Facebook banned Trump in January, blaming him for the Capitol riot on Jan 6
The social media giant then turned the issue over to its oversight board
It claims the board is impartial and independent but the majority are left-leaning scholars, human rights activists and politicians
Trump has also been banned by Twitter and even an interview he gave was banned on Facebook
Facebook is becoming stricter in censoring conservative voices with which it disagrees
LARAMIE The University of Wyoming will confer its highest award, the honorary doctoral degree, upon Rock Springs native Jim Magagna, who will be recognized during UW commencement ceremonies May 14-15. Magagna, the longtime executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and advocate for Wyoming ranchers will be honored along with recently deceased Northern Arapaho elder Crawford White Eagle Sr.
They each will receive the Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
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Magagna has led the Wyoming Stock Growers Association since 1998. Before that, he served as director of the Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments and Office of Federal Land Policy. He also chaired the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission during that time.
COLUMN: Time for Congress to fix credit markets
Courts are distorting credit markets in a way that hurts Main Street small businesses, and Congress now has an opportunity to fix it.
Imagine you opened a salon two years ago with a chair for both you and your business partner. Over the years, you built a small clientele and grew steady revenues. Your business is profitable, and you want to add two more chairs to your shop. You estimate that the expansion will cost $20,000 but will yield $40,000 annually in new revenue.
Together, you discuss taking out a small business loan with both large and small banks, but they turn you down citing your 640 personal credit score and the lack of two years of business tax returns as the reason for the decline. So you reach out to online lenders in the hopes of securing the capital you need to expand and grow your business.
Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 2:00 pm (ET)
A Briefing on New Human Rights Watch Report on Israeli Violations of Palestinian Rights with Omar Shakir and Eric Goldstein A new report by Human Rights Watch on Israeli violations of Palestinian rights is ruffling feathers in Israel and beyond. The comprehensive report, “A Threshold Crossed,” is based on years of documenting violations of Palestinian human rights, to state, controversially, that “Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians” in order to maintain “Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land.” The report contends that these violations “are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”
No police traffic stops? College professor suggests they should be a thing of the past Share Updated: 3:44 PM EDT Apr 26, 2021 Emma Claybrook Share Updated: 3:44 PM EDT Apr 26, 2021
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Show Transcript the prevailing emotion that many people throughout black America myself included felt when we heard the verdict of the jury announced was released because in far too many cases, when a police officer has clearly crossed the line brutalised an unarmed african american civilians and in many instances cause death, there has been no accountability. Well, I was relieved, like so many people watching across the country. Uh but to be clear, this is not about one officer or one police department, this is about a system in the police uh law enforcement where we need to have greater accountability and that s why we are calling on the Senate to take up and pass the George Floyd justice in policing act so that we can create national sta