the scene. Still no known threats to the Thornton community."
'Almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true': Elon Musk
When asked "is there a part of the files that really shocked you" Musk replied that the "FBI stuff is pretty intense. "
Elon Musk signals Twitter is making financial progress
"Overall it seems to be going in a good direction and, you know, we've got the the expenses reasonably under control. So the company is not, like, in the fast lane of bankruptcy anymore," Musk said.
Elon Musk warns there's 'great danger in training AI to lie' after ChatGPT prohibited from promoting fossil fuels
"I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against my programming to generate content that promotes the use of fossil fuels," ChatGPT said.