F-16 Fighter Jet Intercepted Plane Over President Trump's Rally in Bullhead City, Arizona | 28 Oct 2020 | An F-16 fighter jet intercepted a plane that was flying in a restricted area during President Trump's rally in Bullhead City Wednesday. The following is a statement from North American Aerospace Defense Command:
North American Aerospace Defense Command directed F-16 aircraft to investigate a general aviation aircraft that was not in communication with air traffic control and entered the Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) area [Trump Rally] surrounding Bullhead City, Arizona, without proper clearance. The violating aircraft was non-responsive to initial intercept procedures, but established radio communications after NORAD aircraft deployed signal flares. The violating aircraft was escorted out of the restricted area by the NORAD aircraft without further incident.
Secret Service agents ran toward the President as the event unfolded, but ultimately did not go on stage.
Q3 GDP: US economic activity rose at a record 33.1% annualized pace after pandemic-induced slump | 29 Oct 2020 | U.S. economic activity surged at a record clip for the July through September period, as an initial easing of virus-related lockdowns allowed business activity to return after a historic slump. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its advance print on third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday. Here is the main metric from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: 3Q GDP, annualized quarter-over-quarter: 33.1% vs. 32.0% expected, -31.4% in the second quarter... Prior to the pandemic period, the largest-ever quarterly rise in GDP had been a 16.7% annualized increase in 1950.
Twitter Suspends U.S. Border Chief for Celebrating Wall's Protection From Illegal Entrants | 29 Oct 2020 | Twitter suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post celebrating the success of the U.S. southern border wall keeping violent criminals from reaching American communities. According to screenshots shared exclusively with The Federalist, Twitter locked Morgan's account Wednesday afternoon for apparently violating platform rules governing "hateful conduct" after the commissioner attempted to tweet about the wall's benefits. In recent weeks, the commissioner had been free to publish content on the site touting the accomplishments of border agents keeping America safe. It's not clear what has recently changed in Twitter's algorithm or policing that resulted in this post's shutdown of his account when other similar posts went unblocked.
Cruz clashes with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: 'Who the h-ll elected you?' | 28 Oct 2020 | Sen. Ted Cruz took Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to task Wednesday over what he called the social media platform’s anti-conservative bias, accusing him of acting like the Democratic Party's censorship czar. "Mr. Dorsey, who the h-ll elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?" Mr. Cruz barked at a virtual Senate committee hearing. The Texas Republican flayed Mr. Dorsey over Twitter's restrictions on the distribution of news stories involving Hunter Biden's emails that reflect poorly on the presidential campaign of his father, Democrat Joseph R. Biden. "And why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC, silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?" he asked. "We're not doing that," Mr. Dorsey replied [lied].
NYU professor compares 2020 election vote to those of Flight 93 passengers on 9/11 --An NYU professor tweeted a photo of himself voting, saying it makes him 'think of flight 93.' | 29 Oct 2020 | New York University [so-called] professor of marketing Scott Galloway tweeted a picture of himself holding up a mail-in ballot, comparing his vote in the 2020 election to the votes that passengers on board Flight 93 took just before sacrificing their own lives to save countless other Americans. Galloway posted the picture on Twitter with the caption, "Whenever I do this, I think of flight 93 (9/11). How did the passengers decide whether to rush the cockpit/hijackers, and attempt to retake control of the plane? They voted." Flight 93 was one of the four airplanes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, which took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans.
CNN won't run pro-Trump ad warning Biden will raise taxes on middle class | 27 Oct 2020 | CNN has informed the largest outside group supporting President Trump's reelection that it will not run one of its new ads, saying the ad is false because it warns Democratic nominee Joe Biden will raise taxes on the middle class and implies that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports socialist policies. The ad, from America First Action (AFA), says Biden "sided with socialists," while showing pictures of Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The narrator of the ad also warns that Biden will "raise taxes on the middle class" and that "his liberal agenda will cost millions of jobs." America First Action says the ad has been approved to run on ABC, AMC, Cooking, CBS, Comcast, DIY, Discovery, ESPN, Food Network, Fox, HGTV, History, Lifetime and The Weather Channel. But in an email, an account executive at Warner Media said the clearance team rejected it.