A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> Democrat congressional candidate seeking to unseat a 42-year Republican representative ruffled a few feathers after Wawa accused the politician of stealing the convenience store&#8217;s goose logo.
Matt Jenkins, who is challenging incumbent Chris Smith in New Jersey&#8217;s 4th District, received a cease-and-desist letter from Wawa Wednesday that <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000183-897e-d9e4-a99b-fdfe28420000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> obtained alleging that the politician has been using an identical trademark that the chain used from 1990 to 2004.
&#8220;If Wawa allows other uses – such as the use by your campaign – it runs the very real risk that its trademarks will be weakened,&#8221; Douglas Panzer, intellectual property attorney for Wawa, wrote in the letter. &#8220;As a New Jerseyan, familiar with Wawa&#8217;s reputation among and relationship with the public, we trust that is not something that you would want to occur.&#8221;
Panzer, an attorney for Caesar Rivise law firm, said it represents Wawa, Inc. and Wild Goose Holding Co., Inc, which owns the patent of the Wawa Goose trademark design. He noted that Jenkins&#8217; congressional campaign has been &#8220;using a logo highly similar to and likely to be confused with Wawa&#8217;s well-known goose logo.&#8221;
Jenkins&#8217; campaign logo showcases two geese near his first and last name.
&#8220;In fact, it appears that the geese used in your campaign&#8217;s logo are identical to Wawa&#8217;s earlier goose logo,&#8221; Panzer wrote.
When Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/wawa-nj-house-candidate-ripped-off-goose-logo-00059463" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the similarities between both logos, Jenkin&#8217;s responded that the Wawa symbol represents &#8220;a lot of people in our district.&#8221;
&#8220;When we launched this race to replace Chris Smith, I wanted our logo to feel instantly familiar,&#8221; Jenkins tweeted. However, the New Jersey politician would later dispute to Politico that his logo was &#8220;inspired&#8221; by Wawa, adding on Tuesday that it was just a &#8220;coincidence.&#8221;
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For a lot of people in our district, Wawa represents them. When we launched this race to replace Chris Smith, I wanted our logo to feel instantly familiar.
&mdash; Matt Jenkins for Congress (@MattJenkinsNJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattJenkinsNJ/status/1574760202452303884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Before a friend of Jenkins pointed out his campaign logo resembled the convenience store, he allegedly told Politico in a phone interview that the logo was one of a dozen designs his campaign team created and did not make the connection with Wawa.
Wawa currently has more than 800 locations in the region.
A Wawa lobbyist had then told Jenkins to &#8220;discretely&#8221; stop using the geese for his campaign.
Panzer said it gives an impression that Wawa has an association or sponsorship with his campaign.
&#8220;And as you stated in your Tweets … the use of the Wawa Goose in your campaign&#8217;s logo is immediately familiar because of Wawa&#8217;s notoriety among the people of New Jersey,&#8221; Panzer wrote.
Jenkins allegedly admitted Thursday that both logos are identical, but did not specify if he would change it.
&#8220;In the letter it says this was an old trademark … &#8216;formerly registered,’” Jenkins said, according to Politico. &#8220;This is going to cost me money to change. Everybody knows my finances. I don&#8217;t have any. To go out and reprint my signs, all my literature.&#8221;
Jenkins said he called his team, who allegedly believes his congressional race opponent, Rep. Smith, may have ousted him to Wawa — although he admitted he has no evidence to support the claim.
Still, Panzer &#8220;kindly&#8221; requested that Jenkins and his team immediately cease and desist from using the Wawa goose logo.
&#8220;While we appreciate your affinity for Wawa and your recognition of its special relationship with the people of New Jersey, failure of Wawa to enforce the exclusivity of its marks could have a diluting effect on the value of our client&#8217;s mark and accordingly requires that we stop any unauthorized use of those marks or marks confusingly similar thereto,&#8221; Panzer wrote.

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Red flares and clouds of thick black smoke billowed in the skies Thursday night as around 400 members of the so-called anarchist group Antifa protested roughly one mile from where <a href="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=DChcSEwjf-MrLnbv6AhUoKUwKHUQ1BDQYABAAGgJvYQ&amp;ae=2&amp;ohost=www.google.com&amp;cid=CAESa-D2kSnz3tgEj2kIXrE4TsyCPeyVq62qHWnlSnKGbNkx6DAGOfQLw1kbcDUguKgcrA7SdTpBVXU8AyN2CPSGHkg2KEUuuycjNP3tgyhqOT0wlYYDgk-Axm5BQ0QIIyqBqp_NopJmIGF6NKP5&amp;sig=AOD64_0jtrvWmIrJiCe6cJAwko-afixz8w&amp;q&amp;adurl&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjHor3Lnbv6AhV2k2oFHfD0B3cQ0Qx6BAgEEAE">Dr. Jordan Peterson</a> spoke at an event in Berlin, Germany.
The demonstration was one that members of the group had planned for weeks to shut down Peterson&#8217;s event, independent journalist Andy Ngo <a href="https://ngo.locals.com/post/2797554/berlin-antifa-announce-plans-to-shut-down-jordan-peterson-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
Written on red and white cloth, social justice slogans like &#8220;SMASH THE PATRIARCHY&#8221; or &#8220;NO SHOW FOR RACISTS SEXISTS&#8221; shield the faces of the double-masked members of North East Antifa, Berlin chapter, as Peterson prepped for the next stop on his 2022-2023 Beyond Order European Tour.
&#8220;In an angry demonstration, around 500 people marched through #Kreuzberg in front of the #Tempodrom today to protest against Jordan B. #Peterson&#8217;s performance,&#8221; North East Antifa, Berlin, said in a translated tweet. &#8220;This supplies the #AltRight in the #USA as well as misogynist internet subcultures with anti-feminist ideology.&#8221;
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In einer wütenden Demonstration zogen heute ca. 500 Menschen durch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kreuzberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kreuzberg</a> vor das <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tempodrom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tempodrom</a>, um gegen den Auftritt von Jordan B. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Peterson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Peterson</a> zu protestieren. Dieser beliefert die <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltRight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltRight</a> in den <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USA</a> sowie misogyne Internet-Subkulturen mit antifeministischer Ideologie. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/B2909?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#B2909</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZT3C4buFV7">pic.twitter.com/ZT3C4buFV7</a>
&mdash; North East Antifa [Berlin] (@antifanordost) <a href="https://twitter.com/antifanordost/status/1575588331043233792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Peterson spoke at the Tempodrom Thursday night, a venue in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough of Berlin, which according to Ngo, is an area infamous for its violent far-left politics and Antifa organizing.
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(1/x) In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Berlin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Berlin</a> demonstrierten heute Antifa-Gruppen unter dem Motto <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/keineshowfuertaeter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#keineshowfuertaeter</a>. Die angemeldete Demo zog mit 400Teilnehmenden zum <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tempodrom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tempodrom</a>. Dort fand eine Buchstellung des amerikanischen Altright-Influencers Jordan Peterson statt <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/B2909?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#B2909</a> Fotos:<a href="https://t.co/asZTMJ2tXB">https://t.co/asZTMJ2tXB</a> <a href="https://t.co/QB34RruyuA">pic.twitter.com/QB34RruyuA</a>
&mdash; Presseservice_RN (@PresseserviceRN) <a href="https://twitter.com/PresseserviceRN/status/1575582838853754880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On May Day, protestors nearly every year turn the event into a riot. While law enforcement attempts to control the area from anarchist-communist groups around the neighborhoods, the rioters have assaulted and injured authorities.
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Heute will der pseudointellektuelle FLINTA*-Hasser Jordan Peterson in Berlin auftreten. Dagegen bildet sich ein feministischer und antifaschistischer Protest. Wenn ihr aus Berlin seit: hin da!
Hintergrund Infos über Peterson:<a href="https://t.co/TCza2Snap9">https://t.co/TCza2Snap9</a> <a href="https://t.co/2ItnX4iYBB">pic.twitter.com/2ItnX4iYBB</a>
&mdash; Jay Hammes 🏳️‍🌈 (@Jay_Hammes) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jay_Hammes/status/1575430217983729664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to a German independent journalist, who appears to have been on the ground while black-clad foot soldiers protested against Peterson, one member took the floor and criticized the renowned author, clinician, and commentator for influencing a &#8220;woman-hating rape culture.&#8221;
&#8220;At the start of the demo, MdA Ferat Koçak (left) took the floor. He criticized Peterson as an influencer of a ‘woman-hating rape culture,’” @PresseserviceRN said in a tweet translated into English by The Daily Wire. &#8220;But Koçak also called for sexism in one&#8217;s own community to be questioned and for everyone to be able to lead a self-determined life.&#8221;
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(3/x) Zum Start der Demo ergriff MdA Ferat Koçak (Linke) das Wort. Er kritisierte Peterson als Beeinflusser einer &quot;frauenhassenden Rape-Kultur&quot;. Koçak forderte aber auch Sexismus in der eigenen Community zu hinterfragen und Allen ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu ermöglichen. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/B2909?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#B2909</a> <a href="https://t.co/yiaGwK6z5I">pic.twitter.com/yiaGwK6z5I</a>
&mdash; Presseservice_RN (@PresseserviceRN) <a href="https://twitter.com/PresseserviceRN/status/1575582856105304064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The independent journalist observed that German culture considers Peterson an opponent of political correctness and stigmatizes current identity politics as &#8220;cultural Marxism.&#8221;
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation, a German foundation that claims to stand against far-right-wing parties, racism, and anti-Semitism, openly supported the organization&#8217;s followers on Twitter to attend the protest.
&#8220;JP clearly shows: Social chauvinism and anti-feminism inevitably lead to misanthropic thinking and acting,” the foundation said in a tweet. “Therefore: support the protests against the reading of #JordanPeterson on September 29th, 2022!&#8221;
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JP zeigt eindeutig auf: Sozialchauvinismus und Antifeminismus führen unweigerlich in menschenfeindliches Denken und Handeln. Deswegen: unterstützt die Proteste gegen die Lesung von <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JordanPeterson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JordanPeterson</a> am 29.09.2022! 12/12<a href="https://t.co/UOF1R2zH5G">https://t.co/UOF1R2zH5G</a>
&mdash; Amadeu Antonio Stiftung (@AmadeuAntonio) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmadeuAntonio/status/1574735563907039233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Peterson, however, refused to let the North East Antifa, Berlin protestors&#8217; views faze him.
&#8220;We would like to thank the very thoughtful Antifa protestors, who, despite entirely misunderstanding the nature of my tour lectures, added an additional touch of drama, color, and spice to what was an entirely successful, well-attended, and positive Berlin event,&#8221; Peterson told The Daily Wire.
Peterson spoke in Amsterdam last weekend, where another small group of Antifa members protested without incident.
Dr. Peterson, who recently began a multi-year partnership with DailyWire+, also announced a limited-series podcast aimed at young men, titled &#8220;Dragons, Monsters, &amp; Men.&#8221;

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Two hundred genetically modified mosquitoes with an experimental malaria vaccine packed inside a Chinese food takeout-style box inoculated 26 participants in a University of Washington study last month.
As reported by <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://thecountersignal.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-vaccinate-a-human/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Counter Signal</a>, each participant placed their arms in the box to receive three to five jabs over 30-day intervals during the clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health.
&#8220;We use the mosquitoes like they&#8217;re 1,000 small flying syringes,&#8221; Dr. Sean Murphy, physician and scientist at the university, told <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/21/1112727841/a-box-of-200-mosquitoes-did-the-vaccinating-in-this-malaria-trial-thats-not-a-jo">NPR</a>.
Murphy, who also serves as the lead author on a Science Translational Medicine paper that details the vaccine trials, said the study would not be used to vaccinate millions of people. Instead, the team crafted the bloodsuckers because formulating a parasite delivered with a needle takes up too much time and money.
Using a flying insect during the early stages of the trial made more sense for delivery because the parasites mature much quicker.
Still, those tiny flying needles infected the subjects with a minor version of malaria but not enough to cause severe illness.
&#8220;Half of the individuals in each vaccine group did not develop detectable P. falciparum infection, and a subset of these individuals was subjected to a second [Controlled Human Malaria Infection] 6 months later and remained partially protected,&#8221; the study reads, according to <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abn9709">Sceince.org</a>. &#8220;These results support further development of genetically attenuated sporozoites as potential malaria vaccines.&#8221;
Carolina Reid, a volunteer, was one of the participants who came down with malaria.
&#8220;My whole forearm swelled and blistered,&#8221; Carolina Reid, volunteer, told NPR. &#8220;My family was laughing, asking like, &#8216;why are you subjecting yourself to this?'&#8221;
Reid, who joined the trial in 2018, pocketed a $4,100 payment for participating in the study.
Others who were protected against the disease only lasted a few months before the vaccine wore off.
Dr. Kirsten Lyke, a physician and vaccine researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told NPR, &#8220;they went old school with this one.&#8221;
&#8220;All things old become new again,&#8221; she said, adding that developing such genetically modified live parasites has proven to be a &#8220;total game changer.&#8221;
According to the university&#8217;s <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/UMBaltimore/status/1545453781298593792?s=20&amp;t=5bJ0ConXj6EccwsY0RV4Mw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> page, Lyke led the Phase 1 trials for the Pfizer/NioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and served as co-investigator for the Moderna and Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Researchers believe the experimental approach could result in a more effective vaccine in the future, considering the world&#8217;s first malaria jab only has an efficacy rate of 30-40%, according to the World Health Organization.
&#8220;We think we can obviously do better,&#8221; Stefan Kappe, an author of the study and parasitologist at the University of Washington Seattle and Seattle Children&#8217;s Research Institute, told NPR, adding that &#8220;increasing production capability to scale up manufacturing will require investment.&#8221;
The team said they would eventually transfer the vaccine into syringes rather than mosquitoes to get a more accurate dosage.

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U.S. Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/raphael-warnock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raphael Warnock</a> (D-GA) said at a rally in Atlanta for seniors this week that &#8220;even God gave us a choice&#8221; regarding abortion.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/walker-charges-warnocks-demonized-police-emphasizes-independence-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that Warnock, the self-described pro-choice pastor, took time at the rally to speak about his support for a woman&#8217;s right to choose whether or not to terminate an innocent child&#8217;s life.
&#8220;I have a profound reverence for life,&#8221; Warnock said. &#8220;And I also have a deep respect for choice.&#8221;
In the same breath, Warnock called the patient&#8217;s room &#8220;too narrow and cramped&#8221; for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government.
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As a pro-choice pastor, I’ve always believed that a patient&#39;s room is way too small for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government.
I&#39;ll always fight to protect a woman&#39;s right to choose. And that will never change.
&mdash; Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1521307205349351424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So, I trust women in their wisdom to sit with their own doctor and, if they choose, to sit with their pastor, and to pray about that and let their own conscience guide them,&#8221; Warnock added. &#8220;Even God gave us a choice.&#8221;
Warnock received heavy criticism from the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group, slamming his extreme view on abortion.
&#8220;Senator Raphael Warnock strenuously opposes any limits whatsoever on abortion – including brutal late-term abortions up to the moment of birth and even infanticide,&#8221; Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the group, said in a <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/ga-sen-raphael-warnock-claims-god-approves-of-radical-pro-abortion-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;Georgians are deeply disturbed by Warnock&#8217;s shameless push to strip human rights from the most vulnerable and defenseless among us, the unborn.&#8221;
Dannenfelser added that pro-abortion Democrats like Warnock and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would &#8220;go to any lengths to promote abortion on demand nationwide.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether it is cloaking their radical agenda in the guise of religion or pushing outright misinformation denying basic scientific facts – for example, that unborn children have beating hearts by six weeks and can feel pain at least by 15 weeks,&#8221; Dannenfelser added.
Both Georgian politicians have joined an army of other Democratic candidates who have lobbied for abortion rights following the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which has led to more than 63 million abortions in the country since 1973, according to the <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Right to Life Educational Foundation</a>.
In a recently surfaced video, Abrams said that at six weeks, unborn babies&#8217; heartbeats aren&#8217;t real, but a &#8220;manufactured sound designed&#8221; to take away women&#8217;s rights.
Immediately following her statement, Abrams also received wide criticism from doctors and scientists refuting her claim.
Dr. Tara Sander Lee, a senior fellow and director of life sciences at Charlotte Lozier Institute, said science demonstrates that a pre-born baby is already a complex human being at six weeks gestation.
&#8220;A pre-born baby&#8217;s heart is actively beating at six weeks and will have already beat nearly 16 million times by 15 weeks. In fact, at six weeks gestation, the baby&#8217;s heart rate is about 98 beats per minute, which can be easily detected by ultrasound,&#8221; Lee said.
Organizations advocating for the sanctity of life, like the Susan B. Anthony America Pro-life network, openly condemn those politicians who &#8220;refuse to name a single commonsense protection for unborn children and their mothers they would support.&#8221;
&#8220;When voters are informed about the Democrats&#8217; pro-abortion extremism, they reject it,&#8221; Dannenfelser said.
Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> has permanently removed the official Pornhub account after a decade of allegedly violating the social media platform&#8217;s terms of service.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve permanently disabled this Instagram account for repeatedly violating our policies,&#8221; a spokesperson from Meta, Instagram&#8217;s parent company, told <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy74yw/instagram-says-pornhubs-account-is-permanently-banned" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Motherboard</a>.
According to Motherboard, the social media company claims it warned Pornhub about posts that violated unspecified terms of service surrounding adult content, nudity, and sexual solicitation.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/27/pornhub-slams-instagram-for-allowing-kim-kardashians-nudes-while-censoring-sex-workers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> Pornhub violated the social media platform&#8217;s rules against sexual solicitation by telling its users to leave the site and visit a porn site, among other violations.
Meta&#8217;s decision comes after the big tech giant suspended the pornography site&#8217;s account after mounting pressure from non-profit groups like the Justice Defense Fund, which has repeatedly accused Pornhub of allegedly being complicit in the sex trafficking and rape of women and children.
Laila Mickelwait, founder and CEO of the group, praised Meta&#8217;s decision to kick the site off of Instagram for good after it lost 13 million followers.
&#8220;Now less people will be directed to watch Pornhub&#8217;s monetized child rape and sex trafficking videos,&#8221; Mickelwait said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/LailaMickelwait/status/1575154709018689537">tweet</a>.
Mickelwait said Pornhub allegedly has 175,000 searches for child abuse videos every month from &#8220;pedophiles [who] have known Pornhub was a good place to find it.&#8221;
Pornhub publicly shared an open letter with endorsements from 63 adult industry performers, models, and activist groups to Instagram on Tuesday demanding an explanation on why Instagram removed the site&#8217;s account.
&#8220;We, the undersigned, represent those in the adult industry that have for years been undermined by Instagram&#8217;s opaque, discriminatory and hypocritical enforcement of its own Terms and Policies,&#8221; the letter reads, according to Motherboard. &#8220;Sexworkers and performers have been unfairly targeted in the form of bans, shadow bans, suspensions, loss of Live privileges and content removal, despite taking extra care not to violate Instagram&#8217;s Community Guidelines.&#8221;
The letter says it posted &#8220;fully PG&#8221; material and calls out hypocritical treatment, citing some celebrities like Kim Kardashian, who was recently featured in a risqué post for Interview Magazine.
&#8220;Kim Kardashian has posted her fully exposed ass to her 330 million followers without any restrictive action from Instagram,&#8221; Pornhub officials wrote, per Motherboard. &#8220;We are happy to see that Kim and the artistic team behind the image are free to share their work on the platform, but question why we are denied the same treatment.”
“While Kim&#8217;s photo continues accumulating likes and making headlines, members of the adult community run the risk of deplatforming if Instagram decides our pants look a bit too tight to meet its arbitrary and selectively-enforced &#8216;standards,’” the letter further added.
Pornhub&#8217;s empire appears to be slowly crumbling as it has also recently come under fire after both Visa and Mastercard cut off payment privileges with MindGeek, the site&#8217;s parent company, and its advertising arm, TrafficJunky.
The move from the payment processing companies followed a federal judge ruling last month that it was reasonable to conclude Visa knowingly “intended to help monetize child pornography” on Pornhub and other sites operated by MindGeek in the Fleites v. MindGeek lawsuit.
Instagram joins Visa, Mastercard, Discover, PayPal, Grant Thornton, Heinz, Unilever, Roku, and many other companies in rejecting business with Pornhub.
Advocates for those allegedly trafficked on the pornography site have pressured other major tech companies to follow suit.

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A federal judge Wednesday said she plans on issuing a $300,000 restitution order on disgraced R&amp;B singer R. Kelly for sexually abusing minors over the last three decades.
Kelly, who was convicted on three counts of child pornography and three counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity in his hometown of Chicago earlier this month, was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison. The conviction follows another trial earlier this year in New York, where he was convicted on all nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking, sentencing the singer to 30 years in federal prison.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/28/r-kelly-ordered-to-pay-victims-at-least-300k-in-restitution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly was still finalizing the order meant to cover herpes and psychotherapy treatment costs of two women, known as Jane and Stephanie. However, the price could likely rise after prosecutors recalculate the medication cost for one of the victims — neither of whom attended the hearing.
Kelly appeared at the hearing via video from a cell in Chicago and only spoke when greeting the judge and turning down the chance to defend himself.
Questions arise about how Kelly would pay for the restitution fees considering his inmate commissary account of $28,000 — made up of small donations from fans — is the only access he has to any funds because of judgments against him in civil cases. Yet prosecutors claim Kelly has access to approximately $5 million, per <a href="https://apnews.com/article/r-kelly-entertainment-health-crime-new-york-a117ace85643a24fb164f7c417bd87ee">The Associated Press</a>.  
Defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean told the judge that her client has always been clueless about his finances.
“He’s not the best source of that information,” she said.
The New York Times <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/nyregion/r-kelly-trial-prosecutors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week that during Kelly’s criminal trial in Brooklyn, Elizabeth Geddes, a federal prosecutor, said Kelly used his fame to prey on underage boys and girls and women with the help of “enablers for his criminal conduct.”
“For many years, what happened in the defendant’s world stayed in the defendant’s world,” Geddes told jurors in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. “But no longer.”
Geddes said Grammy-award-winning singer “used lies, manipulation, threats, and physical abuse” to carry out abuse on his victims while hiding in plain sight. And if one were to challenge his tactics, Kelly “used his henchmen to lodge threats and exact revenge.”
Even as allegations of sexual misconduct against the singer began surfacing in the 1990s, he still sold millions of albums. But public support for the singer began to shift following the release of the 2019 Lifetime docuseries titled “Surviving R. Kelly” and after the #MeToo movement.
Kelly, known for his hits such as “I Believe I Can Fly” and other songs like “Bump n’ Grind,” still faces various state charges in Illinois and Minnesota.
Katie Jerkovich <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/r-kelly-convicted-on-multiple-charges-including-child-pornography">contributed</a> to this report.

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According to a Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-brands-blast-twitter-ads-next-child-pornography-accounts-2022-09-28/">report</a>, tweets soliciting child sex abuse material have appeared alongside or on profile pages of at least 30 major advertisers&#8217; Twitter accounts. Some of those companies are now pulling their ad services off the social media platform.
Ghost Data, a cybersecurity group, released a new research report reviewed by Reuters about child sex abuse online that allegedly identified links to exploitative material containing child pornography. The information has led companies like Dyson, Ecolab, and Mazda to pause or pull their ads or campaigns from the platform.
&#8220;There is no place for this type of content online,&#8221; a spokesperson for Mazda USA said in a statement to Reuters.
The carmaker now prohibits its ads from appearing on Twitter profile pages.
According to the report, more than 500 accounts openly shared or requested child sex abuse material for 20 days during September 2022. Of those accounts, more than 70% were still active during the study.
Celeste Carswell, a spokesperson for Twitter, told Reuters that the company reviewed, removed, and permanently suspended the complete list of accounts for violating its rules, adding that the platform &#8220;has zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation.&#8221;
David Maddocks, brand president at Cole Haan, told Reuters the company is &#8220;horrified&#8221; after learning about Twitter&#8217;s alleged child porn problem.
&#8220;Either Twitter is going to fix this, or we&#8217;ll fix it by any means we can, which includes not buying Twitter ads.&#8221;
The shoe and accessories brand had a promoted tweet next to another post from a user who said they were &#8220;trading teen/child&#8221; content.
Other tweets from the Ghost Data report found that some included terms related to &#8220;rape&#8221; and &#8220;teens&#8221; displayed next to corporate advertisers. Another example allegedly promoted a tweet for Texas-based Scottish Rite Children&#8217;s Hospital, followed by a user searching for &#8220;Yung girls ONLY, NO Boys.&#8221;
Twitter officials have since invested more resources into protecting children&#8217;s safety by hiring new positions to write policies and provide solutions to prevent the problem.
Eliza Bleu, a survivor advocate of those affected by human trafficking, has been speaking out against Twitter&#8217;s alleged child pornography problem since shortly after joining the platform in 2019.
In August 2020, she met with Twitter officials that former CEO Jack Dorsey had set up.
&#8220;I had one request,&#8221; Bleu told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I wanted them to remove child sexual abuse material at scale.&#8221;
Bleu said following the meeting, they offered her a position on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Committee, but she declined because she refused to &#8220;work with or for abusers.&#8221;
&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t knowingly profit off child sexual exploitation,&#8221; she said.
Bleu advocated for a minor survivor anonymously dubbed &#8220;John Doe&#8221; who filed a lawsuit last year against Twitter for allegedly allowing sexual abuse material of the child, who was solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and had to endure his own sexual abuse material being promoted on Twitter, even after attempts were made to remove the content.
Bleu said the lawsuits brought by the two minor survivors didn&#8217;t send a message big enough for the platform to handle.
&#8220;It&#8217;s time to hit them where it hurts,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My only hope is that by the time all of the advertisers pull out, they have enough money left over to compensate the minor survivors.&#8221;
Andrew Stoppa, the founder of Ghost Data, said in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/andst7/status/1574471222318043155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1574471222318043155%7Ctwgr%5E00ced6faf6cb31efb9d8ef41c6910b309d1f7d93%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumanevents.com%2F2022%2F09%2F28%2Fmajor-companies-are-pulling-twitter-ads-after-learning-they-appear-alongside-posts-peddling-child-porn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> Monday that he promised to release research about Twitter, adding the company &#8220;has a severe problem with child pornography.&#8221;
&#8220;Since it is a sensitive topic, more time is needed to release the findings publicly (it does not depend on us), but research will come out soon,&#8221; Stroppa said.
Stroppa told Reuters he personally funded research into the platform&#8217;s child sexual abuse problem after receiving a tip about the severity of the issue.
Elon Musk, who is currently in a court battle with Twitter over his attempt to nix a previous offer to buy the company for $44 billion <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1575211053901746177?s=46&amp;t=zFRFQE0OFATFj2c27Y_wvA">replied</a> to the Reuters article on the platform, calling the report &#8220;extremely concerning.&#8221;

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Among more than a dozen abortion and so-called reproductive health <a href="https://a15.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220927-asm-wicks-reproductive-health-advocates-celebrate-signing-ab-2223">bills</a> California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday, one piece of legislation has pro-life advocates sick to their stomachs.
Assembly bill <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223">2223</a> would prohibit coroners from holding an inquest after fetal death “related to or following known or suspected self-induced or criminal abortion.” The bill would further clarify under the Reproductive Privacy Act that pregnancy loss — through miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, or perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero — would not be criminalized.
Newsom signed the bill, vowing to “fight like hell” for those who want abortions as several states nationwide deal with the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade, bringing abortion laws back to the states.
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), who authored the legislation, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-27/newsom-signs-13-abortion-protection-and-reproductive-health-bills">told</a> The Los Angeles Times that lawmakers created the bill to “ensure and enshrine that no person can be criminally prosecuted for something that happens in utero, which has happened in California.”
Wicks <a href="https://a15.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220927-asm-wicks-reproductive-health-advocates-celebrate-signing-ab-2223">argues</a> since the early aughts, approximately 1,300 pregnant “people” have been criminally prosecuted for having miscarriages, stillbirths, or for “self-managing” abortions.
Yet California lawmakers who oppose the legislation have warned such laws could put unborn children in grave danger by prohibiting such investigations.
State Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), who has pressed Wicks since introducing it in the state legislature, called the bill a “grotesque callousness toward the unborn.”
“With Newsom’s signing of AB 2223 if you attempt to abort your baby but it’s born alive, you can now let it die or kill it and no one can investigate the death or hold the woman/person who helped her criminally liable,” Melendez said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/senatormelendez/status/1574873876701454337">tweet</a>. “ This is grotesque callousness toward the unborn.”
Susan Swift, vice president of legal affairs for the Right to Life League, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-seeks-to-become-mecca-of-abortion-tourism-pro-life-attorney_4758492.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=digitalsub">told</a> The Epoch Times what California legislators have done with abortion in the state is “horrific.”
In June, the Right to Life League wrote an open <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19MoJqjcAu9qwhcLKvtsGTJYMuNwQr7ke/view">letter</a> to California lawmakers about the bill, saying it was poorly drafted and could de-regulate the entire abortion industry.
“In its attempt to protect women from prosecution for abortion, AB 2223’s overbroad language creates a host of unforeseen legal ramifications,” the letter reads. “The bill potentially de-regulates abortion and overrides existing medical protections for women by creating a class of cooperating individuals unaccountable to state licensing agencies or regulations.”
The organization said AB 2223 goes much further than shielding pregnant women from prosecution.
“Nobody’s going to want to risk the lawsuit of investigating [a death],” Swift told The Epoch Times. “And it’s going to cover up all the data of all of the babies that survive abortions.”
The California Globe <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/infanticide-or-pregnancy-loss-abortion-bill-passes-assembly-judiciary-committee/">reported</a> that The California Family Council, a biblically-based pro-life organization, explained their opposition to the bill.
The group wrote that lawmakers not only want to codify the “killing of unborn children throughout all nine months of pregnancy but to decriminalize killing newborns days or even weeks after birth.”
Earlier this year, during a hearing for the legislation, LifeNews.com tweeted a <a href="https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1516455371719720967">video</a> showing hundreds of California residents showing up to voice their concerns about the bill.
However, Wicks claimed, according to The California Globe, that it was &#8220;not a bill about infanticide” and women should “not be prosecuted for a pregnancy loss.”
Newsom signed the bill just before the November midterm elections where residents will vote on Proposition 1, a proposed amendment  that would not allow the state to &#8220;deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”

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Oregon State University (OSU) researchers <a href="https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/bipedal-robot-developed-oregon-state-achieves-guinness-world-record-100-meters#:~:text=Cassie%2C%20the%20first%20bipedal%20robot,on%20a%20single%20battery%20charge.">announced</a> Tuesday that a bipedal robot named Cassie set a new Guinness World Record for running a 100-meter dash.
Cassie, invented at the university&#8217;s College of Engineering and produced by Agility Robotics, crossed the finish line at 24.73 seconds at the OSU&#8217;s Whyte Track and Field Center, making it a record for a bipedal robot.
Within the time frame, Cassie started by standing in an upright position and completed the race in the same stance without falling.
OSU computer science professor Alan Fern, who collaborated with the robot&#8217;s research and development team, described Cassie to <a href="https://www.klcc.org/science-technology/2022-09-27/osu-robot-earns-guinness-world-record-for-100-meter-dash">KLCC</a> as a robot without a head, arms, or eyes and &#8220;just has legs and basically a little torso.&#8221;
&#8220;So Cassie can get around by just feel, more or less,&#8221; Fern said.
However, Fern told the university&#8217;s <a href="https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/bipedal-robot-developed-oregon-state-achieves-guinness-world-record-100-meters#:~:text=Cassie%2C%20the%20first%20bipedal%20robot,on%20a%20single%20battery%20charge.">media</a> that starting and stopping in a standing position makes for a more difficult task than running — similar to how taking off and landing are harder than flying a plane.
&#8220;This 100-meter result was achieved by a deep collaboration between mechanical hardware design and advanced artificial intelligence for the control of that hardware,&#8221; Fern said.
According to OSU news, Cassie trained for one year in a simulation setting with a full week of a computing technique called parallelization, which simultaneously entails multiple processes and calculations.
&#8220;Cassie has been a platform for pioneering research in robot learning for locomotion,&#8221; Devin Crowley, project leader, told OSU news.
Before setting the new world record, Cassie also ran a 5K in just over 53 minutes last year.
Crowley said completing a 5K showed the Robo-athlete&#8217;s reliability and endurance, leaving researchers wondering how fast Cassie could run.
&#8220;That led the research team to shift its focus to speed,&#8221; Crowley said.
Jonathan Hurst, chief technology officer at Agility Robotics and a robotics professor at Oregon State, told university media that being recognized by Guinness World Records, which dubs itself as the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, is &#8220;a big watershed moment.&#8221;
&#8220;This may be the first bipedal robot to learn to run, but it won&#8217;t be the last,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe control approaches like this are going to be a huge part of the future of robotics.&#8221;
Hurst said the exciting part of the race is the potential.
&#8220;Using learned policies for robot control is a very new field, and this 100-meter dash is showing better performance than other control methods,&#8221; Hurst said. &#8220;I think progress is going to accelerate from here.&#8221;
Hurst directed Cassie&#8217;s research team with a 16-month, $1 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which the National Science Foundation also funded.
Guinness World Records’ website <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/629600-fastest-100-m-by-a-bipedal-robot">reports</a> other titles for fast robots exist, &#8220;but this one is based on a standard competitive human task. It is not just a measure of momentary top-speed.&#8221;
&#8220;It is effectively average speed sustained across a certain distance and under the significant constraints that it must start in a standing pose and return to that pose after crossing the finish line,&#8221; the website reads. &#8220;It cannot simply run 100 metres and crash.&#8221;
Cassie set the new record on May 11, 2022.
Despite Cassie and her team of researchers’ groundbreaking achievements in computer science and technology, the android still wouldn&#8217;t do well against humankind.
Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter dash in the final of the 2009 World Athletics Championship race at 9.58 seconds.
Bolt still holds the world record.
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Cassie the robot, invented at <a href="https://twitter.com/EngineeringOSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EngineeringOSU</a> and produced by OSU spinout company <a href="https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@agilityrobotics</a>, has established a Guinness World Record <a href="https://twitter.com/GWR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GWR</a> for the fastest 100 meters by a bipedal robot:  <a href="https://t.co/NADorse8GY">https://t.co/NADorse8GY</a> <a href="https://t.co/ingh8iPXOu">pic.twitter.com/ingh8iPXOu</a>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Netflix</a> could face another massive loss by the end of the year after recently facing its largest drop in subscribers in the company&#8217;s history.
Reviews.org <a href="https://www.reviews.org/tv-service/streaming-in-2022-is-netflix-in-for-a-big-subscriber-surprise/">surveyed</a> 1,000 American subscribers of the streaming giant last month and found that one out of four Netflix subscribers said they plan on canceling their membership by the end of the year due to the company&#8217;s increasing monthly cost — which currently stands at $15.15 per month without ads.
The staggering statistic estimates approximately 18 million users would discontinue their plan, resulting in about $272 million in revenue loss.
According to the survey, Netflix&#8217;s basic one-screen plan went up by 11% in January 2022 for the first time in three years, while standard and premium plans increased by 20% and 25% in the same period — making the subscription cost the highest average plan among the top eight streaming service providers in the United States.
Another one out three said they would remove the platform because of the lack of engaging content, while 30% said they prefer other streaming services.
In recent years, Netflix lost some of its licensing of television and movies to other platforms such as Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO Max, Walt Disney Company&#8217;s Disney+, and NBCUniversal&#8217;s Peacock.
Earlier this year, Netflix <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-loses-nearly-1-million-subscriptions-largest-drop-in-company-history">released</a> &#8220;better-than-expected&#8221; results in its second quarterly report, which showed the streaming service only lost about half of the two million subscribers projected initially earlier this year. However, the report showed approximately 970,000 subscribers canceled their membership during the spring and summer months. The number comes after the service took a massive hit in the first quarter when it lost 200,000 subscribers between January and March.
The company partially blamed the loss of subscribers last quarter on competing with other streaming services and massive account sharing, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the global recession. At the time, Netflix officials warned shareholders that as the U.S. dollar strengthens and global currencies weaken, the historic pace could disrupt its international market, which makes up about 60% of its revenue.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been through hard times before,&#8221; the company said in its shareholder letter after releasing the results. &#8220;We&#8217;ve built this company to be flexible and adaptable, and this will be a great test for us and our high-performance culture.&#8221;
Netflix officials added that the service would likely start an ad-tier in a handful of markets where advertising spending is significant.
&#8220;Like most of our new initiatives, our intention is to roll it out, listen and learn, and iterate quickly to improve the offering,&#8221; the company said.
The New York Times <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/business/media/netflix-commercials.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a leaked memo from Netflix showed the company could unveil a &#8220;cheaper&#8221; tier that would be available as early as next month, as low as $7.99 a month.
With Netflix set to release its Q3 financial results next month, the report will show whether or not the company gained or lost more subscribers over the summer.

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Tens of thousands of South <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> residents under mandatory evacuations packed up and hit the interstate highways Tuesday as Hurricane Ian continued to advance toward the coast.
During a press conference on Tuesday morning, Governor Ron DeSantis shared the update that urged Floridians to take necessary precautions as Ian could strike the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane.
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WATCH: Large number of people evacuating Tampa Bay as Hurricane Ian heads towards <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Florida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Florida</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TampaBay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TampaBay</a> <a href="https://t.co/UgfTCqjRAj">pic.twitter.com/UgfTCqjRAj</a>
&mdash; BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNNBreaking/status/1574842018496290816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“There’s still uncertainty about with where that exact landfall will be, but just understand the impacts are going to be far, far broader than just where the eye of the storm happens to make landfall,” DeSantis said. “When you have 5 to 10 feet of storm surge, that is not something you want to be a part of — Mother Nature is a very fearsome adversary, so please heed those warnings.”
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TAMPA HURRICANE EVACUATION IN PROGRESS Traffic currently backed up on I-4 to Orlando currently taking an extra 40 minutes <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a> ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/JimCantore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimCantore</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/brENmgzcte">pic.twitter.com/brENmgzcte</a>
&mdash; Chris FL Tornado (@ChrisFLTornado) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisFLTornado/status/1574729007958048768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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With water pouring over sea walls in Key West, high wind gusts up to 70 mph, and rows of cars causing traffic jams for up to 40 minutes before heading out of Tampa Bay, residents brace for impact as Ian nears landfall as a Category 3 storm.
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Water is already over the sea wall in Key West. Storm surge here will peak at 2-4 feet. Highest wind gusts could range 60-70mph tonight. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a> <a href="https://t.co/eGHTHpBXgS">pic.twitter.com/eGHTHpBXgS</a>
&mdash; Brandon Orr (@BrandonOrrWPLG) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonOrrWPLG/status/1574787538262319105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Glades Road and I-95 interchange and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a> hasn&#39;t even made landfall but the effects are here! (I give media permission to use this to illustrate the importance of being safe especially those who are evacuating from the West Coast) <a href="https://t.co/h7VzP2EM56">pic.twitter.com/h7VzP2EM56</a>
&mdash; John Harris (@harris1099) <a href="https://twitter.com/harris1099/status/1574815237391486978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The National Weather Service <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/27/us/hurricane-ian-florida-news">said</a> that storm winds are expected to strengthen Tuesday night in the Florida Keys with the storm surging later this week.
“After the winds subside, there will still be strong rain squalls throughout the Florida Keys, and that’s when the water is expected to rise,” said Jon Rizzo, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service-Key West. “We are expecting water to reach its peak on Thursday and continue to flood the streets and the bay side all the way through Friday.”
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Kind of intrigued as to why we are seeing so much traffic going SOUTH on I-75 🤔<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/foxweather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxweather</a> <a href="https://t.co/EInjksLScn">pic.twitter.com/EInjksLScn</a>
&mdash; Mark Sudduth (@hurricanetrack) <a href="https://twitter.com/hurricanetrack/status/1574809934654472195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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WESH 2 <a href="https://www.wesh.com/article/hurricane-ian-watch-warning-florida/41401054">reports</a> that by 5 p.m., Ian reached maximum winds of 120 miles per hour just 230 miles south of Sarasota, Florida, and 50 miles south-southwest of the Dry Tortugas.
Meteorologists measured the large, powerful system at 500 miles wide with a well-defined eye.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ian</a> continues to grow stronger in the Gulf of Mexico this afternoon. As of 2PM EDT, max sustained winds are 120 mph with a minimum pressure of 955 mb. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hurricaneIan</a> <a href="https://t.co/drWmPgY1mo">pic.twitter.com/drWmPgY1mo</a>
&mdash; RadarOmega (@RadarOmega) <a href="https://twitter.com/RadarOmega/status/1574829369675190290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Daytona City business owners severely impacted during Hurricane Irma in 2017 began boarding their windows and placing sandbags near entrances.
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In <a href="https://twitter.com/CityDaytona?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CityDaytona</a> downtown Beach Street, which flooded so dramatically during <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIrma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIrma</a>, owners of this business where the river literally ran through it, are not taking chances w <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a>….boarding up &amp; using sandbags <a href="https://t.co/9SqT4QNd4a">pic.twitter.com/9SqT4QNd4a</a>
&mdash; claire metz (@clairemetzwesh) <a href="https://twitter.com/clairemetzwesh/status/1574854270444310551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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As of Tuesday morning, mandatory evacuation orders had been announced for Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties. The areas include parts of Tampa, the largest city in the announced counties, and other highly-populated coastal locations.
Local media <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/ian-forecast-to-take-nearly-the-same-path-across-florida-as-2004s-disastrous-hurricane-charley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> meteorologists are comparing Ian to Hurricane Charley in 2004, a major Category 4 hurricane that showed a similar projected path and was recorded as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to devastate the United States.
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FLORIDA MAN seen wakeboarding behind truck driving on flooded streets as Hurricane Ian approaches. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FloridaMan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FloridaMan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ian</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneIan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneIan</a> <a href="https://t.co/xG4WOH9lqO">pic.twitter.com/xG4WOH9lqO</a>
&mdash; Ben Brahler (@BigBen_27) <a href="https://twitter.com/BigBen_27/status/1574815396875616257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Saturday, the governor expanded a state of emergency to all 67 Florida counties in preparation for Ian. The declaration has suspended all tolls in the Tampa Bay area to help people more quickly evacuate low-lying areas.
President Joe Biden also approved an emergency declaration for Florida on Saturday ahead of the growing hurricane threat.
Hurricane Ian made landfall over Cuba on Monday on its path toward Florida. Authorities have reportedly <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hurricane-ian-tracker-2022-news-path-weather" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evacuated</a> more than 50,000 people, with 55 shelters set up across the island nation.
Dillon Burroughs contributed to this report.

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A new <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2796427?guestAccessKey=1c13d17c-1c25-4828-b261-9f321e5126a1&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social_jamapeds&amp;utm_term=7701881843&amp;utm_campaign=article_alert&amp;linkId=183092079">study</a> published Monday revealed trace amounts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> vaccine mRNAs were found in the breast milk of some lactating women.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published since 1993, released the study to the public and has now issued a warning for women breastfeeding infants younger than six months.
“Caution is warranted regarding breastfeeding infants younger than six months in the first two days after maternal COVID-19 vaccination,” the journal said in a tweet.
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Trace amounts of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> vaccine mRNAs were detected in the breast milk of some lactating women. Caution is warranted regarding <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/breastfeeding?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#breastfeeding</a> infants younger than six months in the first two days after maternal COVID-19 vaccination. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Research?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Research</a> <a href="https://t.co/zH8nyLleVC">https://t.co/zH8nyLleVC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Research?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Research</a>
&mdash; JAMA Pediatrics (@JAMAPediatrics) <a href="https://twitter.com/JAMAPediatrics/status/1574519182624190464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The study included 11 healthy lactating women that were asked to collect and immediately freeze samples of their breast milk after receiving either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine within six months of delivering their newborn babies.
Participants also provided breast milk samples before vaccination and for five days post vaccination.
Of the 11 volunteers, 7 samples from 5 women showed trace amounts of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, with the mRNA samples appearing in higher concentrations than whole milk.
The study said, however, that no vaccine mRNA was detected in pre-vaccination or post-vaccination samples beyond two days of collection.
“The sporadic presence and trace quantities of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA detected in EBM suggest that breastfeeding after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination is safe, particularly beyond 48 hours after vaccination,” the study reads.
Officials said that despite believing it is safe to breastfeed after maternal COVID vaccination, they did not “test the possible cumulative vaccine mRNA exposure after frequent breastfeeding in infants.”
“In addition, the potential interference of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA with the immune response to multiple routine vaccines given to infants during the first 6 months of age needs to be considered,” the study reads. “It is critical that lactating individuals be included in future vaccination trials to better evaluate the effect of mRNA vaccines on lactation outcomes.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration held off on approving vaccinating infants younger than six months until more data on how it could impact their immune system became available.
However, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/pregnancy.html">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> has recommended offering the COVID mRNA vaccines to breastfeeding women.
&#8220;Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) blasted President Joe Biden over his &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; by pushing a vaccine mandate.
&#8220;Now we find out that Biden’s vaccine mandates caused infants (for which no safe dose has been established) to receive mRNA through their mother’s breast milk,&#8221; Massie <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1574589998216904709">said</a>. &#8220;Does abuse of power get any more evil?&#8221;

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